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New Christian Prayer Thread for Autumn - all welcome!

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Tuo · 17/10/2012 19:46

As the nights draw in and the leaves start to fall, it's time to start a new prayer thread. Read, pray, and post your own prayer requests.

Praying in particular, at this time, for...

... amberlight - for her continuing good health, and for her work raising awarenss of ASD in churches;
... Bluetinkerbell - for the last weeks of her pregnancy to go smoothly, for her peace of mind as she prepares to meet this baby and remembers her beautiful Sterre, and for her vocation;
... CharlotteCollinsislost - for her relationship with her H to improve with the help of counselling;
... Cupoftea - for little Beatrice and the whole family;
... Dontsteponthemomeraths - for her new job to go well;
... DutchOma - for Bob's health to be stable and for his appetite to improve, and for continued support and respite for DO;
... expatinscotland - for the whole family to receive all the love and suppor they need after the loss of their beautiful Aillidh;
... FriendofDorothy - for her pregnancy, and for a difficult work situation to be resolved;
... HaveALittleFaith - for her pregnancy, and for various work possibilities to be resolved for the best;
... jan2011 - for her H to be more sensitive to her needs and to those of their dd, and for jan to believe in herself (as we all believe in her);
... Kaykat - for her H to understand that his behaviour towards her has been unacceptable and to respect her wish for them to separate, for their ds to know that he is safe and loved at this difficult time;
... madhairday - for better health;
... MaryBS - for peace of mind and happiness;
... PositiveAttitude - for her family and their mission, for health and well-being, new friends and no rodents/mosquitoes; and for her DD1 to respond well to medication and to feel happier very soon;
... Redwhiteandblueeyedsusan - for her to know peace and comfort following her loss of her dad, for ongoing issues with her children's school, and for her ex to treat her with the respect she deserves;
... SESthebrave - for school choices;
... and for all who visit this thread - regulars, occasional posters and lurkers; those who post and those whose prayers are known only to God.

A prayer of St Richard of Chichester
Thanks be to you our Lord Jesus Christ
for all the benefits which you have given us,
for all the pains and insults which you have borne for us.
Most merciful Redeemer, friend and brother,
may we know you more clearly,
love you more dearly,
and follow you more nearly,
day by day.
AMEN

OP posts:
Bluetinkerbell · 28/10/2012 16:27

Posted too soon... you all deserve it! :)

jan2013 · 28/10/2012 16:30

aw you are all amazing. mhd i am so sorry you aren't feeling well and have been ill all week - big hugs to you.... i hope you manage to keep something down soon, at least take a tonic or something to help you start to feel better its just not nice to get a run of it like that

madhairday · 28/10/2012 16:45
Wink

so pleased for you ladies....you deserve it :)

thankyou Jan. I am keeping stuff down now, but not feeling much like eating or anything really. rather down with it all.

PositiveAttitude · 29/10/2012 00:03

MHD Prayers for you and also a ((hug)) You are always so positive and cheerful, but you don't have to be!! God has big shoulders to cry on and is there for you through good and bad. Is DH at home with you or is he away at the moment? Prayers that you will soon feel better and that God's love will surround you and keep you comforted.

jan2013 · 29/10/2012 10:10

mhd also thinking of you today... God understands that we are down sometimes and knows all that youve been through and how you feel.... sometimes this is enough to be a comfort.. that HE knows. praying for things to change soon, and that God will restore the things that you are missing out on.... bigger and better things to be coming your way

Kaykat · 29/10/2012 12:43

I had the worst weekend ever. My life is a mess. I am lost.

jan2013 · 29/10/2012 14:14

oh kaykat... i am so sorry you feel like this... God specialises in messes you know. i wish one of us was there with you... would it help to talk about it? and do you have any RL support? reach out to God and to others... you can be found, not lost, in God... i have to go here but will be praying for you today. do you think if things changed between you and dh you might feel different? sending lots of love

madhairday · 29/10/2012 19:00

Oh Kaykat - just to say praying for you right now. You have support here, whenever you need it. So sorry things are so bad :( If you need to talk off board, feel free to pm anytime. with love and prayers.

