by Garris Elkins | Aug 28, 2018 | Change, Courage, Death, Discipleship, Father, Freedom, Future, Identity, Intimacy, Kingdom of God, Revelation, Supernatural, Transition, Vision.
Have you noticed that just before a life-altering event takes place we have no idea our lives are about to change in a dramatic fashion? Life-transition, loss, natural disasters or an unexpected blessing all have the ability to alter our current reality. Every human...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 28, 2018 | Gifts, Kingdom of God, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching
Have you considered that all the flak flying through the spiritual air at this moment might be the disintegrated remnants of a work of hell that God has dismantled? Sometimes we miss what is actually taking place in a season of intense spiritual warfare because our...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 26, 2018 | Courage, Culture, Discipline, Honor, Kingdom of God, Mercy, Reconciliation
Speak honorably about people during their lifetime as you would speak about them at the time of their death. The opportunity to honor others, even those with whom we might disagree, will reveal the depth of our character. Honor is a language that takes time to learn....
by Garris Elkins | Aug 25, 2018 | Faithfulness, Family, Identity, Marriage, Mercy, Peace, Relationships, Women
I remember the day when I was four years old and said to my mother, “Are you from outer space?” I was a serious four-year-old asking a serious question. I actually remember that morning in our kitchen when I asked the question, and my mom smiled and said,...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 24, 2018 | Change, Creavity, Deliverance, Faith, Freedom, Joy, Obedience, Prophecy
In every season of significant spiritual breakthrough, I have felt like an overdue pregnant woman (to the extent that a man could imagine such an event). Jan and I were talking just this morning about this familiar feeling of an impending delivery. We have gone...