Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today and you and you were able to stand in the full armor of God. Jack prayed to receive Jesus today as his savior so that was great and I got to encourage a couple of Christians in their faith as well so it was a blessed day. Jacks story in below if you have the time. Thanks for your prayers please pray he grows in his faith.

I go to the MAC arts lounge in the afternoon and found Jack sitting by the stairwell tucked in beside it and a small railing on a chair. He was playing something on his phone but was up for doing a survey. He went to a Mega church in our area. He had a fitted cap on turned backwards with an NFL logo on it and a black Notre Dame hoodie, wore nylon light grey sweats. He had a square jaw and was short. Good-looking kid with an everyman kind of face. I asked him what he would say to God if asked why should I let you into Heaven. He said, “I believe I have never treated someone with mal-intentions. What might have actually happened… I’m not sure. We’ll find out one day…” I asked what he thought the likelihood he would go to Heaven was and he said “I wanna say 90% but…” I began to explain the Gospel to him and he knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. But he had not been trusting in that to be forgiven. He had clear facial expressions that he was tracking as I went through the Gospel with him explaining the righteousness of God. “So you don’t go to Heaven because you’re good but because Jesus is good and you’re connected to him.” I explained God wanted to adopt him into His family by faith. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done dying for his sins and then God could live inside him or if he thought something else. “A life entrusted to Christ,” he said reading the caption under the circle with Christ on the throne of his life. So I said there was a prayer he could pray if he wanted to be forgiven and talked him through it and said, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ so would you say that it does?” “Yeah,” he said looking at it. “Well you could pray it silently right now; I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven.” He nodded and I gave him the booklet and he prayed to receive Jesus. I told him then the likelihood that he would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I told him I would pray a Bible Verse for him each day through Spring and a year after. I also gave him The Case for Easter and he had not heard of Lee Strobel. I gave him a Bible study on the deity of Christ too. “Dude, I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said shaking his hand. “Thank you,” he replied and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob