Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you were filled up to all the fullness of God today. I had a good day on campus and Ozzy prayed to receive Jesus. Destiny said she would pray latter, a pretty girl with sharp features chin and nose and a very sharp jaw line. She, I believe, was mixed in race based on her skin tone and hair in ringlets pull up over head and falling down in her face.  Shauntel was a round featured good natured black girl both nostrils pierced. She said she would think about praying and thought she was on a journey of faith but she was great to talk to and said I was the brightest spot in her day. So Ozzy’s story is below and I will be praying for the girls. Please pray they are all strengthened in the inner man that Christ might dwell in their hearts by faith.

Ozzy was a really low-key guy. He looked to be a Latino or possibly Filipino. He had a thin Michael Jordan mustache with a bit of growth on the underside of his chin. He had sharp features, jaw line and nose and a dark mop of shorter hair more or less parted on the right. He wore black sweats and a grey t-shirt. He was pretty reserved. I asked him one think he would want to do before he died and he said, “Have a family,” so I figured he would trust in Christ because saying that is a tell. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven if he died he said. “I’d say because I’ve been faithful to Him. I’m not exactly sure, I have a lot of faith.” I asked the likelihood he would get into Heaven, “I’m not exactly sure, some people say it’s hard to get in…” “The Narrow Gate,” I replied. He nodded in agreement and then said, “50%.” I asked if he’d ever gone to Church, a bit when he was young he said so I asked what kind and he said he thought it was Adventist. I began to go through the Gospel with him and asked him what “Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world.” He thought for a moment and then said, “He died.” I agreed and began to explain the blood as a payment for his sins and the righteousness of God to his credit that Christ earned. He took it all in very somberly and I could not tell if it was taking root but reminded myself he had said he wanted a family so he probably was listening. I kept telling him the points in of the Gospel. I explained salvation by faith and asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven,” he replied. So I said, “If you’d like to be forgiven there’s a prayer you can pray and talked him through it with a bit of explanation. “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ would you say it does?” I asked. “Yeah, I think it does,” he replied. Well if you wanted to you could pray this silently right now, I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven, wanna do it? “Yeah,” he replied and I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” “OK,” he said and prayed to receive Jesus. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one and explained some of the study helps in it. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thank you,” he said when I handed it to him. I explained living “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out.” I gave him Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him Strobel’s story and a Bible Study just explaining the Prophecy and how it was fulfilled in Christ.  I told him I would pray a Bible Verse for him each day from now until Spring and on year after. “Thank you so much,” he said with real sincerity. I said I was sorry I took so much time, he’d only taken 3 bites of his chicken sandwich in a bun. “No you’re good, thank you,” he replied and I said if I saw him I would give him a wave and headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob