Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day walking with the Lord. I had a great day on campus and Princess prayed with me to receive Jesus today.  I came across   Fabian who had committed to Christ on October 17 saying he would probably pray that night. He told me today he had prayed and had given the booklet to his Mother. I gave him Bible Promises for You for his mom and 20 Things God Can’t Do for him today writing his name and the year and the semester “Fall” and “forgiven” in the front. I also came across Hannah and who said she had prayed since I last spoke with her. When I had gone through the Gospel with her on October 22 she believed in Jesus, though she did not know He had died for her sins S they had each prayed to receive Jesus after we spoke so that was great.    I got a good seed planted with Ruel who said he would pray later so maybe he will, he said, the prayer and to be forgiven with God inside was the desire of his heart. He’s a small guy with short stick straight hair from the Philippines, no facial hair, nice looking boyish face. He had not known how Christ took away his sins. Jack, a graphic art student with clear round glasses and short blonde curly hair, took the student edition of The Case for Christ. He did not think [yet] that Jesus was God and had died for him, but raised Lutheran he was willing to look into it. Aaron prayed to receive Jesus yesterday when I was at school to teach a segment of an adult education class on comparative religions. I got to school early and he walked over after a Sikh/Hindu guy went to his ride hearing half the Gospel. He was a white kid, not very big, kind of a bopper with distressed jeans on a hoodie with colorful swirl print on the sleeves. He had a ball cap turned backwards some bleached blonde curls poking out from underneath. His beard was only on his jaw line and up the center of his chin. Good looking kid. He’d recently had an experience where he was knocked down by what he believed was the Holy Spirit and then was prophesied over that he needed to stop running from God. I think he’d come over to tell me, realizing I was an evangelist. His father was a pastor in Chicago and Aaron worked with the youth group but as I questioned him he was hoping to be good enough and keep God’s word to go to Heaven. It took a while to peal through it, but he realized he had not been trusting in Christ after I gave him illustrations like the passage in John 7 when’re even people who did miracles in Jesus name were told “I never knew you.” He said he knew that story and I explained the imputed righteousness of Christ and explained the prayer he could pray to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. He prayed then to receive Jesus. I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front and a Bible Study. His ride pulled up then but he thanked me and left happy.

Princess was sitting in a glass walled lounge that is on the southeast corner of the second floor of the BIC. I don’t usually go in there as it almost seems like a quiet area but she was at her own table across the room and after turning away to go up the stairs I felt compelled to turn around, go in and ask her to talk. She is from Liberia and living here as a legal resident as her Grandma is an American citizen. She wanted to go back and help fix her country. She had long gray braids woven into her afro; they matched a gray knit, high big neck turtleneck sweater. Pretty face and skin and sharp jaw line, pirate smile, rose framed glasses, gray jeans and Uggs boots, athletic build. She was from a Pentecostal church back in her country. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “That’s a tough one. Why?! I would say there’s absolutely no reason to deserve it. No reason can warrant enough to be there.” I asked her what the likelihood she would get into Heaven was and she said, “Right now, honestly, 50/50. I went through the Gospel with her and asked her what it was that Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world so God could live inside her.” “He died,” she said starting to think. After I explained that Christ’s righteousness could be hers that Jesus had died as the Just payment for her sins and his blood had cleansed her, I told her she need only place her trust in this by faith. I explained this was the reason God would let her into Heaven. So I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else and she said, “Forgiven.” So I offered her the prayer, talking her through it and asked, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” “It does,” she replied. So I said she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven would she want to, “Um Hmm,” she said taking the booklet and she prayed then to receive Christ. I told her then that now trusting in the righteousness of God to be her righteousness the likelihood she would be received in Heaven was 100%. I explained the Christian life living by the Holy Spirit’s power. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front and said, “That’s the day you were forgiven.” She liked that and I gave her a Bible study she liked on the deity of Christ explaining that a bit. We talked about her country, economics, GDP and debt and I explained fractional reserve banking to her and we were in agreement the politicians of our countries were corrupt. She shook my hand and thanked me as I got up to go saying she would try to make it to a Bible Study and I said I’d see her around.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. I had a doctor’s appointment tomorrow to look at my neck. 91 students have received Christ this semester so far.

In Him,

Bob