What He told You

November 2014,I was standing on the noticeboard hopping not to see my name on the list. With my heart in my mouth and different thoughts coming through my mind ,all I could do was to shiver.  

A month earlier I was excited to announce to my family that my name was on the admission list ,number 1 for that matter .Three weeks after that I had my registration and was even matriculated.Now here I am just as I was about getting use into the system I am being told to either agree to be transferred to another faculty or defer my admission for one year..

How could this be happening to me ,I was thorn .The wise thing to do was to agree to be transferred to another faculty , deferring admission and sitting at home for another one year was not going to be funny..All this happened because I had pass in physics in my SSCE .I was cleared into my department with the result since I did well in Math and English and other important subject,but along the line the academic affairs in my school wanted me to either get transferred to another faculty or go home for one year to rewrite my SSCE and make sure I have a 'C' in physics. So this was just because of physics ( one subject)..

My school was principled.. Federal university Lafia. Having being in inception for about four years as at that time , they took every thing serious and did not over look even the minutest error.

 My whole world felt as if it was crumbling,after staying at home for three years , JAMB thrice ..Why didn't I rewrite the SSCE ,I asked myself.Well it didn't occur to me then and besides some my friends got admission into other universities and nobody asked them to defer there admission or took them to another faculty ...I was confused,sad , ashamed of myself..I had never been in a situation where I needed to make that kind of  decision. Should I defer my admission or get transferred to another faculty..I was not the only one in this group ,we were about 20 science students who had issues with physics yet we were cleared during registration. Most of those students didn't even think twice ,the jump right into the new faculty there being sent to but I just couldn't do that .. 

I spoke with my family and there were all in support of whatever decision I took ..But I needed to know what decision was best for me.. Getting transferred to another faculty or deferring my admission of which am not sure I would "credit" the physics ,and I might loose my admission.Hmm I wept for days but I needed to talk to someone and that person is my heavenly father. So I prayed, asking the Lord what He wanted me to do..And for the first time since the whole wahala started ,I had peace,I had this confidences assurance (Faith)..His response was simple, He said to me "trust me and defer the admission, you will return back to fulafia and you will graduate as the best in your department"..I felt better,I had something to hold on to

Monday morning,I had my deferment letter in my hand .My brother and I walked to my HODs office to submit the letter.Few steps to the door ,I paused with tears in my eyes .My brother held my hand and asked for us to take a walk , which we did. We sat few meters away from the HOD's office .I can't really recall his exact words,but I felt strengthened by it, I smiled and I said to him "I will go through with the deferment and I will return back to this same school,I won't loose my admission"..Now all the few friends I and made in school felt I was taking a risk and that it was better I transferred to another faculty than loose my admission..I understood how they felt but I knew what God had told me..

Few months into the deferment year, I got the news that those students who agreed to be transferred to another faculty were asked to also defer just like I did😮..Hmm ..God knew that was going to happen so He saved me the stress from experiencing that..(Faith is not a leap in the dark ,but a leap on the word of God).

 It was a humbling experience going back to a secondary school to write WAEC and NECO after 3 years of graduation. But I had to .I took no chances,I sat for the two exams ..The WAEC results came out first ,it was appalling .I wrote in a government school, so the asummed every body cheated  .When I saw the results,I wept..Now the negative thoughts starts coming"the what if's"  .. What if I failed the  NECO too, what if I loosed my admission,I didn't even rewrite Jamb 🤦..Guess what in the midst of those thoughts I kept reminding myself What God told me..I drowned those negative thoughts by confessing His word to me...I had to pass that NECO!! So I started speaking to the results,what I wanted to see ,I confessed daily.

A month later,the NECO results were released,but ours was held i.e the government school were I wrote the exams...hmm..I knew this was a fight of my faith ,and I had to win..God cannot lie ,if He said it, then it had to come to pass..For three months that result was held .Some close friends told me I should just get ready to forfeit my admission and write another JAMB ( me that did not like JAMB 🙄)..Well my response to them was " God told me I was going back to Fulafia and that means my result will be released and it will be excellent"..At this point I had spent 11 months at home,and my school was about to begin a new session but I still wasn't ready to resume  since my result was held...

It was 2 weeks to resumption,the result was still held ...Deep down in my spirit, I knew I could not give up now, because of What God told me,and just because the circumstances did not look like it was going in the direction of what He said to me ,did He now changed His word..God does not lie,He dose not change His word even when the situation looks impossible.. When God speaks,He creates what He said,even if what He said was not in existence,as soon as He says it,it becomes!!!

So I came back from church on a Wednesday, I was in the restroom when I heard my brother screeming my name, and shouting she cleared it all!!! I was still wondering what he was talking about,then he should me the result on his laptop screen....I could not hold back the hot tears as it flowed down my cheeks. This can only be God!!!! A week to the beginning of a new session,that result that was held for 4 months was released just at the right time!!!!!!!!!! 

I was the first to resume school,I went straight to the accdemic affairs with my result and letter of application in my hand ..I was back to the same school a year later Just like He ( GOD ) told me!!!! Did I tell you many that deferred the admission that year didn't return ! But I did, because I held on to What God told me!!

Dear friends, what did God tell you concerning that situation you are in..Have you talked to Him about it?,if you have not then your cheating your self.But if you have and He gave you His word (an answer)...Then cheer up and hold on to what He said ..When God told Abraham he would have a son and after many years of waiting Abraham felt like just giving up but right there God told him to look and count the stars and in moment Abraham believed God .Now God did not change His word because it looked liked it won't happen in the eyes of Abraham .Refuse to doubt,or give up

I leave you with this Romans 4:18 When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he [couldn't] do but on what God said he [would] do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"

Hold on to what He told you!!!

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