by Garris Elkins | Aug 18, 2019 | Apostle, Change, Church, Creativity, Discipleship, Five-Fold Ministry, Healing, Kingdom of God, Revival, Spiritual Warfare, Word
The only trusted way to know how to interpret this life is to bring our opinions to Scripture and let God’s truth evaluate the quality of our understanding. If we bring Scripture to our opinion and allow our opinion to override and reinterpret what truth is, we will...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 17, 2019 | Courage, Discipleship, Favor, Grace, Healing, Honor, Identity, Integrity, Love, Reconciliation, Resurrection
There are times when I scroll through Facebook posts that I see someone depicted in a less than noble booking photo or view the image of a person who has committed a horrible act. Lately, I find myself reaching out to my computer screen and touching their image. When...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 10, 2019 | Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Prophecy, Prophetic
When we speak in the name of God our words are supposed to originate in our spirit, pass through our soul and then be delivered by a spoken word, a creative work of art, a prophetic act or some other physical manifestation. The problem is when the word passes through...
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 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...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 31, 2019 | Courage, Death, Deliverance, Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Faith
God placed an internal alarm clock inside me that awakens me about 4:00 each morning. He put the alarm clock there about 12 years ago when He commissioned a writing anointing in my life. Those early morning hours of stillness have become a creative retreat between the...
