Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Victoria prayed with me to receive Jesus. Please pray she grows in her faith. Her story is below if you have some time. Thanks for your help and prayers.

Victoria was sitting at the counter in the cafeteria. She was wearing jeans that seemed to have flat cargo pockets on the side. Her southwest patterned fleece was zipped all the way up like a turtle neck. She had deep red hair long past her shoulders and parted more or less in the middle and green eyes. Naturally pretty face. When I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” She replied, “I don’t know.” I asked if she went to church and she said she went to a Catholic Church so I asked what she thought they would say at church would get you into Heaven She thought for a minute and landed tentatively on, “Repent.” “Have you repented?” I asked. “So would you say that, I repented?” She looked back at me and said. “Ask for forgiveness.” “I wrote, “I’d ask for forgiveness,” and that seemed to work. She knew Jesus had died to take away our sins when I asked what He had done and listened attentively to the Gospel. After I went through sin and the blood and righteousness of Christ by faith to forgive her. I asked if she’d want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus and what He had done or thought something else and she put her finger on the circle on the right with Christ inside. So I said if she’d like to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there was a prayer she could pray and I walked her through it and asked if it was the desire of her heart. She said it was. I said she could pray it silently if she wanted. I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she would know she was forgiven. “Right now?” she asked. “Sure,” I said. She agreed and I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” I took a giant step to the right on the other side of a counter height chair I stood beside where she sat, and she prayed to receive Jesus. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I explained living the Christian life “inside out” by the Spirits power. She said I heard there are signs now that Jesus might be coming back. So I told her that in Luke 17:20 Jesus said the kingdom would not come with signs to be observed. I said others read Matthew 24 to be signs but Jesus calls them birth pains. I wrote the verses for her. The chapter is about the fall of Jerusalem but if there was a secondary fulfillment of it in the world those would be the birth pains not the birth like of Jesus coming. I said at the beginning of the Book of Revelation it says, “These things must shortly take place” [1:1] and at the end of the Book of Revelation it says “these things must shortly take place” [22:6].  I said I was pretty sure the position of the Roman Catholic Church is that they took place, because shortly could not have been 2000 years ago. But in Revelation 20 it says at the end Satan will be release to trick and deceive the nations once more and it seems like that is going on now, the entire world is deceived. She nodded. So I said that might be a sign Jesus is about to change some things. But the end of the world as you know it does not mean it has to be the end of the world. And I explained the Shemitah cycles to her and that the 50 year cycle ended Friday at sundown in Jerusalem in the morning here. I said if Jesus is going to straighten some things out He will use people her age to rebuild stuff. But no matter what came, God would give her the strength to go through it. I asked if she would like a pamphlet on prophecies Jesus fulfilled. I took out the Rose publication pamphlet that has 100 prophecies listed. If someone had a pretty big Bible it would slide inside. She happily took it. I told her the likelihood she would go to Heaven now trusting in Jesus righteousness was 100% and I told her I would be praying for her each night until a year from spring. I picked up my pack to go and she thanked me and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob