Never would have made it without you (GOD)

LuvaBSNRN, BSN, RN · May 20, 2008

Marvin Sapp said it best because I never would have made it without the Jesus. This is going to be a long post because I have a testimony. I graduated May 2007. I took the Kaplan review class with the online question and scheduled my exam for June. I had 75 questions and failed. I was shocked. Never failed anything before, I have a masters degree what could possibly be wrong. Ok was hurt but I got myself together and started studying again. Took the test again August had 75 questions again, surely I have passed this time. NOT Failed again. Ok at this point I was totally devasted. All my friends were calling me to give suppor and comfort. I know that God would not leave his child. Satan was truly working on my faith. I really wanted to just go out to the freeway and get hit head on. I was numb. I started reading all the encouraging words here and how others prevailed after failing. I got learningtxt from online course for 5wks along with Saunders and started to study all over again. Everyday I was doing question. Scheduled for my test again and had 265 questions and again FAILED. OMG what is going on. At this point I was praying and praying and praying. Lord do you hear my cry!!! Satan kept messing with my mind but I kept my faith (what I had left) in God. I knew he was trying to speak to me in a might way. I was in an emotionally abusive relationship with my fiancee and I knew I need to leave but could not muster up the strength. January took the test for the fourth time, confident I was going to pass this time. I failed again 265 questions. Ok now what!! Please give me the # to the mental institute. So I kept praying. All the while he kept telling me to give up taking the test and was not supportive at all. Never did he comfort me or give me encouraging words. So I fasted and prayed for God to please give me the strength to get out of this and encourage myself. Trust me just when you think the sun will not come out behind the clouds it will. I said I will not study again for this test. I felt like I had all the knowledge I need, so 2 wks before I took it on May 8 I did Kaplan q bank and that was it. I prayed everyday for God to show me what I need to study again so I would be ready and the spirit kept telling me to look over the endocrine system. That is what my test mostly consisted of. Just want everyone to know that God is good all the time and he may not come when you want him but he is an on time God. Keep the faith and encourage yourself when nobody will and you will make it. It took me 5 times to pass. I had 75 questions this time and today I found out I am an RN!!!!

WOW what a testimony you have :) God is good, all the time!!! Satan is a tricky little something, but if you keep the faith, listen to God and do things his way he will surely show his favor upon you.

I just recently graduated 5/3 from nursing school and I am awaiting to take the NCLEX. Prior to graduation, we had to take a HESI exit exam - we had to score > 850 with only 2 attempts. This was a very trying time for me and I was self-defeating myself before I even took the test. I studied harder than I had ever studied before and had so many people praying for me. On the test day, I was extremely anxious and nervous, but I kept reminding myself that these feelings were not of God and that he had my back!!!! I did take a bathroom break with feelings of despair, but I looked at myself in the mirror and said ''TRUST GOD". When I got back to the test, I had 160 questions on the test and at question 150 I had only about 8 minutes left with 10 questions to go. Ok, the pressure was definitely on at this point....before I hit the submit my heart was pounding and literally felt that it was in my throat...literally...and my hands were sweaty and and I was super jittery!!!! Praise be to GOD...I passed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I was ever unsure about God's power, love and grace, he surely showed his to me so profoundly.

Thank you for your testimony and may God continue to bless you and show his favor upon you!

God Bless :)

diamond082017 · May 21, 2008

Congratulations. I'm so happy for you. God is always on time and he will never fail you!

zaylee · May 21, 2008

:ancong!::yelclap: :yeah:

big hope · May 21, 2008

Thank you, Cash for such an inspiring story. I just took the NCLEX-RN yesterday and I feel a failure. The computer shut off at 75 and I felt like I was guessing the entire time. I got about 26 SATAs--I'm so sure I got them all wrong. I feel so down. The only hope in my heart is JESUS. I know that if it is His will, nobody and nothing can stop it. Not even those difficult NCLEX questions.

I am keeping the faith. He is a faithful God and whatever He decides for me, I will try to accept it wholeheartedly.

misserella8036 · May 21, 2008

Thank you for your inspiring story. I am just embarking on my nursing journey. I need to make sure that my realtionship with God doesn't waiver. Beyond studying and hard work I need my faith to get me through! God bless you all. :flwrhrts:

big hope · May 22, 2008

I NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE IT WITHOUT YOU, GOD.

I sat the NCLEX-RN on May 20. I was preparing for the exam for quite a time, but I was really uncertain whether I was really ready for this. I am not a local graduate, you see, so I was not used to how the NCLEX works. I asked for prayers from my family. I needed God's help. I asked Jesus to sit beside me during those two grueling hours. All the time, I was asking for His help and guidance.

At # 75, the computer shut off. I was really crushed because I felt I did poorly. I was hoping for more questions to pop out and get better at answering them. Honestly, I was so sure I failed. I stood up and saw that I was the first to finish. Everybody in the room was still busy answering the test. I felt myself panicking! Oh no! Was my performance so poor that the system gave up on me at 75 questions? I went home feeling so gloomy.

During the 49 hours of waiting, I was really feeling down. I was certain of my failure. I was just waiting for Pearsonvue to confirm it, so I can go on with my life. I was even searching the web for new books to use on my second attempt.

This morning, God showed me how little faith I had on Him. I clicked on my result---STATUS: pass! God is so GREAT! What was I thinking? I forgot I asked Jesus to sit beside me during the test and He did. He is a faithful God. He is faithful to us. May 20 was the day Jesus and I wrote the NCLEX. :up:

ronarnsomeday · May 23, 2008

encouraging words. So I fasted and prayed for God to please give me the strength to get out of this and encourage myself. Trust me just when you think the sun will not come out behind the clouds it will. I said I will not study again for this test. I felt like I had all the knowledge I need, so 2 wks before I took it on May 8 I did Kaplan q bank and that was it. I prayed everyday for God to show me what I need to study again so I would be ready and the spirit kept telling me to look over the endocrine system. That is what my test mostly consisted of. Just want everyone to know that God is good all the time and he may not come when you want him but he is an on time God. Keep the faith and encourage yourself when nobody will and you will make it. It took me 5 times to pass. I had 75 questions this time and today I found out I am an RN!!!!

I WAS SO EMOTIONAL WHEN I READ YOUR STORY...SOMETIMES I WANNA GIVE UP TAKING NCLEX-RN EXAM BUT YOUR RIGHT GOD WILL SURELY ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS IN HIS OWN TIME....

LuvaBSNRN, BSN, RN · May 23, 2008

Big hope...CONGRATS to you. I pray to have the same outcome as you within the next month or so!

God bless you and take care!

GAIA's RN · May 23, 2008

God makes all things BEAUTIFUL...... IN HIS TIME! :redbeathe:redbeathe

congratulations cash! :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah:

ielin · May 25, 2008

i also want to share my experienced with God on my nursing profession. This is to raise Him and Praise that there is no other powerful and merciful God than He is. In addition to that, I would not forget our mother Mary the mother of God, through her intercession my dreams was realized. When I was a nursing student, it was really hard for me to understand all the nursing subjects, 4 years course i made it 6 years to finished coz i failed twice on my nursing subjects and the second failed was already my last chance or else i will be dropped out from nursing school. First, failure i shifted course from nursing to accountancy, due to frustration. I realized that i really wanted to become a nurse, our school that time declared that they won't accept transfers, i was so depressed that i can't go back to nursing anymore. That was the time that i started praying the Wednesday novena of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, asking her help for me to go back nursing, to cut the story short i was accepted back to nursing.(A miracle, they gave a chance to their alumni) Second failure, i should be dropped out from our school coz i already had sign a waiver not to fail again, i was crying that time coz i'm not the only one who failed in that class or other class, we're 15-20 students who failed, but i was the only who was retained from my school, others who failed twice, was really transfered to another school of nursing, and for me it was a miracle because it was the Dean of College of Nursing told me that i can still enroll and continue as a nursing student, promised that would be my last failure. Thank God, i just keep on praying going to adoration chapel (even it's far from our place, i have to go, i really need His help) just for me to graduate nursing and He gave it. I had a very low grade enough to pass. i took the nursing Board exam (in our country, you can only take twice, if you fail you will take refresher course, so that you can take the exam again.) unfortunately i was the ONLY one who did not make it. All my batch passed the exam and my school that time declared a 100% (i don't know how it happenned.) i was so........ sad and really....... frustrated that not taking the exam again and decided to forget nursing. But i don't know, i found myself serving to people (without pay) in our suburbs/places FREE MEDICAL MISSIONS. that even i don't have a license i'm helping doctors just to take patients vital signs including BP, I was really active in that medical mission going to other places, mountains, reaching peoples needs. 2 years after, i decided to take the board exam again, i am not confident to take the exam, beacuse i am not studying, i really accept i had lack of knowledge about nursing, it's really hard for me, i read my books, but i know it's not enough, i can't understand the concept well. I prayed, and I know He knows that these would be my last chance, i won't pass the board exam i could not be a nurse anymore, but He knows also what's inside our HEART. He let me passed. VERY LOW SCORE for me just enough to pass. amazing, incredible, unbelievable but He made it possible all my nursing subjects had the same score of 75% enough for a passing score. Praise God, I am already an RN. I have a license. When I applied to hospitals, thought i can't work in the hospital coz nobody called me for an interview, until i got sick and my doctor i asked him for my reference for me to apply in that hospital where i was admitted. luckily i was called for an interview (i was already out in the hospital), the DON shocked on my trancript and board result, did a comment of WHY I HAD A VERY LOW GRADES AND BOARD RESULT, but to cut the story short i was hired. You see, how God do all His marvelous, mysterious ways, if it could be His plans and His time, no matter what, it will happened. Best lesson, FAITH, and TRUST in GOD ALL YOUR NEEDS, CAST YOUR BURDENS and HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU. GOD BLESS!

december2905 · May 25, 2008

ielin,

thanks for sharing your inspring, wonderful story...god is really great and he never lets his children down...:)

gwafuh_rn, BSN, RN · May 25, 2008

that was inspiring kababayan ielin

"God is good,all the time"