MN Christian Prayer Request Thread NUMBER SEVEN!! Moving into Oct.......

[CaptainDippy]

Well here we are - seven threads on and still going strong! May I say it is a pleasure to know you all - Here's to another seven threads!!

A summary of prayer requests from September .....

NotQuiteSoTiredMum - Has been feeling v.spiritually dry, but feeling a lot better now. Prayers that her DH would come to know Christ as his Lord and Saviour!

CatJ - DD4 still fighting away in hospital, doing ok.

Bethron - Prayers for her 2 yr old DS. He has epilepsy and developmental delay. He has just started at a special needs nursery and is currently under consultant care to review his progress/treatment.

Tawny75 - Has tyroid problems and is recieving treatment. Praying it is effective.

Prayers for all children who have started school (whether it be reception / yr 1 or Junior / Secondary etc)

SleepyJess - Her mother in law died peacefully v.recently following an illness. Pray for the family as they come to terms with this sad loss.

Weirdbird - Is now over 24 weeks PG - Hurrah! Has had no more contractions, praise God. Also prayers for situation at church as she is thinking of leaving and is feeling in a bit of a dilemma.

SleepySooz - Prayers for DS1 (10) would has had a full brace fitted recently. Lots of prayers for her as she is feeling low and is not managing to get to church a lot. //[hugs]]

LongWayToGo - Prayers for DH's health concerns and for DD's change in diet (wheat free) to try and help with various health issues. Prayers for DD who has been accused of bullying, LWTG not sure what to do. Prayers for friend's DD who has recently been for an MRI scan to see if a brain condition she has is terminal or not. (How did it go LWTG??)

TexasRose - Prayers for DD who has severe excema - has been for RAST allergy testing at hospital. There have also been issues about teachers at school administering her cream each day. Atm, her DH is away in Australia for two weeks - so lots and lots of prayers needed there!! Also prayers for church situation as DH doesn't like the church they currently go to. TexasRose also had an awkward situation at work, which is getting her down.

ShowofHands - Prayers for the family of a 20 yr old work collegue of her DH who recently committed suicide.

Poppiesinaline - Prayers for the poppies family who are all v. atm. //[hugs]

MaryBS - Praise God her 1st sermon was recieved well today! Prayers for her friends who have been TTC for three years and are currently undergoing 'investigations'. Ongoing prayers for her SIL and her partner who have adopted a young boy and are thinking of 'giving him back' into foster care. Prayers that her DH would come to know Jesus as his Lord and Saviour. Prayers for a friend Chris whose marriage has broken up and is trying to gain access to his children. Prayers for DH's work collegue's family who recently committed suicide.

Nanou1 - Praise God that her DH got a job!!

Katzg - Praise God that she has managed to find a new job! She starts on 1st Nov. Prayers for DD's rash, which is v.bad atm and is receiving treatment, she is due to have her MMR soon and Katz is worried about how she will react. Prayers for DD's nursery worker who is recovering from having a brain tumour removed (how is she doing??)

IdristheDragon - Ongoing prayers for friend's wife's dad who recently went through a successful op to remove cancer - prayers for his fast and miraculous recovery!

FoundinTranslation - Prayers for her and her family as she recently suffered a miscarriage.

DumbledoresGirl - Mum recently suffered a heart attack while out in France, is now back in the UK and is doing well (for update, please see DG's most recent post on the Sept thread!) Ongoing prayers a fantastic recovery.

Kelly1978 - Having awful problems with her children potentially being taken away from her. For fuller details see here

Nicki10 - Has recently suffered a retained miscarraige.

Xavielli - Has recently become involved in the children's work at church! Prayers as she becomes more involved in that. Prayers for her wee DS who is teething - molars coming through - ouch!!

harrisey - Prayers as she retakes one of her entrance exams for Bible College tomorrow (Mon 3rd) - Her and her DH passed the rest - Praise God!! Well Done!

MarsLady - Ongoing prayers for her friends Dave and Simon. Dave is going great guns atm , but Simon is v.gravely ill The future looks v.bleak for him and his wife is struggling. They have small children and need to know God's love in a v.close and real way right now.

