I am one of your listeners and your broadcast was truly instrumental in changing my life.

In September 2006, the company I had helped build was headed for deep financial trouble. My then fiancée and I just celebrated our fifth anniversary when this impending doom knocked on our doorstep. The financial and emotional stress I was going through slowly turned me into a very miserable man. I struggled to make ends meet and ended up spending the very last centavo of what little I had saved just to survive.

Deep in debt, the company had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. I lost everything I had worked hard for, along with my self-confidence and dignity. My weakened state of health also made things worse. My relationships were in turmoil.

I got into constant fights with my fiancée. In July 2007, she broke up with me, saying she had fallen in love with someone else. Though the last two years were very tough on us, I never thought it would come to that.

My world was shattered; I wanted to end my life as six years of memories flooded my mind. I wanted to pray but I did not know how to begin. I turned the radio on but all I heard were sad love songs that only made me feel worse. I questioned God, asking Him why He allowed those things to happen me.

Then I remembered the billboard of a radio station I saw in the Banilad-Talamban area. I turned the dial to that station—98.7 DYFR—and spent the whole day listening. The music and messages aired that day called to my soul. I felt that the broadcast was for me alone. It helped fill that huge vacuum in me. The pain was still there but it seemed a bit lighter.

When the station signed off, I felt the emptiness once more. The pain was so great that I turned to alcohol. I wanted to drink myself to sleep. But even that didn’t help. Alone and afraid, I started to cry out, “I can’t take it anymore! I need you, Abba Father! I lay everything at Your feet. Help me! Save me! I beg you.” Then I began crying like I have never cried before.

It took a simple prayer for my life to turn around. In my anger, I arrogantly questioned God. But still, He answered. He led me to the Book of Job to remind me of my folly. He made me see that all the good I did was not for His glory, but for my own. I asked for forgiveness for my lack of faith. That night, I asked Jesus into my life and nothing has ever been the same since.

The whole day was a demonstration of His presence in my life. It was then that I truly understood He wanted to take an active part in my life.

After that very trying episode in my life, I was able to find two jobs in the span of seven months and get back together with the woman I love! I know that all those things happened to bring me to a more intimate relationship with the Father.

My life may be light-years away from a happy-ever-after-ending but I would gladly settle for the “happy” part because I know that the One who can bring me to the “life-ever-after” is looking out for me.