Prayers For Studying and Exams
List of prayers to prepare and help students in their studies.
Prayer of Academic Thanksgiving
Lord God,
Thank you for this opportunity to learn new skills and stretch my understanding.
Thank you for guiding me through this time of study into the final exams.
I lay before you all the hopes and fears I have about the outcome.
May you place a peace within me now as I rest and await the results.
Thank you that I am safely held in your love.
Thank you that whatever happens in the future I will live in your goodness and walk with you always.
- Author Unknown
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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 focused 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.
- A Salesian Prayer
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Prayer for Preparation to Study
Lord, I know you are with me and love me.
Give me peace of mind as I prepare for this time of study.
Help me to focus on my books and notes,
keep me from all distractions so that I will make the best use
of this time that is available to me.
Give me insight that I might understand what I am studying,
and help me to remember it when the time comes.
Above all, I thank you for the ability to be able to study
and for the many gifts and talents you have given me.
Help me always to use them in such a way
that they honor you and do justice to myself.
- A Salesian Prayer
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Prayer Before an Examination
Loving God
be with me now,
as I prepare for my exams.
Thank you for the many talents and gifts you have,
given me and for the opportunity of education.
Calm my nerves and anxiety, help me
to remember all that I have studied,
to express it clearly and to answer the questions
the very best I can.
Holy Spirit, sit with me in my exam
- and always.
- Sandhurst Youth Ministry
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Prayer for Studying
Dear God,
Source of all wisdom,
Help me to use my time
And my intelligence wisely,
As I prepare for exams.
Help me to dispose myself
To listen to your Holy Spirit
So that you, as my loving Spirit,
May place me in a state of prayer
And lead me to understand
That the supreme wisdom
Is knowing I am your child.
Help me to remain serene
So that my work may truly reflect
This profound truth
Mary, Mother of my spiritual life,
Guide me in the ways of your Son,
So that my work may help
To transform this world for God's glory.
- Author Unknown
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St. Thomas Aquinas: Prayer Before Study
Creator of all things,
true Source of light and wisdom,
lofty origin of all being,
graciously let a ray of Your brilliance
penetrate into the darkness of my understanding
and take from me the double darkness
in which I have been born,
an obscurity of both sin and ignorance.
Give me a sharp sense of understanding,
a retentive memory,
and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally.
Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations,
and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm.
Point out the beginning,
direct the progress,
and help in completion;
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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Prayer for Successful Testing and Exams
Lord Jesus,
You know that I am very anxious about the tests and exams that I have to face very soon,
and ask that You would calm my anxious, clouded thoughts.
Please calm these nerves that I have, and let me rest in You always.
I pray that as I enter the exam, that You will fill my heart with perfect peace that only comes from You.
Please also give me clarity of thought, and prompt my mind to remember all the things that I have studied.
Give me the wisdom and the ability to transfer my thoughts to paper.
It’s in Your precious name I pray,
Amen.
- Author Unknown
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Prayer Before a Test
Lord, thank you that you are with me right now
Your love surpasses all fear I give you the anxiety I feel I surrender all my worries to you
Clear my mind
Calm my heart
Still my Spirit Relax my being
That I may always glorify you In everything I write, speak and do.
- Author Unknown
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