Peggy Joyce Ruth, aka "the Psalm 91 Lady" is author of a variety of Psalm 91 book titles with over six million copies in print. She taught a weekly Adult Bible Study for more than 35 years in her church in Central Texas as she shared how to make God’s Word your final authority. Known for her easy-to-understand style of communicating the Word of God and warm storytelling, Peggy Joyce's heart is that her books and teachings will bring you into the same freedom from fear she experienced and hel ...
…
continue reading
Peggy Joyce Ruth Podcasts
Every Sunday, Pastor Jack would say, “If you will grab hold of this message, it will change your life,” and we can all vouch that it did. Pastor Jack Ruth, or Pastor Jack, as we called him, and Peggy Joyce started Living Word Church in Brownwood, Texas. They pastored together from the '80s to “retirement” in the early 2000s. Jack’s childlike faith set the vision and foundation for the church and the Psalm 91 ministry that followed. At one of the recordings with Sid Roth where Peggy Joyce was ...
…
continue reading
Are you ready to be put to work for God's End-Time Army? It is NOW or NEVER! Angelia Ruth, “Angie”, has ministered in over 35 countries in some of the most dangerous places in the world. Author and co-author of over a dozen books, she has led mission teams and college groups over the past 30 years and is recognized for her prison ministry program by the State of Texas. She teaches God has a hilariously exciting life for every believer who will take Him at His Word and follow Him into R-I-S-K ...
…
continue reading
How do we turn loose of fear and the world's thinking, and securely grab hold of God's promises? We must become like a child. We cannot approach Psalm 91 or the promises of God from adulthood. We are not to become childish but childlike. As adults, we wrestle with the knowledge of good and evil because of Adam and Eve's choice to sin, but to receiv…
…
continue reading

1
A Glimpse Into Living Word Church - March 1997
24:06
24:06
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
24:06God wants to use your life to fulfill His dreams. It is His Word and His presence that keep everything working around us. When we worship, miracles and provision simply happen in God's presence. God has given us the capacity to be the best lovers in the world. It is out of our love for the Father that we share Jesus with the people around us.…
…
continue reading

1
Going From Helpless to Spiritual Authority
38:53
38:53
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:53Do you know how to use what God has given you so you don't end up powerless? A promise from God is something God does, but authority from God is something we do with what God has given us. Authority is us taking the Word of God and doing something with it. God intends us to use the sword, which is the Word of God, to defeat the enemy. This is how w…
…
continue reading
One of our priorities as Believers is to destroy the works of the devil. In 1 John 3:8 it says, "The Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil," and then in 1 John 4:17, it says, "In this world we are to be like Jesus." Now we cannot destroy the devil in our own reasoning or strength. We must remember we are in a spiritual battle, and it ta…
…
continue reading
There are different arenas in which we can choose to do spiritual warfare. There is agricultural, courtroom, and battlefield warfare. God truly wants prayer to be preventative in our lives. We can have things theologically that we don't yet have experientially. Intercession is meant to bring what we have theologically into reality. Jesus and His 12…
…
continue reading
The world believes that intellectual knowledge is power, but that is part of Satan's plan to get us to worship our mind and intellect. Satanism, the New Age, and even "normal" worldly thinking teach some form of mind control. But it is not God's way. The Holy Spirit is meant to be in charge of our lives and our mind.…
…
continue reading

1
If Something Is About to Go Down Wrong, Take Action! Part 2
19:59
19:59
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
19:59With Rebekah and Isaac and the blessing about to be passed down to the wrong son, there might be a better course of action for Rebekah to have taken, but at the very least, she acted on the Word of God that had been given to her. No action would have been the worst thing she could have done.By Angelia Ruth
…
continue reading

1
Was Rebekah a Manipulator or Shrewd? Part 1
1:24:27
1:24:27
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:24:27Can we trust Jesus, pray, and do nothing? We all know that action out of the flesh causes problems, but does a Word from God provoke action in us? A group discussion on the theology of Rebekah and Jacob and the "ethics" of what they did to Isaac and Esau to yank the wheel of history toward the Word God had spoken at Esau and Jacob's birth.…
…
continue reading
Are you praying for the best marriage in the world? God just might give it to you. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. - Proverbs 27:17. There is something added when different personalities come together. God causes the differences in men and women to sharpen one another. Even though there may be rough patches, we are not meant …
…
continue reading

