{"id":4339,"date":"2022-09-09T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=4339"},"modified":"2022-09-09T22:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T22:55:51","slug":"redeemed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=4339","title":{"rendered":"Redeemed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>During my recent trip to India, my first in more than two years, I had the opportunity to return to a village that I had ministered in the summer of 2019. It was just a short visit for a few hours but it was good to be back and see how the ministry had grown since our last visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>They told me how a man that had been blind could now see and how a woman who was crippled had been healed during our last visit. Because of these miracles the church was growing by leaps and bounds. I was so encouraged to see what God was doing in this remote place of North India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Then they brought a man to me. He was very small in stature but it turned out that he has a very big God. \u201cDo you remember this man?\u201d The pastor asked. \u201cNo, I\u2019m sorry I don\u2019t.\u201d I replied.&nbsp; I have prayed over thousands of people and to be honest there are many of them I just don\u2019t remember. \u201cWhen you were here last we visited this man in his home. He was dying of AIDS and you prayed for him.&nbsp; God healed him and he was able to get his job back,\u201d said the pastor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Then they introduced me to the woman standing next to him. \u201cAfter he was healed he was married to this woman. She used to be a homeless street beggar. He brought her to Jesus and they were married about a year ago,\u201d the pastor explained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What an amazing story of how good our Jesus is! A dying man was redeemed. His job was redeemed. A homeless street beggar was redeemed. And now they are living their lives glorifying the One who redeemed them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I just shake my head at the love and power of God\u2026and I still wish I could remember praying for that guy!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent trip to India, my first in more than two years, I had the opportunity to return to a village that I had ministered in the summer of 2019. It was just a short visit for a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=4339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}