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.

lo is 8 1/2 months and gorgeous. Much wanted as we had a stillbirth at 9 months (on the due date) about 2 years ago. I also have 3 others, 11, 7 and 4 years. All gorgeous and precious and wonderful (and stuck with miserable mum!)evdjjium' (that was message from dd aged 4).Also strugling a bit in church. Am organising prayer to cover an event and just got an email from someone criticising the items for prayer.

Wow TR! TBH, any one of those things would be enough to make me leave (but then I'm not you). I do see what you say about the sermon and the people, but to me, to make all those rules means that they judge people, and I believe that sort of judgement is better left to God. I'd be interested to know what they'd make of me (even without the preaching). I KNOW God has forgiven me, but would they accept that? As for DH integrating, my DH goes to the church men's group, so he is integrating, but I don't see him becoming a Christian (yet!). Sorry if I seem a little harsh on your church, but their way to God could never be my way.
FWIW I think you would make an excellent Reader in the C of E... I've said it here before, but my calling was a complete and utter shock to me. I REALLY did not want to do it, the thought of preaching scared the life out of me, and I KNEW I didn't have the skills to preach... well, you know the rest, nothing is impossible with God! If he wants you, you can't get away from it! Thats why I wonder whether he is calling you too, to do something similar to me, from what you've said, about your 'itch'. You certainly have the skills.

GABD - sorry to hear about your awful email. Are you going to respond? What a blessing about your DC though! How do you cope with 4? How is your PND? Still praying for you!

What do others think?

naswm,gabd and all others that are suffering it never ceases to amaze me that so many Christians suffer with depression. I think we need to voice what we are feeling instead of just hiding away like we do (i mean around here)

to all those who have dh who don't yet believe Keep up the faith.

texasrose not sure I could be at a church where women are not allowed to speak, even though I don't see myself ever preaching/speaking/teaching on a regular basis again some of our best preachers are women. Our divisional leader (bishop) is a woman.

just written loads and deleted it.

But just to echo what marybs says really just wait upon the Lord He will direct you when He is ready and if He wants you to upset the apple cart then you will know its the right thing to do and will be at peace with it. (Does that make sense)?

Right enough waffle off to finish the tea (Roast Beef and yorkshire puds) bec I made such a naff attempt of the shopping on Fri that I didn't buy any meat for Sunday dinner

Still feeling ok and wondering if I really need these ad's after all

NQSTM - I'm sorry you felt you had to delete your message, I thought you made a good point

lwtg - you're right, I didn't make my point very well, yes wait on the Lord and let Him be your guide.

I did reply to the email, but was polite. I don't think she quite understood what I was emailing her about. I have not had a reply. I am a bit new to MN and am still getting to grips with all the lingo. What is DC?

DC = Dear Child. It took me a while to realise what LO meant. I guess it depends what you're used to!

Please pray for Marg's dad, who I mentioned before, with cancer. He has just been taken into hospital. I'm waiting for more details.

TR - I hope I haven't offended you by my comments. I've been hurt by the judgement of fellow Christians, and I'm afraid that might have affected my answer. All I can say, thank God, that He is my judge and no other.

DC stands for Darling Children, GABD! Sweetheart - you have got an awful lot on your plate atm - you have four children and you have been through the heart-wrenching reality of a stillbirth - you are busy and stressed and tired - don't beat yourself up too much - no wonder you are feeling down - Your life has been abducted by aliens!!! Seriously - I am praying for you - keep posting here - we all care deeply for you, but not as deeply as God - never forget that - He is holding you!! Let us know what response you get to the email - good for you for sending it!

texasrose - I'd say those theological issues were definitely enough to warrant going to find another church personally; but I do understand your other reservations too - Continuing to pray. We were part of a Baptist Church when DH and I got married - wasn't as "extreme" (iykwim!!?) as the one you go to, but DH isn't Baptised by "full immersion" so couldn't vote and be a "full member" etc, which was a bit . The church had loads of other great points there and we loved the poeple, so we stuck with it!

Hope you have a lovely evening at the cinema MaryBS - What are you going to see?? Praying.

Gosh! DH has stuff he wants to do on the computer so I am going to scoot now.

Love, [[hugs]] and prayers to all! xxxxx

DC stands for Darling Children, GABD! Sweetheart - you have got an awful lot on your plate atm - you have four children and you have been through the heart-wrenching reality of a stillbirth - you are busy and stressed and tired - don't beat yourself up too much - no wonder you are feeling down - Your life has been abducted by aliens!!! Seriously - I am praying for you - keep posting here - we all care deeply for you, but not as deeply as God - never forget that - He is holding you!! Let us know what response you get to the email - good for you for sending it!

texasrose - I'd say those theological issues were definitely enough to warrant going to find another church personally; but I do understand your other reservations too - Continuing to pray. We were part of a Baptist Church when DH and I got married - wasn't as "extreme" (iykwim!!?) as the one you go to, but DH isn't Baptised by "full immersion" so couldn't vote and be a "full member" etc, which was a bit . The church had loads of other great points there and we loved the poeple, so we stuck with it!

