04/09/2026
DEATH separated Derek Prince from his 1st wife, Lydia .... and he went on to marry Ruth 💞 according to GOD'S DIVINE PLAN 💭
With Ruth at my side, my ministry entered a new phase. At age 63, I could easily have anticipated a gradual decline in my energy and outreach. To the contrary, however, my whole ministry expanded in ways I had never anticipated. Within a few years—through radio, books, cassettes, and personal ministry—I was reaching out to most of the globe. Most exciting of all, my radio program was touching millions who would never hear God's Word in any other way.
Ruth's unfailing love and total commitment have given me strength and confidence to accept the new challenges God continually puts before me. But the foundation of our success has been in our ministry of daily intercession. In this we have achieved that completeness of "agreement"—of harmony in the spirit—that renders prayer undefeatable.
As Ruth and I worked side by side, God added a new dimension to my healing ministry. Often now I preach for an hour or more, then the two of us minister to the sick for four or five hours, while God bears supernatural testimony to the truth of the word I have preached. Before such sessions close, Ruth and I sometimes lay hands on other couples and transmit to them the same kind of supernatural ministry God has given us.
This expansion of our ministry has taken us on long and arduous journeys to more and more countries. We have been exposed to all the pressures caused by continual changes of
climate, diet, and culture. In such situations, Ruth has foreseen my needs more quickly than I and invariably contrived amazingly ingenious ways to supply them.
In other areas, too, such as management and creative writing, God has equipped Ruth with skills that meet needs I did not even know would arise. Again and again I marvel at how her abilities complement mine, just as a glove fits a hand. Once again, as in my first marriage, God has provided me with "a helper suitable for me." In the years between my two marriages,
the nature of my needs changed. But the way God has supplied them has been as faultless in my second marriage as it was in my
first.
In each case, God worked according to His own plan for marriage, established at the dawn of human history. As it was with Lydia, so it has been with Ruth. God foresaw just the kind of wife I would need; He prepared her carefully for me; He placed her in the path He led me along; and He pointed her out to me as the helper that He had chosen for me.
In each case, too, the outworking of God's plan produced the union of two persons into one, which is His end purpose in marriage.
- Derek Prince (GOD IS A MATCH MAKER )
- Spiritual Notes
