God Loves A+ Too
This is for every student out there, regardless of what you are studying and what level you’re at. All the best in the new academic year!
Being a student can be daunting, all those “wonderful” course works, tests, and exams. I for one disliked exams and regarded them as unnecessary torture. Having Christ in my life did make things a lot easier for me I must add. I’m not saying you shouldn’t study when you have Christ, gosh no! Our God is not a lazy God so you do need to do your part. What I’m saying is that the Holy Spirit can stir you in the right direction, He can teach you what to read, how to answer questions, guide you through those course works.
I remember a course work I had whilst studying for a master’s degree. It was in the management arm of my degree and I had chosen a topic that at the time of choosing I felt I had “hacked” it, but was I wrong or what? A few weeks after I had chosen my topic, almost everyone I knew had started writing, some had written 1500 words, 2000 words out of 3500 words we were to write. Some even said they had written so many words that they needed to reduce them. But there I was, with just about 500 words or so and not sure what direction I was going with the work. One evening as I sat to “try” and do some more work on said course work, I started thinking to myself “Kunbi, what exactly is the issue here? Don’t you know who you are in Christ anymore? Ask the Holy Spirit for help!” 
Then a passage in the bible was brought to my remembrance…”ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened” – Luke 11v9&10. I asked the Holy Spirit to help me there and then, told Him I had used and exhausted all of my human strength on the work and it had not got me anywhere. Let me digress a little bit here, one mistake that we can so easily make is to think that because God is all knowing, we do not need to ask Him or talk to Him about issues we are facing or problems plaguing us. Wrong! Yes, God is all knowing, but we still need to talk to Him, we still need to ask Him, otherwise Jesus would not have said what He said in Luke 11v9&10!
After I asked the Holy Spirit for help, it did not take long before I started tapping away on my laptop. It was scary as I kept going on and on. In the space of 2 or 3 days, I was done! I completed what I had been trying to do for weeks! But then I started thinking “have I done this right? Is this what the lecturer wants? What if I don’t get a high grade on this work” – so much doubt came to mind, a typical occurence when God has seen you through something and the enemy comes to try his tactics out on you, it’s so annoying when he does that! Like seriously, get a job! All these thoughts plagued me endlessly but I just kept believing that I would not fail this assignment.
I handed it in, after a few glitches I must add, and waited. On the day we got our work back, my heartbeat was almost 10 times its normal beat per minute as I looked through the pile to find my work. I finally found it, and there it was…A+!! Without thinking about where I was, I just kept saying “thank You God, thank You Holy Spirit, thank You!!” Only two of us had such high grades and I almost could not believe my eyes.
“Where is she going with this?” you may ask. What I’m trying to say is this – our God loves A+ too. Yep, He does. He wants you to pass with flying colors, He wants you to be above your peers, He wants to show you off to the world, He wants you to shine for Him and be a testimony to the glory of His name. In Jeremiah 29v11, God tells us “I know the thoughts that I have towards you, thoughts of good and not of evil, to bring you to an expected end“. So there you go! God’s thoughts towards you as a student is for you to do excellently well in your studies as you live your life standing firmly on the solid rock and not wavering or comprising your belief in God. Your expected end? Wow! Where do I begin?
So, how about it then? Now that you know God loves A+ too, what are you going to do?
Word of the day…
Revelation 3v20 – Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Encouraging piece KB….
Wonderful testimony. Really encouraging Sister….
OMG, I was actually browsing the internet, goggled my full name (Kunbi Balogun) to ensure security setting I done on my face book account for privacy was activated to find so many search results for such a rare name. For some reason this was the first I clicked on, words cannot describe how I felt, such an inspirational article that was read at the right time which was much needed to uplift my heavy soul. I was so emotional all the way through reading this and couldn’t believe someone else went through exactly what am currently going through, at one point of reading I felt I was directed my the holy spirit to click on this link just to show confirmation that God is listening and has answered all my prays…Amen.
I am currently struggling through the Final year of my master degree, I feel so de-motivated and discouraged even missed deadlines of my assignments set, I’ve prayed and prayed but still don’t feel lifted, I’ve never felt like this and starting to feel like am wedging some kind of war against my enemies, when peers & others see you are increasing and moving forward in life I know devil tries all possible forces to bring you down, I am keeping faith and the funny thing is am still attending lectures and paying fees which is not cheap if I may add but the excitement and willingness I had in my first year of studying this course have all gone, I am starting to make excuses just to make myself feel better and questioning why this is happening as I’ve never experienced such thing in all my years of studying.
I must say Thank U Thank U, my name sake who ever you are and where ever you may be based, (in tears) am ever so grateful for this scripture, I don’t know whether I would have qualified this year if I hadn’t read this. This has not only motivated me but confirmed that when you do ask from God, your sure definitely receive, it is not that he wasn’t there all along, all I had to do was keep faith, have an open heart for the spirit to intercede in my situation and all would have improved, I guess I was kinda naive, expecting some kind of immediate miracle and not wanting to take part in the recovery to resolve the situation.
I have definitely won the battle and now nothing but VICTORY all the way. I am now going to take the plunge as from today to start both assignments missed and start reading for two exams due to take in few weeks. Pls do support me in prayers that mitigation circumstance forms I have to produce to support my overdue assignments will be approved by the panel and pass with flying colours which will include my exam marks..Amen…A* to be exact..lol.
I cannot thank you enough Kunbi, may the Good Lord continue to provide you with divine knowledge and wisdom for your inspiration words to encourage others.
Many Thanks,
Kunbi Balogun.