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

I am still having to be quite quick on the PC as it still makes me feel ill

So apart from me I am still keeping up, but just praying for you all, wish I could comment as well, but know I am here supporting you andas others have said this thread is amazing

"Hugs to all" xxx

No real news about our minister and so would still value prayers for him and his family. The medics have said it's a very unusual set of symptoms...

Podmog - praying for you in the church situation - I think most people find talking to strangers difficult and I would hope that they were not just being rude! Hope that you feel like you can perservere

CD + LWTG - praying for you both - your situations both sound stressful...

Texasrose - you always seem so positive and wise! Hope you are feeling better today

ah wierdbird can I swap with my dh then?

Brilliant that you are enjoying each other so much.

Dh still being really short with the kids and driving me insane. He says he going to get an appointment with gp because his head is going round in circles. Also says that spiritually he is really struggling like there's no point in being there, which has been so obvious for a while. I don't know what to do to help him.

Will things ever be the same again?

Weirdbird - so glad your pregnancy is "cooking nicely".

LWTG - if your DH is anything like mine, trying to help him only makes him worse! I ignored mine, and atm, he is "almost" back to normal. He is even joking with me again. I told him I'd bought some books online. He asked if it was with his credit card. Told him no, it was Christmas presents I bought, I only used his card to buy my religious books! (thats whats happened the last 2 times I bought books on Amazon - I picked the wrong credit card ). Sorry, not making light of what you are going through with your DH. All I can say is, if your DH is anything like mine, you have to let him come to you for support, otherwise (if he's like mine) he goes into baby mode, with tantrums, and expecting to be mothered, and nothing you do will be right.

Worzella - praying for your minister.

Podmog - praying for you and your church. My mother has this saying "blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed". A bit flippant I know. But there ARE some positives coming out of what you are saying. Maybe don't try so hard? Or don't expect too much? The devil is at work here. You've got a good vicar there, but he has to find his feet. Pray to the Lord and look to see the positive in what is happening with you. Squash any feelings of negativity - trust in the Lord, for truly He is working in your church, I can just feel it...

The Lord is working in me too... not too sure what is going on at the moment, but trying really hard to trust in Him, and wait for Him to tell me. I feel blessed. I can also feel the devil trying his hardest to disrupt things, but I'm not having any of it. Sorry, I know I'm rambling, I think I'm going crazy sometimes. It all seems to be happening a bit quickly... (but I'm loving the highs )

I'm at home today - have an upset stomach

How is everyone else? CD - how are you today?

to upset tummy Mary - hope you feel better soon honey. Thank you for your kind words and your kind offer of a phone call - we actually have a completely seperate phone line from in-laws and we have our own seperate space with bedroom, kitchen / study and sitting rom (all miniscule, I hasten to add!) at the top of the house - so phone calls aren't a problem - except that I can't really talk during the days cos of the DD's and I am just so bloomin' tired in the evenings - how rubbish am I!!? Thursday afternoons are usually best for me, would be lovely to talk sometime, though I'm not great on the phone.

Ahem.

I am glad that DD was able to have her party, Podmog, but poor poor DS, STILL feeling poorly sick - praying he gets better soon and the asthma improves. How are you doing? Praying for your feelings about church (know EXACTLY how you feel honey!) - but soooo glad your Vicar is so lovely and trying to be supportive - keep plodding along, it will pay off honey!

to your crohns being bad atm Texas - praying it improves soon, poor thing. xx

Great that you are feeling so good atm weirdbird - to you getting this far, absolutely fantastic - hoping the scan goes brilliantly, let us know! Go Bean!!

Continuing to pray for your Minister worzella - thank you for keeping in touch and up-to-date honey!

[[hugs] lwtg - thank you for your lovely, thoughtful and kind words, they meant so much. Praying for you and yours, esp your DH right now. [hugs]] You know where we are. xx

Should go into town and hit the shops in order to do these shoes box thingys for church they have every year .....

ugh at poorly tummy marybs.

ds not quite himself - he's been through so much in the last week bless him.

dd told dh last night that he stresses her out (so what do they do to us then?)

Don't know what to write just now but hey thats the way it goes, keep writing stuff then deleting it.

mum is going home tomorrow and just feel we haven't done anything except look after ds which was the intention obviously. Long periods of silence we really don't talk about things if you get my drift. sigh

lwtg - [[[hugs]]] xxxx

Mary - I don't seem to have your home email address! Not quite sure why, but didn't want to send an email to your work address so I know you are not there today - Could you email me from home and then (hopefully) I'll be able to reply!!

Off I go ......

Hi all

Just a quickie - I am working - honest! hugs and prayers to all of you,

CD, so to hear it is general downness, and worrying about coping with the DDs. Praying for you honey, and that you get to move soon.

Podmog - glad you were able to play and sing on Sunday, continuing to pray forthe church situation, and for poorly family

Longway - praying for your DH, thyat gp will be able to help, and that God will really speak to him. hugs flower.

wierdbird, praying for the baby, and glad that you are enjoying your church.

love to you all

Just checked Bishop Mike's blog - and Anthea is going home today or tomorrow. Praise God for his mercy!

My stomach still hurts

Now here's a cut and paste that you'll be pleased to see! God is good!

We had a consultants appointment yesterday before Dave's CT scan, I have to say personally I hate them [the appointments not the consultants,before you all start fasting and praying for my ungodly ways ] and am usually very close to being sick as we wait in the waiting rooms...yesterday was no different...Hey I could waffle on as I usually do but I do now have to cut to the chase [bless God I hear you say ] After talking Chinese to us for five minuets or medical jargon some would call it,Dave just plainly asked "does that mean I'm disease free?" to which the doc said ,as far as they could tell .................YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!We both just sat there not quite knowing what to do or say...me always the together one [yeah right] sat and cried,Dave just sat there with the biggest grin on his gorgeous little face. We asked once more just to make sure we had heard right and he said the CT scan is something that they obviously need to see but with what the PET scan was showing he would be very surprised if anything came up. He said it was looking good very good indeed!!!

You know I don't really know what else to say,words seem so very frail if you know what I mean,there just doesn't seem to be words strong enough to even begin to say thankyou to all you amazing people out there who have stuck by us through the thick and thin....there have been some very dark days I know.....how do you even begin to then think about how you thank God ??,I am honestly just so gob smacked at the moment, all that keeps coming out of my mouth is thankyou ,thankyou, thankyou God.......if any of you have a wider vocabulary than me then all suggestions will be gratefully received.

We still have lots of appointments etc to attend because of managing the transplant but that's not a problem and obviously things need to be monitored. I'm most certainly not taking the edge off what I've just told you ..our miracle has arrived but I'm also aware that we will need our backs covering for some time,please can I be cheeky and ask that you continue to pray over us for sometime more,I'm sure you know where I'm coming from with that request.

Just one more final thing just to encourage and remind us all......do you remember me going on about November?? Looking back I never really did explain did I,infact I'm not going to go into to much detail now because I want to copy some of the things down so you can read for yourself how God told us Nov would be our break through...I just wanted to put that thought back in our heads that God had said these things way back in march and then confirmed His word...who's talking Chinese now!!!! I'm sorry not to explain it properly but I really want to get it spot on and I haven't the time to fish everything out,I'm getting ready to go up to Sheffield for 2 days to see my sister...can you believe its a year since my mum died!!! Yesterday was a real kick about my mum cos after the good news I so wanted to be able to phone the old chicken bird up and tell her....I really really missed her.

Anyway my love, gratitude and anything else that's lovely goes out to you all...I'm sure you will but make sure you shout out very loud today a big thanks to God for His faithfulness and love

YAY

that has brought a tear to my eye! God is truly fabulous and keeps his promises.
Hugs to you for your mum.

Forgot to add on my last post - when I was sobbing on the settee, dh told ds to give mummy a cuddle. He clambered on my lap and said "Don't worry mummy, bob the builders on now for you!" Ahh, bless him.

I so want to rant back at my 'friend' but that will make me as bad as her. Please pray for me to keep my composure and not start yelling at her next time we meet!

Hugs to all. Marslady's news is just so magnificent, I can't stop smiling!

Mars - thats fantastic news! Praise the Lord! I am so so please to hear it!

