by Garris Elkins | Jun 9, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Dreams, Faith, Fear, Freedom, Joy, Mercy, Miracles, Obedience, Peace, Prophetic, Resurrection, Supernatural, Tranistion, Vision.
You know how it is when you wake up a bit too early in the morning and look at the illuminated clock on your nightstand. You hope you can go back to sleep. This morning, the clock read 3:12 AM here in Oregon. In that waking moment, I saw an interesting...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 7, 2019 | Change, Courage, Dreams, Faith, Faithfulness, Fear, Future
When a life plan begins to unravel, God knows how to reweave all the disconnected parts into something better. When a well-thought plan begins to unravel, our first response can be to grab all the frayed ends and try to put them back together again. I want to...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 6, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Favor, Fear, Hope, Justice, Mercy, Redemption, Rest, Spiritual Warfare, Worship
Like a bully who enters a room and seems to tower over everyone with a threatening demeanor, so it is when hell walks into your life and tries to intimidate you. The bully’s tactics can work if we face the battle in our own strength. There is always a...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 5, 2019 | Change, Discipleship, Evangelism, Family, Favor, Freedom, Future, God, Grace, Kingdom of God, Promise, Reconciliation, Redemption, Relationships, Restoration, Thankfulness, Vision.
Over the years, friends have given me unique gifts from antiquity. The coin and the frame in which it is displayed sit atop a bookshelf in our living room. There have been times in the last 20 years when I stopped to look at the coin and wondered through whose hands...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 4, 2019 | Apostle, Change, Church, Culture, Five-Fold Ministry, Holy Spirit, Justice, Kingdom, Leadership, Ministry, Reformation
Yesterday, I saw in my spirit an image I think might describe some of what is taking place in the Church. I saw the image of a single cell like I was viewing it under the intense magnification of a microscope at the moment the cell first divided and became two cells....
by Garris Elkins | Jun 3, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Discipline, Freedom, Future, Obedience, Prayer, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare, Tranistion, Wisdom
Everyone will make a passage across what is called “transitional space” several times in a lifetime. Transitional space is created whenever we move between seasons of life, relationships or life-assignments. Transitional space requires vigilance because the movement...
