by Garris Elkins | Jun 5, 2019 | Change, Discipleship, Evangelism, Family, Favor, Freedom, Future, God, Grace, Kingdom of God, Promise, Reconciliation, Redemption, Relationships, Restoration, Thankfulness, Vision.
Over the years, friends have given me unique gifts from antiquity. The coin and the frame in which it is displayed sit atop a bookshelf in our living room. There have been times in the last 20 years when I stopped to look at the coin and wondered through whose hands...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 3, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Discipline, Freedom, Future, Obedience, Prayer, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare, Tranistion, Wisdom
Everyone will make a passage across what is called “transitional space” several times in a lifetime. Transitional space is created whenever we move between seasons of life, relationships or life-assignments. Transitional space requires vigilance because the movement...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 1, 2019 | Culture, Dreams, Favor, Freedom, Future, Grace, Hope, Mercy, Promise, Restoration, Revival
As I write this it is almost 4:00 in the morning and the pre-dawn temperature is 62 degrees with a forecasted daytime high of 88. In the middle of winter, a daytime temperature of 62 would be a record-setting heat wave. When I saw the warm temperature reading and...
by Garris Elkins | May 31, 2019 | Deliverance, Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Fear, Freedom, Healing, Humility, Intimacy, Justice, Reconciliation, Relationships
If you have experienced a frustrating and painful outcome from a decision or an action made outside your control and now you want to walk away, make sure you are walking into the arms of Jesus, not into the arms of bitterness and anger. Be wise in the choices you make...
by Garris Elkins | May 30, 2019 | Courage, Faithfulness, Favor, Fear, Freedom, Honor, Hope, Justice, Kingdom, Leadership, Mercy
A dangerous Christian – dangerous to the works of hell – is one who… refuses to align with other people’s negative expectations. is not led by the established religious or political party line. responds to the Spirit, not to peer pressure. believes the...
by Garris Elkins | May 30, 2019 | Church, Courage, Culture, Death, Discipleship, Favor, Fear, Freedom, Grace, Identity, Obedience, Promise, Provision, Supernatural
An audience is not an anointing. Some of the most anointed lives are lived in isolation and suffering. Celebrity and notoriety come and go at the whim of a consumer culture both within society and the Church. Do not chase the affirmation of people thinking...