God’s Blessing: Children's Studies

Since last year, when my daughter was studying her 12th standard, we have been praying for her college studies. Upon careful consideration and checking of the universities in Taiwan, we finalised on the best one for English honors program that also teaches in English. Besides, we wanted the one in Taipei so that our elderly parents can also be taken care of and the she can have a new beginning by living in the student center sisters' house for the campus service.

At one time, I even told my wife that, we must apply only for the universities in Taipei and that too, the best one, a well known national university. Since then, it became clear to us we have to pray just for one university, NTNU.

As a family, we started praying for this prayer burden everyday. When the time came, we applied for it. Though, we went through a lot of hurdles in the application processes, we experienced the Lord’s leading step by step.

Despite experiencing the Lord’s leading, we still had to face some hiccups. When the first list was out, she was on a waiting list. When the next one was out, she was not selected. This was a direct application. We did not lose hope. For, deep within, I knew that she should she selected. We have done all that we could, paying the price in fulfilling every requirement of the university, which was a very lengthy process as it was an overseas Chinese students' application through the embassy in New Delhi. I even had to face an accident, though nothing happened to me. I was almost ran over by a truck while on my way to collect the government verified and stamped documents. By the way, four different departments stamps were stamped with quite an amount of agency fee. Therefore, deep within, I realised, God will open the door in the university we applied for. So, we continued to apply for the second round through the embassy. 

Meanwhile, we continue to pray and pray. Two days ago, her class 12th result was declared. As we prayed, God blessed us, and she scored centum in two papers, and got a very good percentage overall. Since her acceptance to the university was still pending, I was considering an alternative in India. I just discovered that with her 12th score, she could quality for the best college in India too. In fact, I was considering to apply in India too, as a backup. But I was not peaceful to do so.

Yesterday night, I went before the Lord to pray and consider what step to take. The Lord impressed me to trust in Him and wait until this Lord’s Day. So, I decided to wait and did not even tell my family about this alternative plan. All this while, as a family, we continued to pray for her acceptance to NTNU.

Today, the Lord answered our prayers and the result was declared that she got acceptsed to NTNU. Immediately, as a family, we hugged each other and prayed to thank the Lord for answering all our prayers. This was a very wonderful experience the Lord gave us as a family to trust in the Lord, pray persistently in faith, and gain the Lord through the process.

Now, we will continue to pray for all the other practical details and experience the Lord again. This journey of prayers was an important spiritual lesson for our family especially, our children. We want to lead them to walk with God day by day and one day be living overcomers. Education is obe of the ways to experience the Lord and gain God day by day unto full maturity. 

Lord, may Your perfect will be done in our children's life. And, through the process, walk with You, experience, enjoy, and express You, and gain You fully to be Your overcomers.