Christian Prayer Request Thread - Feb 2007 - The Bible Bashers Push Onwards....

[CaptainDippy]

Hello!

New Month - New Thread ......

Firstly Huge Congratulations to WeirdBird & Podmog - on the safe arrival of our first two Prayer Thread babies this month! Hello to Hannah Elizabeth & George William! Praise God for the blessing of these wonderful, precious babies - May they be the hugest blessing to these lovely families!!

Hurrah!

Right ...... In no particular order.......

Shonaspurtle - Prayers for her close friend's wee baby, Lewis. Lewis is currently on heart bypass and has now been palced on the transplant list. Things are v.critical for him - Strength to his family.

Twiga - Welcome back! Praise God for Twiga's pregnancy (due in June 2007).

Podmog - Praise for the safe arrival of George William and praying that he settles in well to Podmog Family life. Prayers for them as they contemplate community living.

Nanou1 - Should be getting Internet at home soon - yey! Nanou1 is unhappy at work - praying that something works out for her there and that her DH would get a great job too.

ggglimpopo - Lost her youngest child, Maude (2) at the beginning of the month. She died completely unexpectedly in her sleep. Continuing prayers for the family as they coms to terms with this tragic, tragic loss.

fannyannie - Praise God that her and her DH have decided to stay under the same roof and try to make a go of things. Prayers for them as they enter counselling.

longwaytogo - She and DH have decided on a trial separation. LWTG has been really, really & struggling, she and her family need lots of prayers and support right now.

Emily - A friend of Misdee and her DH Peter - Prayers for her following lung transplant surgery. She is doing well so far.

lulumama - Prayers for v.close friend whose nephew died on NY's Eve.

MaryBS - Whole family has been poorly - Mary continuing to suffering with respitory infection. DS has tonsilitis. Continuing prayers for Reader Friend who recently lost her dad, prayers for his wife as she copes (she is in a nursing home with Dementia.) Prayers that DH would become a Christian and for his constant mood swings.

RoseyLea - Prayers for church situation (settling into a church in their local area), possible new house, broken car and that Rosey's health would continue to be really good!!

Posey - Prayers for boy at her nursery whose mum died in Nov of Cancer. The family are doing ok, but need lots of strength and love as they comes to terms with their huge loss.

Worzella - Prayers for Minister who has been ill. Returning to work this week.

CaptainCaveman - Prayers for DSis who is an alcholic - she has admitted her problem and is getting help. Prayer for the safety of her DD. Thanks to God that CC is feeling positive after finishing a course of counselling!!

Buffysmum - Prayers for fantasticmrsfox/madamereyand as she travels back to this country with her children, escaping from an abusive relationship abroad.

MarsLady - On-going prayers for her friend Dave and his wife Sue. Dave is going to require further treatment to eradicate more of "his" blood and have it replaced with his sisters. Special prayers for Sue as she copes with all of this.

Toady - Her sister Jo recently died after having her life support machine turned off after a horrific accident. Prayers for Toady and the whole family as they come to terms with her death.

WeirdBird - Praise God for the safe delivery of Hannah Elizabeth - Prayers for WB as struggles with poss. retained placenta / D&C and for Hannah who is struggling with Colic.

SleepySooz - Praise God her twins are finally getting a good night's sleep! Prayers for her panic attacks.

Bobsmum - Prayers for her DS as his "behaviour issues" are investigated. Thank you Lord for her gran's life - prayers for the family as they deal with her death.

NotQuiteSoTiredMum - Prayers for her friend and her family as they deal with the death of their 15 yr old son who fell into the Thames.

PandaG - Prayers for her as she has an interview for a possible new job. Feeling v.under-confident and nervous about it.

PeachyClair - Prayers for her as she works out what to do with her "Faith" Praise God that her DS' autism was diagnosed quickly - Prayers for Peachy and her family as the adjust and come to terms with his diagnosis.

NearlyThree - Prayers for her and her family as they are having to move to another part of the country very quickly.

potoroo - Prayers for her and her family as they deal with the loss of her grandfather who lived in Australia. Potoroo will not be able to attend his funeral.

Jockey - Praise God her DS who has selective mutism went back to nursery ok after an illness!

mrsgee - Prayers for her and her DH as they decide whether to try for another baby or not.

Milliways - Has recently resigned from a job of 22 yrs to start working for a small Christian company who are "making a difference"! Prayers everything would go well there - and prayers for DH who is also contemplating a change of career!

CaptainDippy - Has been fairly low of late and has started having small panic attacks. Praise God she passed her driving test (thank you for prayers guys!! ) Prayers for her as she copes with two toddlers and a big bump. Prayers for lady in her Book Group who has malignant melanomas in both legs.

Get praying guys .....

Rosey - How about decorating the house a bit for when he wakes up on the morning, ie ballons and things. My DD was very excited when she got up and there where balloons around her door and a banner on the stairs..

GhostofMumsnet
Apologies, we couldnt get a babysitter but can I still hand in a donation to your mum?

hello all!

Thank you so much for your prayers yesterday. I am determined that today it a new day and I am not going to get all stressed out again!

Weirdbird, yes we are going to decorate the house after ds has gone to bed tonight, and we are going to let him have one of those little packs of cereal (not v. healthy ) for his birthday breakfast.

Worzella I teach English, but my job atm is as a library-based teacher, which is a very cushy number as I have enough time during my work hours to do all my prep and marking (such as there is) and I don't have to take any work home with me! Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Life is just a bit full on for both me and dh atm - he is Best Man for his brother who is getting married next w/e, so he's been off doing lots of wedding-related things. He works long(ish) hours anyway and what with the Mini needing extensive surgery which took well over a month it feels like I've been holding everything else (inc. the dcs) together for a few months now. We are a great team, and yesterday I got to the point of resenting that half of my team just wasn't there, but hopefully after the wedding things will calm down a bit.

Lorns thank you for praying for dd's allergies! (She's allergic to wheat, eggs, soya and tree nuts and peanuts. She has severe excema too, which is actually much better since we discovered about the allergies). Yes I would love to take her to a healing service. We go to a lovely church, which we have recently returned to after a break of 4 yrs during whic time we went t a v. different church which stretched us in many ways but it is nice to back in our spiritual home!

Panda I am going to say try to sod it (to an extent! ) I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to entertaining. Also my FIL has a lady-friend whom he is bringing, and I guess I want to not show him up! She is lovely, and the dcs love her to bits. He says he feels there is def. the possibility of "a future together" which would be sooooooo lovely for both of them (she's a widow too) so there could be another wedding in the family! (As long as FIL doesn't ask dh to be Best Man...! )

Also Panda, thank you for sharing about feeling 'grumpy with God'. I pray that in His unique way he will woo you again and warm your heart..."I am your husband" says the Lord (Isaiah somewere - 54?)

Love and prayers to everyone else, to those I haven't mentioned by name.

Hello everyone, hope this lovely Sunday finds you in good form. I still have billions of happiness particles floating around me and my life so very happy to share, just help yourself!!

Trying to decide what to do today - want to go out somewhere but where to?? Might visit a local country park and feed ducks with ds. I mean feed bread to the ducks, not feed ds to the ducks!

Afternoon - DH has gone over to hall to set some stuff up for the Party this afternoon - Can't believe my Big Baby Girl is three!!! Is very excting, but getting stressed about how we are going to negotiate all the prep - girls are sleeping atm and DH is out taking stuff to the hall, Pass the Parcel is wrapped and cake is decorated (it looks fab if I don't say so myself!! Will post pic later....), need to get girls up and into Party frocks (cue: lots of screaming and tantruming, esp from DD2) and be there at 2pm for bouncy castle delivery. Nothing for me to do now though, so just catching up here!

MTGAA - We went to Drusillas Zoo - it a small animal Zoo about 4 miles down the road from where we live - was great!

Yey for leaving job Milliways - praying ....

Lorns - What is AS or ASD??????

Worz - Praying for energy and decisions about your mat leave to be simple too!

Rosey - [[hugs]] Gosh you sound as manic as me atm, bless you hon - Praying for peace that everything goes ok for DS' B'day - loving the idea of unhealthy cereal and decorating the house!! Don't feel guilty about CM either - It is ok and the tea will be lovely!

Panda - Praying for "grumpyness" - I am pretty grumpy atm too, so every sympathy, well done for admitting it to your Bible Study Group though - a step forward ... [hugs]

Ghost - Soooo pleased the concert went well and raised such a great amount of cash!

Must go and wake up DD's - really hope they are not too peeved.

Gosh I guess there will be lots of us with 3yr old parties over the next few weeks from what I can remember. Havent even thought of ds bday party yet and its only ummm let me think opps only 22 days away. Note to myself to get organised me thinks.

By that time dh will have moved out and he is on a training course the w/e of his bday anyway so looks like it may be down to one person to organise i.e. me.

I'm in hospital on wed for day surgery, girls have counselling on Thurs then they have band practice, then straight after that we have a St. Davids day concert. Not much chance of resting is there. Hope I won't be in too much pain or have nasty after affects of anaesthetics.

Captaindippy - AS is Aspergers syndrome and ASD is Autistic Spectrum disorder. It's just when you said about a "Meltdown" I thought maybe you had a DC with one of these. When my DS1 with AS has angry outbursts where he is often violent we call it a meltdown (as do a number of other partents with AS DC)!

Captaindippy - AS is Aspergers syndrome and ASD is Autistic Spectrum disorder. It's just when you said about a "Meltdown" I thought maybe you had a DC with one of these. When my DS1 with AS has angry outbursts where he is often violent we call it a meltdown (as do a number of other partents with AS DC)!

Don't know why my msg posted x2 and that parents at the end not partents!

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Mufti - No we couldn't keep on the adoption list any longer as time was running out (age wise) so after 5/6 years of being on the list, after going through hell with social workers to be accepted, (well it was difficult)! we decided to have IVF treatment, I had triplets but lost them in early pregnancy, had DS1 then the twins. I feel so blessed!

Congratulations for being an adopter, we tried after DS1 but they said we couldn't when we already had a child? (rubbish excuse)

There is now a shortage for foster carers for babies in our area, my heart is in my belly cause I'd love to do it, but I think I have enough on my plate!

Good luck to all the mum's with 3yo birthdays to come, have fab parties. You'll love the transformation! our twins changed over night from terrible 2's to silly 3's!

Evening all.

Rosey, can your ds take some balloons to the cms with him - (at least) one each for everyone to play with/take home (assuming that they are allowed on health and safety grounds at cms!) My dss always love the idea of surprising other people on their own birthday.

Flying by. God bless all.

sooz, that is a reason to get turned down, especially if you had been accepted before ds 1. usually you would have to reapply simply because the family unit had changed since you were accepted before iyswim.
i know at least one person with birth children who has adopted, and she is planning to do it again, what a star.she is ,and a single parent too!
it must vary a lot between different local authorities.
you have quite a gap between ds 1 and the twins don't you, was that your choice?, don't tell me if you don't want to of course.
as i said, i am the other way round had a birth child after adopting, long and complicated story too!
your story did turn out lovely though , as you say what a blessing.

Party was absolutely fab - went really well - bouncy castle and "singing time" were big successes, as was having a "chocolate, biscuit, cake, crisp free" buffet - would recommend!! Only big yuk was having to wake DD's up from sleep to dress them and get them ready - absolute hysterics, really awful - luckily most people were late and they'd calmed down a bit by the time everyone was congregated. Both girls mega hyped up now, esp DD1 - refusing to go to bed. Hoping they will settle soon - I am knackered and just wanna chill.....

Will post pics (inc legendary cake tomrorow hopefully - still need to download from camera.)

Lorns - No, I think that DD is just (I hope ) going through "a phase". She's nearly two is testing the boundaries .... I have to say, it is scaring the pants off of me.....

Podmog - Praying for the BF, keep going honey - you can do it!!!

Argh - GO TO BED CHILD!!!!!!!

Good evening everyone - what a lovely service in my church this morning. I came away feeling very positive and safe in the knowledge that The Lord knows me and accepts me for who I am.

Ghostofmumsnet - wow &800 is a great amount to raise - well done!

Roseylea - good luck with the docorations tonight and i really hope that your DS has a great day tomorrow.

Captaincaveman - your happiness is infectious and your post made me smile! Did you have a good day feeding your DS to the ducks?!! I really wanted to take the boys to the zoo today because there is a baby Aardvark who was only born 6 weeks ago and he is sooooo cute, but it rained all day! Hoping to go and see him during the week after school.

Captaindippy - how was the party? We went to Druisillas last year whilst on a weekend break in hastings. It was fantastic - we got there as it opened and left as it closed. A brilliant, brilliant day with very fond memories!

LWTGo - I am also starting to plany my DS2's 3rd birthday party which is the week after Easter. Hopefully the weather will be find because he wants a bouncy slide in the garden! This will be my second year of organising the party alone as my H was in the deep, deep grip of depression last year so even though it was just before he moved out, he wasn't really here either IFSWIM. Praying for you this week that your day surgery goes OK and that your girls are OK at their counselling.

Podmog - cringe at the memory of milk production. Breast feeding was never something I enjoyed or found natural. I managed 6 and 8 weeks respectively with my boys before guiltily changing to formula. I understand your wish to continue due to allergies in your family so I pray that God will give you the strength and your LO the desire to arry on successfully! Good to hear you too had a great service this morning - I found our service a real inspiration.

Sleepysooz - to hear abut loss of triplets but to hear about success after with DS1 and twins. i share your desire to foster but at the other end of the scale. i would love to offer stability and support to teenagers as they start out in the world on their own. I am very aware that this will be a demanding task and will therefore wait until my boys are old enought to be self sufficient themselves. This is one of the reasons why I would like to do a degree in health and Social Welfare - that and my passion for this area! Hoepfully one day God will provide me with an opportunity to complete this study.

Hello and God bless to everyone else not mentioned by name.

Well as i said previously, I have been totally inspired by our service this morning and now know that I have to go it alone to acheive the lifestyle I want for me and the boys so tnight I have removed my wedding ring - this seems hugely symbolic to me and i have been reluctant to do it but this is me turning over a new leaf and I now look forward to growing into my spirituality and "living my life in Christ" as our minister talked about today

mumtogusandalbie - I have removed my wedding ring too a couple of weeks ago - still feels wierd and still go to take them off of a night but their not there. He took his off ages ago and i've given up the fight tbh. Just got nothing at all left to give to this relationship.

Where on earth did it all go so wrong? Feel like digging out every thread I ever wrote about the affair/ prayer request etc and seeing where it all went so very, very wrong.

Just so not having a good evening, just want to cry. Feel like i've failed as a wife, as a Christian, as a minister as everything really. Why, Why, why????

