Retake Graduate Record Exam and Reapplication process

[Yahshua]

On the July of 29th at 8:00 AM Pacific Standard timezone I have to retake the Graduate Record Exam. This time I hope God would help me to do well. As well as the reapplication admission process to my former university graduate school program. Those two thing I want people to prays for me especially the Graduate Record Exam.

[NekoChan_C]

I will certainly be praying... May the Holy Spirit bring forth all the knowledge you need to ace your exam. <3

Jess

[Prince Asbel]

You got it.

[EricTheFred]

Been there, done that. Scared the daylights out of me. I'll be praying for you.

[chelle0227]

I'll be praying for you dan.

[Kamille]

I'm praying for your great success and favor on this test. Keep Jesus as your foundation and you'll be secure during life's storms and tests(~Matthew 7:24-27).

[MBlight]

You're in my prayers Dan! I pray God will give you wisdom beyond comprehension and nerves of steel! All the best and let us know how it goes!

[Yahshua]

Ah the stress is killing me and all these going make me insane. Ah I still have much doubt about how well I be at re-takes the Graduate Record Exam and also application to my former university is hard annually they only accept 15 people out of maybe 300 or so people. So eh I need a lot of prayer. And still frustrate with God as well.

[animewarrior]

Dan. Be praying for you. I HATE EXAMS too so you're not alone in that sense.
I hope you get things fixed with God and whatever you're going through...stay strong in the Lord warrior (for we all fight against not flesh and blood but powers and principalities)
God Bless,
-animewarrior

[Prince Asbel]

I'm still praying for you.

[12praiseGOD]

Praying!

[Kamille]

I'm praying for you every day, my brother in Christ.

Concerning you having some frustration with God - I was praying just now about what God wants to say to you, and I believe that He wants you to know that He is for you. He lived and died for you as a human in the form of Jesus. Plus meditate over Jeremiah 29:11:

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

If you're having a hard time with God right now, ask Him to give you an eye-opening understanding of His love for you. I often have to ask Him to open my eyes in this way. Life's very hard and sometimes I forget the blessings upon my life. We all have to be spiritually refreshed often and it is only through Jesus that we overcome this death-filled, corrupt, evil world.

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
-John 16:33

And please don't worry - it clouds your vision and separates you from God. Instead trust in God because in the end it's your faith in God that will take away the worry in your life - not my telling you not to worry. I know it's hard not to worry when you're talking about academics, but there's a difference between constantly studying and preparing, and even having sweaty palms on test day, versus being mentally immobile. Worry will give you the latter. Some people (like me) had to learn that the hard way.

[Yahshua]

Going to take the exam tomorrow and please prays for physical and mental strength.

[Jingo Jaden]

Its the big day Dan! God bless ya and good luck!

[Sheenar]

Good luck today, Dan!! We're pulling for you!:thumb:

[Yahshua]

Well for verbal the first time it was 360 second time it was 380 quant was 340 second time it was 440 eh it is still not enough to apply into my former university and I am running out of patient and strength with GRE and all of this and I am still much frustrated with God and all the situation. So maybe three time will works.... Also I am beginning to lost a lot of faith in God.

[NekoChan_C]

these times, the ones where God seems to be NOWHERE in sight when you need Him, are the ones where we need most of all to stick to our faith... I'm still praying for you and I know that whatever His plan is, it will come through for you in the RIGHT TIME... don't lose heart completely. Allow this to draw you nearer to him...

<3
Jess

[ADXC]

Oh Im sorry Dan, ask God to help you through this. It may be possible that He doesn't want you to go down this road. But try again anyway because you never know. It may not even be your time yet. Im sure next time will be the one.

I know I haven't been around for these types of disappointments, but if it's anything when I took the AP exam this year it was really hard. And then had to wait untill mid-July just to see that I did not receive a college credit(I got a 2, a 3 gets a college credit.). I will try again this year's AP course but I don't know if I will do any better. I hope that I may get a 3 this year. (I really don't want to take freshmen English in college.)

[Kamille]

I pray that God blesses you with the fruits (Galatians 5:22-23) and gifts (1 Corinthians 12:1-11) of the Holy Spirit. May you find peace and patience and favor through our Lord Jesus Christ (and I know you will). Don't look at your circumstances, but look at God. He has everything you need. I'm not going to tell you to stop pursuing your goals because I don't know how much passion God has put into your heart for whichever field you want to get into. However seek God's Kingdom first and foremost. Pray often. Meditate on Bible verses that speak to your immediate situation. You should even visit http://www.ccci.org/growth/growing-closer-to-god/how-to-fast/index.aspx for information on fasting, which brings you closer to God. I know this from the Bible and experience.

You're frustrated - and we all get that way sometimes, though I agree the intensity differs from person to person. But whenever I get upset I go back to my foundation. Faith in Jesus and experience in this world have taught me that Jesus is the only way to everlasting success. There is no other way. As Jesus said to His disciples:

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." - John 15:5

[Kunoichi]

Thinking about you and wanted to give you some encouragement bro ^_^ *hugs

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to chose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way" -

Viktor Frankl (Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz and sole survivor of his family and friend's besides his sister)
"So I tell you, don't worry abour everyday life- whether you have enough food to eat or clothes ot wear. For life consists of far more than food and clothing....Can worries add a single moment ot you life? Of course not! And if worrdy can't do little things like that, what's the use of worrying over bigger things?" - Jesus

[Yahshua]

Eh lately I have been frustrated with God I just can't seen to prays and I have told God to Fing off.