PandaG - Prayers for her as she is involved with setting up a prayer group in her school! Also prayers about making a decision re: whether to go into counselling next year or not.

Podmog - Prayers for he as she is feeling tired with her PG and looking after her family.

NearlyThree Prayers for issues that her and DH are having atm and for her baby DS who has bronchiolitsis (sp??) Feeling v.low and crappy atm. //[hugs] Prayers for old school friend of DH's who has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.

Majorsmum - Living in a violent relationship with a small DD. Needs to get out and feel safe.

HRHQueenofQuotes - Finding life v.tough atm and has just found out she is PG!!!!!!!!

Twiga - Currently TTC - Prayers for DD who is poorly sick atm.

naswm - Needs to "hand it all over to God" right now - prayers she is strong enough to do this. //[hugs]]

bobsmum - Prayers that DH would find a job.

MoreTeaAnyone - Prayers for her relationship with her boss, she is feeling v.undervalued and pants atm.

Keighton Knightley - Prayers for this little boy who has been in the news recently - he urgently needs a bone marrow donor from someone with a mix-raced background.

CaptainDippy - Dippy Family have been v.poorly Still ongoing - pray they all recover asap. Prayers for portential house move that is all going though atm. Prayers for general tiredness and coping-ness atm!! I'm sure there's loads of other stuff, but can't think atm!!

Love, //[[hugs]] and Prayers to all - Here's to a great Oct 06!!

Oh yes ..... Prayers for all those in financial difficulty atm.

[CaptainDippy]

Hurrah! NEW THREAD here

[harrisey]

Tr well done for posting on the atheism thread - I couldnt think what to say and what youwrote was great.

[naswm]

Is it something in the air, or is mn going through a 'teenage' phase?! Thank God for the sense of peace found on this thread at least.

Can I ask for a quick prayer for a couple of friends of mine who are suffering in different ways atm? Thanks.

God bless everyone on this thread.

Nx

PS I am doing okay atm btw. Not brilliantly, but keeping my head above water. Just. x

[naswm]

Is it something in the air, or is mn going through a 'teenage' phase?! Thank God for the sense of peace found on this thread at least.

Can I ask for a quick prayer for a couple of friends of mine who are suffering in different atm? Thanks.

God bless everyone on this thread.

Nx

[weirdbird]

Please Pray, am still feeling dreadful and I can feel the AND trying to sneak in, have been in tears 4 times in the last 4 days and I NEVER cry, at least not in public.

Had more blood tests done today and am seeing Consultant and havinf scan tomorrow. Am worrying about money now as well as I have been too ill to work and as a Self Employed Data Analyst there is no one who can do it for me, and if I dont do the work I dont get paid and we are fast going through our savings to the point we are borrowing money from PiL to pay my husbands annual travel card, as the money we had saved towards it has been spent on other things.

Everything just feels to be spiralling out of control and I feel like I am spiralling into despair, feel so ill, I can hardly think straight most of the time.

So few weeks left to go, but feel like things are going downhill very quickly

[CaptainDippy]

Hello!

How was the drs N3?? Praying for baby DS!

Steppenmum - Not self-righteous AT ALL - thought provoking and inspired - we all understand your connection isn't great, but you are always welcomed and appreciated when you can pop in! Praying for DS and tough situation with your team honey.

TexasRose - Dittoto everything that has been said / suggested about your DD - thinking she might just be a very tired, over-stimulated little bunny by the end of the day. Praying.

Praying for the essay Mary - yey for getting it done, good old God, eh!!? hope it comes back with lots of praise and helpful comments!

Going to go and get on with that new thread now .........

[CaptainCaveman]

Hmmm, just been reading some of the atheist/other religion themed threads.
Found some of the comments really hurtful and sad, totally against freedom of beliefs etc. Wow,nothing like religion to fire people up!!

Agree with ?MaryBS who would like to post on the thread something along the lines of "I am praying for you all" .

