Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I hope your day’s been blessed knowing you’ve been rescued from the domain of darkness. There is no school today and I was slogging through yesterday a bit just over tired from the weekend and some late nights. Anyone can get caught up in circumstances and get in a funk. But we can have our mind on things above, because we have an inheritance there. Matt prayed to receive Jesus Monday one of only two people I was able to go through the Gospel with, the other, a girl, said they were Roman Catholic and not interested in keeping the booklet. So though in person classes are not well attended God still drew Matt to Himself. Thanks for your prayers to guide me Matt’s story is below.
Matt was the only person sitting in the 3rd floor hall on the North side of the BIC building. He was a pretty big dude wearing dark blue shorts and a light blue golf shirt. He wore a full beard that was light brown and had a mustache closer to blonde. He had kind of the “everyman” face, smaller nose and brown hair the front swept to the right, good looking guy. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and he said, “I would say, ‘Thanks for life. How’d I do?’” He thought he had a 89% chance of going to Heaven and went to a Catholic Church. As I went thought the Gospel with him he said short word affirmations like, “Oh OK” or “Yeah makes sense”. When I asked him what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world he’d known He had died for us. I finished explaining the righteousness of God and salvation by faith and asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. “I would go with Jesus,” he replied. I’d explained the parallel symbolism in the Mass and suggested that you just kind of go along with things in your family when you are a kid but when you grow up you have to decide, so if he would want to be forgiven for his sins there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through the prayer and asked him if he’d like to pray it silently. “I would yeah,” he replied. When he finished I explained the Christian life. He had a phone app he used already that he’d gotten into recently reading the Bible. It’s not uncommon for a student to tell me they recently were thinking more about spiritual things or reading the Bible or had started to pray. God is preparing their hearts and bringing them to Himself by the time I talk to them. I explained living “Inside > Out” asking for the Spirit’s power to give him help in whatever he was doing in life. I gave him a copy of Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front, he thanked me. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I finally gave him a Bible Study and said I would be praying for him through Spring and one year after. “God bless you man,” I said getting up to go. “Thanks, appreciate it,” he said. “Yeah God bless your day,” I said and headed off.
So thanks for your help in prayer God blessed though school has few students sitting around as they drop classes as the semester winds on many were only on line to begin with.
In Him,
Bob