1
How God Prepares Us - David's Shepherd Field
51:55
51:55
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
51:55Are you aware of the call of God on your life? Every Christian has a full-time ministry in the Kingdom of God. Some know they have a calling and step into it too soon, and others are in the middle of their training, unaware they have been called. But God has a training process He wants us to go through before we can walk in the anointing.…
…
continue reading
In certain situations, the Bible commands us to be shrewd. Rebekah with Jacob is a timeless example. The Bible commands us to be shrewd towards evil, in emergencies, and when something is about to go down wrong. If you want to have success against evil, you will need to become shrewd. You must have the ability to outthink your enemy. Christianity i…
…
continue reading
Guilt is a weapon that comes against Christians. It is the subconscious need to be punished. When we have repented and put our sins under the blood of Jesus, God has forgotten our sins, but many times we have not. Guilt is not the conviction of the Holy Spirit. It is not a burden God wants us to bear.…
…
continue reading
If we have to see to believe, we already have a huge problem. Strangely, seeing miracles does not cause you to believe God. It is the Word that brings us to believe. You cannot build on signs and wonders alone, but if you build on the Word, the signs and wonders will follow.By Pastor Jack Ruth
…
continue reading
Have you ever wrestled with God? Have you wrestled with God and prevailed? Few wrestle with God, fewer wrestle with God and win. Jacob wrestled with God for one night, and his life was changed forever. He was given a new name, a new identity, and the name God gave him was given to a whole nation. The Israelis are forever a passionate people, full o…
…
continue reading
So many people go through life thinking they don't have a choice, "whatever will happen, and there is nothing you can do about it." But with God, this is not true. We have been given a choice. In Deuteronomy 30:19, God says, "I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. N…
…
continue reading

1
Making Your Relationship With God Personal
44:47
44:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
44:47It is easy to forget what is most important. Truly, everything in our Christian life flows from our relationship with God. We don't want to take for granted the gift of having a personal relationship with God. Knowing God and praying is a two-way street, and there is no substitute for time alone with God. The closeness of drawing near to God is the…
…
continue reading

1
The Modern History of the Authority of the Believer
1:10:06
1:10:06
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:10:06The Authority of the believer is thought of as a recent idea in Christian circles, but have you heard of John A McMillan? He was born in 1873 and was a Canadian Presbyterian businessman who walked in the Authority of the Believer. What if you had been given authority from God but never walked in it? Instead of complaining about our problems, if we …
…
continue reading
In this fallen world, we have the right to give up when we fall, but we are not citizens of this world. In God's kingdom, when we fall, we have the right to get back up, and we have God's help in getting back up. Pity parties are not allowed in the kingdom of God. We have the privilege of getting back up. No matter what we are facing or how bad it …
…
continue reading
There is a creative power in your words. Our words partner with God's Word or the enemy's chatter. Our words not only impact our own lives but also the lives of our family and friends around us. We must learn the authority our words carry so God can use them to change people's lives for the better.By Peggy Joyce Ruth
…
continue reading

1
Reluctance to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
58:30
58:30
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:30Is there another experience with the Holy Spirit after we are born again? What does the Bible have to say? God gives gifts that seem foolish, only to confound those who think themselves wise. The Holy Spirit is the change we all need. Every character in the Bible who encountered the Holy Spirit was forever changed. Their boldness increased as their…
…
continue reading

1
God's Sovereignty and Man's Free Will Part 2
32:56
32:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
32:56Don't get into fear when you hear the word predestination in the Bible. Everything God has planned for our lives is good, but we do reap what we sow. There is good news: God has not "sovereignly" willed bad or evil for our lives. He is always working to bring good, but our own choices dictate whether we partner with God's plan for our lives.…
…
continue reading
God's Word is what makes the world make sense. There are things hidden in the scriptures since the foundation of the world. The things that were hidden are now being revealed. It's not what man says but what God's Word says that will get us through these days. The more Word we get working in us, the better things will become.…
…
continue reading

1
Holy Spirit: Egypt, The Wilderness, and The Promise Land
33:12
33:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
33:12Most Christians live and die in the wilderness, but it was only meant to be temporary. The Promise Land is God's true desire for every believer. People stay in the wilderness for three reasons. 1. They are still attached to Egypt(slavery) in their heart. 2. They are afraid of more of God and losing control. 3. They are afraid of the giants. God tru…
…
continue reading

1
God's Sovereignty and Man's Free Will Part 1
34:52
34:52
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
34:52What falls under God's sovereignty? And what falls under man's free will? This is a question worth answering. There is so much confusion in the body of Christ around this subject, but the Word clearly has the answer.By Peggy Joyce Ruth
…
continue reading

1
Doers and Do-Do: Comparing Our Faith To A Demon
1:02:47
1:02:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:02:47Is your plan for losing weight watching workout videos while eating food? This is how many of us approach faith. We watch sermons, listen to podcasts, attend church, pray, and even read the Word...but there is little to no action. There are two categories of people: those who hear the Word and do nothing, and those who hear and do the Word. Be a do…
…
continue reading
Many churches only teach about salvation and going to heaven, but that leaves us ill-prepared for the battle we face here on earth. God is training us in the same way parents train their children to prepare them for life. If we listen, we will realize God is preparing us for what we will face next. He is giving us the power to overcome the battles …
…
continue reading
How can God use people who are so arrogant? The religious in the church often judge Samson but fail to see how God used him. The church works to disciple the lower levels of society, but we fail with the influential and strong. Be careful who you judge and stand against, many times God uses the "arrogant" more than the religious who refuse to take …
…
continue reading

