A journey of Faith – MBA edition

Happy new year my dear readers! It’s been such a long minute; a lot of my time has been spent in learning oligopoly within Economics. Within this article, I’ll be sharing what a journey of faith life has been so far.

My favorite book of the Bible is currently Hebrews. It is such a great insight into what Christ has done for us. Whilst reading, Hebrews 11:1 caught my eyes. The commentary I read gave me a beautiful insight; Faith is an assurance and a foundation for our journey with God.

‘Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen. ‘ Hebrews 11:1

My journey of faith

A couple of years ago, whilst praying, I knew by witness in my spirit I’d someday embark on an MBA journey in Berlin. How? No idea. Ironically, within that season, I was uninterested in going back to school and didn’t give it a thought afterward.

Fastforward to 2024, God started reminding me about that word and I took my sweet time. At the start of 2025, I added it to my goals for the year and left it there. After procastinating for the first 4 months, my first step of faith was searching for schools.

The second step of faith was prayer; I spent time praying concerning the MBA because I wasn’t sure how to go about it. As I prayed, I started eliminating schools that were not in Berlin and didn’t have great ratings. Ultimately, I ended up with 2 schools. Then began the dilemma of which to choose. Both schools would conduct the learnings online mostly, but one of the schools had a 5 week in-person study period.

As one who enjoys travelling, I was attracted to the 5-week in-person period. Why? More time to explore whatever city I pick. Incidentally, whilst praying about it, God categorically told me “I didn’t send you there”, so I aborted mission. Application and admission to ESMT Berlin came within 1 month with a Women in Business scholarship of 6000 euros. The hardest part of the entire application was making the application video; I don’t enjoy making videos at all.

The In-between

For me, the 3rd step of faith was finding funding for my MBA. Because God told me about the MBA, I expected easy. My dear friends, I experienced a lot of difficulty; disappointment, lots of research and sleepless nights. Since I’d only applied in faith, you can best believe I didn’t have the money. Whilst praying one day, God instructed me to pay the deposit with money I’d saved for another purpose.

To put things in perspective, I got my admission in June. I paid the deposit and began the search for funding in July. Frankly, I didn’t find any useful resource until August. When I thought I found it, I experienced a huge disappointment. The company offered the funding contract via a 3rd party app in September. Now, the app wouldn’t accept any of my IDs because my passport was too old and my residence permit too new. Essentially, I couldn’t sign the contract.

Trying to solve that issue tested my resolve. Ultimately, I had to abandon that funding option because it wouldn’t have been fixed in time for October 1st, the payment deadline.

In the midst of that period, God told me “I’ll give you people to help you”.

Stepping out

Given that asking for help isn’t my strength – It’s a lot easier to figure it out so I don’t disturb people -, I had to ask God for help. In hindsight now, I believe God is quite funny. At my local church in August, we’d run a series on “The Help of God” and I was the teacher, lol.

One of the fears I had was the admission falling through; would I lose my admission if I shared that I had funding issues? Finally, one morning, I got the courage to write the school sharing the challenges I had. About 1hr later, I got such a kind response, I almost cried. It was a confirmation of God’s help to me.

For the question on your mind, did I end up getting funding? Yes! I’d mentioned the situation to my Benefactor in passing. One Tuesday, God had asked me to reach out. After hesitating for a while, I ended up speaking to Him and He mentioned he’d been thinking about it as well. We ended up drafting and agreeing to a payment plan.

Conclusion

Within the entire process from application to admission until now, God has shown his providence consistently.

Although I’m still within the journey, what started as a witness in prayer has become a journey of faith. The highlight for me is seeing who I have become within the journey. Surely, the destination is important, but even more the character I’ve built.

Firstly, I’d like to thank God who thought it worthy to trust me with this process. I’d like to thank the people who expressed doubt; your doubt fuelled my faith in God. Finally, my friends and family who held my hands and supported me when the going got tough and my eyes were full of tears. Whenever you think of me, please say a prayer for my Benefactor because I’m beyond grateful.

When I started writing, I thought I’d write a couple of words, but God wanted you to see the journey in its entirety. Having read through, I hope you see beyond a girl filled with faith to a God who’s intentional to lead you and sustain you on the journey. This journey has been full of prayer which led to instructions and I’m grateful I waited on God.

Ultimately, my prayer is for you to choose faith. You may not have all the answers, but when you follow God and sit with Him in His word, you can be rest assured that he’s faithful and will lead you.

Sharing these resources in case you might need it: ESMT Berlin (The best school ever), Funding company – Brain Capital Germany

Happy New Year!!

Thank you for reading – Funmi