by Garris Elkins | Feb 1, 2020 | Change, Culture, Dreams, Five-Fold Ministry, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Supernatural, Teaching
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on the edge of the ever-expanding frontier of God’s revelation on Earth? Our place on that frontier is where we partner with God’s Spirit to accomplish the goal of the Great Commission – to make...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 25, 2020 | Apostle, Church, Courage, Destiny, Kingdom of God, Revival, Spirit, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching
As warm and embracing as our faith might be to us personally, to some, it will come across as strange, insignificant, or even foolish. One reason why we are seeing unhealthy doctrines entering the church is that, in some cases, our core message has been compromised in...
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 | Jan 17, 2020 | Apostle, Change, Church, Creativity, Faithfulness, Five-Fold Ministry, Future, Holy Spirit, Kingdom, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Revelation, Transition, Truth
Exploring the expanding edge of revelation is accomplished through imagination and faithful obedience, not by our preferred theology, the most advanced forms of scholarship, or a developed intellect. As valuable as those three things can be, it is faith and faith...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 9, 2020 | Death, Deliverance, Family, Justice, Kingdom of God, Miracles, Peace, Resurrection, Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural
Reading Acts 8 and 9 made me think of a scary scenario. Imagine you heard that a band of religious zealots was going door-to-door in your neighborhood, dragging people out of their homes and killing them because they were Christians. You were also told they...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 4, 2020 | Deliverance, Discernment, Fear, Justice, Kingdom, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Reformation, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching, Truth, Vision., Wisdom
The most dangerous enemy is never the most obvious. He plays the long game. Over time, this kind of enemy will use our naivety, personal compromise, and spiritual blindness to construct his dark plan. The products of this deception are things we would never have...