by Garris Elkins | May 3, 2018 | Discipline, Dreams, Joy, Kingdom of God, Peace, Provision, Rest, Revelation, Trust
The week I graduated from high school, two of my friends and I, crammed our backpacks and bodies into a 1959 VW and drove to Yosemite from our homes in Los Gatos, California. It was a rite of passage of sorts. We would spend the next 10 days hiking and...
by Garris Elkins | May 2, 2018 | Deliverance, Faith, Father, Forgiveness, Future, Giving, Humility, Kingdom of God, Obedience, Peace, Provision, Reconciliation, Restoration, Trust, Worship
The situation you have been forced into through no fault of our own is not your final destination and condition. God always has a plan to prosper His people no matter what their circumstance may seem to indicate. Joseph, who was sold into slavery and unlawfully...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 27, 2018 | Courage, Discipleship, Kingdom of God, Obedience, Spiritual Warfare, Trust, Wisdom
When I was a young SWAT cop, our team was asked to assist in the takedown of some very bad people. They were part of a drug cartel and heavily armed. We got some intelligence that members of this group were transiting our area in the back of a U-Haul rental truck in...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 23, 2018 | Jesus, Kingdom of God, Prophecy, Prophetic, Reformation, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare
This morning, I read a prophetic word released by Kim Clement in 2014: “There is a sound that is coming that the world has never heard before. On the day of Pentecost, there was a sound that came and My church was born. But that sound destroyed the powers that...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 18, 2018 | Courage, Creativity, Death, Discipline, Forgiveness, God, Honor, Kingdom of God, Love, Promotion, Relationships, Spiritual Warfare, Wisdom
The depth of our character and the breadth of our compassion are revealed when a noted public figure passes with whom we disagree politically or morally or when a guilty person suffers what some consider a deserved punishment. An undisciplined and unmerciful response...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 16, 2018 | Change, Courage, Creativity, Culture, Five-fold, Kingdom of God
The prophetic voice of the Church should sound different than the voices of the political and social pundits we hear on our favorite news outlet. When our voice becomes saturated with the same frustration and uses the same talking points as this battling political...