Hi LWTG - I'm sure that you haven't failed - it takes two to make a marriage work and I feel that your DH has plenty of 'issues' to make it difficult... (can't think of a way to say that so it doesn't sound crass)

Praying that you won't feel so sad

Longwaytogo - I was feeling really positive earlier this evening but am a bit of a mess now. Even though my H has been moved out since last May, I had always hoped that we might be able to salvage our marriage but like you I feel I have nothing left to give. My H has just received a "return to work" payment from his Incapacity Benefit which included an extra amount because he has children however, I am yet to see any of this money - the only person who has seen any is the landlord of his local pub. To be honest, I am really trying not to be bitter but sometimes it really is hard. Anyway - I am going to bed now and will probably have another good cry (have been crying most of the evening and am now looking very attractive with a red nose, puffy eyes and blotchy skin!) but hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. God Bless xxxx

[[[[hugs]]]]] to LWTG & MTGAA - Hoping the positive vibes return for both of you asap. Praying for you both lots. xxxx

Prayers for mine & DH's financial situation wouldn't go amiss ..... went to pay for petrol this morning and has "insufficient funds" in our bank account! DH has only just been paid - is v.bad news! DH's Church Leader's Meeting has been cancelled this evening, so we are going to sit down & "discuss our financial affairs" - Scary stuff - Please pray our conversation is led by God that we don't have massive arguments etc - Thank you! Apart from that, not too bad in DippyLand - DD1 at church club with a friend, DD2 sleeping (although I had to lie with her to get her down again ....sigh....)

Going to start making DD1's Thank You's for yesterday - she was a very blessed girlie in terms of gifts!! Just got to find somewhere to put it all now .....

How is everyone else???

morning all

Mtgaa, and lwtg - praying for you both. Sorry to hear that you are both feeling so sad. My love to both of you.

CD - will pray for your financial situation, and for your discussion with DH tonight.
praying that you have a productive discussion, and that you manage to talk without getting angry with each other.

I am starting to feel less grumpy. Had a good chat with DH on Sat., and we have agreed to have a quiet time together at 6am Mon to Fri. Also, one of my study group dropped in a Lent mediations book, with I have used, and have been told that yesterday's sermon at church was spot on for me - I haven't heard it yet, I was helping in DDS group - am waiting for it to be available on the website. So thanks guys for praying for me, and for all your kind words Rosey and CD

love to you all xx

Glad the party went well CD

Happy birthday Rosey's DS

Praying re the feeding to Podmog.

Hi all

Did not get the job as School Secretary. Probably for the best as the hours were a lot longer than I had thought. Will keep looking.

Did anyone go to the Service at York Minster for William Wallace yesterday afternoon.

Evening everyone

Mtgaa, and LWTG - prayers and hugs. I know I really can't imagine what you are both going through, but you are in my thoughts.

CD - prayers for you and your dh tonight.

JBW - these things have a way of working out, don't they? Prayers for a nice job for you to come along.

God bless all.

Hi everyone!

CD praying for your discussion with your dh re. finances tonight. I find money problems so stressful so my heart is really with you.

M2G&A and LWTG my heart goes out to you both too. I pray that God holds you in his arms of love and picks you up and carries you when times are rough.

JBW oh well, it's always better to go for these htings IMO...praying that you get a job that's just right for you and your family.

Panada so they do podcasts at your church! Very fancy! BTW I can 100% thoroughly recommend morning 'quiet times' - I have extended mine by getting up earlier and I am still finding that I wish I had more time to spend with God! It is a great spiritual discipline and I really want to keep doing it so maybe we can encourage each other!

Hi POdmog! Praying for the brfding. IMO babies; growth can be very sporadic so one week of huge growth might be followed by one of nowhere near as much. I can see why you don't want to top up with formula.

Well we are fine - ds had a lovely birthday! This a.m. I woke up dd (and dh) and we all stood around ds's bed while he was still asleep and sang 'Happy Birthday' to wake him up! The cm took him to toddlers' group where he gave a little cake to all the dcs to have at snacktime (he really liked giving them out!) He got lots of lovely (mainly Thomas-related) pressies and we had a lovely birthday tea, followed by balloon fight, and I read him one of his new Thomas books as a bedtime story. Awwww! So after all that stress and worry he was thoroughly blessed and loved today! Jesus said "Which of you by worrying can add a single day to your life?" Hmmm.....so sorry Lord for all my worry over the weekend.

And now I can relaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!