Kaykat · 29/10/2012 19:23

Had a couple of big arguments with H this weekend I am finding it hard to control my anger. He was threatening and it upset DS. The rest of the time he was desperately sorry, says he has realised how stupid he's been and will do anything to get me back, he realises how stupid he was to throw his family away.
I can never bare to go near him again knowing he has been unfaithful and I am sure he would do it again. It confuses me so much when he is nice and lovely, why couldn't he have done that a few months ago instead of giving it all to OW?
He seems to be returning to his faith a bit and that it confusing me too.
I have asked him and told him to leave many times, he won't.
Some of my rl support have their own problems at the moment so can't be there for me so much. I feel like I am ill but I am not I am fully fit its just the emotional exhaustion getting me down.

jan2013 · 29/10/2012 19:46

oh hon. i am so sorry... i fully understand when you say it makes you feel like you are ill. it is unbelievably draining when you are continually living with all that going on, up and down like a yo yo all the time. it just sucks everything out of you... its so difficult to keep it all together. he may be sorry, but sorry doesn't fix anything. my dh used to say sorry every couple of days, do something upsetting again, sorry again, and on and on it went. now sorry means nothing at all. sorry should be action. sorry is not words, its action in love, in change, in real repentance which is a 180 degrees turn. did you ever manage to get proper appointments with WA to discuss options?

thinking of you... i hope you can distance yourself emotionally from him in some way to help you get yourself back together again...so sorry you are going through all this

Kaykat · 30/10/2012 08:54

Hi Jan a woman at WA was quite rude to me yesterday. Apparantly being held prisoner whilst being verbally abused and him threatening to smash things plus constant unwanted sexual advances is not domestic violence, she told me in no uncertain terms. My outreach lady, although sympathetic did not phone at the agreed time last week so I've given up with themi.
Thanks everyone for your messages of support.

jan2013 · 30/10/2012 10:00

they are wrong - and you could put a complaint in but i know that is not at the forefront of your mind right now...you need all the energy you have for what you are dealing with. it is appalling. how can they be giving such different advice and support from area to area? maybe amber or others will have some more suggestions of how to get help. i don't know your situation but if there was any way for you to organise getting a place to rent yourself, and go for it? i know its not at all easy. it took me a long long time to get to that point where i was prepared to do that. but i did, and THEN when he realised i was moving out, thats when he actually moved out.

please keep reaching out for support, even from your church or from anyone you think might understand. sending thoughts and prayers

jan2013 · 30/10/2012 10:07

please keep in prayer a family i stayed a few months with in nyc - they lived in lower manhattan and from what i see in the news its flooded. they were told to evacuate and i haven't heard anything from them.

also please keep me in prayer - dd hasn't been well so i had taken a few weeks off my voluntary job - im going back again tomorrow, and haven't properly started yet without assistance... so im quite nervous now. thinking of you all

DutchOma · 30/10/2012 10:41

KaykatAs Jan says, they are wrong. Sounds like you need the Domestic Violence department of the police involved. That is very hard to do, but you can't carry on like that.

Praying for your friends in NYC Jan, that is an additional worry you could well do without.
Praying for all concerned, also for Cup and the Teaset, who are all so overwhelmed by Beatrice's death and the process of saying goodbye to her. Today they will leave the hospice where they have been for the past week.

Kaykat · 30/10/2012 11:24

To be fair it was their legal dept so probably not geared up for an emotional wreck on the end of the phone but the woman was rather severe. After that and a terrible weekend I felt desperately unhappy. A bit better today, more detached and accepting that I don't think he will change and even if he did I can't get my head around the cheating.
At a push I could afford a small flat in a grotty area but I think it would put me in a weak position especially if I want to argue for the stability for DS to stay in his own home.
Hope the job goes ok tomorrow Jan.

madhairday · 30/10/2012 17:07

Oh Kaykat - so sad that someone from WA should speak to you in this way - surely they are trained to speak to people at their most vulnerable time :( And yes that most certainly is domestic abuse. :( I hope and pray that you will be able to come to an agreement soon, it is not fair for you or ds to live like this. I am worried about you as he is smashing things, threatening and making 'unwanted sexual advances'. I think you need to get out, in whatever way is best. I wish I knew what to advise. :( Praying.

