Sid: It’s really outrageous Mishpochah this nice housewife that loves the Lord and goes to church, she goes to witness and that’s what someone should do. She goes to witness to a neighbor of hers that is a Buddhist and the Buddhist as opposed to receiving the Lord caused her a lot of confusion and a lot of questions. Tell me about that day in 1962 Peggy Joyce Ruth.
Peggy Joyce: Well, I didn’t know anything about spiritual warfare, I just knew that I didn’t want that little girl actually she was older than me, at the time she seemed to have been probably in her forties and I didn’t want her to go to hell so I took my little daughter, brand new daughter, six months and I went over to her house and told her I would like to tell her about Jesus. And when I said that, she said okay if you will give me equal time. And she said, I just want you to keep an open mind, well I often said that I kept my mind so opened that I think my brain fell out for awhile. But after that, after I talked to her I don’t even remember what she told me, I don’t remember what I said to her I just know that I started having all these confusing thoughts; all these fears. I started doubting that there was a God, and it got so bad that finally my husband toke me a physiatrist and I was under…
Sid: You know what it appears to me is that a spirit of fear hit you and as a result of that fear you opened yourself up all sorts of tormenting spirits right out of the blue just in a matter of minutes because you didn’t understand what you understand today.
Peggy Joyce: Exactly, you’re exactly right. I opened up to a spirit of fear and that I was tormented and I had a wonderful physiatrist, he was a Christian man but he didn’t know anything about spiritual warfare either. And he gave me all kinds of shock treatments and he put me on antidepressants.
Sid: That electric shock treatment is supposed to be awful, that must have been quite a trauma for you.
Peggy Joyce: It was and it went on for eight years, I was so tormented that there were times when I just thought, oh if I could just die, but I was afraid that if I…I was afraid to do anything to harm myself because I was afraid I might wake up in a situation that was worse than I was in here. And I had a wonderful husband who was doing everything he could to help me, but he didn’t know about spiritual warfare either. Finally, one day I’m out at the clothesline and I just cried out and I said, if you even exist, I don’t know anymore, but if you even exist find me and bring me back. Within the next week, now I didn’t realize that all of this was going to happen, I didn’t even realize until later when I looked back and saw that God had answered that prayer within a week. My husband was going to go to a meeting down in New Orleans and so we left our children with my mother and dad. They thought if I could get out of town maybe you know, the change of scenery would help. And the first place we stopped we stayed the night with some friends and they told me about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and I remembered that that was the first excitement that I felt in so many years. Well, we went from there to a cousin’s house and she told me the same thing and she started telling me about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and I thought that this is strange that I’m hearing the same thing within a twenty-four hour period. Well, when we got to New Orleans we went into a little book store, well I didn’t even like to read then because I was so tormented that I didn’t want to read anything that would get me upset. But I walked into that book store and I started buying books and I bought Pat Boone’s book, a new song. I had no idea, I had just seen him in the movies and had no idea what the book was about. And I started reading and it was all about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And before the week was over the Lord had baptized me in His Holy Spirit and we came home and I went from being in torment literally for eight years, I went from there to just being oh on top of the world. I was so in love with the Lord. And after a year the Lord gave me a year where they just kind of restored me and after that, I started having these fears again. All these fears started mounting up again and I remember crying out and saying, God I know you’re real where is this coming from. Well, I had no idea that God was getting ready to deliver me and set me free because I didn’t know about demonic spirits. And so during this time I got as bad as I’ve ever been and I was ready to go back to the psychiatrist I was ready to do anything, I was tormented again. And our prayer partners found this pastor that prayed for people for deliverance and they got me to him and he started praying for me and when he did I passed completely out. Completely fell on the floor and passed out and they said that I was out for about thirty minutes and then when I came back to it was like I was kind of paralyzed. My arm was paralyzed up against my body; my legs were paralyzed up against my body. But I had no fear I knew that I knew that God was there and He was taking care of this thing and He took me through deliverance for fears and anxieties and all of these things. And then when I came out from under that I was still having some of those old thought patterns and so the Lord told me that He was going to change my thinking. And I saw kind of a vision of me sitting in a dental chair and there was a man dressed in white standing beside me and all of a sudden my body became transparent in the vision and I could see holes all through my body going all down through my body. And so the Lord told me that he was going to pull out all…everything in those holes were black and He told me that He was going to deliver me and set me free from that. And so the man dressed in white pulled out a tooth and it’s like the black roots that were all over my body came out and then, he started packing and the packing period took a good while. And when I got through I thought it was over with and I was so excited and I was just rejoicing and praising but the next three months I literally never left my house. I sat with a Bible and a notebook and God just gave me scripture after scripture after scripture and I realized that was the packing period. And in that vision when I had finished when the packing period was finished the man in white had told me to open my mouth and when I did there was a healed area. All of the black poof; was gone, all the corruption was gone and I found out later that that packing period was packing me with the word. Teaching me about spiritual warfare; teaching me that the Lord could deliver me and set me free. And that was some forty years ago and I’ve been preaching and teaching this ever since because I know that people can get set free from this demonic warfare.
Sid: Do you know what I find amazing is that the Lord even began speaking to you about your life message Psalm 91 way back when you were getting free. Tell me about that dream you had. That was so exciting because during this time I was still dealing with some of the fears while I was getting this taken care of. And someone in our church had been diagnosed with leukemia and they just said well he’s going to die, pray for him. The preacher was so frustrated he just said, “Get out all your silly get well cards.” And he said that because he was frustrated. Well, I came home and I just asked the Lord is there any way to be protected from all of the things we see coming on the earth? And I lay down across the bed, I was not expecting an answer I was just voicing my frustrations. And I went to sleep and I only slept five minutes but in that dream I heard these words, “In your day of trouble, call on me and I will answer.” Now I didn’t know my Bible, I had no idea that that was a scripture, but suddenly I knew that I knew that I had the answer. And boy I tell you the ecstatic joy that I felt is just beyond anything that I could ever possibly describe. And to my surprise I was out in this field and I was asking that question and to my surprise there were hundreds with me all of a sudden in the dream in that open field and we were just praising God and we were just thanking him for the answer. Well, I did not know what the answer was but I knew that I knew that God had supernaturally answered me. And the next day I heard the words Psalm 91. I’d never heard it before, I didn’t have any idea what was in it, but I knew in my heart that whatever was in that Psalm was God’s answer to my question. And I tell you what I nearly tore up my Bible in my haste to find out what it had to say. And there in verse fifteen were the exact statement that God had spoken to me in my dream. He had said that in your day of trouble, call on me and I will answer you. And I tell you what there it was in Psalm 91 that promise of protection from every harm that could ever come, protection from natural disasters, protection from sickness and disease.
Sid: How many years have you been studying Psalm 91 and walking in its reality?
Peggy Joyce: It’s been now about thirty-five years.
Sid: And I have to tell you anyone that just reads on their own Psalm 91 is going to get revelation.
