Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today and you were walking’ with the Lord. I had a good day and Sam and Irima (Ear ree ma) prayed to receive Christ with me.

Sam was sitting on a bench after class with his backpack on, about to head out when I came across him and he said he’d answer a few questions for our Bible Study group. He wore black athletic shorts, shoes and socks. His hair was swept back short on the sides, and he had on a green shirt. He was short with a roman nose and a day’s growth of beard. Not very tall, stocky build. When I asked him what he would say to God to if asked why He should let him into Heaven he said, “Because I… I don’t know… I tried to make everyone happy I crossed paths with.” He thought he had about a 70% chance to go to Heaven and went to church on holidays. He listened attentively to the Gospel and seemed interested right through. He didn’t know Jesus had died for his sins and hadn’t known about the blood of Christ cleansing him or the imputed righteousness. When I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins, trusting in what Jesus had done, or thought something else, he said, “I would want to be forgiven to lift the burden off.” So I asked if he believed Jesus was God, had died for his sins and rose from the dead. “Yes,” he said. I asked, “Would you want to place your trust in that to be forgiven for your sins?” “I do,” he replied with some enthusiasm. So I talked him through the prayer and offered it to him and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. He did not know where the Bible was he thought they might have at home, so I gave him one, writing his name in the front and “forgiven” beneath the date. I showed him the “where to Turn” section and encouraged him to read in the book of John. I said if he was trusting in Jesus’ righteousness to be his righteousness, the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I explained the Christian life, living inside out, showing him some examples in 20 Things God Can’t Do where that might work out. I gave him a Bible study and a card for Compass church (as I had given Nick yesterday) saying he could check it out online. (I think Nick lived near and might visit). He was enthusiastic and said “Awesome” in response to things I continued to explain to him. “Awesome this is so kind of you,” he said, thanking me and getting up to go. I told him I would keep him in my prayers and he left happy and changed, his burden gone.

I talked to a couple professing Christians who could not really tell me how God had taken away their sins but claimed to be trusting in Christ as I finished the Gospel. So I hope they then believed and hadn’t quite realized it.

I found Irima after kind of a habit trail. I somehow thought I was supposed to go up to the third floor at about 20 minutes to 3. Being on the ground floor (1) and feeling tired, I got an elevator and went up to 3. Exiting, I turned left, went a couple steps, and then I felt like I was supposed to go to the corner lounges in the other direction, so I did. The first guy said “No thanks.” The next guy was eating across the room and turned me down. So I headed down the hall three steps, and then felt like I was supposed to ask everyone else in the lounge who had looked busy. So I went back, got a sip of water and walked back into the 3-wall lounge, the windows of which looked out to the outdoor theatre. I got 3 more “No thank you’s” from the 3 kids sitting there. So I walked out and headed down the hall and in the next lounge there was one student asleep. So I headed right around the corner down the hall and asked a guy against the wall. He was not interested. I kept walking, before me was an empty hall, to the other end of the building and walked past a connecting hall a couple steps. I felt like I was supposed to go down it, so I turned around and walked down that hall and there was an older woman studying on a set of benches who looked older (staff I thought). No one else was there except a black girl who walked up as I did, standing in front of the vending machines 15 feet from me. I usually talk to people who are sitting down but I though it seemed like I was being led. So I asked her if she’d do a student survey and she agreed. I said I’d sit over on the bench and wait until she was done at the machine, the older woman got up and left. Irima walked up saying something about the machine not working. “I was not trying to get away,” she said. She wore a ball cap and had her afro pulled back behind her head, nice looking girl, full lips. Cut solid athletic build sort of with a black and white thin horizontal stripped shirt on. I said something like “no worries” and told her my name and began to ask her questions. When I asked her what she might say to God to get into Heaven she said, “Because I had stuck with this religion even through my doubts.” She thought she had about a 50/50 chance to go to heaven. She had an accent and said when I asked that she was from Nigeria. She listened to the Gospel and did not seem to know how Jesus had taken away her sins so I explained the Gospel and how God wanted her to believe Him. Specifically that He had become a man and died for her sins rising from the dead. (Having explained the Gospel and the righteousness of Christ and His blood to cleanse her so He could truly be known by her living in her.) I asked if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins and she nodded. So I said “It doesn’t seem like you had ever put all this together before, right?” and she nodded she had not. Saying there was a prayer she could pray and explaining it I also said this would mean God would live inside her and give her the strength to live the Christian life “inside out.” I asked if she would like to pray to receive Jesus and she nodded again.  I handed her the booklet saying she could just pretend I was not there and she bowed her head not looking at the booklet and prayed in her own words to receive Jesus and be forgiven. I got her email and gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. It turned out she was Catholic (so I gave her a symbolic view of the Mass, saying she could just tell God at that time thank you knowing Jesus had died for her and so she was forgiven.  I said if she was trusting in Jesus’ righteousness to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%, which gave her some joy. She said in Nigeria everyone was religious, either Muslim or Christian and when you expressed your doubts they “”Shamed you”. I said that was not what God did to Peter when he sank (we’d take about the miracle in the bible study I had showed her). He floated him (and put him in the boat). That is what God does He lifts us up. I encouraged her to ask God to simply take away her doubts showing her again the verse saying faith was a gift as it was in the list of the fruit of the Spirit. I gave her the student edition of The Case for Christ. I also gave her the Rose Publication, “Following Jesus”. I told her how God had seemed to lead me to her, which she liked and I would be praying for her. She was grateful. “I appreciated it thank you,” she said as we parted. “You’re welcome thanks for being willing to talk.”

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob

I also was led to a Muslim girl with a lot of Christian friends and she appreciated my explaining the Gospel clearly and took “Jesus and the Quran” from me her name was Safa.