by Garris Elkins | Jan 15, 2015 | Apostle, Destiny, Favor, Five-Fold Ministry, Gifts, Identity, Leadership, Power, Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural
When I was a young man in my 20’s, I was a police officer. I served for 9 years and then God changed the direction of my life and for the last 34 years, I have been a pastor. Those 9 years deeply impacted my life. To this day, I see life through the lens...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 13, 2015 | Apostle, Change, Courage, Deliverance, Destiny, Faith, Future, Identity, Joy, Miracles, Redemption, Resurrection, Revival, Supernatural, Tranistion
For the last two days, I have been seeing the image of a powerful locomotive radically changing it’s direction. The locomotive was heading in one direction down a single and predictable set of tracks and then, in single moment of time, the Lord altered its...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 9, 2015 | Fathers, Identity, Love
Sometimes, I notice a woman will date a blind man. Not a man blind in a natural sense, but a man who is blind to her spiritual beauty. As an earthly father, God asked me to encourage my daughter, Anna, to not settle for a man who has a lesser of an image of her...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 9, 2015 | Apostle, Courage, Deliverance, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Joy, Kingdom, Reconciliation, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare
In the natural world a person is considered armed and dangerous only if they are armed. Without a weapon they are not a danger or a threat. The same holds true in a spiritual sense. Our danger to the kingdom of darkness is only present when we understand and...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 9, 2015 | Destiny, Dreams, Faith, Fathers, Freedom, Future, Love, Provision, Resurrection, Tranistion, Vision.
Before each of us is a window – a frame through which we glimpse our approaching encounter with eternity. The longer we live the closer we move forward toward that window to eventually look through its opening and glimpse the other side to fully see what was only seen...
