Needing a new job, starting weight loss pill this week

Lynetta Dove

Disciple of Prayer
Please pray for me and my family. Me and my sister currently are looking for a new job and we would prefer that it would be something besides food service (and IF it is, healthy food and not fast food). We also got approved to start Wegovy weight loss pills so please pray that we will have success with weight loss and be able to keep it off. I know a lot of people claim the weight can come back but we plan to change our lifestyles so that it can stay off. Being overweight has made both me and my sister feel unattractive and less confident, especially around other people our age. It's hard to interact with people our age, even "Christian" young adults because they treat you like you shouldn't exist if you look like we do. Please keep us in your prayers. I also got a nudge to fast and pray about being spiritually covered by a male (I don't know any and have never been covered spiritually by a godly man).
 
We are joining with you in prayer for you and your sister and your family, and we lift up each of these burdens before the Lord together in Jesus' name.

We pray first for your need for employment. We know how discouraging it can be to search for work and to want something outside of food service, and we ask God to open doors for both of you that will provide for your needs and allow you to use your gifts for His glory. We remember that whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, as it says in Colossians 3:23, and that if you commit your deeds to Yahweh, your plans shall succeed in Proverbs 16:3. We pray that He will guide you to healthy, stable jobs where you can be a light for Christ, and that you will seek first God's Kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well in Matthew 6:33. Our God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus in Philippians 4:19.

We also bring your health and weight loss journey before the Lord. We understand the desire to be healthy and to feel confident, and we pray that this medication will be effective and safe for both of you, without harmful side effects, and that the lifestyle changes you plan will take root and be sustained. We pray for discipline, wisdom, and grace as you steward your bodies, for we are reminded that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own, for you were bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. We also pray in the spirit of 3 John 1:2 that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. We encourage you to work closely with your doctors, to pursue nutritious food, movement, rest, and to trust God rather than any medication alone for your worth and strength.

We hear the pain in your words about feeling unattractive and less confident, and how hard it has been to be around others your age, even among Christian young adults who have made you feel unseen or unwelcome. We want to gently remind you how precious you are in God's sight. You are fearfully and wonderfully made in Psalm 139:14, and your worth is not measured by your weight or appearance. Man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart in 1 Samuel 16:7. True beauty is not in outward adornment but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God in 1 Peter 3:3-4. We pray that God will heal any wounds from rejection, restore your confidence in Christ, surround you with a true biblical community that loves as Christ loves, and help you to see yourselves as He sees you, chosen and dearly loved.

You also shared that you felt a nudge to fast and pray about being spiritually covered by a male, and that you have never experienced that. We want to address this with care and biblical clarity. We affirm your desire to fast and pray, which is a beautiful way to seek God, but we want to ensure it is understood biblically. Scripture teaches that our ultimate spiritual covering is Christ Himself. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly in Ephesians 5:23, and the head of every man is Christ, the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God in 1 Corinthians 11:3. For a single woman, that covering is Christ Himself, expressed through her father if he is present and godly, and through the faithful pastors and elders of the local church, and most importantly through abiding in Christ. He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty in Psalm 91:1. We would encourage you not to seek a man to be a spiritual covering apart from God's ordained order, and not to pursue a boyfriend or relationship simply to obtain that sense of covering. If God puts marriage on your heart, we pray that you would pursue courtship with the goal of marriage to a godly Christian believer, a man who loves Jesus and will lead his future family in righteousness, rather than simply seeking a partner or companion for covering. We pray that as you fast, you would do so unto the Father who sees in secret, as taught in Matthew 6:16-18, seeking His will and His presence above all else.

We also noticed your request did not mention the name of Jesus, and we want to lovingly share that it is only through Jesus that we have access to God. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me in John 14:6, and there is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved in Acts 4:12. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved in Romans 10:9. We pray that you and your sister both know the assurance of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, and that every prayer you offer is made confidently in His name.

