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!!!!

So sorry to hear about your uncle weegiemum. will pray.
CD oh yes my dd is often to be found at church in various disney princess dresses. She's just starting to grow out of it all and it's a bit sad really. how many dc do you have?

Just wanted to swing by and say that I've felt a heck of a lot more peaceful this week and not as panicky, praise God!!

Captain I'm five weeks today, bit of a surprise but a lovely surprise. God certainly has an odd sence of timing. But hey ho!

Blue Will be praying for you.

Weegiemum Sorry about your uncle, will be praying!!

We shall keep on praying for you and little bean, Hermya.

Also praying for another 6 hours sleep (at least for BES' ds2.

Continued prayers for you, Hermya.

Prayers for more peaceful nights for you, too, BES - lack of sleep is a real killer!

Another rather selfish prayer request from me, I'm afraid. I've mentioned before that I am currently studying for a career in the law. I'm just beginning the process of trying to persuade someone to give me a job at the end of it all. Tomorrow I am attending an assessment day at a big local law firm, who I really really like and would love to work for. If I'm successful tomorrow I will gain a place on their 2-week summer placement programme, which also guarantees me an interview for a job with them. I really need all of God's strength and courage with me - if this is where He wants me to be, may He grant me the ability to do and say all the right things tomorrow! And if my path lies elsewhere, may He help me to recognise this and show me what the next steps are.

Off to prepare now..... at least I have solved the important question of what I am going to wear!

Praying MrsC xx

MadHairDay - I have 3 DDs - Katherine who will be SIX in four days time (can you BELIEVE it!!?); Sophia who will be five in May and Phoebe who will be three in April. They are gorgeous You?

Right, early night for meeeee......

CD - And beautiful princesses they are!!

prayers for ds2 (6yo) night terrors for last 2 weeks, every night an hour after he has fallen asleep, they last anything from 5 to 15 minutes, poor little thing!

DS1 has his options (school yr 9 atm) - thinks he is doing Food n nutrition, Spanish, Geography and PE - he also starts his Sats this next week and his GCSE's in June already!

Prayers for our car, head gasket gone, £1,000 bill as recked radiator etc

And...

Please no more snow, bad for business!!!!!

But...

We are all fine and dandy healthy and well, so thank you God

Promise I will catch up with thread this week sometime, and then I can pray with you more personally - atm I have 80 swimming pupil reports to do before tomorrow!

So, a little me me me post sorry!

Oh Soozi, many prayers for you that in all busy-ness you may feel close to God, who will supply all your needs. Special prayers for ds2 and his night terrors, that is horrible.

We have a ton more snow and it's still going.

Slept from 7-4.15 and then 4.45-7! Much yay! Stll coughing but sleeping through it now.

Thanks for all prayers - please keep praying for continued recovery.

Praying too.

Praying for you Mrs C.
Hermya - glad you are feeling a bit more peaceful. will continue praying.
BlueE, will keep praying, hope much better soon.

CD, I have 2 dcs, dd who is 9 and ds 6.

Yey BES

Thank you for your compliments Sooooz Prayers for both your little boys. xxx

BES, that's sounding better news!

Praying all goes well for you MrsC.

Hermya, glad you're feeling better.

Sooz, praying for those night terrors - not fun!

WM, sorry to hear about your uncle, and praying for S.

PA - how is your minister? So awful for him and his family

Sunday went well for me. A new bible study group starts at my house this afternoon - my initiative, where we look at the readings from the previous Sunday and discuss. Initially for Lent only. Please pray this is something that people want, and that they will come, and we can build some fellowship in our church. Its sad to say, but many are too busy to come to this sort of thing, and its a shame, because we really need to get some fellowship going.

That sounds really good Mary. Will pray for you. I want to start up some kind of daytime thing too, but am thinking along the lines of an enquirers thing - eg start, alpha type thing but prob not alpha as I don't think it would work in this setting. Start is good though getting a bit dated. does anyone have any recommendations for other 'seeker' courses that are a bit more contemporary and not cringy, and pretty relaxed and open to questions etc? I have a few friends who are interested but want it to be pretty low key/mainly chat. Maybe I'll make one up?

