by Garris Elkins | Aug 14, 2020 | Church, Courage, Freedom, Holy Spirit, Love, Prophecy, Prophetic
We will miss what God wants to say and do through us in this season if we interpret the lockdown and social isolation as an inactive time. This is one of the most spiritually active times I have experienced in the last 40 years. God is resetting the priorities of...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 31, 2020 | Prophetic
One of the challenges each generation of the Church will encounter is the introduction of social grit into their expression of faith. Social grit is made up of the different perspectives offered by other people that affords us an opportunity to see the same issues of...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 28, 2020 | Discernment, Fear, Future, Promise, Prophecy, Prophetic, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare
Polls and opinions do not reliably reveal the future. It is a prophetic voice, empowered and informed by the Spirit that brings the most trusted revelation of what is to come. Resist the urge to follow polls and opinions. The unreliability of those sources has been...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 22, 2020 | Gifts, Prophecy, Prophetic, Spirit
The Lord doesn’t want to define us by the obedience of a past generation. He is calling men and women in our day who will be just as honored in history as “…the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do” (I...
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 15, 2020 | Freedom, Gifts, Prophecy, Prophetic
Be careful about releasing a word before its time and declaring, “Thus saith the Lord.” The word may indeed carry Heaven’s authority, but only if it is released in the timing of the Spirit. What we speak in God’s name must be shared without the impulsiveness of...
