The Youth for El Shaddai

Brother Mariano "Mike" Z. Velarde
Servant Leader
El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners Foundation International

is a geodetic engineer by profession and a real estate developer in business.
Among his real estate developments are the Moonwalk Subdivisions in Parañaque and Las Piñas Cities, and the Bricktown Subdivision and Multinational Village,
located in Parañaque City, near the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Actually, he had neither planned to lead any charismatic community nor dreamt of proclaiming the Good News of Salvation. However, God’s thoughts are not man’s thoughts, neither His ways are man’s ways.
Here is the story on how God called him to be a "fisher of men for Christ Jesus" and how the El Shaddai DWXI-PPFI started.

A Visit by an Angel Sometime in February 1978, at the age of 38, Bro. Mike was confined at the Philippine Heart Center for Asia Hospital due to heart enlargement and heart blocks.
He was scheduled to undergo a major heart operation, but none of his five doctors

could guarantee that he would survive the operation. One night, an angel in the guise of a nurse came to his room and told him, "Mr. Velarde, I've been watching you for the past three weeks.
You are very depressed and always in fear of a heart attack. Allow me to open that Bible beside you and show you a way out of your predicament.
" Then the angel opened the Bible on 1 Corinthians 10:13 and gave it to him, saying, "Read this and contemplate on it and I assure you, it will help.
" The verse read, "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man.
And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.
But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
" After reading the verse a number of times and meditating on it, his fear disappeared completely and he felt a peace of mind.
That night he was able to sleep soundly.
The next morning, he felt a new kind of strength and was filled with joy.
His doctors were surprised when they saw him walking along the corridors of the hospital.
They examined his heart thoroughly and was amazed to find out that his ailment had been healed! The operation was thus no longer necessary.
A week later, he was discharged from the hospital. Further examination of his heart by doctors in a hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA gave him a clean bill of health.

Once, while he was meditating on the miracle that had happened in his life, he asked God,
"Lord, what must I do to live according to Your will?" The Spirit of God replied,
"My son, bear witness to the salvation, love and miracle that you’ve experienced.
If you continue to do this, your fellowmen will know that the God Whom you serve is indeed alive and faithful!"