Garris Elkins

Why the World Hates Us

Only those who have remained in the Lord and understand His love will know how to respond properly to the hatred.

Billboard Fame

Whatever the Lord asks us to do in His name it is never about making us famous.

Escaping a Weakened Faith

Today we see similar deceptions taking place, preaching these lies from pulpits and expressing them across the platforms of social media.

Reassessing the Wind

Instead of chasing after the winds of human success and status, we are called to chase after the wind of God’s Spirit.

Naked Before God

He makes us naked before Him where we have no choice but to trust Him or walk away in disbelief.  

The Deeper Kind of Insight

Living a life of faith requires that we shed the things the world considers important to embrace what is important to God.

Mission Creep

One purpose of the early creeds of the Church was to hold people to the foundational truths of their faith.

A Wider Prophetic Picture

It is the release of God’s love and His promised provision that we will prophesy when natural systems begin to fail.

The Peril of a Tidy Faith

If we get too tidy and limiting in our expression of faith, we will not expect the power of God to come.

Our Day of Decision

At some point, our faith in the Lord must have a moment of decision when we choose to call upon the Lord and surrender our lives to Him. 

The Matrix of Thanksgiving

It is a day to be particularly thankful for all the people the Lord has allowed to cross the path of our lives.

The Credentials of Our Faith

God’s revelation only comes from a heart submitted to God and from someone open to hearing what the Lord is saying to the Church.

Primal Threats

To protect the people within our intimate circle of responsibility is right and good and should be honored, not dismissed and demeaned.

Divided By Lesser Things

Devouring a fellow believer is a form of spiritual cannibalism, a meal of division offered by Satan.

Seeds of Promise

The Lord is looking for people who choose to believe in the fulfillment of His promises.

Defining Our Vote

This election is greater than the brutal and public portrayal of either candidate’s flaws.

What Moves Us?

Only when compassion is motivating our principled words will they have the kind of impact God intends.

A Proven Faith

The Lord will honor your act of faith because faith is timeless and not empowered by something new.

Before We Vote

We have a say in how our nation is governed and the environment it creates.

When Ishtar Fell

A ripping apart of the veil of deception that wants to smother our nation in its lies will reveal the love of God in remarkable ways.

Giving To the Givers

God wants to return to you multiple times over what you have invested in others. 

A Dream About Worship

I realized a time may come when simplicity will be the door through which the Spirit will walk into.

A Place Called Remote

God has given you all you will need to get through the remote feelings to a place of stability.

Pausing the Clock of Time

A paused moment in time will be used to gather the Church bringing them into a place of one heart and mind.

The System

All unredeemed people are living under the influence of a system of unbelief driven by an anti-Christ spirit.

The Spirit of Babylon

Not being aware of what is happening in our world will cause us to become pawns of the Babylonian spirit.

Starting Over

Both the crushing and rebuilding are expressions of God’s merciful love.

Kingdom Saboteurs

Kingdom saboteurs will hamper evil goals by expressing God’s goodness in contrast to an attempt to control people’s behavior.

Spiritual Crossroads

The remedy will be revealed at a personal crossroads where life-altering choices are made.

When Sorrow Comes

Job’s most significant choice in his troubles was to worship God when it appeared there was nothing to worship Him about.

Whose Spirit is Speaking?

At some point, we need to reevaluate who and what we are listening to because it will have consequences.

Running Roadblocks

When we come under attack in a spiritual ambush, we need to realize the Lord has been this way before, we haven’t.

The Sounds of Peace

We need times of recalibration and reordering of our lives to experience the peace of God.

Sudden and Unexpected

The smallest choice to believe the truth, even amidst increasing opposition, will change our tomorrow.

Proven Warriors

The Lord is assembling proven spiritual warriors who are skilled in both prayer and Spirit-led action.

Who Surrounds Us?

Surrounding ourselves with people of wisdom and honesty is a safeguard.

Our Ebenezer Stone

After the battle, Samuel selected a stone and marked it with the name “Ebenezer” meaning “the stone of help.”

Be Dangerous

It only takes one dangerous person of faith to turn an army of hell on its heels.

What Every Nation Needs

The president of El Salvador said the greatest conflict in his nation is a spiritual battle, just like what is happening in the United States.

Reengaging What We Left Behind

Our Spirit-filled churches are being called to return to that kind of demonstration through a re-engagement with Heaven’s language.

Nighttime Revelation

Ask the Lord for dreams and instructions that you will carry into the daytime hours.

Future Harvest

We need to think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth where the stump of what was is no longer giving life.

Simple Satisfaction

What we are pursuing in this life will reveal our motivation and the condition of our hearts.

The Spirit of Cain

Yielding to the unrestrained impulses of the spirit of the world will create a spiritual free-for-all.

The Sword of the Lord

The Lord’s battles are centered around a battle against the spiritual forces that oppose “truth, humility, and justice.”

An Unraveling is Beginning

To remain silent when we know that a corrupting evil is taking place makes us compliant with the evil itself.

A Shift In Our Thinking

When fear and concern arise, we need to give those feelings to the Lord and allow Him to migrate our thinking toward a place of faith.

What Mom Said

Following the commands of God is critical to creating a stable life.

Never Abandoned

Our trust in God becomes a witness to the world of His faithfulness.

Employing New Language

The definition of “Hate Speech” has been used as an overarching condemnation of anyone who offers a contradiction to an approved social narrative.

Taste and See

The Lord will surround us overcoming our helplessness to reveal unimagined outcomes.

No Assumptions

The Spirit must discern all things before we accept them as the truth.

Changing God

This lessening of God is the gateway to the doctrines of demons.

Selling Our Soul

We are seeing leaders in our nation, and sadly some within the Church, who are planning to take what they want by any means possible.

God’s Anointed Ones

The reward of God’s goodness is given to those who are not seeking revenge, but truth.

A Testimony of Courage

The Lord is looking for courageous voices to speak His truth while realizing the personal peril those voices will suffer.

The Benefit of Wise Counsel

When we enter a confusing time, returning to the word of God and His prophetic promises will keep us out of the traps.