Christian Prayer Request Thread - The Bible Bashers "March" Onwards ......

[CaptainDippy]

I am just so darn cheeeeeesy!!

Here's the summary of Feb's Prayer Requests ......

Shonaspurtle - Friend's 4m old DS was taken off life support at the beginning of the month - Strength and support for the family as they deal with his death.

fannyannie - Things are going well with DH! Praying for them as they give their relationship a 2nd chance and as they attend Relate. Praying for FA as she is PG with no3 esp. Prayers also for DH's work situation.

Toady - Her sister died at the beginning of the month. Prayers for the family and her boyfriend as they come to terms with her death.

morningpaper - Prayers for DD who has a broken collar bone.

saffymum - Prayers for her and her family. Her DH is working v.long hours and her 3 DS is v.hard work - She is feeling very tired and stressed atm.

CaptainCaveman - Lots of prayers for her alcoholic DSis who is currently going through intensive counselling sessions. Prayers esp for her DD who lives with her. Continued prayers as CC reducing her meds for depression and anxiety.

footprints - Currently in the process of moving house and starting new jobs etc - Prayers for the whole family, esp their little DD as they adjust to BIG changes in their lives.

longwaytogo - Continued prayers as she and her DH decide about their future. DH is due to move our of the fmaily soon. Prayers for strength and love to fill their household at this time. Prayers for a Salvation Army Officer's 19 yr old daughter who has been kidnapped in Equador. Prayers for a friend's sister whose DH has died, circumstances unknown as yet.

pepperrabbit - Prayers for her friend whose DH has died after being involved in a car crash. They have three small children.

sleepychunky - Expecting 1st baby in June and feeling v.anxious and low atm.

NearlyThree - Continued protection for her and her family. Praise God her relationship with DH is going well atm.

Belganmama - Prayers for friends who are desperately TTC DC2.

marshmellow - Lots of prayers for her as she is very confused about being PG and considering an abortion.

MaryBS - Prayers that she finds time for R&R in her busy life! Prayers for her bro in Basra and his family in the UK. Prayers for her friends whose adoption is possibly falling through.

SleepySooz - Twins are sleeping - Praise God! Prayers for DH who has been given a written warning at work - keep his job safe Lord! Prayers for her as she has hypnotherapy for emetophobia.

RoseyLea - Continued prayers for her as she makes decisions about new church and moving home.

mumtogusandalbie - Has seperated from DH since last year - prayers for the situation there. Esp for her boys. Prayers for her Vicar's son who is currently undergoing chemo for cancer.

weirdbird - Prayers for wee Hannah who is suffering from terrible reflux - Prayers for sleep and opportunities for WB to do some work!!

Ghost - Prayers for her church as they raise money for a new building - recent concert raised £800!! Praise God!!

Twiga - Feeling a bit atm - Has lot on her plate - PG, small toddler and poss of DH getting new job (prayers needed!) She also has her driving test on March 31st! Milliways - Has quit job and has a new one, which she should be starting soon. Prayers for her DH as he contemplates a new job too.

NotQuiteSoGrownUp - Prayers for DS1 as he struggles at school.

PandaG - Prayers for her as she wears her Ash Cross again this Lent. Feeling grumpy atm and has been involved in car crash. She is ok, but feeling shaken.

JBW - Prayers for step father who is dying of cancer, esp for his 90 yr old DW. Prayers that she would find the ideal job soon!!

Worzella- Prayers for her as she tries to decide what to do when her maternity leave ends in the summer.

Jockey - Continued prayers for DS who has been struggling at school (selective mutism.)

Lorns - Has requested prayers for an MNer hwo is confused about her faith. Lorns has directed her to a good church!

Podmog - Prayers for her as she struggles to BF Big George! Praying he puts on weight and doesn't need formula top-up - Prayers for Podmog as struggles with feelings of inadequency as a mummy (unwarranted, I might add....)

Mars - Continued prayers for Dave and Sue - Dave is doing well, but Sue is little concerned he is "not himself" atm.

CaptainDippy Prayers for her as her DH and struggle a little in their marraige and as they attend marraige course at local church. Prayers for DD2 who has been v."out of sorts" lately. Prayers for the family as they go away on their first family holiday next week!! Erm. I know there is more stuff, but brain-sieve is not working .... I am sure I will remember as the month unfolds....

Get Praying Guys!!!

....and don't forget the Meet-Up on Sat 7th July in Oxford!! Sign up link will be posted in a mo.....

Ooooh, praying Mary - Do tell us all about it when you get back ..... How exciting!!!!

