MN Christian Prayer Request Thread: All Welcome!!!! ;-D

[CaptainDippy]

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Well here's the Round-Up from the last thread for you all:

DutchOma - Prayers for DO's lovely friend Margaret who lost her DH a while ago. She came home from a time away to find her house has been broken into and burgled. She was understandably very shaken. Prayers for DO's DH, Bob who has been rather over-doing things later & is not in the best health.

Spiritmum - Prayers for her DF's baby who has been DX with skin cancer

MaryBS - Prayers for poor Mary who has some health worries recently & for her lovely DD who has had bullying issues at school. Prayers for Mary as she deals with news that her Vicar is leaving the Parish. Also for the aftermath of a car accident, which left Mary's car written off and her mum with a broken bone in her hand.

Amber - Has been through a really horrid time in the last couple of days. Surround her with love. Prayers for her DS' eyesight problems and for her DH in his recovery ofter a Gall Bladder op. Prayers too for someone Mary knew, M, who took his own life a couple of weeks ago.

CazEm - Joined us in Sept. Caz had a beautiful stillborn baby girl called Belle in June this year. She would like prayers for her DF whose DH has been DX with Bone Cancer. The cancer is spreading and the couple have a very young family Also prayers for Caz's DH who has been experiencing a loss of feeling in his hands and is being investigated to try and find out what is wrong.

PositiveAttitude - Prayers for PA as she faces an op to remove a growing benign tumour on the side of her face on Nov 13th. Prayers for her DD who has ME/CFS and is really struggling with College.

MadHairDay - Has just finished doing a "Just Looking" style Coffee Course for mums, prayers for all those who attended. MHD's health really isn't great at the moment. Prayers for two of her DF's - One has recently been admitted to hospital with severe head pain, but no real cause was found. The other's DD is anorexic and has been in hospital being tube-fed - very very poorly Prayers also for her DF's DD and Grandson (2) who were recently admitted to hospital. The mum had a suspected blood clot on her brain, but is now ok. The son is already severely disabled and now requires an operation.

Saliswan - Pregnancy is going well and her and her household are all good

Gingercurl - Prayers needed for DSis's complicated job situ - she recently handed in her resignation & is contemplating job offers. Prayers for gingercurl who is studying for a Decorate & is struggling with balancing everything!

Teandcakeplease - Her nephew Noah was born quite prem and has been in hospital quite some time. He is now home and breast-feeding ; but requires an op for a inguinal hernia. Prayers for TACPs' DD who has been having bad dreams of late; and for TACP herself who has just been put on AntiD's. x

Soooooz - Boinged by Prayers for the Godmother of her lovely DTs who has just broken up with her partner of 3 yrs, just before her 21st B'day

MaMoTTaT - Prayers for a poss career idea which is just beginning to take shape ......

Hermya - Gave birth to baby Asher on 24th* Oct at 10:55am, weighing 8lb 3oz!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! She also seeks prayers for a DF whose niece died last month, circumstances unknown.

agingmummmyoftwins Has recently been told that her sister is in hospital and is unlikely to recover

TooBlessedToBeStressed - Has an imminent exam looming and is frantically studying!!!! (Stressed yet!!? )

Namechanger - Popped by to ask for prayers for her DF's DS (5) who unexpectedly collapsed and has had to have a heart bypass and remains unconscious while doctors try to figure out what is wrong with him

CaptainDippy - Prayers for a DF who has had her baby 12 weeks early!! Baby and mum doing ok, but a long way to go yet ...

Has Shieldbug had her baby!!!!??? Judging from her absence, I hope so!!!! Come back soon and tell us!!

Cover us all with a "Duvet of Prayer" .....

More prayers for all...

MrsC Bob and I always repeat that last verse in the (amended) King James version "Sufficient onto the day is the weevil thereof".
On the boyfront, have you read "How to speak so that kids will listen", or some such title? I read it when mine were out of teenage years, but wish I could have had it to deal with their challenging behaviour.

I have phoned the hospital this morning and they said he had a good night and slept really, really well, so praise God. I slept but had weird and wonderful dreams

Morning all. Today is another day and I am determined to have positive thoughts today! Praying for everyone as I have read down the thread.
Im praying God is looking after our new bean. Hopefully it's a fighter and it's current accommodation is 5 star and we will grow and be healthy. I don't think I've ever felt so alone. So thank you for your lovely welcome.
Hope Friday is a better day for all.

DO Thank you - no, I haven't read that book but do keep meaning to as so many people have recommended it to me! I must get hold of a copy! I also need to track down my copy of 'Raising Boys' - I have lent it to someone and cannot remember who

I'm so glad Bob had a good night.

pipplin you are never alone :)

Good to hear about Bob, DO.

Pipplin, welcome here and prayers for your bean!

Katsh - you have mede me feel very special, being stalked!! Yay!! I feel as if I have made it on MN and am not so boring!!! Prayers for you.

Well, just needed to share something with you all, which has just made me more than a bit . And I even put the phone down and said "stone the crows!!".
MIL has just phoned me to wish me well for tomorrow. She and I have a hate/hate relationship. We dont speak, we avoid each other like the plague and I have not stepped foot in their house for 10 years. She is very anti-Christian and has accused me of being the devil's spawn for encouraging DH to go to church. Wont discuss our faith at all, and refused to come to DHs baptism 10 years ago.
Anyway, she has just been asking about how my faith has helped me through this time. She said she recognised that it must be really important to me, and she thought there must be something in it, for me to rely on it at a time like this. She finished by saying that it works for some, but not for her. BUT this is a humungous step!!! I cant believe it. I would say it is the best conversation we have had in over 19 years!! SOme nuts are hard to crack, but maybe she has a heart crack after all!!

