Inside Story: A Grain of Prayer ~ European Division
A Grain of Prayer
By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission
Yolanda Malla learned about the power of prayer from a rice field.
Yolanda found work, planting and cultivating rice, in a field in her native Philippines after her husband divorced her, leaving her with two baby boys. The land owner gave her permission to work in his rice field under the condition that she gave half of the harvest to him. The field was located beside a field owned by a relative.
Yolanda worked hard and, when the crop started to grow, she saw that the harvest was likely to be first-class rice.
“Lord, I don’t want any disaster to destroy this rice”, she prayed. “I need it to feed my children”.
Two weeks later, a powerful storm struck the region. Yolanda listened as the wind and rain pounded against her home.
Suddenly she remembered the rice.
“I can’t do anything, Lord”, she said. “Please remember my prayer”.
Several days later, after the flooding subsided, she managed to leave her home and travel to the rice field to survey the damage.
To her surprise, her rice was brown and ripe. There was no sign that the fierce storm had ever happened.
Then Yolanda looked over at the surrounding fields. They were completely ruined. Even her relative’s crop was destroyed.
The field’s owner was amazed at harvesttime.
“This is the first time that this rice field has produced first-class rice”, he said, surprise ringing in his voice. “Rats ate the crop of the farmer who borrowed this field to grow rice last year”.
The rodents had eaten so much of the rice that the previous farmer was able to harvest the entire crop on his own. Yolanda, however, needed 17 people to help her harvest the rice.
Looking at the bountiful crop, Yolanda remembered her prayer on the night of the storm.
“A small prayer is a powerful prayer”, she said in an interview in Cyprus, where she works as a domestic helper. “A small grain of prayer produced a million grains of rice. We couldn’t even count the rice”.
Read next week about how Yolanda, pictured, became a Seventh-day Adventist in Cyprus and led two friends to Jesus.
Part of the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering this quarter will help construct a new church building and community center in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Holy Spirit guide my ways, thought and feet today. Amen.
O love of God, how strong and true! Eternal and yet ever new; Uncomprehended and unbought, Beyond all knowledge and all thought.
Dont know how long ago was that story but what I know God is love. He is still working miracles. He still answers prayers. He is with his people in this generation. Praise his holy name. Amen and Amen.
Showers of Blessing. What an encouragement, I love these stories. What a mighty God we serve!
Do you have a compilation of these very inspiring stories/book?
if you go to the end of one of the stories you will see a section called Tags: All these storied are tagged "Mission Stories". Click on that tag and you will then get all the stories we have ever posted with that tag. On my inspection I found 21 pages of stories with 10 stories per page. That is a lot of stories! 🙂
In that story it reminds me of how GOD takes care of even the Ants and also Answers the smallest prayers.
GOD Is An Awesome GOD And He Is Good All The Time Amen.
in farming you learn a lot about God and it teaches so many spiritual virtues like patience.