by Garris Elkins | Apr 18, 2014 | Church, Faith, Favor, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Pentecost, Power, Supernatural
You carry far more than you realize. The moment you invited God to live within you He deposited His eternal and all-powerful Spirit inside your flesh and bones. You have become a carrier of Presence. You carry all the gifts of the Spirit needed to build...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 17, 2013 | Gifts, Healing, Holy Spirit, Miracles, Revival
Many years ago, I heard John Wimber say to our Foursquare Convention at Angelus Temple, “Just go back and do what’s in the Book.” That single sentence changed everything for Jan and me. We returned to our church in Montana and the Spirit...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 12, 2013 | Family, Gifts, Giving, Hope, Sacrifice
In the late 1990’s, Jan and I lived in Berlin, Germany. Berlin was our base of operation because of the abundance of travel options the city provided. We worked and traveled in the nations that comprised the old East European Communist Bloc. Our primary...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 7, 2013 | Dreams, Future, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Miracles, Revelation, Supernatural
As a boy, I listened any time an older person told a story. I loved hearing their stories. It was through these stories that I learned about life and came to appreciate the power of seeing something for the first time. My maternal grandmother was born in 1896....
by Garris Elkins | Sep 24, 2013 | Faith, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Leadership, Prophecy, Revival, Teaching
This week, I recorded a thought on my Twitter feed: “A healthy prophetic word will include an element of self-indictment.” The day after I shared that sentence, I was reading in Ezekiel and came across verse ten in chapter three,“Son of man, let all my words sink deep...
