by Garris Elkins | Sep 3, 2017 | Promise, Redemption, Transition, Vision.
The older I become the more my years both past and those yet to come hang like wind chimes waiting for me to pass by. I am the breeze they anticipate my passage a billowing against their calendared surface moving, making the music of life, ...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 2, 2017 | Holy Spirit, Humility, Love, Power
There are two groups of first responders in a time of crisis. One group saves lives no matter who is suffering. Their primary goal is to give the gift of unconditional love. The second group speaks and acts from an undisciplined personal bias without regards to the...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 2, 2017 | Prophetic
Have you noticed the increasing level of judgmental commentary flooding your social media accounts and your television screen in the middle of a natural disaster like Hurricane Harvey? If the natural disaster doesn’t kill you then the stones of judgment offered by...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 2, 2017 | Apostle, Church, Courage, Deliverance, Fear, Peace, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare
When we are personally under attack it is too easy to circle our wagons in fear and stop moving forward in faith. The term, “Circle the wagons!” was a command issued by wagon masters in real life and later dramatically depicted in western movies when a wagon train...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 1, 2017 | Courage, Creativity, Culture, Evangelism, Holy Spirit, Hope, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Prophecy, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching
The words we write and speak are like artillery rounds that strike the shoreline of a human heart. Communication in any form, verbal or written, is like a pre-invasion artillery barrage that a navy will use to pound a hardened and fortified shoreline just before...
