Christian Prayer Thread

[DontstepontheMomeRaths]

All welcome to join or post a prayer request. Thinking especially of Expat at this time.

This below list is just what I've summarised from reviewing the last months post, please add any requests I've missed or if I've made an error, please correct it:

Amberlight - Prayers for dh and Amber?s small business and that all will be resolved after Mr Stalker was caught on camera outside her house and arrested
Bluetinkerbell - lost her beloved Sterre during her second trimester. Now 23 weeks pregnant again, prayers for peace and for this lovely healthy baby girl
Dontsteponthemomeraths (A.K.A teaandcakeplease) - Prayers especially for her lovely man (LM) as the court case heads to High Court in September. That God would make a way, where there is no way, help him to afford the court fees and that he will finally have the closure; contact with his children and a maintenance agreement in place that is fair to him, his ex wife and to the children. For justice. It?s 6 years since divorce due to her infidelity and it is so hard for him. The children and ex wife live in another Country and the legal system there is very different and he barely sees his children due to her. Prayers that he has freedom from his past and doesn?t live in it anymore but breaks free and moves forward in all God has for him
Also for her DD who is struggling especially lately with not seeing her Dad as much as she?d like and wishing they lived all together and weren?t divorced
DutchOma - Prayers for Bob, his health, the support for DO and respite care to be put in place. To see more of DGCs in the coming weeks and for Zac to get more comfortable around Grandad and her DD to not be too reluctant to visit with the grandchildren
Expat - God to hold the whole family in his arms, as they deal with the tragic loss of their beautiful daughter Aillidh
FriendofDorothy - That completion on the house they are trying to buy, happens soon and that they get all work on the new house completed, before the baby is due in December
HaveALittleFaith - Prayers for her to loose weight and get an op date soon for a blockage in her urinary tract, so she can exercise and so she can be referred for IVF and for her relationship with God to strengthen, despite the struggles and disappointments she has suffered, that she would feel God?s presence and her H
For her friend and her H who?s baby was still born at the beginning of July.
Jan2011 - Prayers for her marriage, her H?s treatment of her to change and clarity and wisdom for Jan about the future. And for her voluntary job and the training
JugglingWithTangentialOranges - For a refreshing and inspiring break this weekend in the Lakes, prayers for her marriage, her H to talk to her with respect and DS to not mimic him and less arguing in the car too
Kaykat - For safety, protection and strength at this difficult time in her marriage and a way out and to find a church that is right for her
Lostmywellies - For the move next Weds, Prayers for her marriage and her H?s new behaviour to be sustainable and he stops minimising her feelings
Madhairday - For her lungs to hold out as she goes to New Wine and good weather. For her DD starting Senior school in Sept and for the support, help and understanding from the teachers with her Dyspraxia and Psoriasis she needs
MaryBS - To have favour and peace this school holiday, and that she finds lots to do without money to keep both her children entertained and without people judging DS?s behaviour. Also for her DD who was meant to be going away with the youth group and has been let down
NCIS - Prayers as she starts the open university student paramedic course
PatsyPlusOne - Her friend who has lost her 11 year old son to cancer and the 8 year old brother left behind missing him
PositiveAttitude - Prayers as they follow God?s call that they settle and are happy in this new Country and become immune to the mosquitoes , also especially for DS and DD4 to adjust and back at home for DD1, DD2 And DD3, especially DD1 who is really struggling with being "mum & dad-less? And for PA?s Dad who is an Atheist and has started going to church with her Mum, who has Alzheimer?s lately
Redwhiteandblueeyedsusan - Prayers for her as she copes as a lone parent and for her DS and the long road to assessment for Autism. For her DD who has been removed from the sen register despite her needing help for a lifelong condition. DD?s IEP was reviewed without parental involvement, contrary to the sen code of practice, that God will be with BES as she gets official with the school and that her DD would get the help and support she needs and that the head teacher takes BES?s concerns seriously and stops fobbing her off
SESthebrave - For the daughter of a friend from church, who had been sectioned and is now back home with her 2 DS?s and really struggling with depression and her mum who is travelling long distances to support her and the children at this difficult time.
For SES?s friend who had an Ovarian cyst removed which was malignant and has now had to have a hysterectomy, for her husband and her to feel peace at this difficult time
TribbleWithoutACause - DH?s one and only set of car keys turn up
TUO - to find ways of working more efficiently, so she can sleep more but still get lots done, that God would lift her from the stress and tiredness and that she gets everything done before her holiday
Weegie - Thank God that treatment is bringing some relief to her condition Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy. Ongoing prayers for more improvement and adjusting to a new way of life for both weegie and her DH. DD has Perthe's syndrome , where the hip joint dies then regrows. Thank God for an improvement in her condition and further improvements so no op is needed.

On divorce boundaries are essential sadly but they're movable, not fixed in stone and as time goes on they adjust iyswim?

I couldn't have imagined being this amicable with my ExH 3 years ago.

Hugs and prayers all round.

Hi would like to request prayers for my work situation. I feel very de-motivated and disillusioned with work at the moment. I work very hard and do well but cannot seem to secure a promotion. I recently applied for a promotion and I am waiting to hear the outcome as to whether I have been granted an interview or not. I already feel that I will be disappointed and that management probably already knows who they will grant the job to. I want to remain positive but past disappointments stop me from getting my hopes up. This whole thing feels like a constant dark cloud over me. I feel that this is my last shot at it as I don't think I have the energy to keep trying and trying and failing and failing.

I get very positive feedback at performance reviews by it all seems to be for nothing. Someone else always seems to do better at the promotion interviews.

I am truly fed up and depressed about the situation. Please pray that this dark cloud will lift. Please also pray that I will be successful with my application (both to secure an interview and to be successful at the interviews). Please pray that even if I am not successful that I will be able to be thankful to God and to know that he will bless me some day.

Thank you

Hi Jan, sorry to hear you feeling so low, hugs.
Faith, prayers for peace of mind because 5 weeks is a long time to be worrying about that. Hope interview goes well.
MoRaw hi again, praying the cloud will be lifted and for success with the promotion.
Tuo, towing down tha M1 sounds terrifying.

I have solicitors appointment this week. And H maybe won't come home for a few weeks and has hinted maybe not at all any more, will have to see what happens, it's wonderful to know so many of you are out there praying.

We are having PLANS. Bob is going to the day hospice and Mary is coming to see me.

Please pray that it will all work out. Bob is very worried about the day centre and dragging his feet, not on purpose, I know, but it is hard to cope with.
Well done Kay, praying that it will all go well.
Praying for you too MoRaw, is there anybody at work who is on your side?

Hi All

Thanks for the prayers. When I consider my worries in context of the problems I am facing, I feel rather bad and tantrumish. Of course, what I am facing is really hard for me but there are others facing much more difficult situations.

I am prayer for the rest of you.

Also, please pray for a colleague of mine at work. I just returned from maternity leave and saw her again yesterday. She is VERY big (well over 400 pounds). She was clinically very obese before I left but yesterday when I saw her I was shocked. I think she is probably suffering from some emotional problem. I am afraid to ask and lend her my support as these days one never knows. I really would like to help her. However, I can see that all is not well.

MoRaw your poor colleague, praying for her, that she's able to come out of this. Also praying for you in your work situation, that you'll know God's blessing in the here and now through all you do and are.

PA oh no, hope you're feeling better now?

Jan heck. He is behaving completely unacceptably. I could use several rude words. I don't know what to say, but you do not deserve this, it is not your fault. Praying for resolution and for you to know God's peace in all this.

DO hope Bob is ok and that you have a lovely day with Mary :)

CC hey I love Charlotte too, always felt for her that her lot in life was to settle for Mr Collins, always tell myself she was really happy in the end though and it's what she wanted out of life! How are you getting on, have been thinking of you with your situation too.

Kaykat praying for you as you see the solicitor.

SES hope dd feels better soon.

Faith that was off of your friend to tell someone else at such an early stage. Praying for peace for you as you wait for the scan.

Blue how is it going? Gets nearer and nearer!

Amber how are you?

Mome and BES - have been praying for you and your dses particularly in the mornings. Praying for calm, safety, peace.

Thanks for prayers. I saw my hospital consultant yesterday. She was great. I do feel better but she said if I don't improve to ring in again next week and see about IVs again. sigh...but I think I can avoid it this time. :)

pa - oh, yukky foreign bugs! We never seemed to escape them for long. Hope you are all starting to feel better.

kaykat - you're sounding stronger; glad things are improving.

