Results of the Work – 10/15/12

Hey Brothers and Sisters,

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry or for evangelism today if you had a chance. Two people, Thalia and Roy, prayed to receive Christ today. Thalia was sitting by the revolving doors near the bookstore. (I had just walked Ellen to the door after Bible study to head to the office and walked right by her and turned to talk to her.) She has naturally curly brown hair, pretty. Her mom was a pastor at some kind of Church and she went to another once in a while.  But like many college kids, she had work conflicts and time crunches. She did not get there much. She did some online studies with YouVersion.  At first I thought she had received Christ as she said she would say, in part, to God if she died, “You’ve forgiven all my sins”. But she did not really know how God too away her sins and though she seemed familiar with the gospel story she had not really trusted in it. She had a hard time with some issues. One was people going to hell who followed a different religion and the other was the idea of Satan and his influence on us. I began to explain how the Bible says our influences are God, the world, the flesh and the devil and that the satanic world used the world around us to distraction and our own sinful nature and God even used Satan. Somewhere in the midst of just saying some stuff that the Bible said, she said all of a sudden, “Something just kicked there” and the Holy Spirit had worked in her heart.  I talked to her about receiving Christ and pointed out from some of the stuff she had said she really hadn’t really been trusting in what Christ had done and she finished the sentence, “received Him yet”. I agreed and I walked her through the prayer and she prayed with me. I spoke with her more, explaining the Holy Spirit.  She was really open to the things of God and I gave her The Case for Faith and a Bible study and got her e-mail to send her some stuff.

Roy was a bit older guy, 30 maybe.  He was sitting at a table in the Lounge where we have Bible study, texting. When I asked him something he wanted to do before he died he said, “Get my soul right.” Turned out he did.  He did not think he would go to heaven when he died, that he “didn’t have enough straightened out.”  I went through the Gospel, as he had not know how God took away his sin or understood about receiving Christ.  When I asked him if he had ever asked God to forgive his sins based on what Jesus had done, he said he hadn’t, but wanted to be forgiven.  I walked him through the prayer and he prayed with me to receive Jesus.  I explained the role of the Holy Spirit and gave him a book to read.  His wife walked up, Sherice, and I asked the nature of their relationship and then gave her a booklet and having given him More than a Carpenter I gave her the student edition of The Case for Christ to read.  I had gotten his e-mail to send him stuff too.

So please pray for growth for Thalia and Roy and for his wife Sharice, that she might receive Jesus if she has not.

I’m grateful for your prayers today or whenever you might have a chance.

In Him,
Bob Bollow