Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and life is good walking in the Spirit. I had a good day on campus and will enjoy the cooler air tonight for sleeping (had to take the AC out of the windows early to stop the stink bugs LOL). Today Sydney and Adi (add e) each prayed with me to receive Christ.

When I got to school, walking in from where I usually park I had a prompting to go to the 3rd floor of the BIC and the elevator was right there so I went up. Most of the school is a ghost town on Friday’s there are fewer classes and kids don’t hang at a commuter school as much being the last day of the week. Walking down the hall Sydney was sitting in a lounge wearing a nursing uniform, matched pants and top in light blue, she had a slight thin stature. Her hair was tiny ring curls down to her chin and she had sharp pretty dark features and an alto voice. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “I confess Jesus is the son of God.” I said, “Great.” But she said she had a 75% chance of going to Heaven so I assumed going through the Gospel with her would give her some assurance. As I went through the Gospel with her I asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins she said, “I repent and try not to repeat my sins so I will be forgiven.” I said that was true and quoted 1John 1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. “So that verse says God is just to forgive us,” I said. I explained God could be just in forgiving us because He got paid. I explained that everything belongs to God even us so when we do something wrong we damage His stuff and we owe Him for that, He has to be paid for this damage, and asked, “So how does Jesus make that payment to God?” She didn’t honestly know, though she knew John 3:16 by heart when I quoted it earlier. So I began to explain how Jesus says we have to be perfect (Matt. 5:48) “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.  “So if you stood before God he’s be like, ‘Sydney, welcome to heaven, you’re supposed to live a perfect life, did you live a perfect life? Where’s my perfect life?’ And you say ‘I didn’t live a perfect life.’ Then God could say, ‘Well everything here is perfect, I’m perfect everyone here is perfect and this is a perfect place, you don’t fit in here so you have to go to Hell.’ But you’d say that’s crazy then everyone would go to Hell.” I explained Jesus lived a perfect life for us, had died so we do not have to die in Hell and His blood cleansed us so God could live inside us and then I told her God wanted to wrap her in a robe of His righteousness (Is. 61:10). After I had finished she wanted to be forgiven and I explained that it was good that she believed Jesus was God’s son but she needed to add, “Who died for me” writing it next to her answer. I said she was just a couple clicks away. But if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. I walked her through it and handed her the booklet, “You want me to read it?” I explained she could pray it silently. She looked down to begin and then looked back at me and said, “I am going to take some time [to pray].” I said I was in no hurry that was fine and she prayed to receive Jesus. She had a Bible and gave me an email address she shared with her sister Samantha. I told her if she trusted in the righteousness of God to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I gave her a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power” and her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I gave her Bible Promises for You for her 15 year old sister encouraging her to tell her the Gospel and we talked through some other things. “Thank you, I needed this.” I said I would pray for her and I gave her the Rose publication Following Jesus as she expressed some questions it answered. I blessed her and headed out.

I had a couple other good conversations explaining the faith and gave one girl Chloe who was on the edge of belief The Case for Christ student edition.

Adi was wearing a school football jersey and sitting alone at a table in the big lounge where we have Bible study. There were some other students across the lounge socializing dressed the same way. It turned out they were all cheerleaders. She had been asked to start a squad and wanted to get a scholarship in that at her next school. She had very pretty features and (looked like the actress Apollonia who received Jesus as her savior later in life) had fair skin, her hair was straightened down past her shoulders. Seated beside me she seemed pretty tall and had a big white bow in her hair. She went to a Pentecostal church. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “For me, I’ve never been greedy. I’ve always helped others out with what they need. I’ve even put others before myself.” She thought she had an 85% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with her and she said, “I would be that one,” pointing at the circle with God living inside her. I asked her if she thought she had trusted in Christ as her savior. She had known Jesus had died for her sins, or is that something you still need to do? “I know I might have caught you off guard and this isn’t a trial or something but your answer seemed like you were hoping to be good enough to go to Heaven.” I said if she had not trusted in Jesus there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it and read the line, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart.” “Well mostly,” she said slowly. I asked if there was a part of it she did not think was true and she seemed unsure what that might be saying “I don’t know…”. So I went on to explain living “inside out” with the Spirit living inside her. I explained there was a difference when you HAVE a relationship with someone or are IN a relationship comparing a friendship to a marriage. “Everyone has a relationship with God He is there creator but not everyone is in a relationship with God where they are trusting in Him as their savior and He lives inside them with His Holy Spirit. So do you think you have just had a relationship with God or have you trusted in Jesus where you are in a relationship with Him and He lives inside you? If you want to be in a relationship with Him and haven’t been that is what the prayer is about.” She understood then and wanted to pray to receive Christ and did. She had “a lot of bibles” she said at home and I talked her through the Christian life and gave her a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power” and her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I told her the parable from Matthew 22 about the guy who gets thrown into hell for wearing the wrong clothes explaining how we needed to be given Christ’s righteousness. She was grateful and I told her I’d pray for her and headed out as her friends came over to the table. I walked through the lounge a little later and she was still sitting there and waved at me and I waved back and talked to Patrick who had come to Christ recently about life and then went around the school for a bit but it was really empty and I’d been there several hours so finding no one else to talk with I headed home.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today God blessed again.

In Him,

Bob