The Ministry of Healing

The Worker’s Need (Part 12)

Chapter 41—In Contact With Others (Part 5)

Forbearance Under Wrong (Part 3)

Christianity will make a man a gentleman. Christ was courteous, even to His persecutors; and His true followers will manifest the same spirit. Look at Paul when brought before rulers. His speech before Agrippa is an illustration of true courtesy as well as persuasive eloquence. The gospel does not encourage the formal politeness current with the world, but the courtesy that springs from real kindness of heart. 

The most careful cultivation of the outward proprieties of life is not sufficient to shut out all fretfulness, harsh judgment, and unbecoming speech. True refinement will never be revealed so long as self is considered as the supreme object. Love must dwell in the heart. A thoroughgoing Christian draws his motives of action from his deep heart love for his Master. Up through the roots of his affection for Christ springs an unselfish interest in his brethren. Love imparts to its possessor grace, propriety, and comeliness of deportment. It illuminates the countenance and subdues the voice; it refines and elevates the whole being. 

Life is chiefly made up, not of great sacrifices and wonderful achievements, but of little things. It is oftenest through the little things which seem so unworthy of notice that great good or evil is brought into our lives. It is through our failure to endure the tests that come to us in little things, that the habits are molded, the character misshaped; and when the greater tests come, they find us unready. Only by acting upon principle in the tests of daily life can we acquire power to stand firm and faithful in the most dangerous and most difficult positions. 

We are never alone. Whether we choose Him or not, we have a companion. Remember that wherever you are, whatever you do, God is there. Nothing that is said or done or thought can escape His attention. To your every word or deed you have a witness—the holy, sin-hating God. Before you speak or act, always think of this. As a Christian, you are a member of the royal family, a child of the heavenly King. Say no word, do no act, that shall bring dishonor upon “that worthy name by the which ye are called.” James 2:7. 

Study carefully the divine-human character, and constantly inquire, “What would Jesus do were He in my place?” This should be the measurement of our duty. Do not place yourselves needlessly in the society of those who by their arts would weaken your purpose to do right, or bring a stain upon your conscience. Do nothing among strangers, in the street, on the cars, in the home, that would have the least appearance of evil. Do something every day to improve, beautify, and ennoble the life that Christ has purchased with His own blood. 

Always act from principle, never from impulse. Temper the natural impetuosity of your nature with meekness and gentleness. Indulge in no lightness or trifling. Let no low witticism escape your lips. Even the thoughts are not to be allowed to run riot. They must be restrained, brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Let them be placed upon holy things. Then, through the grace of Christ, they will be pure and true. 

We need a constant sense of the ennobling power of pure thoughts. The only security for any soul is right thinking. As a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7. The power of self-restraint strengthens by exercise. That which at first seems difficult, by constant repetition grows easy, until right thoughts and actions become habitual. If we will we may turn away from all that is cheap and inferior, and rise to a high standard; we may be respected by men and beloved of God. 

Cultivate the habit of speaking well of others. Dwell upon the good qualities of those with whom you associate, and see as little as possible of their errors and failings. When tempted to complain of what someone has said or done, praise something in that person’s life or character. Cultivate thankfulness. Praise God for His wonderful love in giving Christ to die for us. It never pays to think of our grievances. God calls upon us to think of His mercy and His matchless love, that we may be inspired with praise. 

Earnest workers have no time for dwelling upon the faults of others. We cannot afford to live on the husks of others’ faults or failings. Evilspeaking is a twofold curse, falling more heavily upon the speaker than upon the hearer. He who scatters the seeds of dissension and strife reaps in his own soul the deadly fruits. The very act of looking for evil in others develops evil in those who look. By dwelling upon the faults of others, we are changed into the same image. But by beholding Jesus, talking of His love and perfection of character, we become changed into His image. By contemplating the lofty ideal He has placed before us, we shall be uplifted into a pure and holy atmosphere, even the presence of God. When we abide here, there goes forth from us a light that irradiates all who are connected with us. 

Instead of criticizing and condemning others, say, “I must work out my own salvation. If I co-operate with Him who desires to save my soul, I must watch myself diligently. I must put away every evil from my life. I must overcome every fault. I must become a new creature in Christ. Then, instead of weakening those who are striving against evil, I can strengthen them by encouraging words.” We are too indifferent in regard to one another. Too often we forget that our fellow laborers are in need of strength and cheer. Take care to assure them of your interest and sympathy. Help them by your prayers, and let them know that you do it. 

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Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for the assurance of Your Holy Spirit to work within us to reflect the love and character of Christ, even amid a storm of evil and false accusations or keen disappointment. In such circumstances, please bless us to wholly submit to Your divine power that others will see You in us—that we are one with You as You are with Your Son Jesus—and be drawn into a saving relationship with You. We desire that we might have the mind of Christ to save souls and enjoy His experience of perfect obedience to Your will that we might one day soon stand in Thy glorious presence without fear of death. Thank You, because we ask it in the Awesome and Almighty name of Your Son, Jesus, our Saving King. Amen.

Visit this link to watch today’s Sabbath service livestreamed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UcheePinesInstitute.  Invite your family and friends to join us online beginning at 9:15 am Eastern Time.

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DID YOU KNOW THIS…? Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.—2 Peter 1:4 KJV [The WORD OF GOD—It’s the only flesh that is safe to eat (meditate on) to live forever!]

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FREE HEALTH TALK* open to the public Thursdays at 5pm at Country Life Natural Foods Store and Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant, 1217 Eberhart Avenue, Columbus, GA. The topic for Thursday, April  9, is “Breaking the Fast (Cooking Class) .”

*Cooking class available at a small cost for samples

https://www.countrylifeonline.com/health-programs

WHGR 91.5 FM went LIVE noon on Thanksgiving Day 2025, for Hurtsboro (my childhood home town) and surrounding areas, including Tuskegee, Alabama.

If you want to support Christian programming for these final days, please visit
https://www.ucheepines.org/radio

Thank you!!!

****

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
Therefore, if at any time you fail to receive this post as a text, please visit  
https://baiom.org/author/audreystovall/
where devotionals are first posted daily (almost without fail). From there devotionals are publicly shared to my page on FB, LinkedIn, and Signal (in My Story), and to a response-restricted group on WhatsApp (once again when I am able to find the time to successfully rebuild it).

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.

How to effectively pray – Part 8

Breaking down and destroying strongholds

Faith Is the Legal Key to Unlock Salvation for the Lost

Mark 9:23 ―Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Faith is not wishful thinking — it is legal evidence in the courtroom of Heaven. It moves God to act, and it breaks Satan’s grip on the soul. 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is… not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.“

If we believe that Christ has “all power in heaven and in earth—Matthew 28:18, then we can intercede with full authority to see the lost rescued from Satan’s grip. Our faith, according to God’s Word, gives Heaven permission to intervene on their behalf. Intercession on Behalf of another shows our deep faith in Christ, and his ability to forgive, cleanse, renew and restore that fallen soul. This is why when Jesus saw the paralytic‘s four friends let him down through the roof to his feet he said: When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. Mark 2:5

The paralyzed man was brought by four friends who had faith for his healing. Jesus, knowing that the heart of the sick man not only longed for physical healing but for his sins to be forgiven, did more than just heal his body— He forgave the man’s sins. Not because the man spoke — but because his friends believed and brought him to Jesus.

This is intercession in action: we bring the sinner to Christ by faith, even when they cannot bring themselves. This is the legal power of proxy faith — and it works because God honors faith that acts according to His will.

The Bible ascribes mighty power to help when we pray for the Lost. With verses such as this.

James 5:15-18 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The EFFECTUAL, FERVANT PRAYER of a righteous man availeth much” We cannot even begin to understand how incredibly powerful prayer really is, for it exerts the most potent influence of any kind in all the universe. Prayer is of such a sublime order that it lies beyond the imagination of men—For when the Christian prays, his capacity to achieve and his power to do good are multiplied a thousand, yea, a hundred thousand fold. This is no exaggeration, the reason being is that when a individual prays, God works. Not only on the soul of the one who prays, but on the soul of the one prayed for.

―Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him‖ SC 93.2

And surrounds the one prayed for with holy angels dispatched from the throne of grace to go to the aid of the one praying, and the one prayed for.

Heb 1:14―Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

When the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan during World War II, 92,000 people were killed. But when Assyria besieged Jerusalem causing King Hezekiah to cry out to God on behalf of his people, God sent only ONE ANGEL that slew 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in one night.

Hezekiah‘s prayer was TWICE as explosive as the atomic bomb. If prayer is strong enough to destroy armies, how much more certain is it’s power to save souls.

We have a strong Biblical reason for praying for the Lost. God Expects us to pray for them. God was stunned when he could not find a single intercessor for

Israel Isaiah 59:16. The slogan we often hear these days is: ―What would Jesus do?‖ The Bible gives us the answer.