[MaryBS]

TR - it could well be tiredness and/or overstimulation. Does your daughter fall asleep easily after going there? If you took her out in the car, would she fall asleep straight away, indicating tiredness? What do you know of the nursery, in terms of what the children do? Do they have a quiet place where they can nap if required? Is there any possibility AT ALL she isn't happy there? What can the staff tell you in terms of the other children there - they won't give you names, and they'll have to couch it in diplomatic terms, but do they have any 'problem' children there?

Praying for you and DD.

Hello again to Worzella and CCM! Nice prayer CCM.

I'm in meltdown. The draft of my essay is completed and I've emailed it off. I'm going to chill for the rest of the evening, but my brain hurts. I've had some (God) inspired moments of inspiration when finishing it off, so I hope and pray that's how they'll be seen when its marked. All the dodgy theology is posed as questions, so I can't get blasted for it . Not that they would anyway, but after my experiences of the other week.... .

From the rising of the sun, to the going down of the same, the Lord's name is to be praised.

[worzella]

Hi, still new to all this, but praying for all situations mentioned.... on the subject of children who change personality when at home IMO have often tried so hard to be good at nusery/school just haven't then energy to behave at home too.... but they will do eventually! - at least that's what I console myself with. I'll pray for patience and wisdon for you

[CaptainCaveman]

Hi, just a quick post whilst dh baths ds!
PandaG, yes would love to meet for coffee sometime in Meadowhall - hopefully this side of Christmas.

Am praying for all on this thread, both those who've posted and those who've just been reading/observing. May we all be blessed with the compassion and love for one another that our Lord feels for us all. Amen.

Later! xxx

[texasrose]

Hello all,

Could you pray for me please?

Before half term my dd (4 yo) was having major behavioural upsets (constant tantrums, discontentment with everything, being awfully rude and disrespectful to me, not doing as she was told etc)...

Then we had a lovely half term week and she was so happy nad well behaved. I was so proud of her and wondered if I'd imagined all the awful behaviour.

But today she went back to nursery and when she came home she was exactly the same - dreadful behaviour. It is almost as if she has turned into a different child altogether. She talks completely differently and reacts differently (for the much much worse). It has completely thrown me and made me wonder what it is about school that turns her so nasty! Is it just tiredness or is she picking up bad behavoiur from other kids? I know that the teachers say she's wonderfully behaved while she's there, but it's when she comes home that she just falls to pieces...

PLease pray for wisdom, compassion and patience for me!

[MaryBS]

Steppemum - ITA with TR on this - you came across to me as enthusiastic and excited, and as for the disappearing, you'd warned us that you couldn't spend too long on here, due to your connection. I appreciated the thoughtful answer you gave!

I'm just coming to the end of what I'm doing with my essay, and had a brainwave re: one bit of it, I'll share with you:

"And Jesus came by water and blood, and the Spirit testifies to this as the spirit is truth (beginning of 1 John 5, paraphrased). The reference to ?water and blood? brings to mind the spear piercing Jesus? side in John?s gospel 19:34 and 35 ?Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and at once blood and water came out. (He who saw this has testified so that you may also believe. His testimony is true and he knows that he tells the truth)?. Note how John and 1 John are pulled together at this point. Both speak of testimony that this is true. The eye witness to the execution of Jesus is linked to the beginning of 1 John ?what we have seen with our eyes? and the Spirit, whom the writer declares to know, testifying in the truth. To me, the author is deliberately establishing his credentials as to the truth of what he is saying in the letter."

Will pray for your DS and for the team you work with... was going to say more, but I have 3 children killing each other!

[texasrose]

HI Steppemum!

Just a quick post as in the middle things.

I'll pray for you all.

Also...you didn't sound self-righteous in the least! You sounded caring and confident of your faith.

God bless!

[steppemum]

Hi everyone, I think I owe you an apology, especially Mary as I wrote that long post, and then disappeared for ages (sick kids, stressful week) but really because the post was a bit of a hijack (getting into theological debate) which was not my intention at all. When I wrote it I intended it to be encouraging but when I re read it this time it sounded all self righteous etc, not my intention at all It always comes over so differently in print.

