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Christian prayer and chat thread Open to all

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Dutchoma · 20/03/2021 16:13

The old thread was nearly full, so here is a new one. Oldies and newbies, chat or prayer, all welcome.

Praying especially for MHD and JanFeb’s daughter.
Also praying for all who are preparing Holy Week/Easter services.

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beansprout55 · 10/11/2021 17:46

Thank you @Dutchoma. It's our first pregnancy after a long time trying. I've been in bed all day feeling pretty miserable - scan is at 9am tomorrow. Keep thinking and speaking psalm 139. Church is great and we had some prayer this week, but after this scare last night/this morning I feel a bit repetitive and embarrassed to ask them all again - so I really appreciate your kindness and prayers. x

beansprout55 · 10/11/2021 20:52

Please pray for a lady in my pregnancy group. I don't know her real name, but she is heavily bleeding (soaked a towel in an hour) and is scared. I think she's a Christian - she asked me to pray so I hope you'll all join me in agreement. And for myself and my bleeding! In Jesus name, amen

JanglyBeads · 10/11/2021 21:21

Jesus, who, during your ministry on Earth helped a woman who bled at the wrong time, please help these women of faith tonight. You felt that one woman in Galilee reach out to you and you knew exactly what she needed.

There is healing in your Name.

Amen.

ZenNudist · 10/11/2021 21:49

Hello all, so many prayers

Beansprout particularly for you. I hope things are looking up?

Becca I am still praying for you. How are you?

Zebra thank you . Not insensitive. I will forward that to my MIL. It should bring cheer and is very helpful. Praying for your nun friend. She is surely a daughter of God and will experience His help. I pray she recovers quickly and that she can be peaceful in the face of medical intervention.

Forget-me-not welcome. Don't apologise. Trust in God to get you through and don't despair. Ijust trust He is listening to my prayers. He has in the past, when I experienced the shock of answered prayer. There is no reason why He is not listening to you now too. We all know of prayers going unanswered but persistence pays off sometimes! We live in hope right? I hope you are not hit hard by Covid and recover quickly. Don't worry. God will help you. Our older, unhealthy (much loved) priest got covid last week. He is fine now. I got it and you wouldn't have known really (odd really, bit of a cough, wierd chills, lost smell briefly). Also a heartfelt prayer that your friend can reach out to you, be open to an approach from you, and pray God will help mend your relationship so you can share in the joy of Christ together.

Bedtime I have not heard of the Plough prayer. Will look it up. Praying for your health. It is so hard when we have seasons of illness. I pray your health issues can be resolved soon and you recover.

A quick wave to daffy upthread and Dutchoma who always puts such lovely prayers on here. I am not so eloquent.

I hope @Madhairday is OK. I still pray for her from time to time. I should imagine you are busy with your writing but just praying that you've not more obstacles with your own and your family's health.

Some good news from me about MIL. The the cancer turn out to be at an earlier stage. Still serious and horrible treatment ahead, but you'd rather be a low number! Thanks for your prayers. Please keep praying for her recovery. She pushes us all away and thinks she's unloved when she is much loved.

My news: I finished the old testament this week in the podcast bible in a year. Whew! We are on Luke having covered the other gospels earlier in the year. They spread the gospels out through the year. It's still mad that most if the year is OT and only now We are so close to the end do we get to live with the NT (and Proverbs) until the year end!

To end: a prayer for everyone posting and lurking here, may you feel close to God and feel His blessings in your lives. I pray for everyone walking a hard path that He walks with you.

ZenNudist · 10/11/2021 21:53

Missed the latest posts.

jangly that's a thoughtful and lovely prayer for Beansprout and her pregnancy group friend

Beansprout I'm sorry you are no better, will pray for you and your scan tomorrow.

DreamingOfTheSouthOfFrance · 10/11/2021 23:08

Thank you to @ZenNudist for that summary of a busy couple of days on this thread. Adding my prayers for everyone.

