September Already!!? MN Christian Prayer Request Thread Take 6!!

[CaptainDippy]

Hello one and all!

September already!!? (Well nearly ....) Good grief!? Where does the time go????

Here's a brief summary of August's Prayer Requests.........

katzg - Desperately looking for a new job, has been having interviews - so hopefully something will come up soon please God!!? Contract for current job has been extended to Oct 31st. PiccadillyCircus - Has a difficult decision to make - would like prayer for strength to make the right decision.

MaryBS - On-going prayers as she has commenced her Reader training. Prayers for motivation in her studies etc Prayers for her relationship with her mother. Her 1st sermon is on Oct 1st. Prayer requests for a 15 year old boy who died of a suspected asthma-attack on youth pilgrimage this summer and for non-Christian lady she knows who has been to see a Specialist about a lump in her breast (do we have any more on that Mary??) On-going prayers for DH's nephew who is having a very rough time with his parents who adopted him and are not sure whether they would like to keep him or not etc. Finally, praise and prayers for bro and SIL who have been approved for the adoption of two little girls!! Praying the adoption goes smoothly and that God blesses them as parants and as a family.

Catj - DD4 has been very poorly, last we heard she was on the ward and still fighting (11th Aug). God Bless you little one!

Xavielli - Got engaged!! Prayers as she starts to make marraige preparations for next July. Has been feeling very down receently - needs lots of [hugs] and prayers. Lots and lots going on in her life - stresses with young children and untidy house, DP's bro staying and slight computer game addiction which is being dealt with atm. Also prayers for friend's mum who has cancer which has spread.

Nanou1 - Prayers for cousin's children who are coping with their parents' divorce. Prayers for her swollen tummy, which has bee causing her a lot of discomfort. Lots of prayers for DH who is trying to find a new job. He had a job interview yesterday (30th Aug), which he thought went well - pray he gets a 2nd interview. Sorting out the house after burglary while they were away on holiday.

NASWM - Has been really struggling recently - very low. Lots of [hugs] and prayers her way.

longwaytogo - Prayers for her nan who has a wound on her arm which is not healing. Praying lots for the "ghosts of the past" to be completely over-come by God's love and care for her and her special family!!

Podmog - Has 20 week scan today (31st Aug) - worried about it - prayers it goes really well and all is fine with LO. Also prayers for doctors / nurses / midwifves etc reaction to current NHS "over-weight" issues! On-going prayers for difficult situation at church involving one couple. Praise God that DS is sleeping better - praying that Podmog gets lots and lots of nice sleep too!

Twiga - DH's Uncle died - Prayers for family and friends and they deal with grief - Praise for the good life he had! Praise God for fantastic Holiday Club Twiga has been involved with - prayers for those children as they go off back to "normalilty" - praying that they stuff they have learned will stick with them all their days!! Praying for her driving lessons and for her DH who is studying for exams. Prayers for friend who lost a baby at 16 weeks and would be due around now. Pray that Twiga would know best how to support her.

Yorkiegirl - Her DH Nigel died while on holiday with them this Aug. Prayers that they would be so strong as a family and that God would be so very close to them at this time. Praying so much for them all as they cope. [hugs] and love. xxxx

MarsLady - Prayers for mouse problem in her house! Prayers for her as she completes her Doula training and tackles her OU essays - praying she'll remain as unstressed as poss and sail through!! Prayers for finances as a family as studies come to an end etc. Praise that her friend Dave is going from strength to strength (has been back at work a little!) Prayers for friend (Simon) who has been in a medically induced coma - they were due to try and wake him up soon - prayers it went ok and the damage is not too much. (How is he???) Also prayers for "J" whose DH has just told her their marriage is over, they have a 2.6 yr old.

weirdbird - WELCOME!! Lots and lots of prayers needed for weirdbird's little unborn babe. She has been having contractions and is so scared little one is going to come before he/she is ready. She is nearly 24 weeks, which is the point at which they can intervene (Praise God!!) Pray that LO stays in long enough to be ok!!

NotQuiteSoTiredMum - Popped in! DS2's excema is much better - Praise God! Doing ok in her household!

moretenaanyone - Prayers for friend who has died. He was in his 30's and he leaves behind a widow in her 20's.

tjacksonpfc - Her DP died of bowel cancer earlier this year and she is missing him so much. She has two very young daughters and is struggling. Strength and love to them all. xxxx

AngelJay - WELCOME!!!

Sleepysooz - WELCOME!! Prayers as she puts her twins in the same bedroom to sleep on their own for the first time! Eeeek!

Tawny75 - Prayers as she goes for an appointment with her consultant about her eyes this morning (31st) Please let us know how it went and what he/she said!

SaggarMakersBottomKnocker - Prayers for friend of her DD who has died following an incident with an air rifle.

Sharpe2626 - Prayers for her sister and BIL as they deal with the still birth of their little girl a couple of weeks ago. xxxx

IdristheDragon - Prayers for friend's wife's dad. He has bowel cancer and has recently had an operation (25th Aug) Any more on this Idris??

PandaG - Prayers for a horrid stye she has on her eye! [hugs]

SoLucky - Lots and lots of prayers as she makes the terible decision about what to do about the twins she is carrying. One twin is fine and healthy, but the other has suspected Edward's Syndrome. So much strength and love to that family. xxxx

nailpolish - Prayers for as she is coming out of the otherside of a very difficult decision and situation.

footprint - Still feeling very low, anxious and depressed. Strength and Love to you honey!! xxxx

CaptainDippy - Praise God!! for her pregnancy (due end of April next year) and that things are actually happening with regards to buying her own house!! God is good!! Praying that the ideal house would come along and that the sale would progress quickly and smoothly!! (Is this asking too much!!!!!?) Prayers as she approaches driving test date. Prayers for relationship with PIL, especially MIL who is driving her completely mad atm!!!!! That's all for now!!

Lots of Love, [hugs] and Prayers to all - so good to "know" you guys - you are all stars!! xxxx

Well we went to our normal church yesterday, the first time since I became pregnant because of all the problems I have had, from about 3 weeks on. Discovered that the majority of the church didnt even know I was expecting, let alone praying for us, so nothing we have shared with our house group leaders has filtered back, which is really sad. I asked to speak to the church as otherwise I knew what would happen, and they didnt make time for it. I know I shouldn't be so angry, but after the umptenth comment from people about where had we been I wanted to scream.

A very similar thing happened in my first pregnancy, had a very unsupportive house group leaders, presumed they were letting the church know how much we were struggling and they wern't, have spent the last 4 years dealing with the repercussions of that time, I stopped wanting to go to church because I felt to judged and got so angry. (Most of the church still arnt aware we lost a baby)

Had finally gotten to a place where I felt able to and wanted to be in church again, and it just feels like history is repeating itself.

Panda - God gives me wings . Seriously though, for a long time I suffered from depression, and slept little and had no energy whatsoever. Now I'm finding I've got bundles of energy (for some of the time at least), and am SOOOO much happier. God looks after me. He's obviously awake at that time too because He talks to me. When I need to sleep, I go to bed early and take a herbal sleeping tablet. My mind is so active at the moment, thats the trouble.

Weirdbird, thats really sad about your church. I know if I needed him, M. would be there for me, whatever the time, and with 3 parishes he's an INCREDIBLY busy man. Is there any possibility they never passed it on because they regard what is discussed in the house as confidential? Or could they have assumed it was generally known? Or that you'd rather tell people yourself? Sorry, I'm just finding excuses here... it sounds like you've been badly let down.

Weirdbird - I am so sorry to hear about your experiences at your church . I dont know what to say..... {{{HUG}}}

Quick update from DG re her DM. DG isnt feeling up to MNetting just now so asked me to let you know how things were. Her DM arrived back in her home town on Friday, but unfortunately the hospital was not expecting her(??) so there was no space in the stroke unit for her. So atm she is being nursed on a different emergency medical ward. DG feels there are pluses and minuses to being back in the UK, and indeed to her DM's health. But one thing is for certain, and that is that it means her family can visit much more easily - although in DG's case it still means a 90 min journey each way. DG's DM is still very poorly but today has shown some slight improvement and reponse to the new drugs she is being given.

Please can we continue to pray for them all. This is going to be a long road, and at this point no one can be sure where that road will end.

Finally can we pray for DG herself who is suffering so much pain at this difficcult time. And to top everything else, her DH has to go away on business this week, leaving her alone with the 4 DC for a couple of days.

Heavenly Father I pray that you will be with DG and those closest to her at this time and let her know your love. Send your Spirit on her and fill her with that energy that only you can supply. Amen.

thanks naswm x

Just popping into say thank you for your prayers. They are really helping. I feel like one of the plants in our office - they only get watered infrequently and look so green and happy when I do remember to treat them. I was soooo spiritually parched (my fault entirely) but can feel the leaves picking up again now!

God is soooo good.

So to hear about your experiences at church Weirdbird. MaryBS's suggestions sound wise to me. Perhaps the housegroup leaders were keeping confidentiality? I do hope that there is an explanation for it all. Here's praying for a resolution for you.

God bless all.

As i'm on here i'm not at work, which means I am at home as dd isn't well. Well actually she doesn't seem that bad to me but texted me saying she was really poorly, so now i'm home from work have gp appointment at 3.30 so will see what they say.

Weirdbird so to hear about your chruch situation and that you find someone/church that weill support you.

cd hope you have a good time today and chill out.

nawsm thanks for the news re. dg really praying for peace for dg and that she is able to rest in his presence. praying that God will direct medical staff in what should be done for her mum.

