The Bible and Life

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Faith Cures Her

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

On Wednesday, March 28, 1928, the Chicago Daily News featured a front- page headline that read, “Deaf Six Years, Faith Cures Her.” Beneath the headline was a large photo of Fred Bosworth teaching a smiling teenage girl how to use a telephone.

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The girl was Ruth Peiper, age sixteen. Her mother had died when Ruth was only eight, and her father had refused to provide a home for her. So, Ruth had been sent to a home for dependent girls. When she was eleven years old, she contracted diphtheria and scarlet fever. Due to those illnesses, she lost hearing in both her ears. She also had to wear a body cast and walked with a noticeable limp due to a severe curvature of the spine. Her doctors had not been able to help her, and her stay in the home became far longer than that of most other girls her age.

Ruth had become a favorite at the home, and one of the volunteers had taken a special interest in her. This volunteer had urged Martha Dixon, the matron, to take Ruth to a Bosworth healing meeting at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. Ready to do anything that might help Ruth, Mrs. Dixon took her to the meeting. That night, March 2, 1928, Ruth Peiper was completely healed!

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Ruth came running into the front parlor of the home to tell the Chicago Daily News reporter more of her story. “‘Yes, it’s all true,’ she said as she walked across the room without a limp. ‘Something just suddenly happened to me as I stood on the platform being anointed by the Reverend Bosworth. It was like lightning and thunder in my head. Then there was a ringing in my ears.’”

Riding home on the bus that night with Mrs. Dixon, Ruth couldn’t believe how loud everything was. Every time someone paid the bus fare and the bell rang, she jumped. The sounds were loud, but they were also wonderful! “‘It’s all in the Bible,’ Ruth concluded to the reporter. ‘It is just believing what is there that has made me well.’”

The power of God to heal was still moving through the Bosworths’ ministry at the end of the 1920s.

God’s Generals' ( Healing Evangelists )

Roberts Liardon

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Friday, June 26, 2026

Adoniram Judson

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

THE STORY OF A GREAT MISSIONARY- ADONIRAM JUDSON

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Just as the Judsons sat down to supper on June 8, 1824, the door of the mission house flew open, and a dozen Burmese officials rushed in!

“You are called by the king!” said the officer—the dreaded Burmese words spoken at the arrest of a criminal. Immediately, the Spotted Face seized Adoniram, threw him roughly to the floor, and wrapped a metal chain around his arms so tightly that blood began to flow.

Adoniram was dragged to the dreaded Le May-yoon, or “death prison,” where three pairs of iron fetters were riveted to his ankles. Dirty and bleeding from the fetters, Judson was thrown into a dark prison cell along with one hundred other prisoners. The stench of unwashed bodies, rotting food, and human excrement was unbearable, and Adoniram retched from the smell alone!

“Horror of horrors, what a sight!” Judson wrote later. “Never to my dying day shall I forget the scene: a dim lamp in the midst, just making darkness visible, and discovering to my horrified gaze sixty or seventy wretched objects, some in long rows made fast in the stocks, some strung on long poles, some simply fettered; but all sensible of a new acquisition of misery in the approach of a new prisoner.”

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As his eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, he saw Gouger; Dr. Price; a Scotsman, Captain Laird; and several other white foreigners already fettered in a corner of the room. Prison, deprivation, and the unceasing threat of death would be their companions for the next seventeen months!

“He that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto eternal life” (John 12:25 KJV). Never had this Scripture seemed more real to Adoniram than now.

Each day, at three o’clock in the afternoon, a powerful gong would resonate through the outside courtyard; the guards would march into the deathly quiet room and approach one or two prisoners. Without a word, the chosen ones would follow the guards out of the room, shuffling in their iron fetters to their executions. Each day, the question hung in the air, which prisoners would be chosen next?Ann visited as many government officials as possible throughout the long months of imprisonment, pleading for Adoniram’s release.

