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.

hi captain dippy

How's you??

Hi

hope you don't mind the long post but need to get this off my mind.

I mentioned before about overcoming my ed, which is fantastic work with the help of the Lord, no doubt.

The reason for my ed is that my brother sexually abused me for about 7 years (age approx 6 to 13), and he is 6 years older than me. When i was 19 my dsis told my mum (dsis was abused too), and she asked me if it was true. I said yes but that i didn't want to talk about it.
So my parents did nothing! Just carried on as if it hadn't happened. And because I was in denial, I left it that way.
Thats when my bulimia started. And it stopped when I got so ill that I left myself in God's hands and he helped me to get well.
This also meant looking at the reasons for my bulimia so I was put in touch with a FAB counselling service for abuse survivors and saw 2 counsellors for about 2 years.

All was well after that, until I went on hols with mum, dad, dh and ds, and my dsis phoned up, whilst we were in Spain, and told me she'd been to the police and they wanted to talk to me when I got home. Total panic set in!

Police woman was crap. She told me what my sis had said and it was something I had no memory of but it involved me. Utter panic. I rang the counselling service up and got put back on the waiting list.
(still with me? God bless you!)
Began horrid panic attacks this time last year and started on meds, which are lifesavers. Been seeing my present counsellor for about 11 months now and we've done some fantastic work. He truly is a gift from God. I'm also talking to my mum more about stuff but Dad is just a closed book and that hurts me deeply.

Anyway - this week I learnt that age 11 my brother was caught at school showing pictures of his private parts to girls in the playground. My mum was called to see the headmaster and he was 'told off' about it. I feel so so so sad that if someone had done something at that time I might not have had to go through all those years of abuse.

Thank God the system is now somewhat better.

Please pray for me as i deal with this new sadness.

If you're still here, thanks for reading!!

only recently dscovered this site, and find i get a bit addicted, when i should be doing other things.

this is a good thread , need to be selective, i think, like a lot of things christians need to be careful about whether it's tv, or whatever
i have been doing an evening course in art history, which has been very interesting, but wass shocked last night, the last one anyway, to hear the tutor say that , despite believing in god,, she goes to have tarot card readings

Still here!!

Gosh CCM, I am speechless, God has truly done an incredible work in you and I am so thankful you have come thorough the other side of this - Praise God for His goodness to you and for the counsellors etc - You are an amazingly brave woman CCM - Praying for you as you deal with this new and hurtful revelation. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but you are through the storm now - keep talking to your counsellor and to your mum (praying that your dad's heart would be stirred in all of this.) I thank God for the inspiration and example you are. Thank you for sharing. [hugs]]

Praying for your tutor Mufti, people's beliefs can be a bit warped, can't they??

yes, i am still a new christian, and have to be careful, possibly a bit vulnerable
another one, i started a christian based conselling course, as in learning to counsel, one lady married to a retired anglican vicar, i told her i have been saved for just 3 three years, and she said something along the lines of not being sure about the expression "being saved", well i'm sure it's in the bible, then she had to look in the index to find ecclesiastes,, no offence to her, but surely as a vicars wife, she should have nmore knowledge than that?

Gosh thanks, your reply has made me cry. I don't think of myself as brave, although I guess I am, I just do what I have to to survive.

Thanks for hugs, much appreciated!!

Just off out to play with ds, we're going to get the bus and ds is soooo excited.

see you later, xxx

Hi Mufti

The cwr website is www.cwr.org You should be able to do a search for the title.

Your story of the vicar's wife reminded me of a dear old lady I met years ago. When she visited a church which wasn't her own, she would always shake the vicar's hand at the door and ask politely, "Are you saved dear?" She got a wonderful variety of answers - usually not a simple yes!

Good evening all!

CCM - wow. You are a living testimony to the power of God's love. Praying that you continue to heal and receive more of Jesus so that you can give more of him away.

Well...a much happier Texasrose tonight! Last night it was more like the Texas chain saw massacre!!! dd's behavoiur was yukky again this pm (shouting at me, screaming, hitting) BUT I handled her a lot better and we were lauging, hugging, praying and eading stories before bed. You need to forgive so much
to be a parent, don't you??

