by Garris Elkins | Mar 22, 2020 | Faith, Fear, Freedom, Hope
You will make it through this challenging season. The fear and panic circling your mind like hungry wolves are lies that must be confronted, or they will devour your hope. This is not a time to rely on your personal strength. It will not be enough to get you through...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 20, 2020 | Death, Deliverance, Discernment, Faith, Future, Grace, Healing
Something has broken overnight in the spiritual realm regarding the deadly Coronavirus. It is like the wave of this virus had mounted up to its full height and finally crashed its intensity upon the beach of our culture. The remnants of the wave are beginning to flow...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 10, 2020 | Church, Culture, Death, Deliverance, Discernment, Faith, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Miracles, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare
While there are many practical things we can do to minimize our contact with the deadly virus running rampant through our country, we can ignore the deadlier spiritual virus of fear that is also running rampant. The latter has a greater potential for death because it...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 8, 2020 | Change, Courage, Faith, Faithfulness, Favor, Fear, Freedom, Future, Obedience
Spiritual combustion takes place when we step over the threshold of an obstacle in faith, and enter a new realm of the Spirit. It is like an explosion of fire in the natural when smoldering embers deprived of oxygen are suddenly exposed to increased oxygen, and...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 27, 2020 | Faith, Fear
While something like the coronavirus is nothing to take lightly, the fear it creates is what we must prepare for even more than the virus itself. Fear can cause good people to abandon goodness and begin to act in ways they would never have imagined before fear was...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 7, 2020 | Courage, Creativity, Faith, Favor, Freedom, Future
If the primary motivator of what we do is the maintenance of credibility among our peers, we will not take our place on the expanding frontier of revelation. Each explorer in history, whether it was the exploration of new geography or a new way of thinking, left their...