Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I hope you day was blessed of the Lord today and you felt the presence of His Spirit.  I had a really good day on campus and Nia and Joy prayed to receive Christ.  Nia was the first person I talked to.  She was waiting for some friends to get out of class.  She is a very petite, pretty Filipino girl, long brown hair, small mouth.  She was pretty intense and seemed a little fearful from stuff she said, but a caring loving person.  She went to a Catholic church when she was younger but hadn’t any idea how God took away her sin.  But she lasered in on the Gospel.  I asked her, “Have you ever had someone do something really cruel to you and you felt like it killed you a little bit?”  She said she had.  I said, “Well when we sin we created death in the world and Jesus is God and the source of all life.  So when He gives His life for the world He restores life to all the places we have created death in us and others.  And then because we are under the penalty of death for our sins, He dies in our place.”  “Makes sense,” she replied.  So I continued to explain how she needed to trust in what Jesus had done for her to make her right with God, and offered her the prayer at the back of the booklet to accept God’s forgiveness in faith.  She acknowledged the prayer was the desire of her heart when I asked, and said, “Thank you.” She took the booklet from me and prayed to receive Christ.  I explained the Holy Spirit to her and gave her a Bible study on Doubt and the book More Than a Carpenter to read.  Her friends came out of class and she had to run after them.

Joy was sitting in the middle of the science lounge on the stairs made for seating.  She was pretty and had very full facial features and long hair past her shoulders, wearing a knit cap.  Joy was really friendly and wanted to learn.  She was willing to talk and we talked a long time about life and doctrine.  She is from Ghana and wants to become a Nurse Practitioner and return there to run a clinic.  She was very admirable in her goals.  She professed Christianity, but she was trusting in her own efforts to make her right with God and didn’t have much assurance of salvation.  She did not know how God took away her sin.  Even after I explained the Gospel to her, it took a few moments of explaining it again for me to help her understand that she had not been trusting in Jesus to make her right with God even though she was trying hard to do good things.  She was getting a daily reading from Joyce Meyers.  I cautioned her about Meyers prosperity gospel ideas.  Much of her doctrine is false.  But I am careful not to break too horribly bad on a teacher, with a student I just met, whom they have gotten some positive messages from.  Still, if you would like a critique of Meyers this is good: http://churchismessy.com/2013/08/05/why-i-called-out-joel-osteen-and-joyce-meyer/

I have Joy’s e-mail so I will send her the link too. Once she realized she had not been trusting in the work of Christ for her on the Cross, she wanted to pray to receive Him and did.  She was enthusiastic about coming to Bible Study so I am hopeful she will come and get more grounded.

Please pray for Nia and Joy to grow in their new found faith in the blood of Christ to save them and allow God to live inside them, trusting in His righteousness and not their own.

So thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God bless again today and I had a couple other really good conversations where students came closer to the kingdom of God.

Blessings,

Bob Bollow

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