Dropping to my ideal weight

[Natasha 2]

Lord i ask you to help me drop to my ideal weight. ### kg less then now in Jesus name!!
Please pray for good sleep, normal biorhytm, healthy sleeping and exercising habits, healthy eating habits in Jesus name. Hormonal balance - postmenopause. No stomach nervosity or emotional, or hormonal hinger in Jesus name.
Let me eat to live and not live to eat in Jesus name!!

 

[Articles]

We hear your heartfelt cry for help in this season of life, and we stand with you in prayer, lifting these concerns before our Heavenly Father. First, we want to acknowledge that you have called upon the name of Jesus in your request, and it is only through Him that we have access to the throne of grace. Jesus said in John 14:13-14, "Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it." We are so grateful that you have come to the Lord in faith, trusting in His power to transform and renew.

Father God, we come before You now, lifting up this dear sister who is seeking Your help in aligning her body, mind, and spirit with Your will. Lord, we ask that You would grant her the desire of her heart to reach a healthy weight that honors You. Help her to see herself as Your beloved creation, fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14), and to treat her body as a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). We pray that You would give her the strength, discipline, and wisdom to develop healthy habits in eating, exercising, and resting.

Lord, we ask for Your divine intervention in regulating her sleep and biorhythms. Calm her mind and body so that she may experience restful, rejuvenating sleep, as it is written in Psalm 4:8, "In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety." We rebuke any spirit of anxiety or restlessness that may be disrupting her sleep, and we declare that her body will find its natural rhythm in You.

Father, we also lift up her request for hormonal balance, especially in this postmenopausal season. We ask that You would bring healing and restoration to her body, stabilizing her hormones and alleviating any discomfort or emotional fluctuations. Your Word tells us in Philippians 4:19 that You will supply every need according to Your riches in glory in Christ Jesus. We trust that You will meet her needs in this area as well.

Lord, we pray against any form of emotional or hormonal hunger that may be driving her to eat when her body does not need nourishment. Help her to find her satisfaction and comfort in You alone, as it is written in Psalm 107:9, "For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good." Teach her to eat to live, rather than live to eat, and to find her true sustenance in Your Word and presence.

We also want to encourage you, dear sister, to seek the Lord’s wisdom in this journey. Proverbs 3:5-6 reminds us, "Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Surrender your struggles to Him daily, and allow Him to guide your steps. Consider seeking godly counsel from medical professionals, nutritionists, or fellow believers who can support you in this process.

Finally, we want to remind you that your worth is not defined by your weight or appearance, but by the fact that you are a child of God, redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ. Let this truth anchor your heart as you pursue health and wholeness. We pray that as you draw nearer to Him, He will draw nearer to you (James 4:8), and that you will experience His peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7).

Heavenly Father, we thank You for hearing our prayers and for the work You are doing in this sister’s life. We declare that she is more than a conqueror through Christ who loves her (Romans 8:37), and we trust that You will complete the good work You have begun in her (Philippians 1:6). In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We're praying with you for the desires you've brought, to sleep well, to be free from that inner restlessness in your stomach, to find a healthy rhythm with food and exercise. These things matter deeply.

Because you mentioned postmenopause and the hormonal shifts, we'd gently encourage you to check in with your doctor as you walk this out. Hormonal changes can quietly affect sleep, appetite, mood, and even the way your body holds onto weight, and a good physician can help you understand what's happening and what your options are. There's no shame in seeking that wisdom alongside prayer, it's part of caring for the body God gave you.

The longing to “eat to live, not live to eat” is one many of us share. It's a genuine battle at times, and it's okay to admit that the pull of food, or the way emotions and hormones can hijack hunger, can feel overwhelming. You're not alone in this. We're asking God to quiet the internal noise, the nervous stomach, the cravings that aren't about real hunger, and to replace them with a steadier sense of His presence and care. He is patient, and your worth before Him is never tied to a number on a scale.

Lord Jesus, we lift up our friend. Grant her restful sleep and a body that finds its natural, healthy rhythm. Settle her stomach when anxiety or hormones surge, and give her simple, lasting habits that bring strength. Quiet the compulsions and comfort the places that ache. Help her walk in freedom, one day at a time, leaning on You. In Your name, Jesus.

 

[bobr69]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[jcjcpurple]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The request for a disciplined body is not an evil thing. It is right to desire that this frame should serve the Lord with vigour, and not be cumbered with excess. But let us trace the line between the body's health and the soul's. No dead man can eat, and no man dead in trespasses can feed upon the true Bread without first being quickened. Is your quest after bodily leanness hung upon a deeper hunger? For what shall it profit a man if he gain his ideal weight and lose his own soul? The fleshly man makes his belly his god; the spiritual man eats to live, and lives not to eat, but his life is hid with Christ.

Consider the danger of self-reliant striving. You who profess the name of Christ, examine whether this pursuit has become your keeper’s vineyard, while your own vineyard you have not kept. Much that we call discipline may be but a rag of self-righteousness, off with it! For if in your watchfulness over scales and sleep you grow self-trusting, you may find you have only exchanged one fetter for another. The bloated body is a burden, but a bloated self-importance is a millstone for hell. Let there be a true self-humbling: not the mock humility that says "I am black" while inwardly admiring its own confession, but that lowliness which trembles at its own frailty.

That prayer for hormonal quiet and freedom from nervosity is a cry for peace, a right thing. Yet mark this: peace purchased by perfect circumstances is a false peace which we ought to destroy. The soul finds no lasting calm in balanced humours, but in feeding upon the flesh of the Son of Man. There is a spiritual eating, an assimilation of Christ into the inward parts, which sweetens the whole man with a pleasure unknown at the table of the world. When He is inwardly received, the soul loathes its former lusts, even the subtle lust of bodily perfection made into an idol.

Do not think your present discipline will commend you. Every duty performed apart from dependence on the finished work may be but another bind on the foot of a graceless professor. You may sleep well, eat moderately, and drop those kilograms, and yet awake in the tenfold night of eternal perdition. But if you have been stripped, if you have felt the self-loathing that makes sin hateful and Christ precious, then pursue this ordered life as one already pardoned, not as one trying to swim in His love clad in the garments of self-improvement. A naked sinner was never drowned in that sea.

Take heed, then, to these externals, but not as though they were the fountain. Eat less if you will, and move more, these are common mercies. But let your strength be the joy of the Lord. For healthy eating of the true Sacrifice brings a delicious sweetness pervading the whole soul, and in that feast, even the body’s clamours learn their proper place. You shall eat to live indeed, when you live because He lives in you.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[usha rani]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your request is good, seeking to govern the body rather than be governed by it. You cry out to be freed from the tyranny of the belly, and rightly so, for surfeit destroys the frame more grievously than hunger. The country people who struggle perpetually with want are healthy and need no physicians, but the gluttonous man is forever calling upon them, and even their skill is baffled by the violence of his excess. To desire your ideal weight is to desire a return to health, to cut away the provision made for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. There is no sin in eating, nor even in making provision for the body; the Apostle himself bids us use a little wine for the stomach’s sake. The sin and the sickness enter when we make provision, not for health, but for wantonness, kindling the flame of desire, making the furnace of the body more powerful than need requires. You have spoken the very medicine in your prayer: to eat to live, and not to live to eat. That is the boundary. That is the wall which keeps out the flood.

You also ask for good sleep and a natural rhythm, and you speak of nervosity, emotional hunger, and hormonal imbalance. Look to the comparison of the present life as a sleep full of dreams. The man asleep sees things that have no real substance, and so the one who is given over to vice is drunk with the cares and cravings that are but phantoms. Riches are a dream, glory is a dream, and so too is the fleeting satisfaction of ungoverned appetite. You feel a hunger that is not of the body but of the soul’s disquiet, a drunkenness that comes not from wine but from the anxiety and passions of the mind. To be truly sober is not merely to watch, but to watch with intensity. It is to close the eyes of the soul to those unreasonable dreams and fix them upon things that are real and abiding, spiritual and heavenly things, which do not fly away. When the stomach is quiet, but the heart is a storm, it is the soul that must be dieted and brought to stillness.

Do not look for sudden, great presages of success, nor despair when the scale does not move. Often the judgment upon a way of life, good or ill, seems to come while men are simply eating and drinking, going about their daily routines unaware. Press on in these daily, unseen battles, choosing sobriety one meal, one walk, one hour of sleep at a time. Let not the one who is in the way of health be overconfident, thinking he stands, lest he fall back through remissness. Neither let the one who stumbles on this path despair, for the command is to awaken and arise, to lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees. Your frame has been subject to many changes, and by the Lord’s help it can change again, from infirmity to strength. Continue as you have begun, cutting away the superfluity that brings only loss, until your body serves you as a healthy servant, not a wanton tyrant. May the Lord bless your striving for a sound body and a sober spirit.