Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord; I had a good day walking with the Lord and even had a painless dentist appointment. Christina and Demya each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Christiana was sitting in the Cafeteria. She had a hooded shirt and running shorts on and a big tattoo that came out from under the edge of the hem of a life size hand on a bolt that said “Strength” Another tattoo I could only see the edge of was up under the leg of her shorts. She had a brown pony tail and square rimmed glasses, pretty narrow face. She said she regularly went to Church in the city. When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked her why she should be let into Heaven she said, “Cause I’ve been faithful.” She thought she had about a 75% chance of going to Heaven. As I went through the Gospel I asked her what the big thing Jesus did that takes away our sin so He can live inside us. “He forgives you.” she replied. I said God did forgive us but God is just. So because everything in the world belongs to God if we damage the world in any way, it belongs to God so we owe Him, even if we damage ourselves because we belong to him also. So God has to be paid for the damage of our sin, He knows we can’t pay so He does so with Jesus. So I began to explain how Jesus had died for her sin, His blood cleansed her and His righteousness was to her credit. I explained she needed to trust in this by faith. She really had not seemed to have understood any of it before as when I would finish making a point she would say, “OK” like she was understanding it for the first time.  When I asked her if she would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus where He could live inside her or thought something else she said, “Forgiven with God.” So I explained if she wanted to trust in that she could pray to receive or believe in Christ and be forgiven and walked her through the prayer. “Pray this out loud?” “No it is not my business just between you and God pray it silently.” “OK,” she said. She finished and thanked me and I explained living the Christian life to her. She did not have a Bible so I gave her one, writing her name and the date and “forgiven” under it. I showed her the “where to turn” section, she liked it. She said she had not read the Bible. I said through a lot of Church history most of the Church was illiterate and they did not read the bible either but they still went to Heaven if they trusted in Jesus. I explained that if she was trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I Gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “by the Spirit’s power” in the front explaining that whenever there was something the book said she needed to do for God to do something she needed only to ask for His strength to do it. I also gave her a Bible Study. She asked me about Second City, a cult group on campus that teaches you are saved by your good works and your baptism and also Jesus. I think they had approached her so was glad to steer her away from them. “Thanks for all this” she said putting her hands on the little pile I had given her. I said she was welcome and I would pray for her each night until spring of 2020 and headed out.

Demya had long pretty dark hair on that made her look almost Indian as her features were smaller though she had African American skin tone. She had a drop off the shoulder sweater on showing a shoulder tattoo on her arm of some kind of flowers. She had skinny jeans on and over the knee boots, pretty girl. She was sitting just around the corner down the hall from the cafeteria. She had turned me down for a survey before but I believe she saw me hanging with the Black Student Association or Union and praying with them over their food earlier in the day. They had kind of a picnic by the outdoor music stage and one of the girls, Jasmine, had prayed to receive Jesus with me last year and said hi. I just bowed my head and prayed silently as one of the girls blessed the food in Jesus name and left them to their food thanking the girls for letting me pray with them. So this time she said she’d answer a question. But when I asked her what she would say to God if she died and he asked her why he should let her into Heaven she said, “I’d have to think about it.” So I asked if she would like to know what the Bible said got her into Heaven I could show her some verses. She agreed and I went through the Gospel with her. She was sure she was going to Heaven and regularly went to Church. She was not sure how her sins were taken away so I again briefly explained God’s justice and Christ’s payment for her sins and blood that cleansed her and righteousness to her credit. After explaining John 1;12 I said so if someone said to you why should God let you into Heaven you’d say Because Jesus died for my sins” she looked me in the eyes as I said it like she was trying to remember the answer to a test. She followed everything so she also wanted to be forgiven. I said something like it seemed like she hadn’t put all of this together before and she said “Not all the details”. I explained that when she prayed for forgiveness if she had not been trusting in Jesus she could do that and after I talked her through the prayer she took the booklet from me and prayed to receive Jesus. I talked to her about living “inside out” and “by the spirit’s power” writing that and her name and the date and ‘forgiven” under it. I gave her a Bible study too. I told her I would pray for her also. She checked again when the Bible Study was and said she might come and then said, “Thank you” as I got up to leave. “Sure, I’ll see you in Heaven.” I said.

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

In Him,

Bob