Hope you have a lovely evening at the cinema MaryBS - What are you going to see?? Praying.

Gosh! DH has stuff he wants to do on the computer so I am going to scoot now.

Love, [[hugs]] and prayers to all! xxxxx

Whoops!

Evening all! GABD, I too suffer from anxiety/depression related to childhood abuse, and am currently on ads and have been for past year.

An odd thought occurred to me whilst putting ds to bed - not sure where it came from! - but was thinking about the hymn which contains the line "slow to chide and swift to bless" (Is it praise my soul the king of heaven?).
Anyway, it reminded me what a truly fabulous parent God is, because if we follow that example and gently chide our dcs wrong behaviours but praise enthusiastically for good behaviours, we instill in them the sense of love and achievement that every human craves.

Does that make sense - well how fab is that!!!

Hi all

Very quick update from me am now 31 weeks at GP's antenatal appt. I am measuring 37 weeks so have been booked for a Consultant visit and scan next week, so might get to find out whether a boy/girl after all, am also anemic so am now on iron supplement to add to my other medication

Joy!

Though at least that hopefully means I wont be taking any more dives anywhere! and explains current tiredness levels

Please pray all will be fine am worried about what this extra scan may mean, but am trying to look at it positively.

Am still suffering with the motion sickness but am still avoiding taking the medicine ok.

Praying for you all and God Bless xxxx

Oh and on the depression front, yes most of my adult life

Have a hormone imbalance which they dont know a lot about, that can cause me to have states of terrible depression, also had very bad AND and PND as well.

Have had counselling, but due to the cause of the depression have resisited medication because I think it will make things worse, and they dont know enough about what is going on to monitor me properly.

Hi this is my first post on MN and just wanted to say Hi!! I have been lurking for a while and I don't really know where to start - but I guess you have to start somewhere.

worzella welcome come on over to the bible bashers r us thread on chat and tell us something about yourself, and if you can't find it tell us here.

CCM - lovely thought "slow to chide and swift to bless" - dunno about just applying it to children, I'm quite happy with it applying to me!

CD - we never went to the cinema, the films we wanted to see finished too late and DH was too tired, so we went down the village pub (first time together in 2 years living in the village! DH had been with the men's group before, though). We had a lovely evening, touched on what was stressing him out, but mainly we just enjoyed each other's company - it was great!
Definitely need to do it again sometime!

Hi, just a really quick one as I'm tired!

Thank you for your mesages - Mary how could I be offended? WEll I'm not, anyway! I really appreiate your comments as it's good to hear someone's perpective who is not in the midst of it all. I don't think these issues are going to go away...

HI Worzella! (coooooooooooooooool name!)

Hi again GirlsAboys - (why that name??) Hope you are okay.

Hi weirdbird - hope you and your baby within are doing well! Have you got a big big bump then? I was anaemic when i was pg (still am a bit now) so had to take those iron tablets...(poo lke charcoal...sorry, far TMI, esp. for a refined thread like this!!!)

God bless.

TR - phew, glad I didn't upset you. Catholicism has its rules too, but in a different way. Absolutely fine so long as you fit their ideal, but devastating when for whatever reason you find you can't... Praying for you, anyhow, that you find the right path to God for you.

Many times I feel He is telling me there is more than one route to him; that the rules and regs of it all are less important than knowing Him and loving your neighbour.

Hi, just a quick request for dd1 as she has started with tonsilitis. Huge temp (39.2 - although it has come down with calpol/nurofen and she does tend to be at the high end of normal anyway) Also prayers for ds, he has a terrible tummy from the abs given to him for his excema, so we are now relying on sudacrem to get him better (anything else he seems to react to). And prayers for all the N3 family, that dd1's bug won't spread and that I will be able to handle my anxiety about the dcs being ill (I burst into tears tonight when dd1 was at the docs with dh, and dd2 started to cry too - I felt so awful).

nearlythree its horrid isn't it when their ill, praying that no one else gets this bug seems to be loads of people with it atm.

I'm a bag of nerves again this morning, and most of the night too. Was breathing into quilt at one point to try and get rid of the panic feeling.

Have I mentioned that ds goes into hospital on the 10th Nov - not looking forward to it at all.

Good morning all

A quick visit. I've promised myself some housework time today. MN is soooo much more inviting . . .

Thanks for your encouragement re yesterday's post Mary. (And so glad that your evening with dh was a success.) I posted in haste with two dss battling in the background yesterday - didn't feel right to leave it there, as it was really written with half a head! However, in the calm light of morning . . .

Texasrose. Wow! Huge sympathy. It is soooo difficult to settle in anywhere after you have been so happy in your previous home/church. It
sounds as if you have a very clear idea of the strengths and of the limitations of your church. I'm not sure that this is a situation others can comment on. As others have said, this sounds like a situation in which you could be asking God for very clear guidance. You know the sort of thing - you pray and then one day everyone seems to be talking about St Poppleworths (or where-ever) and then you find Bible verses which weren't there last week, which also point you there (Sorry does that sound flippant?!) and it all makes sense to you (although sometimes it is not what you were expecting before) and is in line with scripture too.

NASW - Hi. Good to see you back. I have truggled with depression - pnd with both boys, not properly treated (my fault - I didn't like to make a fuss!) But had symptoms before then too, so it's been lurking for a long while. For me, it's mainly stress related. Have identified with doctor that if I can address the issues causing me stress, that the depression abates, so haven't taken ads yet, but it remains a possibility if I can't get ontop of things.

GABD - good to meet you! (What does your name stand for?!) Special prayers for you at this time. So very sorry to hear about the loss of your little one two years ago. What a
terrible, terrible time to lose a baby, at full term. Please, forgive the direct question, but did you get counselling for your loss then? Grief can be so debilitating, and could be a factor in how you are feeling now. (I was recently able to direct someone to Cruse for bereavement counselling after a miscarriage - they are lovely people, who work there.)

LWTG - glad that you are feeling better today. Don't feel a fraud. You are allowed good days! Thank you God for sunshine! Prayers for you in your wonderful work. How lovely it must be for people to be looked after by someone as caring as you.

Mufti - love the idea of a prayer group specially for husbands and also loved the description of your dh as "not saved YET". I too felt that I was brought into my husband's life and family for a reason, and married him after much prayer, believing that God could use me there. It is still hard though - especially as I soooo want him to see God's love and peace and life in me, but he also sees all of the messy,
stressy bits too!

OK housework calling. Please could I ask for prayer that I get something done today?! Motivation seriously lacking. Prayers for you all too.

God bless.

Prayers for everyone to have the kind of day they would most like to have, and that it is filled with love and blessings aplenty.
For anyone with worries of any kind, I pray that the Lord lifts you up and stills your whirling minds to give you the peace you desire, and that your prayers may be answered.

Feeling tired (as ever) and a bit edgy today. Dont think the tiredness helps. Feel like my mind is running at a million miles an hour, thinking about abuse and all its horrible complications - sometimes it seems so all encomapssing, like it will never end. Please pray with me for guidance through my ordeal and healing.

Also bored in the office - must get motivated and do something!
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CCM - praying for real lasting peace for you. Posting here and talking about what you have gone through will have stirred up a lot of thoughts and feelings for you. I am one person who has benefitted from your honesty recently, but do be aware of what it will have cost you. Bringing things to the surface - like stirring up a muddy puddle - does make thought clouded and confused. You will need to either give yourself plently of time for those thoughts and feelings to settle, for the bits to sink to the bottom and for the peace and clarity to recover, or to seek help in getting rid of the remaining bits. That would probably mean counselling, and talking face to face with someone. There are good organisations who can help. Praying that you will find the right route for you, Honey and that you will know peace and joy and love in your life in abundance.

Praying for motivation for you too. (And me! Must get back to that housework.)

Only a quick post as DD's are playing downstairs and I am sure the lack of screaming won't last for long!!

Praying for you and your BIG bubba, weirdbird - praying for peace and reassurance - let us know how the appointment and scan goes. I have anemia too (had it for all three of my PGs) so every sympathy - I recommend Flouradix - doesn't give the constipation the tabs give you - available from most health shop - expensiveish, but worth it!! [hugs]

Hello Worzella and Welcome!!

Glad you had a good evening with DH Mary - was praying lots honey!! You MUST do it again sooooon!! How is it going with you mum staying??

N3 - Tonsilitis - yuk, poor DD1 - praying she would get over it quick and the rest of your house would remain healthy and strong!!

[[hugs]] lwtg - Keep posting, we care about you honey!!

Hello NQSTM!!

Gotta go before they kill each other - v.tired today - please pray for uplifting and energy, thank you!!

Have to go organise some tea before i take dd to the dentist to have 2 teeth out for her brace. Really don't want to do anything tbh but hey ho.