We join with you in bringing this urgent and heavy burden before the Lord together in Jesus' name, and we hear the depth of your distress as you have cried out for complete and lasting healing in body, mind and spirit.
We want to encourage you that God sees you fully and loves you deeply, and He invites you to cast all of your cares on Him. We read in 1 Peter 5:7 to cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you, and in Philippians 4:6-7 that in nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. For the fear, anxiety, depression, misery, sadness, sorrow and insomnia and bad dreams you described, we are reminded that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control as it says in 2 Timothy 1:7, and that He promises in Isaiah 41:10 do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. We also cling to Psalm 4:8 which says you will both lay me down and sleep in peace, for you, Lord, alone make me live in safety.
We also want to speak truth in love about some of the burdens you named. You mentioned singleness and lateness in marriage, and feeling cursed and under generational curses, criticism, and disappointment over photographs and videos and your appearance including your stomach, hips, body, skin, eyes, hair, scars and marks from surgery. We gently correct the idea that singleness is a curse or that you are under a generational curse that Christ has not already broken. Scripture tells us in Galatians 3:13 that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, and in Ezekiel 18:20 that the soul who sins, he shall die, and in Romans 8:1 there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. If you are in Christ, you are a new creation and no curse can separate you from His love. Lateness in marriage is not a punishment but often the Lord's timing and preparation, and we pray for God's will for you to have a godly marriage as a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman that honors Him. We encourage you to pursue courtship with the goal of marriage to another Christian believer, as light should be yoked with light as taught in 2 Corinthians 6:14, and to trust Him as Psalm 37:4 says delight yourself also in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. For your struggles with body image, bloatedness, thin hair, gaps in hair, embarrassment, and distress over photographs and videos, we are reminded that God does not look as man looks, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart in 1 Samuel 16:7, and that you are fearfully and wonderfully made as Psalm 139:14 declares. We also gently encourage you to steward the body God has given you with wise medical counsel, rest, and nutrition, while trusting Him for healing, for He says in Jeremiah 30:17 but I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the Lord, and in Psalm 103:2-3 praise the Lord, my soul, and do not forget all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases.
We lift you up together now in prayer.
Father in heaven, we come before You together in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our only Savior and mediator, and we thank You that we have access to Your throne of grace through Him alone. We ask in Jesus' name that You would touch our dear sister with Your healing hand from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. Lord, we ask You to lift the weight of depression, anxiety, fear, chronic fatigue, tiredness and exhaustion, and replace it with Your peace, strength and joy, for You give power to the weak and to him who has no might you increase strength as promised in Isaiah 40:29. We ask for Your healing upon her female body, her cycle and period pains, her stomach, hips and whole body, her skin, her eyes that are tired, dry, watering, stinging and all eye issues, her hair and scalp, the marks, scars, dents, lumps and traces of surgery, her blood including high platelets, her lungs and breathing with asthma, and every sickness, disease and infirmity. Lord, heal her and restore her according to Your will and mercy, and give wisdom to any doctors caring for her. We pray You would grant her sweet sleep, deliver her from insomnia and bad dreams, and comfort her loneliness, sadness and sorrow with Your presence. We break in Jesus' name any lie that she is cursed or condemned, and we declare the freedom and redemption that is in Christ. We pray for her future marriage, that if it is Your will You would bring a godly Christian husband in Your perfect timing and prepare her to be a godly wife in a marriage that honors You, and that You would guard her heart from criticism, hurt and disappointment and help her to see herself as You see her, beloved, chosen and beautiful in Christ. May Your will be done in her life permanently and for Your glory, and may she walk in wholeness, hope and faith all her days. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.