by Garris Elkins | Jun 11, 2019 | Discernment, Discipline, Grace, Healing, Honor, Identity, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Mercy, Ministry, Relationships, Supernatural, Truth, Vision.
Over the years, I’ve heard people make a variety of statements that caused me to pause and ponder the credibility of what they spoke. I once heard someone say, “If you are going to lead you need to read.” While that sounds good on the surface, it fails as a...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 9, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Dreams, Faith, Fear, Freedom, Joy, Mercy, Miracles, Obedience, Peace, Prophetic, Resurrection, Supernatural, Tranistion, Vision.
You know how it is when you wake up a bit too early in the morning and look at the illuminated clock on your nightstand. You hope you can go back to sleep. This morning, the clock read 3:12 AM here in Oregon. In that waking moment, I saw an interesting...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 8, 2019 | Courage, Culture, Discipleship, Fear, Forgiveness, Grace, Identity, Justice, Love, Mercy, Obedience
Each time we perform to feel loved we deform love’s beauty. In our performance, we become a slave to a conditional form of false love that Jesus came to set us free from. Performance is subtle. It can masquerade as religious dedication but when you begin...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 6, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Favor, Fear, Hope, Justice, Mercy, Redemption, Rest, Spiritual Warfare, Worship
Like a bully who enters a room and seems to tower over everyone with a threatening demeanor, so it is when hell walks into your life and tries to intimidate you. The bully’s tactics can work if we face the battle in our own strength. There is always a...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 1, 2019 | Culture, Dreams, Favor, Freedom, Future, Grace, Hope, Mercy, Promise, Restoration, Revival
As I write this it is almost 4:00 in the morning and the pre-dawn temperature is 62 degrees with a forecasted daytime high of 88. In the middle of winter, a daytime temperature of 62 would be a record-setting heat wave. When I saw the warm temperature reading and...
by Garris Elkins | May 30, 2019 | Courage, Faithfulness, Favor, Fear, Freedom, Honor, Hope, Justice, Kingdom, Leadership, Mercy
A dangerous Christian – dangerous to the works of hell – is one who… refuses to align with other people’s negative expectations. is not led by the established religious or political party line. responds to the Spirit, not to peer pressure. believes the...
