Spring into Summer - Christian Prayer Thread

[DutchOma]

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.

PA,thanks for your PM. It was really helpful- will be in touch once I am back home

Thank you everyone for your prayers. We are off to hospital soon. I feel calm and confident and I know God is walking every step of this journey with me.

x

Thats good Sweetest. Prayers for today.

Morning everyone.

I haven't been around here for months - I really hope it's ok to just jump back in (and hope you actually remember me!)

I've had a skim read through the posts... amber my prayers for you, I hope the treatment is giong well and you are coping ok.

Also caz congratulations on the pregnancy - I couldn't be happier for you. I'm not surprised you are anxious and struggling with faith, though. It's so difficult to accept that things are out of our control and to hand them over to God.

hello to everyone else too, I'll try and catch up with you all again!

Things are ok here, but once again I feel like my prayer life is woefully inadequate. I know how much better I feel when my prayer life is healthy but at the moment it just feels like one extra thing on my 'to do' list and I find I almost resent God for wanting my time. This is SO wrong, I know, but I cant seem to reverse the cycle. I have exams coming up again so need to lean on God more than ever but at the same time I keep finding myself thinking 'I'll start praying properly again when the exams are over....' as if God is something I can just put on hold for a while!

Anyway.... This is part of my effort to reconnect. I'm feeling a bit 'prodigal son' at the moment - I hope you don't mind me tagging along in the hope that I might pick up some good habits again from you all!

Hello Mrs C You have been missed! Of course you are more than welcome back. I think there are some times in our lives when it's OK to say 'God, will you just carry me a bit through this time' and sort of keep communication lines open through everything you do rather than feeling you have to put aside time and then feeling resentful and guilty and so on. I'm a great believer in 'the practice of the presence of God' way of thinking, ie all we do being an act of worship, all we say being a prayer, making ourselves aware of God being here, with us, whatever we are doing, however normal/bland that is. So with your revision etc you can do that knowing God is there with you, that all you are doing God knows about, and all you are thinking is a prayer. Don't beat yourself up! :)

Praying for you today sweetestthing.

Can you all pray for SES on the religion chat thread, looks like she might be losing the baby :(

Prayers for you too BES - sounds like it was quite tough for you.

MHD thank you :) yes I am trying very hard to do that (and have recently read Brother Lawrence, which was wonderful) but I keep finding I'm slipping I guess the key is just to keep bringing myself back into God's presence, however many times a day I have to remind myself to do it....!

Prayers for SES.

... continuing, sorry ran out of time before school, but we did make it in time.

overall the weekend was good, if exhausting.. 4 sessions, went to the first h took ds out and entertained him in the corridors outside the conference room. 2nd session, repeated, BUT he let him off the reigns running around the balcony over a nearrly 2 floor drop with wrought iron rainings with toe holds big enough for ds who can scale almost anything... didn't see the problem so disagreement and i took over ds's care, missing the session. no notes provided even though they were asked for...

session 3... how can we draw people on the fringes into the worshipping life of the church.. to which we arrived late after changing a pooy nappy, ith 2 children in tow (the rest of the slightly older children had gone swimming) to be greeted with a comment... don't they have activities to go to? (not the leader).. (already had a couple of glares and looks from 2 others in previous sessions). why I didn't let them have both barrels then i don't know? anyway, i did point out in this session to one of the elders that I am sick of sitting in the room at the back on my own not being part of the church...

session 4... communion 5 children playing at the back of church, reasonably quietly though every time their voices are getting above a whispher we are shushing them... we feel we are not being tolerated... I am stewing, steam building nearly in tears because the children are getting the message, you are only welcome if you are quiet and let us get on with our own thing.... serious failure in pressure valve at the end.. ended up ranting at one of the lovely elders wives that the church claims to want these children when they are teenagers but are not willing to put up with them when they are 2... and the children who had been on the weekend would be going away feeling that they were barely tolerated and when they were old enough, they would not be staying in the church. I also said that i was at the point that if one more person glared at the children I was going to be using words that only midwives know..

hmmm...

session 5, one of the grannies took ds for a walk, though I was too upset to get the most out of the session by now. it was much appreciated though. they did ask what sort of person we are going to be... i thought I was going to be the grit in the oyster (bloody irritating) and i think i am going to demand some support or leave...

