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

Merry Christmas folks!

My sister announced yesterday that she is expecting again (If you don't remember she was pg earlier in the year and was advised to have a termination as the baby had Edward's Syndrome) soooo happy for her! Please pray that everything goes perfectly this time around.

Hope you all had a wonderful day!

Bless you!

Hia everyone, christmas day went without a hitch, except DD was a bit too poorly to enjoy the evening so DH took her home to bed!

Today quite low, fed up bored, cooped up, watching silly tv all day, dts feeling a bit overwhelmed with everything, very confused with what to play with, DS1 hormonal and rude.

Couldn't carry on with the supernanny approach to bed times with dts as too poorly, DH and I have taken 2 weeks off work to do this aswell, what a waste! and can't see the light at the end of the tunnel with their sleeping routine! I feel like leaving home, very extremely dissappointed with myself!

Please god give me strength to appreciate my wonderful healthy children (although not at the moment) and my wonderful helpful DH, my fortunate lifestyle, (apart from being in big debt) DH and I both have jobs (rubbish ones) please help me be happy with my lot or get on and sort it out, stop being a lazy mardy moo! OK sooz spit ya dummy out, time out, go for a walk!!!!!!

Sorry ladies

oh sleepysooz being a parent is so so frustrating sometimes isn't it, and getting no sleep is awful. dd has just about settled down atm getting up maybe once a night to her but since ds wasn't well the other night he getting up to the loo a few times a night, so if its not one its the other.

The only consulation i can offer is that it does not last for ever. dd's 14 & 12 sleep all night now even if we can't get dd2 into bed and asleep at least she is quiet.

I've been bored today too. Have sorted through every one of dc toys have thrown loads out, put loads in bag for car boot/ebay. and have room for the new toys, so at least feel like I have achieved something today.

b & sil and nephews turn up tomorrow and we at dentist hopefully dh at fracture clinic and gp's sigh.

lwtg - thanks for your support, I went for a walk, but things arn't any happier, I just seem a bit depressed again for some reason, I get so frustrated with myself, because I have no reason to be fed up!

know the feeling so annoying isn't it those days when you feel fed up and you can't work out why.

ok I need your prayers girls. I am knackered. Every time dh moves out of the room I feel the need to go and check he is ok and not having another fit, both dd and sat here crying last night because she's scared too that Dad is going to have another fit, now I know if it's going to happen then it's going to happen and there's nothing I can do about it but I can't stop worrying.

If he stirs in the night then I am awake for hours put on top of that the two lo's waking at least once a night each and it doesn't bide very well for a nice refreshed mummy at this time in the morning and they already been up an hour.

I should go empty dishwasher, tidy kitchen have a shower but I can't be bothered, i'm close to tears already and its only 6.45 how am I going to survive the rest of the day with dentist, fracture clinic, doctors and 5 adult size rellies turning up for 4 days this morning.

I'll be praying for you LWTG. I hope your rellies are able to give you a bit of rest or help.

I'm still sick-sick-sick.

Morning all, am stuck at work today in treatment room where the patients keep forgetting to turn up! However, it allows me on here to catch up with some much needed fellowship.

Rosylea am really sorry to hear your Crohns is bad. Praying that you get some much needed respite very soon.

LWTG praying hard that you also get some respite, and that your adult guests will be alert enough to see that you need a break and offer to help out so you can at least get some sleep.

Mary, dying to know how Liam's Christmas was?

We had a lovely time, ds got a bit overawed with all the presents but was quite well behaved compared to my neice!

FGR, praying for your neice too.

Love and prayers to all, may your day be blessed with happiness and joy.

Hello, everyone, just dropping by to say thank you for all your support and a Merry Christmas to you all. Sorry I haven't been here for a while, it hasn't felt right, but I have been thinking of you!

Huge thanks are extended to all those who prayed for my neice.

I have been speaking to her alot on MSN & she sounds quite at peace with it all, even acknowledging that God had better plans for her daughter.

Your prayers have helped & your kindness will never be forgotten.

Your good wishes were passed on to her.

THANK YOU so much!!!!

Hi N3!

Good to see you again!

Did you have a good christmas?

Hi Sandcastles!

Hi Ladies. Popping in on MILs computer briefly.

LWTG - What else can happen to you and your family this year?! Lots and lots of sympathy and prayers. Praying especially that this was a one off as the posters below suggested and that you and dd will soon find peace of mind.

RL - praying for your horrid chrones, Sweetheart. (((((((hugs))))))))

Sooz - praying that you find a way forward at bedtime. We never did the sleep tackling routines. Just increased daytime fresh air and exercise and wore ours out - but then we were only doing one at a time! They do find a way of sleeping on their own eventually Hon, (perhaps with star chart/prize for staying in bed nd not waking up the other twin?)

CD - thinking of you in your new house and hoping that all is well.

Prayers all round and a very Happy belated Christmas from the Notquitesotired household.

ok girls this is what else life can throw at us this year, went to gp this morning to get sick note, pain killers and advice only to discover that dh has in fact been taking very strong pain killers for months in fact overdosing on them to the extent of 200 tramadol in two weeks then taking nothing for 2 weeks till he can go get another script. But he told gp that he only taking prescribed amount - bull. He tells me on the way home tht not the case at all.

so now he has no pain killers at all because he won't let me ask for them says he doesn't deserve to have them.

Also on top of that says he doesn't know what he wants. ie me the family etc etc.

I really don't know how much more I can take, I have been like his mother more than his wife over the years and I would just like a dh to take care of me for a change but that isn't going to happen so I may as well accept it and get on with it. This is my lot.

