MN Christian Prayer Request Thread - 2010 is HERE - Come On Ladies, Let's Get Praying ......

[CaptainDippy]

Hurrah!

Another new thread and another summary ......

Here goes .....

LoveBeingaMummy - Prayers for her dad who is having Chemo treatment for cancer. He has reacted badly to the treatment and is very ill and low at the moment.

LittleFish - Asked for prayer for her 18 yr old cousin who has been DX with ovarian cancer and has commenced her chemo treatment.

ComfortableShoes - Is pleased with how well her parents are settling in to their new home after moving recently, especially her father who suffers from Dementia. Praying this would continue to be a Blessing for them all.

purplehat - Has two friends who are both suffering from cancer. One friend has been told their condition is terminal; but the prognosis for the other friend is yet unclear; but their condition seems to be deteriorating. Prayers for them both, please.

WM - Lots of illnesses plagued their household just before Christmas - not sure how they all are now; but much better, I hope Prayers for DS who is being bullied at school and prayers for R, a 17 yr old girl who has fractured vertebrae in her spine following an accident and has to lie still on her back for 12 weeks, far away from her family.

JujuBean77 - Asked for prayers for her DD who has been poorly for quite a few months now. Prayers for her recovery for and strength for Juju as she cares for her.

salvolatile's mum died last summer in a horrible manner, right in front of Sav and she is struggling to come to terms with it and find peace and faith.

Jentlydoeit - Prayers for her as she struggles, especially in the situation concerning her DH. Bless her and her beautiful family, Lord. xx

newlark's grandmother died following the discovery of a tumour / blockage in her intestine. She was too old and frail for treatment and is at peace now. xx

CaptainCaveman Would like to renew her relationship with God (wouldn't we all, eh )

3Frenchhens - Came by with the exciting news that she is PG after gruelling fertility treatments ; but feels sad for her DP who lost both his beloved grandparent's recently, within months of each other. May their memory never be lost.

MrsCadwaller - Would like some peace in her mental life!!!! She would also like prayers for her DS who is anxious and struggling with school at the moment.

Aitch - Asked for prayer for her friend and DH who unexpectedly lost their 2 year old DD during the night. Uphold them and comfort them Lord.

DutchOma - Informed us of the death of Margaret's Bob. Prayers for her in these tough times. Also prayers for Anne and Chris who are Missionaries in Kabul during these troubled times.

PAO - Prayers for DD3 whose health has not been good of late and who needs to be making some serious decisions about her future. She suffers from ME / CFS; and prayers also to her DD1 who is living away from home and is also thinking about her future. She has a job interview in the am of Fri 29th Jan. Prayers too for her DH who is considering moving on from his current job and for her and her DH as they face a tough situation in their church life too.

MaryBS - Mary's friend Susan died of cancer recently, prayers that she found great comfort and strength in Jesus before she died as she was very frightened. Prayers for Val who is in her 50's and has just suffered a Stroke and is struggling with her after-effects. Prayers for Mary's DD's friend E who is 10 and is losing weight and very, inexplicably, unwell. Prayers for her BIL who is under-going Chemo following the return of his cancer and for Ramir, the son of a Big Issue seller Mary met who has recently undergone surgery.

mmred would like her friend whose recent IVF treatment was unsuccessful.

SweetestThing and her family need to be remembered in our prayers as they mourn the loss of ST's brother Scott who recently died.

tracey256 - is finding church hard as they keep bringing up the fact her two children were taken into Care two years ago and won't let her move on.

Saliswan - Prayers for her and her family as they seek treatment with s sleep specialist. Prayers that it would make a huge difference and they could all sleep soundly and feel MUCH more at peace.

MeltedChocolate - Needs a job!! She also needs lots of prayers as she struggles with her relationship with her DH who is a Heroine addict and with the attitude of her parents too. Wrap her up in your love, Lord.

amberlight is struggling. she has lots of difficult situations to face and needs God's strength to help her to face them head-on and with tenacity and positive attitude Prayers for her Ds whose eye condition is worsening.

ShelleyLou - Prayers that DB's medical report would come through soon, so hard living with such uncertainty.

NotSoFarNow - Asked for prayers for a friend Grand Niece who was passing blood in her stools and was in pain while passing them. Prayers for NSFN's Nan who has had a stroke and for positive things to come out of the Stress Management course she has embarked on. Continued Blessings in her relationship with her DH.

LittleTortie - Asked for prayers for her DH (and the family) who was made redundant from a job her loved just before Christmas.

Toilet Prayer ...

"What is before us, we know not, whether we shall live or die; but this we know, that all things are ordered and sure. Everything is ordered with unerring wisdom and unbounded love, by thee, our God, who art love. Grant us in all things to see thy hand; through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Charles Simeon, 1759 - 1836.

AMEN!!!

Now .... GET PRAYING!!!!

TACP. It isn't wrong, he has left you with no choice. May God support you in this.

Well, for the first time, I was able to go to the Maundy Thursday Chrism Eucharist at the Cathedral. Everything was fine, until the Bishop talked about God setting his seal on us, and I thought that was a bit vicious of God, as all I could envisage was this:

vicious looking seal

My literal mind again!

I just knew what I would see in that picture Mary

Mary

Reminds me of the Christmas Day service a couple of years ago when OH and I spent most of the service with our fists in our mouths, kicking each other and crying with giggles after the vicar lit the 'Four Candles' of the advent crown, and OH whispered in my ear "fork 'andles?"

But you had to (a) be there and (b) be conversant with the Two Ronnies!

TACP - love and prayers for you, still.

LOL MrsC, I remember that sketch from the 2 Ronnies!

I think the worst fit of the giggles I ever had was straight after a Good Friday service. We were all supposed to leave quietly, having just gone through the Passion story, so in a fairly sombre mood.

As I walked out, I went past the stand that normally held the Paschal candle, and it should have course been empty. Except it was FULL of figures out of the Nativity set that lives in the children's corner. It was SUCH a mix of Christian traditions, I was trying to be serious, but practically ran outside where I ended up crying with laughter, and the more anyone asked me what was up, the more I couldn't stop laughing! It was SO embarrassing!

Ha ha!

I often have trouble keeping a straight face during our (very middle class, very CofE) services, thanks to this sketch

I'm fairly sure God has a good sense of humour though, so I think we're ok!

I'm intending to take the boys to a Good Friday workshop at a church we haven't been to before - ours is having a trad reflections on the cross this year. Be interesting to see what it's like.

Then after that we need to launch into preparations to go to MiL's for Easter and then on holiday to the Isles of Scilly with my parents. It's a huge logistical operation and has rather caught us unawares so I don't feel ready at all. I'm pinning a lot of hopes on this holiday for rest and recuperation so lots of prayer is needed!!

That we'll manage to get there in one piece, that we don't all get on top of each other too much, for a calm crossing - it's infamous for seasickness which wouldn't be fun with the boys, for good weather so we don't go stir crazy, for DS2 to sleep well enough to have an evening or two out while we've got babysitters on tap... Hmm. A bit of a shopping list really. Sorry to go on and I hope it's not too selfish.

Will keep praying for people on here while we're away.

Dear splendid people of prayer...Well, something's happened at work that I can't handle, and dh is stressed out and not feeling well which is a huge worry after what happened to him last year, and I've got to get through a 3 hr service today in a church I haven't visited for many years without making myself look completely stupid n front of senior clergy or upsetting anyone else and I'm hoping and praying that it'll all be OK.

Praying for each of you, too.

Amber The Lord is with you. He is not going to go anywhere away from you today or ever

Amber, sending some hugs, and praying for you, like DA says God is with you.

Love the seal thing Mary, lol! Also like the fork handles thing, great sketch.

Taking the kids to a very wet town centre this morning for good friday drama, puppets and reflection thing church is putting on. In fact must get on and go.

Roslily, that is fantastic news, so glad you are feeling closer to God.

TACP, continuing to pray for you.

Guys, I am praying for you all but I could do with some myself at the moment.

Me and Dh have looked at our finances and we're really going to struggle to make ends meet at all this month.

I'm getting really fed up with this, God keeps taking us to the edge time and time again and I just can't this trip anymore. My DH needs a job, a permenant job not a temporary job that will get taken off of him but a permenant one. I can't do this, we're trying to trust in the big dude but its so so hard.

It's like a cycle, DH will get a job we'll start to pay back overdraft and build up savings then he'll loose it and we'll be right back to where we started from. Only this time, God had the great idea to throw a kid into the mix which just makes this that much more stressful.

Please pray that DH gets a permenant job and really really fast. I can't do this again, it's just beyond what I can cope with.

Hermya - hugs and prayers for peace and provision for you

Phillipians 4:13

Hi all,

Praying with renewed vigour for you all today.

I took the DC's to a "Free Church" today (usually I attend the local CofE quite high church) and it was brilliant. They had a puppet show from the Chiine Theatre co who aimed the Easter message at the kids - was a bit heavy in places but the kids loved the music and the dancing and the story telling etc. I felt really inspired in there which was lovely

Herm.. - prayers for you, we are in the same predicament, (not literally) money wise, we just get going and something happens, its as if God is showing us how to manage without money! yikes tall order! erm slight miscalculation though, we have to EAT!

Nevertheless, we have had a lovely Good Friday, I invited a lady who is the carer for her grandchild, to our Good Friday crafty type of morning at church, her grandson is 2.6 and a little rebel, there was Easter Garden soil everywhere, upturned Easter cakes etc etc etc, please God take care of this family, reminds me of when ds1 was that age, (I'd forgotten) bless him I showed him all the stained glass windows of the diciples and there is a Lion under 'Mark' well the said 2yo was oinking like a pig, (in prayers) hence my dc giggling into there hands, and he was also singing Beach Boys 'Barbarang' such a sweetheart

Thank you God for my dts good behaviour, I do take it for granted!

Alot of the churchy people came to us to say how they'd missed us. Whoops, bad soozi.

Sorry that was a long chatty post! hope you have all had a Good Good Friday! roll on Sunday!

Would welcome prayers of comfort. Was very upset by something a priest said to me at a prayer labyrinth (not my own church/priest), ended up sobbing in the toilet - lack of understanding of Asperger's unfortunately. Anyway, I emailed her, explaining exactly how she made me feel, not so to make her feel bad - I didn't want her to feel bad, but so she could understand and walk in my shoes for a bit. Am absolutely exhausted.

Sending the email gave me time to recover for my own church service, which was INCREDIBLY powerful and poignant, really blew me away! I wasn't leading but I took a role in the reading of the passion. Got slightly carried away with the drama of it all, slapped my leg to create a slapping sound and said "Is THAT the way to answer the high priest"... just as someone turned my mike on (as it hadn't been on for my first line), so it echoed LOUDLY round the church .

Will pray for comfort for you Mary. So sorry you felt so distressed. That kind of thing can leave you feeling so drained and exhausted.

Glad the service went well. We also had a powerful one with acting out of the passion and much drama. I feel very thoughtful and quiet tonight, if you know what I mean. But the dc don't seem to get that

Continuing to pray for you Hermya.

Jen and Soozi, glad you had good days, Jen the puppet thing sounds good.

Herm - we experienced that for a number of years. I found it all soo hard. BUT God does always know what bills need paying and what is round each corner. We have some wonderful stories to tell about God providing for us. We were never let down, but boy, was it a scarey time!! You will get through this,with God. Rely on His provision. Prayers for peace and reassurance for you.

TACP - Prayers continuing for you and everyone else on here.

Thanks for praying for DD4 yesterday. It was a very long day, incredibly tiring and boring. Surgeon took her into theatre, but then discovered that there was a far bigger problem than he had thought, so just had a good look around, then closed her up. He has said we should wait a few years, then have a few major things done together. At least we are let off for a few years, but another biggy on the horizon.

Reading your stories of getting the giggles in church, when DS was younger he was asked to do a reading. he spent all week practising, but in the middle of it was the bit about "Welcome the aliens" well, all week the other dcs had been messing about by making alien noises whenever he read it out. On the Sunday morning, my proud mummy moment turned into embarrassment when DS got the giggles when he reached that bit, and nobody understood why our whole family was sat in shocked, embarrassed, giggles. He has never been asked to read again!!!

Have a good weekend everyone.

I have been given an NIV bible by someone and been reading it.

Can I ask for prayers for my ds? We has come down suddenly with a stomach bug, we spent time in walk in clinic. There is nothing to do bit sit out the D&v, but it is horrid to see him like this, and not be able to explain it to him

Happy Easter Saturday to everyone.
We are doing a coffee morning today, pray that many people will come.
Pray for Michael, who has firmly attached himself to the church and has been to at least two services. Pray that he will have a bath sometime...that would be good.

Prayers aplenty for people.

Could do with some also for M, a teenage lad who's been a friend of our family all his life and who had heart surgery yesterday - still in intensive care...

Many prayers for all - especially for M and all on here who need special care with their health, however great or small their need.

A small prayer of thanks from me this morning. My eldest two boys (7 and 5) finally had their first ever swimming lesson this morning. I've put if off this long, knowing that (if I'd taken them sooner) DS1 would have hated it and it would have put them both off for life. They were SO excited to be going this morning though and loved their lesson (though I think the teacher has her work cut out!) so thank you, Lord, for giving me the strength to follow my instinct and not be pressured into making them have lessons before I felt they were ready

We're going everday for the next 10 days (except tomorrow) so hopefully by the end of the holdidays I will have two boys who can at least confidently stay afloat.

Well done MrsC and dss 1 and 2
And prayers for you Amber and your family and your friend M
Our coffee morning went really well; we had loads of people, both church and community; people were impressed by how nice the church looked and one young man, Shaun, said he wanted to come and share in the service tomorrow, because he wanted his little girl to be brought up in the church. Thank you Lord.
Michael did not come while I was there.

Please pray for S. She's doing a PhD and is struggling with the effects of a stroke she suffered 5 years ago (you wouldn't believe it if you met her). She is finding writing particularly challenging. She's doing really well by all accounts (good response on work done so far apparently) but is still under-confident when it comes to her ability. She says it becomes a real stumbling block when she has to write something for review or assessment. Yet she is convinced that she is exactly in the spot where God wants her to be at the moment. Thanks.

(sorry fir being long)

CD - Hia chick

Mary - prayers for you, hope everything will iron out soon, glad you had a good service though.

DO - prayers for shaun and his little girl for them to rejoice in their new experience in church, plus for michael and indeed his bath

HAPPY EASTER!
JESUS HAS RISEN!

Hi, could I join this thread please? I could really use some prayer right now.

Last week I had a miscarriage at just over 9 weeks pregnant. We had been trying for 8 years and this pregnancy was a result of IVF treatment which we really couldn't afford, just I am 43 and we were so desperate. This has been just the most terrible outcome for us and I'm really struggling to cope.

It would be fantastic to fall pregnant again and that would truly be a miracle for us, but if that can't happen then strength just to get through this would be good.

I will stay around and pray for the other people on this thread too. I should have come here a long time ago; maybe at the very least this awful time will be a catalyst to kicking my prayer life back into shape.

Thank you.

Mrs Cad... - I'm a swimming instructor, and you have done the right thing trusting your instinct, my ds 6yo still hates his lessons sometimes, so I never force him to go, glad your ds's enjoyed their lesson, children will only learn when they are ready, (through play) good luck!