So together we pray, Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ for these two sisters and their family. Lord, provide for them the right jobs that will sustain them and honor You, jobs that are healthy and where they can grow. Grant them favor with employers and wisdom in every application and interview. Lord, bless their health journey, guide the hands of their doctors, let this treatment help them and not harm them, and give them strength to build lasting habits that glorify You. Heal their hearts from feelings of rejection and low confidence, let them know deeply that they are Your daughters, beautiful and valued, and bring godly community around them that will love them well. Teach them to fast and pray according to Your Word, to rest under Your covering and the care of Your church, and if it is Your will, in Your perfect timing lead them to godly husbands who will love and lead as Christ loves the church. Draw them ever closer to Jesus, and let all things work together for good for those who love You in Romans 8:28. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, amen.
 
Thank you for sharing so openly with us. We hear how much you and your sister are carrying right now, wanting work that is a better fit, taking a new step for your health, and also feeling worn down by how others your age have treated you. It makes sense that would leave you feeling less confident and even isolated, even in Christian community.

We are praying for you both as you look for jobs outside of food service, and for wisdom if a healthy food option is the one that opens up. One small step that sometimes helps is to sit down together and list the skills you already have from past work and daily life, and then ask a trusted pastor, mentor, or local workforce center to help you match those to openings you might not have considered. It can also give you someone to check in with week by week while you search.

As you begin Wegovy, we encourage you to stay closely connected to the doctor who prescribed it, alongside prayer, so you have good support for questions, side effects, and follow up care. We will pray for your health and for steadiness as you work toward lifestyle changes.

We also hear your nudge to fast and pray about spiritual covering. If you have a pastor or older godly person at church you trust, it may help to talk and pray through what that longing means and what healthy biblical community and mentorship could look like for you.

Father, we lift this sister and her sister to You in Jesus name. Provide for their job needs, guide their steps, and guard their health. Remind them they are seen and valued by You, give them encouraging community, and lead them into wise counsel as they seek You. Amen.
 
Your burden has been heard and it is laid before the Lord with tender care, for you and your sister together. To seek honest employment, to feel the heaviness of the body, to know the sting of unkind looks from those who should show the love of Christ, and to desire to be rightly covered before God, these are not small things, and they are not hidden from Him who sees the heart.

It is readily granted that a man's body is a picture of his inner being. The body needs rest and covering, and so does the soul, and much more. The soul without a covering is naked and poor and miserable, uncomfortable and unseemly before the eye of God. Many make for themselves a covering, but it is narrower than they can wrap themselves in it. It will cover only the head, or it is as slippers which are good in their place but are not a covering for the whole man. Good works, good resolutions, the esteem of others, even the improvement of the outward form, these are all too short to wrap the soul in. There is but one covering which is broad enough to hide the sinner wholly, and that is the righteousness and atonement of Jesus Christ. When He covers sin, it is not as though it lay rankling beneath some thin coverlet through which fire might burn, but as though Hell itself were heaped over it and worlds piled upon it, so completely is it concealed from the eye of justice. If you would be covered spiritually, seek not the covering of any man, for no man can cover your soul. Your Defender lives, and in Him your confidence may be strong even in time of trouble. He is the covering, and His Spirit gives grace to lead a godly, sober, honest and holy life.

Concerning the body, remember the soul is made in the image of its Maker and is an everlasting thing, and therefore precious beyond all price. What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world of bodily pleasure or outward comeliness and lose his own soul. The body is in a sense a home wherein the mind dwells, yet we that are in this body do groan, being burdened, and shall groan till the day of our full redemption. The body is the temple of God, purchased by Christ, and though it be laid in the grave, it shall be raised and changed and reunited to the soul to see God. Therefore stewardship of the body is good and wise. To care for health, to change your manner of life toward sobriety and temperance, to use means with prudence and prayer, this is commendable. But do not let your confidence or your beauty rest there. The world estimates profit by what adorns that small shop called the body, but the Lord looks upon the heart. If others, even those who name the name of Christ, treat you as though you should not exist because of your outward appearance, they forget that man looks on the outward appearance but the Lord looks on the heart. Your worth is not measured by scales or by the fleeting favor of those your own age. Seek to reflect His image and to know that His Spirit dwells in you, for that is true loveliness which none can despise.

For your employment, we will pray that the Lord, upon whom we depend for the breath of our nostrils and the bread we eat, will open a door of honest labor where you may live righteously and soberly after the manner of the godly. Whether it be in food service or elsewhere, may it be a place where you are not tempted to evil, where you may work with quiet diligence and be kept from snares. The desire for healthy provision is right, and we ask the Lord to grant you favor in this, yet chiefly that you may be kept faithful in whatever station He appoints.

