by Garris Elkins | Feb 21, 2015 | Death, Deliverance, Freedom, Honor, Leadership, Mercy, Miracles, Obedience, Provision, Rest, Restoration, Resurrection
You find yourself in a situation where you are alone and facing a significant challenge. You are like a street cop who pulled over a car for a minor traffic violation and then realized you had stopped a vehicle full of dangerous felons. Your tactics need to...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 17, 2015 | Courage, Destiny, Dreams, Faith, Fathers, Future, Identity, Kingdom, Provision, Redemption, repentance. hope future, Sacrifice
I was raised by parents who lived through the Great Depression. My father had to hop the rails for 9 years looking for work and food. My mother was part of a divorced family who struggled to make ends meet in the segregated South of the 1930’s after my...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 16, 2015 | Apostle, Change, Courage, Destiny, Dreams, Favor, Five-Fold Ministry, Identity, Kingdom, Leadership, Ministry, Provision, Resurrection, Transition
Your life has been repositioned in a dramatic fashion. A decision was made that has thrust you outside the familiar sphere of a known relationship and an established influence. This was not the act of a single person or group of people. This was a...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 8, 2015 | Apostle, Culture, Destiny, Dreams, Faithfulness, Five-Fold Ministry, Future, Leadership, Ministry, Promise, Provision, Rest, Tranistion
God is about to advance the unknown ones. These unknown ones are those outside the lines of historic pedigree and assumed inheritance. God is about to raise people up and lift them over the manmade restrictions that previously stood in their way. God will place them...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 30, 2015 | Courage, Destiny, Dreams, Faithfulness, Future, Hope, Miracles, Obedience, Peace, Promise, Provision, Restoration, Revelation, Thankfulness, Vision.
In the past year the Lord has given me several images of waves and shorelines. Today, I had another maritime image. I saw someone writing a word of promise in the sand between sets of incoming waves. What was written was a deep and personal desire – the...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 25, 2015 | Apostle, Future, Promise, Provision, Tranistion, Vision.
Recently, I spent time with a young man who had been promoted to a primary leadership role within his technology company. His 30th birthday is still a few years off. This is a heady position for a young man to assume. In our conversation he asked how...
