by Garris Elkins | Sep 16, 2020 | Hope, Joy, Peace
At some point, in this over-heated social atmosphere, we have to bar the door and shelter in place. It is a sheltering just like teachers are advised to do when an active shooter is roaming through the halls of a school looking for victims. The sheltering in place is...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 10, 2020 | Future, Hope, Peace
Of recent date, many of the painful and fear-producing things we have experienced have become a shock treatment to our familiar and assumed reality. A pandemic made an entire culture fearful and jumpy. Anarchy seems to have been given free rein by those entrusted with...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 16, 2020 | Deliverance, Faith, Father, Freedom, Future, Hope, Justice, Peace
Tonight, I did a bit of dinner prep for tomorrow. I prepared chicken and coated it in kale pesto and garlic. Then cut a bed of scallions and thin-sliced potatoes. The ingredients are resting overnight, blending their goodness in olive oil. When I finished the dinner...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 15, 2020 | Dreams, Leadership, Obedience, Peace, Promise, Promotion, Prophetic, Provision
Every promise of God will have conflict associated with its possession. When we finally arrive in a place of promise many things will still stand between us and receiving the benefit of living in that new reality. It is in that place of tension that critical choices...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 12, 2020 | Church, Culture, Five-Fold Ministry, Future, Grace, Healing, Holiness, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Mercy, Obedience, Peace, Spiritual Warfare
If division among believers is not reconciled, dismemberment will soon follow. The Lord does not want His body slashed, cut, and abused by the blade of our most heartfelt opinions, no matter how valid those opinions might appear. As the physical body can heal...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 9, 2020 | Culture, Faith, Favor, Fear, Healing, Honor, Hope, Humility, Peace, Pride, Restoration, Revelation
As I prepared our lunch of wild salmon, I used a mortar and pestle to crush together the ingredients of garlic, cilantro, and green onion to create a rub that would be applied to the salmon filet. I began to imagine the flavor they would bring in harmony when...
