MN Christian Prayer Request Thread NUMBER NINE - Moving into Nov - Topping the Active Convos!!??

[CaptainDippy]

longwaytogo - Really struggling atm, feeling depressed and . Currently having counselling. DS has surgery on Nov 10th. Prayers for lovely lady she met at work who is 61 and in end stage Ovarian Cancer, she is so not ready to die.

Nanou1 - Prayers for her as she gets more involved at church!

MaryBS - Prayers for balancing work, Reader study, and family life. Prayers for fellow Reader's dad who has terminal lung cancer, which is inoperable. Prayers for tutor who has fallen off a ladder and fractured his skull. Prayers for DH's niece who is PG and in v.serious amounts of debt. Lots of prayers for Liam (DH's nephew) who has ben placed in care for the next 12 weeks. Praying for a miracle to be worked in his life. Prayers for her bro who is going to Iraq with the Red Cross for 6 months, he leaves behind a wife and children in Germany.

TexasRose - Prayers for colleague at work who TR has been having issues with and who has various personal issues. Lots of prayers for 4 yo DD who is displaying rude and violent behaviour which TR is find v.hard to deal with atm. Prayers for TR's Crohn's Disease which has had a nasty flare up recently. Prayers for God to show TR direction and to help her make a decision about church.

Bethron - Prayers for her DS who has severe Epilepsy and who has recent started going to a special nursery.

Weirdbird - BIG prayers for PG - feeling and uncomfortable and v.low. [[hugs]]]

Bishop Mike and his wife Anthea who were involved in a nasty car accident earlier this month.

PandaG - Pray that God would reveal his plans for her, for this next stage! Prayers for her relationship with DH. Prayers for friend's Grandad who is v.ill in hospital with a duodenal ulcer.

katzg - Prayers for friend who recently lost her babies at 20 weeks.

MarsLady - Dave continues to do well, although a recent PET scan showed a "hotspot" remaining on the site of the orginal tumour. Praying he would recover amazingly. Simon died - prayers for his wife Mandy and the children. Prayers also for a mum from school who was given just days to live.

Steppenmum - Prayers for DS who is going through a rough patch atm and for difficult situation SM is experiencing at work.

NotQuiteSoTiredMum - Prayers for DS1 who is struggling at school.

Sooz - Has been v. recently - got some Anti-D's from dr which were no good. Prayers for amazing uplifting!

Jockey - Prayers for DS who has not been speaking much, but who has been making some progress recently - praise God!

NearlyThree - Has been v. recently, having panic attacks etc and has been seeing counsellor. Prayers especially for relationship with DH. Prayers for baby DS who is ill atm. Prayers for the family of her DH's friend who died recently, funeral is v.soon.

Podmog - Has been feeling a bit , v.tired, up a lot in the night with DS' excema and is PG. Prayers for DD who is being bullied at school.

girlsAboysD - Has PND and is struggling.

harrisey - Prayers for sore throat for DH's bad cough.

Astrophe - Really feeling and struggling atm. [hugs]

mufti - Prayers for lady she met at clinic today who is suffering from dreadful panic attacks.

CaptainDippy - Prayers for potty training with DD1! Contining prayers for hopeful house moved - can't think of anything else right now, too tired!!!!

Prayers for MN!!!!!!!!!

Love, [hugs]] and Prayers to all. xxxx

Off to work in a mo, so can't be long.....

Texas - [[[hugs]] Praying for you with your difficult work situations honey - Keep posting, we'll keep praying!

Footprint honey - that is our purpose - I am glad we can be of some help - I am sorry you have been so knocked sideways and pray that you will be back on track asap. [[hugs]

High Ho High Ho, it's off to work I go ......

Well - I presented my bible study this morning... and they LOVED it!!! The tutor thinks I should do it as a 2 part study in Advent. The other tutees both asked if they could use it! Wow! Thank you Lord for inspiring me! They particularly liked the modern day relevance I introduced to it (I talked about sowing seeds in pot plants, about how much extra care they needed, but blossomed if looked after, and about moving to a bigger pot! )

Praying for you CD, as I have been since I heard about you all.

Footprint - praying for strength and support for you too.

TR - sounds like you handled that situation at school really well. Praying that your light will shine through in such darkness.

Worzella - praying for your minister. Very scary. We just have to put our faith in God though.

Harrisey - well done on the baptism! So VERY VERY pleased for you! And many prayers for you and your course!

I'm nearly at the end of my first module now - all the work is done for it, bar tidying up and final touches. I just need to submit it all formally. Start the OT module 2 December. I hope my new tutor will be as good as this one!

Mary - - Praise God!!

Good evening everyone, how are we all?

I'm feeling very down worried about dh he is acting like he was 18 months ago, short tempered, opinianated, shouting at the older two girls. I don't need to be reminded of what he was like before life went so wrong. He is refusing to acknowledge that he is this way so I don't know whether its me over reacting or whether there is something going on.

But please pray that life gets back to normal very quickly because atm I want to leave.

[[[[[[[[[[hugs]]]]]]]]]]]]] lwtg.