Jan, praying for dd and also your friends in NY - also praying for a group of children and teachers from dd's school who are there at the moment, stuck in a hotel in NYC. Horrible situation :(

DO, praying very much for cup and the teaset as they mourn their beautiful Beatrice :(

amberlight · 30/10/2012 19:59

Kaykat, as an ex Trustee of a major Women's Aid charity, I can assure you that they were speaking total rubbish. Very unimpressed indeed. So sorry.

Huge prayers all round.

DontstepontheMomeRaths · 31/10/2012 08:29

Kaykat thinking of you and praying.

My mum is looking after the kids today as I have no child care. Pray for her? She's not looked after my kids in 3 years. Last time she found it very difficult and you all know her school of thought on discipline. So prayers she enjoys it, the kids do too and there are no frayed tempers and she's not too strict with them. I had no one else to ask as ExH is at work and so am I.

cloutiedumpling · 31/10/2012 11:22

Lurking and praying, praying and lurking.

DontstepontheMomeRaths · 31/10/2012 16:54

Mum had a good day with them I understand and only had one meltdown with DS.

Thank you, if you saw my request and prayed, as it is a huge relief. So my Dad may still not talk to me but my Mum came and helped me today and it went ok Smile

Halloween has so passed my kids by. They haven't a clue what it's about and haven't asked either. SSW isn't doing a light party. I would have carved a pumpkin with a Minnie Mouse face or similar but I wasn't organised enough to buy one and when I went looking for one today, they'd run out. Oops

Wish BT would fix my landline and broadband now. Been without since Friday and it's still not fixed Sad

Typing everything on my phone is getting tedious.

blackeyedsusan · 31/10/2012 22:09

phone typing is very tedious. I am impressed you managed so much.

I am back fo a day or two before going back to notting ham. I may have to go back tomoow if mum is not ight. she feel today on the way for an appointment at the hospital for a ct scan. nothing broken though is still shook up. she is sore and brruised and I feel bad for leaving her but the children were promised a light party this evening and I would have felt bad for letting them down too. it is quite hard to be stuck in the middle looking after both sides.

I have a bad toothache, the broken tooth has finally decided enough is enough and is hurting now.

dentists soon. I am going to have to cave and take some pain killers.again.

I am just getting more tea. I missed breakfast as the alarm did not go off and we had to rush to the hospital. then we had to wait longer at the hospital. mum was quite distressed. it was had work looking after her when she was so shaken and poorly and entertaining 2 children for 5 hours with little time to pack a hospital bag of stuff to do. ds cam home with a blue ballon... the sort that has 5 fingers. mum as shocked that I pinched a glove, btu after 5 hours I as getting desperate. Grin

Kay, you can try and ring the dv team at the police station. they are very quick and take it seriously. I sa an incident in the street and they had responded with in 5 minutes.

PositiveAttitude · 01/11/2012 13:14

Hello all.

BES hope the tooth gets sorted quickly. Toothache is 'obble!!

Not been able to get on to post much recently as the posting seems to be too much for my internet connection to cope with, but I have been reading.

Prayer for everyone on here and a huge wave to everyone too!! Smile

Kaykat · 01/11/2012 17:02

Thanks all

He's back to being nice again and very very very sorry! Here's what I'm struggling with ATM in the mess of my mind. All advice and prayers appreciated.

When he's nice I still actually enjoy his company sometimes.

He will drag out a divorce and put every obstacle in the way, I know that.

He will cheat on me again if the opportunity arises I have no doubts about that.

When I think of him and OW together it feels like a knife in the stomach.

And the biggy - why should I be hurt even more by having to spend lots of time apart from DS if we separate? I never dreamt that would happen until he was grown up.

blackeyedsusan · 01/11/2012 21:00

hello pa.

oh kay. Sad

please pray for mum. she is all shaken up after her fall and has got a poorly leg she is really worried about it. she is in a right state.

HavingALittleFaithBaby · 01/11/2012 21:21

kay I think you need to remember that the 'nice' act is just that. Also remember the time you have with your son will be time when you're happy together rather than being with him all the time but being unhappy with your H around :(

bes has she seen a doctor? Falls are usually an indicator that something else is wrong.

Praying and lurking! :)

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