by Garris Elkins | Jan 16, 2015 | Deliverance, Destiny, Fear, Forgivenss, Healing, Humility, Intimacy, Joy, Peace, Promise, Provision, Redemption, Resurrection, Tranistion
Today, I was recalling a sorrowful experience in my life. It was an unfortunate misunderstanding. Time and distance had caused me to lose contact with the other person involved. For multiple decades I carried the sorrow of what happened between...
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 | Destiny, Dreams, Faith, Fathers, Freedom, Future, Love, Provision, Resurrection, Tranistion, Vision.
Before each of us is a window – a frame through which we glimpse our approaching encounter with eternity. The longer we live the closer we move forward toward that window to eventually look through its opening and glimpse the other side to fully see what was only seen...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 7, 2015 | Culture, Death, Destiny, Eternity, Fear, Freedom, God, Miracles, Reconciliation, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare
I live in southern Oregon. Off our coast is something called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This is a seam in the undersea earth structure comprised of two opposing physical forces that are under constant and building pressure. As they continue to...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 6, 2015 | Change, Courage, Destiny, Dreams, Faithfulness, Fear, Forgivness, Honor, Hope, Humility
There are times when two people experience something so challenging that in order to move forward each of them will need to agree to lay down their shared history without demanding anything from the other person. This is not ignoring what took place rather it is...
