My Semester With God 2

Hii people of God!

Quick recap...  It's a month to my exams, school's been good; I said I was going to do this semester with God and this is how it's been going...

After I made the decision to do this semester with Him, I prayed and decided to create a schedule and God allowed me to, in fact, He even created it with me. I constructed this seemingly 'perfect' schedule for everyday of the week and I was able to stick to it only for two days, and failed to on the third. I ended up feeling frustrated because I wasn't able to follow it and on the fourth day, I ended up feeling like God was disappointed in me and I had failed Him. He, on the other hand, was trying to teach me that I cannot control every bit and event of my life; so I scrapped the schedule and said to Pops, 'I cannot stick to the schedule because I can't control everything, You said we we're going to do this together so please help me' . Sometimes, all we need to do as children of God is to simply say 'i can't do it unless You do it with me' and watch God be God. Now God being God, showed up and guided me: told me what to do, and when to do what to do. 

We've had a lot of test scares in my class, lecturers decide we're going to write a test and for some reason cancel or shift it. But heading into each 'cloudy with a chance of test' days, I'd carry this overwhelming amount of peace in me; whether I was ready for test or not and I started becoming confused and didn't know what to do with it. I knew where the peace was coming from, but why? Sounds crazy to ask why innit? 

When we resumed after Christmas break we had a test on the 9th of January, I had 7 days to prep, but I didn't till only one day was left and I still felt this peace, and coupled with my lack of preparation, I began to force myself to worry cause it didn't make sense and it felt like Dad was just silent, watching me. I got to school the next day and we wrote the test, even if I had read, I'd probably wouldn't have come across what was set. Still, after a 'bad test' I was still at peace. You can imagine. 

My friend who I was seated next to said, 'this one, you're not even moved why are you so calm?' and all I told her was 'im trying to figure out how God is running my life, because I'm confused' and I said we'd talk when the lecturer left the class. 

When he did, we got to talking and I told her about this crazy amount peace I've had and how I don't know what to do with it. She understood, and with the Holy Spirit working in us, she told me a story that helped piece mine together because I was spazzing out. 

She explained to me, times & seasons and how this peace I have is to enable me bulk up with reading, so I wouldn't be pressured or have to read under pressure when exams come. She said there's no 'I work better under pressure', as a Child of God if we're truly modelling after our Heavenly Father. Our Father did not rest for six days and started rushing to create earth on the seventh. He took His time with creation, a day at a time and did not rest until He was finished; He was able to sit and watch His work yeild fruits (even if humans ruined it).

Then Holy Spirit reminded me of Joseph's story in Genesis 41 where after interpreting Pharaoh's dreams Joseph said to Pharoah 

'It means that you're going to have seven lean years eventually, but the good news is you'll have seven good years first'

The idea was to put grain aside, store it up during the seven good years so as to be safe during the hard times.

The entire conversation cleared up my confusion on what to do the peace I was given by God. I'm to prepare adequately now, so when exams come, I'd not be stressing or crash reading. The realization was mind blowing and it gave me more peace. I thanked God for making it clear, I knew what to do now, and I prayed for Him to help me with everything.

For now that's the update, we'll get more God willing when examss come and when results are out.

Have a GOD day! (Not a typo)