God Is Indeed For Us

It astounds me how, when we take one small step in obedience, God rushes to meet us where we're at. Two nights ago I recommitted myself to UNINTIMIDATED and to begin earnestly praying once more that my 'sophomores' meet Tim Tebow. How God has shown Himself is amazing to me. God really is interested, He was just waiting for me to be interested again too.
     Last spring, I had asked a good friend here to join me in praying daily. We were able to do this pretty faithfully until school ended. The summer happened and with the start of school, volleyball happened. Praying together fell by the wayside. As soon as volleyball was over, I asked her if we could begin praying together again. We committed to it, but did not follow through. Within 10-15 minutes of me ending my prayer of recommitment Tuesday, she texted and asked if we could pray together that night. Circumstances prevented her from coming to my apartment and pray, but we did pray at the same time in our own apartments. That was God at work, Him encouraging me immediately upon my steps back to Him.
     Yesterday, I recommitted to this with my students, asking them to consider meeting together once again at least once a week. I told them I was back in full-force and challenged them to recommit if they too had fallen away. This morning, one of the girls told she prayed for this last night. After school, another of the girls and I were able to share with two current sophomores the story behind this journey and UNINITIMIDATED. The two current sophomores asked my student why she committed to praying for Tebow. Not only did she share her reasons, she told them that this commitment had not only changed her prayer life, but drew her closer to God in her devotions. She felt like she understood her Bible better. She told them she slacked off on her commitment during the summer and could tell a difference in her prayer life and devotions, they weren't the same and has struggled more to understand what she was reading. She told them and me she was taking up the commitment once more and had prayed over it last night. This time of sharing led to a time of once again getting to pray with at least one of my kids over this and included two new students who are now praying about whether God would have them join us or not.
     God is indeed for us. These last two days have shown so clearly how much God wants my obedience and how much He wants to answer this request. All I can think to say is thank you, God...and that seems so inadequate, but it'll have to do.