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 marking. It didn’t help that Company has always been the most painful topic for me, that the theories didn’t link up like all the other topics (Criminal, Land, etc) did.
My paper was at 2pm today. Yesterday evening I looked at the past year 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 at all.
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 ill-prepared, content wise.
So, this morning, I opened my daily devotional book, which told me to flip to Psalms 141. I flipped open the bible randomly and it opened up at 140 (which was the least I had to flip in years before I got the right page/went to the contents page)
My daily devotion read,
“I never lead you to do something without equipping you for the task.”
I felt a sense of comfort, but probably too much that I went back to sleep and only started reading the rest of my content for the first time. I couldn’t really focus either. I didn’t panic, and I walked into the exam hall, and took out a random sheet of prepared answers covering the topic on Agency.
So many things could’ve gone wrong. I prayed for wisdom, mercy, grace, that in my second year of undergraduate, I did not understand what the question of my leaked land law paper meant, two days before my land paper, but things started to make sense the night before, and I was running out of time. God gave me one of the questions, in my dream. I woke up with a feeling, ‘go and study this. for an essay.’
I prayed for Jesus to hold my hand like He did during my Financial Regulations paper in third year, where I had little content to go about writing, a high risk that the limited questions I prepared for would not come out, and Jesus took my hand and answered my questions.
This morning, I shamelessly prayed for guidance. I was worried that I would run out of time. In the end I finished 20 minutes early. I identified the 3 crucial issues correctly (Although I might not have dealt with them the best).
“For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.” Proverbs 2:6
That was a miracle in itself, for I have only grasped the content this morning. I prayed to Jesus to give me the knowledge to know what areas of law the question is testing.
The only worry I have now is, God is fair, I have, admittedly, been lazy, overconfident, passively boasting about my past successes, being complacent as this is an open book exam. I was meant to advise my client, Jiro, but ended up forgetting to address HIS criminal liability completely (even though I discussed the crime). I wrote a few redundant lines in the paper.
I’ve been reading posts about God granting favour in the eyes of the examiner (even when you least deserve it). i never deserved God’s help in any of the last 5 years of exams, I had always left it to the last minute (And His grace and mercy and love). Never had I walked out with this dread that my little mistakes might cost me a pass/fail grade. I feel shameful and, I recognise that exams aren’t everything. I don’t need to pass, although it is required if I want to practise law.
And so, God performed miracles in my exam – I understood and idenfitied the correct issues, but I wasn’t writing the most precisely accurate and correct things.
I came home and opened my bible randomly. It turned me to Proverbs 4: The Benefits of Wisdom. After reading that I turned my head to Proverbs 3, which really struck me.
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know.” – Proverbs 3:5 GNT
“Remember the LORD in everything you do, and he will show you the right way.”- Proverbs 3:6 GNBUK
“Never let yourself think that you are wiser than you are; simply obey the LORD and refuse to do wrong.” – Proverbs 3:7 GNBUK
As for post first paper, I’d say the takeaway is: I can find comfort in the fact that I should not rely on my humane calculations on whether my writing cost me a grade, for Jesus said in Matthew 19:26 “”With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
“For we live by faith, not by sight” – 2 Corinthians 5:7
I shouldn’t think that I would know how the exam went. I had hit all three major points, with mistakes in the paper that I pray to God that He will grant me favour in this examiner’s eyes. It is highly unlikely but, i do need a miracle, that Jesus has performed in all the testimonies that I’ve read here, as well as in my own life.
“The Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favour in the eyes of the prison warden.” Genesis 39:21
Despite everything that has happened, I feel a sense of calm. A slight dread and doubt in my answers but,
“Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” – Nehemiah 8:10
God knows my specific worries – which answers/lines I wrote/failed to write that I am worried about. Like how I started my walk with faith – I am going to give this up to God, for Him to handle. Give my troubles and worries up so I can prepare for my next paper with this promise in mind:
Isaiah 41:10:
“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
(I’m still low key worried because – the paper wasn’t difficult. I could tackle the questions. But my answers could’ve been better, and Jesus I pray that You work miracles – this would actually be a miracle.)
Fingers crossed – I know I don’t deserve this the most but I am hanging off God’s grace and mercy like I do every year (the song amazing grace comes to mind as to how and why He would love a wretch like me), hoping to pass, knowing that (a) I don’t deserve it from the lack of preparation (b) from my written mistakes.
Results will be out in June; I will be posting about tomorrow’s paper in the next 24 hours. Thanks for listening guys (:
Update:
God, I’m worried.
