Prayer thread for summer 2009 - My grace is sufficient

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My grace is sufficient for you 2Cor 12:9
and
When I am weak then I am strong 2Cor 12:10

Reading through last month's prayer request I came across the first text quoted by M44 and it brought the second one to mind.
When I am weak.....when I cry out to the Lord to my sisters to please pray for me, when life is hard....then I am strong.
I counted more than 20 names in last month's prayerlist, more than 30 when I counted the names Dippy had mentioned at the beginning of her update, so I will only mention a few names here.

We pray for Anna and Findlay, where real miracles of the Lord are needed.
For M44's mother-in-law in hospital
For Weegiemum that the Lord may uphold her as only He can. For Marc and Suzanne on their wedding day.
For Boilerwoman that she may take her strength from the Lord.
For Jentlydoesit and her DP that God may bring good into a difficult situation. Giving thanks for the new job.
For Swaliswan and dd2.
For Onlyjoking in this season of remembrances and for the children who are suffering more now than a year ago.
For Clockface with exciting changes to come.

And at this stage, sisters, I call you together to prayer for one another.
You know who you are - beloved of the Lord.

Prayers for everyone this evening, remember God will support you, just call His name, and you will only see one line of footprints in the sand.

JDI - I am also 29, and only seem to be able to find jobs where I am the youngest! Maybe we should swap for a few days!!

Thank you for praying for us, I have had so much positive feedback for possible career change that I can only think that He is calling me to do this, but the u-turn to studying again is a bit daunting! Also DD has been wonderfully behaved for the last few days, DH is off work, and it has been bliss here, without wishing to boast! Part of me wonders when the storm will come (as we are definately in a "calm") and part of me hopes that she hit her awkward phase late, and has already grown out of it........nnnaaaahhhh!

Have just re read my post, and it sounds like I want to become a vicar! Oops! Nope I would like to become an antenatal course instructor, but with homelife so up in the air at the moment, I am worried about taking on studying as well.

Oh and we had the survey back from our new house, and all A OK. Shouldn't be too long now, hopefully!

Ladies - thankyou for your prayers.

As I have said I have some serious psych issues at the moment and by Saturday was thinking, bleiving "things will never change".

Then the sermon yesterday was about how all things are possible with God, even the things that the world does not think are possible.

So things can, and will change!!

Praise God with me today for my parents (Dad and Stepmum) who took our children yesterday and we pick them up on Saturday!!! (its the school holidays here). Today I have 24 hours to MYSELF (as dh is working tonight).

So what do you do with that time - go out for coffee with the Glasgow Mumsnet ladies, of course!

Hi ladies!

I cuold really do withsome prayers. I had two wisdom teeth removed last wk and am in absolute agony. I'm on mega-painkilers and antibiotics but it's still getting worse . Please pray that this will end some time soon! I am off to the docs soon to see if they can do anything Blimmin' teeth. Why didn't God make them a bit more reliable?

Ah sorry for you and your toothache, clockface. Miserable!! Prayers for you.

Lots of you seem to have huge changes in your life at the moment. Praying for you all. Changes don't have to be worrying when we know God is in control. It's exciting cos He knows best. I am not saying this lightly. I was challenged to be excited 5 years ago when our business went bust and we so very nearly lost our house, but God always came up trumps at the last minute with job, money, food, petrol and some random things that God knew we needed. Exciting times! Definitely not easy times though.

I am sorry I can't reply by name to you as I would spend ages scrolling up and down to get the names right. There are so many of you on here, I am more than a little confused. sorry.

Prayers please for me to stay calm at parents evening on Wednesday. It is going to be traumatic after big fall out with school over DD3's treatment while unwell. She has not been in school since October/November and I am really not looking forward to seeing teachers who treated her badly and disbelieved her illness. Calm, Patience (double dose please, cos I am really impatient - God give me patience, but give it to me NOW, sort of person!)and for the right outcome for DD's future.
Many thanks.

Praying for your consultation, Positiveattitude. How old is your dd? That's a long spell off school, eh? praying for her smooth re-entry.

Well, I almost passed out in the doctor's room then started crying . It has just got to the "all too much" point . I'm on morphine for the pain now, would you believe. Dh had today off work and is a complete star but has to go back tomorrow - please pray that I will be able to look after the dc okay. My mum has offered to come round in the morning and get them to school - very tempted to take her up on it. Yuk yuk yuk.

Flying by. Just come across this from FAQ lovely news Had anyone else noticed??

God bless all.

Please pray for my employer's mother and the whole family, espcially my 8yo charge who doesn't really understand what is happening. It's very difficult to explain to him that Granny has terminal brain cancer so we've just settled for she is very unwell at the moment. There is nothing they can do medically speaking beyond take away the pain. She has to go back to hospital but would like to be at home especially for the weekend when the family will be visiting.

Praying Fran xx

Such wonderful news for FAQ Praise God! Such healing!

Speaking of healing, poor poor CF How is it now honey? Praying for healing right now. xx

Will be praying for your parents evening tomorrow PAO - hoping it is a renewing and "Positive Experience Only"

and to your break WM - Enjoy!! Just what you need .... and deserve right now

Great stuff TUD - wonderful news!

Ooooooh, SilverFox - are you planning to do antenatal teacher training with the NCT?? I book the classes for my area and we are so desperately in need of more people to train, so good for you!

All feelis a lot better and more positive in DippyLand - thank you for praying for us - praying it will continue and not "dip" again, 'cuse pun!! xx

I could still really do with prayers for my teeth - ow ow ow ow ow...(see here

That sounds really hideous CF. So sorry. Prayers coming your way, also for the children who must be frightened to see Mummy in so much pain.

The dc are reamrkably unaffected DO! I must say though, as far as they are concerned, I've just gone v. quiet. I'm not much of a screamer! I was totally silent througout giving birth to ds too - so the quieter I am, the more pain I'm in!

I've taken some painkilers and decided that I really must see someone tomorrow. Not the dental surgeon - that's not possible - but I'll try and see my own dentist.

Doesn't sound 'remarkably unaffected' to me if your dd is throwing tantrums for not being able to to go swimming. Worry takes all sorts of forms. Hopefully your own dentist will be able to do something for you.

Had a bit of an evening of it this evening ... in a good way

Our pastor's wife prayed for me after the service 2 weeks ago as it had left me in tears ... due to my psych issues ... and tonight she and her husband came round to chat to us, pray, see how we were.

Well it was amazing. They prayed all these fantastic things about us/for us that there was no way they could have known was appropriate, and we have been sitting here for an hour and a half (dh just gone to bed) in a real rosy glow of God's love for us, and a feeling that healing has begun to come, for both of us.

It was exciting, freeing, challenging, so many things - no idea how I am going to sleep tonight!

How wonderful, weegiemum.

Prayers for your toothache. CF. Hope it is getting better.

Hope you managed some sleep Weegiemum.
Blessings for everyone.
I'm off on a walk, which could be quite on the wet side.

WM xx

You need to go and see someone asap. Lots of prayers. xx

That's wonderful, Weegiemum. Hold onto it and don't let it go!

Well, my wisdom tooth crisis contunes. I'm feeling a bit better today - managed to get the dc up and reay for school and did the school run for the first time in a week! Hooray! I think I just need to tough it out with painkillers until Fri when I see the consultant who might shed some light on why it's so painful. I had a couple of phone calls last night from friends with wisdom teeth horror stories of their own, and that kind of comforted me in a weird way because it made me realise that it's not just me and I will recover. Don't know about loking bcak and laughing, though...

Praying for your employer's family, FP. How traumatic for them all . Lord grant them peace and the comfort of your loving presence.

Puts my toothache into perspective...

Could I please ask for some prayers for a good friend of mine. She is currently 15 weeks pregnant. She has had 2 miscarriages in the past, and her twin girls died a few hours after being delivered at 28 weeks. We are hoping and praying that this pregnancy will have a happy outcome for her - Many thanks.

Praying for you and your friend and her little bean, that it will stick and be born healthy in due course.
Continuing to pray for your toothache CF, I bet you are counting the hours till you can see the consultant.

Back from the walk, it was lovely and not a drop of rain.

Praying, stanausauruswrecks, for your friend and the little one.

Also for Clockface and her teeth. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom

WM - that's wonderful to hear news of the power of prayer, long may it continue

As you know, my licensing is 31 October, I now have a time, 2:30pm, in Ely Cathedral, so put that in your diaries . Please keep me, John, Helen and Ruth in your prayers...

Just dropping in, sorry I have been so quiet, DH is nearing the end of two weeks holiday from work, and we have been trying to sort stuff out pre-moving date.

FP - thinking of your employer's family, it is so tough at these times with little ones.

stan - praying for your friend

CF - thinking of you, I had wisdom teeth removed and it isn't fun

WM - I am so pleased you felt uplifted by prayers

CaptainDippy - yes emailed NCT through their link a week ago, but may call tomorrow as I haven't heard anything. I want to get going on this whilst I feel so positive.

I also want to give thanks, I had PND after DD1, and although I have had some bad days after DTs (now 7 months) I never feel as bad as I had in the past. He listened so intently to the prayers of me and my friends (I work in a christian organisation) and feel so held at the moment. I would never have thought about trying training after DD1, although I desparately wanted to go back to work, just to get out. I feel so positive, and that is all through prayer.

Thank you Lord, and thank you ladies for thinking of me x

Definitely praying for your friend Stanasaruas. xx

Good to give thanks LTSF Good stuff!

Evening All,

I am going to be very quick as B is asleep and I need to go to bed. DD1 is really quite poorly with tonsilitis. She is lest confused now than she was last night and has stopped stumbling into walls when she walks though so she is improving. I'd appreciate a few prayers that she will take her antibiotics a bit better.

I couldn't come onto MN today and not let you lovely ladies know that B is now allowed out of her Pavlik harness for an hour a day. She's finally had a bath after six weeks of having a very drawn wash one tiny bit of her at a time

Can anyone post on here? If not, please ignore.

If I am allowed to ask can someone please pray for me. I have never shared this with anyone before now, but I can't go on like this. For 7 years I have been praying that God would help me love my daughter. I don't. I don't understand why God is punishing her, by not answering my prayers. I hate her. Ok I've said it. I know it is wrong and I feel so guilty. It is ruining my marriage and affecting everything with my other family members. She does not deserve to not be loved. I do not hit her, or do anything bad to her. I just can't feel the love that I should for her.