April Already!!!? MN Christian Prayer Request Thread - The Bible Bashers Continue .......

[CaptainDippy]

Good grief - It is April!!? When did that happen!!? God has taken us through some interesting times this month - Times of Thanksgiving and Praise; Times of Sorrow and Pain - but He IS alive and He is with us ....

Here's a summary of March's Prayer Requests for you all......

Worzella - Has been feeling - worried she might be depressed. Having to make decisions about what to do once her maternity leave ends soon. Big [hugs] and prayers to her ....

LongWayToGo - Has been v.v.v.v.tough for her this month. DH has moved out of the family home and she is struggling to cope with the emotional upheaval etc. MIL died too. Her DH has started drinking again. Prayers for protection over her and her DC's. She also has some health worries with an enlarged Gall Bladder....Finances are v.tight.

PandaG - Prayers for confidence to return following car accident. Prayers for her as she trains for new job.

MaryBS - Prayers for lady at her church who has advanced cancer. Not looking good. Mary is v.busy atm - lots of prayers for rest opportunities and for everything to go smoothly ..... Praise God for friends and BIL's adoptions that have gone through this last month, prayers for them as they embark on a new way of family life..... Prayers for Missinoary Priest shot in J'burg. Prayers for BIL in Iraq and for lost friendship, which has hurt Mary deeply. Prayers too for DS who is seeing Ed.Psych atm.

SleepySooz - Prayers for her new Vicar and his family as they settle in. Praise that hypnotherapy seems to be helping her emetophobia.

Podmog - Praise that DS2 is putting on weight! Church has not been good recently, but prayers for poss opportunities for Podmog's personal involvement with the church, which have been arising ..... Prayers for poor DS1 who has been poorly with ear / chest infections ....

harrisey - Going away for a wee while over Easter - prayers for R&R to be had. Praise that their car has ben recovered after robbery. Prayers for poss future involvement with Latin Link. Prayers that the harriseys can reamin healthy and fit .... Praise God for their Baptism / Dedications in March!

Twiga - Praise that God-daughter who was admitted to hospital is home - prayers for complete recovery. Praying for her PG too!

Pepperrabbit - Cont prayers for friend whose husband died in Feb. Funeral went ok.

Dumbledoresgirl - Prayers as she cont to struggle with Emetophobia.

MumToGusandAlbie - Cont prayers for her as she copes with relationship with her and ex-DH, esp for her precious boys. Prayers for friend's mum who is ungoing cancer treatment. Cont prayers for Vicar's son who is also currently recieving treatment for cancer.

CaptainCaveman - DSis is back at work and managing not to drink during the day! Cont prayers for her and her DD. Praise that CC's med reduction has gone so well!

Roseylea - Prayers for her as she seeks her "vocation", poss that she may join hospital chaplaincy - prayers for child care arrangements etc. DD's excema has been much better since healing service - Praise God! Prayers for mum who has recently has an exploratory op to check out health fears. Rosey's body is "complaining" against her dose of Prednisolone (Steriod), prayers for that. Prayers for general household health.....

NotQuiteSoGrownUp - Has been v.stressed and a bit recently. Finding life a bit tough. DS2 has been boundary pushing and DS1 is involved in a tricky situation. Prayers for resolution and rest....

FannieAnnie - 31 weeks PG, going ok - hoping bubba has turned as was footling breech. Work is not going well - lots of prayer needed there. Prayers for the family of Father Paul Bennett who was stabbed to death in front of his wife in S.Wales recently.

JBW - Cont prayers for mum and nan as they cope with the loss of her S.Father and for her too. Praise God she got the new job she wanted!!

Mars - On-going prayers for Dave and Sue - Dave still "not himself" .... any update recently Marsy?? Prayers for 2 babies recently delivered who are struggling....

Pirategirl - Divorce going through - feeling v. and struggling.

KittyLette - Mum poss has cancer, v.frightened. Lots of prayers needed.

Squeakybub - Prayers for DP's S.mum who is critically ill in hospital following road accident.

Chloe55 - Prayers for friend who "sold his soul to the devil". V.difficult situation.

CaptainDippy - Prayers for the Dippy Family as they prepare for the imminent arrival of Dippy3, esp for her and DH who have been rowing a lot recently. DD's are "getting ill" atm, so prayers against that would be cool! Can't think of anything else atm - brain is mush .... Prayers for finances would be cool too! Gosh - I sound v.selfish .... but I do love you all and - Praying for every one of you!!

Now - Get Praying!! ......

our vicar went to find turn to the last page of her sermon/talk at our Agape Service/Meal on Maundy Thursday only to discover she didn't have it - so had to ad lib - was brilliant albeit a bit longer than she intended LOL.

And yes I'll spend it wisely...definite buys are a new cot mattress (DS1 managed to leave it in lovely condition for DS2 - while DS2 has completely trashed it LOL), pram (got my eye on the Hauck - but could change my mind after a bit of browsing) and I suppose a few packs of babygro's and vest may be a good idea.

