MN Christian Prayer Request Thread: Spring is Sprung (ish) Prayers for new life and Phoenices to Rise Out of Ashes ;-)

[CaptainDippy]

I hope LibraPoppyGirl doesn't mind, but seeing as she sort of "did" a summary for me; I thought I would use her words to start a new thread as the last one was getting pretty long!

It was interesting to find out what the Plural of Phoenix was at the same time - Apparently that's derives from the original Latin - same as Matrix and Matrices. So there you go!! You learn something new everyday.

Prayers for LibraPoppyGirl as well - as she seeks refuge in the ... erm ... refuge and looks to a safe future with her precious family. Protect her, Lord and show her the way she should walk .....

Japan Heavenly Father, watch over your people who are affected by the terrible natural disasters, that have happened in Japan. Lord give them love and strength, to deal with such horrific times. We pray to your Lord, to look after those who have survived and give of your great self, to those who have lost loved ones. In the name of your Son Jesus Christ, Amen x

Ken Prayers that you find the right motivation to write the words you need to, prayers for wisdom and knowledge at this time for your.

Caz Prayers for strength for you for help in dealing with these emotions you are going through. Prayers of thanks for your much wanted and loved unborn baby and prayers for Belle and her beauty, for blessing you with her life, which has led to your soon to be born. Love and strength asked for you Caz.

bes Prayers for you bes as you empathise with Caz, bringing your own memories to the fore.

Also praying that you do not lose the computer and that you are able to keep the one you have. smile. Lord we pray for our sister, give her the love from you, that safety from you to give her the strength to deal with these difficult times. In Jesus name, Amen xx

Mufti Also praying for you and your shared memories with Caz and bes x

amber prayers for you too and your shared memories of your shared experiences. Love and praise to God for the love he has shown in carrying you all, through your grief x

Caroline Prayers for your Mum's health and that she can see the way through the problems she is experiencing at work. Prayers for the safety of her job. Prayers aplenty to for you and your DD's.

DutchOma Praying for you Dutch and giving thanks for your kind words to me. Thank you smile. Praise to God indeed for his guidance through Bob's hospital appointments. We pray Lord that you will give wisdom to the doctors treating Bob, guide them to the places where they will find the right answers Lord. Give them the capacity to learn something new, that could help your son Bob. We pray for the blood results to be helpful. In your sons name Lord, Amen xx

mhd Giving thanks and praise to our God for your continued support and love. Prayers for you and your family, may you always know God's love and the path he has chosen for you. Please keep praying for me, DS and bump smile xx

CaptainDippy As always thanks and praise for the love and prayers you have said for us and for your support for me. Prayers for you, for your health and for your family. How is DD1? Heavenly Father, take of this family of yours Lord. They are precious indeed. Amen xx (DD1 is taking anti-biotics and is doing better, hoping this is the beginning of the end - light at the end of the tunnel ) Prayers for CD's foster mum who is coping with a DX of Atrial Fibrillation and the implications this has for the rest of her life. Prayers too for CD's friend's sister who is in hospital after a horrific car crash. The future is not looking too hopeful so recent brain stem tests have revealed only the top half of her brain is working - meaning that she may end of not having any control over her body whatsoever; but still being being to think and understand everyone going on around her Prayers for her family and friends at this terrible time, esp her DH and 2 gorgeous DD's (5 and 7)

LOTM Hope you are still around, I may be wrong but haven't see you for a few days. Prayers for you LOTM, have you found the guidance you were praying for? Prayers for you and your desire to be of service of others, as the Lord intended. Amen x

TACP Praise for your prayers for me and mine and for your love and support. God Bless you TACP x
What's occurring with you? Prayers for you x

mangomay How are you? How is Church going? Prayers to our God for his guidance, to help you find the spiritual home that is waiting for you at this time. How is your friend's DH and DDs?

Lord we ask that you give mangomay and DH the wisdom and knowledge to find their way onto the path you have made for them. Lord help them to find in their hearts the right place for them. Amen x

Monty27 Prayers for you, as you accompany your friend down this hardest of paths. Lord please take of care of this dear child of yours. Heal her from her pneumonia and make her well enough to be able to have the treatment she needs, for her breast cancer. Lord we ask you to take special care of this woman, and give her the knowledge of your love and the true knowledge of your Son and his sacrifice made for us, so that we may come through the Son, to Our Father. Take good care of our sister Father. Amen x

MaryBS Thanks and praise, as always, for your support and helpful and kind words. Thank you.

How are you? Prayers for your family. Lord take good care of them, always showing your love Lord. Amen x

PA Praying that you and things in your life are better x.

jaffacakes How are you? Prayers and love for you x.

tunnocksteacake Praying that you have a safe and successful pregnancy x.

Thank you LPG and GET PRAYING ALL

Praying for Caz too

oh caz it's terrible feeling so bad physically and wanting that to stop, yet knowing that it could stop for the wrong reason. i fear that it will be a very long pregnancy for you, with lots of mixed emotions.

tacp. praying for a replacement diyer. if the neighbours make a lot of noise at night at least you can get revenge with 2 small tornados in the morrning (oh so sympathetic me huh? ) and if the neighbours complain, " ah well they get stroppy when they are tired after being kept awake" seriously I have prayed. noises at night are particulrly scary when you are on your own and there is no chance to catch up on sleep.

