by Garris Elkins | Dec 29, 2016 | Kingdom of God, Spiritual Warfare
For some of us who use blogs to store and transmit what we write, it is always interesting to see the audience source for our writing. One of the tools used to track readership are the graphs provided that track the number of reads that take place in a given day. Just...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 27, 2016 | Apostle, Culture, Destiny, Dreams, Faithfulness, Favor, Five-Fold Ministry, Future, Kingdom of God, Miracles, Obedience, Power, Promotion, Revival, Vision.
Each morning, I sit down and ask God if there is something He wants me to write. It is never a challenge to find something to write. What is the challenge is finding something He wants me to write. This morning, I asked that familiar question once again. Immediately,...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 18, 2016 | Future, Hope, Kingdom of God, Reconciliation, Redemption, Restoration
When things are taken from us by death or through a painful circumstance of life, our first response can be to begin looking for a replacement. We want to fill our place of loss with someone or something. We think by filling the void with a replica we can make the...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 7, 2016 | Kingdom of God, Pentecost, Power, Supernatural
Yesterday,Ivan Romanand I grabbed some personal time. I love and appreciate Ivan. He is good friend and a man who truly seeks God’s heart. We talked about the difference between drawing on a spiritual gift and drawing on the glory of God. The former can feel...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 7, 2016 | Holy Spirit, Identiy, Kingdom of God
As I began to prepare to speak at a conference on the subject of reformation, the Lord took me to Acts 17. In that section of Scripture, Paul was traveling through the city of Athens, Greece. Athens was known as the city of 10,000 gods. Just to be safe and cover all...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 6, 2016 | Apostle, Culture, Five-Fold Ministry, Freedom, Kingdom of God, Ministry, Power, Restoration
For many years, I have read about new wineskins in the Church being described as new and creative models of ministry. There is nothing wrong with those teachings as metaphors as long as we understand the original intent of what Jesus was saying. Jesus was telling His...
