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 .....

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your lovely messages since I posted yesterday:

PandaG - I'm on the due in June thread so trying to keep up with everything there. I only have internet access at work so can't spend too long reading everything.

nearlythree - thank you, I'm trying to get rest but I'm not sleeping very well and DH has recently started snoring really badly which disturbs me. I'm still working and commuting to London every day but not getting a seat on the train, which means standing up for an hour. I have a really bad back at the moment which doesn't help things.

CaptainCaveman - thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's felt like this I will mention this to the midwife at my next appointment in a couple of weeks time. I am feeling a bit better but I have off days just like everyone else.

Captain Dippy - thank you too I haven't "met" fannyannie yet but hope to soon. Pray that all is going well with you. I wish I were due in April so I don't have to wait so long to meet my baby!

Just a general message - what a wonderful welcome I've had from you all. It really is wonderful to see how the internet can spread God's love to people who never meet in real life, and probably never will. The power of prayer

Heeeeeeeeello!

They slept! They slept! They slept!

DD's went to bed no problem last night and slept til 7am - Hurrah! Having them wake up sooooooo early the past week or so has been killing me, so am v.pleased this morning! Yey! They have been in wonderful moods this morning as a result, which has been so nice. DD1 is now at Pre-School and DD2 is napping after sitting nicely on my lap watching Come Outside and giving my gorgeous kisses! Long may it continue..... Thank you soooooo much for all your prayers - keep them coming, especially as DH and I are goig out tonight to a Marraige Course run by a local church - Thinking it will be good for us - Marraige definitely needing a bit of TLC right now!

How is everyone else today? I felt soooo sick when I woke up this morning, but seems to have eased off a little now, which is good. Working this afternoon .....

Thank you for your positve thoughts lwtg - Is a such a nice thought to think that this thread has touched lives and seen asnwers to prayer - I should hope so! Here's to another year ......

Hello again SleepyChunky - I wish my baby was due in June - they are less trouble when they are safely tucked up inside, trust me!!!! Perhaps we could swap!!? Sorry you are finding things tough and uncomfortable though - esp with the commute - You should demand a seat - you are entitled!! When do you start ML?

Actually, as many of us as poss are hoping to meet up in July (7th) in Oxford - You and your wee one (and DH!!) would be more than welcome - I'll post a link in a mo.....

Anyone else interested in the Meet-Up!!!!?

Link {http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?rn=9363&topicid=1375&threadid=268325&redir=9363\here}

First time a link has ever gone wrong for me!!

Here is is again

Thanks for the link Dippy - it's actually my 30th birthday on 6th July and I have been told by DH to keep 7th free for something special. I would have loved to come though as I was at uni at Oxford and haven't been for ages. Bearing in mind I'll have a 3-week old baby I'm not quite sure what he's planning but I hope he's taken into account the fact that I won't want to leave tiny one with anybody for very long.

Great news that everyone slept last night and will be praying for you tonight.

SC

That's a shame honey. It's my birthday on the 12th and another lovely lady, Peachy's on the 7th so I am hoping we'll be having a HUGE cake and jelly and ice-cream to celebrate - (Obviuosly, the Bouncey Castle is also for us .....) OOOh, I do hope your DH has something lovely planned for you and that he has placed a wee one into the equation - You might want to remind him a few times beforehand, you know what these men are like!!!

Ooooooh, you went to Uni at Oxford ..... reeeeeally ... how posh!!

Feeling a bit sick and dizzy. Obviously need to go and hoover cake ......

Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers. Very sadly my friend's husband died last night after a valiant fight. My friend and his parents were there, his father is a vicar so he had a lot of spiritual support at the end. At least he is at peace now, but she needs our prayers more than ever now as she faces a very different life to that which she had only last week.
Their children are 8, 5 & 18 months.
Sorry to have been so self focused, I have read and prayed for all those on this thread.
x

Continuing to pray Pepperrabbit {sad]

your poor friend pepperrabbit

Pepperrabbit - praying for your friend and her family. How awful

oh my goodness pepperrabbit, your poor friend, and poor you too as you obviously knew him . Very nice to hear that he and his family had spiritual comfort. When it feels appropriate please do let your friend know that she has our continued prayer support. Oh how very very sad for your friend and her family.

Could you please say a little prayer for me as I start to reduce my dose of citalopram? Dropped from 30 to 20 mg just before new year, and this week am dropping from 20 to 10. Praying I don't get any panic attacks as I come off them!! (no thanks!)

pepperrabbit, how terrible for you friend and her little ones, and for you. Praying for them and you.

Captaincaveman, hope all goes well for you.

sleepychunky at you not getting a seat. Can you not get signed off work for a wee while? I know how shattering it is esp. with a bad back. And remember, God gives us spare rooms and sofas for snoring dhs...

Please could you take a look at this, and pray for Marshmallow
marshmallow

Its Marshmellow not Marshmallow! DUR....

Hi, I've never posted on this thread before again, but I really would appreciate it if you could pray for my friend. She has been trying to conceive a DC2 for a year now and has suffered 2 miscarriages in that time. She is one of the kindest people I know and really deserves another baby. A lot of her friends are having babies and although she doesn't show it, it must be getting harder and harder for her to see all these new babies.
Oh and very sad to hear about pepperrabit's friend. I'll keep her in mind.

Flying by to say good morning and God bless.

Hi Belgianmama and Sleepychunky - great to "see" you.

Prayers for all, especially Pepperrabbit and her family, who are very much in my mind at the moment.

Papperrabbit - So so about your friend's DH. Such a young family. I don't know what to say except that they are in my thoughts and prayers - Please Lord, send them amazing strength and wonderful people to support them and hold them up right now. Please keep us up-to-date - and if there's anything practical I can do, however small - captain_dippy "at" yahoo "dot" co "dot" uk [hugs]

Fellow Captain - Praying for you as you reduce the Citalopram - Keep us imformed.

Hello Belgainmama! Good to "see" you -Welcome! Definitely praying for your friend and her DP as they try to concieve. How heart-breaking for them. Keep us up-to-date....

DD1 woke up at 5.30 again Managed to just about settle her, but both DD's up at 6.30 and I didn't get any extra sleep. Feeling a but yukky and very manic; but ok - Pray that I "keep my head" as DH and I have sooo much to do atm and also for us as we emabark on The Marriage Course (Nicky and Sila Lee) at church - has dragged up lots and lots of painful issues - lots of tears and anger last night and only our 1st session!!!!! Thank you guys - Love you!!

Going to check out link to Marshmellow ....

Praying for Marshmellow, what an awful sitation. Please Lord - your wisdom in this one.....

Praying for your friends Belgianmama,

CCM - praying as you reduce your drugs.

CD - DH and I did a marriage course a few years ago - never rowed like it before or since, but so useful! Will pray for you, but get some RL friends to pray too, maybe ask you r babysitter (if a Christian!) to pray while you are there. THe devil doesn't like us making a good thing better, you need protection and wisdom!

Hi Panda! Thank you for the encouragement sweetie - definitely needing it right now!! Baby-sitter is a Christian, so will definitely ask her (great idea! ) Devil is very much up for getting his claws into marraiges atm, isn't he!? Must pray hard.....

Hello to everyone.

Read through all the posts and will pray for you all. Thanks to Panda for asking how I was on previous thread.

Very sad news re pepperrabbits friend. Will keep them in my prayers.

CD I dont know how you manage to keep ontop of everything on here, but well done!

God Bless you all.

Just a flying visit from me. I had to come home from work today. DS was sick at school

He's been miserable and crying ever since, except when he was sleeping. Plus he's had a high temp. Please God we have a restful night. He's not very happy...

I bought a copy of "The Message" the other day. The translation of Paul's letters are really quite something! I was going to post a bit from Philippians, but I'll have to leave that for another day... really made me chuckle when I read it!

God bless all! x

Neither do I buggybrolley!

Hi Mary! How are you feeling? Sorry DS is not so well again - do you think it is still connected to the tonsilitis?? Praying he has a decent enough night's sleep (and that you all do!!) and feels a bit better in the morning!

Off to bed now, so "see" you all tomorrow! Night, night - God Bless. xx

Good morning all

Prayers for a return to health in your household Mary. (Tell him that Pizza is a good cure for sickness! )

Could I ask for prayers for ds1, for courage in coping with a tricky situation at school, and for wisdom for me to reassure and guide him please?