Are you concerned about the chronic health problems that beset Americans, while people across much of the rest of the world enjoy good health? Are you alarmed about increasing cases of autism in children?

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And, does it seem odd to you that even healthy Americans seem to have to labor extra hard to achieve good health, while, in many countries, people are healthy without having to spend their lives in the gym?

If so, you’re not wrong—and your prayers are needed, because President Trump and his newly-installed Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., aim to provide real solutions for America through the Make America Healthy Again initiative.

What is “Make America Healthy Again”?

According to an April 4, 2025 article posted on the USDA website, the core tenets of President Trump’s vision for a healthy America are as follows:

“At the direction of President Trump, USDA and HHS are ensuring programs work harder to encourage healthy eating and lifestyle habits. As part of the MAHA Commission led by Secretary Kennedy, this work will not only research and report the many reasons children face unbelievable rates of diet-related disease like obesity and diabetes, but how government can implement change through things like revised dietary policy, state innovation, and less regulation.

This is the first of many collaborations between leaders at HHS and USDA to change the course of public health in the U.S.”

MAHA is a huge initiative that not only addresses sensational, hot-topic issues (like geoengineering of weather with chemtrails sprayed in the air, the safety of vaccines, and removing dyes/chemicals from food), but also is having to address governmental issues like catching fraudsters, finding and exposing corruption, and reducing bureaucratic overreach.

Secretary Kennedy and the HHS have been much in the news  because of major changes they are making to benefit Americans.

Here are just a few of the most recent updates of which you should be aware:

• On April 22, the HHS and FDA announced that it is putting a stop to the use of petroleum-based food dyes in commercially-made food.
  • Two of these food dyes—Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B—are being banned nearly immediately.
  • Six more petroleum-based food dyes—FD&C Green No. 3, FD&C Red No. 40, FD&C Yellow No. 5, FD&C Yellow No. 6, FD&C Blue No. 1, and FD&C Blue No. 2—must be removed from all processed food by the end of 2026.
  • Additional steps are being taken both to remove other additives and to approve the use of natural color additives where they are desired.
• On April 18, Kennedy wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that he had met with hospital CEOs and had learned about “perverse incentives” that are being offered to hospitals nationwide—incentives that are getting in the way of patient care. He has committed publicly to change that.
• Finding both a cause and a cure for autism has suddenly become a top priority for the HHS.
  • On April 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an alarming new study showing that “Autism prevalence in the U.S. has increased from 1 in 36 children to 1 in 31” and that “Prevalence for boys is an astounding 1 in 20 and in California it’s 1 in 12.5.” The study also reveals stark disparities among ethnic groups. (Find a summary of key takeaways from that study in the HHS’s press release about it here.)
  • Secretary Kennedy has put together a team of scientists to focus on this and produce results for the American people by September.
• In an effort to streamline his department and reduce fiscal waste, Kennedy has started the process of eliminating 20,000 redundant or unnecessary employees from the HHS, without reducing services provided to the taxpayer.
• Kennedy is encouraging state governors to remove unhealthy foods, such as sodas, from their states’ school lunch programs.

Additionally, in a letter to Americans published in the New York Post and on the HHS website on April 10, 2025, Secretary Kennedy shared the following disturbing information:

“Study after study shows that America spends more on health care than any other country in the world by a large margin. At HHS alone, we spend $1.7 trillion annually. This is nearly one-third of our entire federal budget and almost 7% of our country’s gross domestic product.

Despite this extravagant spending, our country’s health is declining. America has the highest rates of chronic disease in the world.

We rank last in terms of health among developed nations. And life expectancy is declining for many groups of Americans.”

Although you would think that these bold steps would earn Secretary Kennedy accolades everywhere, the opposite is true.

Unfortunately, the new HHS Secretary is having to deal with vitriol and hate being poured out at him from the left. He is working to improve the lives of both adults and children nationwide, but is being persecuted for it without cause. Friend, this man needs our prayers!

Are you willing to join together and intercede for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and all the work he and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) team are doing to turn America around in their sphere? I hope so!

Let’s pray as follows for Secretary Kennedy, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and MAHA:

1. Pray for Secretary Kennedy’s physical safety and health, and for that of his colleagues and family. A lot depends upon Kennedy’s personal leadership of HHS, and there are many who would love to see him removed from the scene.
2. Ask the Lord to give His wisdom, understanding, guidance, and direction to Kennedy and all of the HHS and FDA staff.
3. Pray that the MAHA initiatives would be able to proceed without hindrance–and without interference from activist judges or other bureaucrats who ought not to interfere.
4. Pray that real data would come to light to expose the truth about various areas of food and medicine that have been harming the American people, rather than healing the American people.
5. Pray that any corruption in the HHS, FDA, and its sister agencies would be exposed, rectified, and brought to justice.
6. Pray that food and drug companies would yield willingly to the new focus on health, and to the new laws that are being put forth governing food and medicine.
7. Pray that these companies would comply with the new, safer regulations faster than the official deadlines put forth by various governmental edicts, and that only healthy ingredients would be in our food going forward.
8. Ask the Lord to lead the HHS in its initiative to improve hospital care nationwide, and to reduce the burden of inefficient, ineffective federal administrative requirements for those hospitals.
9. Pray that the “perverse incentives” that Kennedy has mentioned publicly would be eliminated and exposed, with any criminals in these matters brought to justice.
10. Ask the Lord to give people “witty inventions” that produce cures for various epidemics facing both American children and adults, such as the epidemics of autism, cancer, obesity, and more.
11. Pray that any cures already known about in secret would come to light, and that those cures would become readily available to the American people.
12. Pray that those who have been injured by the corrupt food and drug supply chain would receive vindication and even compensation. Pray that, if any compensation is rendered, it would come out of the pockets of the corrupt corporate/governmental establishment, not out of the pockets of innocent Americans.
13. Pray that corruption and greed in the practice of medicine would be exposed and stopped—from the governmental level to the level of local hospitals and individual practitioners.
14. Pray that all employees at HHS and its various divisions who are not on board with making America healthy again will be eliminated, and that only employees who will advocate for the American people will be hired going forward.
15. Ask the Lord to mobilize state governors to take action as needed with public, subsidized benefits (such as school lunches and food stamps), to make them healthier again.

Friend, heads are rolling and changes are being made at all levels that impact the American people.

The MAHA initiative is no different. And even though one would think that everybody would get on board with eliminating poisons and curing children, sadly, that just hasn’t been the case. Secretary Kennedy and the MAHA staff need our prayers.

What other prayer points can you think of for these fierce advocates of American health? Leave your ideas in the comments below!

Jamie Rohrbaugh is the founder and CEO of From His Presence, a global discipleship ministry. She has written over 40 books, including The Way Forward: 10 Prayers for Your Journey Into the Promised Land, All Things New, Finding Deep Soul Healing 101, and Healing from Father Wounds. She seeks to equip you to carry God’s manifest glory everywhere you go. Her resources have been published by YouVersion Bible Plans, The Elijah List, Crosswalk, and various other ministry outlets. You can find free mentoring and encouragement on her website or YouTube channel. Download her free prayer tool, 25 Prayers That Will Build Your Life, here. Photo Credit: The White House.