Prayer thread for summer 2009 - My grace is sufficient

[DutchOma]

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.

cansomeonehelp - sorry, I don't really know what to say, so I will pray for you, can you elaborate on the reasons why?

Did you have a bad experience at her birth, or suffer pnd, or do you just clash personalities, how old is she?

Please don't beat yourself up too much, we all don't like our childrens behaviours sometimes, they can be very trying.

I will pray you can get help to sort it all out, but please feel free to post here, we are all very friendly and are not at all judgmental.

Sorry, just re-read your thread, I presume dd is 7yo

Thank you. I don't feel able to say too much. She is 12. And not my biological daughter. Complicated. Since she has lived with us I feel she has hated me. We went to therapy for help with this, but nothing changed. I suppose I must love her really, or i wouldn't be bothered about how I feel. I feel really let down by God though, for allowing this to continue.

cansomeonehelp, welcome . I don't think God is punishing her. Maybe it's down to you though, to give up your hate to Him? I've never hated a family member, but I did hate my ex-h for a while, and I know through God's grace I was FINALLY able to let it go. Do you know why you hate her? Can you address that with someone? Someone once suggested to me that I pray for someone who had hurt me "without an agenda", that while I am praying for their wellbeing, I would learn to let go of the hurt and anger, and that is what happened to me - it is hard to hate someone while you are praying for good things to happen to them.

SS - praying for DD1 and her tonsilitis, there seems to be a lot of it around. And praise God for B !

LTSF, praise God for your feelings of positivity!

cansomeonehelp, prayers for you and your dd. Yes, I too think you do really care about her, otherwise you wouldn't care. You would just be unkind to her. It sounds like a very difficult situation and it looks as if you need more than virtual help.
Can you tell us a bit more, so we know how to pray specifically.

Thank you. I don't want to say any more really. God knows. I am hurting so much because of it. Thank you for your prayers, but I won't post again, I find it too upasetting.

I'm sorry, sweetie. May the Lord bless you in your hurt.

We'll keep praying for you, cansomeonehelp. If you do feel up to it, come back and talk some more.

Praying for all of you in need just now.

I have a chest infection and am on antibiotics ...but am still feeling soooooo peaceful and full of love (since Tuesday! This isn't like me at all) after our prayer session. Dh and I are enjoying having evenings to ourselves this week as the dcs are with my parents until tomorrow - we have had a lot of time to pray together and we even started doing a bible study - scarey or what?

We're going to the theatre tonight - well, to "Bard in the Botanics" - an open air production of "Taming of the Shrew" in the Botanic gardens in Glasgow. And its sunny - yay!

Hope you all have a good day.

Cansomeonehelp - very happy to pray for you. And not to expect you to post again. It sounds an incredibly difficult situation for you both to be in.

I had a friend who adopted two little boys, having longed for a family, but it just didn't work out for them. I remember only too well the heartache and stress that she went through trying to love them, and feeling that she just couldn't. She was also coping with the strain of a failing relationship with her dh.

There is so much pressure on us to be able to manage complex relationships. Can you settle on finding things that you like about your dd and focusing on those? Or can you post on the step-parenting threads on MN, for extra advice and support? As she approaches teenage and her hormones start to go bananas, you must be aware that you will be going into new territory. Praying that you will find the support you need to get a healthy balance for you both, and that you will know God holding you close as you work through this.

Cansomeonehelp, I don't know if you have a faith, but one thing that has always helped me so much if I was struggling with hatred/anger/bitterness towards someone was for me to make it a real discipline to pray for them - whenever I felt the horrid feelings I would pray that God would bless them, that He would give them every good thing, that they would have a lovely day... etc. Anything good!

I have to be honest - a LOT of the time I didn't even mean it! But there is something powerful about choosing to pray blessing for someone even if you don't want to that somehow breaks the power of those negative feelings over you.

I hope that helps. I'm praying for you and all your family tonight. Cx

Sorry, also just to say - Clockface I'm pretty sure we must live v near each other - scroll down for my first post.

I know you don't know me from Adam but if I can do anything practical to help with the toothache and recovery please shout...

Cansomeonehelp, I am adding my prayers to all the others on this thread. God is love, that's the most profound thing we know about Him, and He can create love out of nothing.

Casserole - well yes! You are rather close to me! I was in your neck of the woods today, buying sushi (thought I'd treat myself after such a rubbish pain-dominated week). You have a wonderful vegetarian restaurant which I love love love. (See, I always realte to places according to the quality of food on offer!)

Well, I saw my dental consultant today... grrr. Blimmin' teeth. He said it was an 'extremely difficult extraction' and that he'd had to cut very deep into my gum. The dreadful pain is coming from something called a dry socket which is still raging...it feels like a fire that smoulders then bursts into flames...honestly worse than childbirth. Grrr. I'm feeling pretty crotcety and worn out now; it's been five days of uninterrupted, dominating pain, and all the painkillers that are strong enough to damp down the pain, make me sick. Grrr.

Thanks for the offer of help Casserole but what I really want is prayer for rapid healing in my mouth!

Sorry to come on here and be very selfish, but please pray for DD1. We had to take her to hospital last night. She really is quite poorly. Please pray that things start to settle down and that she starts to take her antibiotics more willingly. Also, she didn't get to sleep until 10:20 last night because of all of the waiting around for the doctor and she couldn't sleep with some really noisy children who were also waiting to see the doctor. I'm hoping that it won't make her feel even worse today. DH and I are struggling with the tiredness caused by a small baby and a very sick toddler. We never even managed to exchange cards yesterday for our fifth wedding anniversary because of DD1 needing us to look after her so much. I don't begrudge her this at all, I'm just saying that DH and I could do with a chance to feel refreshed and concentrate on our marriage a bit.

Swaliswan, praying for you. Hope you have a better day.

Praying for Clockface and Swaliswan.
May the Lord bless you and keep you and give you peace.

Praying SS. See if your pharmacist has a medicine dummy too. We found ours a Godsend. It's a dummy, with a small compartment built into the handle (like a short fat syringe). When the dummy is in, you press the handle and squirt the medicine in. Every mother should be issued with one, as she gives birth!

Could I ask for some very selfish but important prayer - I managed to fall over last night - I literally tripped over a pebble! Dh says I have strained all the ligaments that go from my ankle over on to my heel. What I know is I can hardly put the foot to the ground and am in a lot of pain.

I'm good at lying on the sofa issuing instructions but we are off on holiday for a week on Monday - to the North of Scotland where we were planning hillwalks, fun on the beach etc and I am pretty much housebound!!

Please pray it gets better soon! I was looking forward to my holidays!

Oh Weegiemum, that is really sad. I'll pray for miraculous healing, that it isn't as bad as your dh says and that by Monday you will be able, not only to put your foot on the ground but will be able to do the walking as you'd planned.
And of course it isn't selfish to ask for prayer for that.

Happy birthday Dippy. nearly forgot

Just thought I would drop by and catch up. Prayers for everyone on here.

Well done Oma! Happy Birthday CD

Flying by. God bless all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS DIPPY!!!!!!!!!

[GRIN]

ps if any one else would like to see a birthdaY PICCIE OF DS, JUST EMAIL ME JULIE WIrdnam at hotmail dot co dot uk,i have sent one to some of you, (you know who you are)
but i havent got email adresses for everybody

Happy Birthday Dippy