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 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 everywh...

                                  The little white ermine in his spotless coat permits nothing to soil it.’ well-acquitted with this fact hunters take an advantage of him. They do not set traps but daub filth within and around the entrance to his home. When the dogs are set lose the chase begins, the little animal turns to his one place of refuge. But on seeing the filth turns to face the yelping dogs, thinking it’s better to die than to soil his white coat. Psalm 139 is one of the most beautiful songs of David. It’s intensely personal, between David and God (note the frequent “I” and “me”). He says that God knows absolutely everything about him! He knows all his thoughts, actions and words (vv. 2-4). God is intimately acquainted with all his ways! One of the greatest truths in life is that there is no escape from God . Like fugitives, we may run, but we cannot ultimately hide from the God who pene...

                                                                                                     Welcome home my son Evangelist Charles Inglis records the following story told by a lady in a prayer meeting “some years ago my husband was in Europe and I was left with my maids in a large lonely house. One evening after our usual Bible reading and prayer, we retired to our rooms. As I entered my room, I happened to look into a mirror at the opposite side of the room and was horrified to see a man crouching behind my wardrobe. I was tempted to cry aloud for help but I knew it would be useless. So I decided to put my faith in God by practicing the verses we had just...

                                                            Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of John Hopkins in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to outpatients at the clinic. One summer evening there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. He was hardly taller than my eight-year-old and had a stooped, shriveled body.   His face was lopsided from swelling and yet his voice was pleasant. He said, “Good evening. I’ve come to see if you’ve a room for just one night. I came for treatment this morning from the Eastern Shore, and there’s no bus till morning.” I’ve been hunting for a room since noon but with no success. I guess it’s my face”.   For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: “I could...