by Garris Elkins | Jun 16, 2019 | Courage, Deliverance, Fear, Freedom, Future, Identity, Promise, Redemption, Rest, Spiritual Warfare, Transition, Worship
Nighttime can be the worst time. This is when hell often speaks the loudest and tries to turn your rest into restlessness. Fatigue in life and ministry does not come from a packed schedule. We can be busy but live in rest. In times of transition, our fatigue...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 6, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Favor, Fear, Hope, Justice, Mercy, Redemption, Rest, Spiritual Warfare, Worship
Like a bully who enters a room and seems to tower over everyone with a threatening demeanor, so it is when hell walks into your life and tries to intimidate you. The bully’s tactics can work if we face the battle in our own strength. There is always a...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 5, 2019 | Change, Discipleship, Evangelism, Family, Favor, Freedom, Future, God, Grace, Kingdom of God, Promise, Reconciliation, Redemption, Relationships, Restoration, Thankfulness, Vision.
Over the years, friends have given me unique gifts from antiquity. The coin and the frame in which it is displayed sit atop a bookshelf in our living room. There have been times in the last 20 years when I stopped to look at the coin and wondered through whose hands...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 3, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Discipline, Freedom, Future, Obedience, Prayer, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare, Tranistion, Wisdom
Everyone will make a passage across what is called “transitional space” several times in a lifetime. Transitional space is created whenever we move between seasons of life, relationships or life-assignments. Transitional space requires vigilance because the movement...
by Garris Elkins | May 9, 2019 | Deliverance, Faith, Freedom, Future, Joy, Justice, Love, Mercy, Obedience, Peace, Redemption
This morning, Jan shared a dream with me she had last night. In the dream, we were running and laughing with joy across a frozen lake. As soon as Jan finished describing the dream, I saw something in the Spirit. Some of you are facing an impossible...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 28, 2019 | Discernment, Family, Father, Fathers, Forgiveness, Freedom, Healing, Identity, Intimacy, Peace, Promise, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare, Worship
Bondage is anything we do to prove our worth. We have nothing to prove. We havebeen placed in Jesus at the right hand of the Father in eternity. In that place, we are full and complete in Christ. We live this current life from the reality of that present...
