by Garris Elkins | May 6, 2020 | Change, Church, Discernment, Discipleship, Favor, Future, Leadership, Pride
Our social isolation will soon come to an end. During this time, we have experienced the cessation of forward motion. What was normal came to a standstill. That lack of felt movement and the accompanying sense of isolation can cause areas of personal dysfunction, not...
by Garris Elkins | May 5, 2020 | Discipleship, Fear, Healing, Honor, Leadership, Lordship
Many of us are having our emotional garments trimmed. We are all living under intense pressure at this time in our lives. This experience can fray the best of us. Let God, not the scissors of unrighteous judgment or personal condemnation, do the trimming. Only God can...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 15, 2020 | Discernment, Discipleship, Eternity, Faith, Forgiveness, Grace, Honor, Humility
People are tossing around a lot of opinions of late, opinions about things they picked up via some YouTube theologian, from a social media comments section, or the polluted well of their favorite cable news program. If that is you, be careful. Truth is best confirmed...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 5, 2020 | Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Gifts, Obedience, Restoration, Supernatural, Word, Worship
In this time of cultural pause, unrealized callings empowered by a prophetic promise will rise to the surface to be discovered and released. God never wastes a season, no matter how challenging it might appear. Each chapter of life is filled with the potential...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 1, 2020 | Culture, Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Holy Spirit, Prophecy, Reformation, Restoration, Revelation
In this time of forced isolation from the familiar, I have felt a bit of malaise. Each day, Jan and I choose to refocus and reset our hearts on the purposes of God. This morning over breakfast Jan remarked, “We want to make this day count.” Those who choose...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 28, 2020 | Apostle, Change, Church, Courage, Creativity, Discernment, Discipleship
Recently, I was asked to write a magazine article from the content of my new book, BEYOND. When you have written tens of thousands of words and framed them within the pages of a book, reducing the critical elements down to just a couple of thousand words can be a...