1
What The Word Believe Means - January 1998
43:25
43:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
43:25The word believe means more than just believing that God exists. Believe means to release faith in Jesus. We learn to release faith in all that Jesus is and what He came to do on this earth. When we believe and come under His authority, we now walk in authority. There is no authority in our own name or our own power our authority comes from the pow…
…
continue reading
The biggest step in walking out of manipulation is recognizing when we do it. And the best way to not be manipulated is to recognize when we are being manipulated. Both come from places we don't see God as our source, and places we do not fully have our identity worked out. Manipulation never happens when there a trust in God.…
…
continue reading
What does the Bible say about drinking? Interestingly, the Bible tells us when not to drink and when to drink. But it's not a rule to follow, but a decision God is looking for us to make with our heart.By Angelia Ruth
…
continue reading
Everyone has been through the pain of being used and manipulated. The places we manipulate are the places we don't see God as our source, places where fear and unbelief are still being allowed to operate. We must not be the ones operating in manipulation, nor can we allow others to manipulate us.By Peggy Joyce Ruth
…
continue reading
The more you serve the Lord, the more surprises God has in store. God doesn't reveal everything the moment we start trusting Him, otherwise, it wouldn't be trust. He always seems to do something better than what we could think up. He likes to surprise us. Like a dear friend setting up a surprise birthday party or a man planning a date, God is setti…
…
continue reading
We are living in a spoiled generation. Kingdom living has a price to pay. When our comfort zone takes priority over the kingdom of God, we have a problem. When you grow up in comfort, you lack the strength it takes to resist temptation and the strength it takes to have a successful life. We need to ask ourselves, honestly, do we see God as the Mast…
…
continue reading
God established the family structure to keep us from being rejected. He wants us to have the strength of love, yet people or circumstances can leave us wounded and feeling rejected. Understanding that God never intended that for us helps eliminate the spirit of rejection. Rejection is both a healing of the heart and a deliverance issue. The truth i…
…
continue reading
We are all in a spiritual battle. It is vital to remember that God has set us up to win every battle, but we must receive and operate in God's resurrection power and walk in His spiritual armor. In our own strength, we cannot defeat the enemy's principalities and powers. We will have victory when we learn to walk in the strength of God's might with…
…
continue reading
Understanding the Old Covenant is the foundation for the New Covenant we have with God. The Bible can seem overwhelmingly complicated and hard to grasp, but truly, there is an order to how the different books have been laid out. This teaching will give you a general overview and understanding of the Old Testament.…
…
continue reading
Some people believe in a historical Jesus, others believe in an educational Jesus, but a very few believe in a Jesus who still raises the dead. Jesus said, "I am the resurrection." Are you letting God raise the dead areas of your life? For our lives to truly be used by God, they must go through the death, burial, and resurrection process. Don't hol…
…
continue reading
Resurrection from the dead is what makes Christianity the truth. Every other religion has a dead leader. Jesus Christ is the only one who was raised from the dead.By Pastor Jack Ruth
…
continue reading
The scary thing about deception is when you are deceived, you don't know you are deceived. If we want to know the truth badly enough, God will pull you out of the lies step by step. Deception says, "I'm right!" With no heart to hear or learn anything. Deception is the blind spot, but truth is the spot remover. We all need truth from God's Word and …
…
continue reading
What made Judas betray Jesus and the other disciples? He made himself look one way when his motive was entirely different. Judas was around the best ministry in the world, he saw all the miracles and probably did some himself. He was around extreme amounts of blessings but still chose to betray Jesus. Everything can look right in your life but if y…
…
continue reading
Joy is the Lord's strength for these chaotic times. Joy is not an emotion; it is a character trait of God. Learn how to stay in the joy God has given you.By Peggy Joyce Ruth
…
continue reading
There is nothing better than hearing from God. God finishes everything He starts. He is entirely faithful. But it is important that when God is speaking, we are fully listening and fully obeying. 95% obedience won't cut it. Full obedience brings full results. We must get rid of any rebellion in our hearts that is keeping us from God.…
…
continue reading
There are many different ways to hear God's voice. God does speak audibly at times but there are other ways that are usually more common. Sometimes, we can be so stuck on hearing God's voice audibly that we are missing how He is speaking to us. Don't put God in a box. He has many ways He wants to speak to us.…
…
continue reading
We all have an inner voice and an outer voice we fight with. It is important that we don't receive or identify with words that teachers or even parents may unknowingly speak over us. This is an interview with Caeleigh and Dylan on how they overcame dyslexia and words spoken over them at a young age.By Angelia Ruth
…
continue reading
Do you have unsatisfied longings? Creatures are not born with desires unless those desires exist...if I find myself with a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is I was made for another world...Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone because you were made for it, made for it sti…
…
continue reading
Have you trained yourself to know what is coming from the voice of God and the enemy? We must learn to adjust our hearing from listening in natural to listening in the Spirit. There are some secrets to learning to focus and position ourselves correctly while we are learning to discern God's voice.By Peggy Joyce Ruth
…
continue reading
God does always do the way we do. We would have our child born in the best hospital, God had His born in a manger. We would send our children to the best schools in the land, God trained His Son in a carpenter's shop and in the wilderness. What we would do and what God wants to do are often very different.…
…
continue reading
"If you rule out the supernatural, you will perceive no miracles." -C. S. Lewis. When we work to disprove miracles, we are actually working to disprove our own faith. In recent history, mankind has decided to put God on trial instead of it being mankind being on trial. Could it be that this judgment we have towards the Almighty is the cause of the …
…
continue reading
Please listen to this teaching as many times as it takes to start truly overcoming the enemy and getting his schemes underneath your feet. It is vital that believers learn to walk in their God-given authority. God put mankind in authority over the earth, but we handed it over to Satan in the garden. Now, through what Jesus did on the cross, we have…
…
continue reading
A summary of C.S. Lewis' book Screwtape Letters. Have you ever thought, "There might be demons assigned to me?" In the same way, God has angels assigned to help us; the devil has demons assigned to us to pull us away from the Lord and what we are called to do. Screwtape Letters is the conversation between two demons working to draw a new believer a…
…
continue reading