A testimony from Peggy Joyce Ruth website:
"During the years of World War II, the pastor of a church in Dallas, Texas, called
each deploying soldier forward and prayed Psalm 91 and other protection verses over
them at the altar. That protection was powerfully impacting to Spencer January, who
served in the Army’s 35th Infantry.
In 1945 his division had just been ordered to take the town of Ossenburg,
Germany, where a war factory supplied Hitler’s troops. Forcing his way through the
dense German forest, Spencer was plagued with the thought that they might never make it
back home alive. His group had been fighting for hours to get through the thick junglelike
terrain when suddenly they came to an open space with a large stone house. They did
not know that the large stone house in the opening was concealing the bodies of soldiers
who had tried earlier to cross the clearing, but soon three nests of German machine guns
suddenly began blasting away, but it was impossible to take them out since they were too
far out of range.
It was sure death to cross the opening, but it was the 35th Infantry’s only avenue
since every other passage into town was secured by the Germans. The team was in a
quandary. They knew there was no way to live to tell the tale if they tried to push on
through the clearing. It was impossible for Spencer not to think of his wife and fivemonth-
old son he had left back home. The odds were a thousand to one that he had seen
them for the last time. Pain surged through his entire being with that thought. His only
hope was a miracle from God.
It is amazing what thoughts bombard one’s mind in moments like this. Spencer
began remembering elderly Mrs. Tanersly—a faithful prayer warrior from his church
back home. He had never before even thought of his need for a prayer warrior, but now
she was all he could think about. “What if she was for real?†“What if those prayers she
prayed were for a divine purpose?†Time was running out, and at any moment his group
would be running right though a barrage of open fire. Before he even knew what he was
doing, he found himself on his knees, praying passionately, ‘God, you’ve got to help me!
Please, do something!’
Spencer barely had time to finish his desperate prayer when the group was ordered
to advance. Memories of home and family crashed down on him as he gripped his rifle
and made his way across the clearing to the other edge of the forest covering. The painful
thought that he would probably never see his family again stayed with him every step of
the way.
Suddenly a huge white cloud materialized in what had been, only moments before,
a totally clear sky. The cloud dropped down and shrouded the clearing, almost like an
eclipse. There was no way for the Germans to see where to fire. Instantly Spencer and his
fellow soldiers took off like runners in a race—this time competing, not for a metal, but
for their very lives.
Almost beyond belief, Spencer found himself across the clearing and into the
thicket. Many more of his group were making it across. The ones in the very back were
having to pull some of the wounded to safety, but even those were making it. No one had
to tell him that what he had just experienced was God. As quickly as the miracle cloud
had appeared, just as the last soldier made it across the cloud vanished miraculously.
Then suddenly, the earth literally shook in convulsions as the Germans launched a bomb
that blew the stone house into tiny pieces. It became obvious that they did not realize
Spencer and his group had already crossed the clearing in obscurity.
All the way to Ossenburg, Spencer kept thinking about that cloud. He was used to
the smoke screens that were used to hide the troops, but this was entirely different. This
was not a man-made covering. He and the other men knew it was a supernatural
intervention. And to continue His miracle, God helped them overtake the war factory in
Ossenburg.
A short time later, Spencer received a letter from his mother that had finally
caught up with him. In it she told him that Mrs. Tankersly, the very woman who had been
so heavily on his mind the day when they were under attack in that open field, had called
to tell her about a spiritual visitation from God. It had come in the night when God told
her, “Spencer January is in trouble! Get up right now and pray for him!†Mrs. Tankersly
said that she had prayed until time to go to work, and the last thing she remembered
praying was: “Lord, whatever danger Spencer is in, just cover him with a cloud!†She told
Spencer’s mother that she had finished praying at 6 A.M.
By the time he finished reading, Spencer was shaking so hard that he could barely
see to read the letter. He realized there was a seven-hour difference in time, so Mrs.
Tankersly had been praying just as his group came upon the German ambush. Her prayer
for God to send a cloud covering would have been prayed at one o’clock in the afternoon
in Germany —just when they were ready to dash across the danger zone.
God’s supernatural protection made such an impression on Spencer that he
dedicated the early morning hours every day for the next sixty years to pray for friends
and relatives. After the miracle intervention in Germany , no one could have taken away
his faith in the difference that prayer can make. He was convinced beyond a shadow of a
doubt that the prayer of that one faithful woman back in 1945 had not only saved his life,
but also the lives of the other soldiers with him as they ran unseen through the cloud
covering.
After his time of serving in WWII, he continued on as a soldier, but, this time, as a
faithful soldier in the Lord’s army. There is no way to know all the miracles that followed
the wake of those fervent prayers that Spencer January prayed.
Although some people might call happenings like these a coincidence, the
negative situations that we encounter can become God-incidences when we trust His
Word."
Father I pray Psalms 91 for this wife's husband every soldier in our country serving overseas and even here in the states:
Psa 91:1 HE WHO dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand].
Psa 91:2 I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!
Psa 91:3 For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
Psa 91:4 [Then] He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler.
Psa 91:5 You shall not be afraid of the terror of the night, nor of the arrow (the evil plots and slanders of the wicked) that flies by day,
Psa 91:6 Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday.
Psa 91:7 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you.
Psa 91:8 Only a spectator shall you be [yourself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as you witness the reward of the wicked.
Psa 91:9 Because you have made the Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, [Ps. 91:1, 14.]
Psa 91:10 There shall no evil befall you, nor any plague or calamity come near your tent.
Psa 91:11 For He will give His angels [especial] charge over you to accompany and defend and preserve you in all your ways [of obedience and service].
Psa 91:12 They shall bear you up on their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. [Luke 4:10, 11; Heb. 1:14.]
Psa 91:13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent shall you trample underfoot. [Luke 10:19.]
Psa 91:14 Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he knows and understands My name [has a personal knowledge of My mercy, love, and kindness--trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never forsake him, no, never].
Psa 91:15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
Psa 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation.
Thank you for watching over CF's husband, in Jesus name. Amen