We would have managed without the grant - but having it makes life so much easier - we can put the 'extra' money from our normal income towards thing such as the car tax and other such exciting stuff LOL.

Great stuff!

my day just keeps getting better - MW has just been, BP fine, Urine fine, heartbeat heard and HEAD DOWN - not engaged at all - but at least he's discovered head down position.

Fantastic! So glad to hear that FA!

CD - he wouldn't want to see MY efforts at a sermon then!

Agh Mary! You've got to be there!

Was there anyone who couldn't make 14th?

If I can I will, but I have to go to the baptism if that's when they book it for... I HAVE told them I'm busy on that day...

Eeek! I just went down the church to practise my sermon. Unlocked it at went in as normal. I was in full flow when these 2 ladies walked in. They said "Oh, are you practising your sermon? We'd love to hear it!"

So I gave them my sermon, without a mike as well. They said it was REALLY good, and that I delivered it very well. We then had a chat about my training, and about our church!

What it DOES show is how much my confidence is growing! Praise God!

Nope, can't make the 7th - they've booked the baptisms for that date , it was the only date available where both church, priest and hall were free...

Aw noooo. OK all, check your diaries for the 14th July and I'll see if the hall is free.

I need your prayers ladies.
I just found out that my Gran is dying. She's 84, her kidneys have failed, she has internal bleeding and wont last more than a few days. I'm going to see her tomorrow. She's been losing her memory adn had heart failure for several years but this has come on quite suddenly.
Its kind of complicated because I am estranged from my mother, whose Mum she is, and lived with till recently. I have to go and see her when Mum isnt there which basically means tomorrow morning. I havent seen Gran as much as I would have liked to in recent years as I have had to do it when she was in respite care, but she's always been so cheerful, and she is one big constant in my life. ANd now she's going.
My Gran is a Christian and I know heaven is a far better place for her. Its just that earth will seem a little bit of a poorer place for us all without her.

Harrisey hon - I am so sorry, that is terribly I am praying for you and your family. [[[[hugs]] Praying you have special times with her before she dies. xxxx

Praise God!! ... bubba has turned FA, that is great news - I remember how relieved I felt when this one when cephalic at 35 weeks!!

NQGU - We're free July 14th (even closer to my B'day than previous date!! ) Should ressurect BB2 thread to check ....

Off out to NCT Meeting .....

Evening all, not been around for a few days have been to Yorkshire to friendsand had a really good couple of days.

h is here atm to look after children as i'm in work tomorrow, so far it's been civilised and ok apart from the odd dig.

Tomorrow is day 10 after ds first chicken pox appeared so if dd's are going to appear it shoud be over next few days.

Lovely lady from church rang me this eve to see if I was ok, that hasn't happened too often so i'm really grateful to her.

harrisey sorry to hear about your nan, its can't easy when you try and juggle missing people you don't want to see.

14th july is day before dd's 15th birthday so i would guess we would be out for that w/e unless i could sell it as a w/e away. Don't think she woudl be impressed at a day with people she doesn't know though and is always telling me off for meeting people off the internet, and how you could all be big hairy truckers lol

Good morning!

FA great to hear that you've been given the SureStart grant and that your bubs is doing well! (BTW the SureStart grant....do many people know about it? We didn't when I was pg with dd and dh was unemployed at that time so we might well have qualified...oh well!)

Hi LWTG. I'm glad you had a good week away. A weekend away for your dd's birthday could be very nice - you could go into Oxford the next day...sell it to her!

CCM I have been praying about your feelings about weight. I understand because it's something I struggle with - what with having Crohns my weight goes up and down like a yoyo and at the moment it's up and my jeans are getting tight! It does affect my self-esteem...I know it shouldn't but we live in such an image-obsessed culture that it's hard not to be affected by that.

I am struggling physically too - I'm down to 1 mg pred (wow!) but I am not doing brilliantly tbh. My plan is to go on to the enteral (?) drinks next week to try and get better....please Lord!

CD you had us all going there! When you do go into labour please get your dh to post a v. quick message here so that we can all pray for you when you are actually in labour. When I had both the dcs I had a prayer group all praying during the labours and it made such an amazing difference. For ds I also had a fantastic God-sent African Pentecostal midwife (at the start of the induction I asked her to pray and boy did she pray! She was an amazingly gifted intercessor) Anyway! I am prying for your dh's sermon tomorow - what a gift, to be able to prepare it all so quickly! I am praying that God gives your dh 'radical authority' even as he speaks about it!

Hi Mary! I think that was lovely, that you got to share your sermon with the two ladies in your church!

Harrisey so sorry to hear about your granny. I do hope and pray that your time with her today is everything you need it to be.

Hi NQGU! I am pretty sure I could do the 14th - need to just check with dh tho. It might well be only me and the dcs as dh's work hours will be changing for a while at that time (I won't bore you with the details!)

Hi M2G&A, hope things are better with you now. The peace of the Lord be always with you...