Don't know what to say really but I am praying for you. If it's all got a bit much, is it poss for you to just go for a walk or get out of the house for a while? Or for your dh to?

Love and peace to you.

He's taken the older two to youth fellowsip at someones house as our evening service was cancelled as the heating has failed.

I am just soo peeved with him, it just makes me so sad and angry that certain ways he behaves just reminds me of what he was like. Maybe part of the problem is that my mother is here and when ever there are people here he tends to show off, behave differently - even though he says he doesn't/

Hi all

Just got back from another weekend away.

CD - have you seen FIL yet?

Mary - so glad the Bible study went down well, very pleased for you.

LOngway - praying for you honey.

TR - sorry to hear that you are feeling so drained. Praying God would give you peace and hope in your workplace, and support from the teaching staff.

Wierdbird - how you doing?

Praying for you Footprints, that you would be able to cast all your cares on him for he cares for you.

Hugs to you all.

Evening! Just popping by to say hello! Nice to have you back Panda - FIL left us a card on our stairs to say sorry, which was nice, but a bit of a cop-out imho. Would like to have a proper chat with MIL and FIL, but feeling too scared, don't want to upset the apple cart, iykwim!!? Feeling a bit peeved at them anyway cos DH and I just wanted to pop out to deliver a couple of bits and asked if MIL could keep an eye on the girls; but for some unknown reason (she wasn't busy, just watching TV) she simply wasn't able. Makes me so cross, they are worse than useless.

Grrrrrrr!

ANYway - praying for you lwtg - [[[hugs]] How is DH atm? Are there any contributing factors atm, stress at work, illness etc?? How is DS??

Gotta go - egg on toast calls ........

LWTG - my sympathies are with you. Mine has been as miserable as sin all weekend as well. I've prayed, and I've come to the conclusion that we should offer our DH's up to the Lord (although not, tempting as it may be, as a human sacrifice )

Went to a service today in my home town, in the church (C of E) where DH and I were married. Felt lovely to be back there - I'd emailed the Vicar to let him know I was coming, and we had a lovely chat afterwards. Such a lovely man! DD was the only child in the Sunday school (there was a children's service later), so she got to go up at the end of the service and tell the congregation what she had made, and what it meant, and read out the prayer she had written. She was so confident and brave, I shed a few tears!
Particularly poignant for me was that my bible study was on the parable of the Sower, and he was the priest who started me back on the road to God!

marybs that is lovely

what is it with men? He will be back in soon and no doubt I will end up saying something when we go to bed (if he comes before i'm asleep that is) and he will deny that he has been acting like it and will say he's always the same. But he's not he has been different last couple of weeks now I know he has a lot on his mind (possible court case about him being abused as a child) but we don't think there is going to be enough evidence to go to court and i'm not sure what thats going to do to him. In fact either way if it goes to court or doesn't i'm seriously concerned about the consequences tbh.

We have been through such a lot in the last 18 months and just wish life would calm down just for a while.

Offering our DH's / DP's to the Lord does sound like the best solution Mary, I have to agree - although the human sacrfice bit is also tempting ......

Bless your DD & her little presentation in church, glad you had a lovely time!

Please pray the coming week is much better than the last two week's have been - dreading waking up tomorrow already and haven't even been to bed yet!! Thanks guys ......

{hugs] to you, I hope you can sort it out. Sometimes its "least said soonest mended" thats best. If he's got all this on his mind, maybe he needs a bit of space? I know its a bit hard on you, but having it out with him might cause more problems than its worth. Praying for you both...

CD - that card is the coward's way out, but at least its a peace offering. As you're (hopefully) leaving in a couple of months, I'd accept it with good grace, knowing that you've taken the better part. Take care honey {hug}

I went to Evensong tonight. Thought I'd better check it out, as I've got to lead it at some point in the future... need to learn the sung parts first ... EEK!

Can't wait to leave!!

Praying that it all goes smoothly for you!

Hello all!

I was just reading through the latest messages here and I was so struck by how supportive you all are. Each of us here has our own burdens but we pray for each other and express care for each other even tho we are miles apart. That's something really special.

God bless you and give you the grace you need for your day!

Praying for you all guys. Especially those with DH problems, LOngway, praying today is better than yesterday, and that you can support DH through the process of deciding whether the case goes to court -

CD - praying for you honey - is it FIL that is getting you dwon, or just general downness? may God be with you through this no matter what, and may His rod and staff protect and guide you.

TR - how is work this morning?

Harrisey - I was baptised as an adult, after infant christening and teenage confirmation. I was a christian when I was confirmed, although my parents were not when they had me baptised. Adult immersion was a very special occasion for me - DH and I were dunked one after the other. Praying it will be a significant time for y ou.

CD your situation sounds terrible, I pray for patience and strength for you and your family.

MaryBS great news re study keep up the good work!

LWTG praying for you and your dh. Has he had emotional support (ie counselling) about the abuse? My dsis hasn't and she swings form normal and rational to a teenager from hell (she's 35).

TR you're so right - what a supportive group we have here. God bless us all.

Had a bit of a shocking weekend - someone who I thought was a very good friend sent me a vitriolic email telling me how I was careless, callous, and dispicable because I deliberately put other peoples childrens lives at risk. She also said she knew how little regard I had for her and her child, and that my own ds was safe with her but not with me .
The reason? It was chucking it down with rain and I offered her a lift home (1/2 mile away). She didn't have the car seat for her ds so declined.
I rang her up to talk about it and she ranted down the phone, telling me my behaviour was totally unacceptable. Made me cry because I can't believe friends can treat each other in that way.
Now I'm just so angry that she can pour out such bitterness and hatred, then send me a second email saying she never said I was a bad mum !? And act like I'm the one in the wrong and she will decide when to forgive me! (sorry, ranting like a teenager now!)
I've not responded to her since the phone call because I will say something that I regret.

Hi there! Yes we are a really supportive bunch, aren't we Texas?? This thread keeps me going so much, it is a real lifeline. In response to your Q Panda - I have been feeling low for a couple of weeks now and I think the FIL thing just exacerbatd everything. I am finding being a mummy really hard atm - I feel so useless cos I chose to have these beautiful children and now I just feel incapable of looking after them properly. I am sure a lot of their difficult behaviour (esp DD1) is cos I am coping so badly atm - my stress and lack of calm is causing them to be disruptive and difficult. Feels like it is my fault. Just wish I could pull myself together. I am just really low atm and trying so desperately to keep my head above water. I just feel exhausted and want so much for someone to just come and help me out, but at the same time I think lots of mum's cope in much worse situations than this, so why can't I!!? I feel bad asking for help cos this is my bed, I made it and I should lay on it. I am just struggling so much, my head is in a spin. It is real effort to get through each day. I dread getting up in the morning atm.

I am going to have to go cos DD1 is bellowing for me.

I am so sorry your friend treated you like that CC. It must have been a shock. Perhaps there is more to it than just the issue with the car seat?? I guess you can never be too sure what is going on in a person's head / life, iykwim. Praying for that friendship to be restored in Jesus' name. I personally see nothing wrong in your offer of help. I know it is illegal etc, but I have taken lifts on occasions without a car seat. I guess everyone feels differently about these things. [hugs]

CaptainCaveman at your 'friend', With words like 'despicable' it's hard for her to claim that she didn't mean to be harsh!

Special prayers for you CD and LWTG.

Texasrose - thanks for your comment. It is good to see how much support there is here. (Wish you hadn't commented elsewhere that your name sounds a bit pornstar-ish!! It's really hard not to imagine you up to alsorts, whilst writing to you now!!

Nothing to report in the Notquitesotired household this week.

God bless all.

Thank you for the special prayers honey - Nice to hear from you!

CCM - so at your friend - she'd no right to be like that! How does she think people managed in the days without car seats? Incidently for a one-off journey, its not illegal if no car seat is available. You'd have thought she'd have been grateful for your thoughtfulness. Definitely OTT!

CD - praying for you darling - you're not a bad mum! If it won't upset your ILs, we could always have a chat sometime. I noticed on our phone bill you (or rather, your ILs) use the same phone provider as us, which means free calls any time of the day!

God bless

Mary

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Ha ha Notquitesotiredmum!

I can assure you that I am not, nor ever have been, a porn star (altho a friend did once accuse dh and me of being secret nudists based on our dcs' love of taking all their clothes off )

Oh Podmog, churches can be funny places can't they? I think half of it is to do with British reserve - it's not that people don't want to talk, they just don't know how to sometimes. We used to go to a very big church and every week I'd see people sitting there alone, looking awkward after the service so I made an effort to talk to at least one person on their own each week. It was an uphill struggle sometimes tho. All I can say is, if it's a good place, stick with it and give it time and pray for some genuine friendships to develop.

CCM - [hugs] It really hurts when people accuse us of being bad mums, doesn't it? Praying you get some real encouragement that will show you what a great mum you really are.

Crohns is bad again . I'm feeling very tired and I've been having d&v all through the weekend. Not nice. Dh has been v. supportive tho and dd (4yo) has been remarkably compassionate and loving. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up, she's said that ever since she could talk. She has a real interest in the mechanisms of the human body and asks very detailed questions! Bless!

Love to you all.

cd you are a wonderful, wonderful mummy who loves her dd's we all have times when motherhood seems just too much and thats nothing to do with the fact that we have chosen to have children. You are under a lot of stress atm so its no wonder that your feeling like you are.

Hello all, am feeling quite happy and at peace at the moment (apart from doing the random, pregnany bursting into tears over people lark ), still loving our new church, love the fact that I come away from each sermon feeling like I have learnt something and been challenged to change.

Everyone has been very friendly and welcoming and DD is already feeling completely at home there which is great.

My next scan is the 28th Nov at 9.45 so will know more after that, but have been praying that the bump will stay the same size and it doesnt seem to have grown over the last few weeks, but can see a lot more of bumps limbs when they move...

Apart from that DH is being amazingly supportive and I feel really close to him really enjoying each others company etc.. in fact it reminds me of when we first met and seemed to have so much to say to each other that there isnt enough hours in the day, he is also being really soppy for him, phoning me up during the day just to tell me how much he loves me its wonderful