From the Desk of Steve Shultz:
I have sure enjoyed getting to meet and know Brian and Candice Simmons...they are so full of the presence and love of God.
I remember when I interviewed them last year on our Elijah Streams TV show, Candice shared that she often has up to 7 dreams a night...wow!
In her recent dreams below, you're going to read amazing insight, and you'll see how God reveals Himself to her through them.
It may look like darkness has won and is surrounding us, BUT God...has a plan.
Enjoy this word by Candice, as it will really help you to stay in a place of PEACE in all the chaos. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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We're living in difficult days, but we're hearing amazing testimonies. The Lord has met the needs of so many of you by providing food, financial breakthrough, healing, family restoration, new jobs, and supernatural protection. Our God is on the throne watching over His own!
Psalm 34:19-20 declares, "Even when bad things happen to the good and godly ones, the Lord will save them and not let them be defeated by what they face. God will be your bodyguard to protect you when trouble is near..."
A Dream to Change Our Focus
The last few days I've been thinking a lot about peace. It's funny how you don't really think a lot about something until you feel a lack of it.
The other night I had this dream, and in the dream, I was voicing all my concerns about the unrest that we're seeing and I was asking the Lord when it would all be over. But instead of directly answering me, He said, "Give peace a chance."
At first I thought He was talking about world peace. The statement made me think of the Peace Movement in the 60s, and the title of one of the old Beatles' songs with the same name – "Give Peace a Chance." So I asked the Lord, "How do I give peace a chance when the world is in such a mess?" Then I heard Him say, "Your focus is in the wrong place. You're overly concerned with the upheaval going on, and so you've abandoned peace. Give peace a chance, then your heart will not be troubled for I am your peace."
World Peace
Everyone wants world peace. It's always been on the mind of the masses. I can still remember all of the beauty pageants I watched on television as a kid. At the very end of every pageant they would ask each contestant one final question and it would often be something like, "If you were granted one wish what would it be?" And I can remember many a contestant saying, "I would ask for world peace!"
We all would love to have world peace, but there's one problem. The Lord never promised us that we would have it in our lifetime. But He did promise us that He would give us peace as individual Believers. And He said that we could have nations if we would ask for them, so that we could minister the Gospel of hope and life to them. But even then, He didn't promise that those nations would live in peace and harmony.
2 Timothy 3:1, "But you need to be aware that in the final days the culture of society will become extremely fierce and difficult for the people of God."
John 16:33, "...For in this unbelieving world you will experience trouble and sorrows..."
Matthew 10:34, "Perhaps you think I've come to spread peace and calm over the earth – but My coming will bring conflict and division, not peace."
But here's the good news; Matthew 10:39 says, "...But those who let go of their lives for My sake and surrender it all to Me will discover true life!" (Photo via Unsplash)
As world governments desperately try to cope with global, economic, environmental, safety and health issues, we will all continue to feel the earth tremble. But be encouraged, God's Kingdom is still safe and secure! Christ came to us as the Prince of Peace – not as the world offers peace but as a peace that pulls us above the difficulties of this world! Believe it or not, even the chaos right now can teach us how to abide in Him (to abide in peace).
John 16:33, "And everything that I've taught you is so that the peace which is in Me will be in you and will give you great confidence as you rest in Me. For in this unbelieving world you will experience trouble and sorrows, but you must be courageous, for I have conquered the world!"
This whole ordeal can lead us to a greater level of peace than we've ever known to date, OR it can render us totally ineffective. It's our choice. We must take our eyes off of the enemy and focus them back on the Father. Then we'll find that our perspectives and outlooks will change from hopelessness and defeat to reclaiming the authority, power and dominion of the Holy Spirit that longs to rule and reign in and over our hearts. Every spiritual battle is won when we're given over to the Prince of Peace. For He is our peace... (continue reading)