We did the Emmaus course, which was quite good as a 'starter'. I've not done Alpha so I can't compare it myself, but from what people who have done both have said, the Emmaus course is much quieter and more thoughtful than Alpha, which (from what one lady said) was a bit 'happy clappy' and there was a lot of expectation as to what you were supposed to 'feel' at particular parts of the course.

Emmaus, on the other hand, was very open to question, and really encouraged discussion. However, there was an awful lot about the prodigal son.... by the end of the course, evey time we were directed to read a particular bible passage, we all laid bets as to whether ornot it was going to be the prodigal son!!

Thanks for the prayers for yesterday I survived it, but honestly have no idea how I did. I also felt very old - all the other candidates were young and gorgeous and about 22 I felt ancient! I should find out how I got on in about a week's time. I'm trying to be accepting of whatever happens!

Well, we had another bad night last night so back to the doctor this morning. It seems he now has tonsilitis so now we have to get penicillin into him 4 times a day, an hour before food! The poor little guy seems to be so run down that he's catching anything going.

The Lent group sounds good Mary. It's so hard to get to anything like that with little ones though.

Praying for a better night BES. Poor little mite.

The Lent group went very well!!! Although numbers were low, maybe because we clashed with a funeral. But all those who attended gave it the thumbs up!

Emmaus is good, I recommend it. Maybe we were lucky and managed to avoid most of the prodigal material??? There are enough topics to choose from though, and its good for promoting discussion. I have to admit I've never fancied Alpha!

I wondered how you and your dd2 were getting on Belgianbun, glad you have updated. Prayers that the neuroblastoma will indeed disappear of its own accord and glad to hear hat you feel more reassured about the whole process.

Prayers for your little man, hope he is better sap and you can all get some sleeeeeep!!! xx

BB - thank you for the update, your lovely DD is most definitely in my thoughts and prayers - as are you and all your family. Do keep us updated when you can. xx

Glad the Lent course went well Mary.
Belgian bun, praying for your dd2. xx
Thanks for the recommendations re Emmaus, will def look into it, it sounds like it might be a better fit for what we are looking to do. I have led an Alpha course and it was great for what we were doing in the place we were doing it, but doesn't really fit for this small scale relaxed and open thing I want here.

Please can you pray for my friend whose baby dd is very poorly in hospital with breathing problems. they can't find out what is wrong.

Keeping the prayers going...

Praying for you friend's DD MHD. Keep us updated. xx

Continued prayers for all.

BelgianBun, I'm so glad it was such a good ourcome for your DD - prayers that she continues to do well

Prayers for MHD's friends baby.

Could you please pray for my friend from my home group? She has 20 month old twins (2nd set of twins in the family - not planned! plus an older 'singleton' too, so 5 children in total). She's overstretched at the best of times but the younger twins have been sleeping very badly for some time and she is exhausted and tearful every time I see her, and swamped with well-meaning advice that most often just makes her feel even more hopeless for doing it 'wrong'. Please pray that the twins will begin to sleep better very soon, and that I might find a way to support her in some practical way.

'outcome' for Belgianbun's DD! I can't type....

Prayers for sleep for everyone who needs it.

BB - prayers for healing for your DD.

DD3 has had the best few weeks for 20 months here, which is fantastic. BUT now DD2 has had blood results back today which confirm glandular fever. Prayers for her please as she is feeling very unwell and worried about her AS levels in a few months time. Also, please pray that I will stay calm as DD3's severe CFS/ME was triggered by glandular fever 20 months ago. GP has been fantastic and reassures me we wont be that unlucky again. (He said DD3 was the worst case he had seen in 30 years of being a GP!)
Thank you.

Good to hear about all the courses you are all running. DH has been running a couple of alpha courses a year for our church. He says each one is very different and "adapts" it for the group he has at the time. It is the next step that we have a difficulty knowing where to take them from there, until they are ready to join a full blown housegroup, if they are still a bit wobbly about things still. The group he has at the moment he is looking through John with them and letting them discover as they read and study together. He loves it and is always excited about their discoveries.
Enough rambling form me.
Love to you all.