by Garris Elkins | Jul 18, 2014 | Change, Discipline, Faith, Honor, Trust
Your life resembles a dancer poised and ready to perform. You have prayed and prepared for this moment. You have taken your mark on stage. You are waiting for the music of a new season to begin so you can start dancing. There has been a great deal of...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 9, 2014 | Deliverance, Destiny, Discipline, Family, Power, Prophecy
We are in a season where what has been invisible will be now be made known. Those who have gone unnoticed even after years of faithful service will become visible as God confirms and performs His word in their lives. As this thought formed in my mind, I saw the...
by Garris Elkins | May 8, 2014 | Discipline, Faith, Favor, Forgiveness, Holiness, Honor, Hope, Redemption, Repentance
In a series of less than perfect life-decisions you ended up taking the wrong road. You made a fateful turn and now you are miles into a regretful decision. The reality of your mistake is hitting you in the face with the full force of its implications. At...
by Garris Elkins | May 6, 2014 | Discipline, Forgiveness, Future, Honor, Repentance, Restoration
You fell and this failure hurts. Contact with the hard concrete of personal failure is both bruising and painful. At the moment of your failure you were stunned by the impact and a spiritual concussion took place. Like a physical brain in trauma your capacity to...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 8, 2013 | Discipline, Family, Father, Forgiveness, Future, Hope, Humility, Repentance
Each morning I walk into our kitchen and do three things. I feed the dog; I start the coffee maker and I take my vitamins while drinking a large glass of water. This morning, I noticed that I first splashed a bit of water into my glass and then poured it...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 26, 2013 | Discipline, Future, Hope, Leadership, Love, Trust
I grew up in one of those wonderful little hometowns we nostalgically read about today that once dotted the landscape of 1950s America. My hometown was Campbell, California. The grade school I attended in Campbell was called San Tomas Elementary. I attended that...