Heb. 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Let us copy the worthy example of our Lord and intercede for those who are bound in chains of darkness. God

has placed praying for others the number one priority in our lives. Hear the cry of God‘s heart, “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men… who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth‖ 1 Timothy 2:1-4.

The Ministry of Healing

The Worker’s Need (Part 11)

Chapter 41—In Contact With Others (Part 4)

Forbearance Under Wrong (Part 2)

Study the history of Joseph and of Daniel. The Lord did not prevent the plottings of men who sought to do them harm; but He caused all these devices to work for good to His servants who amidst trial and conflict preserved their faith and loyalty. 

So long as we are in the world, we shall meet with adverse influences. There will be provocations to test the temper; and it is by meeting these in a right spirit that the Christian graces are developed. If Christ dwells in us, we shall be patient, kind, and forbearing, cheerful amid frets and irritations. Day by day and year by year we shall conquer self, and grow into a noble heroism. This is our allotted task; but it cannot be accomplished without help from Jesus, resolute decision, unwavering purpose, continual watchfulness, and unceasing prayer. Each one has a personal battle to fight. Not even God can make our characters noble or our lives useful, unless we become co-workers with Him. Those who decline the struggle lose the strength and joy of victory. 

We need not keep our own record of trials and difficulties, griefs, and sorrows. All these things are written in the books, and heaven will take care of them. While we are counting up the disagreeable things, many things that are pleasant to reflect upon are passing from memory, such as the merciful kindness of God surrounding us every moment and the love over which angels marvel, that God gave His Son to die for us. If as workers for Christ you feel that you have had greater cares and trials than have fallen to the lot of others, remember that for you there is a peace unknown to those who shun these burdens. There is comfort and joy in the service of Christ. Let the world see that life with Him is no failure. 

If you do not feel lighthearted and joyous, do not talk of your feelings. Cast no shadow upon the lives of others. A cold, sunless religion never draws souls to Christ. It drives them away from Him into the nets that Satan has spread for the feet of the straying. Instead of thinking of your discouragements, think of the power you can claim in Christ’s name. Let your imagination take hold upon things unseen. Let your thoughts be directed to the evidences of the great love of God for you. Faith can endure trial, resist temptation, bear up under disappointment. Jesus lives as our advocate. All is ours that His mediation secures. 

Think you not that Christ values those who live wholly for Him? Think you not that He visits those who, like the beloved John in exile, are for His sake in hard and trying places? God will not suffer one of His truehearted workers to be left alone, to struggle against great odds and be overcome. He preserves as a precious jewel everyone whose life is hid with Christ in Him. Of every such one He says: “I … will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee.” Haggai 2:23. 

Then talk of the promises; talk of Jesus’ willingness to bless. He does not forget us for one brief moment. When, notwithstanding disagreeable circumstances, we rest confidingly in His love, and shut ourselves in with Him, the sense of His presence will inspire a deep, tranquil joy. Of Himself Christ said: “I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father hath taught Me, I speak these things. And He that sent Me is with Me: the Father hath not left Me alone; for I do always those things that please Him.” John 8:28, 29. 

The Father’s presence encircled Christ, and nothing befell Him but that which infinite love permitted for the blessing of the world. Here was His source of comfort, and it is for us. He who is imbued with the Spirit of Christ abides in Christ. Whatever comes to him comes from the Saviour, who surrounds him with His presence. Nothing can touch him except by the Lord’s permission. All our sufferings and sorrows, all our temptations and trials, all our sadness and griefs, all our persecutions and privations, in short, all things work together for our good. All experiences and circumstances are God’s workmen whereby good is brought to us. 

If we have a sense of the long-suffering of God toward us, we shall not be found judging or accusing others. When Christ was living on the earth, how surprised His associates would have been, if, after becoming acquainted with Him, they had heard Him speak one word of accusation, of fault-finding, or of impatience. Let us never forget that those who love Him are to represent Him in character. 

“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.” “Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.” Romans 12:10; 1 Peter 3:9. 

The Lord Jesus demands our acknowledgment of the rights of every man. Men’s social rights, and their rights as Christians, are to be taken into consideration. All are to be treated with refinement and delicacy, as the sons and daughters of God. 

https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/135.2552#2567

Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for the assurance of Your Holy Spirit to work within us to reflect the love and character of Christ, even amid a storm of evil and false accusations or keen disappointment. In such circumstances, please bless us to wholly submit to Your divine power that others will see You in us—that we are one with You as You are with Your Son Jesus—and be drawn into a saving relationship with You. We desire that we might have the mind of Christ to save souls and enjoy His experience of perfect obedience to Your will that we might one day soon stand in Thy glorious presence without fear of death. Thank You, because we ask it in the Awesome and Almighty name of Your Son, Jesus, our Saving King. Amen.

