The Gideon Bible Society

The bible is the authentic word of God, written by men by inspiration  of the Holy Spirit.

Gideon Bible Society is an evangelical Christian association that was formed/founded through the meeting of two travelling business men when they shared a hotel room at the central house hotel in boscobel, winscosin. The association which is called the Gideon Bible Society was founded in 1899 in janesville, winscosin, with the primary aim of distributing free copies of the scripture/bibles free of charge to people who could not afford bibles.

This society started distributing bibles in 1908 and their headquarters was in Nashville Tennessee. The society has spread far and wide in 200 countries, where either complete bibles, new testament or portions of the scriptures printed in over 100 languages have been distributed, these are put in motel rooms, hotel rooms, prisons,hospital wards/rooms, medical offices, nursing homes,schools & colleges etc. 80 million  scriptures  are distributed annually and the number is still growing especially in Brazil, India, Asia etc, it is believed that an average of 2 copies of the bible are distributed per second. In April 2015, the society distributed their two billionth scripture.

The name of the society is linked to Gideon in the book of judges 6&7, it would be recalled that Gideon was a man who was willing to do God's will despite odds and regardless of his own judgement, this is the standard of life the Gideon members wanted to achieve, that is to be ever ready to do god's will at anytime, at any place and in any way that the holy spirit leads. But there are some negative accusations against the society that needs to be investigated, in terms of the qualification of membership, it is believed that it is an elitist society and that some parts of the word of God is being misinterpreted whereby misleading members. Sometimes one could have a good intention but the implementation could be wrong.

The word of God needs to be spread and the society is doing a good job of this.

Prayer

• Father we thank you for the lives of those two men that you used to start this society.
• Father you had a purpose to use them to spread the good news, and you have gone this far, Lord we are praying that the legacy will not be rubbished by men with evil agenda.
• Father we are praying that not only will the bibles be distributed you will give them passion for souls, so they can go a step further in the place of prayer and follow up.
• Father we pray that as many that will come in contact with these scriptures, they will never remain the same, let them have an encounter.
• Father in as many motels and hotels these will be distributed, let it be impossible for immorality to continue, let the scale fall off the eyes of the perpetrators of evil.
• Father in every school, colleges etc that the scriptures are distributed, Lord it make a difference in the lives of the students and teachers/ Lecturers alike.
• Father like you delivered the Midianites unto Gideon, we pray that every lying tongue against the Gideon society will bow to the God of Israel.