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02-10-2015, 12:32 PM
Boxer Manny Pacquiao: God Uses Me to Glorify His Name
February 9, 2015 - 11:28 AM
By Melanie Hunter
http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/df0b818d8a5f49898d28c836a9f01574.jpg (http://cnsnews.com/image/pacquiao-algieri-boxing)Boxer Manny Pacquiao participates in an interview with The Associated Press, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
(CNSNews.com) – World champion boxer Manny Pacquiao told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace that God uses him to glorify God’s name. “God has a purpose. He brings me back into his kingdom to use me to glorify his name, to let the people know that there is God who can raise the people from nothing into something,” said Pacquiao.
Wallace had asked him if he saw any conflict between his faith and boxing. Pacquaio was “painfully honest,” Wallace said, about his life four years ago.
“I want to have friends around me and drinking and have girls beside me, and of course, gambling,” Pacquiao said, but then he heard the voice of God in a dream.
“I hate to do that anymore, and my heart wants to read the Bible, wants to obey God and that's my heart. That's how God changed my life,” Pacquiao said.
Pacquiao grew up poor in the Philippines and started boxing to get off the streets, Wallace said. And despite his disdain for politics, the boxer won a seat in his country’s House of Representatives five years ago.
“If I start to go into politics, I think I believe that I can serve more, I can help more people,” Pacquiao said. He denied reports that he might run for president of the Philippines after he’s done boxing.
“I don't have that in my mind right now, but if it's God's will, you know, it will be done,” he said.
“When you have Jesus in your life, when you have God in your life, like the thing in this world is not important to your heart. The more important is God in your heart,” Pacquiao said.
February 9, 2015 - 11:28 AM
By Melanie Hunter
http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/df0b818d8a5f49898d28c836a9f01574.jpg (http://cnsnews.com/image/pacquiao-algieri-boxing)Boxer Manny Pacquiao participates in an interview with The Associated Press, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
(CNSNews.com) – World champion boxer Manny Pacquiao told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace that God uses him to glorify God’s name. “God has a purpose. He brings me back into his kingdom to use me to glorify his name, to let the people know that there is God who can raise the people from nothing into something,” said Pacquiao.
Wallace had asked him if he saw any conflict between his faith and boxing. Pacquaio was “painfully honest,” Wallace said, about his life four years ago.
“I want to have friends around me and drinking and have girls beside me, and of course, gambling,” Pacquiao said, but then he heard the voice of God in a dream.
“I hate to do that anymore, and my heart wants to read the Bible, wants to obey God and that's my heart. That's how God changed my life,” Pacquiao said.
Pacquiao grew up poor in the Philippines and started boxing to get off the streets, Wallace said. And despite his disdain for politics, the boxer won a seat in his country’s House of Representatives five years ago.
“If I start to go into politics, I think I believe that I can serve more, I can help more people,” Pacquiao said. He denied reports that he might run for president of the Philippines after he’s done boxing.
“I don't have that in my mind right now, but if it's God's will, you know, it will be done,” he said.
“When you have Jesus in your life, when you have God in your life, like the thing in this world is not important to your heart. The more important is God in your heart,” Pacquiao said.