DO - ooh, those plans sound good. Hope it all works out well.

mhd - me? I'm not doing great at the moment. I thought a year or so ago that my marriage, which had been difficult early on, was much better these days. In fact, I believe I told amber so . Now, having read and thought a lot since jan started posting about her marriage, I think the abuse has just got a lot more subtle. He's controlling, entitled, manipulative, and I feel weak and confused. I've hinted at all this in earlier posts, but it comes and goes in waves - sometimes I believe it and I feel sick, then I think it must be nonsense and the problem must be with me.

So please pray for me. I'm going to see a counsellor for the first time tomorrow in an effort to work through it all. Please pray that she is able to help me and that we get on well. I have told my parents, but they live a long way from here and other than that no-one irl knows as yet. Still far too confused to express it clearly in any case!

DO thank you for sending a beautiful card for my dd ... it was so lovely of you. i really hope your day goes well, you have a lovely time and that Bob is ok with going to daycare for the few hours.
mhd i hope your starting to feel better soon... thankyou for your thoughts.

Charolotte im sorry about things in your marriage...it really is hard and confusing. it takes time to work out whats going on, to separate different issues that might be stressful and still to see that theres a problem, and still to separate yourself from that. to know that its ok not to be perfect and still know that there are problems that can't seem to be resolved... i really hope counselling helps and clarifies things a bit - i hope in time you find some more sources of support as well. its so hard when you seem to be stuck in the middle of it all constantly. thinking of you, kaykat and all you who are struggling with your relationships.

Thank you for your prayers. DD doing a bit better but I'm feeling full of cold (again!) now.

DO - prayers for you, Bob and Mary today and particularly that Bob settles ok.

MHD - prayers for no IVs being needed

Faith - praying that all will be well with your little bean. When is your 12wk scan?

Praying for all with relationship problems - Charlotte that the counselling will be helpful and give some clarity. Also for KayKat and Jan

MoRaw - praying for you to feel valued at work and for your colleague.

Praying for all - PA, BES, Momey, Amber, Blue, Ginger, TUO, Juggling and anyone else in need.

3 additional prayer requests from me (I feel greedy/demanding!):

1. DH is having keyhole surgery on his knee tomorrow. Prayers for all to go smoothly, fast healing and for him to be a "good" patient and me a good "carer"
2. bearing in mind 1), I'm doing a Macmillan coffee morning on Friday. Prayers for it to be a success, for me to get chance to tidy the house and do some baking.
3. for me as I prepare next week's session for our RCIA enquiring group bin running the session next Tues as well as topping & tailing the evening. The topic for the evening is prayer and somehow it needs to meet the needs of all enquirers. I think I've said before this includes one lady who asked for a copy of the words of the Lord's Prayer and also a man who has a priest for a brother! Prayers of thanks too though as we now have 8 people on the course and they all seem very enthusiastic.

Sorry, I meant to say that my worries seem insignificant when I consider the problems others are facing.

I wish I could give all of you a hug as I really feel your pain and worries. May God intervene soon enough for you all.

God bless

thinking of you SES and Mo - your needs and worries are in no way insignificant, we can never compare our troubles to anyone elses cos everything affects people in different ways anyway, and God knows all the anxiety and trouble each one of us faces. may He be remembering each one of us today and carrying those that just need carried - sometimes we just can't walk anymore and God has to just to lift us above our enemies.

So true, Jan :)

SES, great about the RCIA course, praying for you as you prepare! Praying too for your dh tomorrow and for you too.

lost I'm so glad you're going to counselling, does dh know? Is he prepared to go too? Praying it will be really helpful for you. From what you've said on this thread, he is being emotionally abusive to you :( Prayers for your whole situation. How are the dc?

you know when you arre walking up to school and as you go past the office a door opens and a voice shouts mrs bes... then you are in trouble...

ds has been sick at school... I arrived just in time to deal with it.

oh and i have also had a personal invite from the head to attend the parenting course at school... affronted.. indignant? embarressed.. says a lot about what he thinks about me... I have been labelled as one of those parents.. thanks a lot!

Yep DS teacher was looking at local parenting courses to help me I know she is just trying to help but the thing is, the problems he has are at school only. He's ok at home now. The issues for him are in the class environment and besides I am certain he will soon adjust to it all and by Reception will be fine. I tried to do a parenting course before and had a lot of trouble trying to find babysitting. With the job starting I won't be able to do one in the morning either now. That's a new thing, they never offered the course in the morning before, they even have childcare available now. This is at the Surestart centre though.