BES - sorry the weekend was so difficult. You have just made me almost laugh out loud though - I love the sense of irony about getting dirty looks during a seminar about drawing people who are on the fringes into the worshipping life of the church when what else are you but physically on the fringes, if you are in another room a good part of the time because of kids!

Deary me! xx

All ok in DippyLand - just whizzing by to assure you all of thoughts and prayers xxxxxx

Hope it went well for SweetestThing today. xx

Doing a spectacular bit of Not Coping at the moment. Prayer would be appreciated...will be so glad to get today over with and find out for sure how I react to this new stuff...

Keeping everyone else in prayer too

((((hugs)))) Amber. Prayers for you today.

Oh dear BES. Stern words needed maybe?

Prayers for an extra day this week would be good. Nothing is impossible and all that! I just need a day of catching up with everything as I feel as if I am really chasing my tail at the moment. Alternatively, prayers that I manage my time well and get it all done.

prayers amber...

Hugs and prayers for you BES! If you're the grit in the oyster, as you well know, that is what produces the pearls (of wisdom?). Perhaps they'll now get the message. Sorry it was so awful for you though!

Prayers also for you Amber, to get you through today to start with, and for strength and humour for here onwards!

Prayers, Amber - I hope today goes smoothly.

Amber - praying that today feels better for you.

Praying PA, haven't quite got the faith to pray for an extra day but can manage to pray you'll fit everything into the days we have

BES...sounds like it was hard, and yes ironic about reactions given what the teaching was

Would appreciate prayers. Feeling particularly sad this morning as it is DS sports day and I can't make it due to crap lungs. I keep thinking of him there wanting his mummy watching. Sodding lungs. I'm feeling cross this morning at the world in general, and a bit at God really, while utterly loving him. aaagh.

Oh ye of little faith MHD. But on a serious note I really pray that you will feel better soon.

Well, if I needed an extra day added to my week this morning, I now need a bigger miracle because at one of my jobs the boss has gone away on holiday and before he went he made a major mistake on the computer and by my reckoning we will be massively in the red by tens of thousands of pounds before his return. I know I wont be able to sleep properly now until he comes back. Its not my fault at all, but i will feel the responsibility of it because I have discovered it and there is absolutely nothing I can do. Just sit back and watch the bank balance go redder and redder each day!! Oh dear!!!

prayers madhair...

I think my head would explode if there was an extra day in the week - another day to plan and organise!! xx

Home - resting - coped - not feeling great but doable. Blood counts not right so no wonder I've been feeling . Much thanks for prayer to all of you xxx

Amber, praying that you feel better in yourself.

Didn't get job and feel very deflated and knocked down by it. I know it obviously isn't meant to be, but I am so unhappy where I am, and don't feel "right" there, but have no idea what God wants of me.

PI, drat and double drat re the job. God must have one of His Cunning Plans. Wish sometimes He'd be a bit more clear about them.
Praying.
Not feeling any more - hope it lasts!

This had dropped off my active list as it had been so long since I'd commented on here.

PI even though you know it wasn't in God's plan, it still feels pretty rubbish and confusing... getting hopes up then not. been to a fair few interviews myself... worse when you are unhappy somewhere too. be nice to yourself today... it will feel better in the morning, or the day after.

(anyone would think you had to children to look after, keeping you busy)

cd what we need is an extra night.. no organising, just sleeping... mmmmm

madhair, how are you? prayed for you today.

hello im new here what a lovely place on here! i dont/ant sleep and joining in prays here would give me something great to do is it ok to join in?

Of course it is, syrupfairy. We're just at the beginning of a new thread, but anybody can just jump in and start praying with us.

Any reason why you couldn't sleep?

Hi Syrupfairy! As DutchOma says, just join in when you feel like it. Good to have you here.

Prayers continuing for all. Feeling not to bad so far but I know this sort of chemo takes a few days to 'kick in' so we'll see how we go.