by Garris Elkins | Jul 23, 2016 | Courage, Destiny, Faithfulness, Fear, Promotion, Trust, Worship
When we started in ministry, I had to do everything. In the early months of our first church plant, I was leading worship along with being the church janitor, preacher and everything else required at the beginning of a new ministry. Leading worship was an...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 10, 2016 | Culture, Destiny, Forgivenss, Reconciliation, Relationships, Transition, Trust, Truth
This weekend, Jan, Anna and I had the rare opportunity of ministering together at the Crescent City Foursquare Church in Crescent City, California. While Anna was conducting a Prophetic Art Workshop with Jan, I took the opportunity to spend the day in the city walking...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 5, 2016 | Promotion, Relationships, Trust
If you are in a relationship that is sustained because you are required to align with one person against another, it is not a healthy relationship. Whenever your voice is silenced out of the fear of rejection you have actually plugged your ears to the voice of God....
by Garris Elkins | Jan 11, 2016 | Deliverance, Faith, Fear, Hope, Obedience, Promise, Sacrifice, Tranistion, Trust
God intends every tight and pressing spiritual passage to be followed by a release into the wide and expansive place of His goodness and provision. Some of these passages take longer than others to accomplish. Some take only a moment or a day. Others can take weeks,...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 1, 2016 | Prayer, Provision, Trust
Perhaps one reason for some of the barrenness in our prayer life is because we are not like Hannah. Hannah was barren and prayed to God for the ability to give birth to a child. In her anguish Hannah prayed, “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, if you will look upon my...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 24, 2015 | Prophetic, Rest, Restoration, Trust
This morning, I heard the Lord say, “You are in a slack tide moment.” I had to go to the dictionary to find the definition of the phrase, “Slack Tide”. A Slack Tide is that moment of time between the incoming and outgoing tidal current – a moment of pause between high...