Pa poor dd. I hope that you can find a way to reassure her. Could she have her own cupboard of food somewhere that she has control over?

been praying whilst soaking toe. scared cos it has gone red and it hurts. i wish the nail would come right off and then it would heal over. DO NOT want to have it tken off as i am a big woosy whining wimp

Hope the GP can at the least bandage the toe up better for you and prescribe some good pain killers BES.

hello ladies (waves)
Can i ask people to please pray for my neice and family? Her mum has learning difficulties and took dangerous drugs during pregnancy (they are for underlying medical conditions) which has left my neice with severe epilespy and possible brain damage. She is 3 months and has been home for a while but has resummed pretty much constant fitting so is back in hospital. The prognois is not good tbh as no one really knows the extent of the damage. My dp is struggling to support his sister through this so he needs prayers as well as he currently blames her for taking the meds while pregnant.
Thanks

Hello MAP, your poor niece and her family, what a horrible situation :( Praying.

Mary, love those posters, do you know if you can get e-copies of them at all, trying to drag together an AV good Friday presentation and they are what I am looking for :)

Had our DCC meeting last night and had to lead a discussion about worship renewal ideas - so much negativity and resistance to any kind of change, however small. Sigh. I got pretty upset actually as there was so much resistance and quite aggressively so - so Mary, I am with you and know what you mean, horrible isn't it :( Still, have to keep trying, and some are really up for it. I'm not asking them to change from traditional to raving charismatic in one sunday just small suggestions like booklets and words on the screen. Aaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhhhh

Prayers aplenty for all.

Prayers of praise here - co-ran an RE session about Easter for a local primary school and it was brilliant.

Prayers of 'do get a grip girl' would be appreciated because my hair has actually started falling out and I was shocked, which is silly because of course it will and I knew this and it's why I got the wig and some hats. Silly Amber.

Amber glad the re went well. Sorry about your hair. knowing it is going to happen and watching it actually happening are 2 differrent things. prayers.

Sorry mary, only just realised it is tuesday. der. got a cold and it has obviously got to my brain. der. have prayed now though. that people would think clerly, and discussions would be clear and concise. that people will be chosen that will choose the right person for the job

today is day for surviving as we are all poorly with colds. children have been fed watered changed aand cuddled and that is about it. not made it to the gp. (sigh)

mhd What does dcc mean? added you in with marys prayers.

Jaffa, how are you this week?

I don't know if this will work but my good friend on fb is loosing her hair with her chemo and she did some photos with different looks and her friends voted on them. It really encouraged her and she looked awesome: www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150115645196345&id=545816344&ref=notif&notif_t=feed_comment_reply#!/photo.php?fbid=10150192602783066&set=a.10150192576328066.372326.704998065 I guess access will depend on her privacy settings Be nice if you could see them Amber.

Hey all

Oh, my heart breaks for your preciuos DD4 PA. Prayers for healing for her body and mind; and for you and your DH as you cope with the fall out of such awful neglect and abuse. xx

Welcome M&P - Prayers for your niece and her little one. xx

For those who were praying for my friend and her DP who had been diagnosed with cancer the week after their 3rd child was born - I wanted to let you know yesterday he was told he was now cancer free after 6 lots of chemo plus a spinal chemo. :) praising God. He now has 3 more spinal chemo to go and then I guess he will be officially in remission and just needing check ups rather than the treatment which has made him so poorly and made him lose his hair. But he's alive and the cancer has gone! :)

Thanks BES, it proved to be better than expected (praise God!), but as for the right person, I'm now one of the parish reps... .

Caz, that's fantastic news re: your friend's DP :). A dear friend, S, is currently undergoing treatment for spinal cancer. If we could pray for her please, it would be great.

Also for our lovely retired priest, who has been ill since January, but has just been diagnosed with inoperable throat cancer :(. He has been hugely influential in my ministry, and will be a great loss :(. For his famiy also...

MHD, those posters may be available for download elsewhere on the site (from what I could see, there is a DVD, but that seems to be for a 'ready to play' meditation'), or you could try googling "stations cross turvey abbey", or I could take digital pictures of our posters, if that would help.

So good to have this positive news about your friend Caz and good news from Mary too.

I have been tryingfor nearly a week to get transport from Northampton to the Brompton Hospital on 30th March when Bob needs to be in for two days and getting absolutely nowhere. I'm getting very tired and not a little bit nervous. In my head I know that God will have the solution to this problem, but I can't see it and that is quite hard.

Prayers aplenty.

Can't open that link, TACP - she might have her security settings on 'high', I guess?

Praying for all.

Is there anyone at your church who can help, DO? It must be so hard for you both!

Nobody has come forward so far and I find it very hard to trawl around. My problem I know.
We have now been in touch with the Brompton and they say our GP needs to ask for a form so they can organise transport. Another tour of the carousel, but at least not yet a brick wall.

Morning all

BES, DCC means District Church Council

DO I wish I could help, praying that you will find the solution, have the hosp transport been crap? :(

Mary, couldn't find those posters for download on the site, only some dvd's which is a shame, unless I'm looking in the wrong place. Not sure if digital pics of them would work but you could have a go and see if you want, thanks ever so much! Otherwise will find some other images :)

Caz brilliant news about your friend!

Amber you are so brave. Of course it's no small thing and you're allowed to feel sad and shocked by it, I certainly would. Hugs, and prayers for you.

MHD yes, our hospital patient transport services have said that unless he is unable to get in and out of a car he is not entitled to transport.

Nope, no bravery here. But I do a good line in being mad/determined/falling about laughing sooner or later. But the hugs and prayers are still very welcome right now.
DO it is outrageous that they are refusing transport from hospital patient services. Shocking.
Prayers aplenty for a solution of some kind, fast.

There are always the Sieger Koder pictures MHD - you can download the image from here:

www.pauline-uk.org/productgroup2.asp?id=1934

Is there one in particular you'd like an image of (the Turvey abbey ones)?

this one is downloadable

Have you tried superglue Amber? (only works if you like the tufty look)

Hey, that's an idea!