Glad it was such a wonderful, wonderful day harrisey and God Blessed you all so much - I remember my Baptism so clearly and the amazing way I connected with God on that day - It certainly changed me forever and I am sure the same will be true of you and your family - I am soooo happy for you and will try to check out the vids when I have a wee bit more time .... "Blessed be your name" is a v.special song for me too - incredible stuff!

Praying for a real intimacy from God for you at this time Panda hon - Thinking I need some of that too - I am feeling so anxious and panicky about stuff atm - is not great; but we are ok! God is holding us ......

Glad your boys enjoyed their time with their daddy MTGAA and you enjoyed your time to yourself! Will check out your photos in a sec...

MW coming any min and I am hoping DD2 is settled with her sleep - not so sure ... If you see this .... pray ....

Hi Bloss!

Awwww, MTGAA - gorgeous pics - your boys are lovely! NB: At the top of your profile you say you don't have any DC's .... oooops! Your garden is amazing - how wonderful ......

Good morning all!

Lovely pictures CD and MTGAA! (CD - you look just as I imagined - though a bit more grown up, actually!!

We're fine but all very very sleepy. I may need to revert to my old name unless we can get ds2 to stop talking every second of the day from 6am - 8pm. He just never stops to take a breath! He sings, he shouts, he growls, he laughs, he makes noises like a pirate . . . He's wonderful, but . . . . !

Right, moan over! Back to work!

Many congratulations to the Harriseys. Prayers for all.

"More grown up" - Hee! Hee! I like that! Glad I looked as you imagined (hoping that is a compliment!! ) Hoping DS gives you some more sleep sooooon hon!

MW came and all is ok with Bubs - BABY IS CEPHALIC!!!!! Yippee! I am delighted - he / she has turned and is now head down - Phew - was getting worried. Measuring fine for dates (although I feel small) and BP fine - She took some bloods to check HB levels, so should get that back tomorrow - hoping it will be ok!!!? Doing Strep B test this w/e coming - so if baby head down, HB levels ok and Streb B neg should good to go to Birthing Centre / Homebirth - providing I get to 37 weeks this time - not long to go - Feeling positive!! DH and I going to see Birthing Centre tonight hopefully, so should have made a concrete decision by the morning ....... Thank you for your prayers - Keep 'em coming ....

Mind is racing ....

Right, DD's probably causing mischief downstairs, so going to make them some lunch now and then do a bit of shopping, popping in on a friend and then back home and another friend is coming round with her DC's for a wee play etc .....

Madness......

Ds still having diarrheoa not as often but its still there.

Funeral is tomorrow.

H is driving me insane he got up at 11a.m yesterday after crying at me at how useless he was and how we would be better off if he moved away. We went to his sisters for lunch and he went back to his fathers at 2 and went to bed at 5.30 - so he could have seen his dc for the whole day yesterday but he chose to spend it in bed, while I did everything for them took them to the park etc.

He won't be seeing them as much now sa he can't drive so you would think that he would make the effort when he could. He won't see dd on wed when it is her 13th bday but hey ho.

Evening everyone

LWTGo - your H sounds so much like mine - he has spent time in bed/pub or on the golf course rather than see the kids - its infuriating isn't it? I have resigned myself to the fact that he doesn't feel the same way as me about the boys although thats very hard to understand. Praying for you and your DC's.

CD - I will have to try and remember to update my profile - maybe i just forgot that I had children last night!! (No chance of that!) Praying that your trip to birth centre goes well and that God will be with you in making the decision on where to have your new baby.

MaryBS - how did the adoption go? Praying for you and your sister at this time.

Harrisey - god bless your family. What a special time for you all. I am hoping that one day I will feel ready to take this step but at the moment I still feel like I am very much on a steep learning curve to be a christian and not yet worthy of being baptised. After reading your post this morning at work, I spent all day humming "Jesus loves me this I know!!" I think I drove everyone mad by the time I went home at 2.30!

Praying for everyone on this thread.

I am now going to attempt to finish completing my housing benefit form - has anyone else filled one of these in and gone completely insane in the process? It's not even going to make a huge difference but I figure that every little helps! I have now got a bit of a mental block over this form now so your prayers for my calmness this evening would be much appreciated.

God Bless everyone
xxxx

Hello! Off to bed soon .....

[[hugs] and Prayers lwtg ....

I used to work for the Dept Work & Pensions so yes, I DO completely understand how mental those bloody housing benefits forms can be hon! Hope you get it filled in soon and that you get an favourable result!

Birthing Centre was lovely, MW was sooo sweet and saw a gorgeous 1 day old baby girl - yum! Drive was yuk though....mmmmmm .....

For Mumtogusandalbie
Dear heart, if you wait till you are worthy to be baptised, you wait forever. We are none of us worthy to be baptised, only Jesus was worthy. He wants you to be baptised so he can work on you further, it's an act of obedience.

About the housing benefit:- is there a welfare rights centre anywhere near you, they are blooming marvellous at filling in forms.

Have a day full of blessing

So agree TheUrbanDRyad! MTGAA, if y ou want to be baptised, and you have accepted Jesus, that is it! Hugs flower! xx

Good morning all.

I do agree with the other posters about being baptised MTGAA - although I do know what you mean about being on a steep learning curve too. Keep posting about your questions, Hon. It sounds like you are on an exciting journey.

Hello theUrbanDryadsmum! Have we seen you here before? Welcome aboard if not! (And huge apologies for not remembering, if you have!)

LWTG - your husband is suffering from depression. These are classic signs - feeling 'useless', wanting to stay in bed all day. I know that he has put you through terrible times recently, and your priority is to look after yourself and your dcs, but do keep telling him that he must seek professional help - and keep on seeking it. He will not be able to turn things around on his own and one of the features of depression is that you do not feel able to ask for help yourself. You desparately want help to come and find you and to wrap you up in a blanket and to tell you that everything will be alright.

Do keep telling him that he is ill and that with medical help he can come through this and feel happy again. Suffering from depression he will feel empty, as if he has nothing to give to your children. The more he seeks and gets help, the more he will have to give.

There is a book available on Amazon which you might buy for him - How to lift depression ...Fast by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell - and just leave it around. I haven't read it but it was reviewed on Radio 4's "All in the Mind" very positively recently. Especially if he can't get to counselling, it might give him something to be thinking about whilst you are all going through this.

Got to get to work. God bless all.

Morning all - Has taken me an age to get DD2 down for her nap - Shouldn't be though as it is not her fault - just the stoopid clock change .....

Thank you Lord for the lovely sunny weather (thought I'd get some > going instead .... )

Hello and Welcome theUrbanDryadsMum!! I certainly haven't see you here before in this guise - lovely to have you with us - and thank you for your wise comments!

Hello NQSGU!!

All ok here - esp now DD2 is sleeping and I can do a few bits and pieces ..... Need to sort out Bump's Thanksgiving Service (we like to send out invites with our Birth Announcements!!) and we're in the process of catching up on all our photos (i.e. sorting through them on the pooter, printing them out and popping them in albums....) So all busy here in DipsVille....

How is everyone else??

Ooooh, thank you for your prayers - HB (iron) levels are now a healthy 11.2 so going to the Birthing Centre is a definite possibility ... Just gotta do StrepB test now .... eeeek! Keep praying ....

Morning CD

Wow, powerful prayers yesterday! DS2 slept in this morning for +1hr!!! Thank you!

Yippee! Great news NQSGU! Was definitely praying from DipsVille!

FINALLY sent out email to church leader's about poss Service of Thanksgiving for Bumpy in Aug - took me aaaages - I am sooooo untechnologically-minded - computer drives me crazy when I am trying to find fils on it etc ......

Thank you for your welcome. I have been on with a different name, also on different threads with this name. My daughter, theUrbanDryad got me up to it! Mostly I lurk, that's awful isn't it?

Not at all!

lurking , what's that?

Reading threads, but not really posting ...

i know, being a bit facetious there. as i am guilty of lurking, hence the blush.

Oh right I get it now!! (Bit pregnant and brain-dead atm....)

WHERE IS EVERYONE TODAY???????

sorry , should have used the only joking emoticon

Tis OK hon!

how many weeks are you now cd?

Hellooo

good evening all from fine balmy notts!

MTGAA your photos are gorgeous too, I really must try and set up a profile page too!
I've just been on a 2 day conference about elder abuse and it really moved me to tears, some of the shocking things that have been discovered happening in supposed care environments . My boss has nominated me to be the lead on adult protection for our organisation so i would really appreciate your prayers on taking this work forwards and really making a difference to vulnerable adults in notts.

I really feel compelled to do this work - like my own abuse experiences can really help me to understand how these defenseless people are being violated and how we MUST do something to stop it now. I have never really felt called to do God's work before but I truly believe this is where He wants me to be right now. Wow it feels good!

love and prayers to everyone on here, i wish i had CDs organisational abilities!