by Garris Elkins | Nov 9, 2014 | Obedience, Power, Promise, Provision, Restoration, Spirit, Trust, Wisdom
This morning, as I lay in bed in the darkness, my first conscious thought was an image. I knew what I was beginning to see was important and needed to be remembered in detail. I waited and let the image fully develop before I rose in order to write down what I...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 6, 2014 | Faith, Miracles, Provision, Restoration, Supernatural, Trust
You are holding one small seed of faith in your hand. Before you an immense and unplanted field of opportunity exists. Your seed looks insignificant compared to the size of the field. God is about to change your understanding of potential. God is asking you to walk...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 2, 2014 | God, Healing, Peace, Restoration, Worship
Over the years, I have come to realize that silence in the presence of God can be one of the highest forms of worship we will ever experience. In our highly energized church culture we can begin to think we always need to make a sound to express our worship of...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 5, 2014 | Peace, Rest, Restoration, Trust
You are juggling so many things in your life. You believe the survival of what you are juggling depends on you keeping everything airborne and constantly in motion. What if you simply stopped? You are afraid that if you stopped juggling all these things they...
by Garris Elkins | May 7, 2014 | Forgiveness, Future, Hope, Humility, Restoration
This offense that has so visibly dishonored you will continue to be powerful if you allow it to remain and have a place of influence in your life. There is something you can do. You can remove the power of this offense by blessing the person who hurt you. If you bless...
by Garris Elkins | May 6, 2014 | Discipline, Forgiveness, Future, Honor, Repentance, Restoration
You fell and this failure hurts. Contact with the hard concrete of personal failure is both bruising and painful. At the moment of your failure you were stunned by the impact and a spiritual concussion took place. Like a physical brain in trauma your capacity to...