From a Small One to a Strong Nation
The Kingdom ministry started with only 15 members, twenty two years ago. Now, I do not want to count the numbers that we have, because I do not want to rely on our numerical strength; I would like to always rely on the strength of the Father. We have seen it work in every city of the Philippines and throughout the world. There are already Kingdom Locale Congregations, sons and daughters of God, who obey the Father’s will, like us here.
We thank the Father for giving us our own multi-media ministry to broadcast the Word of God to the whole world through radio, TV, print media, the internet and all technological media that are available to us today. So that whether I sleep, play or work, I am heard—24 hours a day, seven days a week—all over the globe. This is the Father’s desire, and I thank Him for this has been fulfilled in our ministry today.
From a very humble beginning here in Davao City, we are here today. We are seen and heard from this city to the whole world, every time we face the camera.
The Year of Scaling Great, Impossible Heights
In January this year, I sprained my ankle out of my love for basketball. I wasn’t able to stand up for two days, and the doctor said that I cannot walk for at least seven days. I was scheduled to preach at the ULTRA (Philsports Arena) in Manila on the first Sunday of 2007, but it was impossible for me to walk. I was not able to sleep all of Saturday night and in Sunday morning, January 7, my ankle got worse. I still couldn’t stand up, and I was in great pain.
I prayed to the Father at 5:00 in the morning. I said, “I have to go to the ULTRA, even if it means they will have to put me in a wheelchair to speak to the people, because I do not want to disappoint those who were going to attend. I had to preach the Word of God and bless the people.” I admitted to the Father that it was my sin, because I played basketball very hard, which caused my injury. I said, “Father, I am your Son, but I am still a man that will have broken bones if I am not careful. Father, I have to be there, no matter what. If it’s possible, please send me a glorified body. I will borrow it first, and leave this body with an injured leg, so I can preach to the people.”
That was my prayer and I fell asleep for almost two hours. After that, I woke up at 6:50 a.m. When I woke up, I noticed that my leg was lighter. I tried moving it, and I was able to move it. Then I tried sitting down on the side of the bed; I was able to sit. I tried to stand up, I stood up. I tried to walk and I did. I opened the door and just in time, the little boy (David) that I have adopted was already awake and was knocking on my door. I picked him up, carried him and woke everybody up. They were so surprised. I was not only walking but was also carrying a 15-kg boy.
They asked, “What happened, Pastor? That was a miracle.” I said, “It was even more than a miracle!” And then, the Father let me go to the ULTRA, unaided with crutches or a wheelchair. He let me go there, although I walked a little bit slowly, but I walked alone by myself; and I was able to deliver the Father’s message and bless the people.
That is the message of the Father in 2007. He will give us faith that will produce miracles in the spirit. He will let our eyesight go beyond our circumstances, our environment, and the atmosphere where we are in. The Father will let us know that when we believe in Him, everything in the physical life is but an illusion; because the real life is when we leave the life in the flesh.
The Spiritual Realm
Anything that is permanent is real; anything that is just passing is an illusion. Seventy years in the life of the Son of God is just a few minutes in eternity. So, if your life span is 70 years, you are just dreaming. When you die, that is when you wake up in the other side, which is your eternity. Where are you today in the sight of eternity? Are you in hell or in heaven? If you are in hell, your life was a nightmare while you were alive; but if you are sure you’re going to heaven, your life was a life of blessings. So, let us go beyond the physical and get our strength from the spiritual.
He told me, “I will let you scale great, impossible heights to my glory; and you will be able to do it.” To men, it is a miracle; but to God, there is nothing that is called a miracle, because He is living in that dimension right now. And no one has been there. Except those who are living in the third dimension, where we are living right now. He wanted to lift us up and put us in that dimension; that when we walk by faith, we will know the language of the Father.
From Impossibilities
to Possibilities
There will be no miracles for us anymore. Miracles will just be natural occurrence to the people of God. Healing will just be as instant as you want it. The financial or material blessings that have been clogged up in your life will come just as you mention them and pray for them. They are just a breath away. When you call upon Him, the Father will be able to pour out His unlimited blessings upon you.
Let us live and look at the impossibilities today as mere challenges to the people of God. That means, we will not depend on our own ability to solve them, but we will always call upon that spiritual strength coming from the Holy Father to do what He bids us to do. So, there will be no failure on our part, because if we cannot do it, we can call on somebody.
Jeremiah 33: 3 says, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”
This is our hotline to Him in scaling these great, impossible heights. The ministry that the Father has delivered unto us has been a miraculous ministry, ever since. Who would ever think that a Pastor from a third world country would be able to do what he is doing right now? In the physical sense, I cannot do it without Him. Who would ever think that I will be able to go to the United States and establish His work there, when the other way around was always the popular mode of evangelism – from America to the third world countries? Now, we have turned this around; we’re spreading the Word of the Father from a third world country to America.
He has let the work grow in all corners of the globe. And a miracle has happened, because He has chosen Davao City as His New Jerusalem. The Father will gather all of His children, who have been perfected, in this city. This will be the meeting place of all men whose spirits have been made perfect by obedience to the Father’s will. They will all be gathered here, in unity in the spirit. There will be no more disobedience to the Father’s will. Guide
Open Field Concert Crusade
JC Compound, Davao City, Phils.
January 14, 2007 |