by Garris Elkins | Dec 28, 2019 | Reformation, Rest, Revival
Rest will be the place from which the next revival will spring. We enter this place of rest when we choose to lay down our undisciplined ambition and our need to always have to produce to validate a lesser identity. We enter rest through the gauntlet of mocking voices...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 13, 2019 | Courage, Creativity, Discernment, Favor, Five-Fold Ministry, Honor, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Ministry, Prophecy, Reconciliation, Reformation, Relationships, Teaching, Truth, Wisdom
Many of us have lived with a misunderstood interpretation of Proverbs 18:16, “A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.” We thought this verse meant our personal ministry gift is what opens a way for us to gain access to...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 9, 2019 | Culture, Discernment, Discipline, Leadership, Love, Mercy, Reformation, Spiritual Warfare, Vision.
It will be so easy for some of us to overuse the numerical designation for the coming New Year in a prophetic sense, but the number 2020 is real. It’s on our calendar, and it does mean something. This morning, after standing at our living room window and praying...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 18, 2019 | Apostle, Church, Culture, Deliverance, Freedom, Justice, Kingdom of God, Mercy, Reformation, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare
A call for discernment has been sent out. Those who answer this call will need to reevaluate what has been presented to them as truth evaluated thorough the limitations of natural sight and human intellect. These shallow forms of surface perception can...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 10, 2019 | Culture, Death, Deliverance, Favor, Freedom, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Reformation, Spiritual Warfare
Yesterday, a sad image was posted of a dead eagle lying face down in a creek in western Oregon. Authorities are seeking information that would lead to the arrest of the person responsible for killing the magnificent creature. When I first saw the image, I was filled...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 8, 2019 | Apostle, Culture, Discernment, Discipline, Dreams, Favor, Five-Fold Ministry, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Reformation, Truth, Wisdom
Each night, I kneel by our bed and pray for my family that we would have dreams in the night birthed by the Spirit. Last night, I was the recipient of that prayer. In the dream, I was sitting across from someone known throughout the world, not only as one of the...