by Garris Elkins | Sep 4, 2018 | Church, Courage, Discipline, Future, Gifts, Integrity, Leadership, Love, Pride, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching, Trust, Vision.
Every voice has an audience, and every audience has expectations. This applies to a stay at home parent whose life is focused on kids, a prophet with an international ministry platform or a local pastor who speaks before a congregation each Sunday. In the relationship...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 31, 2018 | Creativity, Destiny, Five-Fold Ministry, Gifts, Joy, Love, Prophecy, Provision, Revelation, Revival, Teaching, Vision.
With the increasing volume of prophetic words being published each and every day, it can become overwhelming unless we read and listen to these words searching for a common thread. In the middle of all that is out there on social media and the broader Internet, the...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 17, 2018 | Death, Deliverance, Discipleship, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Holy Spirit, Identity, Love, Marriage, Mercy, Reconciliation, Spiritual Warfare, Truth, Wisdom
I remember the first time I responded to a shooting call as a rookie cop. A family disturbance turned into a violent confrontation. A husband shot his wife in the pelvis with a .22 revolver. Upon our arrival, my partner and I secured the suspect and the scene....
by Garris Elkins | Aug 5, 2018 | Family, Love, Marriage, Relationships
One of my favorite movies is Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. In the film, Morgan Freeman plays Azeem a Moorish warrior who is a companion to Robin Hood played by Kevin Costner. In one scene attention is drawn to the sword carried by Azeem. He comments it was made from...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 24, 2018 | Freedom, Love, Mercy, Pride, Relationships, Restoration, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
Nothing in a life of faith works without God’s mercy. Through the course of our lives, each of us will make both good and bad decisions. Some of these decisions will hurt others. The response to our failed choices can also wound us. No one will have a perfect track...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 21, 2018 | Culture, Justice, Kingdom of God, Love, Reformation, Spiritual Warfare
Learn the art of Godly influence. This is not an influence achieved by status or position, but a Spirit-empowered influence that seeks the highest good of an individual and a culture. It is the influence of love. It was an influence gained by the power of love that...
