Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a good day walking with the Lord in His blessings. I had a good day on campus, 3 Latina girls, Gisela, Nataly and Sandra each prayed to receive Jesus today so that was great. God blessed me today. They were all bright cheerful young women. Their stories are below if you have some time. Please pray they grow in their faith.

Gisela was sitting at a counter height table at the end of the cafeteria. She is a had a cute short elflike face with a pretty smile and wore rhinestone dangling bling earrings and a necklace of the same look. She had shoulder-length brown hair and glasses with light brown rounded corner rectangle lenses, bright eyes.  She had a black T-shirt on with some kind of gold logo on it. She wanted to help her parents when they got old. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I don’t think I’m worthy of going to Heaven,” she replied. “I’m not worthy of going to Heaven either,” I replied softly. She thought she had a 60% chance of going to Heaven. She said she pretty much only went to church, “on the big holidays, when it is really crowded.” I began to go through verses with her. I quoted Jesus saying eternal life was knowing God and this meant God lived inside us with the Holy Spirit. In comparing it to a blood transfusion I said for God to transfuse His life into her he would have to make her His type by taking away her sins. I asked her what the big thing was that Jesus had done to take away our sins and she knew saying, “He died for us.” I agreed and explained how Jesus’ blood cleansed us from all sin and was a payment to God. I told her that Jesus had earned the righteousness of God by perfectly fulfilling the Old Testament Law and so He can give this righteousness to whomever He wants. I told her Isaiah 61:10 saying we were wrapped in a robe of God’s Righteousness and clothed with His salvation. The New Testament tells us this garment of salvation is Jesus in Galatians 3:27, we are clothed with Him. “You don’t go to Heaven because you are good enough but because Jesus is good and you are connected with Him. Like if you marry a millionaire you got a million bucks or if you get adopted into a billionaire’s family you get to live in the mansion and drive the cars.” God adopts us and gives us these things as the blessings of His family. Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead and many saw Him. All this is ours by receiving Christ. Believing Jesus was God He died for our sins and rose from the dead. We are saved by Grace through faith. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done, then He would live inside her and give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died, or if she thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven, “she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it and read, “It says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart, so would you say it does?” “Yes,” she said. I said that then if she wanted to she could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven and asked if she’d like to do that and she replied “Yes,” again. She took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained to her then the likelihood now she would go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I offered her a Bible and she said she had just bought one. Several people I talked to this year had just recently bought a Bible; it seems like God leads me to them to get them started. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day for the next year. I explained the Christian life living “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out. “First you ask God to transform you on the inside then you do good things on the outside,” I said to her. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible study explained it a bit and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I said it was nice to meet her and I’d see her in Heaven. Thank you so much I appreciate it,” she said joyfully. And I headed out.

It was a beautiful day. I walked out of the MAC arts building finding no one to talk to inside and saw some girls on a bench on the east sidewalk of the BIC building. I had asked a guy there on my way into the building who was not interested but he’d left. Nataly and Sandra were there instead. Nataly looked pretty average she had a slightly larger nose and a long oval face, nice smile, long dark brown hair. She was wearing black leggings and a grey hoodie. Sandra was pretty her hair was in two braids behind her head and a couple finger width strands ran the length of her face. She could have been Selena Gomez little sister. She wore bright blue sweats and a black shirt. When they stood as we parted I realized they were only 5 foot tall. I asked them if they would like to do a student survey for a Bible Study group. Nataly said they were in a Bible study group. I asked them the name of it and they were not sure but they were going to meet with someone this week. So I asked them if they’d like to hear a big question they could think about and they both said, “OK.” “You’re walking down the road,” I began, “and you get hit by a bus, so you’re dead, and you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” Sandra asked me to repeat the question and Nataly, still thinking said, “You’re dead.” I repeated it to Sandra. Neither of them knew what to say so I asked if they would like to hear some Bible verses that tell them how to get to Heaven. They both said, “Sure.” So I sat down Indian style at their feet and began to explain the Gospel starting with, “Christianity is like a blood transfusion, I have A+ blood, if you fill me with B- blood I would clot up and die. So God wants to transfuse his life into you, fill you with His Holy Spirit but first He has to make you his type and take away your sin.” I explained how Jesus’ blood had cleansed them from all sins and in random order of the points I make. I told them stories and illustrations to explain salvation by faith. I asked them if they would want to be forgiven by asking if they thought when they were asking for forgiveness for their sins if they were thinking “I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me or if they thought they hoped they would be forgiven because God saw that they were trying to be good and would do better. Sandra thought she hadn’t been trusting in Jesus and Nataly processed it a bit realizing she thought she would try harder. So then I took out some booklets and I explained that if they wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer they could pray and talked them through it. They both wanted to pray to receive Christ. So I opened a booklet for each of them to the prayer and they each prayed. I took the booklets back skimming over the points and filling in Bible verses on the righteousness of God Jesus earned and how God makes all things into Good. I explained living by the Spirit’s power and wrote that and “Inside out” and “Just ask” inside the booklets. I gave them each Bible Promises for You writing their name and the date and “forgiven!” in each which they liked. I gave them a Bible study retelling the story of Jesus walking on the water for them and gave them The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told them I would pray a Bible verse for them each day for the next year. I said that if they did not like their Bible study they could always leave it, because I was a bit afraid they were hooked up with the works righteousness cult on campus. I said they’d know if it wasn’t any good, so I’ll pry about that for them. They’d known me for 10 minutes and I did not know the name of the group.  They were both happy. Sandra said, “Thank you,” and Nataly who seemed to know a bit of the Gospel as I went through said, “Thank you. You’re amazing!” “Thank you that’s kind of you to say, “I replied. And they headed off to the north and to the parking lot. It seemed they had just decided to sit for a minute and take in the outside and God led me to them.

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

In Him,

Bob