by Garris Elkins | Jan 14, 2017 | Hope, Promise, Trust
We create our best music and write our best books in the middle of the most painful seasons of life. David wrote passionate Psalms in his most devastating moments of personal struggle. Something takes place in us during those times that exposes the fake salesman...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 11, 2017 | Revelation, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
Before you ask God to reveal the way forward ask Him for the faith required to believe what you see once He answers your prayer. We only see fragments of a much larger picture when we first begin seeking God for direction. Because we ask with those fragments in mind,...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 8, 2017 | Courage, Deliverance, Discipline, Faith, Holy Spirit, Redemption, Resurrection, Trust
Be careful in the coming days regarding the decisions you make and where you allow those decisions to lead you. What seems obvious can actually be a danger hidden within a false hope. Trust the Spirit, not the practical sounding advice you receive from your...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 28, 2016 | Peace, Rest, Trust
I experienced two significant events 36 years apart that were strangely similar. In 1981, I turned in my badge as a police officer to step into the new role of pastor, a calling to which I had no understanding. Jan and I were rookie church planters traveling to a new...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 23, 2016 | Hope, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare, Trust
I always thought it was strange how I see the year’s calendar in my mind. It resembles a roller coaster. This time of year is that part of the ride when the roller coaster car is slowly ticking its way up through the last few days of December to the apex of the...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 30, 2016 | Fear, Hope, Trust
You are standing at an intersection trying to choose which way to go. You have reduced your life down to this single decision. It has stalled your forward progress. The stalling reveals a flaw in your understanding of God’s heart. This is not a decision about you...
