Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and the Lord was near to your heart. Leondra received Christ and I had a good day encouraging some of the peeps who were Christians and also a girl named Grace who had lost her father to suicide. Please pray for her. I also gave her a bible promise book. She came from an old-school catholic family who had told her her whole life that her dad was in Hell and she would go to hell when she died because she had never been baptized. I walked her through the Gospel, and she said she’d like to be forgiven. But she’d given up on having enough faith and being good enough. I explained again that faith was a gift she could ask for if she wanted, and God could give her the strength to believe. She was grateful and said she would think about it.

Leondra was sitting on the counter in front of the vending machines at school. She was an athletic built black girl with long black straight hair held in place with a hair band. Nice looking girl with frank features, wore jeans and boots and a jacket. Her friend walked up after she said she’d do a survey but wandered off a bit as we talked. She thought of herself as a Christian it seemed, and said she didn’t go to Church as much as she ought to, having gotten busy with school. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “I feel as if I’m a nice person. I go out of my way to help people. I’ve done right in life, haven’t done anything wrong.” She thought she had about an 85% chance of going to Heaven. She listened to the Gospel and when I asked her what God had done to take away her sins, she didn’t have any idea. As I explained that Christ’s blood cleansed her so God could live inside her, she seemed to have a moment of realization. I explained that she did not go to Heaven because she was good but because Jesus was good and His righteousness was to her credit. She wanted to be forgiven and so I asked if she believed Jesus was God, He died for her sins and rose from the dead. She did, so I said if she wanted to place her trust in that there was a prayer she could pray and after I walked her through it. I asked if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded, so I said she could pray it so only God could hear and be forgiven. “Wanna do it?” “Yeah,” she said kind of sweetly with a touch of relief. I explained the Christian life living inside out and I gave her a Bible Study. I said I had a couple of books and would she like some bible promises or some short things to read. “Something to read,” she replied so I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. I showed her there were 100 verses in the back that the author thought were good. Then I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front and she really like that. She thanked me and I thanked her friend, who had returned, for waiting and she slid off the counter to wrap her arm around her buddy and look at a text over her shoulder and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob