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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. God authored a plan for every single one of us. Amen. And he put that plan in us, and then he filled us with himself so he could fulfill it through us. All that you're called to, all that you're born for, is bigger than your ability. It's greater than you. It calls for the greater one. Jesus said, my Father in me, he does the works. So he gave a great plan, attached it to your life, and then said, if you'll let me, I'll fulfill it through you. Amen. This is what we had to become skillful at, is quit drawing on us and draw on him. Lean on him. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Christ in us. The anointing in us. What is the anointing? The power of God that destroys every yoke. And when we draw on and yield to and respond to that anointing, it destroys anything that tries to yoke us up, tries to hinder the plan. And there's an anointing that abides in you. John, chapter 16. The anointing abides in you. Right. Jesus said, I'll send. I'll send another. Amen. That he may be with you. In you. Why? So that your 24 hours a day, you can draw on that anointing. Spend that anointing to break off anything that gets in your way. It's not against people, but it's evil spirits that try to hinder and war against the plan of God in our life. Because the devil tries to war against the plan of God for your life. And it takes the anointing of God to deal with him. Amen. You can be seated. I want us to go. Turn with me if you would, in your Bibles. Let's go to Isaiah, chapter 54. Isaiah, chapter 54. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Ms. Cindy. Thank you, Ms. Reba. My, my, my, my, my, my, my. And thank you, David and the whole worship team. Listen, the last thing the church needs is performers. They need ministers ministering music, not performing it. To perform it is the sp. You hear me? To perform is the spirit of the world. To perform songs, to perform. The leading of music is the spirit of the world. And people are spreading the spirit of the world when they perform it. And they're putting that spirit of the world in the room over God's people. And you're not authorized to do that. Not in God's temple. Amen. Jesus went let's just go at it. Because that is the trend that's in vogue for worship leaders who look like concert leaders and they're performers. And it's the spirit of the world. And it tries to get in the church. And I've seen it much. And the thing is, the people who are performing it don't know. They're not ministering it. They're the ones duped. Pay attention to me. Listen to me, because I'm giving some help to some pastors in here because I've seen it. And it puts the spirit of the world in the people. It puts the spirit of the world over the whole flow of that service. And it grinds on you. Walk into a room and it grinds on you to see it dressing like it, sounding like it, looking like it, advertising it by how they conduct themselves. And, well, praise the Lord. I didn't mean to go that direction. But that's part of what the devil uses to rob the church of knowing who they are in Christ. He did make a whip. Notice this, that when he went into the temple that day to observe what was in the room, and he. He recognized that what was happening in the room was robbing that temple of its highest purpose. That temple was there for God to meet with his people and people to meet with God. And money changers were coming in. Well, it doesn't even necessarily have to be money changers. It can be performers, You know, and what does it do? It robs. It robs that temple of its purpose. Hallelujah. And Jesus is not okay with that. He went in and whipped it out. And some of you. Some of you are using performers because you think you have no other options. But as long as you use performers, you have no other option. You get rid of performers and the option of somebody who will minister music instead of perform, it will show up telling you, listen by the spirit of God. Because I'm saying some things I didn't intend to say. I'm just telling you, you're using performers because you think I'm talking to pastors. I'm feeding back up here. I think my mic is too loud and it's bouncing off of this pulpit and feeding back into my own mic. But you think that you have and that, well, they're the best singer. No, sometimes they're the best performer. Come on. I'm just telling you, it's the anointing that breaks the yoke. It's not a performer. Not a performer of music. And some of you are settling for that because you Think that's the best you got? Well, if that's the best you got, you need to get rid of the best you think you got so that the best can really come. Praise the Lord. Why? Because no one gets free under performance. And a preacher doesn't preach better because he's following a performance. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. I'm just saying that I want some pastors to hear that by the Spirit. Listen to your own spirit. Because I'm trying to help somebody. I'm trying to help somebody. Because you don't know it. It's a hindrance to a further place in the spirit God has for you. To the pastor, it will hinder him and hinder the flow that's in that building. When you say, well, we have good services, just think how really good it'd be if you got the performer off the platform. Acting like you're a lead singer in a group. Come on. Come on. I'm just saying. And I'm not just saying it for in the room. I am saying it for in the room, but I'm saying it to the body of Christ. Amen. Somebody has to call it out and say, this is not okay because we got the monkeys running the zoo. Instead of that pastoral anointing saying, not here, not here. I can't tell you the number of times I've had someone come up that they were good singers and they were good musicians, but they were performers. And they got real baffled when I wouldn't use them because other pastors, out of desperation, used them. So they thought they deserved a place on the platform. Listen, if you don't continually reach for yielding to that anointing, letting God manifest through you, you don't qualify for a platform. Don't qualify. I don't care how long you've been singing. I don't care how long you've been leading. Some need to be sat down. It's true. Why? Because you think you're going real far in your service. But that spirit of the world that's being spread over your people through the worship, through the song service is hindering how far you could have gone. That's right. Amen. We'll get to the sermon in a minute, but we're trying to help. I want some of you pastors to listen to your spirit because the Holy Ghost will prompt you and say, she's talking to you. I am. I am. By the spirit of God, I'm talking to you. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Well, glory to God. Hallelujah. Get rid of the counterfeit. Get rid of the counterfeit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Praise the Lord. Well, turn with me, if you would, to Isaiah 54. How about that? I could talk to you privately about this, what I just said, but I'd like for you to hear from the spirit of God yourself. Amen. I'd like for you to discern because if you don't discern, the devil will stock your platform with people who will subtract from the flow. If there's been any kind of difficulty in dealing with somebody, they're a little bit bullheaded, doing stuff their own. Sit them down. You don't need that. Come on, come on. If there's a history, if they've shown red flags, you can't turn them white. That's right. Come on. What's a white flag? A submission. And if there's red flags, they mean they're going to do it their way and they're spreading the wrong thing over your people, over your congregation. Well, I'm just saying. Well, we love them. Good. That's good. You can love them, but that doesn't mean they should have the place they've had for a long time. Come on, come on. Because it lulls the pastor into the flow of that. And they don't even know they've been lulled by that spirit of the world because they got a performer instead of a minister up there. Now, I'm not talking about a five fold minister. Everything we do should minister to the people. Minister to the Lord. Minister to, to the people. Pay attention to the way they dress. Pay attention. Because that's reflecting what they're yielding to. Praise the Lord. Well, I'm just edgy. Yeah, yeah. You on the edge or something? I don't want to be on the edge of anything. I'm going to be right in the middle of what God's doing. Amen. I don't want to be on, off, on my own edge because that, that cutting edge can become a jagged edge real quick. Praise the Lord. Pastor Nancy, we love you. When Morgan, Morgan said to me, I don't know, last year or two or so, and she said, we need to have you, you know, preach a service in the church. It's been a while, she said, but when you preach, don't bring Studio Nancy. That's right. Yeah, yeah. She said, we want Pastor Nancy. So during Jesus the Healer crusade, we'll have a mix of Studio Nancy and Pastor Nancy. But right now, right now we got some Pastor Nancy talking to some pastors because no one is desperate enough to put the spirit of the world in front of the people. You're never that desperate. You know. You know the thing that you can do? Just open the Bible and let the anointing on the word do without that performance. Go straight to the word. And if you don't have someone that can minister, minister in worship instead of running side to side like a concert performer. Come on. Amen. Should I cut live stream for what I'm fixing to say? Can I tell you what's happened in the concert performance mode? People come around the stage like they're at a concert. We're to worship as a body. We're to worship as a body. We don't have to come up front and be seen worshiping. We should be all worshiping together. And pastors have allowed. And I'm not saying that it's wrong for people to come up to the platform. I'm checking. Where'd that come from? Why can't you sit among. Among the body and worship from there? That you gotta be seen that I'm worshiping more than somebody else. That's concert stuff. It's concert stuff. And it came from performing like you're in a concert and rallying the people so you could feel good about your performance. They call it a Sunday set list. A Sunday set list. That's what they call it in the concert. It's a set. Well, I'm just saying ministers bring everybody. They bring everybody up. They bring everybody up. They don't get their favorite groupies around them so that they can hop with them and make them feel like they're in the flow. It's the whole body, one as one. And I don't have to come out. I don't have to come out from among the crowd to be watched and notice that I'm a worshiper. Is it wrong every time I'm saying watch the motive that started that. It's a certain flow that started that. And it's so many times the performing song leader will call people forward so they feel that they're succeeding. I'm just saying you do you. But I want us worshiping as one. I don't want a few standing out. If you're worshiping God, why do you got to come and be looked at by someone else? You can worship right where you're at among everybody else. Listen, spirituality and spiritual maturity is looking to be one. It's not looking to be the one. This stuff needs to be straightened out because it's drawing the eyes. You're watching everybody down front, who's doing what you're not doing, because they're scene stealers. And it started with a performer on the platform. That's where it started. And the pastor's not discerning that this is divisive. The people aren't worshiping as one. You got some coming up and some going back. No, we all. A minister brings everybody. Everybody, everybody, everybody. And I don't have to step out in the aisle so you can see me do something special. Come on, come on. Amen. Listen, maturity is not looking to be the solo act. That's right. That's exactly right. Amen. Just saying. And it's gotten the wrong things happening. Is it wrong every time? No, it's not wrong every time, but I'm just saying you have to watch where this comes from and stems from. And what does it create in a service? It creates people back there saying, well, that's not me, you know, and people saying, well, I'm real expressive. It suits me. No, it doesn't suit you. It suits you to blend. It suits you to be one. It suits you to be at your seat. Why? Because people want their moment. And it's a distraction for those sitting in the congregation, watching all that's going on up here. And it takes away from Jesus. And anything that takes away from Jesus is not the anointing and it's not the spirit of God. This saying. Just saying. All right, David, are we okay still, brother, you and me, we good. I'm just saying the spirit of the world. Dad Hagin warned us all the time, the spirit of the world will get in the church if you let it. How do you let it in? Pastors not discerning, and then pastors being too afraid to deal with it. Come on, come on, come on. They think, well, I'll just. You know, I'll just work with them. Well, they're working. You know, they're working you. Amen. Hallelujah. Listen, if you want to flow with God, you have to be confrontational. You have to confront what is, not what is going to rob from the. From the flow of that service. Because people can lose their healing and their miracles because of how someone performed on the platform. And it grieves the spirit of God. And then the whole congregation jumps in on it, and it grieves the spirit of God. And no telling what's lost in the. The lives of the people. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Well, this is some of the stuff we gonna talk about in worship school. And you got a little testy Taste why we're taking it back off the individual and putting it on the whole. We are one in Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, that's just a little side trail. Just a little side trail because like I said, I'm speaking to some pastors in here, but I'm also speaking to the body of Christ. Yeah, yeah. It needs to be said so we can get rid of the performance stuff that the world that the church has embraced and they're not ministering, they're performing. And if we're going to watch a performer, let's pay some money and go to a real good one and not get a second hand one. Seriously, if we're going to watch a performance, let's go, let's go to the top tier. At least we know we're watching a performance, then we're not confused in church. Love you. You say what's this got to do with healing? Well, it could, it could, it could. But I just had. It's just a little home business there to take care of and just a little dealing with the executive branch of God's government. What's the executive branch? The five fold office is dealing with them. Praise the Lord. Well, you're just old fashioned. That has nothing to do with fashion, baby. It's got everything to do with the anointing, keeping the spirit of the world out of the church. Hallelujah. Are you in? Isaiah, chapter 54. Isaiah, chapter 54, verse 14, the Amplified classic translation. We got to get probably Pastor Debbie off the front row so that I won't go these directions. She kind of encourages me that direction. So I'll just go stand by her so she can keep encouraging me for the rest of the Service. Right. Isaiah 54, verse 14, the Amplified Classic. You shall establish yourself in righteousness. Look at that. You shall establish yourself in righteousness. You shall establish yourself in righteousness. So you have homework. Jesus gifted us with righteousness. What is that? Rightness with God. What does that mean? One with him, One in Christ, belonging in the presence of God, having the life of God. Now we live like we have the life of God and Jesus gifted us. It's a gift of righteousness, righteousness. What does that hold for us? Nothing but success. God has never failed at anything he's ever done. Now people have failed God, but God never failed. God is the one that put Adam in the garden. Yeah, he did that. But God is also the one that removed him. Why? Because he did the wrong thing in the right place. He was in the right place. Did the Wrong thing there. And God also removed him. And God tried to give them the opportunity to repent, and they didn't. They blamed one another. And when repentance was rejected, and when repentance was rejected, the curse became the result. Let me tell you this. God rewards repentance. He will run to assist someone who repents. Why? Because when you're born again, and first John 1:9 says, if we confess our sin, he's talking about Christians there, He's talking about believers there. If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just. To what? Forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So repentance is rewarded with a flow of righteousness restored. Repentance is rewarded with cleanness. You're cleansed. Amen. Repentance is rewarded with material possessions. Yeah. Repentance is rewarded with health. When we call ourselves wrong, we say, father, I did it wrong. He runs to load you with blessing. But if we shift blame, if we delay repentance, the door is open to the enemy. Because we're on the devil's territory now. Hallelujah. God rewards repentance. And it's only a strong person who will repent. A weak one will not. When you find someone who won't repent even in their own household, if a husband won't repent to a wife, a wife won't repent to a husband because you need to, because you live together. Amen. If you don't repent, that's a sign of weakness. It's not a sign of strength. People think it'll make them look weak if they repent. And the opposite is true. The devil distorts that. Because I had a man of God that called me and he repented to me. He didn't need to. He just thought that it was off for him, but it really wasn't. But he was of such high, honorable character, he called and repented to me. And I've never heard anything like that in my life. The death of maturity, the strength that I heard. I'd never heard a repentance like that. And no wonder God rewards repentance. When the prodigal son came back, the father ran to meet him. Ran to meet him. Amen. And then loaded him up, put his coat on him, put the ring on him. What was that? The family treasures. Not only that, through a party. What's he doing? He's making a public display that I am not offended with my son. He does not shame me. He does not embarrass me. I want you to know God's not embarrassed by you. He's not shamed by your past. He throws a party. All of heaven celebrates when you repent. Amen. And what did Adam and Eve refuse to do? Repent. And it got them cast out of the best place they could have been in. And it affected generations after them. So know this, whether or not we keep tenderhearted is going to affect generations after us. If we become hard hearted, we don't repent. If we become tenderhearted and welcomed tender before the Lord, it will affect generations after us. Us. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. But here In Isaiah, chapter 54, verse 14, you shall establish yourself in righteousness. This does not mean you go about trying to be righteous. This means you establish yourself in the truth that Jesus already made me righteous. You have to establish that in you. You have to build that in you. Amen. If you don't, you're going to have difficulties. The key to this arena, this natural arena, is to know who you are in the spiritual arena. Who are you in the spiritual arena? You're in Christ. I said, you're in Christ. You have to establish that. Just as Cindy, Cindy was singing about, when God sees me, he sees me in him. Why? Because he has a righteous view. He has righteous eyes. He has a righteous sight. He wears those glasses of righteousness when he looks at us. Can I say it that way? He sees us through this lens of righteousness. And, and this is what Isaiah is saying, you have to do the same thing toward you. You have to see yourself as righteous. Because if you don't, you will believe the accuser of the brethren who's after your thought life. Every day. Every day the devil is trying to bring up your past, bring up your faults, bring up your failures. And if he doesn't succeed at that, he'll try to bring up the false failures and the past of those around you. So you become judgmental and critical. Whenever you establish yourself in righteousness, you know what happens? You quit being critical about others that are in righteousness because it changes your view, it changes the way you see things. So here in Isaiah it says, you shall establish yourself in righteousness. Can I tell you, under the New Testament, you can also put the word, when you see righteousness, put in Christ. See, they didn't have the term in Christ under the Old Testament because Christ had not yet come and been offered as a sacrifice. So he says, establish yourself in righteousness. We could say, you shall establish yourself in who you are in Christ. And that's the exact same thing. Who are you in Christ, you're righteous and it's a gift. Jesus. Amen. We were gifted his own righteousness. You didn't earn it. And you say, and when we hear this word righteousness, we don't really in the American mindset fully grasp what's all connected to it. We just think it sounds like a big religious word. But it is your weaponry, it is your place of protection. It is all that God has made yours experienced. When we establish ourselves that we are righteous, not because we've done anything right, but because Jesus did everything right and he credited it to us as though we did it right. Now, if you talk about your past and what you did wrong, you update it to today. That's why you do not get it out by talking it out. When you talk it out, you're really letting it in. Because what you talk about is what is updated in your life. Amen. And it resuscitates that old dead past. Praise the Lord. You shall establish yourself in righteousness. Notice this. It doesn't say, you should go talk it out. You'll establish yourself in righteousness. Then the Amplified says, rightness in conformity with God's will and order. And what will happen to those who establish themselves in righteousness? You shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear. And you'll be far from terror, for it shall not come near you. Fear issues in the body of Christ are lack of establishing themselves in righteousness. They're not renewed. They've not renewed their mind of who they are in Christ. Fear is an in Christ issue. That's why it's so important you establish yourself in Christ. The highest order of faith is when you establish yourself of who you are in Christ. You build that revelation in you. And let me tell you this, it takes the Holy Ghost to impart that revelation to you. Because the mind cannot mentally grab everything that in Christ contains and what it works for us. But the Holy Ghost can make it a living revelation to us. And know this. When something becomes revelation, it puts the end opposition. I remember a time that there was a thought that kept troubling me. And it was. I mean, it was an evil spirit that would come and he would suggest a thought to my mind. I felt it tangibly come in the room and it would threaten me over a particular action that I had taken that God told me to take. And I know that's why faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. What's that mean? Faith comes when you hear what God says to do. I don't act on anything. I'm talking about a direction in ministry, something in my life unless I hear God say it. And I don't turn my hearing over to other people. I don't turn my hearing over to the prayer group. Somebody's going to hear from God, from me. No, you're not. Now, you can confirm something that God said to me, but you're not hearing for me. I do my own hearing. Why? Because until I hear, I don't have faith to move ahead with what he just said. Because faith requires revelation for it to work. What's that mean? It has to dawn on your spirit. Amen. I don't have faith to buy, to have an airplane till God says, I'm going to give you an airplane. Then when God said it, the devil said, it's not going to happen. When I tell the devil what God said. When I hear what God said now I have the ready answer for when the devil says something. Until you've heard from God, you don't have a ready answer for the devil. Faith comes by hearing, hearing what God says. So God told me to give a particular offering. It was a large offering. And there was a devil that would come and try to trouble me about that offering. And every time it would. I would answer that opposition with what God said. God told me to give that offering. See, I heard God say it, and I said, God told me to give that offering and that that spirit would lead. And then a couple weeks later, he'd come back. And I mean, it was an abnormal, troubling, you know what I'm talking about? And so I got to the point to where if I even turned my thoughts toward that offering, that it would. If I could say this, it would be the. It would be a place of trouble. So I wouldn't even let myself think about that offering because I've got to keep that voice out that's opposing. Does that make sense? Yeah. And