by Garris Elkins | May 14, 2022 | Prophetic
Atop a panoramic overlook above our home stands a tree beside a trail. For the last 20 years, I have hiked past the tree and noticed increasing numbers of people take it upon themselves to carve their initials into the tree. It is causing damage to the tree and in...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 30, 2022 | Prophetic
A couple of years ago, I wrote something that angered a pastor. He wrote me privately and voiced his concern. He said since I was no longer a pastor, I should back off writing things that might encourage people in his church to consider a perspective that differed...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 13, 2022 | Prophetic
This morning, the words “Left Behind” came to my mind. When I heard those words, I knew the Lord was speaking. Being left behind is not in reference to a movie bearing that title or a particular school of thought regarding the end of time. It had to do with remaining...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 23, 2022 | Prophetic
The new thing God is doing carries a supernatural potential that will only be experienced by looking in a new and different direction. The choice to change our line of sight will reveal spiritual imagery we might have missed while our vision was focused in another...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 18, 2022 | Prophetic
I once heard a commentator say that a politician should never be allowed to lead a nation into war unless that politician had served in combat and understands the pain and suffering such a decision will create. Living isolated in a comfortable government office...