Well I am off to London today to meet a friend whom I've not seen for 5 years - she used to be a prayer buddy of mine until she moved away and the last time she was me dd (who is now 4.5) was in my womb! So we've got a lot of catching up to do. I am slightly worried because my stomach is not that great today and I'm worried about having a really busy day that is going to make it worse. Please could you pray that God watches over me and brings healing? Thank you!

LWTG - Soooooo pleased you are sounding soooo much more & positive - makes my heart skip with joy - Glad you had a lovely time away sweetie!! LOL @ "Big Hairy Truckers!!" - HOW DID YOU KNOW!!!!? Keep going .......

Rosey - Will definitely get someone (probably text Mary) to post when I do actually go into labour - Would be absolutely fantastic to have you guys pray me through it - esp as I have had two rather unpleasant experiences so far - I would like this to be a lot more straight-forward etc this time round ...... Have a wonderful time with your friend - Praying hard for healing - You have come so far sweetie - Keep going ......

Got to go and have shower, working this morning .......

Good morning all.

OK here's a link to the Biblebashersmeetup thread link

I'll see if the hall is free for the 14th July and we'll take it from there.

God bless.

bigger easier to see link to meet up thread

Cheers NQGU! LWTG can't make the 14th though .....

Hey peeps. Sorry it's been so long.

Hope everyone is well and that God is making things better everywhere in the way that only he can!

Please pray that Eliana's first birthday party goes smoothly! lol I can't believe she is one already!

God bless you all xxxx

Good evening everyone, what another fantastic day! Praise God.

Been on the go all day and we're out tonight too, phew, will be whacked tomorrow. Just been tortured with a McDonalds party for 2 hours - one of ds' friends - so now looking forwards to being in the pub!!

Thanks Rosey, praying for you too. I never weigh myself but judge on how loose/tight my clothes feel. Currently feeling like a 30 stone heifer squeezed into size 10 jeans.

Xavielli - Sooooooooo good to "see" you here hon - Glad all is going ok - give us more info about what you have been up to etc etc - Happy birthday Eliana!! - Praying the Party goes smoothly and lots of fun is had by all !

Hi Fellow Captain - Glad you've had a good day - enjoy the pub!!

It's been a busy one in DipsVille - working followed by swimming with the girls .... exhausted.....

Need to go as DH needs to write his sermon ......

Evening everyone - just a very quick post to thank everyone for their prayers for me. I managed to get through the day in a fairly relaxed way and the last guests left about 1/2 hour having arrived at lunch time.
The bouncy castle was a big hit (big being the operative word as it was 60ft long!!).
H bought DS2 a trampoline (or frampoline as he calls it) for his birthday so that was well used today also.
The bbq came out for the first time this year so we all had cremated sausages for tea.
The boys had to have a bath because they were absolutley filthy but having been on the go since 8.30am (when the bouncy castle first arrived) they fell asleep within minutes of putting their pjs on!!
The dummy fairy took DS2's dummies on his birthday (Thursday) and it has been a pretty smooth ride so far.
I am feeling pretty exhausted now so am looking forward to sitting down with a hot cup of tea (kept getting distracted with one thing or another today and ending up with luke warm tea!!)

Prayers to everyone and I will try and post a less "me, me, me" post tomorrow!!

God Bless everyone
xxxxx

MTGAA - so pleased you had a wonderful day yesterday! That's a big bouncy castle!

CD, did MrCD get his sermon written in the end? Nothing like a deadline to get you motivated! Hope you got some rest last night!

RL - hope your stomach held out and you got to enjoy your day with your friend! I bet you had a lot of catching up to do!

Harrisey, praying for you and your nan. Its good she's a Christian, and I know you will take comfort in that. Our sadness comes from our loss, rather than rejoicing in the perfect love it will soon be hers to experience firsthand. My thoughts and prayers are with you {hug}

Hi Xavielli - good to see you, give us an update on how you are when you get chance!

And you don't have to change the date of the meet-up just because I can't make it! Especially if it will mean that others can't make the following week! If I'm not there in person, I can be there in spirit!

God bless all on this wonderful Sunday morning! xxx

We went to see gran yesterday. She was very weak, couldnt even open her eyes, but did wiggle her eyebrows a lot as I was talking. I spent about half an hour talking to her and just sitting with her. It was one of the hardest things I've veer done, to walk out the door.

She died at 3am today. I'm so glad we went yesterday. Its a funny mix, between being devastated that she is gone, and happy that she is in heaven.

Oh Harrisey, I'm so sorry pleased you got to sit with her, like you say its such mixed feelings!

So she is gone Harrisey - but fab stuff that she is in Heaven, eh!!? So glad you got to be with her and talk to her etc- You can treasure those precious times now. [hugs] When is the funeral?

Yes, MrCD's talk went swimmingly - lots of praise from people etc - God did His stuff! He started talk at 9.30 last night and came to bed 12am - NO IDEA how he does it!!!!!!!?

How old is your DS that had a visit from the "Dummy Fairy" MTGAA?? Both of mine still have them and are a bit obssessive about them tbh - Would VERY much like to hirey our Dummy Fairy!! glad Party went so well - great stuff! Enjoy the frampoline!!

Off to dig in garden and clean car ....