so I wouldn't even think about that offering. And about several weeks later, that devil would come back and pose a threat regarding that offering. And I'd get answered, say, no, God told me to give that offering. Why? Because when I heard from God, I knew that I had permission. And not only permission, I had a commission. And so that devil every time would stand back, but it always come back a couple weeks later. That went on for about two to three months. And one day I was on the road preaching. I was in the hotel room, and that thing came back in the room again. And God Said to me, why don't you ask. Ask me about that. See, I'm in such resistance mode that I'm not talking to God about it. I'm resisting that. And that's appropriate to be in resistance mode. In case you didn't know it, the life of the believer is a life of resistance. Every day you're resisting the flow of the world, the wrong flow. You're resisting symptoms, you're resisting thoughts. There is contained in that. But it's from a place of rest, not from a place of war, not from a place of battle. You remember, wait a minute, I'm in authority over this. But you do have to resist it. You're an occupying army, not a warring army. Jesus occupied. He won it for us so that we could occupy the place of victory. So we're resisting from an occupying place, not from a trying to get it placed place. So God said to me, when that spirit came in that day, he said, why don't you talk to me about that? Or why don't you ask me about that? And I said, it never dawned on me to ask you because I was just in resisting mode. But I asked you about that. And he said, the devil does not want you to get the harvest on that seed. That's why he's troubling you, about you giving the seed. And as long as he can trouble your mind about it and you won't touch it in your thought life to keep the door shut, you're also not releasing your faith for your harvest. And I go. Got it? Yes, ma'. Am. Nailed that sucker to the wall. The moment the revelation came, that spirit left and never came back. Why? Revelation disarms the enemy. When you get revelation of who you are in Christ, automatically the battle's over. In that situation, the fight is over. But if you don't, if you don't put yourself in position to receive revelation, what's the position to receive revelation of who you are in Christ? You show hunger, you show desire, you study that direction, you feed that direction. And you're showing God you're interested. Yes. Yes. Revelation doesn't come to disinterested people. Amen. Revelation has to meet hunger because only hunger can receive the greatness of revelation that the Spirit of God gives and you receive it by faith. Amen. Disinterested people are not in faith. Does that make sense to you? You shall establish yourself in righteousness. It's up to you to establish. I'm in Christ. I'm not in my past, I'm not in what Somebody did. I'm not in what somebody said to me. I'm not in how I was raised. I'm not in the home I was raised in to carry the memory of how you were treated. And we don't make light of how people have mistreated you. But something greater, a greater place, a greater flow is offered you than the mistreatment of people who did not know Christ. God offers you a greater place to occupy and that is living, thinking, speaking and acting as one in Christ. Amen. And we have to train, we have to renew our minds so that we train ourselves to answer situations based on. You can't do that to in Christ, devil. You can't say that. You can't work that to someone in Christ. You have to see your as in Christ. That's what a renewed mind does. And until you do that, you'll always battle with fear. You'll always battle with oppression. Anxiety is nothing but the spirit of fear. Panic attacks are nothing but the spirit of fear. And the only way to fix that is you have to talk about what you've been delivered from and what you've been delivered into. Translated into Amen. Notice. Notice that we have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness. What? Translated into the kingdom of his dear son. Notice. You didn't have to journey, you were translated. You did not have to take a life of trudging to get there. You were picked up out of the kingdom of darkness and you are translated. It's not dependent on your effort, your ability, how much you study, how much you pray. You are translated there by translation. He picked you up and put you in Christ. And you don't have to try to be in Christ, you are. I'm not trying to. But I do have to establish in me, in my thinking, in my thought life, I'm already in him. I've been translated there. And I cannot be defeated by something outside of in Christ. Amen. When thoughts come to push you down, you say, that's not in Christ and I'm not taking it. There's a well known preacher that he was meeting with a small group, a handful of ministers years ago, and he was just giving them some input and advice in their ministries. And he said, God talked to me about preaching in convention centers and he said I would preach in convention centers and you know, the word would go out, thousands were coming and he said I'd close my Bible and walk off. And he said before I even take two steps out of the plat, out of the pulpit, he said, such bombardment on My mind would come. And he said, whatever you have to do, establish yourself in righteousness. Because any kind of advancement, the devil is right there to try to push you back off that advancement. And you better know who you are in Christ. That thought's not mine and I'm not taking it. Jesus didn't give it to me, and I'm not taking it. The thing of the past is not mine anymore. The blood washed it away. And you try to regurgitate what somebody else did to you. You better leave that under the blood because it'll rob you of enjoying who you are in Him. Who are you in Him? The fruits of the Spirit are who you are in Him. Love, joy, peace, all these wonderful things. Did I lose mic? Is it on still? I think I hear it now. Am I on? Can you hear me? No. Yes, it did. Drop in volume. Somebody got it. You got a microphone? Let me turn this on, if you would. Hallelujah. And you have to. It's your job. It's not God's job to establish you in righteousness. He made you righteous. It's a gift. Now it's up to you to establish that in you. What's that mean? Build that in your spirit. How are you going to do that? You have to show God. I'm interested. You have to show God. I'm hungry. To know what's all connected to this. What does it mean? What does it hold for me? And when you do that, the Holy Ghost will begin opening up your eyes. The eyes of your spirit, where things will dawn on you. Because I can't make it revelation to you. There's only one who can make anything revelation to you, and that's the Holy Ghost. No pastor can take his revelation and make it yours. It's not yours. It's not yours till the Holy Ghost gets involved. Amen. Amen. That's why some people don't grow, is because they're just attending church instead of being hungry. To hear the way we come matters, how the Holy Spirit deals with us. The way we come to church is going to affect how the Holy Spirit will deal with us in that service. We have to sit on the edge of our seats, so to speak. Hungry. I want. I don't want to. I don't want to leave the same way I came in. I want things to be different. I want to be changed in the way I think. I want to change in the way I speak. I want to change in my marriage. I want to change in how I handle people. Everything is up for change under Revelation. And God rewards change. We are changed from glory to glory, meaning there's advancement in the glory of God in our life, when we will embrace change. But when you get revelation of who you are in Christ, the struggle is over. Amen. What was the problem with the Israelites that they did not enter the Promised land? What was it God told them? He said, I have given you a land. It flows with milk and honey. God did not talk about the giants. He talked about all the blessing that the land contained. But they came back talking about the giants. Why didn't God bring it up? Because they were not an issue with God. God expected them to ignore the giants, but they came back talking about the giants. Why did they come back talking about the giants? Because they had not built in them what God said to them. God said, I have given you a land. It flows with milk and honey. If that would