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

Prayers for everyone on here.

Please pray for DGodS who has an autism spectrum disorder but does not want to accept the support that he is being given. He's 16 and feels that everyone is stupid and that they are the ones with problems not him. His parents think his perspective is understandable but it does not make the problem any easier to cope with and it doesn't help in his relationship to school. THe situation is affecting the entire family, especially his younger sister.

BES at dog eating ring. No dog in our house. THanks for prayers. Slept ppretty OK last night. Have been able to arrange to take this morning off other duties in order to concentrate on preparation for the meeting this afternoon.

Gingercurl, I can kind of understand your dGodS's views, but yes, he needs to see things a little differently. I used to try to cope with autism by myself and got into so much trouble as a result, really. Much prayer around that.

Gingercurl - had a thought re your engagement ring. My Mum lost hers years ago at my Gran's house. We didn't find it and had to return home. A few weeks later we were visiting my Gran again and when we were leaving she came to the doorstep and took a few steps outside while waving goodbye. We heard a sound from her slipper as she walked on the front step and it turned out that she had stood on the ring and it had been embedded in her slipper the whole time. My Mum was so relieved and I don't think the ring had suffered much if any damage. May be worth checking all the slippers in the house incase the same thing has happened to you. Praying that the meeting will go well.

Mangomay - great news about your friend's DH and your mole. I think it is perfectly normal to feel relief and to celebrate it as good news. I had a couple of abnormal smear tests and felt such relief too when I finally got a normal one. I'm sorry to hear about your friend and the car crash. Praying that he will find some peace.

Right - back to work. My project for today is to make a pair of curtains and I've not even finished one yet.

Praise God and thank you for all your prayers and support. THe meeting went much better than I had fear/expected. She (the "rotweiler") had received some good news this morning and was in a good mood which helped. And, for once, she didn't seem to be out to put me on the spot adn make me feel like an idiot. She highlighted some issues, which I fully agree with, and was very constructive and positive in the way she suggested they could be addressed which was really good. I know she is very good at her job, it's a pity she's so often in a foul mood. She actually just about admitted as much just before the meeting started. Thank you all once again.

gingercurl I don't know what denomination you are but in our family (we're Anglican) we always ask St. Anthony (patron Saint of lost things) for his help when we have lost something very precious. It genuinely works for us. When DD lost her very special bunny for 3 days, I asked St Anthony. Moments later, I checked in a bag I had checked at least 5 times before and lo and behold, there was Benny Bunny, scrunched up in the bottom under a vest. He doesn't magically make said lost item appear in front of you, its more that you seem to gain the clarity of thought needed to remember where it last was. Or occasionally you just stumble across it. It has worked for lost glasses, missing shoes, misplaced jewellery....any number of things. I tend to only use it for really important things, I should imagine St Anthony is far too busy to be finding our lost pens or spare change. :)
Give it a go.

mangomay, praying for your friend who was in the car crash :(

ginger curl. glad it was ok. did pray.

mangomay, I don't know about st antony being too busy but God seems to be able to locate the lost hairbrush and/or the lost comb at 7.55 on maany a morning. (and that must be a really busy time of day for lost book bags combs socks hairslides shoes pe kits water bottles uniform if our house is anything to go by) i reckon that if he can keep track of how many hairs are on your head and subtract a fair number when the hair brush is actually foiund and used, then he can keep track of where a pesky toddler has flung the hairbrush with the cushions off the sofa. (favourite game is throwing everything off the sofa) (that and knocking the hairbrush off the cupboard onto the sofa in the first place) of course counting the hairs on some peoples heads is eaier than others, mentioning no names amber How are you feeling by the way? still ?

Ginger curl have you looked in any carrier bags/bags that had been brought in at the same time? uunder the microwave?

Hello. I have not been on here for a long time (trying to limit internet time in order to focus on work, as I work from home and on the computer, so it's sooooo easy to get sucked in and waste loads of valuable work time). It doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about you and praying. Will catch up with the thread now, but just wanted to report back on some prayers answered.

