Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with all good things from the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Dylan and Emmanuel each prayed to receive Jesus today. Their stories are below if you want to spend the time. Please pray they grow in their faith. I have to teach the TPUSA Bible Study tonight at 4:30. So I’m hopeful some will come.

Dylan was sitting at a table in the PE lounge there were only a couple other students in there. I’d asked him before this time, he said he’d take a minute. He has a rough afro about 4 inches high. He had the perfect skin of youth and a square jaw, sharp features, smaller nose, good-looking guy. He was wearing a COD logo grey pullover hoodie and sweats. He’s a triple and long jump athlete at school. He got some scholarships that weren’t enough to pay for school outright so I think he’s at COD to increase his performance. He went to church on Holidays mostly and a bit here and there. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road 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?” “I feel like I would say, that’s more like for Him to judge. Who am I to say,” he replied. I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven and he said, “I don’t know, that’s hard I feel… hard question.” I began to go through the Gospel with him. When I asked what Jesus had done back in history to take away the sins of the world he said, “He was sacrificed.” I went on to tell him all I usually say of the blood and righteousness of Jesus and salvation by faith. I couldn’t really tell if he was interested. So I prayed along in my heart as I nearly always do and finally I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting I what Jesus had done. Then He would live inside him and give him strength and take him to Heaven when he died or did he think something else. I did the quick Cliff’sNotes version of Islam and the Buddha and asked again if he would want to be forgiven for his sins. “I do,” he replied. So I said there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked if it was the desire of his heart. “Sure,” he said. I said he could pray it silently, and know he was forgiven. I would not hear but God would hear. “Sure,” he said again and he prayed to receive Jesus. I began to explain the Christian life by the Spirit’s power and encouraged him that he could ask for God’s help to hit the block in a jump and do well. I told him the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave him a Bible study explaining it a bit and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told him I would keep him in my prayers each day praying a Bible verse for him until Spring and one year after. “Thank you,” he said as I got up to go. Okie Dokie?” I said, “Okie Dokie,” he replied with a smile and I told him, “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said. “I’ll see you there,” he replied. He was grateful and I headed out.

Emanuel was sitting against the glass wall of the 2-story connecting lounge that joins the science buildings. He has dark brown hair parted on the left and swept to the right and large round glasses with clear plastic frames. He is probably Latino. Looked artistic. His mustache did not touch his beard (that looked a bit like a recent attempt) and a friendly warm crooked tooth smile. He had a black sweats and pullover hoodie on with some black and red I couldn’t see and pulled his arms out of it leaving it around his neck, probably because he had a black tank shirt on.  He was a real nice guy wanted to start a business to pay for school. I asked him, “You’re walking down the road 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?” He thought for a minute with a, “Ah-um, what would I say…” He finally landed on, “I did the most good in this world I possibly could, Yeah.” He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. He too knew when I asked that Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. I explained all I usually do and since I was sitting on the ground American Indian style at his feet I held up the booklet when I read Bible verses. I asked, after explaining the blood and righteousness of Jesus and salvation by faith if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else, (giving other options)  holding up the booklet so he could see the circles. He responded first to the second option.  “No, life… (he started to read “Life devoted to Christ” under the circle I had described as Christ living in you) Be forgiven,” he replied. So I said there was a prayer he could pray to be forgiven and talked him through it asking it if expressed the desire of his heart. He nodded it did. I said he could pray it silently, “Wanna do it?” “Yeah,” he said with some enthusiasm. He also had a Bible so I explained living by the Spirit’s power and gave him Gal 5:22,23. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” I the front of Bible Promises for You and he thanked me. I told him I would keep him in my prayers praying a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after. I gave him a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. “Thanks for your time man,” I said getting up to go. “It took a little longer than I thought.” He’d said he could do a survey quick and it had taken a bit. “No that’s OK thanks a lot,” he replied. “See you in Heaven,” I said and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayer for the ministry and for evangelism today of you had a chance. God blessed the work again.

In Him,

Bob