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DID YOU KNOW THIS…? For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.—Jeremiah 29:11 KJV [The WORD OF GOD—It’s the only flesh that is safe to eat (meditate on) to live forever!]

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FREE HEALTH TALK* open to the public Thursdays at 5pm at Country Life Natural Foods Store and Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant, 1217 Eberhart Avenue, Columbus, GA. The topic for Thursday, April  9, is “Breaking the Fast (Cooking Class) .”

*Cooking class $10

https://www.countrylifeonline.com/health-programs

WHGR 91.5 FM went LIVE noon on Thanksgiving Day 2025, for Hurtsboro (my childhood home town) and surrounding areas, including Tuskegee, Alabama.

If you want to support Christian programming for these final days, please visit
https://www.ucheepines.org/radio

Thank you!!!

****

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
Therefore, if at any time you fail to receive this post as a text, please visit  
https://baiom.org/author/audreystovall/
where devotionals are first posted daily (almost without fail). From there devotionals are publicly shared to my page on FB, LinkedIn, and Signal (in My Story), and to a response-restricted group on WhatsApp (once again when I am able to find the time to successfully rebuild it).

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.

How to effectively pray – Part 7

Breaking down and destroying strongholds.

The Legal/Biblical Foundation of Intercessory Prayer for the Lost

Why Else should we Pray for the Lost? Because we Have Been Given Christ’s Ministry.

We are not just encouraged to pray — we are commanded to do so, because we carry the same ministry Jesus did:

“Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.‖1 Timothy 2:4–5.

When we intercede in the Name of ―JESUS we are acknowledging our Lord and Saviour as THE ONE and ONLY ADVOCATE before the Throne of God and are pleading for his aid in behalf of the name of the Lost one we bring before him. As His witness on earth, we continue His ministry of mediation. We plead for the lost not because we are better, but because we know the danger they are in and the authority we carry through our connection with Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

“Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.‖James 5:19–20.

The strong reasons are always Bible-based, and there are many such reasons concerning prayer for the Lost. One of the greatest reasons for praying for the Lost is our love for them. Praying for the Lost has been described as ―Love on its knees. It was God‘s love for mankind that brought Jesus the Only Begotten Son of God, -God‘s most precious possession – to the cross to give his life a ransom for the Lost. Our love for God and our love for man will lead us to the place of intercession.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

A Mother‘s love that leads to a life of Intercessory prayer for her wayward child, was often the result of bringing Lost souls to the foot of the cross. Only eternity will reveal the incredible number of souls that have been saved through the tears and prayers of a mother’s love. Love is indeed our greatest reason for pleading for the souls of the Lost. Isa 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

4SP 445.2―Will the Lord forget his people in this trying hour? Did he forget faithful Noah when judgments were visited upon the antediluvian world? Did he forget Lot when the fire came down from heaven to consume the cities of the plain? Did he forget Joseph surrounded by idolaters in Egypt? Did he forget Elijah when the oath of Jezebel threatened him with the fate of the Baal prophets? Did he forget Jeremiah in the dark and dismal pit of his prison-house? Did he forget the three worthies in the fiery furnace? or Daniel in the den of lions? Christ cannot forsake those who are as the apple of his eye, the purchase of his precious blood.” 4SP 445.2

The Ministry of Healing

The Worker’s Need (Part 10)

Chapter 41—In Contact With Others (Part 3)

Forbearance Under Wrong (Part 1)

We cannot afford to let our spirits chafe over any real or supposed wrong done to ourselves. Self is the enemy we most need to fear. No form of vice has a more baleful effect upon the character than has human passion not under the control of the Holy Spirit. No other victory we can gain will be so precious as the victory gained over self. 

We should not allow our feelings to be easily wounded. We are to live, not to guard our feelings or our reputation, but to save souls. As we become interested in the salvation of souls we cease to mind the little differences that so often arise in our association with one another. Whatever others may think of us or do to us, it need not disturb our oneness with Christ, the fellowship of the Spirit. “What glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.” 1 Peter 2:20. 

Do not retaliate. So far as you can do so, remove all cause for misapprehension. Avoid the appearance of evil. Do all that lies in your power, without the sacrifice of principle, to conciliate others. “If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” Matthew 5:23, 24. 