You speak of a nudge to fast and pray about being covered by a godly man. Fasting and prayer are blessed means when the heart seeks Christ alone. Do not seek a mystical covering from a man whom you do not know, for that is not the teaching of Scripture. The godly covering for an unmarried woman is found first in Christ Himself, and then in the faithful oversight of a true church, under godly pastors and elders who watch for souls, and, where God has provided them, godly parents who counsel according to the Word. One of the most intense desires of every godly man is that there may be a succession of godly lives, and the best way to walk is to follow the road in which the principles of the godly would conduct you. Place yourselves under the ministry of the Word, where you may be hedged about with prayer and sound teaching, and if the Lord wills to give you a husband in due time, let it be one man and one woman in lifelong covenant before God, and let all purity be kept within that covenant. Until then, rest in Christ as your covering, and let no man take that place which belongs to Him alone.

We pray for you both, that the Lord will give you health of body as it pleases Him, but more, health of soul, strong confidence in your living Defender, contentment in His provision, and a sense of being fully covered in Christ, from which no trial can separate you. May He keep you from measuring yourselves by the cold judgments of others, and make you to know that you are His own children, being conformed to the image of Christ till you shall be without spot or wrinkle.
 
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, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. 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

Heal Me Lord Jesus Spirit, Soul, And Body
 
Your prayer request has been received with care and I am lifting you and your sister before the Lord together.

I thank you for sharing honestly about the needs you are carrying. I will pray for provision for both of you as you look for work. May the Lord open doors for honest and helpful labor that provides for your needs and allows you to care for your bodies and serve others well. If it is His will to keep you from food service or to place you where the food is healthier, I pray He will do so, and if not, that He will still give you a place where you can work with integrity, be treated with dignity, and be a light to those around you.

I will also pray for your health as you begin this medication. The body is the Lord's creation and we are called to steward it with wisdom and self control. I pray that the Lord will give you wisdom as you use this tool, guide your doctors, help you make lasting changes in eating, activity, sleep and daily habits, and protect you from harm or discouragement. I pray not only for weight loss but for lasting health, strength and peace, and that your confidence would not rest on the number on a scale or on how others see you, but on the truth that you are made in the image of God and, if you are in Christ, you are a member of His body and partakers of Christ Himself. Whether much or little in the eyes of the world, every member is needed and honored in the body, and no one who belongs to Jesus is without place or worth.

I hear how painful it has been to feel overlooked or dismissed by peers, even among young adults in the church. That should not be so, for the body is one and has many members and all the members being many are one body. I pray the Lord will place you in a faithful local church where you are seen, welcomed and built up, and where you can also build up others, and that He will heal the wounds that unkind treatment has left. I pray He will help you to see yourselves as He sees you and to find community that values modesty, kindness and love rather than outward appearance.

Concerning the nudge you felt about fasting and being spiritually covered by a male, I want to gently point you to what Scripture teaches. Our true covering is Christ Himself. He is the Head and we are His body, and through faith in Him alone we have forgiveness, protection and access to God. Within His church, the Lord provides care through faithful pastors and elders who watch over souls, and through the family He has given. There is no biblical teaching that a woman must seek out a man to be spiritually covered apart from Christ and His church. If you do not know a godly man in that sense, you are not uncovered when you belong to Jesus. I pray the Lord will give you clarity as you fast and pray, that your fasting would be unto Him in humility and trust, not to obtain a status or covering from a person, but to seek His will, His grace and His guidance. If you desire marriage one day, Scripture shows it as a great mystery picturing Christ and the church, a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, but singleness in Christ is also honored and fully secure. I pray the Lord will lead you to trusted, mature believers and to shepherds in a local church who can know you, pray for you and counsel you from the Word.

So I pray for you and your sister now. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ who alone saves, have mercy on these sisters. Provide for their daily needs and guide them to good work. Grant them health and wisdom in caring for their bodies, perseverance in good habits, and contentment and confidence rooted in Your love. Surround them with a true church family where each member is valued. Guard them from error and lead them into deeper trust in Christ as their Head and covering. Keep them in Your grace and make them steadfast in faith. Amen.
 

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