Through My Eyes Audiobook by Tim Tebow

chapter 2 the early years let another praise you and not your own mouth a stranger and not your own lips Proverbs 27:2 New American Standard Bible my dad has preached a lot in America but one of his favorite places to preach is a country in Asia called the Philippines before I was born my family was living in minda in the Philippines and my dad was doing Mission work there anyone who talks to others about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is doing Mission work one day when my dad was out preaching in the jungle he prayed father if you want another preacher in this world you give him to me you give me Timmy and I will raise him to be a preacher dad returned home and told my family about his prayer he invited them to join him in praying for me by name name and they all prayed for me the name Timothy means honoring God a few months later my mom realized that she was pregnant from the start it was a difficult pregnancy a number of times they were certain they had lost me mom and dad went to the best doctor in their area of Mena and listened to her lay out their options in her opinion for how to save my mom's life the doctor was brutally honest about her opinion of my mom's chances she said that the pregnancy was going to be hard and dangerous when my parents walked out of her office they were in shock and felt a bit numb they knew that Mom would have to be very brave and trust God her strongest recollection of those moments which must have been overwhelming for her was an unexpected and Indescribable peace God's peace she later told me is what helped her through the next 8 months of her pregnancy and while they waited for me to be born my mom and brothers and sisters would sing Bible verses together mom thought that putting verses to Tunes helped us to learn and retain them later they taught these verses to me wait for the Lord be strong and Let Your Heart Take courage wait for the Lord wait for the Lord I wait for the Lord my soul does wait there in his word do I hope Psalm 27:14 and 130:5 miraculously later on in the pregnancy a surprise blessing occurred mom who had been very sick began to feel better even well enough to fly along with my siblings Christy Katie Robbie and Peter to Manila there at the Makati Medical Center she met with an American trained doctor she had not seen a doctor for many months my family's waiting was over on August 14th 1987 when I was delivered by the doctor my parents trusted the doctor spoke first to my dad Mr tibo your child is a miracle baby I can't explain how it happened but Despite All Odds he beat them my mom dad and family were so grateful for my safe arrival and thank the Lord for his protection of both my mom and me but the drama was not over yet for either of us that first week I lost weight instead of gaining it and had to remain in the hospital my parents asked our friends and family in America to pray that I would grow big and strong I guess their prayers were answered mom also struggled physically and needed ongoing care but slowly she got better we are all so grateful mom survived the pregnancy and child birth my parents knew the mom might not survive but they trusted God with her pregnancy trusting God is how they started their marriage and how they have continued to this day my dad always tells us that faith is like a muscle you trust God for the small things and when he comes through your muscle grows it grows whether he comes through in ways that you hoped for or not you learn that he's always there through good or bad this enables you to trust God for the bigger things in fact for all things my memories of my life at least those I myself can remember begin in Jacksonville Florida we returned from the Philippines when I was three it was great growing up with two older sisters and two older brothers always around to play with actually all of us were very competitive including my parents and all my siblings it didn't matter if it was Monopoly or chess inside with my sisters or baseball and basketball outside with my brothers