CCM - Bob the builder gets everywhere - I paraphrased him in my sermon "working together to get the Lord's job done" . Praying that you can keep your cool.

Fab new re Anthea, and fab fab fab news Marsy - thanks for the update

how you doing CCM?
xx

Way to go Marslady! Thank you, thank you, thank you God sounds good to me!

A flying hello to all.

God bless

wow fantastic news mars God is good.

brill news about anthea too mary.

cd i'm going to keep telling you you are a wonderful mummy with fantastic little girls who love you soooooooooo much, i'm sure what your going through is hormones racing and the devil having a jolly good dig.

ccm you will keep your compusure because you are better than that

dh left phone behind this morning and its recieved a text so want to read it but also don't because I want to trust him and if i'm honest there's always that fear factor of what i might find if I do read it. (that was the way i found out about dh affair with my best friend btw, on a text to his phone)

Bonjour!

DD's in bath, just popping in quickly before I am summoned!!

Hi Panda - You are lovely!

Thank you for the update on Bishop Mike and Anthea, Mary and for update on Dave, Marsy - WOW!! God is just so good - praise Him - Thank you Jesus! Wonderful news that Anthea is coming home and that Dave is "disease free" - incredible - Just what I needed to hear - God is at work!!

Praying for your poor tummy Mary - how is it now??

Thank you, thank you, thank you lwtg - [hugs]] and xxxxx

Best go - summoned!!

Stomach still a little tender. I've just had dinner, see if that causes a bad reaction... thanks for asking.

How are things with you and yours, CD?

LWTG - really feel for you and your dilemma. If you do look though, you'll feel bad if its innocent, and you didn't trust him, and you'll feel bad if you find something. Bear in mind that even if you do find something, doesn't mean he's doing anything about it. Apart from his nerves about this abuse case, has he given you reason THIS time to suspect he might be seeing someone else? If not, then you might best leave well alone. I am praying for you both.

I'm a glutton for punishment. As well as my own 2 tonight, I've got a third child - M & K's daughter (both parents are out on church business). Please God they ALL go to sleep at a reasonable time! I've put them in separate bedrooms, as last time DD and R. kept each other up till 10:30 and got up at 5 the next morning!

Mary - you ARE nuts - when are they having your two for the night!!!!?

I'm not so bad - have emailed you - hurrah!!

Will be praying that they all go to sleep at a reasonalbe hour - v.sensible putting them in seperate rooms!

Hi all,

have decided to write a letter to my friend to express all of my feelings about her behaviour - but not send it. Things are just whirling around in my head and i just want to shout and swear!
WAs talking to my counsellor last night about how her behaviour is so similar to the abuse - she behaves totally inappropriately, I react and am made to feel its my fault, then she tells me that if I value her friendship I won't tell anyone else! I may have suffered as a child but I sure as anything won't put up with this as an adult!!!! . She has raised some very buried feelings, and I have NEVER been so angry (largely because my anger was buried behind a huge pile of denial).
So looking at the positive - she's really helped me connect with feelings about the abuse!!

He does indeed move in mysterious ways!

I got rid of one of mine on Fri eve and gained two others at 12.30 I was threatening to take them home if they didn't shut up and go to sleep. dd3 woke them up at 8a.m ha ha that'll teach them. So know how your feeling marybs.

text was from someone at work. no he hasn't given me any reason to doubt him as such but his behaviour jsut feels like it did 18 months ago and makes me very sad and I know i'm on his back all the time but i'm scared - I can't cope with him feeling like this, last time it led to the affair what will it lead to this time?

How did we go from ministers to this? Gosh life is so fragile and its a good job we don't know whats around the corner.

LWTG - HUGS am praying for you and your DH, wish I had some words of wisdom to offer you

All that comes to mind is.

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding

Also have a song running through my head, don't know if you know it but its called

Great is he who's the King of Kings.

If you dont have it, I can email it to you on MP3 for you to listen to

Kathye

LWTG - have you told him you're scared? I just opened my bible. Found Proverbs 29:25 "The fear of others lays a snare but one who trusts in the Lord is secure".

God bless

Mary x

CCM - got one for you too. Proverbs 29:20 "Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that."