by Garris Elkins | Apr 25, 2019 | Dreams, Faithfulness, Favor, Fear, Future, Grace, Hope, Mercy, Promise, Promotion, Provision, Rest, Trust
Once God makes a promise to you that promise will never be able to escape even when it seems to have disappeared from your sight. God has a plan to reconnect you with His promise and experience the joy of its fulfillment. I watched a YouTube video showing a police...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 20, 2019 | Change, Church, Courage, Discernment, Discipline, Peace, Rest, Truth, Wisdom
We have become a culture that moves from one breathless presentation of doom to the next without taking a breath. If you don’t think this is true, turn on the news. Everyone has a crisis to sell. It has become a profitable product-selling industry in the culture and...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 10, 2019 | Courage, Deliverance, Family, Father, Favor, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hope, Marriage, Rest, Spirit, Trust
This morning, my daughter, Anna, returns home after three weeks away. Anna and a friend led teams of writers in Spain and Morocco. She flies home today from Paris. In the image of my computer screen you can see the flight-tracking program I use that lets me watch the...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 5, 2019 | Deliverance, Discipleship, Discipline, Faith, Freedom, Future, Hope, Identity, Kingdom of God, Love, Marriage, Obedience, Provision, Relationships, Rest, Thankfulness
Recently, I met with a spiritual son who lives in a distant city. We touch base each year when he is in town. The moment we met I saw something new and fresh in his face. By his own admission, the unresolved wounds from his past had dictated his response to life. He...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 6, 2019 | Courage, Death, Deliverance, Discipleship, Fear, Freedom, Healing, Hope, Intimacy, Jesus, Joy, Marriage, Mercy, Miracles, Reconciliation, Rest, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare
A massive landslide took place last week on the Oregon coast. The landslide is almost a mile in length. It has displaced the coast highway downslope toward the ocean turning the highway into an impassible mass of crumbled asphalt and dirt. It looks like the remnants...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 3, 2019 | Change, Courage, Freedom, Future, Identity, Promotion, Rest, Transition
Life is a collection of journeys, not just a single trip. Each journey has a measure of faith assigned to it that we are to ask God to release. Without this measure of faith, we will process the journey only with natural sight and without assurance for those parts of...
