Spring into Summer - Christian Prayer Thread

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It always amazes me to see the range of things we pray for: from praying for people with cancer at the one end of the range to praying for a lost telephone. With difficult mothers-in-law, marital difficulties and unfeeling fellow Christians all wrapped up in it somewhere.
And knowing with joyful certainty that God hears us all, that no request is too frivolous for Him and that He loves to hear our prayers.
So, I just want to pick out a few highlights to keep our prayers focussed:
We pray for Amberlight and Sweetestthing who are dealing with cancer. We commit the two of you to the care of our Lord and look forward to you sharing your progress with us. We are here for you, knowing how important praying friends are ? there is scientific evidence for this.

Then, there are a few of us struggling with health issues:- Madhairday and Gingercurl?s sister. I would also like to mention my dh, Bob, here. I so value your prayers because I find it very difficult to pray for myself and for him when the going gets tough.

BlackeyedSusan and Teaandcakeplease are both dealing with the break-up of their marriage and bringing up their children on their own. We pray for strength and also for the undivided support of the churches they belong to. Especially in BES? case we could wish for a bit more understanding.

With CazandBelle we rejoice over the latest scan and pray for peace of mind for the rest of the pregnancy. Do share your feelings with us Caz, if you are able.

PositiveAttitude brought two prayer requests concerning her dds. Dd2 was in a car crash a few weeks ago and really needed another car. Wonderfully, her boyfriend was able to come to her rescue. And dd3 lost her phone on a trip that was a miracle in itself after her recent illness. Here again, prayer was answered and a new phone supplied.

Dippy, we love you, thanks for prompting us to do a new summary. We grieve with you over the loss of friends, but rejoice over birthday parties and broody chickens.

Let?s pray.

WW - praying for your friend :(

ST I have followed your blog. You are a very brave lady.

Morning

I didn't get that job. Feeling strangely upset. It's so hard to get any kind of job when you are chronically sick. Then you get labelled a scrounger. Feeling crap about it all.

Good to see you katsh xx

Prayers for your friend WW xx

Prayers for all .... soooo busy .....

Don't be too sad about it MHD, lots of people are struggling to find jobs at the moment and its nothing to do with disability and/or chronic sickness. I know how you feel, when you don't get it, but there will be other opportunities. Perhaps at the moment you have enough to contend with, with not only your health but your house move etc??? No way can you be called a scrounger. "People" like applying labels to other groups of "people" that they look down on, its been going on since the beginning of the world, it was the same in Jesus' time as it is now. "People" may have thought Jesus was a scrounger, after all, he was a Gallilean. And what good comes out of Galilee? . Prayers anyhow...

And, prayers for your friend, WW. Meant to put that on as well

MHD, yup. And there's nothing even remotely scrounger-like about you. But I know what you mean.
Prayers aplenty for all
Feeling very urk today. Tired and wondering why I'm working full time through this lot and why people expect me to do 100% of my job 100% on time when they know what I'm going through. Except of course I'm supposed to be superhuman (in the eyes of some people) and never complain or get tired or get irritable or get sad or anything. And it's actually quite hard.

amber - time to put yourself first, maybe? I know the temptation to be as normal as possible, because it makes you feel more in control of things, rather than your illness controlling your life, but sometimes you need to just say no, enough now. Time for you to be a bit easy on yourself and others to appreciate this.

Prayers for everyone else - so much going on!!

ST, yup, very true indeed.

Amber - I agree with ST too. You need to put yourself first. Any way you can cut down hours? The effects of what you are going through are so very exhausting, and you need time to simply rest. I also know how we want to carry on as normal and keep fighting through but there are times we need to say no, this is the time to stop and let the world carry on around us for a bit. Even Jesus did that :)

Thanks Mary. I know you are right. I just felt like that as it seemed so perfect. Probably need to concentrate on moving. And writing my book, maybe

Prayers of thanks for my seekers ladies. They are coming on amazingly. Love how God has worked so tangibly among them. I feel so privileged all the time. Praise God :)

Very hard though. If I'm at home, I do silly things rather than resting, unless supervised. Just don't have the independent-living skills to be sensible.

Thanks v much dear friends for your prayers for my dear friend and her partner. I really appreciate it - esp when all of you have so much to contend with in your own lives.
Prayers for aplenty being sent to you all.
XX

A silly thing really, but people have been letting me down again, and its causing me much heartache and worry. Nothing TOO major, but its another burden to bear which I could do without, and at some point I may start to buckle under the pressure. Please pray.

Much prayer for each of you

Mary - praying and

Honestly amber, you need constant supervision Try to find some time to rest honey if you can xxxxx

CD, truer than you know. 'tis why I have a social worker

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Hello lovely ladies, just popping in in the new IPhone app to wish you all a happy weekend much love & prayers xx

Praying and lurking.

Praying also

Prayers needed here

Thank you all for your prayers. Have felt a lot stronger over the past day or so, a real blessing :). Attended a lovely service at the Cathedral this morning, where the priest explained that today is the feast of St Barnabas, Barnabas means "son of encouragement". So, everyone, take heart! (not literally Amber! :o)

Could do with some encouragement, certainly.

It's an odd thing, how some people express stuff. It's nice when people say how brave we are etc, but then...what happens when we're not having a brave day? Are we letting them down?
Prayers appreciated for a not-very-brave day, which happens fairly regularly just before the next chemo (Tues).

I think that you are totally allowed "Non-Brave Days" amber. Hugs, Love & Prayers xxxx

Sometimes not being brave, is the brave thing to be I think. Its not a question of letting people down. If thats what we feel, then we're being too hard on ourselves and we need to be kinder to ourselves. Not only that, how are you or how is anyone to tell if you are having a "brave" day, if you don't have a few "non-brave" days to compare it to?

One last thought - Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, was he having a brave or a non-brave moment? I think most of us would appreciate the very human feelings he was going through, and would probably say how brave he was. But you can almost guarantee that if you were to ask Jesus, he'd have said "non-brave".

Hugs and prayers Amber. I'm not feeling very brave either. I've lots to do today, and will do my best (for to not turn up would be letting people down). So I need to accept that I might not achieve perfection in what I do, but the only one who is perfect is God.

On this feast of Pentecost, may the Holy Spirit guide us and strengthen us all.

Thanks...appreciated muchly.
Much prayer