The Latest Great News...

    Manny "PACMAN" Pacquiao won over Antonio "MENACING MINUS" Margarito. ( I'm sorry guys I just don't know his alias honestly.:P) and THAT is the latest great news in the country... Every Filipinos are rejoicing for the eight title win of Manny Pacquiao....Good fight for Margarito though, he remained standing till the twelfth round...although Pacquiao dominated all rounds (except 6th)  it doesn't change the fact that Margarito is a big hitter with a good chin.

    I watched NBN news last three days ago, a day after the Pacquiao vs. Margarito fight. The show is " People, Politics,Power". Two boxing sports analysts, along with the host, discussed about Pacquiao's 12 round unanimous decision win. When this final words by sports analyst Ronnie Nathanielsz ringed into my ears, "..I remember, my dear friend said there are three great Filipinos of our time... Carlos P. Romulo, Cory Aquino, and Manny Pacquiao...and I believe he's right."

    WBC President also said Manny(as a boxer) is like from "another planet", the way he fight, his respect and his compassion for his opponents... but above all this he's still the same humble poor boy from General Santos City. That boy, who made his way up seven more divisions,(that makes it eight), remained down on his feet.In his prime, but remained humble...
    Almost all of us think Manny Pacquiao is great, for us Manny Pacquiao winning a boxing match is the greatest news of all... but did you know that there is much greater (here's my redundancy again, but I mean it that way cause I want to emphasize something eh) MUCH GREATER NEWS than Pacquiao winning over a brawl... the great news is.... Jesus Christ won his fight against Satan to save you...yes...to save you..

    Manny Pacquiao might have his own reasons to fight, maybe to help his people? to make himself known? or to be an example to other poor Filipinos who have dreams to excel... Manny has his own level of care to his people but nothing compares to the care and compassion Jesus Christ gave when He died on the cross for us... He defeated death... after three days He rose back to life,and ascended to heaven..Such a winning Savior!

   As for me, Pacquiao is a great fighter but he's nothing compare to my Jesus who fought a fight that involves me (all of us.) and won it!  Pacquiao may win more fights and people will rejoice for it, but I rejoice only to the one who deserve all the praise--- Jesus, My Savior.

MANNY PACQUIAO VS. ANTONIO MARGARITO

“With our strategy, we are not worried about the size,I believe I can fight the bigger guys even though I am small compared to them. We always believe in our talent.”- Manny Pacquiao

     It is quite obvious that Antonio Margarito (right) has his height and reach advantage over Manny Pacquiao (left) but  Pacquiao has overwhelming advantage in speed compared to Margarito’s massive size advantage. Margarito is a volume puncher who loves to go to the body and a hard body attack is one of the best ways to combat speed. 

    Margarito is notorious for having a strong chin and relentlessly stalking his opponent, but he is extraordinarily slow and throws wide punches. He’ll be vulnerable to Pacquiao’s lightning fast hands unless he doubles his jab, uses it frequently and shortens his other punches.

    I guess its going to be a great match. I just hope Margarito's new trainer won't get too nervous and end up putting another knuckle pad in Margarito's hand wraps!

Menacing Minus

    

    I'm so much entertained by the fact that Margarito looks like one Mascot in Breaking Point Foundation’s Captain Plus presentation--Menacing Minus! 

    Let's just keep it a secret whose under the mask. I'm sure he won't forgive me for posting this picture. Haha!

   I'm excited for the upcoming fight between MANNY PACQUIAO VS. ANTONIO MARGARITO!!! (But I won't miss church because of this. ;)) I'm just excited to know who'll win. Will Pacman prove to everyone that he'll still be the greatest boxer in our generation? (hmm..I'm starting to sound bias here.) Well...judging by his strategies and his inborn fighting ability, I'm going for Pacman... My kababayan...;)

Two more fights to go... Are you ready? (You are in a fight! Part 2)

"Imagine you're inside the ring, while the crowd is looking at you, four muscular guys came in and their all going to fight you. One foe is enough to overpower you. What more if there are three more? What would you do? Who would you ask for help?" - From You are in a fight!

On the first round you've met, your first two opponents, TEMPTATION and SIN.

 Next, meet.. DOUBTS ...He's your third enemy.

From the time you trust Jesus Christ as the Savior of your life doubts had been bragging on you ever since. The devil works together with your old sinful nature and try to entice you to doubt your faith in Christ.Often times doubts come after we lose our fight against sin and temptation.He will tease you to lose your battle, to get rid of your faith...
 You can defeat doubts and you'll find that the greatest weapon is in the Bible. "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." God promises us that He will never leave us so why do we have to doubt Him?

Last but not the least foe is OPPOSITIONS, the name just sounds thrilling isn't it? They are the people whose discouraging your walk with God.But God is our faithful helper that's why we can say in confidence "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

Every fight has rewards, it can be a trophy, medal,or cash price. As Christians here is God's message to us. A message from our Great Coach.

"Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution....". "...Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life."(Revelation 2:13)

What an amazing reward we have from Him!

You are in a fight!

You are in a fight.

Have you  watched a wrestling fight on TV? Have you ever experienced watching Mixed Martial Arts fight live? Have you seen Manny "the Pacman" Pacquiao win through a knockout? If yes, I want you to imagine this scene; Imagine you're inside the ring, while the crowd is looking at you, four muscular guys came in and their all going to fight you. One foe is enough to overpower you. What more if there are three more? What would you do? Who would you ask for help?
  A fighter needs to train himself in order to win battles. the first thing a fighter needs to study  his enemy's schemes If you know who your enemy is,and if you have found out all you can about him, you have a better chance of victory over him. Know your enemy.

 As a Christian,we're all in a fight. Our old sinful self will most of the time rule over us if we're not aware. That's why we have to fight against our own sinful nature. How can we do that? 

• Your first enemy is TEMPTATION, he will try to whisper something that may lead to your destruction.Do you know what I mean? "Go on do it, everyone does it." that little voice says inside of you "You'll enjoy it and you'll get a way with it. No one will ever know."  Your old nature wants you to tell a lie, lose your temper, steal something,  use drugs or alcohol. Every Christian faces this enemy. We are all tempted by our old nature to do wrong things.Temptation is not a sin, but when you give in to it, if you quit fighting against it,then there comes sin.

• SIN is a tagged team with temptation. He is your second enemy.You can get rid of sin if you won over temptation at first round. You can win over temptation though, The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ our Saviour is able to help you when you are tempted (Hebrews 2:18) so that you will not give in to temptation and sin.

There you go.You already met two of your opponents. Two more to go.... Are you tired fighting? You will meet the other two later. They're as eager as the first two so get ready.