A ROCKY FOUNDATION

  Everette Howard became stranded between two Cape Verde islands for eight days. After much prayer he decided to row his small boat towards land. As he started out that evening he felt impressed to play a harmonica which he had carried with him. He lifted the harmonica and started playing hymns. As he did this he prayed that God may direct his boat towards the inland. After sometime he was surprised to see a boat sailing directly towards his small boat. The captain of boat dropped Jacob’s ladder and Everette climbed in. The captain said “ I heard the gospel hymns you were playing on that harmonica and I ordered my men to follow that music until they find the source and we found you”. Everette thanked God for answering his prayers and particularly for prompting him to play the harmonica. God used the harmonica as the means for the captain to locate him that night in the water. Psalm 63 also known as the “desert hymn” was written by David when he was in the Desert of Judah. T...

                                          On 11 th May 1685 at Wigtown, Scotland , eighteen years old Margaret Wilson and Margaret McLaughlin, a widow of sixty-three, were persecuted to the death. McLaughlin had been arrested while holding a Sunday service at home instead of attending the government’s approved church. Wilson with her siblings had defied her parents and attended Covenanter services held in wilderness places. Both women could have saved themselves by repeating an oath against the rebel Covenanters, swearing allegiance to the king as head of the church. The headship of Christ was the issue in a nutshell, so they could not comply with that demand.   They also considered oaths to be against Christ’s command, so they refused. While the tide was out, two stakes were driven into the sand of the sea-shore. The older Margaret was staked further from the shore so a...