Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I had a good day of sharing today.  I hope your day was truly blessed as you walked by the Spirit.  Two guys prayed to receive Jesus today, Joey and Vasyl.

Joey was sitting in the Science building on a bench looking at his phone.  He had short hair and hadn’t shaved recently, though his beard grew without uniformity.  He had blue sweats on and a t-shirt and tennis shoes.  His clothes looked worn, his glasses were on the thick side and he was sad, by his own description.  Short, dishwater-blonde hair.  He said he was in counseling.  His dad had taken him to church regularly when he was younger, and still took his sister to a Catholic Church.  He’d stopped going with him and had become depressed.  When I asked him what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven he said, “I’ve been through too much already.”   He was kind of struggling with time, school and such.   He listened to the Gospel closely though and liked the stories I told him.  We seemed to hit it off.  He was a really nice guy, respectful.   I asked him in the end if he wanted to be forgiven and have Christ live inside him and he said, “I would want to be forgiven. I don’t want to go to hell!”   I don’t think anyone has ever put it that bluntly before, though some may have thought it.  He believed Jesus was God and had died for him and rose form the dead.  Joey said he wanted to trust in that and I walked him through the prayer.  He prayed it very slowly and thoughtfully it seemed.  He seemed to brighten and I explained the work of the Holy Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit.  I said he could ask God for peace and joy by His Spirit and in time God might grant this to him.  He did not have his own Bible, though he said he often saw his father reading his, so I gave him one, a Bible study and More Than a Carpenter to read.  I got his email and as I got up to leave I told him I would pray for him.  He said “Thank you sir,” twice, and I said I’d see him in Heaven and he said, “See you in Heaven sir.”

Vasyl was from the Ukraine, though his people were from the western part so it was safe there from the Russian attacks.  He was a neat, clean-cut, good looking kid, with a young face.  He was wearing a white Adidas shirt and shorts with the Adidas stripes down the sides.  He was really into science and seemed very bright.  When I asked him one thing he’d like to do before he died he said, “Make an important scientific discovery.”  I gave him some stuff to look up on SED physics and the red shift explanation, which I recently learned of through Dr. Missler and then Dr. Setterfield’s lectures.  Vasyl said he had some of his best scientific ideas from his dreams.  I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and he said, “I don’t know. You try to be a good person but you know at times it’s not the best you could have been.”  He was hoping he was good enough to go to Heaven but did not see value in his parents’ religious practice.  They were “very religious” orthodox Christians.  He had not understood the Gospel but listened and said he’d want to be forgiven, but felt he had “prayed a prayer like that”.  I asked him if, when he prayed for forgiveness, he was hoping to be good enough to be forgiven or if he had been trusting that “Jesus had died for his sins.”  He admitted he had not been trusting in that (but believed it now) so he prayed his own prayer by way of confession and I said, “Amen then” and he said, “Amen”.  He took The Case for a Creator to read and a Bible study.  I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to him and encouraged him to ask God to give him a scientific discovery.  He said he’d read Mendeleev had dreamed several of his discoveries, so I said, “Ask God for a dream.  The Bible says that [filled with the Holy Spirit] “your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,”   So who knows if He might not give you one.”  George Washington Carver said God revealed to him the secrets of the peanut, so hey.  And many in Muslim countries are dreaming of Jesus, I am told.  I encouraged him, with his more or less forced attendance in the Orthodox Church, to remember during communion that Jesus had died for him.  He said he’d been the equivalent of an altar server for a few years as a boy.  I told him I would keep him in my prayers.

So I had an interesting day of sharing and God blessed. Thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  God was Good.

In Him,

Bob

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