It has been so encouraging reading some of this thread (too long to read it all!!) and seeing how God is working and answering prayers. I wish I could drop in everyday to update, but that isn't possible.

I was wondering of you could pray for me. We are having a tough time at the moment. My ds (nearly 4) is going through a rough patch and then this week we have had a crisis with the team we work with. We are the team leaders and are getting lots of flack. It is one of those situations where the couple appear to be the victims, but that is because others don't know the whole story, and my dh and another leader have spent all week trying to do conflict resolution, and we are all exhausted. It is good to know that our reputation is before God and not men. All the people concerned are believers, so please pray that the Holy Spirit would speak to all involved and show us the way forward in unity.

Bless you all, I love that song someone mentioned a while ago

Every Blessing you pour down I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in Lord, still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be his name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Blessed be your name

(sorry, lyrics not quite right at the end!)

[Notquitesotiredmum]

Hi All

Aparently this is one of the most popular/ fastest moving threads. There was a reference to us in another thread a while ago, pointing out (kindly, but in a slightly bemused sort of way) that we are often top of the active convos list!

Hurrah - and hi NASW!

Prayers for all. God bless.

[nearlythree]

Please pray for baby ds has temp of 39 off to docs.

[texasrose]

sorry naswm!

Brief recap of my contributions for you!

good weekend, burnt dinner on Sunday , still thinking about finding new church but having cold feet...

[naswm]

Is this the fastest moving thread on mn? I disappear for a few days then cant catch up!

[mufti]

thanks CD.

[texasrose]

CD - belly dancing!!!

[CaptainDippy]

Will pray mufti - thank you for bringing her to our attnetion, poor lady!

[mufti]

could someone please pray for a poor lady i just met at clinic. basically we went to get weighed, well , not me , too scarey , . she was outside , crying , said she had come out as she had had a panic attack. i talked a little, i have been there, so i know exactly how horrible they are, dont know that probably didnt help telling her. she said she had always had them , but since baby they have worsened , i tried to persuade her to come back ,( that was the first time she had got inside, the other times she had gone away agin. i also said try and get help. but i just wish i could have done more to help..

[CaptainDippy]

Thank you PandaG - You always have such nice, lovely, encouraging, kind, wise things to say - your input is greatly apprecaited!

I agree LadyHeather (an honour to have you here! ) - Repect and a non-judgemental attitude is sadly lacking from a lot of threads on MN right now - You're welcome here whenever you like!!

[CaptainDippy]

Astrophe - Ditto to MaryBS - Come here whenever you would like to honey!! You've got two very young children, so I am not surprised you are struggling sweetheart - I have 14 months between my two and there's been plenty of times in the past 18 months I've felt I couldn't go on anymore and I just couldn't cope. Keep focussed and know that we are all praying for you here. //[[hugs]]

Mortuary - I have to admit, I haven't the time to "surf" MN much, but some of the stuff I've seen on occasion, has made my toes curl - I have been personally baited on a couple of occasions for doing absolutely nothing, just minding my own business and trying to offer a bit of support and advice for other parents. I think MN needs A LOT of prayer right now - things seem to have escalated too far in some cases. I thank God for this lovely thread where people can come and chat and not feel judged or baited by others - that was the intention when I set it up and I am glad it still stands ...... Do feel free to come here whenever you need to, but I don't blame you for deciding to "take a break" for a wee while! //[hugs]

MaryBS - You sounds busy, busy, busy - careful to find time for yourself and time for your family too - I know you will, but just "prodding" you in a loving manner!! I am glad you are getting so involved with church and enjoying yourself and delighting yourself in God - Great stuff! Praying for Judy - Keep us informed honey!

Will try and start the Nov thread tonight while DH is out at church meeting and after I get home from BELLY DANCING!!!! (Don't ask .....)



Keep praying for potty training!!

[LadyHeatherMillsMcCartney]

I think all opinions should be welcomed although not forced - and we shouldnt be taking the rip out of what somebody beleives, I also beleive this happened on a thread about witches unfortuantely.