Enjoying The Father’s Love, Blessed In Studies
My family moved to the United Kingdom in 2006 when I was about nine years old. It was a new country with a different education system. So I had to take a SAT test before I could advance to high school. Through God’s grace and provision, I scored ninety-one percent—the highest score in the entire school!
When I turned eighteen, I had to sit for the A-Level examinations. As I did not do well in my first year of junior college, I had to work a lot harder in the second year to make it to university. I couldn’t help feeling depressed.
I decided to stop trying to make myself better and submitted my problem to God. God delivered me from depression. Also, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, I turned to Pastor Joseph Prince’s daily devotional. They inspired me each day and I found myself growing in faith.
A few weeks before my examinations, I still wasn’t doing well in classroom tests and was swinging between discouragement and faith. I remembered getting home one day just weeping and wondering what was wrong with me. I felt and heard the Holy Spirit comforting me tenderly, not at all judgmental as I had previously believed He would be.
When I had calmed down, I felt prompted to kneel, speak in tongues, and confess scriptures. I was also led to read the praise reports under the education section at Joseph Prince Ministries’ website. I knew I was no different from those believers I read about so I claimed my breakthrough. That day, I experienced a peace that I’d never thought possible.
From that time on, I dedicated to building myself up with teachings about grace and rest in God. I was most impacted by the message, See The Father’s Love For You. Though I was raised as a Christian all my life, I did not understand God’s love and was very wary of Him. I had never given much thought to the fact that Jesus’ finished work on the cross was God’s plan, nor imagined that God would run to me, embrace me, kiss me, adorn me, and rejoice in me! When I began to realize the truth, I experienced huge and lasting changes from the inside out.
I have collected my examination results and I have not only passed, but I have also been accepted by the university of my choice. All this was done with little effort of my own! I am also at rest, knowing that the finances have already been entirely provided for by God.
I would like to say a big thank you to Pastor Prince for being the channel through which God shows His heart toward us. Even more so, I’d like to thank my Daddy God, who loves me and cares for me always.
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