PrayerBoard

Prayer Board

"Prayer is one of the basic freedoms Christians have, and freedoms aren�t given to leave us in bondage."

Here we can share prayer requests and actual prayers. Check back here for inspiration, encouragement and ways we can pray for each other as a community.

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March 2005

First Entry of this year! Please pray for someone in my cell group called H who is going through a time where he is really trying to find out who he is and what life is about.

Pray for me (Wave~) to not stop praying for people to know God. I seem to be having little effect or affect on peoples lives (as far as I can see) and this is slightly saddening.

December 2004

God, I choose to trust you despite what some Christians do, and how confused that makes me feel. Look after me.

November 2004

Me again... and well, if you don't ask, people don't know to pray! Just to ask if people might pray for today's currently very disorganised christingle and youth group (both to be led by me) and next weekend's youth weekend - it's all a bit chaotic here! Em.

October 2004

A lovely man called John from our church suddenly dropped dead on Wednesday last week so I thought I'd ask if you could pray for us as a church and especially his family as they deal with that. But I'm not sure if anyone actually visits this bit anymore!!! Em.

I visit and will try to pray for them. andy

Me too ~

Thank you.

July 2004

Just wanted to mention to encourage you, I spoke to an old friend of mine today. She's been praying for her parents for 12 years that they would become Christians, to the point that she gave up hope and stopped praying. And then at the end of last year God answered those prayers, and her parents were baptised this Easter. It wasn't easy though - they had a bad year last year and it was only when her dad got cancer that he started to take these issues of life and death seriously... Midge

Just thought I should update you on my friend I asked you to pray for. Basically, things are much better in his life now, he's been helped by a counsellor, he's got married, and seems to be much more balanced and happy now. Praise God! Midge

Please pray for the Scripture Union holidays some of us here are involved with. Pray for practical things to go well, safety, and that God will change us leaders and the young people who come on them.

May 2004

Pray for my friends I and F and their son N whose new wife was killed in a car accident just a few months after they were married. Lord, I am hurting about this, and I don't understand. But I still submit to you. I give in to you. Where else could I go? Please comfort them and help all who know them to stay close and not draw away.

January 2004

It seems this hasn't been used for a while so I thought I'd add a bit...

For renewed enthusiasm and real belief that God is in control and DOES have a plan

Can you pray that I am a bit less stressed? andy

November 2003

Pray that God will show himself to you today in some way. And to me - I always forget that he actually wants to.

St Marks (Cardiff) Parish Weekend - 14th-16th - especially the youth programme being led by Ruth Stradling.

October 2003

Please pray for my friend's sister, L. It may be that God wants her to become a Christian soon - my friend feels like God wants us to pray for her, so we're going to pray every night - any help much appreciated.

While we're at it let's pray for Dx - maybe God will be merciful enough to give him some kind of sign that he's there. We love you Dx.

August 2003

The struggle of the mind

July 2003

Galatians 5:13

You my brothers were called to be free.

Don't forget to pray for The Maze - a Scripture Union holiday some of the people on this site are involved with. It's in mid-August, and that's getting pretty close! The kids are 12-15, and we do games, sports and stuff with them while trying to indoctrinate them into becoming Christians (or getting closer to God) on the sly.

I was reading this a couple of nights ago and found it encouraging, cos it says so much about what God can do for us, and what He already has done:

"We have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way...

bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience,

joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light, who has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." (Colossians 1:9-14)

June 2003

I've been finding it really hard to pray recently, and I've also been really worried about loads of things in my life. I went to see our church minister recently and talked to him about it (something I would never do!) and he suggested I pray out loud. It's a very simple thing but it is really helping me to feel that I'm actually _doing_ something when I pray, which is a great help. Please pray that God will help me not to worry, and look after me!

Please pray for me too - I was lying awake in bed last night thinking how my life has no point at the moment, and worrying about everything. It's probably just slow burn-out. I'm sitting here day after day, spending my parents' money, looking at my thesis and feeling stuck and depressed by it, and not getting anywhere, but when I look for help, people just say "You really ought to make sure you get it done by September - you can't take a break". I feel my confidence in what I believe is weak, my relationship with God is weak, and I have various decisions to make about my life. My friend mentioned below keeps going through good and bad patches. All these things always crop up at the same time. The only thing missing this time is for someone to turn up expecting to stay in my room.

May 2003

Training weekend for Curtains Up! is Friday 30th May - Sunday 1st June. As yet completely unplanned. Also half the team aren't coming. Would appreciate prayer for that. Thanks!

What exactly is Curtains Up? And when is it happening? Ah - I've found some clues here

Please pray for my friend who I mentioned in December - he's at a make-or-break point in his life, and with his girlfriend, and I'm in the middle being asked why God doesn't show them what to do and why he's let it come to this... Thanks. Update - they're making progress, though there's still lots of issues that need healing. After saying that God never speaks to her, like He does to some people, she was praying and God did tell her to read a particular bit of the Bible, which helped them get back together.

April 2003

I think it's still April... please pray for Scripture Union Easter camps which are happening now and the summer camps which should be being organized quite a lot by now. I say "should" cos mine is a bit behind and we have a lot to do!!!

My RSI has reduced to the extent that I can type here, but I've done an hour or so and I can definitely feel it. Please pray it goes away as the only things I am good at involve typing!

Your not too bad at entertaining. Oh and you are quite good on the phone. Dx

March 2003

Is it really March already??? Ok. My friend has a brain tumour. Outlook is not good. Barring a miracle he probably won't be here this time next year. I know I should be praying for God's will and all that but I want him to get better. My issue not yours so please pray whatever you think is cool. UPDATE - no miracle. But many positive things leading from the heart-rendingly sad news that he died.

I'm so sorry to hear this. All my sympathies to you and his family. DavidB

February 2003

January 2003

I've felt ill for about half of January, and a third of the last few months, and people keep saying "You're always ill - have you seen a doctor?" so maybe I should be concerned. I expect I'm just not very resistant to things - my mum always called my dad a hypochondriac. But it'd be nice to be able to think straight when I'm supposed to be working or enjoying myself. Anyway, on Tuesday I looked up from my desk and saw a rainbow right in front of me, and it reminded me of this hymn (which I've always thought I'd like at my funeral - and a friend of mine told me she'd always wanted it at her funeral too. As the saying goes, "It's your funeral.") -

O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in Thee;
I give Thee back the life I owe,
That in Thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.

O Light that lightest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to Thee;
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in Thy sunshine's blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.

O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to Thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall tearless be.

O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from Thee;
I lay in dust life's glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be.

(George Matheson)

By your side
I would stay
In your arms
I would lay

Lord you are more precious than silver
Lord you are more costly than gold
Lord you are more beautiful than diamonds
Nothing I desire compares with you.

I'm praying through the stuff on this board now. Thanks for sharing everyone.

Really worried about things I've said I'm going to do this year. For my whole life I've been beset by worry, often asking God to teach me to trust him. It would be great if he could help me make progress on that this year.

December 2002

Update on my friend - since I posted the message last month, he's generally been coping with life, tho v stressed. He hasn't had any major crises and has spent some time praying and reading the Bible with me and seems fairly happy and stable. Now he's on holiday, he seems to be coping better with it than when he's been on holiday in the past. He just needs to keep trying to progress and not give up. Midge

Feeling down today. People are so annoying. What you really should pray is that I get over myself and start praying properly again and I'd probably feel better pretty quick.

November 2002

My friends have recently separated - they're in their 30s and it has happened very suddenly. He's now staying with his parents. She's felt God move close to her at the moment, and I haven't spoken to him in depth yet but I bet he's felt the opposite. I don't know what to pray for exactly, but would value some of you also not knowing what to pray for with me! Also obviously for help for me in what to say to them and to have the guts to invite them round etc.

I need to get back into praying on my own - I've been really slack in the last few weeks. Please pray that God will reward any efforts I make so that I feel encouraged to carry on ... Andy

It'd be great if you could pray for a friend of mine too. He's been a Christian for a long time but whenever he tries to make progress in his life and live a less negative life, something always seems to crop up just to trip him up - it'd be surprising how many 'coincidences' there were if I didn't know we're in a spiritual battle. He starts to do well with things, and with encouraging others in their faith, and then he gets kicked down again into a pit of despair. He needs to finally break out of this into the life that God has rescued him for. Midge

I have loads of things I could ask you to pray for and I wasn't going to but it seems other people haven't so I will ask for some of them! Have some friends going through rough times and have listed the stuff but not the names below:

2 friends have recently taken overdoses, one of them has done it twice. Both are Christians and have strong faith but couldn't see way out of how things were.

Another friend is Muslim in an arranged marriage and very unhappy. No idea what to suggest to pray for on this one though she recently had a baby girl and that has been big blessing to her and helped her want to get out of bed every day.

And I (this is M by the way, opting for not being anonymous) would love you to pray for me starting my new job as youth worker. Don't start till January 6th but prayer is cool.

Please pray for my friend "Rob". He is/has been a Christian but is completely driven away from it, finding church really painful and needing loads of healing. It's all wrapped up with the confusion of a Theology degree and bad experiences with church etc. He's going to try to pray and see if he can find his way back to God.