by Garris Elkins | Dec 15, 2019 | Forgiveness, Freedom, Grace, Honor, Love
I write every day either for a social media posting or for a writing project that might end up becoming a book. I have noticed something that we all do from time-to-time. We read something through the lens of our bias, and it ticks us off or runs contrary to what we...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 13, 2019 | Courage, Creativity, Discernment, Favor, Five-Fold Ministry, Honor, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Ministry, Prophecy, Reconciliation, Reformation, Relationships, Teaching, Truth, Wisdom
Many of us have lived with a misunderstood interpretation of Proverbs 18:16, “A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.” We thought this verse meant our personal ministry gift is what opens a way for us to gain access to...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 12, 2019 | Culture, Deliverance, Favor, God, Hope, Leadership, Spiritual Warfare
The last verse of the following text from Isaiah is where I have parked my hope at this moment in history, “So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm.” For many who have not considered the intervening aspect of God’s strong arm in human affairs,...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 11, 2019 | Discernment, Discipline, Faith, Faithfulness, Fear, Freedom, Obedience, Prophecy, Supernatural, Truth, Wisdom, Word
For the last few months, the Lord has been directing Jan and me by the impulses of His Spirit. While we have tried to live that way all of our lives, it has not been as purposeful as it has become of late. A shift in the spiritual realm is taking place. We believe...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 9, 2019 | Culture, Discernment, Discipline, Leadership, Love, Mercy, Reformation, Spiritual Warfare, Vision.
It will be so easy for some of us to overuse the numerical designation for the coming New Year in a prophetic sense, but the number 2020 is real. It’s on our calendar, and it does mean something. This morning, after standing at our living room window and praying...
