Coach Prime Wants You to Do This Because ‘God Is on Your Side’

Published: April 23, 2026

By Mallory Mattingly

Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders challenges his followers to step out in faith and “make it happen.”

“Just make it happened! You’re talking too much about the plan. You’re allowing the enemy to know what you’re getting ready to do! Therefore, he’s preparing to stop you, detain you, derail you, or destroy you. God is on your side! Go make it happen,” Coach Prime shared on social media.

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Sanders has plenty of experience leaning on the Lord in trying times, from his historic season at Jackson State in 2022 to legal battles.

He called 2022 one of the most trying times of his life because, not only was he leading a football program to history, but he was dealing with his own health scare that “resulted in two of his toes being amputated due to blood clots,” CBS News reported.

“I trust God so much. I never doubted. I never wavered. I never even considered the fact I wasn’t going to be here to raise my kids or raise these children that I coach, not one bit,” he told the outlet in 2023. “My faith was sustained. How can you even measure your faith in you’re not challenged?”

Sanders continued that same boldness in 2023 when he took a stand against the Freedom From Religion Foundation which was pressuring him to stop talking about his faith after a prayer was captured on video.

“Lord, we thank You for this day, Father, for this opportunity as a group,” Sanders prayed. “Father, we thank You for the movement that God has put us in place to be in charge of. We thank You for each player here, each coach, each family. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.”

The First Liberty Institute stepped in and defended Sanders.

“We write to correct the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s misstatements regarding the requirements imposed by the First Amendment on public school employees’ religious expression,” the institute wrote. “The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that public school employees may engage in religious expression and exercise; therefore, public universities like CU may not target Coach Sanders (or other members of the football staff) for exercising constitutional rights on campus.”

Sanders hasn’t backed down from bold faith, and last year, he invited Hollywood legend Denzel Washington to speak to the Buffaloes about trusting God.

“When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too,” Washington told the team, per ESPN. “But eventually good things grow out of that mud. Or fame ain’t all it’s made up to be. Power and privilege and fame and wealth. Hopefully you’ll see, but it’s not all it’s all made up to be. So yeah, you can pray that it rains on you, but you got to deal with the mud. You’ll be looking up and look down and realize you’re seven feet deep in mud. It’s thick. People don’t like it.”

“We are in the world, but don’t be of it. Don’t rely on it for your happiness. Rely on the Almighty,” Washington added. “Do not rely on this world for your happiness. Because it’ll tell you Tuesday that they love you and Wednesday that they hate you. They probably said that about your team. You know, it’s not consistent.”

One thing seems certain: Sanders will never stop talking about his faith in Jesus.

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