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

Do let us know when you get a definite date for the scan etc - Will be praying!!

Hope you have a lovely, reassuring visit from your mw today honey!

[[hugs]] for you and Bump!

Hi Marsy - glad the funeral went ok, will continue to pray for Mandy and the family.

Wierdbird - how was the MW visit? Will pray for you and the baby, and against AND.

Worzella, will definitely pray for peace for you, and that you have more motivation to pray. I find that when I pray I want to pray more, but when I don't pray, starting to is hard, and thus begins my downward spiral. Being part of this praying community has been really good for motivation these last few months - praying it will be for you too.

TR - sorry to hear that the colleague left . praying that you will be blessed and a blessing in your workplace

Mary - any news of your brother? How is Liam doing?

Katz - would love to meet for coffee, Thursday pm good for me, just not next week - email me please! pandag at safe-mail dot org dot uk.

Well good news, friend's grandad should be out of hospital by now

Also, it was DS's turn to give a little talk at school today - he decided to do it on going to New Wine in the summer - took in his Groundbreakers t-shirt, the bag he made and his Massive cd - Christian pop for 5-7's. Says the talk went ok, and the teacher played one of the songs - be strong and put on the armour of God. DH and I helped him structure his talk, hope the teacher didn't think we were proseletysing (I know that is incorrectly spelt but can't be bothered to get a dictionary out!)through our child - it was completely his choice of topic. Think I am breeding an evangelist!

pandag that is brill that he had the guts to stand in front of his class and talk for God.

If you get 5 then look at the biblebashers r us thread at my musings and let me know what you think.

weirdbird really praying for you hun we had a bit of a worrying time with dd3 scan wise so know that feeling.

longway - thanks! don't think he was brave, he is 6, and has a very strong childlike faith, pray it continues. Do not know how much he actually talked about God, more what he did at NW, and how much he enjoyed Groundbreakers, playing with his mates and learning to ride a bike without stabilisers, but I am still delighted with him!

Evening all

Popping in, whilst feeling a bit poorly - there's a nasty virus going round here, which makes you cough a bit and feel really really tired for about two weeks! I've been shattered all week (and have just had to apologise to poor dh who had it last week, and didn't get much sympathy. well, he didn't look or sound very ill!)

General (if rather sleepy) prayers all round!

God bless. G'night. Yawny emoticon

Oops. Computer hiccough! I sent that last night. Feeling perkier today, hurrah!

God bless all.

Glad you are feeling perkier, NQSTM - Long may it continue!!

Awwww, PandaG - Bless your DS - How fab is he!!?

Feeling today - Don't know why, just one of those days, iykwim!!!? Please pray my Spirits are lifted soon so I can face the day with a positive attitude and a genuine smile!

Hope everyone else is ok - Praying for you all. xx

ohh come on girls where are you can't let too long go without keeping this alive.

prayers for coping with my dd's they are driving us insane (teenagers) who'd have em

hi all!

Just popping in to say g'day (as our dear aussie friends say when they phone at 7 a.m.!)

are you okay now CD? hope your spirits lifted and you had a good day.

I've been dealing with narky teens all day at work LWTG and I have no idea how I'm going to cope when our 2 reach that age. THe other night I was woken up by the sound of a oud argument in the street as an 18yo wanted to go out at 2 a.m. and the dad was saying no - she clacked off down the streets in her heels and I heard him starting up the car to go after her and I thought 'how on earth would I deal with that?' When they're 2 you can physically pick them up and strap them in a pushchair but it must be so much harder when they're 18...

anyway, I'm praying for a lovely weekend for you all!

God bless

Hello again. Thanks to all for your prayers. My friend has had her first bit of good news and found that the cancer is only in her breast. What a relief. She will have a masectomy in 2 weeks and then Chemotherapy. Thank you for your continued prayers.

Hello again. Thanks to all for your prayers. My friend has had her first bit of good news and found that the cancer is only in her breast. What a relief. She will have a masectomy in 2 weeks and then Chemotherapy. Thank you for your continued prayers.

Ooops sorry.

yes captaindippy , i do know what you mean , i do hope the day went well for you.
some days it can just be that the sun isnt shining, but it did rise today, and by gods grace it will rise tomorrow

just checking in girls to make sure we all ok, and praying everyone has a happy injury free bonfire w/e. Off to local firework display tonight organised by the fire station - I love fireworks.

I'm scared what if theres nothing there when we die? What if we belive in nothing? why would a loving god make children die of horrible illnesses? I can't tell anyone in RL how I feel, I still go to church everyweek and read bible notes but feel like i'm doing because i'm sscared that when I die that god will be there and I want to do the right thing- gosh i'm confussed

xena God loves you as his child there is no way he wants a fear relationship with us, think of how much you love your dc and then multiply that by zillions and thats no where near how much God loves you. Even the hairs on your head are numbered.

As for is there anything after death then thats where faith comes in. Can you look at the wonders of say a new born baby or the biggest mountain and think there was no one there at the begining of all that? There are so many wonders, so many unanswered questions but I believe that God is there, and that heaven will be a place where we are all healed of physical, emotional, spiritual hangups.

Now as for suffering there is nothing I can really say apart from probably what you have already heard in the past about God. He doesn't want us to be puppets on a string so will not stop the effects of life/sin being part of our lives, but is there in the aftermath of what life throws at us. All that is shown in different ways - friends that support us, pray for us, medical knowledge and support of hospital/hospice staff etc.

Try to read things in the Bible that talk to you about you being his child and how much he loves you. A parent child relationship isn't about fear its about love so why do you think that because we can't see/ touch God that we should be afraid of him?

Hope that helps if not feel free to say.

ei it does longwaytogo and what I'd tell others in the same position. We have had a tough year and it has just made me anxious and doubting. My fil and grandad died within a week of each other I was very ill in hospital so I didn't get to see much of them, DH was pulled every which way at the birth of Ds2 he cried relive that we were both safe (he had been at the birth of the other 3 and never cried before) both of us had got to the point where we didn't think that both baby and I would get through the labour, because I had a clot they were worried it would travel in labour the risk between thick blood and the clot moving and thin blood and hemorraging sp? had to be weighed up -plus I had colisatis and we were worried that DS would be stillborn.

DH has hijacked the internet, as he has to work, so this is a very quick post.

Xena - I too had cholestasis, and shared your worries when I had my two. I now use the knowledge I gained to help others going through it, so if there's anything you want to know, if I can help, I will.
God has touched my life in so many ways, and he has made me strong in my weakness. I know he is there, and I no longer fear death. I will pray for you - what I do is listen before I pray, and sometimes things become clearer.

Now I'd better give DH his laptop back, but I am thinking of you all and praying for you, just don't have time to read it all and respond.

Today we are cleaning the church, its incredibly dusty after all the alterations to make it more wheelchair friendly yet in keeping with a grade 1 listed building!

Tomorrow the bishop is coming, so I've got to be on my best behaviour

xena, hi!

Just want to say that your year sounds v. much like my 2005. My dd's excema was so bad that she was in constant agony and none of us were getting any sleep. Then my grandfather died of pneumonia, and when he was in intensive care we learnt that having been very well off he had been defrauded of all his money over the last 2 yrs and had hidden it from us out of shame . Then my MIL died v. suddenly 2 months later which was one of the worst things that's ever happened to me and dh. Then 3 weeks later I got pneumonia and developed many complications which meant I was in hospital for a month with various operations. I know that dh and my family were worried that I wouldn't make it. I had a long recovery afterwards, and for the rest of the yr I was being tested for lung cancer and bowel cancer. I was also suffering badly from Crohns disease all through all this. So as you can imagine it was a hard time, a real onslaught of all the worst stuff that life can throw at you.

I guess the thing that got me through it was just saying over and over again to God, 'right God, this one's too big for me. You cope with it, you take it from me'. That's what the cross is all about - He takes our problems, illnesses, complications and sadnesses, and he deals with them for us. I also lisened to worship music a lot in hospital, and I'm sure that was a fantastic response, just to worship Him and pour out my heart in love to HIm even when I was suffering . When I was a bit better I read Bible verses to the old ladies on the lung ward with me!

Also I can't count the number of christians who were praying for us, in our town and in other places. I felt amazingly privileged to be carried along by the grace of God, and the prayers of others.

At the end of 2005 I was given the all-clear for cancer and earlier this yr I was given the all-claer from pneumonia altho the crohn's is still there.

Dh and I talked about it all and we decided that actually it wasn't the yr from hell because we (dh and I) had come so much closer together through it all, and we knew that God had looked after us and held us in his love. I realised that the most important thing is not health or long life or wealth because they can all be taken away in a moment, but what endures through it all is relationships and love (sorry, sounds really corny). There's the verses in Romans where Paul says 'I am convinced that noting, neither life nor death, angels nor demons, etc etc, can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord' (Roamns 8 v.38-39) and I feel like for me this has been tested and been found to be 100% true.

Thankfully this yr has been much easier!!!

Sorry to go on - I always make my posts so long!

Thank you TR - Tears in my eyes - Priase God He has pulled you through honey - Praise God!

Oh xena - Praying for you through your doubts and fears - Thank you for being brave enough to share them with us here - I can't answer some of your Q's fully atm, but I will try to come back later..... [hugs] One thing that DID strike me from your post is that YOU AND YOUR DS2 ARE STILL HERE!!!! God rescued you both - I truly believe that - if that isn't evidence of God's love and grace, then I do not know what is -He loves you, He rescued you!

2nervesleft - Praise God the cncer hasn o spread - praying hard for your friend as she goes through the masectomy and the Chemo - It is going to be really tough, but I pray God would pull her through and surround her with support and love. Keep us posted .....

Gotta go - DH calling .......

Hi Mary!!

Hi CD . How are you feeling?

TR your faith is AMAZING - a true testimony for all of us!

lwtg - here's hoping and praying that you all have a good time tonight! I love fireworks too!

Panda - no family news I'm afraid. As soon as I know more, I'll post...

I've heard there has been a stabbing at our local secondary school. I've no details apart from 1 pupil stabbed another in the neck. Please pray for all concerned. (I thank God my two will be going to the faith school, rather than that one, but not everyone has the choice... ).

Please pray for patience, some berk (thats polite) has just smashed the side of our car wiping clean off our wing mirror and driven off!

Thanks guys

good afternoon!

hope you are all okay and enjoying this beautiful Sunday!

Xena - I just wanted to add something to my rather long post from yesterday. These are just my thoughts so feel free to disagree or discard!

When I was ill in hospital my pastor phoned to speak to me and went into quite a long theological explanation of why God allows sickness and hardship into our lives, the complex nature of prayer and why it seems that prayers aren't always 'answered' right away...

In all honesty he could have been explaining the theory of relativity or tectonic movements. It was interesting, and undoubtedly true, but what he was saying bore no relation at all to what i was going through in my hospital bed.

I've thought about this and I think the reason wht it seemed so irrelevant was that when you're on the outside looking in on someone else's suffering, you feel a sense of injustice and therefore you want answers as to why God lets it happen. If you're a Christian and in the middle of the suffering, it becomes intensely personal and other people's opinions as to 'why' it's happening are pretty much irrelevant (sometimes v. damaging) - you know that God is with you in the midst of it all and that really is enough (IMO).

That's where Job's 'comforters' got it wrong - they were looking for a reason to the suffering, an explanation as to why this could happen to such a good person, someone to blame for the injustices of the world. Job, however, was just working it through, faithfully, on his own with God.

The only one who can give us those reasons is Jesus, and in this life the reasons we get are only ever partial anyway. It's like when the disciples were trying to work things out after the resurrection and Peter asked about John, "What about this man?" and Jesus replies, "...what is that to you? You follow me!" (John ch.21 v. 21). It is really not our business how God chooses to deal with HIs people as individuals.

We have to trust that he is good shepherd, he knows each sheep by name and he leads them in the best way for them, even if it is through the 'valley of the shadow of death' (Psalm 23).

THat's why the most healing thing is just to be there for people, to help out practically if we can, to pray silently or just to hold their hands. Deep theology defintely has its place but not in the midst of intense suffering (again IMO).

Another long one - sorry! It's just that the questions you asked Xena were very valid and I wanted to give you my perspective as someone who has gone through a lot of suffering and sickness.

Hello all, and Hi Xena - welcome to the thread . I haven't got any answers, but I will pray for you if that is ok?

TR - what a moving story - one of the questions in my Bible Study on Friday was how do I react to hearing testimony, and acknowledging that it is such an encouragement. This is one of the reasons why I am so glad to be part of this thread - thanks for the encouragement

Had a funny day at church today, I was in a foul mood all morning, really grumpy with DC and DH. One of my best mates asked how I was, and instead of shrugging it off explained I was in a foul mood, and that untidy house was getting me down. She phoned me this afternoon, and said she was coming round to help me clean while our DDs were at a birthday party, and that DH could take DS out for some dad and lad time while we cleaned. She was such a blessing, house not pristine but so much better, I've chucked out a load of stuff and feel better about the state of my house, and she was so positive about my house being a home and somewhere wher people are welcome and feel at home. What a practcal way to bless me! Thanks God for fab friends!