Dd2 has been coming to church with me and loving it since we came back to the UK in January, but dd1 has insisted that she doesn't believe in God and prefers to stay at home with (atheist) dh. Anyway this week, finally, she agreed to come with us. (Admittedly this was partly because she had a book token she wanted to spend and I said we could go to Waterstones after the service, but I figured that a small amount of bribery was OK...) She had a great time: Junior Church had a good discussion about exclusion and what could be done to address it, and dd1 came back in and reported back on what they'd been talking about to the whole congregation (virtually snatching the microphone from the Bishop in her eagerness and ). She then went to the coffee session after the service and stuffed her face with ginger nuts, and was promptly asked if she'd read a prayer at next week's Mother's Day service, to which she happily agreed (so tacitly confirming that she was happy to be there next week too!). Several people complimented her on how well she spoke in the service (she is a very gobby confident child when it comes to speaking in public) and she was lapping it up. So I think we can say that that was a success!

I have been praying that she would change her mind and come with us ever since we got back here and I am all now at how it has worked out.

Will catch up with the thread now, but know that you are all very much in my prayers.

tuo weyhey!

That's a lovely report of answered prayer TUO.

I'm adding my own prayers of thanksgiving as Bob and I both went to church today on our 40th wedding anniversary.
I am now waiting for people to turn up to our party in the possession of myriad cupcakes, kindly provided by two members of my knitting club.

happy anniversary Bob and DutchOma

Happy Anniversary, Oma. I hope you had a happy day.

I have now read through the whole thread, and am praying for everyone. Too many to name individually, but you are all in my thoughts and prayers.

Hi TUO. I've been wondering how you are. Great to hear about you DD.

Happy anniversary, DO and BoB.

Can I ask for prayers for Mary, who's not been very well the last few days?

Thank you all for you loving thoughts and prayers. We had a wonderful day, with more than twenty people turning up to the house and more than twenty cards, flowers, chocolates and an enormous fresh cream cake which has gone into the freezer to be used for the church's open house day on Thursday, together with all the brilliant cup cakes that were left over.

Praying for Mary, I wondered where she was.

hope you feel better soon mary

Praying for you Mary. Thought you had been a bit quiet. sending love.

Oh heck, slept through 38 flippin minutes of radio alarm before the emergency alarm went off.

how are you all today?

Morning all. Sorry that I@ haven't been around much recently. Apparently having 3 under 4 is a bit busy

DS is a poorly baby. Please will you pray for him and if anyone is about, please could you cast an eye over my thread about him?

Just had a look at your thread Swaliswan. I agree with the other posters - just say what you've said in the OP, could even print it out. Don't worry about being neurotic or your judgment, just set out the facts and the doctor will make the call. Praying that he recovers quickly, poor love. Good to see you on here :)

Mary how are you today?

Lots of people being quiet round here - Poppy, Caz, TACP, cd, mufti and lots of others. Praying for all.

Health bad today - would appreciate prayers. Lungs being norty.

Praying Swaliswan, you're not neurotic! The GP would far rather see you with a small baby than not in this situation x

Lots of prayers...

I'm ok thanks . Can't taste much and a bit tired if I overdo things, but slept well and feel fine. Phew.

SWalisan... would never have guessed 3 under 4 were busy..
popped over to your other thread, but a bit late. I have prayed for baby, and that the gp would be able to see what is wrong, that you would be aable to think clearly to make decisions and you would be able to talk clearly to the gp.

Madhair, sorry to hear that your lungs are not cooperating today. prayed that you will feel better. how is the moving organisation going?

Tacp how are you ? still praying for new neighbours

Caz, are you still feeling poorly? I hope all is going well with baby.

Mary, I hope you are feeling better today.

Amber, praying for you too.

what a relief that you don't have to go back to hospital. I hope that he gets better soon swaliswan try to get some rest if they give you some peace. You'll get more done after some sleep rather trying to battle through.

Thank you for prayers. Still a bit groggy and not up to reading/posting much, I've had a nasty viral bug since last Thursday, and its still giving me a bit of bother, although today has been a better day. Just got up from a sleep, but still feeling a little dizzy. DS has now come down with it as well :(. The knee op went well though, am hopping around like a mad bunny!