by Garris Elkins | Dec 29, 2017 | Change, Courage, Creativity, Deliverance, Fear, Healing, Leadership, Love, Obedience, Power, Reconciliation, Relationships, Restoration, Resurrection, Revival, Spiritual Warfare, Transition
The last few days of a year, just before the coming New Year, can be a depressing and stress-filled time for some people. This feeling of anxiety comes because compression is taking place. All of the unresolved, unfulfilled and unhealthy things that walked with us...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 28, 2017 | Courage, Discipleship, Faith, Father, Fear, Honor, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Marriage, Obedience, Peace, Reconciliation, Relationships, Teaching
The term, “cut and dried”, is a term first used to describe an herbalist cutting and drying herbs and then packaging them for sale. It was also used to describe the process of cutting, drying and bailing grass into hay bales as a final product. The term has come to...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 27, 2017 | Courage, Faith, Father, God, Honor, Identity, Obedience, Power, Relationships, Restoration, Resurrection, Spiritual Warfare, Thankfulness, Transition, Trust
In the last few days, we have set a lot of timers in our home. Timers were set to bake pies. I set one to check the Christmas prime rib smoking on our Traeger barbeque. A timer was set for the rising dough for Jan’s crazy-good holiday cinnamon rolls. Our house was a...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 27, 2017 | Rest, Trust
A full life is not one where each moment is always occupied with something to do or experience. Fullness is the result of a rest produced by a willingness to choose peace over strife, hope over despair. Rest is the evidence of a life of fullness.
by Garris Elkins | Dec 26, 2017 | Change, Creativity, Hope, Kingdom of God, Obedience, Power, Revelation
When I traveled to Russia, I came home with gifts for my family. On Arbat Street in Moscow, I purchased a matryoshka doll, also known as a nesting or stacking doll. These dolls are cylindrical wooden containers with the picture of a person painted on their surface....
