<p>Las Vegas Raiders star quarterback Derek Carr talked about how growing up he was taught &#8220;faith&#8221; came number one and said he wasn&#8217;t allowed to skip church if games fell on Sunday because his parents &#8220;made the priorities, the priorities.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-raiders-ol-purposefully-got-qb-derek-carr-amanda-prestigiacomo">professional football player&#8217;s</a> recent appearance on &#8220;The High Note with Tauren Wells&#8221; <a href="https://www.accessmore.com/episode/Ep-20-Derek-Carr-on-Faith-Family-and-Football">podcast</a>, the 31-year-old opened up about growing up in Texas after moving there from California when he was in his <a href="https://www.crosswalk.com/headlines/michael-foust/derek-carrs-parents-wouldnt-let-him-skip-church-for-traveling-teams-faith-was-number-one.html">teen years</a> and admitted it wasn&#8217;t until he was in college that he made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/faith">faith</a> his &#8220;own.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I was raised in the church,&#8221; Carr explained. &#8220;My grandpa was a pastor, my uncle was a pastor, my other grandpa was a deacon, my dad was a deacon, my mom&#8217;s a worship leader, my grandma is a pastor &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My mom and my dad, they taught me that my faith was number one,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If there was a game on Sunday, as a kid, we always told my traveling coach, &#8216;I&#8217;m not gonna be there, I&#8217;m gonna be at church.&#8217; They made the priorities, the priorities.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;And it worked out for me – I made it to the NFL,&#8221; Carr continued. &#8220;So all these moms and dads that say, &#8216;No, we have to go to your games at eight years old,&#8217; – you know, it&#8217;s okay to miss one.'&#8221;</p>
<p>The NFL player is outspoken about being a Christian and shared that his faith is an expression of who he is.</p>
<p>He talked about a recent moment where he put his faith into practice when he said he felt &#8220;the Lord telling me, &#8216;I want you to pray'&#8221; for a female photographer while he was at a celebrity golf tournament.</p>
<p>&#8220;She was limping, and I knew she was going to have to walk all day and take pictures and all this kind of stuff,&#8221; the QB shared. &#8220;And so, I shared a story about how my mom was recently healed &#8230; I said, &#8216;Can I just pray for you?&#8217; And she goes &#8216;absolutely&#8217; …  So I prayed with her.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And the next day she comes back, and she&#8217;s like &#8230; &#8216;Hey, you prayed for me. I walked for three and a half hours, took pictures [and] I had no pain, all the pain left … I just want to say, &#8216;Thank you,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;I was like, &#8216;Praise God.&#8217; Even though we had fun at golf, that was the victory that weekend.&#8221;</p>

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