Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things from above. I had a good day on campus and Jessica and Danny prayed to receive Jesus with me. Later I found out Mimi had prayed to receive Jesus. She a pretty black girl who often dyes her hair red, she wore a black beret and wears a lot of bling. Mimi has large rimmed black glasses and is usually with one of her other pretty black friends today it was Israa, I’ll try to find a time they are not on the way somewhere to tell her the Gospel. I went through the Gospel with Mimi last year and had often been praying for her. She asked me for another booklet this year interested again so I gave her one and showed her the prayer then and she prayed it later. I gave them both Bible Promises for You. Please pray they grow in their faith. Their stories are below if you have time.

I’d had a couple other Gospel presentations today with Christians trusting in their works. It’s like pushing on a string sometimes. But I came across Jessica sitting in the upstairs of the PE lounge. She was kind of resting with her head on her daypack at a table with her back to the area with the machines for working out. It turned out she ran cross country. She was tall and had her natural blonde hair in French braids on top of her head. She had green shorts on (school colors) and a grey hoodie. She had a very pretty sweet face looked like her heritage was Nordic back in the day. She was nice and had been raised in the Church. I asked her, “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?” “Because I believe? I don’t know,” she replied. She thought she had about a 70% chance of going to Heaven. She knew Jesus had died on the cross to take away the sins of the world but had not really been trusting in the Gospel of the blood and righteousness of Christ putting it together when she would ask for forgiveness. After I had explained it all I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done showing her the two circles. “Life entrusted to Christ,” she replied reading from beneath the circles. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of her heart and she nodded. I said she could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Right now?” she asked and I said, “Yeah.” “Sure,” she said. And she prayed to receive Christ. She had a Bible explaining she had grown up in a Christian church. I wrote her name and the date and forgiven in the front of Bible Promises for You and I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I gave her a Bible study too and explained it. She was fun to talk to and receptive. I told her now trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I explained living “By the Spirit’s Power”.  She said it was a lot to take in and I agreed it could be like drinking from a fire hose to learn a lot at once but the important thing is that she trusted in that Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. She said she struggled with that being certain and I wrote down Ephesians 1:13 on the back of the booklet and said that it taught that as soon as she believed the Spirit entered her and sealed her so He comes in but does not come out. “And God’s not going to Hell,” I said and she agreed. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. We had really hit it off and she was happy. She thanked me and I headed off.

Then about 25 feet later I asked Danny if he’d do a survey and he readily agreed. He had a mop of brown curly hair and was clean-shaven. He had boyish features and was tall and wholesome looking with a square chin and a rounded tipped nose. He said he was joyful describing himself and he did seem filled with life. He wore a light grey zip up hoodie with a penguin logo on the left that would fit into a silver dollar. He had straight leg blue workout pants on and seemed to be waiting for a friend. In answer to the question, One thing you want to do before you die? He said, “Have kids.” That’s a good sign. 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 said, “I did go to Catholic private school 3^rd through 8^th grade. My family is very religious towards my mom’s side. I do try to go to Church every Sunday if I have a chance to. I pray at night.”  “And you pray to God not Satan or something?” I joked. He smiled and said,” I just give thanks.” “Cool,” I said. I asked what he thought the likelihood he would go to heaven was. “I’m a good person, 80%,” he replied. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he gave ascent and agreed with every point of the Gospel. I said he would not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good and he was connected to him by faith. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done and not that he was just good enough or thought something else. “1^st one,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said, “Yeah.” I said he could pray it silently and asked if he wanted to do that he nodded took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I explained the Christian life living “By the Spirit’s Power”. He had a Bible so I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and give it to him. “Thank you,” he said taking it and I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him Strobel’s story I gave him a Bible study too and explaining that. I told him I would pray a Bible Verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. “Thank you,” he said. I got up to go and he said, “Thank you so much.” I said he was welcome and I’d see him in Heaven and headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob