by Garris Elkins | Nov 30, 2017 | Courage, Deliverance, Discipline, Family, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hope, Love, Marriage, Obedience, Peace, Power, Prayer, Promise, Reconciliation, Relationships, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Vision.
I was sitting in my writing chair listening to some beautiful instrumental Christmas music. It was a piano solo. As the pianist continued to play a soft melody, in the distance, I heard the wailing song of a siren clearing the way in route to an unknown trauma. The...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 26, 2017 | Church, Five-Fold Ministry, Kingdom of God, Power, Restoration, Spirit, Teaching, Wisdom
I was awakened this morning by an image that looked like Stonehenge the ancient place of worship constructed of encircled upright stones near the town of Wiltshire, England. It was not actually Stonehenge I was seeing, but a modern version symbolizing something within...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 25, 2017 | Courage, Death, Deliverance, Eternity, Fear, Future, Mercy, Miracles, Power, Redemption, Restoration, Trust
On Christmas Eve in 1971, seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke was a passenger on an airliner flying across the vast Peruvian rain forest when the aircraft was struck by lightning. The airliner broke apart 10,000 feet in the air. At the time of the event, Juliane was...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 21, 2017 | Courage, Deliverance, Discipleship, Faith, God, Honor, Humility, Identity, Power, Pride, Redemption, Relationships, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural, Truth, Wisdom
The label the enemy has been trying to place on your life will not stick. It currently has no adhesive ability because you know who you are in Christ and what He has called you do in service of His Kingdom. Because of that understanding, you have chosen to not take...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 16, 2017 | Courage, Freedom, Honor, Identity, Kingdom of God, Power, Prophecy, Reconciliation, Restoration, Worship
A friend of mine, Keith Jenkins, shared a story on his Facebook wall that was so poignant it arrested my heart and my emotions. Fifty-eight years ago today, a little black girl named Ruby Bridges was escorted into a segregated school by federal marshals. Her beautiful...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 12, 2017 | Apostle, Church, Culture, Faith, Five-Fold Ministry, Kingdom of God, Miracles, Power, Revival, Spiritual Warfare, Transition
We live in a time of Church history where things are beginning to shake out and shake loose. The controlling grip of assumption, error and unhealthy images of God is being loosened. As this shaking intensifies, three groups will be affected. The first group reminds me...
