How To Pray Effectively For Your Health And Fitness

When you pray about your health and fitness…

What do you actually say?

What things are you praying about?

😬 Or…are you even praying about your health and fitness?

“God, help me to lose weight.”

“God, I’m scared about my recent blood panel.”

“God, help my knee feel better.”

👉 Let me be extremely clear:

There is NO WRONG WAY TO PRAY.

Just talk to God.

🟢 But…as believers, we ought to constantly PURSUE BETTER QUALITY in our prayer life.

So what does that look like?

🔥 Do this 1 thing before you go to bed tonight:

Pick 1 thing in your health and fitness right now that you want the Lord’s help with (losing weight, a mental struggle, an injury, etc.).

Then, spend 3 minutes talking to God about that thing, focusing EXCLUSIVELY on how God answering this prayer would contribute to His glory. Don’t focus on yourself at all for those 3 minutes.

❌ For example, don’t pray…

“God, my back is hurting so badly. Please heal me so that I can feel better. I promise I’ll read my Bible every day if you could just take this away from me.”

✅ Instead, pray this…

“God, my back is hurting so badly. But You give me these challenges to help me align my desires more with Yours. If it be Your will, take this pain away so that I can be the hands and feet of Christ better. I want to be able to serve my family and friends better so that they can experience You more, and my back is keeping me from that. Whether You take this pain away or not, help me to see how I can share this experience with others as a testimony of Your love and glory…” (and so on)

🔹 Remember this…

We don’t pray so that we can get something from God.

We pray so that we can align our will better with His.

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

Psalm 37:4

Practice approaching your health and fitness with that same mentality, and watch your prayer life become way more effective.

It’s worked for me, and hope it helps you too :)