by Garris Elkins | Oct 29, 2019 | Deliverance, Discernment, Dreams, Favor, Holy Spirit
This morning, I was sharing with Jan a dream I had during the night. The dream had content similar to what awakened Jan to pray earlier in the morning. As we talked and compared what God was saying, we sensed a reversal was taking place. This is not a negative...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 28, 2019 | Deliverance, Discernment, Fear, Five-Fold Ministry, Healing, Power, Relationships, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching, Truth, Word, Worship
Using words like witchcraft, demon possession, and spiritual warfare will cause some people to roll their intellectual eyes like they are talking to a mentally deficient hayseed. I’m glad the first followers of Jesus didn’t feel this way or leave those encounters out...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 26, 2019 | Change, Creativity, Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Dreams, Future, Identity, Promise, Revelation, Transition, Wisdom
God will ask some of you to cut and paste a portion of an old vision into the new thing God is doing in your life. You will need to bring some things forward in order to move forward. Other things that had a purpose in a single season of your life will remain in...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 25, 2019 | Church planting, Courage, Creativity, Culture, Discernment, Freedom, Future
Jan and I just finished a 20-year assignment. God revealed that assignment to me one morning in Athens, Greece, in 1998. He awakened me early and invited me into the kitchen of a condo we were renting. I sat down with my cup of espresso and literally took...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 22, 2019 | Culture, Discernment, Dreams, Family, Fear, Forgiveness, Future, Gifts, Justice, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare
Jan and I are at a place and time in our lives where we don’t need anything more. Twenty years ago, as two missionaries returning from Europe to pastor a church in Medford, Oregon, we stepped off the airplane with most of our earthly possessions in our luggage. We had...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 19, 2019 | Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Peace
A faucet of rage has appeared and is within reach. As tensions rise and the cultural dialogue heats up, you have found yourself wanting to reach out and open the faucet to let your unbridled emotions and opinions join the current of rage that is flooding our culture....