It was bad enough 18 months ago when we lost everything but now life is even more complicated with mortgage, car loans etc.

He is so good at putting on a face though adn hiding things obviously this is what hes been doing for years on and off, and now for months and months more secrets and secretive behaviour.

Either God has given up on me or i've been evil in a previous life.

Looking on the net overdose of tramadol causes seizures so this is probably what caused it, so he put his daughter through seeing that and it was self inflicted.

I am angry, upset and don't know how much longer I can keep this family together for.

oh lwtg. i fel like crying for you,like that would help!
i felt moved by your sentence about God, to remind you that christians have an enemy who , (hope this is a correct quote, not being very learned in bible), "comes like a thief in the night to destroy." he wants to destroy us, our relationhships etc. also if things get tough, and we start to falter, i feel that is when it often feels they get worse, and the reason , i think , is that we have a chink in our armour , and that lets him in to do more harm.
cat me if you like, i do a lot of reading on here, and not much giving, but if you want to please do, juliewirdnam at hotmail dot co dot uk. just an ear, and a virtual one at that , but it may help

(((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))) LWTG.

I have no idea at all what to say - I can't imagine how I'd feel in your shoes. Who have you got who can support you, look after you, provide a place for you to talk, to cry, to do whatever you need to do? I pray that you do find support from someone.

I can only think of Job - he went through the most awful times and felt like God had abandoned him but somehow managed to stay faithful to God and found that ultimately by allowing such hardships into his life, God had really been showing His faith in Job. IYSWIM. Not that that helps much I suppose.

Where do you live? I wonder if any of us are near enough to meet up with you. I would love to meet you.

More hugs, still can't think what else to say. xxxxx

LWTG - praying for you and your family.

Can't stop long - I've been ill all day with a sickness and diarrhoea bug . Stomach really hurts - is cramping like mad!

I want to love him and I keep telling him I do but he looks at me blank as if he's got nothing to give back.

He is in absolute agony put on top of that the fact that he is now probably withdrawing it's so hard to see him.

But how do I know when he goes to fracture clinic tomorrow he won't get another script or in a fortnight he wont go to gp and get another and the whole cycle starts again.

I really think he needs a psychiatrist I really do.

LWTG - I really feel for you! It sounds like you're having to be his mother not his wife. Is he amenable to seeking counselling? Do you go with him when he goes to the Drs - maybe they need to make recommendations. Praying for you both.

I'm feeling better than I did yesterday, but my stomach is still very tender and sore . Roseylea, are you feeling better now?

Still in a lot of pain Mary! It's a nasty thing. I feel for you with your bug!

Silly piddly little prayer request - I've got to go and get the car serviced today with the dcs in tow. The garage does it while you wait and I'm really nervous about a) my stomach being really bad while we are there, or b) the dcs behaving really badly, or c) both! We are taking loads of toys and books and I'm dosing myself up before we go.

How are you today LWTG? Thinking of you...

Message from CD "Happy Christmas and Hi to everyone - I miss you guys!" She hopes to be back online soon, is feeling a little out of it, and is finding it stressful trying to get the house sorted with the DDs around!

Please pray for me. I'm trying to do the right thing re: a family situation, but I'm not 100% what the right thing is, and it could cause a rift with DH's family...

LWTG - how did DH get on at the fracture clinic? Did you go with him? {hug}

Hi all... just a quickie to update you re my SIL. She was due to come out on Fri eve before Christmas and went and fell and broke her hip! She has had an op to put 2 pins in but has contracted another infection and since op has had severe diahorrea and is on a drip.

It is not looking good, she is very poorly, so much so that DB is spending all night at hospital tonight. Mum is in tears, DB very angry and asking where my "friend" (God) is now... and me over here not able to do a thing. It has been one thing after another with her, on top of her pancreatic cancer, poor sweetheart. Please, please pray for SIL and DB... please.. don´t know what for even, I feel so helpless and sad.

Thank you.

yes went to fracture clinic says he not to move his arm as bone could fragment off. Going to refer him to physio for his right shoulder.

I went to work this mornig and was sent home no sooner than I had got there. Gp has given me a sick note for 2 wks, has given dh script for weeks worth of tramadol at a time as she doesn't want him to just stop taking then, wants to see him next wednesday and is going to refer him to a lady who deals in prescription abuse.

He is not being very nice to me atm. Just acting as if i'm his worst enemy. I so want this marriage to work and i'm so scared its not going to.

Popping in briefly. Big hugs LWTG.

Do hope that the prescription abuse doc is able to help, and that he might go for counselling if at all possible. There is obviously so much he is locking away which needs talking through.

Hang on in there, Hon. Praying for you.

LWTG - {hugs} just take it one day at a time. He isn't himself at the moment. I've not got much experience of addiction, but it sounds to me like he's blaming you because he's not getting his "fix". You ARE doing the right thing - isn't it called "tough love"? He, in any case, is in no fit state to go anywhere. Praying for you, and my thoughts and heart is with you, as always.

Maymay - praying for your SIL, and what she is having to go through, and for your DB, that he can deal with the hurt and the anger he is feeling, and for strength and support for you and your mum too.

LWTG - Am praying for you.

Just a quick update am still Pg, very fed up, but have a lot more peace than I did, just want this to be over with and move out of limbo, also am worried that baby is going to come near New Years now as the week of the 1st Jan to the 8th is my busiest work wise (self employed) and I could really do with not giving birth that week also DD will go back to school on the 4th and there is no way I would cope with that at the moment.