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I read a book last weekend while we were on our Atlanta getaway entitled Watchman Prayer by Dutch Sheets. My first conclusion after reading this book was that I should pray more. My second conclusion was that I should read more. I’m trying to do both. There were many encouraging stories in this book pointing to the power, effectiveness, and necessity of prayer. Here is a story taken directly out of the book about how prayer changed a tiny village in Guatemala. I don’t want to just stop with the ‘wow’ of what God has done in other places. I want Him to do these things in our midst, too. Maybe I should be praying instead of typing a blog post. 
Almolonga, Guatemala
“In the 1970′s Almolonga was idolatrous and economically depressed. Alcholism was rampant; poverty and violence the norm. Families suffered terribly due to the depravity that ruled. The gospel did not prosper; persecution of Christian leaders was common.
In 1974, a series of five-hour prayer vigils began, and shortly thereafter God began to move. Deliverance and healings began to break forth, even ressurrections from the dead. Conversions began to take place at such a rate that 90 percent of the 19,000 people in Almolonga are now evangelical Christians.
The revival has impacted every area of life: families, businesses, even the produce of the land. Now nicknamed “America’s Vegetable Garden, ” the fields produce three harvests per year with five pound beets, carrots bigger than a man’s arm and cabbages the size of basketballs.
Crime disappeared so much that, in 1994, the last of the four jails closed. The revival continues to this day.”
Sheets, Dutch. Watchman Prayer. Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2000
Believe for the things that seem impossible. Ask for the huge carrots and cabbages!!
