by Garris Elkins | Aug 15, 2018 | Apostle, Culture, Five-Fold Ministry, Holy Spirit, Reformation, Revival, Spirit, Teaching
On July 15, 1,700 lightning strikes occurred in our region sparking fires that will most likely burn into the fall with no immediate end in sight. Two huge wildfires have now merged to create a conflagration of great concern. Our valley has experienced only a...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 1, 2018 | Future, Gifts, Ministry, Pride, Prophecy, Prophetic, Spirit
A sifting is taking place in the Church, especially among those who walk in the gift of prophecy. The voice of a prophet must be clear and refined by the Spirit free from too much personality or a pre-planned ministry agenda. It must be sifted of any corrupting...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 14, 2018 | Creativity, Death, Eternity, Family, Freedom, Revelation, Spirit, Worship
The separating veil is so thin. It is sheer and wafting before our eyes like fine gauze. If we could only imagine how thin and close it is to us – the eternal, the other side of all things as we now know them. They walk there with Him, our departed loved ones,...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 12, 2018 | Five-fold, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Prophecy, Revelation, Spirit
“Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven…” (Acts 2:2). The word translated as sound here is ēchos: it means sound or noise (and is also the root of the English word “echo”). The same word was used in Luke 4 to describe the sound of a testimony created by the ministry...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 22, 2018 | Faith, Future, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Promotion, Restoration, Resurrection, Spirit, Transition, Worship
It has been a week since the time change when we were asked to “spring forward” advancing our clocks an hour. I actually like this time of year when the evening light lingers in the sky announcing the coming of warm summer evenings. This morning, I walked into our...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 18, 2018 | Creativity, Peace, Restoration, Spirit
There are days when my soul is soothed by an hour or two of long instrumental electric guitar solos played by a master guitarist. (Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Steve Vai, Mark Knopfler, Joe Satriani, Gary Moore, Stevie Ray Vaughn and my friend, Caleb Quaye, to...
