After my prayer time nearly 20 years ago, God revealed a remarkable thing to me.
He told me the true meaning of the name “Take Back Your Temple.”
God gave me the name about a year after I started my own healing journey.
At the time, I thought of the name as just a challenge to people of faith to take back their bodies, health, and lives.
But He told me that I was wrong. It was much more than that.
“Take Back Your Temple” is a prayer.
The name is meant as an individual’s cry unto Him. It is asking God to take control of your body and your life so He can use them for His purpose and agenda.
It is the submission of your will to His will. You recognize that God loves you and His plans for you are better than you have for yourself.
You view your body as God’s temple and invite Him in to care for it as such.
You don’t live out of your own strength. You live from His.
- If you are struggling with your weight right now, then simply ask God to: “Take Back Your Temple.”
- If you are struggling with destructive habits, simply pray to the Lord in the midst of it: “Take Back Your Temple.”
- If you are struggling with fear, doubt, depression, stress, worry, or anxiety then invite God into the situation: “Take Back Your Temple.”
I believe that if you pray that simple, powerful four-word prayer with a sincere heart and persistence, then it will be answered.
It will be answered based on God’s word that our bodies are His temples, and we therefore are to glorify Him in our bodies and in our spirits (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Please also receive this Prayer for My Body’s Care that will help you to focus on specific choices, day-by-day.
May you take this message to heart, apply it in your own life, and forever be blessed!
Be blessed in health, healing, and wholeness,
Kimberly Taylor
Founder, Take Back Your Temple
P.S. In a recent Live Zoom teaching inside the Take Back Your Temple program, we explored the biblical call to Watch and Pray and how prayer helps us stay spiritually alert, grounded, and less vulnerable to old patterns that quietly pull us off course.
These live teachings are recorded and organized inside our Zoom Replay Index, so members can revisit any session at their own pace, whenever they need clarity, encouragement, or realignment.
If you sense that God may be inviting you into a deeper season of healing, wisdom, and steady support, you can learn more about becoming a Take Back Your Temple member and joining our private Community here.
Kim this really ministered to my heart it’s a pray to ask God as you said to take back our body and our life to use for his glory. I thank God for your ministry.
I praise God that it ministered to you, Debbie! May you continue to prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers
Good Morning Kimberly,
Thank you very much for taking the time to share this encouraging message of truth.
God’s word is transforming. I truly need Him in this hour. Your honesty and transparency have helped me tremendously. I admire your love for God & His word. This is a Lifestyle change and I need God every day to help me to obey. Keep shining forth for Jesus. Your life is making a difference in the lives of others.
Abundant blessings,
M. Tozer
Thank you so much for your encouragement, Michelle! I praise the Lord every day for His lovingkindness and tender mercies. My relationship with the Lord would not be as deep as it is if I hadn’t needed to rely upon Him for freedom from eating and weight issues. Every day, He proves Himself faithful. What the enemy meant for bad, the Lord worked out for good. As you walk out this journey with the Lord, you will grow in love with Him and His word more and more too. Watch it work in your life!
Beautiful! I never read it with this emphasis before. Thank you!
You are welcome, Melanie – our bodies are important not because of how they look but whom it contains. May the Lord bless you on this journey 🙂
That is so awesome I needed to here those words because I am that person that is going thru that situation.
I have a hard time believing that god wants the best for me. I have talked to god and I know doesn’t here me. Because i have ask him to take trhis man out of my life that is wrong and with no prevail he stills controls me. i to want to take my life back.
Hi Dee, it takes real courage to tell the truth about what you are going through and I applaud you for deciding that you want your life back. Fear should never be part of a relationship. Healthy relationships are built on trust, each person feeling safe mentally, emotionally, and physically. Obviously, you do not feel safe with this man. And you deserve to feel safe in your own home.
You didn’t say if this man’s controlling behavior is through physical violence, but verbal, emotional, mental, and sexual abuse are just as bad.
Your first priority is safety and you can’t do this alone. Please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1−800−799−SAFE (7233) to get support. It is free. Counselors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Assistance is available in English and Spanish. A counselor can put you in touch with someone locally who can give you the resources you need so that you can feel safe again.
Also, educate yourself about domestic violence so that you can break the cycle. You can do a Google search on the term.
Again, getting to a safe place is your first step in taking your life back.
You said God did not hear your prayer. Yes he did, but he didn’t answer it the way you thought he would. He brought you to this website and has opened a door for you to seek help from people ready and willing to assist you. It is up to you to step through that door to freedom.
God’s word says that he wants you to prosper and be in health as your soul prospers (3 John 1:2). The relationship that you are in is not healthy, therefore it is not God’s best for you. You did not say if this man is your husband, but even if he is your husband, God does not call women to live with a man who is abusing them. He calls us to peace.
Dee, I pray that you go through the door that God is opening for you. He has made a way for you. But you have to take the first step in believing him.
God bless you!
My sisterFrances saw you on 700 club and e-mailed the program to us. There is four of us sisters with a combined weight of about 1050 lbs. We re Christians but cannot seem to get it together. We are the queens of starting and stopping weight programs.
Thank you for sharing, you’ve given us the boost we need to get up again. We don’t have a lot of money so to get something from the hand of God feels wonderful. Most people with something good sell it to you. Keep us in prayer; you know how being overweight and out of control feels.
Beth