God Says that Self-Care is Care
February 21
Did you know that God wants you to take care of your body because it’s the temple of the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit lives inside of you caring for your entire body including your emotions. You don’t have to be totally preoccupied with your body but you do need to take care of it as the temple of God, that He has given to you.
You can’t feed your body poorly. You can’t ignore your mental state and emotions. You have to give it exercise, rest, and good food.
Your body is to be presented as a living sacrifice to God. Every day we make choices what we will do with our body, in our body, to our body. We make choices what we will eat, if we will exercise, if we will rest, and if we will be obedient to His instructions.
There are times when we violate what God has said in regards to our own body so we have to ask God to show us what to do and how to help us.
But frankly, most of the time we want to do what we want.
We make Jesus Lord of our life, but do we actually make Him Lord of our body and the health care habits concerning our body.
Let me share with you 10 ways you can pray about how to take better care of your body:
- Eat the right foods
- Get some exercise a few days a week
- Make sure you get rejuvinating sleep
- Lower your stress level
- Make sure you get regular health checkups
- Do not ignore warning signs in your body
- Take precautions to avoid illness
- Do not overindulge when you eat
- Find peace by spending time in prayer and in the word of God
- Simplify your life as much as possible and find peace with those decisions
When you have a healthy mental and emotional state you will be more at peace in your life.
But how can you have peace in your mind and emotions when you feel the exact opposite. You can because God is in charge of your mind and emotions as well as your thoughts and feelings.
Let me give you 10 other ways how to pray to God about your mind and your emotions:
Lord I pray….
- Help me to have a clear mind
- Help me to think positive thoughts and not let the negativity rule
- Help me to identify lies and only dwell on a truth about my life
- Help me to have peace in my heart and handle stress better
- Help me to have the ability to learn easily and retain knowledge
- Help me to have not have depression loneliness or anxiety
- Help me to refuse to entertain guilt
- Help me to walk in forgiveness
- Help me to be free from perfectionism
- Help me to have a heart filled with love and joy
There is a great power in prayer. Submit yourself to God and live a disciplined life. Let me give you a prayer to help you on your journey.
Lord I submit my body to you. Help me to live in my body in a very disciplined way. Enable me to make the right choices with regard to what I eat, exercise and how I sleep. Give me the strength to avoid what is not good for me. Help me to walk in self discipline to strengthen my body. You know what is good for me Lord, help me to make the right choices. Teach me what I must learn from You. Thank you that I am fearfully and wonderfully made and You know all about my body. Help me to value my body and take care of it. Thank you Lord that you are a healer. I pray that you will heal my body in every area in the name of Jesus. Amen.