Biblical Self-Care for Christian Moms: How to Care for Yourself Without Feeling Selfish [S6 E6]

Key Scriptures

Mark 6:31 – “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.”

Psalm 23:2–3 – “He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.”

1 Kings 19:5–8 – “Elijah fed and rested before returning to ministry: “Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.”

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 – “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”

Philippians 2:3–4 – “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”

2 Timothy 3:1–2 – “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,”

Luke 9:23 – “Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”

Matthew 22:39 – “And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Ephesians 5:29 – “After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—”

Galatians 6:2 – “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”

Galatians 6:5 – “for each one should carry their own load.”

Luke 5:16 – “But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.”

Mark 4:38 – “Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

John 6:15 – “Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.”

John 13:1 – “It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.”