have been what they built in them, there would have been no room in their mouth for giants. When you talk about your past now, how somebody treated you, you've not yet built into you who you are in Christ. Because when you build who you are in Christ, that's the only thing your mouth has room for. I don't have room for how somebody mishandled me and how they treated me. Why? Because what God has made me in Christ is so large that it fills my mouth and there's not room for anything else. Amen. Hallelujah. It's an in Christ issue. Your past is an in Christ issue. And in Christ is what deals with that past. Amen. In Christ, you're whole. In Christ, every need is met. In Christ is all the help you need. But you have to put it in your mouth. You have to say, how do you build and establish yourself in righteousness? You have to meditate on it. You have to speak it. You have to speak it. Amen. Joshua 1, chapter 1, verse 8. This book. This book, not your past. This book, not what somebody did to you, not that. Divorce. This book shall not depart out of your mouth. That means if the book didn't offer it, you got no business rehearsal it. Amen. But people get attention and the flesh gets gratified and the devil gets pacified. When we talk about what happened to our past, we need to see ourselves in Christ and establish in ourselves. How are we going to establish it? We have to say it. We have to say it. We have to build it in us through meditation. If you'll do this, fear is no more problem with you. Why? Because someone who's in Christ is not subject to fear. Amen. Well, I'm just worried about finances. Not in Christ, you're not. It's a lack of establishing ourselves of who we are in Christ. I was in. I was in Russia. We spent five weeks over in Europe. I don't know what month, March and part of April. And Pastor Rick Renner, him and his wife Denise, precious people. And they took us for an entire week touring Russia, Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as we did services in their church. And that was just one leg. We went to, I don't know, five different countries or so. And while we were over there in Russia, we had one of their staff members who was basically. I hate to say it, but he was a babysitter for us because when you're in another country, you want. You don't mind having a babysitter. And he was very precious and gracious to us. And we were on the. On the bus and we were talking about some of these things, and he pointed out Philippians, chapter 4, verse 13. I can do all things through what? Through Christ who. What strengthens me. See, it's all about in Christ. Apart from him, you can't do it. But in him, there's nothing that you can't accomplish that he tells you to do. Amen. And he made this statement, and in talking to us, he said in the ancient Greek, the word Christ is not in this verse. He said in the ancient Greek, it's the word O. And he said, o means the one that I know so well. So it could be read this way. I can do all things through the One I know so well, who strengthens Me, the One I know so well. What's this mean? You can't have a distant fellowship with God and build in you who you are in Christ. This building who you are in Christ is from a place of fellowship with God. Amen. That your attention is on Him. Your focus is on Him. Your words and your affection is toward Him. Amen. And the highest order of faith that you'll ever walk in is when you establish who you are in him. Because you'll have no difficulty with your faith. When people have a. When they're struggling in faith, they're really struggling with who they are in Christ. You establish who you are in faith, and faith, I mean, who you are in Christ in faith is no longer an issue. It's an automatic flow that comes from you occupying that place in him. Joshua 1:8, this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth. That means some of us got to Let go of conversations at the dinner table. We've been hashing and rehashing and talking about family members and relatives and what they've done and what they're not doing and how they stole from me and how I'm going to get them and how, you know, we're just going to have to change our conversation. What's that mean? It's like Pastor Craig was talking about, pay attention to your thought life. Pay attention to what you let come out of your mouth. Amen. Well, praise the Lord, because the devil's paying attention. Yeah, yeah. He's hoping you'll be mindless, just mindlessly thinking things. Mindlessly saying things. Well, you know, I got a right to my. I got a right to my opinion. No, you don't. No, you don't. Not in Christ you don't. Not in Christ you don't. Amen. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but thou shalt what? Meditate? What's that mean? Mutter it, speak it, let it roll around on the inside of you. Put your imaginings on it. That means just rehearse it. Put it in the forefront of your thought life. That means you determine the direction of your thoughts. This book of law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, so that thou mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein. For then you shall make your way, and then you shall have good success. You, it's about what are you going to establish? That verse is telling us the law of success. What is it? Meditate it, think it, say it, and do it. Amen. When it says this book of the law for the new creature in Christ, for the new covenant believer, you know what? We could say this. In Christ, revelation should not part out of your mouth, but you shall meditate therein day and night, so that you may be careful to do according, you may observe to do according to all that's written therein. For then you'll make your way prosperous and then you'll have good success when you know who you are in Christ and you live that way, because really, that is the great mystery that everything of the Word is pointing to. And Paul received that revelation directly from the Holy Ghost that had been hid from the foundation of the world that God would live in. Man and man live in God and they move as one. That's you. That's you. Amen. Build that in you. Because if you don't build that in you, you end up up like the Hebrews wandering 40 years and never arriving at what God paid for for them to have. They did not take what God said and build it in them. Joshua and Caleb did. Joshua and Caleb did. Two of them built it in them. That's what Isaiah 54, verse 14 is saying. Build in you who you are in Christ, because when you do, you're done with fear, you're done with terror, you're done with oppression. Depression is a thing of the past. Can I tell you something? As you get older, and we all get older, in case you don't know it, younger people, you're getting old. Oh, yeah, Yeah. I used about last week. I was 14. Yeah, why not? If you're not careful, as you get older, you're going to let a fallen system of this world determine your latter years. And they will rob you of the joy of the fruit of walking with God. The path of the righteous is to grow brighter and brighter. You better talk about in Christ as you get older. So you don't. You don't settle for broken down. Amen. Standing in a corner, hardly able to move, you better violate every stiffness, everything just violated and everyone. I'm 63 right now, I'm telling you because I don't struggle with numbers. And you may think you need facial work. I may, but I'm not doing it. You gonna have to get over it. I was talking. Thank you, Pastor. I'll come preach to here. I was talking to somebody the other day and they were talking about, you know, doing facework and stuff. And I said, I don't have anything against that, but I don't want to advertise any struggle. I'm not saying that if you do it, you're struggling. I'm saying for me, you do you. But I said, you know what? It's not really wrinkles that people are trying to stay away from. In all honesty, you know what? It's. People quit trying when they get older. They just quit trying. I saw this is a little side trail. It's a girl thing. So all you men will let you listen in. My mother died at the age of. Of 87. Till almost the day she went on her deathbed. She had her makeup on every day. She had her hair done, she had her jewelry on and she was dressed. And it's a shame what society looks like today. It's an embarrassment to America. I'm just saying. Can I tell you this? You got one life to live. Why live it in sweatshirt? Come