A few years back Vernel and I were riding in a car with Yan Venter. We were on our way to the hotel in downtown Pretoria, South Africa. We were in route to an evening crusade, and I was asleep in the backseat. Suddenly, I heard Vernel shout out a warning. A spit second more and we would have been...

This week “The 99 team” turned the church into a staging station for the most important outreach we have ever had the privilege to serve. We have had eternity stamped on our eyelids as we look forward to this occupational army of end-time harvesters leading the way. As your pastors, GayNell and I...

BOUNDARY LINES FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS VERSE 1. We can find refuge in the protection of God. VERSE 2. We can know security in our relationship with God. VERSE 3. We can receive inspiration from the people of God. VERSE 4. We can show gratitude for the provision of God VERSE 5. We can live fulfilled...

TIMELESS AND TIMELY TRUTHS FROM THE BOOK "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." - James 1:21 At an altar this week, a young mother with a beautiful bay in her lap came and sat down by me on...

The 99 IS COMING | THREE GREAT WEEKENDS IN SEPTEMBER | 9 SERVICES ONLY Maybe we need to define this before someone comes along with a new definition or doctrine attempting to change the meaning of the word, LOST. 1. No longer possessed or retained: lost friends. 2. No longer to be found: lost...

Have you ever stopped to think about it this way? More than likely you have not. Could this be how darkness invades neighborhoods and turns them into “hoods”? The scripture says in 2nd Corinthians 4:4, “If our message is obscure to anyone, it’s not because we’re holding back in any way. No, it’s...

As I have read the Bible it is hard to miss that there were often times when men and women cried out to God for help. They cried out to God for protection, for provision, and even for peace. Women cried out to God when they were barren and God heard their heart cry. In the case of Hannah, I love to...

In Second Corinthians 11:24, Paul speaks concerning the way he was treated by his former colleagues, “Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.” This was a Jewish method of punishment, applied to Paul on five different occasions.   Deuteronomy 25:2,3 refers to this method when it...