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.....

I think I told you this already but it's worth repeating....

Ds and I out playing in the park
DS: Who made the trees mummy?
me: God did sweetheart
Ds: Who made the sky mummy?
me: God did
Ds: Who made the park?
me: The park man, but God made the park man
Ds: Who made the cars?
me: Oooh, Mr Ford, Mr Vauxhall, lots and lots of different people, but God made all the people.
30 similar questions later....
Ds: who made me mummy?
me: God did, and he made me and daddy too. He's really very clever isn't he?
Ds: Yes! Yes he is. I know, God needs a sticker mummy, I'll give him one of my Mr Men stickers.

How very pure is that!? Brings joy and tears to my heart everytime I think of that (but then thats nothing if I cry at tannoy messages in Tescos!!!)

Prayers to all, peace and love xxx

CCM - that's really special! Please please please can I use it in my next sermon? I'll be talking about Faith (based on doubting Thomas, and not seeing, yet believing)

Marsy - praying for baby 1 and family, and thanking God for baby 2!

MTGAA - in the same way as parents, when our children give us gifts they've made, especially when they're young, we thank them, and really appreciate them, but the true gift is one of love. We don't necessarily expect anything of them, except we hope they love us. In the same way, that's all God really wants from us. Just as we forgive our children when they stray, he does us. He is a supreme being, what can we give him, that he needs? There is nothing he really needs from us, yet he loves us. There's a lovely book I'm reading at the moment, about giving and forgiving, and that really brings it home the difference between God's "needs" and our own - because he doesn't have any. We've got nothing to bargain with, nothing where we can say "if you do this for us, we'll do this in return". God is a supreme giver. His joy is in our acceptance of his gifts. Lets face it, NOTHING we do can be enough for God, should he choose to make demands of us. But he is a giver, not a taker. Does that make sense?

St Paul has a lot to say on this. I could quote lots of passages, but I'll quote this one:

"Romans 8:32-39

He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God?s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,
?For your sake we are being killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.?
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Part of the reason I am training as a Lay Minister (apart from calling!) is a need to do things for God, in grateful thanks of all he does for me.

Worzella, praying for a wonderful day on Sunday, and praying for strength for you. You are made in the image of God, and He loves you!

Harrisey - LOVE your confession of faith

FA - interesting what you say about divorce - for not only would I be sacked, our vicar would be too, because he has also been married before and divorced!

Better go, already spent too long on here - sorry if I've missed anyone - but you are all in my prayers - I read through everyone's prayer requests about midnight (didn't post because I didn't want a telling off from CD !). The good news is I've just about finished my Taize service for Good Friday... and I've started thinking about my sermon for the Sunday after Easter!

Morning all!

Praying for the wee ones Marsy. Glad that we can give thanks for one, and praying for strength and health for the other, and peace for their families.

Well done on finishing the service Mary, praying that God really speaks to you and others through it

I'm just grabbing a quick fews minutes with tea and toast before I go to my Bible study group. I've got a busy couple of days, it is DD's birthday party tomorrow, cake is baked but not iced, stuff needs preparing, and I am knackered! (but not as tired as yesterday so that is a Good Thing!)

Much love to you all!

Good morning all.

Continuing prayers for us would be much appreciated.

Praying for you all.

God bless

Mary in the words of ds (called Thomas in rl by some coincidence!) "Of course you can" - use this in your sermon with pleasure

Morning everyone! A bit grim weather wise in Notts but jolly jolly jolly none the less. Waiting for washing machine repair man to fix my poorly machine....have an inkling it might be a ds related illness though....

mmmm ... my washing machine was fixed on Monday, it had that highly contagious illness called "10p jamming the pump mechaanism"!

Ladies, I have to love you and leave you for a week as we are off up north. Dh is working for a week and I am organising our own house to be ready to let in the summer. Plus looking after the kiddiwinks of course. Going to see a lot of folks we havent seen for a while, I've not been back since we moved to Glasgow in the summer last year, so am prepared to be culture-shocked!!. No internet up there any more, so will be offline till Good Friday.

If someone (!) is putting together prayer points for April, could you give thanks for the power of our baptismal service, for us to move on and learn the new things God is opening up for us. Also, our application to Latin Link for after Bible college is going in this week, so it would be good to have prayers that this would go smoothly and work out. If you could continue to pray for dh's stress/depression as he hopes to start counselling after the Easter break and for physical health for the whole familyas we have had colds/tummy bugs/swollen glands/sore throats/coughs for weeks and it would be nice to feel better!!

Have a blessed Holy Week everyone. Speak to you soon.

Well not too bad. Items fished out of washing machine innards include...
1 pair of pants of papier mache type consistency (after being stuck behind the drum for goodness know how long)
1 stanley knife ????
1 spoon
1 wooden block

The pants are down to me overloading the machine

The spoon and the block are down to ds posting items into the drawer

The stanley knife??????

ho hum, all fixed.

love and peace to all xxx

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Okay... back again.

