by Garris Elkins | Feb 17, 2019 | Change, Creativity, Destiny, Eternity, Obedience, Promotion, Provision, Revelation, Transition, Worship
When we over-control our lives, we lose a sense of wonder and mystery. Some people have so over-planned and controlled every aspect of their lives they have taken on the sole responsibility for the realization of all aspects of their future. To the natural mind, this...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 15, 2019 | Courage, Deliverance, Dreams, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hope, Joy, Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
In the winter of 1968-69, I was a freshman at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. That year loads of snow was dumped on the city. The snow was measured in feet, not inches. There was so much snow it was feared roofs would begin to collapse under the...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 13, 2019 | Death, Freedom, Future, Hope, Joy, Justice, Promotion, Prophecy, Reconciliation, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare, Worship
I saw the image of an urn holding the ashes from a dead season of life. The urn was reluctantly placed on the mantle of someone’s personal history thinking they only had one chance and that chance had died. In their grief, they saw their future as nothing more than...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 6, 2019 | Apostle, Change, Deliverance, Faith, Future, Integrity, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Transition, Wisdom, Worship
I have a group of friends who have invested months of detailed planning and strategized for a project of immense potential. The scale of this Kingdom enterprise is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Non-Disclosure Agreements have been created and honored in the...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 5, 2019 | Creativity, Discipleship, Freedom, Future, Gifts, Humility, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Ministry, Trust, Truth, Worship
My daughter, Anna, is a formally trained and accomplished artist. Her paintings hang in galleries around the world. From time to time, she will have a work commissioned by a client. Under a commission, Anna will create an original work of art to present to the client....
by Garris Elkins | Feb 2, 2019 | Creativity, Eternity, Fear, Freedom, Hope, Intimacy, Worship
There are times when I need to go to an empty place to be filled. Once, I searched for a night sky empty of light pollution in order to experience the wonder of a panoramic sky of stars that spread from horizon to horizon. In the clarity of that night, the stars...
