Pastor King Flores

In 1976, I received Jesus as my personal Savior and Lord during my freshman year thru the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ at UP Los Banos. Trained as a disciplined follower of Jesus, I realized the value and power of prayer early in my Christian life. God answered my daily petitions for me to pass all my courses and thus managed to maintain my scholarship until I finished college.

Upon graduation, I received a word from God telling me to serve Him full-time. But due to the financial difficulties our family was in, I begged off and instead asked God to help me land a high paying job so I can help support my younger siblings. Through constant praying and fellowship with God, the Lord granted me success in my work and I was blessed with favor after favor from my bosses which led to a rapid promotion and a climb in the corporate ladder and financial stability.

In 1994, again God called for me to serve Him full-time. Thinking that this might be His last call, I listened and said YES to God. In my mind I was thinking that our two year reserved resources would suffice for the needs of the family. But 2 months after that decision, my mother got sick with a terrible kidney disease that depleted all our funds. The doctor suggested that she go thru Dialysis treatment but since we did not have the funds, we told the doctor that we will take the option to pray and trust God for a miracle. We brought our mother home and took care of her daily needs even as we kept on our knees praying and asking God for her healing and recovery. After 4 months, our mother’s kidneys recovered and began functioning normally. God indeed is a God who answers prayers.

While we were rejoicing, we suddenly heard a commotion just outside our gate. Our 6 year old daughter was run over by a 5-ton water delivery truck. On our way to the hospital we kept on praying that God will spare her. Once again God proved His power and response to prayer as the x-ray results showed neither fracture nor dislocation. She was up and about in just 3 days and is now 21 years old. Glory to God! God assured me that He can take care of my family better than me and all I needed to do was to abide in Him. In 1996, God even provided schooling for my children after we returned from 2 years of studies in Singapore. God allowed my wife to be employed as a teacher in International School Manila, which paved the way for my kids to study almost for free.

The following year, the Lord opened a door for us to minister to the Anito Motels. Armed with prayer and 35 other pastors, we set up 77 small groups. We had to deal with prostitution and other vices which we battled out by fasting 3 days every month, early morning prayers every Monday and Wednesday. In 18 months, 70% of the 2,000 employees Metro Manila wide became Christians. The next year everybody has come to the saving knowledge of Jesus. Today, God has totally transformed this motel to become a family hotel. Each hotel now has a prayer room where prayers are offered up for their operations and customers too.

Riding on this momentum, the Lord brought me to debt ridden Paranaque City. Together with two other believers, we offered to pray for the city and the newly elected Mayor. Jun Bernabe allowed us to pray inside his office every day. Soon other pastors and some city employees join us in prayer.

God started to answer our prayers when the people started to pay their taxes and gradually the city’s income grew significantly. The mayor was so encouraged that he allowed us to teach the PDL to every department and to hold monthly fellowship inside the city hall premises. Because of these activities, the spiritual climate of the city hall was changed and God was welcomed into the whole city hall. After nine months of praying every day, our mayor dedicated the city to God and the City has been blessed.

The City has since been able to pay off its P900 million debt; the garbage problem was solved, streets were lighted up, graft and corruption curbed and peace and order improved. Our mayor was awarded as the best mayor in 2006 and the city now ranks 6th place according to a study done by AIM. Our treasury department has also been awarded by the Dept. of Finance as one of the most efficient tax collection unit nationwide for two consecutive years.

Last year our mayor asked for prayers for his quadruple bypass. God miraculously granted our request that in only 2 weeks, time our mayor already went back to work. Last September, our City was spared by the ravages of typhoon Ondoy. The following Monday, our mayor during the flag ceremony attributed this all to God with a ringing PRAISE THE LORD from his mouth.

The greatest news of all is that more and more souls are being saved. More and more employees and residents received Jesus as Savior and Lord into their lives and bible study groups are multiplying.

We are CONTINUALLY praying that all the 1 million residents in our city will enter the kingdom of God. We have now expanded into the business community like the banks, the urban poor and the other sectors of the city. Indeed the harvest is plentiful and God is simply waiting for us to pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send out more workers into the harvest field.

My name is King Flores. I have been attending CCF with my family since 2005 and I am part of the ministry to the Government called GMEN under the church planting ministry.

May the Lord touch our hearts that starting today we will make use of this privilege of prayer more than ever so we can altogether expand God’s kingdom wherever we are. All it takes for God to move is for us His children to pray.