by Garris Elkins | Jul 5, 2015 | Worship
This morning, as I listened to a powerful moment of worship on my Pandora account, the worship leader shifted to a spontaneous song and then led the people deeper into an unscripted song of the Spirit. This song was in heavenly tongues that sounded like many waters...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 30, 2015 | Deliverance, Hope, Resurrection, Revival, Worship
This morning, as I sat in the darkness of a still breaking dawn, a goose flew overhead and honked. I wondered how the goose could navigate through the darkness and then I remembered something from my past. It reminded me of my days as a pilot when I would make an...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 8, 2014 | Courage, Destiny, Dreams, Faith, Fear, Future, Humility, Intimacy, Joy, Peace, Prayer, Promise, Provision, Rest, Restoration, Supernatural, Thankfulness, Worship
When the Word says a peace is available that is beyond your current ability to understand it does not mean this peace is something you are not able to experience. The offer of God’s peace is not put out in front of you as something unattainable that continues to...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 7, 2014 | Courage, Deliverance, Eternity, Fear, Forgivness, Freedom, Mercy, Peace, Prayer, Provision, Worship
There are circumstances taking place in your life that make you feel like the bottom has fallen out from beneath your feet. Your place of stability has disappeared. What was once a secure platform has given way like a trap door and you now find yourself in a...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 4, 2014 | Faith, Holy Spirit, Identity, Worship
Yesterday, I found myself sighing. I let out one of those tired, depressed and faithless sighs that was long and overly dramatic. Jan heard my sigh and wisely said, “Why don’t you follow up that sigh with an act of worship?” I had been lovingly...
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...
