by Garris Elkins | Jul 20, 2019 | Apostle, Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Freedom, Kingdom, Kingdom of God, Supernatural, Transition
In a dream, I saw Jesus running across a stream. He looked like all of us who have run across a narrow mountain stream landing on each available stone with the ball of our foot. It’s a delicate dance of passage. In the dream, Jesus wasn’t landing on stones. His...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 19, 2019 | Discernment, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Five-Fold Ministry, Future, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Revival, Spiritual Warfare
In warfare, humans have always constructed their defenses at the outer limit of an enemy’s range of effective fire. These defenses were set up in the mouth of caves, moats around castles, walls of a frontier fort and today, with firewalls around our technology....
by Garris Elkins | Jul 18, 2019 | Change, Church, Courage, Death, Deliverance, Discernment, Fear, Forgivness, Freedom
This week we realized one of our beautiful maple trees had finally died. It has been a slow death. We tried to help the tree, but its disease was stronger than our desire for it to live. The maple stands 65 feet and is positioned at the front of our property. Last...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 15, 2019 | Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Favor, Healing, Honor, Humility, Mercy, Promotion, Relationships, Truth, Wisdom
Years ago, when I wrote my first book, Prayers from the Throne of God, a man paid me a compliment. He said my book was better than a well-known classic on prayer. When he spoke those words, I had two responses, both internal. One, I knew the man was not being...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 13, 2019 | Courage, Discernment, Discipline, Faithfulness, Favor, Fear, Freedom, Future
I saw the image of a person walking into a large warehouse filled with construction material. It was Heaven’s warehouse of possibilities. On the floor were stacked pile after pile of doors. The impression I had was the doors were waiting for installation. Dust covered...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 9, 2019 | Change, Courage, Creativity, Deliverance, Discernment, Dreams, Faith, Fear, Freedom, Future, Holy Spirit, Promotion, Supernatural, Transition, Worship
Recently, I watched a video about a new elevator system. Traditional elevators move people up and down between floors. This new elevator adds another function. It can also move passengers side to side, laterally between floors. This up and down, side to side movement...
