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There’s a significant difference between teaching from a place of revelation and teaching facts and other people’s opinions. Revelation releases God’s authority. It will confront the spirits embedded within the Church that are influencing and controlling people. This...
A voice from the past is now speaking to the Church of today. His words carry a somber reminder of who we have become and what must be done before we can experience true revival. A teacher and evangelist named Leonard Ravenhill addressed the condition of the Church in...
Living a life that pleases God has powerful implications. When Scripture tells us that God covers His people with His hand, it means His hand becomes a protective covering for us if we live a life that pleases Him. If we choose to step away from His extended hand and...
Every word of Scripture has a context and an audience that is being addressed. We cannot distance ourselves from an uncomfortable truth simply because it was revealed in the past. Within each instruction, no matter when or to whom it was spoken, is something that will...
If you have been given a prophetic assignment, it will be challenging. That calling will have you speak words that may run contrary to the deceptions people believe and the misconceptions that are leading them astray. To announce what the Lord asks you to speak may...
Yesterday, we had a stove cleaner come to clean our woodstove. It is a yearly event required to prepare the stove for the burning season. To neglect cleaning our stove will affect both its efficiency and our safety. As I looked at the stove after the cleaner left, it...
During breakfast a few minutes ago, Jan and I watched an interview on the Tucker Carlson Network with a man named John Rich. Rich is a singer who had a profound download from Heaven. As a result of that download, he wrote a song called Revelation. As he spoke about...
There are two kingdoms active on Earth – the kingdom of man and the Kingdom of God. We need to understand the distinction between the two because our hope for the future will only remain intact when we are devoted to Jesus and His Kingdom. Of the Lord’s Kingdom,...
In this life when pain and loss come, we are never without the effect of God’s restorative blessings if our heart remains pliable to His will. This is why we can praise the Lord no matter what comes our way. The life of Job is an example of the Lord’s restoration....
When an evil act takes place, like the assassination attempt on President Trump, we can miss seeing the miracle of God’s rescue because we allowed our negative predisposition to limit our understanding of what happened. What muddles our understanding are the...
The Church has been called to speak truth even when the truth is not popular or accepted. That kind of speech requires courage when forces are set against its release even drawing on our legal system to silence its message of dissent. At some point, threats of...
Two days ago, I shared a word about surprises coming in both the political and financial realms. ( https://garriselkins.com/surprises-are-coming-2/ ). As the assassination attempt took place against President Trump, I knew that event was the beginning of those...
Every life has a turning point that will change how we interpret our suffering. That point turns our thinking toward a place of hope even if the evidence of hope is not yet present. It is a point where we recognize God’s mercy is present and will appear in our place...
I appreciate a principled life. But if we are driven only by principles and not by compassion, the principle will fall flat and become a hard and loveless response to those who are suffering. After listening to Bildad’s insensitive words as to why Job was suffering,...
A few minutes ago, I asked the Lord to reveal what is about to happen in our world, He said one word to me, “Surprises.” A surprise is an unexpected event. There will be surprises in the political arena followed by surprises in the financial world as the year comes to...