“I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done.”
Medical Missionaries and their Work
They “shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord.”
Chapter 9—Teaching and Healing (Continued)
Little Opportunities
Let none pass by little opportunities, to look for larger work. You might do successfully the small work, but fail utterly in attempting the larger work, and fall into discouragement. It is by doing with your might what you find to do that you will develop aptitude for larger work. It is by slighting the daily opportunities, by neglecting the little things right at hand, that so many become fruitless and withered.
Do not depend upon human aid. Look beyond human beings to the One appointed by God to bear our griefs, to carry our sorrows, and to supply our necessities. Taking God at His word, make a beginning wherever you find work to do, and move forward with unfaltering faith. It is faith in Christ’s presence that gives strength and steadfastness. Work with unselfish interest, with painstaking effort, with persevering energy.
In fields where the conditions are so objectionable and disheartening that many are unwilling to go to them, remarkable changes have been wrought by the efforts of self-sacrificing workers. Patiently and perseveringly they labored, not relying upon human power, but upon God, and His grace sustained them. The amount of good thus accomplished will never be known in this world, but blessed results will be seen in the great hereafter.
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/135.711#711
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for Your guidance in all things that we might experience success as we faithfully follow Your lead. Thank You for life and for Your tremendous love to deliver each of us from the burden of sin and sorrow and maladies. Please bless us to open the windows of our soul heavenward, in appreciation of the divine gifts, to trust in the power of Your Word and to believe in Your measureless love and mercy to save souls that we might become effective witnesses for You and faithful teachers and students of the laws of health. Thank You because we pray in the Awesome and Almighty name of Your Son, Jesus, our Saving King. Amen.
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A HUGE THANK YOU to those of you who expressed your gratitude for these devotionals by helping Uchee Pines launch Gospel Radio Station WHGR 91.5 FM for Hurtsboro (my childhood home town) and surrounding areas, including Tuskegee, Alabama.
About 120 days (4 months!) ago, $50,000, was needed. That goal has been reached!!! Thank you!!!
WHGR 91.5 FM dd not go LIVE Tuesday, November 18, 2025, as planned. However, today will be the DAY, Novemer 19! By God’s grace, so let it be, in the Almighty name of Jesus.
If you want to support Christian programming for these final days, please visit
https://www.ucheepines.org/radio
Thank you!!!
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I coordinate wonderful health and worshipful events and conferences online and onsite as a gospel medical missionary at Uchee Pines, a total plant-based health retreat, where doctors and practitioners specialize in lifestyle medicine. For more details, visit https://www.ucheepines.org/events
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NOTE: These began as daily texts to encourage my academy roommate and dear friend of nearly 50 years, until she suddenly passed March 2023. Now I continue to compile and send them to anyone who will receive them and to her family in honor of their mom.
Lately, I have begun featuring consecutive chapter portions of a select Bible-based book.
If you agree to continue receiving them, then this is my personal gift to you; and in this way, I not only honor God but the memory of a very dear friend whom I desperately miss.
My personal prayer is that God will bless me to find ways to multiply this gift, so that we all may be encouraged to be found faithful in the sight of a Holy God, whenever Christ returns or our eyes are shut in the sleep of death.
It is a prayerful process that leads me to share from my personal study.
So please feel free to forward to your loved ones or to anyone, as God leads you. I’m calling them Barb’s Devotionals.