Joe Lundquist

The Gator Nation🐊Gator Grad🐊 Gator Engineering🐊2 Corinthians 5:17 🐊2 x Ironman🐊FL Victorious Member

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star WR Armani Strong (‘28) has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’0 180 WR chose the Gators over Miami, USC, Notre Dame, & Michigan

“No zone safe, no corner safe. The Swamp just got more explosive!! Committed, let’s go!”

https://t.co/XBC8iTLGft

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Class of 2027 LB Tre Geathers has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’2 215 LB chose the Gators over Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee

“Gator Nation I’m home”

https://t.co/eEEykc8VxR

[The Real Heisman @HeismanThe]

Going to be one helluva great weekend. Epic!

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

Beautiful testimony 🙏

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

Let’s go 🐊🐊

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star LB Ellis McGaskin has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’0 215 LB from Mobile, AL chose the Gators over LSU and Florida State

“Go Gators”

https://t.co/AXbbuy1Fct

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Class of 2027 ATH Kamarion Johnson has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’1 190 ATH chose the Gators over Florida State and Cincinnati

“I’m home, Go Gators”

https://t.co/FkRhbQrQoH

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star DL Zahmar Tookes has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’4 256 DL from Rochester, NY chose the Gators over Penn State and Nebraska

“Joshua 1:9”

https://t.co/HQyn0sgf5b

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

Go 🐊‼️

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star OT Kennedee Jackson has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’6 301 OT from Lithonia, GA chose the Gators over Georgia and LSU

He’s ranked as the No. 8 OT in the 2027 Rivals300 🐊

https://t.co/24Urd3wGCf

[Florida Gators @FloridaGators]

national alligator day 🙂‍↕️ celebrate accordingly

[@cbnsports_ @cbnsports_]

“He saved me from my sin, and I know I have eternal life with Him.” ✝️

@RazorbackSB Karlie Davison talks about what Jesus means to her

#WCWS

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

🐊‼️

[Rivals @Rivals]

🚨BREAKING🚨 4-star LB Ja'Bios Smith has committed to Florida, @ChadSimmons_ reports🐊

Read: https://t.co/sSDwXixFNf

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

🤯 let’s go 🐊‼️

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

Rueben Chinyelu tells me that he will withdraw from the 2026 NBA Draft and return to Florida next season.

HUGE news for the Gators.

[Florida Gators @FloridaGators]

The Gator way.

Florida brings home the SEC’s top all-sports honor for the 29th time🏆

ℹ️ https://t.co/NqrcEtgbmf

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

GOOD ‼️🐊🐊

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star WR Elias Pearl has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 5’11 185 WR chose the Gators over Georgia, Florida State, LSU, and Ole Miss

“Dreams come true you just have to stay consistent and be all in.”

https://t.co/ZFQn8AIuxo

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

The Christians of Nigeria have been heavy on my heart lately. Thank you Jesus for making these innocent people safer through these heroic actions. The atrocities committed upon these innocent people is heartbreaking. 🙏

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

Last night U.S. forces, in coordination with the Armed Forces of Nigeria, killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki and other ISIS leaders.

Back in November 2025, President Trump declared to the world that we will help protect Christians in Nigeria and instructed the Department of War to prepare for action. So, for months, we hunted this top ISIS leader in Nigeria who was killing Christians, and we killed him—and his entire posse.

In conjunction with Nigeria’s President, and at the direction of President Trump, U.S. Africa Command oversaw a precise operation to remove this terrorist.

Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was the senior ISIS General Directorate of Provinces Emir — the number two for ISIS globally — responsible for overseeing the planning of attacks, directing hostage-taking and managing financial operations. The removal of him and other ISIS personnel makes Americans safer by further degrading ISIS’s ability to plan and carry out attacks that threaten the U.S. homeland, American citizens, and innocent civilians.

Operations like last night’s demonstrate the exceptional lethality, patience and skill of U.S. forces, amplified alongside willing and capable partners, to address shared threats. This should serve as a reminder that we will hunt down those who wish to harm Americans or innocent Christians, wherever they are.

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star RB Andrew Beard has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 5’10 195 RB from Bogart, GA chose the Gators over Clemson, Georgia, and Tennessee

“Gator boys stay hot🐊”

https://t.co/hSXppIqtPs

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Class of 2027 DL Stive-Bentley Keumajou has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’3 295 DL chose the Gators over Georgia, Miami, Texas, and Auburn

“Built in Homerton. Proven in Florida.”

https://t.co/lgpV9pMhQS

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

Yessir keep ‘em coming 🐊🐊

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star Safety Kailib Dillard has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’2 185 S from Tulsa, OK chose the Gators over Georgia and Oregon

“Gator Nation Let’s Rock🐊‼️”

https://t.co/iI8h3ZPdMS

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

🐊🐊‼️

[Florida Gators 🐊🔥 @gatorsszn]

BREAKING: Four-Star OT Elijah Hutcheson has committed to Florida per @Hayesfawcett3 🐊

Hutcheson is a Top 100 recruit per On3 and is a Top 6 OT 👀

Sumrall is COOKING 🧑‍🍳

[Joe Lundquist @lundquist_joe]

This is so organically beautiful. She gets it 🙌🙏