by Garris Elkins | Dec 19, 2016 | Courage, Leadership
Don’t require other people to be courageous if you are not willing to live in the same place of courage you are requiring of them. Step into your place of courage without demanding that others do the same. Once there live in such a way that your life becomes an...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 17, 2016 | Courage, Deliverance, Fathers, Love, Sacrifice
As a small boy, I remember the day I asked my father why he had so many scars across his stomach and chest. At the time he gave me an age-appropriate answer. A few years later, I asked again and then he gave me the full story. My grandmother owned a business on Turk...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 7, 2016 | Courage, Deliverance, Destiny
The Lord said, “You are about to experience a greater measure of freedom. The restricting presence at the border of promise has been decommissioned. You will accelerate through old barriers of fear.” This word came when the Lord recalled the image of the old...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 4, 2016 | Courage, Faith, Hope, Spiritual Warfare
If you are a timid soul you might not like this story. I love it. It has been almost forty years since I was a cop. It was a different world back then. Some things have remained the same in police work and so much has changed. As a young cop, I loved the old timers....
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 | Nov 5, 2016 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Freedom, Hope
We are in the final stretch of a spiritual conflict that resembles a relay race. A baton is being delivered to the final runner who will carry it across the finish line. You are the final runner in this race. A baton of truth and a baton of error are both fast...
