Christ is Born! Halleujah!! MN Christian Prayer Request Thread TAKE NINE (again)!!

[CaptainDippy]

Right. I know I promised to try and do it yesterday a/noon, but was waaaay to hectic!! Anyway, here are prayer request summaries from November. Here's a fabtastic December with lots of answered prayers and fabulous, God-filled Christmasses for all!

"Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells ......"

MaryBS - Prayers for brother who is serving in Iraq for the next 6 months, prayers for his wife and children at home. On-going prayer for friend Judy who is in hospital recieving Chemo, her cancer has spread. There was a stabbing at Mary's local secondary school earlier this month, one pupil was stabbed in the neck. Prayers for her DS who has been waking up with nightmares recently. On-going prayers for the course she is on and the work she needs to do for it and for all the church stuff she is involved with this Festive time. Prayers that her DH would become a Christian!!

MarsLady - Simon's wife and children got through his funeral at the beginning of the month, continue to pray for them as they adjust to him not being with them any more. Praise that Dave's recent scans / test showed that he is DISEASE FREE!!

weirdbird - Coming towards the end of her PG! Praise God bubba is still hanging in there. Praise that recent scans show that everything is going ok. Prayers for DH's job situation.

Sooz - Has been feeling v. recently, so prayers for serious uplifting! Prayers for twins as they settle into pre-school.

2nervesleft - Prayers for friend who has been diagnosed with breast cancer - Praise God scans / tests have revealed thayt he cancer is only in her breast! Prayers as she embarks on treatment.

katzg - Prayers that God's plan for her would be revealed right now. Her FIL died in the middle of this month, prayers for the family.

harrisey - Prayers for DH as he struggles with depression. Prayers for them both as they work to complete essays etc on their course. Feeling a bit run-down atm. Prayers as they prepare for Baptism!

worzella - Prayers that she would feel more secure and less worrysome! Prayers for DS2's sore mouth following a recent accident. Prayers for Minister of her church who has water on the brain and is under-going tests / treatment to determine what is wrong. He has a DW and young family.

longwaytogo - Has been v. lately. Teenagers driving her nuts!! Prayers that DD (4) would learn to sleep through the night. Prayers for DH who is really struggling and being quite difficult atm. Prayers for car sale - that something amazing would happen soon! Prayers for DS who is poorly and has bad asthma.

xena - V.confused and struggling atm. Has had a very tough year.

footprint - Needs lots and lots of love and TLC and prayer right now. Feels she cannot go on. Also prayers for her mum who is feeling and lonely since her father died.

TexasRose - Going to be starting a course at London School of Theology in Jan, lots to do, v.busy. Prayers regards finding a new church. Feeling very stressed, prayers for positivity and focus! Prayers for maintainance of Crohns. Prayers that her bro would become a Christian!

DratherBdiggin - Has been struggling and feeling v. Prayers for her as she goes for job interviews....

Podmog - Has been on bed rest and whole household has been poorly. DS particularly poorly. Expecting baby in Jan, so lots of prayers for R&R needed!

2babies - Prayers that their house sells soon!

MayMay - Prayers for SIL as she has been diagnosed with cancer and does not have v.long to live. Particularly prayers for her DP as he copes with this devestating news. MayMay has written her SIL a letter as she wants her to know Jesus before she dies, letter has been well recieved - prayers that she would recieve it in her heart! SIL currently v.ill in hospital, needs to clear up infection before Chemo can commence.

PandaG - Prayers as she and a friend organise two church Christmas events; and for her as she helps organise school Christmas Craft Fayre.

Jockey - On-going prayers for DS' selective mutism, which is improving - Prise God!

CaptainCaveman - Prayers for problems she has recently had with a friend.

martianbishop - DH has been diagnosed with cancer - Prayers for them all as they cope with this devestating news.

fannyannie - Has recently found out she is PG for the third time. Her DH is really struggling to accept the pregnancy.

kokeshi - Has had sudden profound hearing loss - praying for a miracle than it would return. Also prayers for dad who is in hospital following blood clot.

kyte - Prayer for friend who is a young mum and is really struggling atm.

mufti - Feeling atm.

Xavielli - Prayers that she, her family and in-laws would find wonderful new place to worhsip soon!

charleymouse - Expecting twins, but following scan, there are serious health fears about the twins, particuarly one of them. Prayers for the twins and for her and her family as they struggle with this news.

CaptainDippy - Prayers that house move would go through and HAPPEN SOON!! There's more I could post about, but that will do for now!!

Keep praying everyone!! [smile

Podmog and Weirdbird, I'm so sorry to hear of your different dilemas but my prayers are with you both! just think in the new year you will be holding your precious bundles!

I need just a little prayer request, we started the 'super nanny' approach last night with putting twins to bed and leaving them to get themselves off to sleep, shock horror, no they have never done it before, yes I know they are 3 now but both in same bedroom, been very difficult, blahdiblahdiblah excuses excuses!

Anyway its not going too bad, they only got up once or twice last night, (after 2 solid hours screaming and '169' attempts to put them back to bed, record or what!) HV promised me it would take 4 nights!

Please help me pray that they feel peace at night times and safe in their little beds.

Thank you
Soozi

(Yes was rather like a letter)

dh had a fit this evening. Has never had a fit before, in the process he managed to dislocate both shoulders, then reacted to the morphine and forgot to breath for a while.

Hopefully they will give him a brain scan tomorrow. Please pray that a space is available to scan him to either give us answers or set our minds at rest.

dd1 rang the ambulance she was a star bless her, she was terrified. dd2 went to a neighbour and waited outside for the ambulance they were both so scared. The babies have slept obliious thank goodness.

lwtg - how scary, I'm really sorry, I didn't know your dh was ill, not sure how I've missed all that? How is he doing now? Praying hard for you all.

Sleepysooz - good luck with the dts, I am about to start the same thing with ds (2.7) as I've always held his hand to get him to sleep. Praying for patience aplenty for you.

Dsis went back to work yesterday and said it went ok. She's still not able to collect her dd from nursery tho as she starts drinking as soon as she gets in from work. I'm continuing to collect my dneice for her until she is well enough to do it.

The funeral, I'm told, was very sad and happy at the same time. They had all her toys and paintings from nursery on the altar. I found out yesterday that she died suddenly at home. Coroner ruled out sudden infant death and has recorded a verdict of death by unknown cause. Poor family, I'm heartbroken for them. Keep praying for solace for them.

love to all, hugs, health, happiness and peace of mind. Pray that we all have a Christmas filled with love, joy and the holy spirit. xxx

lwtg - sorry, just re read your post and made sense of it!
My friends dh has had a couple of fits but scans etc showed nothing, no epilepsy etc. Consultant has said it's brought on by stress and tiredness. Could this be the same for your dh?
Is it your dh who is going through family issues re abuse? (sorry if I've got mixed up!)
x

LWTG - praying for you and DH - it must have been so scary

Podmog and Weirdbird - praying for your pregnancies...

And to the rest - praying peace at this Christmastime

Oh and Sooz - praying for patience with the sleeping.. we're having similar problems with DS (2.2)- the frustrating thing is that until 4months ago he would go to bed without a problem, then his sister arrived....

dh is now home. He has had brain scan, and heart scan all normal.

He does have a fractured shoulder though - the one that is dodgy and waiting for surgery on anyway.

I am soooooooo tired.

bang goes him cooking the chirstmas dinner

LWTG sorry to hear about your DH. Both my DH and my mother have had one-off fits due to stress. DH's happened before I knew him. I was there when it happened to my mother. I hope and pray its just a one-off for your DH. at his fractured shoulder - how did he do that?

I'll be cooking the Christmas dinner, (as well as fitting in a church service!) on Christmas Day - DH won't be given anything more responsible to do than peeling the veg!

CCM - praying for that poor family. I can't imagine how that must feel . Praying for strength for your Dsis and for you as you support her and for your niece.

WB and Podmog - praying for you two, and looking forward to good news for you. A Christmas Day birth would be magical for the rest of us, but for your sakes, I pray it happens at a convenient time! . Podmog, how did it go with the consultant?

Sooz - how is the sleep training going? Praying you get some sleep too!

Lots to do - but my sermon is ready. Now I can concentrate on the million and one secular things I've got to do to get ready for Christmas

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wouldn't it just be brill if all our probs went away for Christmas. I am so tired have so much to do and just can't be bothered to do it.

mary we not sure what happened with his shoulders - they both dislocated so whether thats to do with shoulder probs he already has and because he was in spasm they dislocated we don't know. As for the break not a clue again. Don't know if its because weakness already there or whether it was done when manipulating it back in that did the damage.

Flipping nightmare is all I say. He is in agony and because of previous addiction problems with codiene and tramadol he is limited to what he can take

Podmog - praying that you make the right decision for your baby. So glad that baby is facing the right way!

LWTG - how are things? Hoping and praying that the pain is easing for your DH.

My sermon seemed to go down well this morning! Which is good, as this time I didn't have anywhere near so long to prepare and practise it!

It struck me this morning, that this is the first Christmas I've had since I felt "born again". Praise the Lord and sing his praises everyone . I feel really good

Anyway, I'll probably look in later, but everyone have a Happy, Peaceful, Restful and Prayerful Christmas (not necessarily in that order!)

Hello everybody!

Sorry I've not posted for a few days - I have been reading and praying for you all.

Mary I pray that your first truly chrstian christmas is such a special time for you! And that the service you lead will be lovely and joyful (and not too stressful for you! )

Podmog all the very best for the baby! Look forward to hearing all about it!

LWTG I've been praying for your dh. Hope he's mending well by now. Hope you have a nice, peaceful christmas together!

CCaveman well at least the funeral's over now. I still can't begin to imagine how I'd feel if that were my family.

