When You Pray For Tebow to Throw TD’s, The Terrorists … Err, The Demons Win

When You Pray For Tebow to Throw TD’s, The Terrorists … Err, The Demons Win

Dramatic title, I know. I’m hoping this post adds some perspective to my brothers and sisters in the Lord who may be at risk of over-dosing on Tebow.

A couple things to get clarify first. I am a football fan, I like Tim Tebow, I play fantasy sports. I’m not rooting for the demons. I even like prayer and place a high importance on it.

I do believe God cares about us .. more than we can imagine. I don’t believe God is too busy for any of our prayers. I do believe that we are to be careful and intentional for what we pray for.

But I think it’s ridiculous that we pray for the outcome of a game (or parking spaces or that we would get desired tickets to movies or sporting event or not get speeding tickets. Yes these are real examples). Concerning professional athletes, we should pray for the safety of the players, pray for the complexities of their lives, pray that they wouldn’t fall prey to the many things that entangle professional athletes but let’s not bother God for praying for TD’s and comeback wins.

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