If impatient words are spoken to you, never reply in the same spirit. Remember that “a soft answer turneth away wrath.” Proverbs 15:1. And there is wonderful power in silence. Words spoken in reply to one who is angry sometimes serve only to exasperate. But anger met with silence, in a tender, forbearing spirit, quickly dies away. 

Under a storm of stinging, faultfinding words, keep the mind stayed upon the word of God. Let mind and heart be stored with God’s promises. If you are ill-treated or wrongfully accused, instead of returning an angry answer, repeat to yourself the precious promises: 

“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21. 

“Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. And He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.” Psalm 37:5, 6. 

“There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.” Luke 12:2. 

“Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.” Psalm 66:12. 

We are prone to look to our fellow men for sympathy and uplifting, instead of looking to Jesus. In His mercy and faithfulness God often permits those in whom we place confidence to fail us, in order that we may learn the folly of trusting in man and making flesh our arm. Let us trust fully, humbly, unselfishly in God. He knows the sorrows that we feel to the depths of our being, but which we cannot express. When all things seem dark and unexplainable, remember the words of Christ, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” John 13:7. 

https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/135.2552#2552

Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for the assurance of Your Holy Spirit to work within us to reflect the love and character of Christ, even amid a storm of evil and false accusations. In such circumstances, please bless us to wholly submit to Your divine power that others will see You in us—that we are one with You as You are with Your Son Jesus—and be drawn into a saving relationship with You. We desire that we might have the mind of Christ to save souls and enjoy His experience of perfect obedience to Your will that we might one day soon stand in Thy glorious presence without fear of death. Thank You, because we ask it in the Awesome and Almighty name of Your Son, Jesus, our Saving King. Amen.

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DID YOU KNOW THIS…? The LORD would have us “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another…even as Christ forgave you.”—Colossians 3:12, 13 KJV [The WORD OF GOD—It’s the only flesh that is safe to eat (meditate on) to live forever!]

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FREE HEALTH TALK open to the public Thursdays at 5pm at Country Life Natural Foods Store and Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant, 1217 Eberhart Avenue, Columbus, GA. The topic for Thursday, April  2, is “Hydrotherapy: Water for Healing.”

https://www.countrylifeonline.com/health-programs

WHGR 91.5 FM went LIVE noon on Thanksgiving Day 2025, for Hurtsboro (my childhood home town) and surrounding areas, including Tuskegee, Alabama.

If you want to support Christian programming for these final days, please visit
https://www.ucheepines.org/radio

Thank you!!!

****

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
Therefore, if at any time you fail to receive this post as a text, please visit  
https://baiom.org/author/audreystovall/
where devotionals are first posted daily (almost without fail). From there devotionals are publicly shared to my page on FB, LinkedIn, and Signal (in My Story), and to a response-restricted group on WhatsApp (once again when I am able to find the time to successfully rebuild it).

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.

How to effectively pray – Part 6

Breaking down and destroying strongholds

Chapter 2

The Legal/Biblical Foundation of Intercessory Prayer for the Lost

Why Pray for the Lost? — Because God Has Given Us Legal Standing to Intervene.

“Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring fort your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.‖Isaiah 41:21

In any court, a case is won or lost based on the strength of the evidence presented. So it is before the Throne of Grace. God invites us to “ bring forth your strong reasons” not Emotional Pleas, but legal grounds rooted in covenant promises and the blood, and name of Jesus. If you have prayed for a loved one for years and seen no fruit of your prayers, we pray that this booklet will helpyou to see the reasons your prayers are not being effective.

The Word of God encourages us to: Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.‖Hebrews 4:16

This is not arrogance; it is divine authorization. We do not come in our own righteousness, but in the Name,

Blood and legal authority of Jesus Christ, who “ever liveth to make intercession‖ Hebrews 7:25.

Intercession is the Legal Method by Which God Grants Mercy, but we must follow the legal process to be heard.

Throughout the Bible, God never moves without legal cause. He has bound Himself by His Word Psalm 138:2, and He waits for an intercessor to rise up and plead on behalf of the Lost.

“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.‖Ezekiel 22:30 This verse shows the legal gap—when no one stands, judgment proceeds. But when someone steps in with intercession, God is legally justified in showing mercy. “…for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.‖Isaiah 30:18

We Must Use Legal Grounds of the Covenant

Just as a lawyer cites statutes, so must the intercessor cite Scripture. God responds to His own Word. “Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.‖Isaiah 43:26

Prayer is a covenant-based advocacy before a Righteous Judge. The name and blood of Jesus is our legal claim. See Hebrews 12:24, and when we pray using that blood and God’s promises, Heaven is moved into action.