[USSRGirl]

I just want to point out that, while it's great and fine and dandy to pray and support one another in things like tests, God is not your (or my) personal genie. I believe that a large part of your frustration, Dan, may lie in trying to "faith heal" a GRE. I don't mean to pick on anybody, but the comment about the Holy Spirit mystically bestowing the powahs of answers/knowledge was just... highly flippant/belittling even though it wasn't meant as such. If we served a God so concerned with the passing things of this world and were filled with a Spirit that we could summon to our whims for such purposes... we might as well go don a Taoist robe and try to channel the hidden elements or some such thing ("What? Zhuge Liang can control the very elements? ... He may one day become a threat to Wu" Ah... I digress. XD). Peace, guidance... yeah, that's more like it. But faith healing isn't a study method. There are things in our lives that simply happen - we get a cold from staying out late without a sweatshirt, our car breaks down, we find ten bucks on the street, ect. This is life in this world, and in my opinion connected to natural happenings and consequences not some kind of cosmological dualism.

I'm not trying to accuse or point fingers, but I know from personal experience that it is very easy to get into the habit of praying for what WE want, begin looking for "signs" that we want to see, without giving a crap what God wants. I know when I get on a "I reaaaally want this/need this to happen!!!" kick, God is more "consulted" than put in charge. Prayer is a two-way conversation, not a Christmas list. We as humans want our expectations to be filled, and when they are not we feel let down. But God is outside anything that we in our small scope of understanding could try to comprehend. He's not a "tame God" as C.S. Lewis would say. -__^ "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:9

In reality, God has no obligation to us whatsoever, but out of fatherly love He called out to us while we were lost and invited us into a caring relationship. He cares about us each individually and wants to comfort and draw us closer to Him, but ultimately everything in life is to His will and purpose. He may have other paths for you that He's trying to show you - you might realize them now or five years from now. There are also many things in life that we decided as humans and blame God for when they fall through.

In any case, I would just encourage you to keep praying, reading the Bible, and listening, waiting patiently, and accepting because this is also a part of prayer. If you're set on getting into this grad school and decide to take another go at the GRE, I'd give yourself a well earned break first from studies in general, then check around for some GRE study guides and prep classes to build your confidence up. But just remember, at the end of the day, a test is just a test. Your relationship with God is forever.

In prayer,

Tem

[Kamille]

I just want to point out that, while it's great and fine and dandy to pray and support one another in things like tests, God is not your (or my) personal genie. I believe that a large part of your frustration, Dan, may lie in trying to "faith heal" a GRE. I don't mean to pick on anybody, but the comment about the Holy Spirit mystically bestowing the powahs of answers/knowledge was just... highly flippant/belittling even though it wasn't meant as such. If we served a God so concerned with the passing things of this world and were filled with a Spirit that we could summon to our whims for such purposes... we might as well go don a Taoist robe and try to channel the hidden elements or some such thing ("What? Zhuge Liang can control the very elements? ... He may one day become a threat to Wu" Ah... I digress. XD). Peace, guidance... yeah, that's more like it. But faith healing isn't a study method. There are things in our lives that simply happen - we get a cold from staying out late without a sweatshirt, our car breaks down, we find ten bucks on the street, ect. This is life in this world, and in my opinion connected to natural happenings and consequences not some kind of cosmological dualism.

I'm not trying to accuse or point fingers, but I know from personal experience that it is very easy to get into the habit of praying for what WE want, begin looking for "signs" that we want to see, without giving a crap what God wants. I know when I get on a "I reaaaally want this/need this to happen!!!" kick, God is more "consulted" than put in charge. Prayer is a two-way conversation, not a Christmas list. We as humans want our expectations to be filled, and when they are not we feel let down. But God is outside anything that we in our small scope of understanding could try to comprehend. He's not a "tame God" as C.S. Lewis would say. -__^ "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:9

In reality, God has no obligation to us whatsoever, but out of fatherly love He called out to us while we were lost and invited us into a caring relationship. He cares about us each individually and wants to comfort and draw us closer to Him, but ultimately everything in life is to His will and purpose. He may have other paths for you that He's trying to show you - you might realize them now or five years from now. There are also many things in life that we decided as humans and blame God for when they fall through.

In any case, I would just encourage you to keep praying, reading the Bible, and listening, waiting patiently, and accepting because this is also a part of prayer. If you're set on getting into this grad school and decide to take another go at the GRE, I'd give yourself a well earned break first from studies in general, then check around for some GRE study guides and prep classes to build your confidence up. But just remember, at the end of the day, a test is just a test. Your relationship with God is forever.

In prayer,

Tem

Well said. Like the difference between seeking God's face and His hand (resting in God vs. getting Him do something). Having the blessings of God is good (fruits and gifts of the Spirit), but sometimes I forget that when your faith gets to a certain level those things will come to you. You may ask for them without even noticing it. Let us all instead put our faith in the One who created us, the only reason for our existence, and the One who is Love (1 John 4:8), as a higher priority than anything else.