by Garris Elkins | May 25, 2017 | Prayer, Provision, Resurrection, Spiritual Warfare
Last night, as I lay in bed just before falling asleep, an image came. I was being carried underneath the belly of a huge bird in flight. In my peripheral vision, I could see its massive wings working up and down. We were flying over something large but from our...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 21, 2017 | Prayer, Prophecy
Our prayers need to contain an element of prophetic release. When you pray for a difficult situation don’t limit your prayers to only petitions. Your prayers need to contain the creative potential of prophecy. God is waiting to hear you pray prophetically and call...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 17, 2017 | Gifts, Intimacy, Jesus, Prayer, Redemption, Thankfulness, Trust
There are people who make a living as professional line sitters. These line sitters stand in place for people who don’t want to wait in line for the release of a new product or for tickets to an upcoming Broadway performance. One man in New York who was waiting in...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 15, 2017 | Discipleship, Kingdom, Pentecost, Power, Prayer, Prohecy
Each new season of life and ministry will create a new form of language. Learning a new language will require a new vocabulary from which to draw our definitions. God releases this new vocabulary to help us define what He is about to release. The introduction of a new...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 23, 2017 | Deliverance, Forgivenss, Freedom, Mercy, Prayer, Promise, Redemption, Relationships, Resurrection, Wisdom
I was getting ready to begin writing this morning when an image entered my mind. It was the image of a blast zone. This blast zone was the center of a target where an explosion would take place from the detonation of an incoming missile. Anyone or anything within the...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 18, 2017 | Faith, Fear, Prayer
One of the most dangerous prayers you can pray is, “Come, Holy Spirit, come!” I prayed that prayer this morning at 4:30 a.m. as I drove by a church building in a small Oregon town. Immediately, in the Spirit, I saw the parking lot of the church...
