SID: Hello Sid Roth your investigative reporter here with Peggy Joyce Ruth. You know how to cause problems for someone;have three first names:PeggyJoyce.
PEGGY: Exactly.
SID: Now you look so happy and bouncy and cheerful and joyful.Sid there are a lot of people that aren’t that way,but about 30 years ago you weren’t that way.
PEGGY: 30 years ago I was under the care of a psychiatrist.I was under so much oppression and they had given meall the shock treatments that they could give me.And basically they had told my husbandto expect that I might end up in an institution.And they said I would be on medication for the rest of my life.And I just asked a question one day;I said Lord is there any way to be protectedfrom all the evil that’s coming on the earth?And I didn’t expect an answer.You know how sometimes you just ask questionsand you don’t really expect an answer.But I went to sleep and while I was sleeping I dreamed.And in the dream I was out in this open fieldand I was asking that same question;and I heard in my dream”in your day of trouble call upon me and I will answer.”
SID: Now did you know that came from the Bible?
PEGGY: Oh no.I didn’t know the word of God.I probably couldn’t have found anything in the Bibleat that time, had no idea.
SID: But still that had to be a great encouragement.
PEGGY: Oh I knew that something had happenedbecause on the inside I was just bouncing up and down;and when I came awake I knew I had the answer.I didn’t know what the answer wasbut I knew I had the answer.And then the next dayI heard someone just mention the word Psalm 91.They didn’t say what was in it, they just said Psalm 91and when I heard that I knew that the answer was in Psalm 91.I knew that no matter what it said,my answer was going to be there.And you should have seen mejust tearing up my Bible trying to…I ran and tried to find a Bible.And then I wasjust desperately going through it to try to find it;and in that Psalm were the exact wordsthat God had spoken to me in my dream.In verse 15″in your day of trouble call upon me and I will answer.”And there was an answer to every single fear I’d ever had.
SID: Fear; that’s a biggie.We are living in an age that medical science,the police, the domestic courts, your finances,there are no answersand literally there are more peopleand in particular even childrenthat are just like PeggyJoyce Ruth was.I mean you didn’t have any answers,but you say there are answers to every one of life’s problems.Give me an idea of one real life personthat took this Psalm 91 and had a miraculous solution.
PEGGY: Well I realized when I started studying.I studied it for several months, almost a yearbefore I ever started teaching it.And then once I started teaching itthen the people around us started catching on to itand they started…It’s not a magical formula.It’s just the word of God.And I found out that there are promises for protectionall through the word of God, but this is the only placewhere all of those protection promises are togetherin one chapter, one covenant.And so I realized this was a covenant that God had writtento give to us to give us hope.And so when I started teaching itthen my friends, my relatives, my familywe just started seeing miracles every day.
SID: But what happened to you?What about all that fear?
PEGGY: Well I was completely delivered from the fear;and part of the way that I was delivered- you know I had people pray for me,but the way I was delivered isI took these promises and I startedjust every day,I would do exactly what it told me.Verses 1 and 2 says “dwell in the shelter of the most high””and abide under the shadow of the almighty.”And then start saying “God you’re my Lord, you’re my source.You’re the one in whom I trust.”
SID: Give me one example.
PEGGY: Ok so every day that I would do thatand as I taught this, we realizedone of my daughter’s friends; her name’s Julieand she lives in Fort Worth;and she knew to start confessing thisand running to God for her help.
SID: In other words saying it out loud.
PEGGY: Saying it out loud.It’s not enough to just think it.And this man pushed his way into her house and when he did,he came in with the intention of assaulting her;and she started confessing Psalm 91.And she started saying“I have the blood of Jesus and you can’t touch me.”And he would come at her and she would confess thatand he would just kind of lose his focus.
SID: Now what had he previously donebefore he came into her house?
PEGGY: Ok it was 45 minutes that she was confessing the word;and finally during one of those times when he lost his focus;she was able to get out the door.When they apprehended him they found outthat he had raped numerous young women.And this was the only one that been able to escape without harmand so you know we have…
SID: So in effect she would have been a statistic.
PEGGY: Oh exactly.
SID: If she did not know this ancient Jewish formula,Psalm 91.What about you?What do you think your life would have been like?
PEGGY: I truly believe that either would be deador I would be in an institutionbecause every day I was just absolutely miserable.I would just spend the day trying to wait for night to come;and then the moment night would come, then I would just thinkoh no, I dread the night;and I was just tormented day and night with fears.
SID: So do you relate to that?Is that something like you?Why don’t I recommend you try this ancient Jewish formula,and wait until you find out the other miracles;don’t go away, be right back.