Your DS's issues are being dealt with, you're getting him the help he needs. You're doing your best x

He knows; says he'd like to understand why as it's his money paying for it! I didn't want to get into a conversation with him about it; he just argues his corner, never accepts blame or alternatively says, "Oh yes, everything's my fault," so we don't get anywhere. Similar reason why I don't want him coming along: in any conversation, he will dominate, twist and be so keen to present a good front that I will not even be heard. So this counselling is to get my head round what's going on, learn to trust my judgment again and then work out where to go next. I'm expecting that to take months!

Sorry to hear ds is sick, bes. And ouch! at the course invite - although it must be really hard to get anyone along and feeling good about attending. Still, you never know, there might be something new in it. After all, you never stop learning, do you? With each child, age and stage I've got to, there's been more to learn. :)

Hope all goes well for your dh tomorrow, SES.

Oh lost Praying the counselling really helps you x

Charlotte, really that says it all: YOU are spending HIS money. Erm, no, it is not HIS money it is your half of the money that you are spending.

I used to say we made a great team: dh earned all the money, I spent it. Worked for us for the past 42 years. If I earned money, I spent that too.

Charlotte, take no notice. Was the first session helpful?

Bob got on alright at the day hospice yesterday, said the people were very friendly and the food was nice.

Yay, Oma! What a relief that must be!

Praying.

That's great news Oma! Hope you enjoyed your time with Mary.

lost, how are you, how did it go? Agree with DO about money not being his, that's not how it should be :(

BES, oh that must feel horrible. Do agree with lost though, it could be helpful, I've done a couple of courses now and found that each one helped in different ways, one helped because I completely disagreed with its' premise and it helped me be more confident in myself and my parenting!! So you never know. Hugs and prayers to you and Mome and your lovely dses.

Oh don't worry, I suggested to him that we could use my half of his income! I was shocked at his comment, too.

First session just completed - it was brilliant. Really pleased with it. Lovely to be listened to and be told that my adolescence sounded very difficult. Have only really told H about it, I suppose, and got the firm impression from him that I'd dealt with everything wrong but it wasn't much to get upset about. Am learning slowly not to listen to him!

Oma, so pleased Bob was positive about it! Hope you had a lovely day, too.

Another busy week here. You've been in my thoughts, though.

Charlotte - I'm sorry that things are so tough for you, but pleased that the counselling was helpful. Praying for a way through it all for you.

Oma - Good to hear that Bob was not unhappy in the day hospice. That's encouraging. And I hope you had a lovely day with Mary. Praying for more lovely days, and for Bob to continue to be more chipper.

SES - Great that your course is going so well. Prayers for that to continue, and for your DH's operation to go well ... and for love and patience on both sides as he recovers.

MoRaw - Prayers for you and for your colleague. Don't feel that your problems are insignificant. I know I've felt apologetic coming on here posting about trivia at times when others have so much on, but I firmly believe that God sees and cares about our trivia as well as being with us in the 'big stuff'.

Prayers for BES and Mome for their respective DSes, for Jan and Kaykat in their relationships, and for better health for MHD.

Thanks here for a cautiously positive (well... not so much 'cautiously positive' as 'not actively negative', but you've got to start somewhere!) response from DH to my suggestion that I might attend a 'Quiet Day' for Advent at the place where I ran my course last weekend. I am not at all sure how my busy mind will cope with such a thing, but it's definitely something I'd like to try... if only to see if I actually explode with the effort of not listening to all the extraneous 'stuff' that fills my head most of the time!

Please pray, if you can, for my dentist's appointment, now rescheduled to Saturday morning. Tooth doesn't feel good... and I am still without a car, which makes life complicated in the extreme (as I don't live on any decent public transport routes).

TUO - most certainly prayers for that tooth of yours. Has anybody said clove oil? I know I said it to someone earlier, but that might not have been you.

Thanks for that Oma. I've heard good things of clove oil, but it's weirdly not actually painful, just ... well ... broken (so it feels wrong and a bit sensitive - but it could have been a lot worse). The worry is that I have rubbish teeth anyway, so I'm worried that they won't be able to patch it up and I'll lose it. [Deep breath... Calm thoughts...]

...and prayers...