A ROCKY FOUNDATION

                                                           Ancient city of Babylon by Darling Kindersley Babylon was a wonderful city with beautiful parks and gardens. The hanging gardens of Babylon are one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Two sets of walls (inner and outer) protected the city rendering it safe from attack from outside. Its fortified brick wall extended more than 10m underground, over 100m high and nearly 30m thick. 150 gates of solid brass protected the entrance and River Euphrates bisected it north and south. The Persian and Medes combined forces (Medo-Persia) started capturing nations to take over as from Babylon as the super powers of the world. But, with an impenetrable wall, a river flowing through the city and enough food to last many years Babylonians considered themselves invincible. In October of 539 BC Medo-Persia army marched towards Babylon. They devised a plan to enter the super protected city; the water of the river that flowed under the c

  A farmer went to the bank to borrow money to buy corn seed. He ploughed his farm for many days, applied fertilizer over the whole farm and then planted the corn. The rains came and the corn grew. One day thousands of grasshoppers flew to his farm and begun consuming his precious crop. On Sunday at a prayer meeting the farmer knelt down and cried out to God “Father, I shall lose the whole crop, I owe money to the bank”. He got up from prayer in great faith. As he walked home, a voice inside him kept saying, “let the chicken out”.   He wondered how letting the chicken out would help him. But, the next day he was up at dawn and let the chicken out. They started feeding on the grasshoppers. They thrived, with time they increased in number and eggs production increased. The farmer traveled throughout the surrounding area selling eggs and chicken. God did not save the crop, he had a different idea. Habakkuk lived in a sinful society permeated by evil. He saw sin everywhere and wonder