Please pray for both babies again. Things not so good and I'm feeling so helpless and frustrated (I don't do helpless and frustrated!). Also if you could please pray that I continue to find the strength to support them fully.

And specifically could you prayer against the spirit of death that seems to be around one of the families? Thank you.

MarsLady I am praying. Also for you that you don't get overwhelmed, that you have a clear head and that you can be the hands and feet of Christ to these families.

Hi Podmog - sorry that your ds has been ill this week. I will pray that the meteing with your vicar is really productive and encouraging for you. Please let us know how this group goes re. supporting the community - I'd love to hear any ideas!

CCM that was sooooooooo sweet of your ds! I'm sure God is thrilled to bits (I mean that _ I'm sure He looks down with delight at children who respond in such a natural way to Him).

Hi Harrisey! Have a great time away! I will pray for your application to Latin Link as well, and for your dh and all of your health.

Mary, well done for finishing the prep for your Taize service.

M2G&A I can't add much more to the v. wise words that everyone else has said, but...christianity is so not about proving how good we are, it's all about recognising that we are all broken people and we all need the creator to re-make us and yes it is a lifelong process. And the thing I'm finding is that the more I offer myself to God, the closer I draw to Him, the more aware I am becoming of my (many) shortcomings and the ways in which I let Him and other people down. I think it's to do with becoming more sensitive to God and his holiness and my scumminess - we all need forgiveness, all the time, and a new start every day. So please don't think that other christians are 'better' than you - as Adrian Plass said, "we're all members of the same ratbag club, aren't we?"

Anyway! Sorry, got a bit carried away there. Could I add a prayer request? I'm now on 2.5 mg Prednisolone (steroid drugs) which is great as I started on 30 about 6 weeks ago. My body has started to complain tho - you do get physically dependent on steroids and in the past when I get to this stage of only taking a very small dose, my body can't cope very well and I end up ill again. I'm feeling very sick today and so I'm taking it realy easy food-wise, so please could you pray that I would be able to wean myself off the steroids without any ill-effects or relapses? thank you!

Please pray for this poor man:

please read

help i should be packing the car to leave at 7 and instead I am on MN, there is half the clothes and toys still to pack and the children are eating chocolate and watching 'Veggietales'

Please have a look here - it's my church!!

Oooh great idea here's mine
Queen's Park Baptist

Yours look great - I love your vicar floating in the dead sea!!

Well actually

QPBC

ok everytime i click on a link nothing happens. Not exactly a praye request is it.

could you please pray that h will see sense. After not drinking for 20yrs due to being an alcholic he now thinks that its ok to drink, says he older and wiser and will not become addicted - even though up until christmas his addictive personality was still there in taking too many co codamol, tramadol etc. Just at my wits end, so much mroe I could say but i would ramble on forever.

Need to set up my own email adress as h has taken our laptop and i don't want him reading my emails and we only got one email address between us.

Where did this all go so wrong? don't know why I asking coz you don't know any more than I do.

{hugs} LWTG. If I could do anything I would. If there IS anything I can do, lend an ear, whatever, you have my email addy

This lady has asked for prayers for her DP's stepmother, critically ill in hospital following an accident:

please pray

Popping while DH is (hopefully ) making the girls tea .....

Have had a bit of a catch up - manic here.....

Mary - Praying for the friend of that lady whose thread you posted about. A grave situation. Praying for the S.Mother on the other thread too - Praying protection for her, praying that she pulls through. Thank you for drawing them to our attention. How are you doing sweetie? Getting some rest?? (Huh, I can talk!!?)

lwtg - Oh no - can't believe DH has started up with the drinking again. Praying for him. Praying for you all. As Always. [hugs]

Worz - Praying that DD's Dedication goes well tomorrow - Am exciting occasion! God Bless you all!

Mars - Praying hard for both the babies - keep us as updated as you can (don't worry about details!![ smile])

Panda - Praying that the Birthday Party goes super smoothly! How are you doing hon??

Harrisey - Praying you enjoy your time and get a chance to recuprate and rest a little - Praying against illness and praying esp for your DH as he begins to deal with the stress and depression. Stay strong! Praying too for the potentially exciting stuff Latin Link can offer you as a family. Keep trusting in Him for all your needs!!

Podmog - Glad you are enjoying gorgeous George! Praying for DS1's health and for potential opportunities to serve in your church - how exciting!

Think that's everyone covers - Lots of praying to Do!!

Ooooooh, new thread tomorrow!! Where'd March go??????

