by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Hope, Prayer
As a kid, my dad would take me each month to one of those real old-time barbershops that had a revolving barber pole out front and a barber who smelled like hair cream and had a couple of long thin black combs poking up from within his breast shirt pocket. For the...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Church, Hope, Kingdom of God, Prayer, Restoration
My father has been gone for over 20 years. Tonight, my thoughts linger around the memories I have of the last months of his life. When I was a nine year old boy I cried myself to sleep one night thinking that my father would die some day. I don’t know why I...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Holy Spirit, Hope, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Obedience, Prayer, Restoration
In our family, I grew up hunting and fishing. Each fall we would make a man-trek into the wilds to pursue deer. I loved the coming of fall. The preparation and plans for the annual hunt was something that occupied my boyhood thoughts from the start of hunting season...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Holy Spirit, Hope, Prayer, Prophetic, Revival
“But as a terebinth or oak tree leaves a stump when it is cut down,
so Israel’s stump will be a holy seed.” Isaiah 6:13 This verse hung in the air as I read it and contemplated the current financial environment that is creating fear in the hearts of people. As I read...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 15, 2008 | Culture, Prayer, Prophetic
n 2008 God accelerated His people into a new place. We have been positioned beneath heavens that have been opened by the very hand of God. We are now standing under unrestricted heavens. This is the time to order all aspects of our lives to reflect this reality. As I...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 3, 2008 | Hope, Prayer, Prophetic, Restoration
As the situation on Wall Street develops many Americans are becoming nervous about their finances and their future. The foundations of financial security are now shaking. The kingdom of this world functions with a system of mathematics that is based on the equations...
