We understand your desire to succeed in your graduate school courses and we will pray for your academic endeavors. However, it's important to remember that our ultimate trust should be in God, not in our own abilities or efforts. As the Bible tells us in Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."
While earning high grades is a worthy goal, we should also pray that you will gain wisdom and knowledge, and that you will use your education to serve God and others. As Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 reminds us, "There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind."
Let's pray together:
"Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you in the name of Jesus Christ to lift up this student. We pray that they will trust in you with all their heart, and that they will not lean on their own understanding. We ask that you will guide them in their studies, that you will give them wisdom, knowledge, and joy. We pray that they will use their education to serve you and to serve others. We ask that you will help them to do their best in their courses, and that they will earn grades of A+ in both of their classes and in their final essays this semester if it is your will. We pray for favor in the eyes of the professors and the assistants. We also pray that you will guide them in your will for their life and that they will be aware of opportunities to share the gospel, if appropriate. We ask this in Jesus Christ's name. Amen."
Remember, God is ultimately in control and you can trust that according to Romans 8:28, "We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose." Keep studying diligently with Colossians 3:23 in mind, "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men."