Is it June already!!? MN Christian Prayer Request Thread June: WEEK ONE.

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June - Good grief!!? Well I am going to try & do this "a week at a time" now ..... hope I can keep up - I'll definitely try my best!!

Here's the "Round-Up" for May .....

lucy5 - Prayers for SIL & BIL who recently gave birth to a stillborn DD. Prayers for strength as they come to terms with their enormous loss.

Podmog - Continued prayers for difficult church situation and for them as they contemplate community living as a solution to not having enough space in their current accomodation!! Also prayers for friend who has 2 children & is mentally unstable atm.

ThatBeetroot - Prayers for MIL, Pat, who has been diagnoised with cancer.

fannyannine - Praise God!!! - For safe arrival of Takunda Myles!! Prayers for FA & her fmaily as they settle down to life as a fivesome! Prayers for their difficult money situation....

NotQuiteGrownUp - Prayers for her DS's, that they can make some good & lasting friendships. Prayers for them as they try to find their "place" in the village they live in. Praying for NQGU as she visits her parents....

katzg - Continued prayers for her DD as they struggle to treat her DD's skin condition, Cutaneous Mastocytosis.

CaptainCaveman - Prayers for work collegue's mum who has bowel cancer & liver mets. Prayers for DH's complicated job situation. Praise that her DSis is improving....Continued prayers for recovery...

notsofarnow - Prayers for strength as she struggles with life and the abscence of her DH. Prayers as she attends Relate & tries to carry on....

matilda57 - Prayers for her friend Pen whose DH died recently, she has 7 children. Lots of prayers for current family turmoil, esp the mental health of her 19 yr old DD.

RoseyLea - Continued prayers for her Crohns. Prayers for her friend who is married to a Muslim and has recently had a baby - finding his strict views v.tough. Prayers for her as she commences ordination ministry training and for her DH to find a much, much better job asap - praying for the RoseyLea family as they struggle with his current v."family unfriendly" job. Prayers for her dad as she has recently undergone surgery.

kilo - Prayers for her & her fmaily as her DH has recently been made redundant.

Mars - Prayers that the lady she posted about had a terrific delivery!!

Twiga - Prayers for her as she looks forward to the imminent arrival of her new baby! Prayers for her DH as he undergoes job interviews....

DutchOma - Prayers for Baby Matthew who has been extrememly poorly in Great Ormand Street. Praise that Janipher Maseko is not going to be deported - prayers that she would find accomodation asap.

Suzy - Prayers for strength in her faith & for her resolve to find a place for her and her LO's to worship ...... Prayers for her & her DH as they seek to set up their gardening business after her DH was made redundant. Prayers for her computer & printer too!!

mumtogusandalbie - Prayers by the bucketload for her as she struggles with meds & panic attacks. Lord wrap her up in your love. xx

SueBaroo - Prayers as she is struggling with PND.

harrisey - Prayers for her and her DH as they juggle studying & family life. Prayers for her DH as he has counselling.

PandaG - Prayers that she does lots of practice for her new job - Movitation....

Vio - Prayers for her & her family as they comes to terms with the skin condition (EB) their new baby James has.

Snuffy - Prayers for her and her DH as they struggle with a special friendship that has fallen apart.

Nanou1 - Prayers for her and her family as they work out what is happening now that DH has been offered a new job in Switzerland - she and her DD will be joining him in Sept.

Hearts - Prayers as she seeks to learn to trust God and for moving house and all the madness that goes with that!!!

Losty - Prayers for friend (K) who has cancer - esp for her family as they cope with this.

mosschops - Hope the flight went well!! Prayers for her dad who is in hospital and her mum who is coping alone.

MaryBS - Prayers as she struggles with a difficult person at church. Prayers as she studies. Prayers for her DS and Ed Psych etc too.

PrincessPeaHead - Prayers for friend who has just started radiotherapy for cancer.

mufti - Prayers the builders finish soon!!

CaptainDippy - Praise God!! for the safe arrival of Phoebe Elisabeth Joan on April 30th - Prayers for the Dippy Family as they adjust to being a family of five!! Prayers for them all as DH embarks on his new job - praying it won't be as terrible as CD thinks it will be .....Eeeeek! Prayers for Dippy's friend whose marraige is on the rocks, she has three children and is PG. There's probably more, but "Baby Daze" has taken over my entire brain!!!

Now GET PRAYING!! .....

Sorry Mary, I seem to be having a joke all by myself, I have just read your post picturing the choir doing the conga down the isle, (v.bad soh) then I realised congo is congregation,[more blush] where is my brain tonight?

