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

ok girls i need a miracle. Can't get a new gear box for the car, so can't trade it in. Can't afford new car without trading this one in so what we gonna do?

Hi Kyte

Lovely to 'meet' you. Of course you can join in. It's lovely to have you on board. Praying for your friend, whose situation sounds very familiar . . . Praying that your wise words will bear fruit in her life.

LWTG [dad] at your news of your car. Praying for that miracle for you, and for dh. (I had missed that he had been to the doctor - but hurrah for that! It is a good first step, more than many men will take)

Mary to hear about Liam. Does this trouble date from before he went to the home, or is it since he has been in residential care?

Mars - praying for Charleymouse

Mufti, Sooz, Wierdbird - good to 'see' you! It's so nice to know that there are people lurking and praying out there, even if you don't have the time to post.

My energy is back a bit today. Thanks for your prayers, girls.

God bless all.

Oops - that should be not [dad] LWTG!!

And looking back through the list, sorry that you are feeling low Mufti. [[[[hugs]]]]]]

Just a thought LWTG. A friend of ours had a gear box die on them this summer. She worked her way through yellow pages getting quotes and eventually found a little man near Birmingham - 100 or so miles away from us - who did it for one third of the price anyone else was offering. She just spent an afternoon on the phone working her way down the list, and struck gold at the end of the alphabet of course.

Worzella - sorry to have ignored you, Hun! (How does CD normally do such efficient responses to everyone without missing folks out?! Respect, CD!) Prayers for you and your ds too - for energy, wisdom and peace - what a lovely request list!

OK going to put a child or two to bed now! G'night all

Hi folks, just popping in to say hello.

Hi Kyte! I will pray for your friend. WElcome to the thread!

Mary so about Liam. I will continue to pray for him, poor soul. Where I work there are so many kids who reach their teens with all this baggage and damage and my heart breaks for them...

LWTG how is your dh now? My dh went through a stressed out/low patch earlier this yr and I remember going off for a drive just to pray for him and sensing that God was saying so clearly to me 'Let your gentleness be evident to all' (that's in one of the epistles - can't remember which! ) and not to go wading in with my advice etc but just to let God touch dh's heart and do His work rather tan me trying to do it for Him. It's hard tho, as I know only all too well...

Mary I still haven't phoned the vicar. Oh dear. What a coward. Keep asking me tho. I need to get my head sorted out re. church and I need help! Badget me until I shake off my fear and go and do it, please, please, please!!!!!

Love to everyone!

Badger me, I meant!

TR - how about trying to find time today! Just say a prayer or two beforehand to give you the strength and courage to do it "have faith!", and think about what you want to say. If you don't want to say much and just want to arrange a meeting, then something like "Hi, you probably won't remember me, but I was at ... I've got some issues in my mind about going to church and was wondering if I could meet with you to talk about it?"

NQSTM - good idea about phoning round. The trouble with Liam started before he went into care. He got mixed up with some troublemakers, and was probably just tagging along (he doesn't have many friends). Other SIL took him out the other day - said they had a really good time.

LWTG praying for your DH. Try not to get too worried, as you say, give the Prozac chance to work.

Marslady - any news yet on your friend's DD? Praying for her...

Kyte, welcome!

I know all about carrying guilt around, not accepting I'd been forgiven! This is an excerpt from a document I did for selection for lay ministry training (I was completely untutored at this stage, so apologies to everyone if its a bit naive!). Firstly read the parable of the Prodigal Son - I then took a line from it:

"?this brother of yours was dead and has come to life, he was lost and has been found?

This, above all, has significance for me. How that can comfort all of us! When we?ve done wrong, gone our own way, ignored what is right. Then, when we?ve hit rock bottom, perhaps been too scared to ask for forgiveness due to fear of rejection. To stand or kneel before God and say ?I am not worthy? and to feel His love enveloping you? picking you out of the dust. All the fine things ? the robe, the ring, the fatted calf. They never even mattered to the prodigal. What was all important was that he had his father?s forgiveness, his father?s love. The welcome he received was far beyond anything he could have hoped for. He probably appreciated his father?s love more now too ? because he had ?lost? it, had been away from it, and now was encompassed by it ? because you don?t appreciate what you?ve got till its gone. We can take comfort from the prodigal?s plight and forgiveness by his father. When we turn from God and turn to sin, when we exclude ourselves from His presence, if we repent, we can be ?found? too!"

You would not BELIEVE how good just studying that parable made me feel - it really spoke to me - I think you can see that, in what I wrote... God's blessings on your friend, I hope she can come to terms with being forgiven! She'd feel so much better!

texasrose make that phone call woman - you won't relax until you do.

The problem with the gear box isn't the cost as he is really trying his best to get hold of one for us its the fact that there just isn't any available, he's sent loads of emails off made loads of phone calls and to no avail.

After working out how much money we have got I think we're about £1k short so not so bad am going to ask sil later for a loan That will completly empty us out and we will have not a penny to fall back on so just have to pray that nothing goes wrong in the mean time.

Am off to hospital this am for appointment about dd flat feet and a pre op appointment for me. So will see you all later.

Dh ok unless he has to go to church which is so sad but I can't 'do' his faith for him and the more I push the more he's going to back away.

Ended up in tears again last night at practice it all just feels so helpless.

Sorry i've rambled and not acknowledged anyone else but I have read through honest.

ds is really not very well temp of 39.1 in the night and now I have to drag him to the hosp for our appointments (calpol in hand)

LWTG - I am just in awe of how you cope managing four little ones plus looking after dh and yourself too! (I managed to get to the dentist after 18 months of meaning to, last week! And I've only got four of us to look after.) Big hugs, Hon. Your dh must be dealing with a huge amount, after the last 2 years or so, which have involved a lot of change, guilt, stress for him. Church can add to the pressure, as it involved thinking about other people's expectations of us (and our own expectations of ourselves). A break from church can, in my experience, make it easier to get back in touch with God and His love/ support. Praying for him - and you all.

TR - if you haven't phoned her by now, send her a Christmas Card and say that you will be calling shortly for a chat. Then you'll be on your way.

Flying through. God bless all.

Right! I've done it ........

MN Christian Prayer Request Thread Take Nine

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