Tag: nutrition

DAILY PRAYERS FOR GUYS

adbLeave a comment

To Honor You With Healthy Diets

Generous Lord,
When it comes to the daily bread with which you feed us, we are tremendously blessed. You provide us with an abundance of food that far surpasses any level of providence in history. While there is so much that caters to our cravings and does more harm than good for our bodies, we also have a wealth of healthy options that you richly provide for our bodily good. Thank you for fresh fruits and vegetables available to us all year long. Thank you for vitamins and supplements, which, in moderation, can help provide essential nutrients for our bodies. Thank you for the wisdom and understanding we have of dietary health and how it can help or harm us. Out of gratitude for all of these blessings, lead us to honor you in how we choose what to put into our bodies. Help us strive to maintain and care for the bodies you have gifted to us so that they enable us to carry out all that you have planned for us in our lives. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

DAILY PRAYERS FOR GUYS

adbLeave a comment

To Be Mindful of What I Eat

Providential Father,
Food is a blessing from you, not only to provide fuel for our bodies, but also to be enjoyed. Yet, just as we do with so many of the good gifts you give us, we can abuse them or take them for granted. Help me take to heart the significance of praying for my daily bread in the Lord’s Prayer – to see the wisdom in your promise to provide exactly what I need. That way, I neither over-indulge in gluttony, nor despair of starvation.

Rather than filling me with more than I need, fill me with self-control, so that my cravings are curbed and I can appreciate in moderation even the joy and pleasure of finer food and drink. In gratitude for the gift of life and the body you’ve given me by which to enjoy it, lead me to show my heart-felt thanks by being sensible about what I put into my body, without becoming pharisaical or legalistic about it. And finally, keep me from being wasteful with food, while also being generous to others with it.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.