Several times recently I’ve become aware of people in the Dyed4you community who struggle with how they look. Being myself a large woman I find it baffling and disturbing to find these often slender women struggling with self image.
Despite the fact that from the world’s standards I should be ashamed of myself because of my weight, God has been breaking me free from that condemnation – while I am still a work in progress, I find a heart of mercy towards those still caught up in the world’s fickle system.
So I just felt led to pray over the D4Y community at large over this issue – feel free to add to it or simply agree as you’re able in prayer.
Father God, You have created each one of us for Your personal pleasure. And just as we don’t qualify our love for a newborn child over if they aren’t too fat or too thin, You view us as Your children and love us unreservedly. Help us to see ourselves the way YOU see us.
Help us to remember that You are not angry with us whether we are large or small – You simply lavish Your love on us. God forgive those who have judged us by the world’s standards – in particular those in the church who dress up the world’s standards with words like “stewarding our bodies” which is something we’re called to do, but Lord I’ve witnessed first hand this concept being used to abuse and condemn those who You love.
Lord, Your chastening brings repentance and change, not condemnation – help us to have the wisdom to see the difference and to see ourselves as You see us. I pray that we would have a deeper understanding of what it means to be fearfully and wonderfully made, and what You meant by that… we ask for wisdom and revelation Lord.
Lord, I pray that anyone in the community who has set their own body as an idol (whether in over-indulging it or in obsessive attempts to control/maintain weight) – giving it higher attention and priority than You – would repent and and lay it down as a living sacrifice as You’ve called us to do.
Let NOTHING distract our focus from what You’ve called us to. I pray that we would delight to use our bodies to glorify You! That that would be our primary focus…
Lord, I pray for healing in our hearts over any areas that keep us from being in proper balance in this area. Lord, please root out any spiritual footholds that keep us from breakthrough.
Lord, I ask for healing in our bodies (this is specific to me as well as any others) – particularly healing for anything that we’ve damaged by misuse of our bodies – whether it be yo-yo dieting, binge-purge, etc. – Lord in Your mercy heal our bodies and cause them to function properly with good metabolisms and fully functioning thyroids… and anything else that needs to be righted.
Lord, forgive us for when we’ve judged others by the world’s standards! Standards that have held us in bondage that we ourselves impose on others – Lord have mercy.
Lord thank You that You highlighted this area to me… thank You Lord that You would use a woman like me to dance – LOL – You never cease to surprise me… You are a good God. Worthy of all praise and honor and glory. I ask that You move in obvious, clear ways within this community – even such that we would hear more testimonies of people being healed from this within the community… bless us all Lord. In Jesus’ name… AMEN!
In agreement & amen to the above…
Father, we just come before You and thank You that this has been brought to our attention as a reminder to lift this burden up in prayer to you. Lord, we thank You that You are always and forever mindful of us, burdened in Your heart for what hurts us, compassionate & lavishly loving in Your ways, and gentle in Your touch. That You carefully form the exact Words You want spoken to us so that it pierces past flesh into the very depths of our hearts & spirit to accomplish that which pleases You…to set the captives free, to heal the brokenhearted, to loose those who are bound, to comfort those who mourn, to give us beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for for mourning, and praise for heaviness! Jesus, I thank You that You are our Great Intercessor and have called upon us to make intercession with You.
We come against and break every curse word spoken, negative word spoken, and generational curse that was ever placed against them from before conception in the womb until this very moment in Jesus name. No more will the power behind these ever come against them! We rebuke & break every soul tie that may remain that has or is provoking wrong thoughts, temptations, influence, or wrong choices in the name of Jesus. We command these soul ties to be loosed and NO MORE will you return! We bind every demonic assignment sent against them to destroy these ladies, in Jesus name, and cast them into the pit of hell! No weapon formed against them will prosper! No evil shall befall them! For the Lord’s plans that He has for them SHALL prosper! Plans of peace, not of evil, to give them a future and hope!
Lord, remove the wrong people out of their lives immeadiately, and begin to place the RIGHT people in! Place Godly individuals into their paths who have Your wisdom, knowledge, discernment, love, and compassion. Let these vessels chosen by You help lay an axe to the very root of these issues, and pull down the stronghold & clear it away. And Lord as this heartwork is underway, let these Godly individuals do it in love, compassion, and in Your timing. Let them apply the balm of Your Word to their hearts to bind it up and heal it. Abba, wrap Your arms around these women & men and hold them close & tight, so they may know they are being carried by the One who carries THEIR burdens, needs, hurts, and dreams. The very One who can ever truly love them unconditionally.
