Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with grace and peace. I had a good day on campus. Julia prayed with me to receive Jesus today so that was great. Please pray she rows in her faith. I’m grateful for your help. Her story is below if you have some time.

Julia was sitting on one of the ledges that overlook the big science lounge that joins the buildings. She had mostly blonde long wavy hair and was wearing a powder blue hoodie and grey sweats. She had sharp pretty features, a narrow face, looked sweet and kind. I asked her to describe herself and she said, kind and hardworking and loyal. She later said she wanted to become a dentist but one thing she wanted to do before she died was have kids. I asked her, if she got hit by a bus, and she died what she would say to God if He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Oh my gosh!” she replied, and then a “hmm.” “I’ve been pretty loyal to Him as well,” she replied. I go to Church every Sunday. She thought she had a 90% chance of going to Heaven. I told her knowing God meant He lived inside her and this would give her eternal life. First however He had to take away her sin. I asked her What God had done “to take away your sins?” “Confession?” she said. “Well, the priest says you are forgiven but the reason he can do that is because he knows God got paid,” I replied. “This is how it works. I began to explain that we owed God a perfect life, but we could not be perfect. So Jesus had died after living a perfect life for us and His blood cleansed her and “When He pours out his blood it pays God back for all the imperfect things we’ve done that we owe God something perfect for,” to pay Him for wrecking damaging what belonged to Him. So the real reason God forgives you is “He got paid,” but He had to pay Himself. I explained the righteousness Jesus earned to her credit and this was hers when God adopted her and made her His child. I said this was the symbolism behind the mass, the wine symbolic of His blood the wafer symbolic of His body, it was reminding her He had died and so she was forgiven, “So when you take it you should just say, Thank You.”  I explained the rest then that this was hers when she believed. “Not that you just knew the story but that that’s what you put your trust in to be forgiven so if someone asked you “Why should God let you into Heaven you’d say because Jesus died for me, I’m trusting in that.” And I explained how her good stuff could not fix her bad stuff. I asked then if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for her, so He could live inside her, then she would know she was forgiven. “Like when you are praying for forgiveness for your sins. Are you thinking you would be forgiven because you were doing good things? Or did you know you would be forgiven because Jesus died for you?” She seemed caught up thinking about that so I said, “If you wanted to be forgiven and you had not asked God before there is a prayer you could pray.” I explained the prayer and asked, “It says here is this prayer the desire of you heart? So if you thought it did you could pray it silently right now, I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do it?” “Sure,” she said. I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” She chuckled at that since I had been kneeling on the floor beside her in the way of everything looking down at the booklet. Then she prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished she handed me back the booklet and said, “Thank you.” I said she could keep the booklet and she said, “Oh,” in a pleased kind of way. I explained living the Christian life to her praying, reading and confessing and living by the Power of the Holy Spirit who would help her in everything she wanted to do if she asked. He could help her do well in school. I explained living “Inside Out”. I said that now the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the righteousness and blood of Jesus. I would be forgiven too though being old I had sinned way more than her. She smiled at that. “Thank you so much,” She replied. I told her I would pray for her each day and put her on a list and pray for her until the Spring and one year after, and that I had just bumped into a girl, Neeha, who had prayed to receive Jesus last year who I was still praying for. “Oh,” she said like she was happy to hear that. I gave her Bible Promises for You and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and she appreciated that. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet told her Strobel’s story and said she might have time to read it at Christmas break. I also gave her a Bible study. We both said, “Have a good one,” at the same time as I got up to go. Then I said, “God bless you.” “You as well.” She replied and I headed off around the corner.

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

In Him,

Bob