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\u201cBut it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you \u2026 And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. The LORD will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. (Duet 28:15, 23, 24)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Please join me in praying that this nation repents of its sins and turns back to the Elohim of the Bible to love and obey him.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0drought doesn’t just affect\u00a0the farmers in California, but all of us, since the\u00a0food they produce feeds us.<\/p>\n

As a drought unfolds slowly and devastatingly, California farmers feel desperate and abandoned<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. \u2014 Bob Taylor was barely 2 years old when his parents packed as many belongings as they could into their rickety old car and headed west from New Mexico toward California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It was 1936, the height of the Dust Bowl, when the worst drought the country had ever seen forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their parched farmlands and head west in the hope of finding jobs and a more stable life.<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s parents were farm laborers, cotton pickers from Oklahoma and Texas who had slowly inched their way west chasing the crops that had somehow managed to survive the lack of rain. But then came the terrible dust storms, choking black blizzards of dirt fueled by the loose soil of eroded farmlands that swept across the plains, turning the days as dark as night. They were monsters that suffocated the life out of anything the drought hadn\u2019t managed to kill \u2014 crops, animals and even people, who began to die from the dust that filled their lungs. (To continue reading\u00a0http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/california-drought-dust-bowl-040440797.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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