- wrote the wrong thing / irrelevant thing about Ko not being a local – criminal liability point
- didn’t write about Jiro’s criminal liability
- not sure if i should’ve wrote about Jiro being de facto director
- didn’t write 157
- could’ve missed out cases
- para on being sacked could’ve been better
God, please help me rectify my mistakes, grant the examiner favour in my papers.
God will hear your payers…and everyone who reads it will pray too..Be confident in God..Success is all urs..All The Best
The bible says that we should let our requests be made known unto God. Like you, I am studying for law and I have so many stories that I can share about what God has done in my life. There were so many times that I have been lazy and at last minute I scramble to prepare for exams. There were times that I promised God that I will work harder so that I wouldn’t make mistakes in exams but I always disappoint him. Nevertheless, I believe in miracles and as his child I will never stop praying to him because I know and I believe that he will help me. No matter what I do, I know that God loves me and he’ll never give up on me.
So last year I failed landlord and tenant, it’s one of the many courses that law school offers. When I received my results I was disappointed of course but I decided to review the exam. I was unsuccessful in the review exam. I still had a chance at passing so I did the supplemental exam and surprisingly I failed that too. Failing that exam meant that i had to trail the course in second year. So i was discouraged. I cried to God and asked him why he allowed me to fail. Probably two days after receiving my supplemental results i was running through my emails and i saw an email stating that the review date for supplementals had been amended. At that point i was like “wait we can review supplementals”. I knew that was Jesus because I never knew about that we can review supplemental exams. I didn’t even know what I was doing in my emails because I hardly check them. So immediately i knew that was God. I said that myself “God are you telling me something”. So I decided to review the supplemental exam and to my surprise I never received a letter from the school confirming whether I was successful or not in the review. I took their silence to mean that i failed. So the new school term began and I saw my name was on the trail list. So everyone who knew me, also knew that i had to redo a course. Of course I was ashamed. I cried told God that I wasted my parents time and money.
However, God was preparing me for a miracle. I received a letter about 6 weeks after school reopened and it stated that they reviewed my supplemental exam and I passed and they apologized for the late response and any inconvenience caused.
I was shook.
I thought that God was teaching me a lesson. I thought God left me but all he was telling me to do was to not to lose faith in him and always trust in him.
I’m a Christian and I’m also living in the world so I thought that because I was bad he wouldn’t hear my prayers. Trust me he is there. For the past couple of months I have met persons who made me question who God is. Is he real? Let me tell you. Our God is real and once you put your trust in him and believe him he will come through for you. Just ley your requests be made known to him and remember thank him for everything he has done for you. Trust me. Just believe in him and do not doubt him. He is capable of anything.
Please I need a Prayer for my daughter, she submitted a essay before the deadline today, but just a couple of minutes before the end of submission she found a crucial mistake and was unable to make the changes. She is devastated……….I am praying the marker looks down favourable on her and this error does not jeopardies her chances of get a good grade. Please come into agreement with me and prayer with me
Alison, I’m praying and agreeing with you regarding your daughter, in Jesus name.
Bless you and thank you so much.
I wanted to come back and give an update, my daughters lecturer emailed her on 13 June 2024 and said she could email over the correct essay. To God be the glory, Thank you God for answered prayers and I thank and bless all that came in to agreement with me and prayed. Alison
Thank you God! And thank you, Alison for coming back and sharing. May He continue to bless you and your daughter. And grow your faith.
God is good – Amen. I have a testimony, only just 25 mins ago, my daughter got a notification from Uni. The marker told her that he marked the correct paper that she submitted by email after the deadline and she passed 75%. Thank you God for answered prayers and thank you Emory and others that came into agreement and prayed with me.
Alison, Praise God and thank you for keeping us updated!
Just the testimony i was looking for, im in need of prayers and God’s favour just two days after submitting my essay i discovered i used a wrong format and i cant make any corrections since submission date is overdue. im crying to God for his favour, he knows better and very faithful.
I did my Anatomy and physiology exam today, I realized hours later that I made a lot of mistakes with a spelling which I kept on writing many times, instead of angiotensin, I wrote andotensin, I felt bad immediately, and I prayed for God to pls help me and rectify my mistake, with other parts too in the exam paper, he has done it before and I know he will do it again. I came online and come across with all this testimonys, I decide to put mine here, I want to leave everything to God ,I still have more papers to write and I believe he will help me.
Pls put me in your prayers ,by the time the result come out ,I want to be able to say “this is God’s hand”
Amen
Modupe, may your exam script receive favour of the examiner and the error overlooked. May the Lord grant you success in all your papers. May you be the head and not the tail. May you graduate with excellent grades in Jesus name.
Shalom
Thank you, the lord will answer the prayers. I will share my testimony by God’s grace when the results come out, Amen.