Can you pray for The Salvation Army in general this week as it is their 2 wks to door knock and raise money to keep hostels, rehab, childrens/elderly homes open. Without donations from general public they reckon that social service centres run by SA would only remain open for a matter of days. we are the next biggest provider to the government for Social services.

So if they knock your door please give generously after all it could be me stood in front of you

Thanks peeps, have calmed down a lot since earlier, I phoned the Ministers wife and they hadn't even known I was pregnant, nothing has been passed on whatsoever.

This is really hard as DH has been friends with our HG leader since he was a kid and so we don't want to screw up that friendship, but HOW could they not realise how serious this situation was!!

DH is going to phone him this evening and try to get to the bottom of it all, and I just don't know what to do, part of me thinks is this the last sign that we should leave (hubby thinks so) or is this an attack and is leaving the wrong thing to do.

Have been in the wilderness with my faith for so long and am now longing to be feed, can I really get past all the issues and find it at our church now?

I have never left a church except for moving to a new area and its a BIG deal to me.

We are going to sit and pray about it together this evening, please pray for wisdom and for DH.

Praying for DG's mum, and for DG at this time. Your prayer for her was spot on.

Wierdbird, so sorry to hear of the church situation. Will pray for wisdom for you both. Praying that God will speak to you as you seek him tonight.

Longway, praying for your DD, and of course will pray for the Salvation Army. They (and I am sure you!) do a fantastic job with the poor, the outcast and those on the edge of society. All power to your joint elbows! xx

Could I be cheeky and ask for some prayers for myself. Bit difficult to explain exactly what it is I need prayers for (pretty diverse actually!). But the basic drift is - had a nightmare week - and the last 3 services I've been to at church have had sermons which could quite easily have been written Just for me.

First one - last Sunday evening was "sometimes you have to go back to move forwards" - ie sometimes you have to sort out things from your past before you can move forward in your Christian journey - whether it's 'personal' stuff, or forgiving people in the past.........that evening just before I'd gone I'd been having a complete nightmare over my NVQ stuff, had a total mental block and it had brought back all my self confidence issues from my school days - I'd literally just put the stuff down, nearly in tears and gone to church just to get away from it all!

2nd sermon - Sunday morning, was based on that passage where it says about the strength of the tongue, how it can cause great damage, or show great love (forget the exact words - and I had been working the night before). Anyhow, it was all very pertinent - and goodness knows how the poor vicar felt. She wrote it Friday afternoon, Saturday morning I had a HUGE row/fight with DH (on DS1's birthday too ) which ended up with me over at the vicars house (just across the road) in floods of tears, waiting for him to call me to say whether I could come back (which he did - and we're now talking again).

I was so stunned by the sermon - which really could have been written specifically with DH and I in mind, that I actually asked her if she'd re-written her sermon after I'd been - but she assured me she'd written it on Friday - as per normal.

Then 3rd sermon on Sunday night - on Matthew 7 - (don't judge others, or you'll be judged, don't try and remove the speck from a friends eye without removing the log from your own etc etc). And again hit home very hard with a lot of 'personal' things I really need to sort out.

Ever since I was bullied for years at school I've learned to 'hide' how I'm really feeling and pretend those feelings aren't there. On the outside I nearly always look happy and I never talk about my 'inner' feelings. Only time I ever let some of them out is when I'm really down (usually after an argument) and am crying. Otherwise they stay locked up inside.

For example, we've now got a prayer ministry team at church. If I'd had the opportunity to see someone on Saturday when I was really upset I'd probably have gone 'deeper' (see I won't even write it down when I'm 'ok') but on Sunday once my defences were back up, despite the huge knock I got with those sermons I couldn't bring myself to go.

Don't know if any of this makes sense. But your prayers would be appreciated.

Hello one and all!!

Feeling much better this evenig than I have in quite a while, which is good!

weirdbird - , - how completely awful that your HG leader didn't pass your struggles and prayer requests on to the rest of the church. I would feel really hurt and let down. [hugs] I don't know what to say - except that I am glad that you had the courage to go back to church this Sunday and see them all. Thinking of you and praying for you and DH as talk to God about church etc. Hope He speaks to you both a very real way. xxxx

Hi Notquitesotiredmum!!! Glad you are feeling better and more positive!! Good to "see" you!

Thank you for the update on Dumbledoresgirl naswm - continuing to pray for her DM's swift recovery and praying for the family as they struggle with the rigours of going to visit her etc - Strength for DG. xxxx

Sorry to hear that your DD is not well again lwtg - Praying she feels much better tomorrow - and praying for the fabulous Salvation Army's 2 weeks of campaigning etc - we had a collector come to our house this evening, just after I read your post and I did indeed cross his palm with silver!!!! Thank you Lord for all the fantastic work they do!!

