by Garris Elkins | Dec 7, 2017 | Change, Church planting, Courage, Culture, Holy Spirit, Justice, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Mercy, Power, Reformation, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare
The announcement of the United States Embassy being relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has become a spiritual starter gun signaling the start of an unprecedented unfolding and coalescing of events on the world stage. A global transformation is about to move...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 23, 2017 | Church planting, Five-fold, Leadership
Empty chairs in a sanctuary are not always an indictment against a church or its leadership. Empty chairs can actually send a message to leadership that people are finding a meaningful church experience outside the walls of a passing model that no longer meets their...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 28, 2017 | Apostle, Church planting, Destiny, Discipleship, Faith, Fathers, Five-Fold Ministry, Freedom, God, Jesus
A spirit of compromise is descending upon the Church in Western culture. That compromise is not about the lesser things that occupy the mind of some believers like, what to eat, drink and where to go for entertainment. I am speaking of the deepest of all issues of...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 7, 2017 | Church planting, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Power, Vision.
For the last few months, I have had the desire to dig down through the current level of my faith to find the bedrock of what I believe. Like the geology of the Earth, our faith has layers. Some of us have assumed our current depth of understanding is the final layer –...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 28, 2016 | Church planting, Courage, Culture, Destiny, Dreams, Fathers, Freedom
I have been asking God to show me the spiritual aspect of what has taken place during the election cycle of 2016. It is clear to all that our nation is in the throes of painful and hurtful expressions of separation, disconnection, abandonment, anger and sorrow akin to...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 3, 2016 | Apostle, Church planting, Five-fold, Power, Promotion, Revival
A new group of apostolic leadership is about to emerge in the Church. I have held off for a few weeks writing this word. I knew the content, but not the timing. Some of you have not been included within the inner circle of certain teams of ministry. This has not been...