Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Well, I hope you had a great day walking with the Lord.  I had some great conversations today and Desiree prayed to receive Christ.  She was a very pretty, brown-haired girl who was sitting in a hooded COD sweatshirt with a yellow colored Mac on her lap, sneakers on her feet dangling above the floor sitting on one foot.  She said her legs had braces but I could not see them.  She was a very tiny girl and it turned out, after we had talked, her life was something of a miracle.  She died at birth and they gave her a shunt for hydrocephalus that kept alive after she was revived.  She also has spina bifida and was not expected to live past her third birthday.  She said she got very depressed and ran a bit wild in High School and tried to kill herself, I imagine due in part to her condition.  In telling me this she pulled up her sleeve and showed me the scars on one arm from the cuts that almost ended her life.  “I guess I will always have the scars,” she said.  But God once again had mercy on her, and though she bleed nearly completely out, she was saved. When I asked her what she would say if God asked her why He should let her into Heaven she said, “Because I am a practicing Catholic.”  She helps her parents teach a class at Church but did not know what Jesus had done to take away her sin.  Desiree had had people tell her that because of all she had done, God would not forgive her.  I told her of many people God forgave who had done evil things in the Bible, worse than what she had done.  She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven.  I told her the Gospel and she tracked very closely with me and followed right along.  I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins, trusting in what Jesus had done for her on the Cross  and she said she would.  And so I asked her at the end if, when she asked for forgiveness, she had been trusting in what Jesus had done for her on the Cross or was hoping she was good enough.  “I never really thought about it,” she answered.  So I explained she could pray to ask for God’s forgiveness and walking her through the prayer I asked her if it was the desire of her heart and she said yes and said about the prayer, “I really like that.”  She prayed silently to receive forgiveness and gave me her email to send her stuff.  I walked her through a Bible study and gave her More Than a Carpenter to read.  She said she had been reading about other religions.  I explained some of the differences and that we could know God wrote the Bible because it is the only holy book of a religion that predicts the future.  I told her I would send her a Bible study with verses that were fulfilled in Jesus.  She thanked me and I said it was nice to meet her and I would pray for her.  “Nice to meet you too,” she replied.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  God truly blessed and I was so grateful to be able to tell the Gospel to Desiree so God could bring her to Himself.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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