Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your say was blessed with the Life and peace of the Lord. I had a good day on campus. A girl who goes by V prayed with me to receive Jesus. I also had a good conversation with an older catholic woman, looked in her 50’s, Michelle. She was black had only a slight accent, saying she was not American. I think she understood walking by the Spirit and truly trusting in the work of Christ for salvation for the first time. Please pray God continues to move in these hearts. V’s story is below if you have some time.

V was sitting outside the cafeteria. She had rectangle framed artsy glasses. Her black T-shirt had something exploding on the front. She had some tattoos on her arms. Three I could see, just ink outlines. She had long brown hair in a braid with bangs and a bright smile. Pretty, she had a square chin (a bit Sandra Bullock like) and wore black leggings. I began to go through the questions with her and she said she’d like to travel and see one of the 7 wonders of the world. We tried to figure out what some of them might be. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. She said she thought there really wasn’t any reason for God to let her in but that she had not done anything exceptionally wrong and thought she was “probably just an average person”. She said she had started going to Church here and there with her boyfriend and that though she had been raised Catholic he was Baptist. His church seemed more right to her, the times she’d gone with him. She thought she had a 75% chance of going to heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her saying it would make the things at her boyfriend’s church clear. I said God had to take away her sins so He could live inside her. She remembered Jesus had died for her sins, when I asked her what He had done to take away the sins of the world. I explained Jesus had said, “So you are to be perfect as your Heavenly Father is Perfect.” So Jesus had to live a perfect life for her. When He died the blood of Jesus cleansed her and His blood paid God back for all the imperfect things we’d done we owed God something perfect for. So the reason God forgave her was He got paid but He had to pay Himself. So it was just for God to forgive her as there was a payment there. I also explained the righteousness of God and His adoption plan for her to give her the blessings of His family. I told her she could trust for this by faith, believing in who Jesus was and what he had done to forgive her. He was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. She decided she wanted to be forgiven for her sins when I showed her the two circles, “I would want that one,” she said of the circle with Christ on the throne of her life. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it. “It says here ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart’ so do you think it does?” “Yeah,” she said. So I said she could pray it silently and she’d know she was forgiven and God would live inside her. “Wanna do that?” She nodded then saying “Yes,” as she did and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained to her then the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100% now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus and His blood. I asked if she had a Bible and she said her boyfriend’s mom had recently bought her one so I said she could begin to read in the book of John. I said when she confessed her sins God knew a thousand years ago it was going to happen. He was not shocked or surprised but already had a plan to fix it. She said she felt a little PTSD when she thought of confession, it had scared her and seemed to traumatize her a bit as a kid going into the confessional and talking to a person she did not know well. I gave her a copy of Bible Promises for You and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. She took it happily saying, “You’re giving this too me?” I said “Yep,” and asked her if she liked to read, she said she read a lot so I gave her The Case for Christianity Answer Book, which has a few dozen questions Strobel answers for the reader. I also gave her a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ she liked. I told her she could email me if she had questions but said it seemed like she had some good people in her life. She agreed she felt she did and she was kind of rebuilding her faith as she felt like it had gotten kind of wrecked in the Roman Catholic Church. I’d explained living “Inside > Out” trusting in the Holy Spirit and asking for His power to transform her. I said if she needed more faith that faith was a gift from God and she could just ask for more of it. It was the same way with loving God. The 10 Commandments tell us we are to love God but we can’t do that on our own He gives us more love in our hearts. I got ready to go zipping up my pack and she said, “Thanks for your time.” “Thanks for yours I’m sorry I took so much of it,” I replied because she had asked how long the survey would take and I’d taken longer. “I was just going to go through some of my homework but I still have time, this was important. Thank you,” she said. “You’re welcome,” I replied. “You have a great rest of your day,” she said as I got up to go. “I will now, thanks.” I replied smiling and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob