Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with good works God prepared for you to walk in. I had a good day on campus and Tim heard the Gospel and wanted to be forgiven saying he would pray later as he was late for class. So I’ll pray for him hoping he will truly receive the Lord. And Rachel prayed with me to receive Jesus. Their stories are below if you have time. Please pray they grow in their faith.

I felt a nudge when I first got to school to go up to the third floor of the BIC so I locked my coat and headed up. Tim was sitting on the outside bench of a glassed-in lounge half of the way down the hall on the south side of the building. All I could see of his hair was a couple thick stiff braids poking out of either side of his black hoodie he had pulled pull up. He wore black sweats for pants.  His face was down but he looked like another guy who I had talked to this year. I went inside the lounge but no one wanted to talk so coming out I asked him just to be sure. He thought we might have talked before but didn’t remember anything and I knew when he told me his name and got a good look at his face I was thinking of someone else. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven, “I don’t know,” he replied. “I’m a sinner and I don’t deserve to go to Heaven.” I asked how likely it was he would go to Heaven if God just had mercy on him. “I feel like I got faith and hope, I still got a shot,” he replied. He knew Jesus had died on the cross to take away the sins of the world. I went through the Gospel and he seemed to believe as when I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven he said he did and he said the prayer expressed the desire of his heart. But then he said he would pray later. It turned out he was already late for class. “Thank you I ‘preciate it,” he said. I said I’d pray for him if he somehow let me know he’d prayed so maybe I’ll run into him again. “Thank you Bro, stay blessed,” he said standing to go and he hurried off.

Rachel was sitting on a bench in a connecting hall outside the dental office where they teach students to do cleanings. She had what looked like a long shag hair cut that was died a deeper blonde. She had a black motorcycle helmet on the bench next to her and had ridden a 200cc to school, I think she said it was a Kawasaki. She asked if I had a bike for some reason and I told her what I road and owned. She wore a black hoodie with white lettering of some kind on it I couldn’t make out well. Her jeans were faded light blue. She was pretty had a perfect mouth and high cheek-bones, dark eyeliner around her eyes. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked why should I let you into Heaven. “That’s a hard question,” she said, thinking a minute. “I don’t know how to answer that. She thought she had a 75% chance of going to Heaven and seemed like a caring person. I asked her if she ever went to Church. She said she went with her mom and told me what road it was on. I began to go through the Gospel with her and told her God loved her and wanted to live inside her but to do that He had to take away her sins. I asked, “So what is the thing God does to take away your sins with Jesus.” “I don’t know,” she said without thinking in the least like the concept didn’t trigger a thought in anyway at all. So I just went into the Gospel explained the blood of Christ filled with life that paid for the things she owed God for wrecking His stuff. His righteousness was to her credit when He adopted her and made her His child. All this was hers when she received Jesus. So if someone asked why God should let her into Heaven she’d say “Because Jesus died for me.” I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done, then he would live in her by His Spirit and take her to Heaven when she died or thought something else? I explained a bit of Islam and the Buddha saying again, “So would you want to be forgiven?” “Yeah,” she said. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart. “Um hum,” she said. I said she could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear but God would, “Wanna do that?” I asked. She nodded in response and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. “Your sins are forgiven,” I said brightly when she’d finished. She grinned in response. “Now if you go down you’ll go up,” I said referring to riding her motorcycle as we’d talked about the dangers of it. She had a Bible her aunt gave her whom she said “Worked at a Church.” Apparently her aunt had gotten it from there. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and forgiven!” in the front and she expressed that she liked it and said, “Thank you,” as I handed it to her. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet, which she also liked and a Bible Study explaining that when Jesus walked on water He was claiming to be the God of the Old Testament. “I feel like when you explain it that way it makes a lot of sense,” she said taking the Bible Study. I said that was the Holy Spirit in both of us helping her understand and also God had given me some things to say that sound good. That seemed to make sense. I explained the Christian life living By the Spirit’s Power “Inside Out”. I said God could help her even on her Bike and help make us better at things. I’d told her that I prayed when I first started out on a ride.  I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day through Spring and the next Year after asking God to bless her. She was thankful and I got up to go. She asked me where the bathroom was to I told her, it made me wonder if she was a student or just meeting some friends. I bumped into her as she cut across the lounge from the bathroom a little later and told her I had forgotten to tell her the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the righteousness and blood of Jesus was 100%. “Thank you,” she said and we parted ways.

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

In Him,

Bob