Finally, the governor of Ava agreed to see Ann and expressed some sympathy: “I cannot release them from their fetters or from prison, but I can try to make them more comfortable.” But the weeks wore on and nothing changed. With each visit, Adoniram looked more like the living dead.

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Daily, the prisoners heard the guards sharpening their knives for beheadings or talking of hangings in the courtyard. And, daily, Ann arrived with food, reports from the outside, and encouragement for the desolate men.

One morning, the officials informed Ann, “We will be visiting your house tomorrow.” Ann hurried home to hide valuables before they arrived. “I secreted as many little articles as possible,” she wrote later, “together with considerable silver, as I knew, if the war should go on, we should be in a state of starvation without it.”

Carefully carrying the bag of silver to bury in the backyard, Ann remembered their greatest treasure and ran back into the house. She wrapped Judson’s completed manuscript of the Burmese New Testament in a piece of muslin. Ann would not let ten years of Adoniram’s hard work be destroyed in a moment! She buried the bag and prayed for God’s divine protection over the contents.

At the prison, in hushed whispers, she told her husband what she had done. He praised her ingenuity, but they knew that the manuscript would not survive underground. Digging it up in the dark of night, Ann followed Adoniram’s directions. She sewed the manuscript into an old, hard pillow and brought it to him in the death prison. For the next few months, Adoniram slept each day with his head securely nestled on the Word of God. Keeping Adoniram Alive!

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The next months were a blur of petitions, pleadings, and dashed hopes. Ann’s work to free the prisoners and to provide for their needs was relentless. For a short time, she and Adoniram were permitted to spend a few hours a day together in a small hut in the prison yard—a blessing, since she was eight months pregnant. But then, without warning, the hut was destroyed, and the white foreigners were sent to the dark inner prison. The guards ripped Adoniram’s pillow away with no idea of the treasure it held.

Despite Adoniram’s agony in prison, God was faithful to move on the hearts of Burmese officials to keep him alive! The war had been going badly for the Burmese. Panic reached the city of Ava as the British army approached the capital.

On November 5, 1825, the long-awaited orders finally came. A treaty had been signed! Adoniram was released from prison! The little Judson family, all three of them emaciated and ill from seventeen months of sacrifice, was transported to the capital so Adoniram could translate government documents. Their bodies were nearly depleted of all strength, but their hearts were full of joy!

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Adoniram was still a prisoner of the Burmese government, but he was allowed to go to his house in Ava with Ann and little Maria. There, a miracle was waiting for them! Moung Ing had found Adoniram’s old pillow lying discarded in the prison yard. Carrying it home, Ing was astounded to discover the hidden treasure inside—the Burmese New Testament had been protected from discovery or destruction, purely by the grace of God! Adoniram was moved to tears by God’s goodness in the midst of the cruel persecution they had suffered.

In March 1826, Adoniram was finally released to the English; overcome with joy, he wrote, “It was on a cool, moonlight evening, in the month of March that, with hearts filled with gratitude to God and overflowing with joy at our prospects, we passed down the Irrawaddy, accompanied by all we had on earth. Our feelings continually soared: What shall we render to the Lord for all His benefits toward us?”

After all of this pain and suffering, the Judsons were still serving God and one another; they were a living testimony to the value Christian couples should place on their commitment to God and to each other. Their marriage covenant was consecrated to Him and not prone to the breakups we see so often today due to selfishness on the part of one or both parties.

- God’s Generals' ( The Missionaries )

Roberts Liardon

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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

The World Is Mine

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

When it came to the topic of prosperity, the church people of my day were off in the ditch on one side of the road. They had been taught that poverty produced piety and that God didn't want His people to have anything.

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I always heard preachers say, "I don't want any of this world's goods," because they thought there was something wrong with this world's goods. But Psalm chapter 50 proves why it's not wrong to have this world's goods.

"For every beast of the forest IS MINE, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. . . . If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for THE WORLD IS MINE, and the fulness thereof" [that means that everything that's in the world is God's].

—Psalm 50:10,12

Mark those verses in your Bible. Meditate on those verses and confess them. The Lord showed me these verses because He had to get my thinking straightened out. I thought it was wrong to have anything. I thought a person ought to go through life with the seat of his britches worn out, the top of his hat worn out, and the soles of his shoes worn out, living on Barely-Get-Along Street way down at the end of the block right next to Grumble Alley!

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That's the kind of thinking many people in the church world have today. But they're not thinking in line with God's Word. Sadly, too many Christians (preachers included) remind me of young birds just hatched, sitting in the nest, eyes shut and mouth wide open, waiting for momma to come and feed them. They will swallow whatever is poked into their mouths.

Many people in the Church have been religiously brainwashed instead of New Testament-taught. Without knowing what the Bible says, and having limited spiritual discernment, they are tossed by every wind of doctrine.

So in time, even erroneous teachings become traditions not easily changed. They are passed down from one generation to another, and the new generation accepts the error without question because that's "what we've always believed."

Kenneth E Hagin (The Midas Touch )

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HOW WAS JESUS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS

Friday, June 19, 2026

How Was Jesus Taken Down From The Cross

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

Here is an interesting article that I wanted to share from an unknown source. Enjoy.

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First, the modern depiction of the crucifying cross is inaccurate.

What Jesus Christ carried on the way to Calvary was the “top beam”. It was a heavy rectangular shaped beam, probably about 7 ft in length (2.2m) and 6″ x 8″ sided (15cm x 20cm). It had a hole in the exact middle in which a metal loop was attached.

There were posts already set in the ground which had a metal hook attached near the top. and a “step” about 5 foot (1.5m) below it.

Once the person was attached, either by ropes or nails. The nails were not driven into the hands as generally depicted either because the hands would just rip apart under the weight of the body but were driven in at the wrist, right at the point where the ulna and the radius meet, that giving the bones and the tendons all the required strength to hold in place.

Once the arms were attached, the person was hoisted up and the metal loop was hung on the metal hook. There were multiple ways of hoisting, but most criminals were light in stature from spending time in prison with very little or nothing to eat while waiting execution, so 2–3 men would be on step stands that were part of the crucifixion set up. One either side about 4 ft (1.9m) from center, one in the back.

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They would receive the top beam from others lifting it to them and they would hang it on the hook.

The hook was long, probably around 22″-24″ (56cm) in length. That way no one being crucified could not lift themself off the hook. It also allowed the guards to “drop” the crucified which would cause their joints, the shoulder, arms, wrists, etc, out of place, causing more pain and limiting their ability to raise themself up to inhale.

Their feet were placed on the step and legs would be attached to the vertical post.

The weight of their own bodies would cause them to slump down from exhaustion, but in that position, they could not breathe. So they would press against the step to lift themselves up to get a breath. This would go on for hours, sometimes days before the shear exhaustion would not allow them to lift themselves up.

In order to hurry the process, the Roman Guards would break the legs which prevented the crucified from raising themselves up, thereby they would succumb to asphyxiation.

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That is why you read in the Bible that they break the legs of the 2, but seeing Jesus Christ already dead, stuck a spear into his lungs instead. ( Scripture states that no bones were broken on Him).

So when they went to take Jesus Christ down, they removed the nails in his feet and they then climbed the couple of steps on the stands and hoisted the top beam off the hook and handed Him down to others.

After removing the nails on the top beam, they quickly wrapped him in burial cloths without the usual spices because sunset was upon them and they had no time other than to place Him in the tomb.

(Note; this is why the Shroud of Turin cannot be Jesus Christ’s image as you read in the Bible, his body was wrapped in one cloth, and his head in another, called the “napkin”. Read in the Bible that when the Apostles looked in the tomb, there lay his burial cloth ( John 20: 7 ) “and the napkin, that was about his head, not laying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself”.

The Shroud of Turin is one whole cloth, the full length of a man.)

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Raising A Boy From The Dead

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

In April of 1950,William Branham traveled to Scandinavia, making him the first Voice of

Healing evangelist to travel to Europe. Before going to Europe, Branham had a vision of a little boy being hit by a car and being raised from the dead. He told this vision throughout America.

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While in Finland, Branham's car was behind a car that had struck two small boys. Branham's party picked up one boy and proceeded to the hospital. Realizing his pulse and circulation had stopped, Branham knelt on the floor of the car and prayed for God's mercy. The boy came back to life and began to cry. He was released from the hospital three days later.

The next day, Branham received a vision showing him that both boys would live.

The associate who was traveling with him wrote Branham's first vision about the boy

on a piece of paper at the time the vision occurred, and placed the piece of paper in his

wallet. After the incident happened, it is said the associate pulled the paper out of his wallet

and read it to Branham. It was the exact vision Branham had told throughout America.

GOD’S GENERALS

by Roberts Liardon

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Friday, June 12, 2026

God Dwells In People Not In Buildings

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

GOD DWELLS IN PEOPLE NOT IN BUILDINGS.

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One example of believers trying to live under the provisions of the Old Covenant is believers calling the church building the “house of God.” Most church dedication services I’ve ever attended were centered around the idea that the building they were dedicating was the house of God. The ministers usually read about the dedication of Solomon’s Temple in the Old Testament; however, this leaves the impression that the church building is a house of God just as Solomon’s Temple was a house of God. But nothing could be further from the truth!

Under the New Covenant God dwells in people—not buildings.

If people aren’t careful, they will put too much significance on a place—on buildings and on other material things.

For example, I know of a beautiful church in one state, and chiseled across the front of the building at the top, is a scripture from the Old Testament about the church being a temple of God. I get provoked every time I drive by that church. I think, Dear God, they’ve got a lie right on the front of the church building, and people go there and think it’s a holy place. If we say any church building is the house of God in the sense that God dwells there, we’re wrong. In the New Testament, God does not dwell in any buildings made with human hands.

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On the other hand, if we mean that a church building is the house of God because it is dedicated to the Lord and used for worship, that’s all right. But you must be careful that you don’t get out of line with the Word of God in this area because it is so easy to become taken up with material things in the sense realm—the natural realm which you can see—and miss the spiritual reality.

I was holding a meeting in Texas in 1951. After the meeting was over, I went down to east Texas to preach. Aman came up to me and said, “I hear you just left such and such a place.”

And I answered, “Yes.”

He said, “What kind of church does the pastor have there?”

I asked, “What do you mean?”

He said, “How many does he run in Sunday school?” So I told him.

Then he said, “What kind of a revival did you have?”

I said, “Well, the old-timers said it was the best revival they’d ever had. (The church had been in existence for more than forty years.) They said it was the greatest revival in the history of the church.”

“How did your crowds run?” the man asked.

I said, “We filled the building up and had to borrow one hundred folding chairs from one of the local business places. We set the chairs down in the aisles and then we moved the altar bench out and used that space to seat people.”

He said, “You moved the altar out?”

“Yes,” I said, “we took the altar bench out.”

“Well,” the man said, “I thought you got people saved.”

I said, “Yes, there were about one hundred people who responded to the call for salvation.”

He said, “How in the world did you ever get anyone saved without an altar bench?”

“Well,” I said, “I never heard of an altar bench saving anyone yet! I thought Jesus was the One who saves, not the altar bench!”

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There is nothing holy about a piece of furniture. You can make an altar anywhere, isn’t that true? I know of people who got saved out in the cotton fields picking cotton. They got saved going down those rows of cotton dragging a cotton sack! They made an “altar” out there on their knees between those rows. I also know of folks who have been saved and who have received the Holy Ghost out behind a barn.

Certainly, people should be taught to be reverent to God while a service is going on or while the Spirit of God is manifesting Himself to minister to people. But if we are not careful, we can attach too much significance to natural places and things and miss the Person of Jesus, whom we are actually worshipping. And we can miss the reality of our own bodies being the temple of the Holy Spirit.

• Kenneth E Hagin || Bible Faith study Guide

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