by Garris Elkins | Oct 31, 2015 | Dreams, Faith, Family, Future, Hope, Integrity, Intimacy, Restoration, Trust
You have wondered when – when will they come. In an unscheduled moment of time a divine encounter will take place. They will appear like a person who has stepped out from within the fog of your unexplored future. In that moment a seed of hope will be gently...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 8, 2015 | Family, Fathers, Prophecy
Each generation will have prophetic words spoken over them from the fathers and mothers of faith who represent a previous generation. Jan and I have had those kinds of words spoken over us by people like Dick Mills and Jean Darnall and others with a similar...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 22, 2015 | Church, Culture, Family, Fear, Giving, Kingdom, Love, Peace
I grew up in Los Gatos, a small town adjacent to San Jose in central California, an area rich with the heritage of Old Mexico. Many of the city names that surrounded our family home revealed a Hispanic origin. I was raised around Mexican people and their...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 28, 2015 | Apostle, Church, Culture, Family, Fathers, Five-Fold Ministry, Honor, Identity, Kingdom, Leadership, Ministry, Teaching, Trust, Wisdom
About thirty years ago, I was a young pastor sitting in a long and spirited business meeting during our yearly denominational convention. A topic on the agenda was getting some heated response from the floor of the convention body. My pastor, Roy Hicks,...
by Garris Elkins | May 30, 2015 | Faith, Family, Fathers, Identity, Love
This morning I am performing a duty required by all fathers. I am helping one of my kids. My daughter, Anna, is out of country in Chile. She called last night from Santiago asking me to start her car since and let it run since it will have sat idle...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 6, 2015 | Dreams, Eternity, Family, Fathers, Five-Fold Ministry, Forgivness, God, Honor, Humility, Joy, Leadership, Promise, Provision, Restoration
Developing history is not as clear as recorded history. Looking back in time always provides a much clearer picture than looking forward from within a moment of time that is still developing one step at a time. The people who were involved in the unfolding events of...