Also...an answer to prayer...I found a book that has been kicking around our house for a while called 'How to really parent your child' written by an American child pysch/family counselor/christian guy and in the first few ages I was like 'Yesssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!! This is the wisdom I need to handle my dd!!' the basic idea of the book is to base your parenting not on your child's behaviour but on their needs. I'll let you know if it's a good one and if so maybe some of you might like to read it too.

And yes, at the parents' eve, the teachers raved about her and how bright, lovely, helpful, funny, popular etc etc she is.

And yes the world is full of sadness but there's a lot of hope and love too. and there's heaven!

CCM - dont know what to say. You are amazing to have come throught this. Lots of love XXX

Sooooooooo pleased you are feeling better this evening, TR - have been praying hard for you honey!! LOL @ "Texas Chainsaw Massacre!!" Would love to borrow the book aftery ou've re-capped!!

Off for w/e with DH now (yippee!) so won't be around til Sun evening / Monday morning - Hope you all have a truly blessed w/e. xxxx

Liam went into care today, for 12 weeks. His family have been told no contact at all with him while he is in care. I guess that includes Christmas Lord, take care of him and keep him safe from harm

praying for him Mary and for all the family

oh my life mary bless him, praying that God watches and protects him.

thank you notquite so tiredmum, i'll look at the website, there are a few a my church with unsaved husbands, some may like a look too.
although there is a prayer group which prays for them all , i say "he's been brought into my life for a reason , and he's not saved YET"

have been lurking and praying.

Please pray for dh's friend, dh has heard his life support machine is to be turned off today. Also pray for his wife and family (they have no children) and for dh. He couldn't sleep all night and I think he is in for a rough time.

Hello all

Welcome Mufti

CCM, what an inspiring story

Mary - praying for Liam

Longway and Sleepysooz, you are right, you should not feel embarrassed about depression, and you sure are just as important as anyone else. We want to support you in prayer just as much as any of the other needs on this thread, so please ask away, and know that we are praying for you

I won't be around for a few days, off tomorrow for 3 nights away with DH, much needed! We've been through a bit of a sticky patch recently, pretty much my fault, and mostly sorted. Pls pray that time together completely heals any wounds still there, I know I hurt him pretty badly , and that we have a fun and relaxing time together too. Thanks guys

oh, and N3, praying for that family, and for your DH.

thank you pandag, just hed a nice family afternoon out, living rainforest, near newbury, really love that sort of thing, a good reminder of the glories God has created for us to enjoy, as well as some reminders of the way man has bused these wonders, eg deforestation in madagascar

MaryBS - praying so hard for Liam

girls I don't know if I know how to pray anymore

I don't know if I am a christian in Gods eyes, I never know if my prayers get answered but I still pray. Perhaps one day I'll get some feedback from God, but I do get fed up trying, I don't know what he expects me to do, I wish he would give me some sort of clue! the only time I get enjoyment and fulfilment is when I sing. I know there are messages in the words so perhaps I ought to take more notice of the words!

lwtg - even if you think you don't know how to pray to god anymore, I'm sure he will understand, and not expect too much from you at the moment! but surely he will hear your plea

Sooz - who was it says "he who sings, prays twice"? Singing hymns is a BEAUTIFUL way to pray! I do it all the time

Sometimes though, when I pray, I just listen first, rather than pray and then listen. I don't always 'hear' anything, but sometimes I have an overwhelming sense of peace, that lifts me, and helps me formulate my prayers. If I pray first, then listen, my prayers are often so anguished, that when I listen, I'm so worked up I can't hear the quiet voice that is God's voice. Does that make sense?

LWTG - don't worry, we'll pray FOR you! . Seriously though, I've found its got easier praying, but sometimes my prayer has been
"Lord, I can't find the words I want to say, but if you look in my heart, you'll see my prayer there", and leave it as that. When times were REALLY bad, my prayer would be "Lord HELP me PLEASE", and thats it. Even that last prayer, though its not much of one, and is a very selfish prayer, you are still demonstrating your faith in God by even asking. And you are inviting God into your life to help you sort things.

Talking of prayers, I've got some intercessions to write for this morning...

Sooz, its harder to be a Christian sometimes in Man's eyes. The only thing you really need as a Christian is "to love the Lord with all your heart, all your strength and all your mind, and to love your neighbour as you OUGHT to love yourself". (N3 might recognise that! ) Everything else just follows from that.

FWIW I believe you're a Christian, and I'm sure God knows you.