by Garris Elkins | Aug 15, 2019 | Change, Deliverance, Discernment, Discipline, Freedom, Holy Spirit, Spirit, Worship
When I read the book of Acts, I discover a group of people who did not slavishly follow a plan or remain in a single direction without frequent course corrections. I read about people who followed the Spirit at all costs. They arose each day and allowed the Spirit to...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 13, 2019 | Courage, Death, Deliverance, Family, Fear, Freedom, Future, Healing, Mercy, Promise, Resurrection, Spiritual Warfare, Trust, Worship
A couple of months ago, I took one of those at home tests called Cologuard that people use in place of a colonoscopy. I had a colonoscopy 17 years ago and got a clean bill of health at that time, so I thought instead of going through the process of a colonoscopy, I...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 7, 2019 | Change, Courage, Creativity, Deliverance, Destiny, Dreams, Faith, Favor, Future, Gifts, God, Grace, Honor, Hope, Love, Promise, Redemption, Resurrection, Worship
When a life plan falls apart it and a feeling of discouragement arrives, it is too easy to believe a lie that says God has only one plan for our life. In those painful experiences, we can give up because we don’t see a new way forward, thinking we serve a...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 4, 2019 | Apostle, Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discipleship, Dreams, Favor, Fear, Freedom, Future
When you don’t know the next step, declare the heart of God into the unknown. Declarations of God’s heart will make a way when no way forward is visible. Declarations uttered in faith are like spiritual bulldozers; they have the power to push aside walls of...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 3, 2019 | Change, Death, Deliverance, Faith, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hope, Peace, Word
There are only two things in this life we can stand upon and be secure. Those two things are the love of God and Scripture. Nothing else can provide us with the secure footing required to navigate through the challenging seasons of life. Scripture tells us that...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 2, 2019 | Apostle, Culture, Deliverance, Discernment, Discipleship, Five-Fold Ministry, Freedom, Holy Spirit, Justice, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Prophecy, Prophetic, Redemption, Word
Some mainstream social media platforms and search engines are demonstrating a level of control and censorship not imagined just a few years ago. Consideration of an opposing opinion is being denied and in some extreme cases defined as domestic terrorism. As...
