The EXAM Academy (Season I) ~ HISpire!

…EDITORIAL

LIFE after EXAMS!

A purposeful joke once goes thus: ‘There is the story of four people in life named: EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY and NOBODY.

There was a job to be done and EVERYBODY was sure SOMEBODY will do it. ANYBODY could have done it but NOBODY did it. SOMEBODY was angry because it was the job of EVERYBODY. It was not the fault of ANYBODY because it was the job of EVERYBODY. EVERYBODY thought ANYBODY can do it but NOBODY realized that EVERYBODY wouldn’t do it.It thus ended up that EVERYBODY blame SOMEBODY when NOBODY did what ANYBODY could have done.”

I welcome you to the final but not finished edition of The EXAM Academy. My heart swells with tearful joy on how God has so much lavished his GRACE upon our INSPIRATION. We resumed in circumstances that ANYBODY could tell we weren’t going to continue, EVERYBODY around us were waiting to see if indeed we would keep it up, but the GOD who is a respecter of NOBODY carried us in HIS hands and here we are, SOMEBODY in his glory.

This final edition is a special edition, cooked as a meal to sustain your LIFE after EXAMS. Here, we host our latest dispensers of the Mind of GOD, FARAYOLA Ibukunoluwa, a ticking time-bomb in the arsenal of Heaven for our generation, and Mary Sonuga, a crude-oil in the Island of Writing. Taiwo is here with his final dose of destiny blockbusters, and our guest writer Onigbinde Jonathan alive with thoughtful words. Samuel and Precious couldn’t make this week for duties beyond their rescission, yet their spirit is hinged to you.

We, at HISpirational…job328continue to unleash UNDERSTANDING to your SPIRIT by divine INSPIRATION on www.hispirational.blogspot.com.Log in is Logging on to the Mind of God for the now, you sure wouldn’t want to miss out. In Obafemi Awolowo Univesity, we have all witnessed The EXAM Academy, the First Nigerian Campus School of EXAM understanding. God and Google bear witness, and we glory in Christ Jesus! Thus, officially, in Obafemi Awolowo University, we bring to a close the maiden season of The EXAM Academy. Till Season II (2012/2013 session),you can still rehearse you mind on www.theexamacademy.blogspot.com.Thank you for giving us the rare opportunity to be part of your academic success story. We can’t wait for your testimonies!

Can we said a word of prayer please: “O God, as we go home, one thing we ask for, Give us power and strength to apprehend, grasp and know practically through experience for ourselves with all saints the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of Christ which surpasses mere knowledge, in JESUS name. AMEN!”I LOVE YOU!‘

Imisioluwa’ SONUGA.

Give HIM The Pitcher Pieces.

Don’t Take Them HOME!

FARAYOLA Ibukun.

inah was born into a Christian home and at a very tender age, she gave her life to Christ. But she was more or less a bread and butter Christian i.e she was not well rooted in Christ. The devil sneaked gently into her life using her friends who were her unconquered lands when she became born again. Due to her unconsciousness and ignorance of the cunny works of the Devil, she was lured into committing fornication with a guy introduced to her by her worldly friends.

This act drew her away and far away from her creator, she became spiritually cold, empty and dry, the Holy-Spirit left her in her sinful state, everything turned upside down for her but God still loves her. One faithful night, she had a dream where she was tormented by the devil and she cried unto God for help (Is 59:1-3), but our God is a faithful God and He will have mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy (Roms 9:15)

Your own story may be like that of Dinah or even pathetic or not exactly as hers. If only you are willing to leave this old way of life, God is also ready to help, deliver you and bring you back to the track. All you need is to give him the broken pieces of your life. He is ready to mend and mould your life again. Remember, he is the potter and you are the clay (Jer 18:6)

Come back to God like the Prodigal Son, God is a faithful and merciful God. He has done it in the past and He is still God, he changeth not.

It is a known fact that the devil will come to remind you of your past, just tell him boldly that your past is over in Christ and God has made everything new for you and remind him of his future and eternity in Hell. Don’t let your past shadow hunt you. (II Cor 5:17)

Lastly, for you to experience this revival that God is set to do in your life, you have to give him your broken pitcher with an open heart and allow him to revive your spirit. You have had enough in school, why will you go home and continue the ordeal? Settle it with Jesus, He’s WAITING!

Snackspiration!With MARY SONUGA

The INCREDIBLE!

ood day Ladies and Gentleman. I stand before you all to sit behind you and tell you a story I know nothing about.

First to the announcement, there’ll be a Women’s meeting for men only, put on your best clothes if you have none, there’ll be seats but you’ll have to pay at the gate. Now to my story:

One bright morning in the middle of the night, two dead men woke up to fight each other back to back, they faced each other, dropped their guns and shot each other. A deaf police man heard the gunshot and ran to the scene. If you think my story is false, ask the blind man he witnessed it. Thanks!

WHAT ARE THE BEST THINGS!

“Knowledge” says the Student; “Certificate” say the FYB; “Beauty” says the Artist; “Money” says the Capitalist”; “Honour” say the Soldier; “Profit” says the Trader; “Pleasure” says the Foot; “Love” says the mood; “Production” says the Industrialist; “Healing” says the Doctor; “Home” says the Mother; “Rest” says the Toilet; “Kindness” says the Child; “Obedience” says the Servant; “Abundance says the farmer.

All these are best but to me the best thing is the “LOVE OF GOD”.

A CHILD.

If a Child lives with RECOGNITION, he grows to know the importance of having a GOAL! If a Child lives with TOLERANCE, he grows to PATIENT! If a Child lives with APPROVAL, he grows to be HIMSELF! If a Child lives with ACCEPTANCE, he grows to LOVE! If a Child lives with HONESTY, he grows to know the TRUTH! If a Child lives with FRIENDLINESS, he learns the world is a nice place to live! If a CHILD lives with WICKEDNESS, he learns the World is full of evil people! If A CHILD lives with JEALOUSY, he learns to feels GUILTY! If a CHILD lives like YOU, What will HE grow up to KNOW?

Have a THOUGHT-FUL HOLIDAY! CIAO!

FAINT YET PURSUING

ISOLA TAIWO

ife is a race of the survival of the fittest. It started right from the womb and ends on the day we log out of planet earth. Life is a two sided coin: the rough and the tough side and the smooth and the easy side. But too often, we find ourselves treading on the hard and rough side. The study of great men reveals how they struggled against the tide of life to emerge champions. According to an author “the height which great men attained and kept were not by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept were busy toiling upwards”

We faint at the terrain of Destiny because the forces of life’s demands on us outweigh our emotional strength which results in psychological stress.

In life, there are moments when the going gets tough; when learning becomes a difficult task, pressures of tough courses mount , raw challenges from home stares us in the face and environmental condition wears us out. To add salt to injuries, stories of unemployed graduates force us to this sad conclusion “Why all this learning?”

All of us are running the race against time. But when our dreams and expectations are not achieved within a set frame of time, our mind is drained of inner strength to pursue further. Nelson Mandela observed “Many of us will have to pass through the valley-of-the-shadow-of-death over and over again before we get to the mountain top of your desires” Mandela used the word “death” to imply emotional drain and psychological exhaustion that makes that makes one’s Pursuit a burden.

Cheer up! Great men are not born. They are cultivated; not on the soil of convenience but on that of commitment. Most of us were told to dream big but we were not told that our dream will have to pass through the heat of discouragement before it can move from the realm of fantasy to that of reality.

Above all, there is a phase we all get to in life when Time conflicts with our Career and both of them wage Civil war against our Identity. How does this happen? See you Next SEASON of The EXAM Academy! I’ll Miss YOU all!

He Yet Speaks!

Onigbinde Jonathan.[1]

Jesus while awaiting his disciples who had gone to get some food met with a Samaritan woman who was astonished to see a Jew freely and eagerly talking to a Samaritan. The story in John 4 is a very popular story but some salient things with spiritual meaning are buried in that scripture.

Jews left Judea on his way to Galilee but had to go through Samaria. It must at this point be noted that Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman was not a coincidence but a heavenly arrangement. Neither did my Lord prepare for such a conversation. The Lord never had time to research on issues that pertained to her. Jesus after speaking with her and exposing what seemed to be her secret astonished her. But things happened, in verse 25, she said; “I Know the messiah is coming who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’ Verse 26, Jesus answered her (the first time he will declare that by his own mouth), ‘I am the messiah’ in verse 28, the scripture says that, the woman left her jar and ran into the village.

From verse 25, it was realized that the Samaritans realized that they were ignorant of many things and that the messiah was coming to teach them. But her anxiety over came her and she didn’t even pay attention to verse 26, that she even doubted it in verse 29. Though she ended up being an Evangelist who won many for Christ in verse 39-42 yet she missed the rare opportunity of being the first in the Samaritan race to discover the hidden truths that only the Messiah can explain. Many Christians this day don’t take time to listen to the content of his words but are carried away by the expression of his deeds.

Today God calls and yet speaks. The Samaritans flee was the end to a discussion that could have given her an exposure into her reason for existence but her anxiety ended such grace. In verse 29; her message was; ‘come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the messiah?’ But I tried to fathom what the context of her message would have been if she waited a little more; ‘come, see a man who has told me all that Samaritans never knew, he is the messiah!’.

This is a call by God for some who come up and gain access into the deep things of God. God is saying, ignore the jamboree, ignore the expressions, don’t quiet me, I yet speak.

NOTE:

UNLESS YOU HAVE A REVERENTIAL AND WORSHIPPFUL ATTITUDE, YOU HAVE NOTHING OF ETERNAL VALUE TO OFFER TO A DYING WORLD.

LIFE IS NOT ABOUT US BUT ABOUT GOD AND HIS GLORY.

AS YOU GO FORTH!

Yvonne BALOGUN[2]

Hi there, what were you thinking when you saw the topic, “As you go forth…? Am sure in your mind, you have concluded this piece is for the graduating students. However, to clear every doubt, this very wonderful article is actually for the general house i.e the students going home for holidays after the hectic stressful and energy-draining examination.

After several days of strenuous reading and in some circumstances crash-reading, we have finally come to the end of examinations for 2011/2012 session and normally, the first impulse of most students is to rest, eat and watch films but after a week of that, my dear, WHAT NEXT? It’s true the stress of the examinations might make you feel like you should take all the rest in the World but I tell you today, you should also do something notable and worthwhile.

The holiday is a time to rest truthfully but you as a student who sees beyond the now and look forward to the future should also be productive:

INTERNSHIP: This is one of the things you can do to keep yourself not just busy but also productive. Interning in your field of study gives you an edge over your colleagues and makes you astounding.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING: This is also a platform that brings out the creative and innovative part of you. Engaging in this gives you an extra-skill that sets you apart from the masses.

In doing any of this, keep in mind that you are headed for a great place that watching film all day long will not take you.

In addition to the above mentioned, try and get some materials from your senior colleagues in preparation for your next session as it will enable you understand more in course or topic (that is if you read those materials). In all, have a wonderful, lovely and productive holiday, CIAO!

[1] Onigbinde Jonathan can be contacted on: 08062396716.

[2] Yvonne Balogun is a Student of Obafemi Awolowo University, ile-ife.