Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed with the presence of the Lord’s Spirit. I had a short week on campus missing Monday but Sal, prayed to receive Christ as possibly did Juan Carlos who seemed to read through the prayer and then shook my hand and then said he had too much on his plate for a Bible Study, so I’ll pray he comes to truly believe on the Lord. Isabella on Thursday prayed with me to receive salvation. Please pray they all are sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  Isabella was sitting in a lounge on the north side first floor of the BIC building, the back of which empties out into a hall with skylights 3 floors up. She was alone at a table. She looked Latina in coloring and had long brown hair she’d flipped a section of back over the top of her narrow pretty face. She had a square chin and perfect eyebrows making a flat edge at the top of her nose. She wore a white t-shirt with some printing on it that I saw as I got up to go was knotted just above her hip 4 inches above some grey sweats. She was thin. She was willing to do a survey. I sat down and she said she wanted to travel possibly to Greece, saying she wasn’t Greek but it looked beautiful. I said I’d heard the Greek islands were all pretty, “I bet that would be nice to travel to with my wife, maybe I’ll get there someday,” I said. 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?” “I honestly don’t know,” She replied.  She said by way of qualifying why, “I grew up Catholic but I left that church.”  She said she was either trying other churches and had been going to one. “My boyfriend and I are trying to get closer to God. But I really don’t know what I would say.” I said that that was understandable since she’d decided the church she’d grown up with was wrong but wasn’t exactly clear on the teaching of what she was in now. She agreed. When I asked what she thought the likelihood was she would go to Heaven she said 50% and then changed it to 60%. I began to explain the Gospel. I’d written all the extra verses and notes in a booklet a bisexual guy over in the MAC did not want after going through the Gospel. (I had explained to him that Homosexuality destroyed his soul and God loved him and did not want him to destroy his soul and so told him not to do it.) So I just looked her in the eye as I recited things I’d write, instead of having to look away. Since I was opposite her across the table that worked out great to just hold it in front of her and then read the other verses that were printed when I came to them. She held my gaze and looked me right in the eye all throughout. So I explained as I always do that knowing God was eternal life because in the New Testament this meant God lived inside her, transfused His life into her with His Spirit like a blood transfusion. First then He had to take away her sin to she’d match God. I asked what the big thing was Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world and she said Jesus had died on the cross. So I began to explain how that worked, that He lived a perfect life and we were to be perfect and owed God something perfect, owed Him life, for the life we had taken away from others. Jesus was the creator God; His blood cleansed us and was filled with life. When He poured out His blood it paid God back for all the imperfect things we had done that we owed God something perfect for. “So the real reason God forgave us was that He got paid, by the blood of Christ, but He had to pay Himself.” I explained the righteousness of God Christ earned by perfect obedience and fulfillment of the Old Testament law. I said all the other things I say that He rose from the dead, people saw Him and He was the only way. She had to receive this by faith; faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus and He would live inside her and give her strength. “Yes,” she said nodding. So I said then there was a prayer she could pray. I talked her through it and asked if expressed the desire of her heart. She nodded. I said if she would want to be forgiven she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven trusting in Jesus. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” she replied nodding and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished I said, “Your sins are forgiven.” “Thank you,” she replied. I explained the likelihood she would now be forgiven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I found out she had a Bible and said she could begin with John. I gave her Bible Promises for You I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the inside after showing her how she could turn a verse into a prayer. “Thank you,” she said taking the book. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study. She told me she’d been in the club life and we talked about things that go wrong God will use as a test to encourage us to trust in Him by the Spirit’s power and I explained living “Inside Out” asking for transformation. I said the Bible says God will always provide a way of escape and for her that meant don’t go to the clubs. She agreed. I told her I would pray a prayer for her each day from now until Spring and one year after using a Bible verse asking God to bless her. “I don’t know if I’ll see you again but I’ll know God is blessing you,” I said. I got up to go and she reached her hand across the table to shake mine and I took it with both my hands shaking it. “Thank you Bob,” she said. “You’re welcome, thanks for talking with me,” I said and I headed off.

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

 In Him,

Bob