by Garris Elkins | Jan 20, 2015 | Apostle, Change, Courage, Culture, Fear, Freedom, Kingdom, Mercy, Peace, Revelation
The Changing Props On The World Stage I remember being part of a stage production in high school. I had a small acting part. I played a police detective. That acting role was prophetic of what I would do as a profession later in my life. The...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 17, 2015 | Apostle, Faith, Five-Fold Ministry, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Kingdom, Pentecost, Power, Prayer, Prohecy, Promise, Prophetic, Revival, Spiritual Warfare
I remember talking with someone who had been educated in Cultural Anthropology. He described something called, “The God Line”. As a missionary in Africa this man used that culture to define for me what he meant. He said in African culture everything...
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 | 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 | Dec 31, 2014 | Apostle, Church, Courage, Culture, Destiny, Faith, Five-Fold Ministry, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Identity, Kingdom, Leadership, Ministry, Prophetic, Restoration, Supernatural, Wisdom, Women
This morning, I read a short prophetic word written by a respected woman who carries a prophetic mantle. She spoke about a coming reformation among women. When I read her words I felt the Lord impress upon me how this reformation might take place. Over the years, I...