Well can I just ask for a SOS prayer request if anyone reads this today? I am having a very bad time with the Crohn's Disease (hence no posts from me lately...) and can hardly eat (even drinking water makes me feel sick ). This has been very bad for over a week now and I feel so weak physically. I'm not sleeping very well because I'm having diarrohea through the night...So could you please pray that I get better PDQ in time for christmas? Dh is being great, doing most of the jobs, but it's a bad time of year to get ill!

Well everyone have a great christmas! God bless!

hello everyone. dh is still in a great deal of pain - no sleep for either him or me last night.

I took the dc to church this morning and just ended up in tears as the two lo's were jst being children and I felt one couple who are not regulars were looking at them.

I just wonder how much more one family can take before they crack under the strain.

I feel so overwhelmed but the words that came to me on the way home from church were 'my grace is sufficient for you'

roseylea just praying that chrons settles to you can enjoy christmas.

mary brill that your sermon went well. I've got one to think about for the 21st Jan.

You are all suffering one way or another, I pray to god you all get some relief from stresses and illnessnes soon, very soon.

Our new sleep routine (supernanny approach) is terrible, we can put the dts to bed over 200 times in one night, really stuck what to do next, as they are now poorly again, high temps, rashes, ear infections, throat infections, colds coughs the lot!

But!!!!!!!! still looking forward to tomorrow, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!

Happy Birthday Jesus. Hope you have all had a really good stress free day.

hmm why do I know that christmas was originally a pagan holiday and actually not the birth day of jesus at all

not that he had a birthday cause he didn't exist and all that

I shouldn't have posted anything, I am sorry

no excuse but a reason . I am drunk , haven't drink for months and months and it's alwasy easier to say things on a forum than to someones face

I stand by my right to think what I like but should not have intruded on your thread. PLease accept my apology

apology accepted, hope you have had ahappy and peaceful day

apology also accepted over here too. Hope your not too drunk and don't have too much of a hang over in the morning.

I don't come on these threads very often, but I wonder if I could ask you to think of my niece in your prayers - she had surgery last Wed to remove a facial tumour, which turned out to be benign, but she is only 22, and it seems so hard on her. My sis is distraught, is worried about possible facial paralysis following the op, and was in tears on the phone to me today. I am now in tears; we're going over there on Wed, and obviously I'll see what I can do to help. My mum died of cancer, so of course that's in our minds; and we had a cousin who died of a brain tumour. It's so hard to figure out what to do to be helpful; but this is a start. Thanks to you all

Hello everyone!

Fauve I'll remember your niece in my prayers!

Well christmas Day in our house was great! The dcs have been given so many lovely pressies and we had a really nice dayt with loads of relatives popping round. Amazingly there were no tantrums!

My stomach is still pretty bad. It was really bad on christmas eve, to the point where we drove to church for the christingle service and I felt so sick that dh drove me straight home again . It was a bit better yesterday and I was able to eat some of the (fantastic!) christmas dinner. I was still throwing up and having diarrohea all day tho.

It's a horrible illness tho; it really saps your energy. The medication I'm on now doesn't seem to be working, but I am loathe to go onto steroids as they can play havoc with your health and give you a whole new set of (could be even worse) problems. So could you please pray that I really can get better, that my body will calm down (Crohn's is to do with your body attacking itself) and that I can start eating normally again?

Well the dcs are playing with their new playdoh set - thank God for Playdoh!

Hope you all had a lovely christmas! Speak to you soon.

FGR will pray for your niece and for the family, just one step at a time and i'm sure your presence will be enugh without finding the right words to say.

at chrons roseylea but [, good on you.fsmile] at being able to enjoy some of christmas dinner. Hope it settles for you to day.

Where is everyone? enjoying family time obviously

Fauve - praying for your niece - YAAY to it being benign though!

LWTG - that's a lovely message about grace, and relevant for all of us I think. Hang in there, will keep praying.

Sooz - how are your family, with all those coughs and colds?

We had a really lovely day too, although tiring. I went to Midnight Mass, and the church was full! M. tailored his sermon to suit the "once a yearers" and told a few jokes, like what would have happened if the 3 wise men had been three wise women?

They would have asked for directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, cleaned the stable, made a casserole, and brought sensible presents for a baby!

I didn't get to bed till 1:30, the children were up at 5:30, we went to church again at 10:30, having opened all the presents, then as soon as we were back from church, it was into full swing getting dinner ready for when my family showed up! My brother said it was the first year he'd had Christmas dinner at the time someone had said (I said 1pm and that was when it was!)!

It was also the first Christmas where nobody at all fell out, so Praise the Lord for that! . They all went around 5ish, and I went upstairs for a lie down and woke up just before 9, to find DH had put the children to bed!

Oh and Christmas Eve, DH went to the crib service, so that was the second time he'd gone to church in 8 days! (he's told me he's not going to make a habit of it though .... boo). That was really lovely too! There were prayers for those whose babies are due at this time, so I prayed for Podmog and Weirdbird.

Oh, and praying for your Crohns, RoseyLea , I missed your post. Glad you could have some Christmas Dinner though!

Hi LWTG - looks like we were posting at the same time-ish!