by Garris Elkins | Jan 16, 2015 | Deliverance, Destiny, Fear, Forgivenss, Healing, Humility, Intimacy, Joy, Peace, Promise, Provision, Redemption, Resurrection, Tranistion
Today, I was recalling a sorrowful experience in my life. It was an unfortunate misunderstanding. Time and distance had caused me to lose contact with the other person involved. For multiple decades I carried the sorrow of what happened between...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 15, 2015 | Apostle, Destiny, Favor, Five-Fold Ministry, Gifts, Identity, Leadership, Power, Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural
When I was a young man in my 20’s, I was a police officer. I served for 9 years and then God changed the direction of my life and for the last 34 years, I have been a pastor. Those 9 years deeply impacted my life. To this day, I see life through the lens...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 13, 2015 | Apostle, Change, Courage, Deliverance, Destiny, Faith, Future, Identity, Joy, Miracles, Redemption, Resurrection, Revival, Supernatural, Tranistion
For the last two days, I have been seeing the image of a powerful locomotive radically changing it’s direction. The locomotive was heading in one direction down a single and predictable set of tracks and then, in single moment of time, the Lord altered its...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 9, 2015 | Fathers, Identity, Love
Sometimes, I notice a woman will date a blind man. Not a man blind in a natural sense, but a man who is blind to her spiritual beauty. As an earthly father, God asked me to encourage my daughter, Anna, to not settle for a man who has a lesser of an image of her...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 9, 2015 | Apostle, Courage, Deliverance, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Joy, Kingdom, Reconciliation, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare
In the natural world a person is considered armed and dangerous only if they are armed. Without a weapon they are not a danger or a threat. The same holds true in a spiritual sense. Our danger to the kingdom of darkness is only present when we understand and...
