Garris Elkins and Matt Sorger: "God's Flight Path Into a New Season" and "Inheritances Are Being Released!"

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

Here are two potent words by Garris Elkins and Matt Sorger.

I loved this one by Garris who uses a real life experience of trying to land in BAD WEATHER.

Have you ever tried to complete a journey the Lord has you on and everything appears obscured and you feel like you are ABOUT TO CRASH?! Then this article is for you!

Then Matt speaks of what God is saying to His people this year... this is the year, in a very good way... you receive DOUBLE FOR YOUR TROUBLE!

A Testimony of Flight

Several years ago, a friend and I were flying into Eugene, Oregon, for ministry at a local Church. I was piloting a high-performance, single-engine airplane that was based at the Burbank, California, airport. When we departed Burbank the local weather was clear, but from the weather forecast we received, we knew we were flying into deteriorating conditions that would greet us upon our arrival in Eugene.

After a short stop in Northern California for fuel, we filed an instrument flight plan and took off for the last leg of our trip. The conditions in Eugene were not looking good. Fog and low clouds were waiting for us and the other arriving aircraft. As we got closer to Eugene, we were number two for landing behind a commercial airliner. This was a full-size passenger jet. We were only a four-seat private aircraft.

As we listened to air traffic control, the airliner declared a missed approach. The airliner had flown down to the minimum altitude for a safe landing and could not see the runway lighting and therefore had to go around and try again. I turned to the pastor flying with me and said, "Let's give it a try." I based my decision on experience. A large jet aircraft emits a tremendous amount of heat. The heat left behind in the trail of a descending jet can actually change the weather conditions in its immediate flight path and open up the clouds to make a way for following aircraft to land. That was just what happened with our flight. As we approached landing minimums, we were able to see the runway and approach lighting and made a safe and uneventful landing. (Photo via Freeimages)

Missed Approaches: Not the End of the Story

I was reminded of this flight and its similarities for all of us in our journey of faith. Each of us will enter seasons when obscured conditions surround our families, ministries, dreams, plans, and finances. As people encounter these conditions, some have declared a missed approach because the conditions ahead of them seemed impassable.

These missed approaches are not the end of the story. God allows each of us to make another pass for landing. On the day of our flight, after we had landed and while taxiing to the terminal, we overheard a radio transmission from the jet that had declared the missed approach ahead of us. They were able to finally land on their second attempt.

In times of pressure and challenge, we can forget that God is a way-maker when no way seems possible. The heat of His presence is able to alter the spiritual climate on our spiritual flight path and make a way, even using the flight path of those who have gone before us who had to declare a missed approach.

Each of us encounters a moment or a season when life becomes shrouded with the clouds and fog of disbelief, fear, or hellish opposition. We are not responsible to make our arrival at our destination a reality – only God can do this. We are only responsible to keep flying in faith and trusting that He is making a way possible.

When Paul wrote to the Church in Thessalonica he said, "We proudly tell God's other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering" (2 Thessalonians 1:4). When Paul penned this sentence, he used the word "endurance," a composite word created from two other words. One of these words means "up," and the other means "to hold."

Paul's sentence could be read this way, "We proudly tell God's other churches about your ability to reach up and hold on..." Paul was saying he was proud of the Thessalonian's ability to reach outside their challenging circumstance and take hold of things not yet seen in this realm that were the substance of faith. This action is the essence of flying by the instruments of faith when the destination is not yet in sight.

Land Into Your New Season and Destination

Many of you are being prepared to make a landing into new seasons and new destinations. The flight path may be shrouded by conditions that might cause you to abort your approach too early. God wants you to know your landing is coming soon. This is a time to reach through the fog and clouds in faith and continue on with the flight plan of God.

God's presence has gone before you in this journey. Just like a large jet aircraft would heat up the environment and open up a way through the clouds, God is doing the same for you. His presence is going before you and He is altering the spiritual environment of your flight path. Your job is to keep flying in faith knowing that God will make a way when no way seems possible. At some point you will see the runway lights and realize your arrival was a supernatural event made possible by a good and loving Father. (Photo via Pixabay)

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. Isaiah 43:19

Garris Elkins, Author and Prophetic Minister
Prophetic Horizons
Email: info@prophetichorizons.com
Website: garriselkins.com

Garris Elkins' ministry, Prophetic Horizons, is a ministry of teaching, writing, and prophecy committed to raising up a prophetic generation to speak to the cultures of our world with the empowered voice of Heaven. Garris and his wife, Jan, are a spiritual father and mother to many, both in the United States and abroad. They live in Medford, Oregon, where they just completed 33 years of pastoral ministry, with the last 15 years as Senior Leaders of Living Waters Church in Medford. Their ministry involves traveling, teaching, and mentoring leaders and churches. Garris and Jan have two grown children, Anna and David.

8 Key Insights for 2015 and 8 Key Scriptures

2015 will be a year of a double portion inheritance. God is going to end the warfare of your past season and release a double portion from His hand. He is going before His people and clearing out all the obstacles. Every mountain will be brought low and every valley will be raised up. God is removing plots and assignments that the enemy has set against us. God is clearing them out before we get there. God is making straight and smooth paths before us. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed. Key Double Portion Scriptures: Isaiah 40:1-5 and Isaiah 61:7

I want you to get ready for all things to become new in your life. God is making all things new. He is making our faith new. Our vision new. Our relationship with Him new. Our experience of His presence new. The anointing new. Everything new. God is forming a new wineskin to hold and sustain the new wine He is pouring out. This wineskin will include divine Kingdom relationships and alignments. He is making the wineskin pliable and flexible. Key Wineskin Scripture: Luke 5:37-39

The Lord showed me a vision of a garden being cleared out. It looked like it had big spaces in it. I said, "Lord, it looks so empty." He said, "I am creating space to fill. And there will be a greater fruitfulness and harvest." If things have been cleared out in your life, God is creating a space to fill. Not everything from your past season will be able to go with you into your next season. Don't let something good in your life occupy the space that is supposed to have God's best. Sometimes God needs to clear out good things so He can occupy that space with His best. (Photo via Pixabay)

He is releasing the oil of joy. He is removing a burdened, heavy, failing spirit and replacing it with expressive praise. Key Joy Scripture: Isaiah 61:3

God is releasing a new level of divine supernatural favor. Key Favor Scripture: Isaiah 61:2

God is releasing new creative strategies. One word from God will release an abundant harvest in your life. It will flow from a place of divine Sabbath rest, rather than self-striving. What produced little fruit before from self-striving will now shift into an abundant harvest as you receive divine strategy from God. You won't be able to contain the abundance of blessing. Key Strategy and Abundance Scripture: Luke 5:5-7

God is releasing a new level of the prophetic and hearing His voice with crystal clarity. With this will come a new level of surrender of self-will and a new level of walking in obedience to God's will. God wants us to press into this. Key Hearing God Scripture: John 5:19-20 (Photo via Pixabay)

God is going to release to His people the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, releasing not just a deeper revelation of the prophetic word but a deeper revelation of God Himself. We are going to go deeper in our knowledge of Him and, as a result, we will do only what we see the Father doing. Key Revelation Scripture: Ephesians 1:17

As a result of deeper revelation into God's heart, His people will also walk with a deeper faith. God is granting the faith to move mountains and see every obstacle and hindrance removed. Key Faith Scripture: Matthew 21:21-22

Matt Sorger
Matt Sorger Ministries
Email: info@mattsorger.com
Website: mattsorger.com

Matt Sorger is a prophetic and practical life minister, healing evangelist, and the head of Matt Sorger Ministries. He travels nationally and internationally, ministering the Word in the power of the Holy Spirit, and hosts a weekly television program titled Power for Life. Many have experienced healing and breakthrough during Matt's meetings. He holds a degree in Biblical studies and has ministered in over 25 nations of the earth. He currently resides in New York. Matt's passion is to see the presence and power of the Holy Spirit transform and change peoples' lives. He also places great emphasis on the practical preaching and teaching of God's Word, bringing a great balance between authentic, supernatural encounter and solid Biblical truth.

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