Praying for you in your situations HRH - nice to "see" you on the thread! Keep us updated. [hugs]

Right. Soooo tired - bed calls ......

Gosh - I am getting old and sad!!

hello hrhqueenofquotes and welcome I have wondered when you would put in an appearance on this thread

I know exactly what you mean re: sermons being directed/written for you. Had similar experience on sun. Also I put up defences and am a complete wreck inside and usually in tears but when people ask me whats up I clam up. Soooo often I have wanted to go forward for prayer but stay glued to my seat, so I do know what you are feeling.

Any way sounds like God is speaking to you and you have some soul searching, sorting moving on to do. Sounds like you need to let down your defences down a bit and allow us and your prayer ministry team in on what your thinking and feeling as regards Talk, talk, talk to dh air your feelings, listen to him too. You can do this, sounds like God wants you to move on in your personal and spiritual life.

You have always sounded to me from previous threads that you are a commited woman so commit to sort this out. It may be painful now but the freedom that is available through God will be worth it in the end. x

Thankyou - I appreciated reading those two posts before I go off to work tonight.

I've had a tough week last week - nonstop meetings, pg scare (well it's not over yet - still have to wait to see if the morning after pill has worked) and a resident at work who's in the terminal stages of cancer - I don't know if he's passed away yet - as was last there on Sunday morning, but if he hasn't then I have another difficult night to get through - with no sleep until tomorrow night as DH and I both have staff meetings tomorrow - meaning that he won't be here to look after DS2 in the morning.

I know that you're right that I have to let my defences down - but it's hard. Having said that my DB called tonight (he's suffering from depression - so prayers for him would be great too) and I told him about the sermons (but not in as much depth as I told you lot) and I let slip that I'd been bullied at school. He was pretty shocked - he thought I was always the "popular" one (as that's the 'face' I used to put on) so I guess I may have started..........just need to get the rest out.

Anyhow, better go and get my uniform on for work!

Ladies - I'm sure a lot of youhave read my thread on Baptism.

Could you pray for me and dh to get our heads staright on this one!!!

Good morning everyone! I'm going to have a couple of days "time out", but I will be reading the thread when I get chance, and praying for you all, just not posting...

God bless!

Mary

Morning!!

Enjoy your t/o, MaryBS - you need and deserve it, I'm sure - may the Lord bless you!

Soooooooo much to doooooo - pray I get it all done and keep my head together! Thank you!

Love and prayers to all. xxxx

Help! I am accessing quickly from work. Things are going horribly wrong and I need your prayers. I am paying 90,000 people this month (something I do once a quarter) and the payroll system is throwing out error after error. I am completely stressed over it! Lord - its in your hands! I am waiting for IT to get back to me...

Praying for you

Onto it, MaryBS

Could I ask for prayers for my two dss please? They started Sunday School this last week at our very active large church, where they stay without mums or dads (something they have been unwilling to do before) and they loved it. Prayers please that we can establish a good pattern of going regularly, that they continue to enjoy it, and prayers please for the wonderful, wonderful group leaders.

Huge prayers of thanks that ds2 (just 3 yrs) has finally grasped what God might mean. Being a bit of a pragmatist, he's really struggled with the idea of invisibility, but seems much less sceptical this week! A great start!

(I caught him singing "Our God is a great big God" this morning, with several new verses he was trying out for himself . . Our God is apparently also a very little God, a big green God and a "rather squishy God" too!)

LOL ' your DS' version of Great Big God, NQSTM!! Soooooo pleased your boys are staying out in Sunday school - a huge relief for you! Praying that this routine becomes well established. xxxx

Praying hard MaryBS - have IT got back to you yet?? I would be pulling my hair out, poor thing. [hugs]] and prayers.

Ploughed through a few things, so feeling a bit calmer - still more to do .......

Thanks CD. Praying for you. And I really ought to do that ironing too . . .

God bless, all

(Now I keep on humming "Our God is a very squishy God" too! Bother!)

"Our God is a green and purple God ........"

Yes! Prayers have worked. 35,000 records locked by another user. Locks cleared. Thank you God!

Now please pray that all the lost time won't result in the payroll being late and people being paid late!

eeek! i go to a conference for a few days and the thread expands crazily! not even going to prentend to have caught up!

Generic Prayers all round

Glad to read of answered prayer Mary

Good to 'see' you Katz

CD, praying for peace in your busyness, and that you get all your jobs done.

QoQ - praying for you honey. As others have said, and you know yourself, you do need to expose your fears to others in order for God to deal with them. Ask for prayer, here and at church, and start sharing. When we are weak we are strong. Sounds so trite doesn't it, but I know it is true, even if it doesn't feel it often. Don't know you, so don't know if you do hugs, but if you do please accept one ! {{{}}}

thanks PandaG - I never say no to a hug