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Last night, I had a very emotional dream. It was a dream that came to me in segments between times of sleep and times of being awake. In the dream, I found myself in a cave high on a tall mountain, bordering a steep and impassable cliff with no way to escape. The...
When I was 12 years old, my dad took my brother and me hunting in part of the Hunter-Liggett Army base located in Monterey County, California. It was early fall, and it was still hot, just like it had been in mid-summer. As we hiked, we crossed a dirt road. As we...
To the faithful subscribers on my blog, (www.garriselkins.com), you may have noticed the subscription service that sends notices for my articles, has not been working for several months. We had to cancel the contract with our previous subscription email provider due...
When the microphones of truth are manipulated and controlled in an attempt to silence a message, those attempts will not prevail. The Spirit of God will raise up a chorus of truth-tellers not constrained by any human attempt to silence a voice or control a...
The storms of life have a purpose. They are used for revelation. They reveal our character, the plans of the enemy, and our true friends. We can’t run away from these storms. We must hunker down in faith to endure their passage by clinging to the Lord. When the storm...
The hands of God have been at work touching our lives for the good even when our disbelief questioned whether He was present and at work in our most painful experiences. One of the greatest breakthroughs in our faith comes when we realize He was always there for us...
There is a growing awareness of the spiritual realities of what we see transpiring in our world. The Lord is waking up the spiritual senses of His Church allowing them to see with increasing clarity the spiritual entities behind the actors used to implement change...
Last night something happened in our home that was a mix of both fear and humor. In the middle of the night, I woke up. For some reason, my right hand itched. To relieve the itch, I extended my arm out into the darkness and began scratching. What I didn't realize was...
Despair is a thief of our joy. It robs us of hope while we are waiting for God to fulfill what He has promised. Our battle in these times is not the resolution of the issues used to create our despair. The battle is against a spirit that needs to be addressed and...
As the nations of the world and the streets of some cities in America are exhibiting increasing levels of turmoil, Psalm 46 becomes very tangible, “The nations are in chaos and their kingdoms crumble” (vs. 6). While the chaos is increasing and governments appear to be...
In 1903, Henry Ford’s lawyer was given some bad advice. He was advised not to buy stock in the Ford Motor Company. A local bank president told Ford’s lawyer, “The horse is here to stay.” The lawyer wisely ignored that advice and bought $5,000 worth of stock selling it...
Last Sunday, Jan and I were speaking at Empowered Life Church in Talent, Oregon. My friend, Ivan Roman, is the pastor of the church. He was in New York on a speaking engagement, so he asked me to cover the preaching assignment in his absence. As we began to worship,...
In your present suffering, God has given you an advantage. Discovering the nature of that advantage will change everything, especially the pain you now feel. A few days ago, I wrote an article titled, “Interpreting the Sounds of Groaning” from Roman Chapter 8. I...
One of the great challenges for a follower of Jesus Christ is living in a place of spiritual tension between seeing individuals or representatives of a government involved, even promoting, lies and evil, and wanting them to come to know the Lord. That place of tension...
There is a level of despair that cannot be expressed with words. It is a guttural utterance emanating from a person who is at the end of their rope not knowing what to do next. It's a sound made when people experience the unexpected loss of a loved one, the betrayal...