Newly signed Toronto Raptors center Trey Jemison wants you to know that obedience to God “will change your life.”
“Been gone a while,” he began his most recent Instagram Bible study. “I’ve been extremely blessed. God has been so good to me. I won an NBA championship. I got my dream job. I am about to marry my fiancée in a couple of weeks. Like, life is truly a blessing.”
“I feel like I don’t have it all,” the athlete admitted. “And tonight I prayed about it, and God just reminded me that I’m not lying. See, I got so many things in the physical and in the world that you can lose track of what you’re supposed to be doing, and I’m supposed to be impacting people.”
Jemison was still reaching people through basketball camps, but he knew deep down he wasn’t being obedient to what God originally called him to do.
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“God told me in 2024, 2025 that, ‘Hey, I need you to make these Bible study videos.’ I haven’t done that in a while,” he confessed. The last Bible study video he posted was on July 6. “So I’m gonna challenge myself to make 100 Bible study videos and stay consistent because alignment is better than being comfortable. Obedience is better than how you feel,” the center continued.
“I might not feel like making Bible study videos. I might not even have a word that day, but to spend time with God, to let me draw near to Him, so He’s drawn this to me to make a video, to edit it, to chop it up. It’s just me being obedient to what God needs me to do in this season of my life,” he emphasized. “So, y’all can hold me accountable. I’m gonna try to hold myself accountable because this is what I’m supposed to be doing.”
For Jemison, spreading the word of God is more important than “any basketball game, any brand deal, any wedding planning,” and he concluded the video with a reminder about obedience.
“In Genesis chapter 16, Hagar is a slave of Sarai, and to be honest with you, she was treated terribly, like treated awfully, and in her mistreatment, she’s like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ She runs away, and as she runs away, an angel stops her and says, ‘Where are you going? I need you to go back.’ And in my mind, as I read this, I’m like, ‘Why would she go back? She’s being mistreated.’ But her obedience and staying there led to her blessing,” Jemison said.
Specifically in verse 1o, “The angel of the Lord said to her, ‘I will greatly multiply your offspring, and there will be too many to count.”
“Her obedience will lead to the multiplying offspring. See, that’s the thing: sometimes you might not feel like doing what God tells you to do. It might not be comfortable. You might feel like you’re being mistreated, but obeying God, that will lead to your breakthrough, to your healing, to your peace of mind. That obedience is gonna change your life,” he concluded.
For Jemison, life isn’t about basketball, brand deals, money or anything material; it’s about being obedient to God because he knows that following Him will change his life.
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