by Garris Elkins | Feb 26, 2020 | Culture, Freedom, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Reformation, Revival
This morning, I sensed the Lord saying that unusual and unexpected interpretations of private prayer in the Spirit are coming. These interpretations are similar to an understanding that occurs when a tongue is offered in a public assembly followed by an...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 9, 2020 | Apostle, Church, Discipleship, Five-Fold Ministry, Future, Gifts, Kingdom of God, Ministry, Reformation, Teaching, Truth, Word
While the faith once delivered to the Church is unchangeable and true, our ability to grasp the fullness of that faith may not happen in a single generation. What one generation considered either true or false based on personal or cultural interpretation might be...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 19, 2020 | Five-Fold Ministry, Gifts, God, Grace, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Ministry, Power, Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural
God is increasing your capacity for spiritual warfare. What worked in the past will not be sufficient to engage the battles in your future. This increased capacity is a work of God, not a capacity you can produce. When I was a cop, one of my fellow officers got in a...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 5, 2019 | Creativity, Discipline, Faith, Gifts, Humility, Obedience, Teaching
Whenever I write, whether it is a short article or something more substantial, like a book, I do two things in the process. I write the piece first, then I read it. In the writing part, it’s not that I don’t actually read while I am writing, it is just a different...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 14, 2019 | Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Dreams, Gifts, Healing, Holiness, Love, Prophetic, Resurrection, Vision.
At our best, we only see and understand the events of life in part. The experience of personal and cultural change has deposited people in new places without their full knowledge of how they arrived or what had actually taken place in the transition. Most of life...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 27, 2019 | Apostle, Church planting, Fear, Gifts, Leadership, Ministry, Reformation, Restoration, Revival, Word
Perhaps one reason for much of the angst and concern in certain quarters of culture and within the Western Church has to do with a dismantling that is taking place. God is dismantling ways of thinking, theologies, and worldviews we have accumulated in the last few...