Prayer that God Will Grant Me Favour in the Eyes of the Examiner

Prayer that God Will Grant Me Favour in the Eyes of the Examiner

by | Mar 17, 2025 | Testimonies

Prayer that God Will Grant Me Favour in the Eyes of the Examiner Here I am! I said I’d post about the works of Jesus/God in my life for my upcoming bar exams (to qualify as a practising lawyer) – regardless of how my paper went (to be honest I honestly don’t know how it went – I almost have a dreadful hunch that I might have failed ): Background to this (Company Law) paper: This particular examiner is infamous for ‘if you fail to mention X, you FAIL‘. He has incredibly harsh markings. It didn’t help that Company has always been the most painful topic for me and that the theories didn’t link up like all the other topics (Criminal, Land, etc.) did. My paper was due at 2 pm today. Yesterday evening I looked at the past year’s questions and the answer scheme and thought to myself, ‘Man I am so screwed for this exam’. The answers on the answer scheme felt like someone just pulled a rabbit out of a hat – I still couldn’t imagine myself coming up with those answers. I didn’t work as hard as my past papers in the last few years, probably because this was an open-book exam, and I didn’t have to memorise cases. That also meant that I was even more

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The Power of a Single Night’s Prayer

The Power of a Single Night’s Prayer

by | Mar 17, 2025 | Testimonies

The Power of a Single Night’s Prayer Mark 10:27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” That pretty much sums up how I’m feeling this week – the week before my Bar Exams (to qualify as a practising lawyer). I have less than 100 hours of study to my papers – and I fell ill. My throat hurt, my nose was perpetually blocked, my body ached. I was even more tired all the time. I couldn’t focus because all I wanted to do was rest. After 3 consecutive mornings of waking up with a throat from hell and a head stuffed with illness, I went to bed last night with the realisation that I don’t have much time left. To study 5 entire legal topics from scratch – criminal, evidence, the legal system, company, and land law. Then I remembered feeling this despair every year of my undergraduate exams. I did the same as every year and cried out to God. I remember how, every year it just got more and more difficult to rely on my friends, to rely on myself (and my lack of discipline), and that last year it became clear to me that the purpose of the increasing annual difficulty in exams was to walk

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