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

Am lurking and praying too.

Please keep DD's friend E in your prayers. She is still being fed by tube, even though she wants to start eating again - but she kept sicking her tube up, and the Drs have got tough with her. Mum is at her wits end with it all...

praying too...

Prayers from me too. Especially for E, Mary. It must be heartbreaking for her mum.

DD3 has just had her first trip to a theme park with her college group today, first time she has been well enough to go for the past 3 years. She has managed the day, will probably be very unwell now for about a week, but felt it was going to be worth it. BUT unfortunately she had her mobile phone stolen while there . Please remember her over the coming days as she is going to really struggle physically, but it is a real answer to prayer that she has been well enough today to be a "normal" 16 year old for a whole day trip! The added stress of having her phone stolen is going to knock her more, too.

Oh rubbish for your DD, PA; but glad she made it out for the day

Am absolutely zonked this evening ..... need to go to bed .....

They nicked her phone? Oh goodness me, what are people like??!
Prayers, definitely

And for everyone else here...

Thank you. I was a bit worried about asking for prayer for that, but to a teenager who was housebound for over a year (only bed/sofa for 6 months) and has such a restricted life anyway, and has lost all her school friends because of being ill, it is her lifeline to the outside world!
She is still very happily with her boyfriend, and I think it is amazing that an 18 year old lad wants to stick with someone who cant have a social life, but he is lovely and really caring. - and she is stunningly beautiful, so he is proud and very happy too.

PA, prayers said. Don't worry about what to pray, St Paul tells us, so you shouldn't worry about this. God hears all, and he knows your daughter's needs better than any of us.

Thank you, everyone. I know other people are having tough times too and I am sure this thread brings much comfort to you all. It certainly does to me - and one unexpected side-effect of my being ill is that I have found out that more of my friends believe in prayer than I knew!

All dates now sorted out - I was waiting for the date for my PET CT scan and that has come through for Thursday 19th, so it's all now in the hands of the NHS. I know that God will guide them as they look after me and that He will take care of me.

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. ? Julian of Norwich

Glad things are getting sorted Sweetest, and prayers for you...

That quote from Julian of Norwich has immense significance for me. Also there's a lovely praise song which goes (the youtube versions of it are useless)

Father in my life I see
You are God who walks with me
You hold my life in your hand
Close beside you I will stand
I give all my life to you
Help me Father to be true

(verse 2, replace Father with Jesus, verse 3, Spirit)

God walks with you, as he walks with all of us, and at our pace, not his... xxx

Hi Sweetestthing. Prayers for you at this time.

Prayers for everyone else too at this time

If you are lurking, Caz, praying for you too.

Anyone heard how Libra is getting on?

Prayers of thanks from me and DD2 . Her ongoing saga of being carless.... Just to add insult to injury she was mega annoyed with her boyfriend who, on Friday at 12.20 AM arrived at our home in a different car saying he had got a new car and did she like it! She was really huffy with him for waking her up at a stupid time and thought he was being really insensitive about the whole car issue as she so needs one! ANyway, today he has turned up in "his" new car and handed over the keys as a gift to DD2!! He had it planned all the time, but wanted to surprise her, but he also had wanted to know what she thought about the actual car before he gave it to her, hence the midnight visit. I am surprised he put up with her being so un enthusiastic and not covering her unhappiness about the situation. He must be a saint in love as she was 'orrible!!

Also, DD3 has a new phone thanks to Orange! Very good service!! I paid a one-off insurance premium and within 18 hours we had a new phone delivered to the house! She is happy again and feels as if she has part of her body returned. Also she has not suffered as much as we had feared following her day trip, so far.

Hello to you all and prayers for this week, especially for those with a special need of God's touch.

Wow That's all I can say PA How prayer works.

Pa, i am with dd too, i would have been 'orrible if someione woke me up.. hope she grovelled apologised and thanked him..

well, i am back safely, thank God. I sent to church whilst away, only to be faced with service based on marriage and the sermon mentioned 10 things that don't help a marriage gro strong... though they didn't mention violence or adultery for that matter... not the easiest service wrestling with a small noisy boy who won't go out to creche on his own listening toa sermon on marriage ..

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:) PA, how lovely!

BES - that must have been tough. Am a bit :( they bottled out of mentioning adultery and violence, but at least they didn't suggest you should stay in a marriage at all costs. God be with you, it sound like it felt hard to sit through

mary, they made no mention of leaving, it as all women submit to husbands and husbands treat your wife with respect... a bit errrm strange and i am still getting my head round it.

