Welcome to today's edition of Our Daily Bread.

Amy Boucher Pie wrote today's encouragement, and she titled it, Seeking God's Help.

For five years in the late 1800s, grasshoppers descended on Minnesota, destroying the crops. Farmers tried trapping the

grasshoppers in tar and burning their fields to kill the eggs. Feeling desperate and on the

brink of starvation, many people sought a statewide day of prayer, yearning to seek God's help together.

The governor relented, setting aside April 26th to pray.

In the days after the collective prayer, the weather warmed and the eggs started to come to life.

But then four days later, a drop in temperature surprised and delighted many

for the freezing temperatures killed the larvae.

Minnesotans once again would harvest their crops of corn, wheat, and oats.

Prayer was also behind the saving of God's people during the reign of King Jehochefat.

When the king learned that a vast army was coming against him,

he called God's people to pray and fast.

The people reminded God how he'd save them in times past,

and Jehoshaphat said that if calamity came upon them,

whether the sort of judgment or plague or famine,

they would cry out to God, knowing that he would hear and save them.

God rescued his people from the invading armies, and he hears us when we cry out to him in distress.

Whatever you are concerned, whether a relationship issue or something threatening from the natural world, lift it to God in prayer.

Nothing is too hard for him.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from 2 Chronicles chapter 20, verses 5 through 12, and verse 15.

Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the temple of the Lord in the front of the new

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