by Garris Elkins | Aug 21, 2020 | Culture, Deliverance, Discipline, Dreams, Fear, God, Justice, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Mercy, Redemption, Relationships, Spiritual Warfare, Trust, Wisdom
Beginning in late May, someone has been shooting at vehicles traveling on Interstate 5, the main north-south freeway that travels along the west coast. The shootings are taking place on a 70 mile stretch of freeway in the area where Jan and I live. The shootings have...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 20, 2020 | Courage, Fear, Hope
A consensus of fear that gathers a large following is not the result of a word from the Lord. Fear is the product of an undiscerned lie interpreted through emotion and irrationality. Be careful who or what you allow to form your worldview. While fear will...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 19, 2020 | Courage, Deliverance, Trust
I saw someone running their personal race of faith. They were not jogging at a cautious speed. It was an all-out run. As they ran forward, line after line of closed doors stood before them, but the closed doors did not slow them down or break their cadence of...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 18, 2020 | Creavity, Destiny, Eternity, Faith, Family, Fear, Future, Grace, Hope
This morning while arranging some books and correspondence, I came across my daughter’s 50-Year Letter. It is a letter I asked her and her then-fiancé to write in preparation for their wedding last month. The letter would define what they hoped their marriage would...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 17, 2020 | Destiny, Favor, Forgiveenss, Healing, Holiness, Identity
You can tell hell is at work when people choose to believe a bad report about longtime friends and then reject their influence from within a circle of fellowship. Those who believed the bad report may put on a happy face, but underneath the smiles, the dismissal has...
