by Garris Elkins | Aug 9, 2015 | Change, Fathers, Future, Identity, Promise
I have arrived at a place called, Senior Citizenship. I am not sure when this took place, but it has arrived. The first indicators were the mailings from AARP that began arriving in my mailbox in my late 40’s. Another reminder was the stray gray hair that appeared...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 8, 2015 | Family, Fathers, Prophecy
Each generation will have prophetic words spoken over them from the fathers and mothers of faith who represent a previous generation. Jan and I have had those kinds of words spoken over us by people like Dick Mills and Jean Darnall and others with a similar...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 8, 2015 | Courage, Destiny
Recently, our family was having a leisurely summer dinner on our patio. At the end of the meal, my daughter directed my attention to a rock on the deck just behind my chair. When I turned to look at the rock a word sprung up unexpectedly in my heart with such...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 6, 2015 | Freedom, Humility, Prophecy, Redemption
“Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!”I Corinthians 13:9 When Paul penned these words he was sharing a principle for life and especially for prophetic ministry. Nothing we do or say is...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 4, 2015 | Courage, Faithfulness, Humility, Prophecy
At some point you will share a word with someone and they will not like what they hear. They may disagree with your delivery or even the content of your theology. The wider the audience for your ministry becomes the more this will happen – sometimes with regularity....
