PRAYER BEFORE AN EXAMINATION

Dear Lord, as I take this exam, I thank you that my value is not based on my performance, but on your
great love for me.

Come into my heart so that we can walk through this time together.

Help me, not only with this test, but the many tests of life that are sure to come my way.

As I take this exam, bring back to my mind everything I studied

and be gracious with what I have overlooked.

Help me to remain focussed and calm, confident in the facts and in my ability,

and firm in the knowledge that no matter what happens today you are there with me. Amen

Dear Lord and Father of all, Thank you for today. Thank you for ways in which you provide for us all. For
Your protection and love we thank you. Help us to focus our hearts and minds now on what we are
about to learn. Inspire us by Your Holy Spirit as we listen and write. Guide us by your eternal light as we
discover more about the world around us. We ask all this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Heavenly Father,

You hold each of us in your loving hands.

Come fill our hearts, minds and bodies afresh with hope.

Help us to cast our worries upon you, so that we can embrace our learning today.

Bless us as we study and grow together.

Come and anoint those who teach and tutor us to be bringers of insight and knowledge.

Lord, watch over us all, keep us safe within your Almighty hand.

Amen.
Come, Holy Spirit, Divine Creator, true source of light and fountain of wisdom! Pour forth your brilliance
upon my dense intellect, dissipate the darkness which covers me, that of sin and of ignorance. Grant me
a penetrating mind to understand, a retentive memory, method and ease in learning, the lucidity to
comprehend, and abundant grace in expressing myself. Guide the beginning of my work, direct its
progress, and bring it to successful completion. This I ask through Jesus Christ, true God and true man,
living and reigning with You and the Father, forever and ever. Amen.