Feeling very calm today. Really not nervous. Probably wont be back until I ma out of hospital, so have a good weekend everyone and will pop back on when I get home.

Hallelujah that's all I can say PA

Praying for everyone as I read through.

Hello Pipplin and Katsh and welcome. I'd been lurking here for ages before I finally made myself known only a few weeks ago. Now I find myself dipping in and out a couple of times a day. Prayers for you both.

PA have been praying for you this week. God is with you in this. Interesting development with your MIL.

Thanks for the update DO. Keeping prayers going.

Praying for you and your son MrsC I have that book and have found it very useful. Another one that has helped me an awful lot is "When kids push your buttons" (or something similar). I find the two books sort of complement each other with one sort of giving the foundations for the other.

Ds is finding herself isolated at work now. People that she's been working with for over a decade, some of which she considered her friends, won't talk to her. Others are are turning against her and speculating/spreading lies about her.

Thanks for your prayers everyone. I don't know where anything is heading at the moment, so you may be right Tooblessed.

That's brilliant PA :) Praying for you muchly at the moment, that you will experience God's peace and presence in a huge way over the next few days. xx

Hi Katsh - welcome.

Pipplin - God is with you, praying that you feel that and know you're not alone.

MrsC praying for you with your son. My 10 yr old dd is also v v challenging and been meaning to get the how to talk book.

I'm still feeling grotty with a cold but it's not developed to a chest infection so that's fantastic :)

Hello all,

PA will be thinking and praying for you over the weekend.

DO Good to hear your DH has been moved onto another ward. I pray he continues to do well.

MrsC Thank you for that verse. It is so important to remember, and exactly what I need to remember right now.

Welcome to Pipplin Wishing you a gentle and safe 9 months.

Amber hope your social worker can offer you all the help you need.

Things here are okish. I've done 3 mornings in work this week. I'm shattered but I'm doing ok. Had a mini panic on the way to work Wednesday but have been ok since. I thought it was all going to move too slowly for me, but I obviously really need this slow return. And keeping with the decision for me going part-time (I had arranged to go back part time after my maternity leave, but was offered to keep my full time after Belle died, but decided to stick with our decision of part time anyway), was the right one. I think I'm a long way off coping with a full week of work.

DH is having his 2nd lumber puncture on Monday. Please keep him in your prayers.

Hello All,

Please can I ask you all for some urgent prayer? I'm not well and haven't been for a while. I'm waiting to see an obstetrician and a gastroenterologist. In the meantime my GP won't treat me and I'm getting more poorly. I'm struggling to look after the children. I'm starting to get really desperate and feel like there is no where left to turn to for help. I'm also scared about the effect it may have on my pregnancy and don't want to get to a stage of being hospitalised to get any help and get better.

Sorry that I'm not bringing more positive news. DH is being fab though but we can't sustain me being this ill forever with the children to look after.

SS - praying (I think, prayer not coming easily).

Could also do with urgent prayer. More things than I can cope with at the moment. Something will have to give. The way I feel, it will be ministry. Can't pretend what I don't feel.

Prayers for you SS. how far gone are you now?

Praying lots for you SS and Mary

Praying Mary and SS.

Also praying for PA for tomorrow.

TACP I keep meaning to ask how you are at the moment? Hope you are well.

There's so much happening to everyone on here at the moment. Praying for SS and Pipplin and your little ones. Prayers also for PA and DO and her husband. Also Amber and Caz.

Unfortunately Bob was not very good when I saw him this afternoon.He was no longer in the sideward, but on the main ward, a bay with six beds, noisy and hot as before. I don't want to do a lot of moaning, but please pray for a peaceful night for him. His version of events was slightly different from that of the nurse this morning.

Mrs C - I'm OK Just spending too much time elsewhere on mumsnet But I am lurking.

And praying. Sorry that's the most important part

SS I'm so sorry to hear about your Crohn's disease flaring up Are you 32 weeks now? When is your next appointment?

Praying especially for PositiveAttitude, Amber and Mary
And all others in need of knowing that "underneath are the everlasting arms"

Mrs C The book DO mentioned is very good I own it too

Hmmmm I am slightly nervous about this so have namechanged. I was brought up as a Christian and lost my faith about 8 years ago. Every now and then I get an urge to go back to it, but I'm nervous about it. Was brought up in a very strict household (and not very nurturing - lots of isses that made it difficult for my parents) where some of the ridiculous rules were just my parents personal fears which were dressed up as Christianity.

I then spent years gaining approval by being one of the "inner sanctum" (as I call it) at church, leading music, prayer groups etc. But now I recoil from this kind of environment because it feels fake, intense and disconnected from the real world.

I'd like to have a faith again. But there's something getting in the way. I think I believe in a loving God and Jesus and the cross being the way to salvation (I have also had years of theology training all through my teenage years, I feel like I know it all - at least in my head) - but don't want to just want to believe it, if that makes sense.

I can't talk to my family about it because it feels too wierd. Also, I don't have a church to go to anymore, because I'm nervous that I can't commit so don't want to just pop up to my old one and then disappear again.

Would you lovely people mind adding a prayer for me?

We need to unite in prayer. There is so much trouble about that I am sure this is a spiritual attack. I don't say that lightly.
One thing I have learned is that I may not be able to pray, but praise is an act of the will. "I WILL praise the Lord and I will NOT forget any of his benefits.

DO I think that you are right. It does seem like there is a lot going on more than usual. Was reading this last night:

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Cor 4)

Just sometimes need to think outside all the rubbish and look to what we are hoping for in the end.

Hi TentativeSteps Of course I'll pray for you. So glad you've felt able to come and ask for this here. If you want to talk things through we're here.

PA especially praying for you today although you've probably set off by now. xx

Hope everyone else ok...praying.

Thank you madhair. Appreciated.