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That same year, I became a born-again Catholic. Being a devout Catholic, I began to inspire priests and Catholic laymen to open up to the Charismatic Renewal Movement, which had started to flourish in the Philippines. With my money, I sponsored Catholic Life-in-the-Spirit seminars and monthly charismatic Mass and Healing Rallies. I am sincerely thankful to Msgr. Fidelis Limcaco of the Quezon City Catholic Charismatic Secretariat, who allowed me to profess and put into action my new-found faith. He agreed to launch the monthly Charismatic Mass and Healing Rally at the Araneta Coliseum if I would sponsor it. Burning with rekindled faith, I offered P50,000 as miracle-seed-of-faith-offering for that apostolate. I scarcely realized at that time that the El Shaddai’s Miracle-Seed-of-Faith storybook had been discovered and opened. |
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That P50,000 was in fact my last "cold cash" in the bank, for my real estate properties at the Multinational Village, Parañaque, Metro Manila, were not moving due to the economic crisis gripping the Philippines then. While my bank loans kept growing because of interests and penalties, real estate prices were on the downtrend for lack of demand. If I reckon correctly, my indebtedness to the banks at that time was over P200-million! After giving that initial seed-of-faith offering, I prayed for a financial miracle. Praise God, a week before the Charismatic Mass and Healing Rally I sponsored was held, my first financial miracle came. A group of businessmen bought a part of my real estate properties for P60-million! With joy in my heart, I started telling people that God had returned a thousandfold my P50,000 miracle seed-of-faith offering. That was in fact the start of countless miracle stories which led me to a new vocation that is much better than my real estate business. And that is God’s business of Salvation and Truth, which says: " ‘...Man does not live by bread alone, but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God’ " (Matthew 4:4). With that first miracle-seed-of-faith-offering born out of generosity, the El Shaddai DWXI-PPFI was launched by "God Who Is More Than Enough." I willingly offered the DWXI Radio Station to broadcast the Good News of Salvation from sign on to sign off! By 1988 my financial crisis was miraculously over. Real estate prices suddenly bounced back. My foreclosed properties were again in demand. The banks allowed me to sell my properties on my own terms and repay my loan to them out of the proceeds. Soon, my loans had been settled and some of my foreclosed properties recovered! Since then up to the present, countless miracles have been told, and written, and will be shared in the future, about the prayer-partners’ faithfulness in practicing generosity. This article is not enough to print them all. Glory be to El Shaddai! The generous Heavenly Father, Who does all things well! |
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