Before going down the stage Saturday, Michael left this statement that has often been heard and sung during our praise and worship during weekends here at Victory U-Belt — with God, nothing is impossible.
That statement was evident in the face of Michael as he testified Saturday night during our prayer meeting (Day Two Fasting) how he got reconciled to his mother, whom he hasn’t been communicating with for more than two years already.
Michael, who is part of our Victory group among the couples, runs a tarpaulin business near the Binondo area. His relationship with his mother went from sour, to bad to worse more than two years ago due to serious business opinions.
(Photo from Michael's Facebook account): Michael and his mother during a light moment taken at MOA on Dec. 16, 2010
He recounted in his brief testimony that their business differences seriously strained their relationship so that he had no mother to greet when Mother’s Day comes, couldn’t celebrate Christmas, New Year and birthday — occasions that were dear to them as a family.
His seven-year-old son used to ask where is lola (grandma) and he didn’t know what to say, so he’d quickly shift topic.
But one time, while reading his Bible, he came across the verse in Exodus 20:12 which says, Honor your father and your mother. It was a verse he said he had read and heard so many times now, but at that moment, God spoke to him about it. Convicted by that verse, he resolved to get it right with his mother. He shared this verse to his wife CJ and they both started to think of ways how they could reconnect with his mother.
Michael and CJ then included this family issue in their prayer and fasting on 2010, believing in God’s word that whatever they ask for, believe they have received it and it will be theirs.
Michael’s first step was to send her mother an e-card just before the Christmas season (this was in 2009). And he said he was surprised because her mother responded. He then, sent email messages to her from there. Come Mother’s Day last 2010, he sent her flowers.
Then some time in the third quarter of 2010, he arranged a visit at his mother’s home in Paranaque City, where they finally saw each other again for the first time in years.
By December, sensing the impeding family breakthrough, Michael, together with his wife and kids, asked her mother out for a dinner because it was her birthday.
“Kitang-kita sa mukha ni mama yung saya niya kasi magkasama uli kami lahat. (You could see from my mother’s face how happy she is because we were finally together again.),” said a teary-eyed Michael.
Michael said their time with her mother at Mall of Asia was considered as the highlight of 2010 because of how God brought his family together again after a serious relational fallout.
A lot of people during the service were teary-eyed as they listen to Michael speak, though what even surprised them was the fact that Michael introduced her mother, who was sitting at the back.
“Ang galing talaga ni Lord! To God, nothing is impossible!” beamed Michael.