17 Bible Scriptures on Health and Wellness

These 17 Bible scriptures on health and wellness will motivate and encourage you to improve your health. If you’re just starting out or been struggling with health, then these bible scriptures help you find the strength to keep going. So get ready to be encouraged, inspired, and motivated! Fitness goals? Spiritual growth? Let’s do this!

God cares about your health and wellness!

As Christians we hear, speak and pray about spiritual health and growth. And yes, our relationship with God is spiritual first. But God created us not only as spiritual beings, but physical humans with a physical body. 3 John 1:2 says;

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you. That you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul”.

John wrote this letter to his friend Gaius, “whom I dearly love” (3 John 1:1). John encouraged Gaius, telling him he heard of his hospitality from other believers. He was well loved among them for his ministry.

Yet look how Paul opens verse 3 John 1:2 . Paul prayed that all aspects of Gaius’s life is well. Gaius served God and was spiritually strong. But still Paul makes a point to pray that Gaius “may be in good health”.

Why? Because he’s a man of ministry who pours into the lives of others. He gives and gives. If you’ve ever tried to host people in your home while physically sick, you know it’s hard. You can’t give as much of yourself as you’d like. As Christians, being in good health gives us a stable position to walk out the call of God on our lives.

Why is learning Bible scriptures on health and wellness important?

As Christians, being in good health gives us a stable position to walk out the call of God on our lives.
Tamara Newell

Serving in church had been a cornerstone in my life for many years. I led women’s groups, supported my husband as he preached and served on almost every Sunday team there was.

Then my son was born.

All of a sudden, postpartum depression and anxiety became my reality. During the early weeks after his birth, I ate bad tuna and paid for it. Combined with too many antibiotics from recurrent mastitis. What I ended up with was a broken digestive system keeping me secluded at home, exhausted and tired.

Alone.

Strange skin rashes, blood shot eyes, fatigue and joint pain followed. The body I’d had felt confident in as a Pilates instructor, was now a foreign place I occupied to care for my son.

One Fall day I woke with the familiar stomach pains, nausea, exhaustion and sadness. It was Friday and I was to lead a Mom’s group at church. With minimal energy I strapped my son into the Ergo and headed for the subway station. After staggering down two blocks I caved.

We’d gone as far as we could.

My pride took a hit. I called my pastor saying I was too sick to come. I had nothing to give. The state of physical and mental health drained every bit from me to show up for these fellow young moms. I wanted to be there. Even more to encourage them in the same way I so badly needed needed encouragement.

But there lied the problem. I was serving from a place of weakness, not strength. Over the next few years, I made many changes. Dietary, fitness, mental, spiritual and relational.

With the Lord’s guidance, rooted in the Word, I slowly rebooted my health.

For this reason, I created Peaceful Body and Beauty blog. I hope to help Christian Moms live a sustainable healthy life. We’re called to give, care for and serve our families and the world around us. But we can only walk that out when we’re healthy and well first. Knowing biblical truth on health is our foundation for living a vibrant healthy life.