Desperate for God

GOOD MORNING,
 
IN THE SUMMER OF 1876, GRASSHOPPERS DECIMATED CROPS ALL ACROSS MINNESOTA.  DESPERATE FARMERS WORKED DAY AND NIGHT TO KEEP THEIR FIELDS FROM RUIN.  AS THE CRISIS MOUNTED, GOVERNOR JOHN PILLSBURY PROCLAIMED APRIL 26, 1877 AS A STATEWIDE DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING.  ALL THE SCHOOLS AND BUSINESSES CLOSED AS PEOPLE GATHERED IN CHURCHES TO PRAY AND FAST.  JUST LIKE TODAY, THE GOVERNOR HAD CRITICS, WITH THE MOST VOCAL BEING THE LIBERAL LEAGUE, WHICH STATED OF PILLSBURY'S ANNOUNCEMENT:  "WE HOLD THAT THE BELIEF IN THE POWER OF PRAYER IS PALPABLY UNTRUE, ITS INFLUENCE PERNICIOUS, AND IN THIS DAY, A MARKED DISCREDIT TO THE INTELLIGENCE OF MINNESOTANS..."  THEN THEY FINISHED OFF THEIR COMMENTS WITH THE STATEMENT:  "FROM THE BEGINNING DOWN TO THIS DAY, OUTSIDE OF SO-CALLED SACRED HISTORY, THERE IS NOT ONE WELL-AUTHORIZED INSTANCE OF SUCH PRAYER HAVING BEEN ANSWERED, NOT ONE."
 
THE NEXT DAY TEMPERATURE SOARED ABNORMALLY.  FOR THREE DAYS HORRIFIED FARMERS WATCHED BILLIONS OF GRASSHOPPER LARVAE WIGGLE INTO LIFE.  ON THE FOURTH DAY, HOWEVER, THE TEMPERATURE SUDDENLY DROPPED, AND THE FROST KILLED THE LARVAE.  PEOPLE WERE ASTOUNDED.  SHORTLY THEREAFTER, THE REMAINING GRASSHOPPERS DISAPPEARED INTO THE HORIZON. 
 
PEOPLE WERE SO THANKFUL FOR THIS MIRACLE THAT IN COLD SPRING, MINNESOTA, THEY CONSTRUCTED THE "GRASSHOPPER CHAPEL."  A GRATEFUL GENERATION EMBRACED THE MEMORY OF THEIR DESPERATE DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING AND GOD'S MAJESTIC DELIVERANCE.
 
 WHAT BREAKTHROUGH DO YOU NEED?  WHAT JESUS MIRACLE IS NEEDED IN YOUR LIFE, YOUR MARRIAGE, OR YOUR FAMILY?  "FOR NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD."   LUKE 1:37   DESPERATE CIRCUMSTANCES CALL FOR DESPERATE PRAYER AND FASTING.   MAY HIS BLESSINGS BE ON YOU TODAY, AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE LOVED!!!

HENRY