ZenNudist · 11/11/2021 07:16

@SudokuZebra MIL asked me to pass on her thanks to you for all that cancer info.

Forgetmenot37 · 11/11/2021 09:04

Thanks @ZenNudist for your wonderful words! They were really reassuring

Prayers for everyone else on this thread too!

Anyone else finding this season / November gloomier and more difficult than usual? Xx

beansprout55 · 11/11/2021 09:05

Please pray now - waiting for scan 😕 praying to see a healthy baby in Jesus name

beansprout55 · 11/11/2021 09:54

@Dutchoma and others - thank you! God has kept this little babe safe. They don't know why I'm bleeding, but baby is still there. Miracle xx

Dutchoma · 11/11/2021 11:58

Thank God for that Beansprout I’ll keep praying protection over your little one.. Thank you for sending the message.

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Madhairday · 11/11/2021 17:44

Thank you so much @ZenNudist for thinking of me. I'm so sorry I've been AWOL in the last few weeks. My work has been relentless and health not great but not bad, so I've just been a bit away from social media. But I think of you all a lot and I want to join back in :) lovely to see newbies, and I love @JanglyBeads prayer and say Amen to that (also love your posts on the covid threads, so sensible!)

Zen, so sorry to hear about your MIL but good they've caught it early. I pray for healing and strength for her.

@beansprout55 what wonderful news. Hope the bleeding eases off now.

@Dutchoma how are you doing?❤️

Thanks for being here, everyone. It's been a rough year with lots of stuff and bereavements, so I've kind of been getting lost in work which is good but not so good time wise (I'm a freelance editor as well as author).

Love to all!

JanglyBeads · 11/11/2021 22:23

❤️ madhairday - although you’re being overly generous about my postings on Data. It’s sadly not the (series of) thread(s) it once was.

Glad you’re kind of surviving.

Praise the Lord for a new job I have in school - on top of my previous role - it’s proving far more enjoyable than I thought it was going to be, not least because of a wonderful Christian boss, newly appointed, who is a blessing to the whole school.

pineapplevape · 11/11/2021 22:31

Praying

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JanglyBeads · 11/11/2021 23:40

No, it was entirely invented following the great losses of the First World War. Although the churches and particularly the established church (CofE) have very much embraced it.

JanglyBeads · 12/11/2021 19:00

Sudokuzebra I now realise I hadn’t seen the first part of your post, sorry. How upsetting! How were the police?

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mathanxiety · 12/11/2021 19:19

Longtime lurker here, asking for a few prayers for DS, who has an important exam on Monday.

Thanks for these threads, DutchOma.

Dutchoma · 12/11/2021 22:01

Long time lurker indeed Mathanxiety. Nice to ‘see’ you. Will certainly pray for your son.

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Madhairday · 12/11/2021 22:35

Nice to see you @mathanxiety. Prayers for your DS.

@JanglyBeads that's great about the job! And yes agree about the data threads. I used to find them a good safe place without the whole polarisation of other threads but it's no longer the case sadly. Still, good to have voices of sense there.

Tickly · 12/11/2021 22:42

Just stumbled across this place so I have jumped on to lurk. I am mostly lapsed thanks to a bad life experience but don't really want to be so hoping to be inspired by reading the messages here.

Dutchoma · 13/11/2021 11:27

Welcome Tickly. Feel free to share a bit of your experiences, but don’t feel you have to.

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applesandpears33 · 13/11/2021 16:08

Lurking and praying

Has anyone heard from Becca? I'm worried about her and praying everything will work out for her.

Prescottdanni123 · 17/11/2021 12:04

Hi. I'm new to this thread but I thought I'd post on here to ask for some christian advice.

I've been a christian for several years and have suffered from intrusive thoughts on and off throughout this time. Recently, I was watching This Morning and they had an exorcist on talking about demons. An involuntary thought popped up into my head of "The demons can have my dog," and now I'm scared that God will send my dog to hell because I said that they could have her. And while she is my best friend, God might see her as just an animal.