Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed fall day and there is no snow on your roof yet. I had a good day on campus and Alexis and Eugenia each prayed with me to receive Jesus as their savior. Please pray they are blessed in their new trust in Jesus and strengthened in faith. Some details of their stories are below if you feel like spending the time. Thanks for your prayers.

 Eugenia was on her knees on the wooden bench outside the Mac Arts building sheltering the sunlight from her phone screen. She was willing to do a student questioner with me. She had brown hair in broad wide curls parted on the side. She had a sharp pointed nose with a freckle on the right cheek that I noticed when her mask slipped down. She wore black pants and a cowl neck red sweater. She had her phone playing music through part of the time we talked. When I asked her to describe herself she said she was a Christian and that she was Greek Orthodox. She seemed happy. When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked her what it was she thought would get her into Heaven she said, “Oh that turned really quick.” Talking about the depth of the questions. Then thinking a bit she said,  “The only thing I can think of is, How good of a servant were you? Did you love people the same way I loved them, feed the homeless help the poor, those in prison—not just thought about yourself all the time.” She went on to say, I want to be able to tell Him I gave everything I had and I glorified him for it. I want to say hi to my family, my mom and my grandfather.” It turned out her relatives had died 6 months ago or less. I asked her if she thought there was a likelihood she would go to Heaven. “I don’t think I can say. I can’t put a % on how God will judge me; it’s not for me to say. As long as we are trying, and try to make progress. That’s for God to judge. When he does judge us it’s gonna be definite.” I went through the Gospel with her reading verses and she read them with me aloud as I went through the book. She seemed to giving assent to the things I said all the way through. And she knew Jesus had died for our sins. I explained to her the righteousness of God Jesus had earned and how it was to her credit using an extra credit in class story she liked. I asked if she would want to be forgiven by faith in what Jesus had done for her on the cross and she said, “Yes of course.” So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it explaining it to her what it meant. I asked if she would want to pray a prayer telling God that and she said, “Oh my gosh yes!” So I said, “OK” and handed her the booklet. She prayed then to receive Jesus. She crossed herself as she finished and I gave her Bible Promises For You writing her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front and a Bible study on the deity of Christ. I told her about the Christian life living by the Spirit’s power in her “inside out”. We talked for a while then as she talked about her mom’s death and struggles with accusing thoughts of letting her friends down. I encouraged her that now the Spirit lived in her and she should pray, “Lord, take the thoughts of Satan out of my heart.” And that we all can have false thoughts like that of failure and that I thought it often was a devil trying to make me feel bad. She was really friendly and kind as we talked but then a handful of big rain drops began to fall on us. I told her I would pray for her every night until the end of the following school year. “Thank you,” she replied. She quickly gathered her things and we headed in different ways.

I found Alexis under the stairs on a row of chairs near the exit outside by the bookstore waiting for a guy. She had long brown hair and pretty eyes will long eye lashes like some friends have explained to me are put on professionally. From what I could see of her features she had a pretty angular face.  She was short and petite. She said she occasionally went to a Roman Catholic Church. She wanted to have a family and when I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “I’m a genuine person.” She thought she had an 80% chance of getting into Heaven. She was really engaged in everything I said as I went through the Gospel with her, looking me in the eye and laughing here and there at the analogies. She did not know what Jesus had done to take away her sins. So I explained everything to her as I always do of the Gospel and His Blood and Righteousness. When I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus or thought something else she said emphatically, “No. Forgiven.” So I said if she’d like to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it as well. And asked if it was the desire of her heart and she nodded. So I said she could pray it silently that I wouldn’t hear but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven trusting in Him. “Would you like to do it?” “Sure,” she replied and she prayed then to receive Christ. I explained the Christen life living “inside out” by the Spirit’s power and the fruit of the Spirit to her. She did not want a Bible but I gave her Bible Promises For You also writing her name and the date and “forgiven” inside. I said that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I said I would pray for her each night for the next year. Her guy rolled up about then sitting next to her so I said, “Have a good one,” she said ok and they began to walk off.

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

In Him,

Bob