Thanks CD. I can sleep easier knowing that I am prepared for Good Friday. There is still a huge lack of confidence within me, when it comes to doing this sort of thing, and often I don't know how to do things/what to write - its all so new. Yet when I feel at my lowest, that's when I feel God picking me up, dusting me off, and pointing me along the right road again. When I am completely lost for ideas, then ideas come to me, and I feel inspired, by the grace of our Lord.

M. has approved it, virtually without changes - apart from one thing. I had the idea that as it was Good Friday morning, there wouldn't be the traditional Taize candles, so I thought they could take them home and light them Easter Sunday. M. thought that wasn't such a good idea, as the youth group would light them in their own bedroom, and say the church told them to do it, when their house burnt down! . Nice idea in theory...

This morning we were at the church, making Easter gardens, with crosses, plants and a tomb, complete with stone to be rolled away on Easter Sunday.

This afternoon I had a free facial and makeover, from the lady who does Body Shop parties (of course I then went on to buy a few bits... but it was worth it!). So yes, I got some rest! What are you doing about getting some?

Tonight I was at church, for Stations of the Cross. It still makes me well up inside, following Jesus' way to the cross. Very emotive.

Worzella - you must all be so excited about tomorrow - have a lovely time, and we expect to hear all about it!

LWTG - how are things with you? I had hoped and prayed that your H would use the time to get himself together. It really sounds like he is suffering from depression AND denial - he needs professional help!

Harrisey/CCM - very interesting to see your churches!

Podmog - that sounds a wonderful opportunity re: church, but I can understand you feeling apprehensive (I feel like that regularly!). Praying that all goes well! It sounds like such a positive step!

Marsy - praying for those babies...

RL - hoping and praying you're feeling better as you come off those steroids {hugs}

Panda - how did the party go?

God bless all

Mary

Glad you are all organised and can sleep easier hon - It is such a special time of year. Jesus died for me. Wow!

Incredible.

I wish I could say, yes - I am getting plenty of rest; but no, I am not tbh DD's are such hard work - they really do run me ragged; but I am doing ok - think I am getting some super strength from "somewhere" Prayers to find some rest would be appreciated though - and also for DD1 who is being incredibly hard work at bedtime atm - screaming and screaming - We've had to lock her bedroom door and leave her to it. Makes me even tireder - having to deal with this every single evening.....

Sigh.

She's been getting up pretty early too - sometimes it is ok cos she stays in her room and plays and chats for a bit; but often she stands at the door wailing til we come and get her.....

Yuk.

Sorry - moan over .....

Got one of those yummy Indian take-away bags from Sainsburys to enjoy tonight, so it is not all bad .....

Good evening everyone.

Just a quick post tonight because I can't believe that it is 9 o' clock already and this is the first time I have sat down today!

I wanted to say thank you for everyone that gave me words of encouragement during the week - I feel quite strong and positive about my faith today and I think that God is really calling me to take a further step closer to him. I am really looking forward to going to church tomorrow as I missed last Sundays service.

I hope that worked - this is a link to my church where I went to Sunday School as a small child (from about the age of 4) and to which I returned only this year.

continuing to pray for everyone at this very special and poignant time.

God Bless
xxxx

\link{http://www.stanwayevangelicalchurch.co.uk/}

just trying that link again

ok - so what am i doing wrong?

Hi MTGAA! You haven't given your link a title - before the last }, you should type something like "my church" (without the quotes). It took me a few times to get it right!

I used to live in Braintree with my Ex, and used to go shopping at Stanway!

I am glad you're feeling strong - it means you are winning the battle!

CD - sorry to hear you are having such battles! DS is being a bit trying for us too. While I was at church, he pooed in his pants again! Why is he doing this? Give me girls any day (but not one that screams and screams PLEASE? I really feel for you!)

I was speaking to SIL on the phone tonight - she was surprised at how many times I'll be going to church in the next week... but its important to me, and every occasion is for a different reason (and not as many times as there are services either! M. seems to have gone overboard this year!). I've found something that is SO important to me, and its like I just don't want to miss anything. Its not that I'm being holy (no way, not me!), it just RIGHT that I'm there, feeling Jesus' agony, then glorying in His resurrection!

I've just been relaxing in the bath, and reading Lawrence Boadt's book "Reading the Old Testament". Its a little scholarly, but a FASCINATING insight into OT theology - it explains so much! (am I sad for getting excited about it?). It puts an amazing historical perspective on it, and explains why certain passages contradict each other. That sort of thing is really important to me, to be able to put forth a reasonale explanation for why its written the way it is. Obviously it can't be a complete picture, but I've found already its possible to answer people's questions, which is immensely satisfying (OK, I admit it, I AM sad! but there's so much I'm learning, and I'm loving it!)

oh, and my "b" key sticks, so sometimes I press it and it doesn't work, but I think I've typed it.

I've ordered a new modem off t'internet, so we'll be able to connect the new PC up when that arrives!