{"id":3811,"date":"2019-06-04T17:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2019-06-05T00:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T00:59:40","slug":"is-it-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"Is it Worth it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20170416_132807-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3799\" width=\"325\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20170416_132807-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20170416_132807-250x174.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It was Spring, 2017.&nbsp;<\/strong><br><strong>My lungs were on fire as I gasped for air which was in scarce supply at 11,000 feet.&nbsp; My leg muscles were quivering from exhaustion from carrying my 35 lb. pack seven miles straight up a mountain.&nbsp; I would take 15-20 steps, stop, suck air, then repeat\u2026 again and again. I felt God had told me to trek these mountains and pray but now all my prayers were focused on me not collapsing!&nbsp; I was thinking, \u201cI sure hope this is worth the pain.\u201d&nbsp; Finally, after several hours we reached the top and I dropped my pack and fell to the ground.&nbsp; As I was trying to recover and feel my legs again I began to look around.&nbsp; We could see hundreds of small villages scattered across the mountains in every direction.&nbsp; From here we began to pray, prophesy and make declarations releasing the Kingdom of God throughout this region. For six days we did this, trekking, sucking air and praying.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190330_125617-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3798\" width=\"342\" height=\"192\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fast forward to Spring, 2019. <\/strong><br><strong>I was able to go back to this same region for a visit.&nbsp; This time I met four different pastors that had been working in this area.&nbsp; Each one told me of a great move of God that was taking place.&nbsp; They now estimated that there were nearly 15,000 believers in this region, most of who had come to the Lord in the past two years.&nbsp; During our time of ministry there God used us to bring deliverance, healing and great encouragement to hundreds of new believers.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=3802\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Spring, 2017.&nbsp;My lungs were on fire as I gasped for air which was in scarce supply at 11,000 feet.&nbsp; My leg muscles were quivering from exhaustion from carrying my 35 lb. pack seven miles straight up a mountain.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=3811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}