Hello sweetest, how are you doing today?

amber has had a meeting with the alphabet?

( a big cheese? a bolshy curate? a baboons cousin? )

AAnother phone issue, mine seems to have stopped working and i am worried. i like it for security, h is behaving ok at the moment but i like to have it available in case I need to call the police so am a bit nervous. saw him on holiday and had it with me when we met up with the children, think it may have had a nasty accident with sand...

BES, I have meetings with A Bolshy Curate every day

That sermon must have been hard going. I find it difficult to understand the way churches do things sometimes without regard for real people and real feelings

PA great news for DD2 though yes midnight wake up somewhat eccentric!

Mary how are you?

Please can you pray for dd, I am a bit worried about her. She is complaining of headaches and tiredness and is really stroppy all the time.

BES, love the suggestions but I think he prefers Archbishop of Canterbury though I've certainly encountered a few of the alternative versions!!

Just back off much needed and lovely weekend away with dh so catching up.
Prayers for all...

... see i knew it would be something

phone fixed (ludite) something simple but upset because i should have known...

BES, the way some Christians are some times! It's as if they choose to think that there are no such thing as abusive christian spouses. I remember having a lengthy discussion once with a lovely music leader where I argued that I'd rather marry a tolerant and loving atheist than a bigoted bully of a Christian. Her answer was that if he was a bigoted bully he couldn't be a christian in the first place.
Ignore them. They speak of what they know not. Unfortunately, a lot of such rubbish have been spouted by so called "men of God" over the years. God knows you and what you've been through. He loves you and does not condemn or judge you. He does not want you or your children to be abused or live in fear or insecurity or under threat.
When I'm in a charitable mood, I pray for people like the one you described, that they will be met with more compassion and empathy should they every be similar circumstances. Other times, I just seethe quietly and mutter under my breath.

Prayers continuing.

meantime I recommend the very decent policy on handling of domestic violence/abuse cases, available from the Church of England website (wot I wrote earlier with a group of fine individuals). Take a copy and chase whoever it is round the room with it until they jolly well read it.

BES - that can't have been at all easy to sit through. I think I'd have been tempted to let DS run wild and then use him as an excuse to leave. Praying your phone starts working soon.

Hello everyone - quick update: pre-op assessment today, everything fine except blood pressure raised (hardly that surprising!) so that is being re-checked on Friday. Consultant very reassuring and we both felt a lot better after talking to him, even though the after-effects of the surgery (loss of facial nerve, resulting in facial paralysis, not being able to close eye properly etc) aren't that great. Still, would rather that and get rid of this nasty invader. Vanity comes a very poor second in times like this!!

I told him that I had a fabulous support network and that I believe in the power of prayer and positive thoughts, and that I had both of those in abundance, and he said they were very important in terms of helping me deal with it, so that was a good confirmation of how amazing this thread is. Nice to have science supporting faith, don't you think?

We asked him what we could do to prepare me for the operation and he said "Eat, drink and be merry" so DH and I went for a walk and stopped off for a glass of wine on the way home :)

Thank you everyone for your continued prayers and thoughts. They really work!

I have been saying general prayers for everyone on this lovely thread. I know our Lord hears us and responds.

Wonderful to 'see' you so positive SweetestThing. Hopefully the operation will work out well and all the cancer will be gone.

I had a beautiful bouquet of flowers today, instigated by my youngest sister-in-law in Holland and organised by ds in Wellingborough.

I see amber isn't a 'sit at the back with raffia' sort of person, i do admire people who can write things like that.. mmm might pop a copy in the post to the church I went too... when I get chance to have a look at the website.... one person did pray for people who have difficulties in their marriage though and they are a lovely welcoming church.

haven't told our church what happened.. h is lovely (if a bit lacking in common sense with regard to safety) apart from when we row and he lashes out.. it is a bit strange to get your head round.

will try to get back to praying for people soon, been a bit tired... it is hard work taking children on holiday on your own, although harder sometimes when h was there, supervising him supervising (or not) the children.

it has been a toiugh day, going back to school, thinking the phone is broken, then not, then playing up again, then thinking i had lost my purse, then finding it, taking the children to tea with h... phew, shattered!

Hey all Survived a week with my mum visiting - phew - and survived DD2 and DD3's Joint Birthday Celebration on Sat - absolute riot and heaps of fun I found out that doing the "Okey Cokey" on a Bouncy Castle was more challenging than I was expecting - I am clearly not as fit young as I once was

Love and Prayers too all. xx

Anyone willing to do a summary and start a new thread? I am bit snowed under at the mo!!