Toooooooo late at night, zzzzZZZZZZZzzzz

Must go to bed!!!!!!!!!!!!

Night God Bless (again)

BCP = Book of Common Prayer - it dates from 1662 and is in old English, with thees and thous. And I was being lazy typing congo, instead of congregation . Apologies for using confusing you .

Morning all

JUst about to go on school run but praying for you all!

Mary -

Thank you, I seem to go of mi rocker late at night!

sorry 'off' mi rocker! [more blush]

Hey guys - As always, thank you for your messages of support - You are all sooooo lovely! I am feeling much better now, definitely got over the shock. DD2's Bump is not so bad & no one is any the worse for the incident - Praise God, it could have been so much worse.

Praying for your neck / shoulder FA - How is it today??

How is everyone doing? I am fine - at home this morning and then DH & I are going shopping this PM while DD1 & 2 are at nursery. We're going to Monsoon to find an outfit for SIL's Wedding on Sat - I am v.v.v.v.excited - The ladies from my Antenatal Thread gave me £150 to spend!!!! How completely fantastic are they!!!!!!!? I am still getting over the Haven't been shopping for myself in so long ..........

Aww CD thats fab, EllieK CAT'd me to ask if you would be offended - I said you'd see it as God providing for you...so enjoy your spending you lucky thing!!

DH being interviewed at present (fingers crossed emoticon)

I am at work (allegedly!)

WOW fabbo news. Talking to dh last night about trying for another baby after Florida next may, I was going to ask him if he minded me coming off the pill now to give me better chance of conceiving next year.
You remember the response I had off him when I aksed him about no.2 a few weeks ago? Flat out 'No' to a 'maybe' to 'ok then but next year'. Well, when I brought it up last night he really surprised me by saying he had given it a lot of thought and deffo does want another one.
So I said was it definate we have to go to Florida next year as it will always be there and ds will only be 4 so won't remember it. Hmm, yes he says, thats true.

So, he's agreed to think about it (after his interview today) - so we might be able to start TTC soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for all your prayers and please continue to pray for us that we can agree when to add to our lovely little family

How lovely CD! Enjoy!

CCM do you still want me to find out about B & B s for the 14th for you, Hon? Can you make the meetup?

Prayers for all. God bless.

CC -

Good morning all!

Mary I really love the BCP! Then again I love Shakespeare and the KJV Bible...I'm just an old fogey really!

Hi CD! Oooh please start a Style thread and show us what you are going to buy in Monsoon! What an amazing act of generosity on the part of your Antenatal thread friends. Pray for lots of blessings upon them! I get really excited about clothes (esp. when it's someone else's money!!!)

Hi Suzy! Well I had visions of the choir doing the conga round the church too! (Hey, it could be fun...!) Hope you had a nice bath with the choc and booze...sounds very good to me!

Hi FA - praying for your shoulder. I heard that muscles are more easily hurt just after you've given birth, due to the Relaxin that is released during labour...and it stays around longer if you are breastfeding - so look after yourself!

Well we are all fine. I have got my last session of hospital chaplaincy visitor training this afternoon so after today I'll be shadowing someone for a few weeks and then I'll be let loose on a ward! We are going to have a service to pray for all of us who have done the course, and I have been sorting out the music for it this morning (I lead worship and play the guitar) - I have chosen 'I the Lord of Sea and Sky', 'Brother let me be your servant', and 'Make me a channel of your peace'. What do you think?

I loved the words to 'Brother let me be your servant' so much that I want to share some of them with you.

Here we go...

Brother let me be your servant
Let me be as Christ to you.
Pray that I may have the grace
to let you be my servant too.

We are pilgrims on a journey,
We are brothers on the road;
We are here to help each other
Walk the mile and bear the load.

I will hold the Christ-light for you
In the night-time of your fear;
I will hold my hand out to you
Speak the peace you long to hear.

Aren't those powerful words, and particularly appropriate for a hospital chaplain? I was so struck by the simplicity and truth there.

Well have a good day all! God bless xxx

Wonderful songs, all of them, Rosey. Real music too, not repetitive chorusseylike (not a word I'd get through the spellchecker but hey). Best of luck with your last part of the course and I'm sure you'll make a lovely visitor.

Rosey - you fogey!!!!!! LOVED the choice of songs .... the words of that song are powerful .... Praying it all goes hunky dory ....

1 handed typing here, boobie monster plugged in......

Roseylea - 'Make me a channel of your peace' LOVE IT

I wish I could get the tune in my head for 'Brother let me be your servant' its going to annoy all day now lovely lovely words

CD - Hia hun! I too am having problems posting with twins on my knees!!!!(not bf though) I have very long arms they want to play on cbeebies [aaagghhhhh] glad you have recovered from yesterday. You sooooo deserve a trip to 'Monsoon' how kind of your mn's

CC - aw sweetie good news re ttc 'sooooon' hope DH's interview went well, [eek, biting finger nails for you]

nqgu - yes please to b&bs, am going to try my best to make it!

Well DH's last day tomorrow, am getting very nervous now!

His gardening uniform (well sort of) arrived this morning, 'smartest gardener in town' he's bought his equipment, phone calls coming through, can't keep up with new business already. 'HELP'

wow Sooz, praise God. That is quick work for your dh's business!!
Praying that it will be totally successful and not too stressful.

FA, hows your shoulder? Praying that the pain eases off v soon.

Afternoon all. Not a lot to say really but reading and praying. But as i type it satan is telling me not to post that I am praying bec I'm not really doint it right. grrrrrr get away evil one NOW.

Have had a very busy morning, nursery drop off, asthma clinic with ds, play group drop off, dd1 to hosp app 20 miles away and back in time for nursery finish at 11.30. Can't quite decide what to do this aft,need to go pick up ds inhalers, need to drop off friends pushchair and buy some passatta. So I guess that afternoon catered for really.

NSFN - is there any 'right' way to pray? You know there is not - so I echo your prayer, Lord, send the evil one away and do not let him affect NSFN.

Praying that you find time for God in your business!

Thanks CC - yes it is rather quick, but we have to get established and its the right time of year, so no sitting around wondering about things, got to just get on and do it! thats the stiff upper lip in me, but deep down I'm worried sick! I'm sure if we work hard it will be succesful, and my DH is like a kid with a new toy/s, he is sooooo excited, I think he has been stuck in a dead end job for 35 years, he has now got the chance to be proud of what he is doing!

Sorry I got carried away then but thank you, yes praise the good lord!

NSFN - pray unceasingly, that is what Paul tells us. I offer everything up to God, even all the selfish things which we tell ourselves we shouldn't ask for. I don't blame him if I don't get them, but he is our Father and its right we go to him with everything. And like any loving parent, do we we think long and hard about the words we use before we speak to our parents??? No of course not. Don't listen to that voice telling you not to pray, it is NOT of God!

RL - I love "Brother Sister" too - can't stop singing it! Love it! I love the other hymns you picked. I love Shakespeare too. I'm a bit of a traddie too, but the tradition I was brought up with is different, so my traddie things are different. I'm really excited about going to Ely Cathedral tonight, for "Solemn Eucharist", followed by Benediction. THATS the sort of tradition I like! And things like the Lord's Prayer and the Creed in Latin. Of course, like the BCP and KJV, not as relevant to today's new Christian as say, Common Worship and NIV/NRSV. But we can't help loving it! Bit short notice - but d'you fancy coming to Ely tonight? 7:30pm

Sooz - praying for your new business venture. Its GREAT to hear you so excited, I love enthusiasm! Praise God!

FA - praying for your shoulder, how is it?

NQGU - Thank you SO much for sending EDWJ - it looks great, lots of stuff about the Holy Spirit. Fantastic!

Oh Mary I so would - but dh is working late (grr....) so I'm on bath and bedtime duty...

Please do invite me again though!

BTW is there a version you know called "Brother sister" which has the same words? If so I'd much prefer to use that in the service (much more inclusive!)

Aw RL, that's a shame. The version I know is similar - has a few more verses:

Brother, sister, let me serve you,
let me be as Christ to you.
Pray that I may have the grace
to let you be my servant, too.

We are pilgrims on a journey,
and companions on the road;
we are here to help each other
walk the mile and bear the load.

I will hold the Christ-light for you
in the night-time of your fear;
I will hold my hand out to you,
speak the peace you long to hear.

I will weep when you are weeping;
when you laugh I'll laugh with you.
I will share your joy and sorrow
'til we've seen this journey through.

When we sing to God in heaven
we shall find such harmony,
born of all we've known together
of Christ's love and agony.

Won't you let me be your servant,
let me be as Christ to you?
Pray that I may have the grace to
let you be my servant, too.

HTH. Its beautiful isn't it?

Dh got the job! Praise God and yippee!!! Means a bit more travelling for him but thats ok