Lord, I am reminded of Tamar in Your Word and how her brother tore her royal, virgin garments off her, and raped her; afterwards discarding her like she was trash and loathed her though she did nothing. Lord, so many of us have been through this whether it was sexual abuse, physical abuse where our innocence & purity is beaten & pummeled from us, or verbal & mental abuse that tore down all pure & lovely things that we should think upon including our confidence in who we are in You and were replaced with the worlds’ thoughts & views of what a person “should” be. Lord, so many in their hearts are crying out from a position of nakedness, shame, humiliation, insecurity, distortion/deception, condemnation, false-hope, believing lies, and far, far worse. But in Your Word Lord, you promise beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for their mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Father, in Your tendermercies and grace, restore their confidence in You and not the world. Remove the veil of deception, lies, and distorted tainted thinking and give them new, fresh vision of who they are in You and the beauty of how they were created. Place on them that garment of praise, a robe of righteousness, and crown them with a crown of splendor that adorns their head that every hair You have counted. Let them have dove eyes, for dove eyes can only focus on one thing and God let that one thing be You and You alone. Ravish thier hearts as we so ravish Yours every day. Father every DAY I ask that you show them how Your desire is toward them, that Your thoughts are always on them, and that You rejoice over them with singing and gladness. God, remove ALL images, wrong thinking, wrong people, and tempations including magazines, books, internet, and tv that lie before them that hinder them from seeing themselves as You created them. Father, help to compel them to trash every magazine that brainwashed them into believing that what they see & read is how they are supposed to be. Instead, let them have a burning desire in their hearts to want to know YOU and YOUR thoughts toward them. Convict them to turn the computer, tv, and radio off and spend time listening & talking to YOU Lord so that they may learn to hear Your voice and develop the only relationship that will ever fill ALL their desires and needs. Jesus, help them to take every thought captive and to cast it down before it can ever be entertained or take root! Show them how to renew their minds and to put on the mind of Christ every day. I pray that the only things that they shall hear are things that are FAITH…for faith comes from hearing & hearing & hearing from the Word of God and they must be built up in their most holy faith. Remind them that Your mercy & grace is new and abounding every single day, that You didn’t give them a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind. That Your perfect love casts out fear and that love is being perfected daily. Show them that Your Word WILL be a lamp for their feet and a light to their path, that You order and guide their footsteps as they choose to walk with You.
Father, remind & sear into them that from the foundations of the world You created us. Before we were ever formed, You knew us. That when the divine set time came forth for us to be formed, you formed our inward parts & covered us in our mothers womb, and sanctified us. You fearfully & wonderfully created us and You greatly desire and are enthralled with our beauty. You long to see our face & hear our voice for what parent wouldn’t? And You are our Heavenly Father who gives us good things far greater than we could ever want or imagine. Abba, show each and every one of them where they are engraved in the palm of Your hand, and how they are the apple of Your eye…Your masterpiece, Your special treasure. Show them how every tear was not shed in vain and you have every single drop bottled. Let them be consumed by your feircely jealous love and set ablaze their hearts to burn and long for You alone. Sweep them away into Your presence where there is fullness of joy where it shall be their strength.
Father, we just thank You and praise You for what You have done and will do! FOr You are not a man that You should lie, Your Word NEVER returns to You void because it accomplishes that which pleases You and for it’s purpose. Thank You that the angels are excelling in strength as we write/speak to do Your Word for they harken to Your Word to perform it. Thank You that they are given charge over each and every one of us and are encamped all about us. God, we just plead the blood of Jesus over every one of them, we pray a hedge of protection around them, and dress them in the FULL armour of God. We call this done and eagerly but patiently wait for the glorious testimonies of Your work to pour in and make Your name glorious upon all the earth…so every man and woman will KNOW that YOU delivered them and that You are THAT I AM! Thank You that as we close this prayer, that this is the confidence we have that if we ask anything according to Your will that You hear us, and if we know You hear us, whatever we’ve asked we will have the petitions we’ve asked of You. Thank You Lord! You are holy, wonderful, beautiful, awesome, and righteous! Bless Your name forever and ever!!
AMEN!
AMEN!!!
Yes and Amen! For whom the Son sets free is free inded! Yay God! Awesome word and prayers. I agree and receive.
Amen. I raise my swords with you and claim VICTORY! Hallelujah Lord!
Lord Jesus, I pray and agree with my sisters in the Lord over our self-image. Lord God in Jesus’ Holy Name, set us free and release us from every harmful and hurtful word spoken to us concerning our bodies! I know in my heart that you created each of us in YOUR image, and that you formed us each different, unique and beautiful in your sight. Forgive those that have tried to destroy that image in us, restore in each of us the beauty from ashes with the confidence of who and what we are in your eyes! That we can move and have our being to walk in all the fullness of your calling, your grace and your strenght of Lord!! As a thin person Lord, I lived a life-time of being told I must be sickly or “something” must be wrong with me. However, I walk in health and in the fullness of what you have created me to be. I thank you Lord for our bodies, the very temple of God and for transforming us daily into the image that you have planned for us. Teach us oh! God to speak into the lives of others the life that comes from your word as you bring healing to them. Give us a sensitivity to their needs and brokeness, that our words would only bring life to them.And, Lord, please, touch the lives of the women struggling with this issue and bring healing and restoration to their minds, their hearts and their bodies. In Jesus’ precious and Holy name that we may bring glory, honor and praise to you body, soul and spirit. Amen.
AMEN!!!!