{"id":714,"date":"2015-05-01T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=714"},"modified":"2015-05-01T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:19:25","slug":"when-boxing-champion-manny-pacquiao-saw-angels-and-heard-gods-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"When Boxing Champion Manny Pacquiao Saw Angels and Heard God&#8217;s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raised Roman Catholic, Manny strayed from the church as he rose to fame in his boxing career. &#8220;I went to church on Sunday, but from Monday through Saturday I was in the bar drinking,&#8221; he told <em>CBN<\/em>. &#8220;I was gambling. Careless words came out of my mouth. I committed adultery. I didn&#8217;t care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But one day he read a letter that gripped his heart. &#8220;I received a letter from my mother saying my sister stopped going to school because I stopped sending them the money. I cried, blaming myself for spending all the money on alcohol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That same night in 2011, not long after his third fight with Juan Manuel Marquez, God visited Manny in a powerful dream. &#8220;I heard the voice of God in my dream. His voice was 10 times louder than thunder. He said to me, &#8220;My child, my child, why have you gone astray?&#8221; he recounted to <em>CBN<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the dream, which unfolded in a beautiful forest amid flowers, he also saw two angels, according to an interview with <em>The Blaze.<\/em> &#8220;When I heard the voice of God I felt like I died. &#8230; I was in the middle of the forest and I was kneeling and praying with my face on the ground and then I saw a light, a very white light and I heard the voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the angels had &#8220;white, long, big wings&#8221; and said that God revealed to him &#8220;about the end of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt I was melting when I heard the voice of God. It was the turning point in my life. God spoke to me and he told me what He wanted me to do and I had to follow (Him).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a while, Manny tried to ignore the dream. But one day he felt compelled to pick up the Bible and begin reading it for himself. &#8220;I forgot about that dream, but when I started reading the Bible, the first verse I read said that God talked to a man through dreams. I realized, wow, my dream was real,&#8221; he told <em>CBN<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/culture\/49419-when-boxing-champion-manny-pacquiao-saw-angels-and-heard-god-s-voice\">http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/culture\/49419-when-boxing-champion-manny-pacquiao-saw-angels-and-heard-god-s-voice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raised Roman Catholic, Manny strayed from the church as he rose to fame in his boxing career. &#8220;I went to church on Sunday, but from Monday through Saturday I was in the bar drinking,&#8221; he told CBN. &#8220;I was gambling. Careless words came out of my mouth. I committed adultery. 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