on, come on. I'm not saying you can't be comfortable. I'm not saying you can't dress casual, but I'm saying why look like you came out from under a bridge? Why? Why look like that? We gotta say it. Listen, we need to represent the excellency of who we belong to. And that's one thing I appreciate about other generations. Because I'm tired of seeing your pants, your pajama pants at Walmart. Amen. I called my mother one day. I said, what you doing? She said, I'm sitting in front of Walmart watching the dumbing down of America. You know what it is? It's a lack of honor. That's exactly what it is. Somebody has to look at you. Well, you know what? I just. I'm not fake. This is the way I am. You know something? Then why ever brush your hair if that's just the way you am? Listen, it's a flow of honor. And we need to have a mindset that represents who we are. And it needs to show. And it's not about money. It's about not quitting. People quit all the time. Physically. They quit. They quit. Well, praise the Lord. Because my mother, she was. She was beautiful to me. She got. She got prettier as she got older because she just carried herself a certain way. And you might not have been taught, but I tell you, when you belong to Christ. Come on. We need to come up to who we are. Who we are. We need to live as rich as he made us. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. My dad was a farmer, you know, and compliments weren't ever in his mouth, and he just didn't notice certain things. I got to tell you something about my dad. Can I tell you this one about my dad? I don't know. Who were we talking to the other day? We're telling this story. Was it Levi? I think. And in the 60s, my mother and dad were over at somebody's house on the weekend. Diploma. Different couples there in that little farming community. We'd get together on the weekends sometimes, and they had the television on in that house, and that was a pretty big deal. I don't think we had one back then. And they had a television in their house, and they had it on a channel. And Raquel Welch came on. Boy, she was lovely. She was lovely lady. And one of the women said, oh, look at her. She is so beautiful. And they said something about, every man loves Raquel Welch. And my mother spoke up and said, not my husband. She said, carolyn, your husband loves Rockwell Welch. She said, my husband doesn't Even know who Rockell Welch is. And they said, oh, yes, Carolyn. Everybody knows who Raquel Welch is. And my mother said, not my husband. He does not know who Raquel Welch is. So it was about 10 minutes later, the men came in. The men folk had been outside, and the women were inside, and she was still on a show or on a movie. And they all walked in, and my mother said to my dad, kenneth, who's Raquel Welch? And he goes, I don't know. They never plowed for me. If you weren't on the plow list, you weren't noticed. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. So you understand what I'm saying? Their compliments were very far from my dad's mouth. But my mom and dad, they were in their 80s, and they had gone to the doctor's office. And my mother, if she stepped outside the house, she said, I'm not going to dishonor the people that have to see me. It's a dishonor to who you meet to not care. I'm talking to the young people now. You better learn something. Well, I'm confident myself. Well, you need to be honorable to the people who have to look at you. Have respect enough for yourself and for them. Praise the Lord. Amen. And for who's in you. And so they're sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office. And I'm not trying to make light of it, you know. Cause I know sometimes people feel real bad. But, you know, some are there in their robes and their slippers. You know, it's a little small town. And, you know, they've been in the recliner all day, and the back of the hair is. Looks like recliner hair. I'm not making fun, believe me. And I'm not making fun when people feel bad. I'm not. I understand. But my mother, sitting there, full face of makeup, hair done, and she felt bad, too. She had bone cancer. She felt bad, but she had her jewelry on. She's dressed. And my dad, one of the largest compliments he could have ever. He looked around in that room at those other women, and he looked at the woman sitting next to him as his wife, and he turned to her and said, thank you. Yeah, because she cared. When you're in Christ, you care. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. Well, that's just shallow. No, he's in me. He's in me. He's in me. I am his temple. This body is his temple. And I care and I care. Amen. And you can't. You can't go to outside things to fix inside things. That's why I just do the best I can. And I'm not going under the knife for nobody. Can I tell you a conversation Ed and I had? You want me to tell you ladies? Let me tell you what I had. Do you remember this conversation? Should I have it? Should I tell it? My husband loved. There are two things he loved. He loved courtroom shows. He loved to see them go at it. And he would sit there and say, I could have been a better lawyer than that guy. He loved watching courtroom debate, and then he loved watching operations on tv. I admit you like that. Oh, that's so. I wasn't wired for that. And so he would watch these plastic surgery shows, and he would always come out and say, I'm gonna have facelift one day. I'm like, facelift? I said, do what you want to do. Do you? I don't care. But I'd say you not either. Cause you can't even take a shot. I've seen that man almost pass out when they brought out a needle. Listen, I've had two babies. I don't hook it up. I don't care. I won't die from that needle. But sometimes men don't know that. I watched Stephen have. Take a shot before we went to Africa. And the guy came to our offices, and Stephen go, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. He's running up and down the hall. Oh, my God. I got a big shot. Oh, my God. I said, get in here, you wuss. It's a shot. Wait till you pass, children. Oh, my gosh. I've gotten way off course, but we've got. Well, I'm saying, in telling this story, I've gotten way off course. But anyway, so Ed would come out of the room, and after watching, I'm going to have me a little tuck, and I'm going to do something. I said, baby, just do you. I don't care. Do you? And he would watch that. So, I mean, for year after year after year, and he never had it. I knew he wouldn't. I knew he wouldn't. He couldn't handle a shot. I mean, he just couldn't. So he came out one day and he said, I've been looking. I think you need a little face work done. Did you feel the room? Everything in the room just went cray cray right now, ladies. I said it nice. I said, now, if you want to watch that stuff for you, go ahead, but don't watch it for Me. And I said, and remember that this I am 20 years younger and I will always look 20 years younger. So if you want to bring that up. I have kept my mouth quiet for 20 years. I don't think you want to bring that up. I know. Never heard another word about that. I don't have an opinion one way or another. You do. You. But you can't fix a lack of knowing who you are in Christ by fixing this out here. When you know who you are in Christ, you will be lifted in every single respect of life. And it's cheaper. Save the money and get you some new stuff. I was on this verse, I can do all things, look at this through Christ. Well, I just can't forgive them. In Christ you can. If you've established yourself in Christ, you can. Yeah. Because when you establish yourself in Christ, you realize this. All of his ability, his nature, his characteristics, they're in me. God did not intend for you to live this life drawing on you. He intended you to live this life drawing on him who is in you. That's what the fruit of the Spirit is. It's the absolute character of God. Love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, meek. All these temperance. Can I tell you this about temperance? You know what temperance is? Self restraint, self discipline. And the world will tell you if you can get enough discipline to manage your weight, manage this situation, manage that. No, no, no. Because silver discipline of your own will falter. Why? Because everything that comes out of man has a. It has an ending point, it reaches the end. It doesn't have the stuff to reach the finish. So God put his own temperance in you. You know there's enough. It's the discipline of God that's on the inside of you. The discipline of God is on the inside of you. You don't have to develop your own. You have to learn to rely on on his discipline that is in you. He never intended you. I love what David Ellis said. He said, I can't get enough self discipline to manage my flesh. No. And none of us can. But the discipline of God, the temperance of God, the self restraint, the self control of God is on the inside of us. And let me tell you, he uses his temperance every day. Praise the Lord. If God did not restrain himself every day, you and I would no longer be here. He reigns on the just and the unjust. Why is that? Temperance? It's love. But it's also temperance that holds him back. Amen. And you have that. You had the discipline of God to draw on. Don't Teach your kids. You got to get yourself disciplined. No. They have to draw on everything of the fruit of the Spirit. It's the character of God for you to draw on. And it's in you today. It's in you right now to spend. Hallelujah. That's called in Christ. When you're. When you're depending on the fruits of the Spirit, you're living as one in Christ. Amen. So much belongs to you because you belong to Him. Everything for your success is already in you because he's in you. Amen. One time Jesus stood in front of me and he said this statement. He said, you have failed many, many times. But I never have. So I share my success with you. How did he share his success with me? He gifted me righteousness. Made one with Him. That all he is, I get to spend it. Amen. Let me read that verse again. Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through the One I know so well, who strengthens me. So we could say it this way. The degree of strength we receive and walk in is determined by the degree we know Him. The more we know him, the more we draw on Him. The less we know him, the more we draw on us. If we don't build who we are in him, all we're left to is to live by our own ability. And that will always fall short. But there's no use doing that when he has made Himself ours and it was God's idea. Isn't that amazing? You are in Him. I love that song. Ms. Cindy sings he sees me in Him. So we have to establish I see Myself in Him. Him. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You don't have to resolve your past. You just have to establish yourself of who you are in Christ. When you see this word righteousness, use the. Use the phrase in Christ, in Him. Amen. Thou shall establish Thyself in Him. And you, you'll be far from fear, far from oppression, far from terror. It shall not come near you. Why? Because the devil knows. It doesn't work on someone who's in Christ. Hallelujah. Stand, if you would, to your feet with me tonight. Are you helped tonight? We went all over the board tonight. And we're dealing with. With stuff. I said we're dealing with stuff. And how many of you say I came to these services to change? Yeah. Listen, I'm not okay with not continuing to advance in my spiritual walk. What about you? We didn't come here so we could stay the same. We came here because we Hungry for more. And I'm so glad I'm in the room with all you precious people who want more of what we all want. The same thing. Isn't it wonderful to be in fellowship with those who honor what we honor? Honor who we honor. Amen. And so tonight, before we go any further in the service and before we let you go home, first of all, were you here this morning? I'm getting something. I'm getting something. I mean, how many times I walked into a store and I came, I want to get this, and they're sold out. Well, my gosh, I'll get something else. I didn't even come in for that, but I just. I'll get something, right. Well, what God gives us of something is certainly not a lesser than. But if you came tonight and you say, pastor Nancy, this is the last night I can attend, we want to minister to you for healing. If you came for healing, as Morgan said on Thursday night, we'll minister to everyone who needs healing. And we encourage you get in all the services. You can wait till that last night if you can, because we want to get the Word in you. We want to. We want to sow and water that word. If you're hearing it for the first time, that. That is a seed sown. But if you're hearing it for the umpteenth time, it is the watering of that seed that will produce. So we want you to get as much of the word in you. But if tonight you say, pastor Nancy, it's my last night, we want to have the. The privilege of praying for you if you need hands laid on you for healing. So if that's you, raise your hand real high with me if you would, so that we can see how many might be here tonight that would need that. Hallelujah. There's a. Come on up if you've got your hand raised. Come on up, love. We'd love to minister to you, and we're appreciating that you even came tonight. And we just say this, that we'll release our faith with you. Amen. Anybody that that applies to, come on up real quickly and we'll minister to you. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How many of you say, in Christ, I'm whole. That's what we're to talk about when symptoms show up. When lack shows up, there's no lack in Christ. Immediately teach yourself to think of yourself in Christ and speak as what belongs to you in Christ. How many of you know symptoms don't belong to you in Christ. He didn't give them to you. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Can I also tell you this on our website at defrainministries.org or jesusthehealer.org, it takes you to the same page we have typed up and we have a document that you can download for free. It's all the in him scriptures. You can just download that and just, you can keep it on your device or you can print it out, but feed on those, speak those scriptures to yourself and you know, you might say, well, I don't really understand all that. You just keep feeding it and I guarantee you the Holy Spirit will open up your understanding for those things. Amen. Hallelujah. Congregation, will you release your faith with us? Hallelujah. Those of you that are up here, raise your hands and say this after me. Let your heart agree with these words. When hands are laid on me, the healing power of God will go into my body. It'll drive out pain and symptoms, sickness and disease, and I shall be whole. I am in Christ. In Christ there's no sin symptoms. In Christ, there's no pain. So I'm going to talk about who I am in Christ. I'm not going to talk about the natural side, the symptoms, the opposition. But in Christ I'm whole. And that is a now situation. Right now. Right now. Right now. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Love, what's. What's the matter with you? Neck pain. You were in a car accident. How long ago? 23. The 23 year? 23 August of 2023. And so do you have. It is an ongoing pain or just periodic or what? Periodic. Sometimes worse than others. Yeah. Any pain right now in my shoulders, and that's okay. In your sternum, so all in that upper part. A seat belt pressed on you. When I got out of the seat belt, I expanded. Uh huh. Yeah. Congregation, reach out your hands and release your faith with us. Father, we thank you for wholeness. There it goes. There goes that healing anointing in right in your love. What is it with you, love? I was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. Three years ago. What kind? Ovarian. And I metastasized to the pancreas. Yes, yes. Took a lot of symptoms. I love something that Paul wrote in Ephesians 1:19, that you would know the exceeding greatness of his power to us. Would who believe. You're in a room full of people who believe in the power of God. And the power of God is an exceeding greater power. I mean, cancer is not even a close second to God's power. And it is so easy for God's power to perform. Amen. Father, we thank you for that resurrection power. Now I speak to that cancer. You die. You leave her in Jesus name from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. Every bit of that pain, every bit of the symptoms leave, every bit made whole. Father, we thank you for resurrection power. Resurrection power is for things that were dead. It brings back and it restores. When doctors say it can't be normal to too late. Resurrection power is already received. So we take it, Father, we take it. We take it, we take it. You're so welcome. And when you leave this place tonight, say, in Him I'm whole. In Him, I'm whole. In Him I'm whole. It's not trying to talk yourself into it because in him you are. We don't want to talk about outside of him, but in him you're whole. Amen. And be at peace. Hallelujah. What about you, love? You had a stroke? How old are you? 17. Yeah. Father, we thank you. Restoration, restoration, restoration. In Jesus name. And boy, that's going in strong love. Do something that would have been a difficulty before. Just go ahead. My son was preaching this morning. You got nothing to lose. You got everything to gain. Amen. Just go ahead and just, just do it. Just do it and just, just keep doing it and keep doing it and keep doing it. Hallelujah. Because in Christ you're whole. He made you whole. In Christ you're whole. Amen. No struggle, no fear. It's not trying to get it. That's who you are in him, you're whole in him. That anointing went in you strong. It went in you strong. Can I tell you something that Jesus told Dad Hagin? Dad Hagin had an experience where Jesus appeared to him and put a healing anointing in his hand. Well, I've got a healing anointing in my hand. And it's not about me, it's about the anointing. But Jesus made this statement to him. He said, when you sense that anointing leave your hand and go into their body. Jesus said, then you know they're healed. He didn't say when their body changes, then you know they're healed. He said, when you sense that anointing go in, then you know they're healed. So heaven says that the anointing going in equals healing. Not the body changing, not symptoms changing. But when the anointing goes in, the anointing went in. You. You're authorized. You're authorized. You're authorized. When you leave this place, when you go, sit back down. When you leave this place, when you lay down in bed at night, when you wake up in the morning, say, the healing anointing went in me. Therefore that anointing destroys the yoke. And I am authorized to know I'm healed. Okay? Will you do that? The anointing went in me, therefore I'm healed. The anointing went in me, therefore I'm healed. The anointing went in me, therefore I'm healed. Amen. The devil wants you to back down from that knowing because he wants you to feel something that maybe get your attention more than the anointing. If you'll give your. The anointing your attention, the anointing will do its work. Amen. All right. Will you do that for me? The anointing went in, therefore I'm healed. The anointing went in, therefore I'm healed. Say it as much as you can. Not trying to get it, but it's. It's a. It's a truth. It went in you. It went in you strong, love. It went in you strong. Hallelujah. All right. You do that for me? Yeah. Yeah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. What is it with you, love? I'm mostly here for my mom, but I've just had trouble with my ankles. You've had trouble with your ankles lately? Father, we thank you for healing every bit of that difficulty. God go in Jesus name, strengthen those ankles and wholeness in Jesus name. What about you, love? By blood disorder, huh? Father, we thank you. We. Oh, we thank you. We thank you for wholeness. What about you, love? Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you for that power making whole making. Right. No pain. No pain. We thank you for that anointing that sets it right. And I speak to that gord or you dry up in Jesus name. The knee, the hip, whole from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. We thank you for that anointing. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. What about you, love? Well, I'm finishing up some radiation. Okay. Because I was diagnosed with cancer, I believe it's totally gone. But I decided to stand in faith and believe also that circulation will be better in my list. This is my last generation time. I know. And I'm expecting to fulfill all the plans God has for me. Amen. Because there's no expiration date on the plan of God. Is there. Nope. There's always more that he has for us to do. I was going to say this earlier when I was telling my age. I wasn't just telling my age to tell my age, but I feel like now you feel like you're finally learning some stuff, that you can be of use, right? We're of greater use than. Yeah, sister. That's right. Father, we thank you for wholeness from the. Oh, there it goes. In your love. Phew. What about you, love? I had strokes. You had strokes. Yeah. Yeah. Father, we thank you. We thank you for that anointing, going in and making whole, restoring, reviving, raising up that resurrection power, working. In Jesus name. We thank you, Father, that our latter year is greater than our former. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. We thank you for it. Father, we thank you for it. What about you, love? Father, we thank you for wholeness. Right. Balance, restoration. In Jesus name, we thank you for it. We thank you for it. We receive it in Jesus name. Now, can I tell you something? When God heals us, it's not so we can go back and do what we did that got us in that situation. People need to know that, that, that God, when he heals us, he's giving us an opportunity and time to make changes so that we don't open the door back up to situations. So people think many times, well, I'm healed now, so they just keep doing what they did. No, that's not so. You can do what you did that opened the door to that. It's so we can have time now to make changes and not have our healing stolen from us. Amen. Always know that. I said, always know that. Hallelujah. Well, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. We trust you've enjoyed this message. 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Host: Pastor Nancy Dufresne
Event: High Springs, Florida | JTH Crusades 2025 | Monday PM
Date: May 6, 2025
In this episode, Pastor Nancy Dufresne shares a passionate message about being “Established in Christ.” She teaches on the practical and spiritual implications of knowing one’s identity in Christ, warning against performance-oriented worship and urging both leaders and congregants to cultivate a genuine, anointing-driven relationship with God. The episode also includes a powerful healing ministry session.
“The last thing the church needs is performers. They need ministers ministering music, not performing it. To perform is the spirit of the world.” (~03:00)
“As long as you use performers, you have no other option. You get rid of performers and the option of somebody who will minister music instead of perform it will show up.” (~08:00)
“Spirituality and spiritual maturity is looking to be one. It’s not looking to be the one.” (~22:30)
“You shall establish yourself in righteousness.” (~36:00)
“Fear is an in Christ issue. That’s why it’s so important you establish yourself in Christ.” (~50:00)
“If the book (the Bible) didn’t offer it, you got no business rehearsing it.” (~01:24:00)
Healing Ministry:
“When hands are laid on me, the healing power of God will go into my body… I am in Christ. In Christ there’s no pain.” (02:11:00)
Notable Guidance and Encouragement:
“The anointing went in me, therefore I’m healed. The anointing went in me, therefore I’m healed.” (02:18:00)
On Performers in Worship:
“No one gets free under performance. And a preacher doesn’t preach better because he’s following a performance.” (~10:00)
On Repentance:
“God rewards repentance. He will run to assist someone who repents… It’s only a strong person who will repent. A weak one will not.” (~39:00)
On Establishing Righteousness:
“It’s your job. It’s not God’s job to establish you in righteousness. He made you righteous. It’s a gift. Now it’s up to you to establish that in you.” (~01:13:00)
On Meditation and Speech:
“If the book didn’t offer it, you got no business rehearsing it… What you talk about is what is updated in your life.” (01:24:00)
On Living In Christ:
“You can’t fix a lack of knowing who you are in Christ by fixing this out here. When you know who you are in Christ, you will be lifted in every single respect of life. And it’s cheaper.” (~01:59:00)
In Ministry:
“The anointing went in me, therefore I’m healed… Say it as much as you can. Not trying to get it, but it’s a truth. It went in you.” (~02:18:00)
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Overall Tone:
Direct, bold, unapologetic, and passionate—Pastor Nancy combines humor, practical advice, prophetic insight, and deep theological encouragement in a message urging the church to greater maturity.