ON FRIDAY, MAY 18, 425 soon-to-be graduates of Rhema Bible Training Center USA filed into the Tulsa Convention Center while family and friends cheered, whistled, waved, and took pictures. With the Class of 2012, RBTC now has nearly 60,000 graduates around the world!

Bill McNeese, pastor of Harvest Family Church in Montgomery, Alabama, and a 1982 Rhema Bible Training Center graduate, delivered the commencement address. He shared eight points for the graduates to remember before they reach the finish line in their race for God.

//Donna Pickens

I WANT YOU TO KNOW this—you are somebody. YOU ARE SOMEBODY, GOING SOMEWHERE, TO BE EFFECTIVE FOR GOD. You are special. You are valuable. And you are worthy in the sight of God. You are a pearl of great price. You are the apple of His eye. And God has proven it in the Bi- ble over and over again how much He cares for you.

"The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light."
—Matthew 4:16 (NKJV)

ON ANY GIVEN DAY in the Costa del Sol region of Spain you'll find street girls—girls of the night—selling their bodies to those passing by. They're young, and as they wander the filthy streets, scantily clad and looking for "work," they are seemingly without hope.

In reality, hope is not far away. Armed with her Bible and the message of God's love, 1989 Rhema Bible Training College graduate Joyce McNaughton is doing what Jesus did. She's reaching out. She sees something in these girls that others do not—a future. And she's loving them when no one else does.

// Kenneth E. Hagin

"Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith." —2 THESSALONIANS 3:1–2

WHEN WE PRAY, God will deliver us from "unreasonable and wicked men" in every area of our nation so the Word of God will have free course.