Faith Is Grateful | Nancy Dufresne | Paducah, KY | JTH Crusades 2024 | Wednesday PM

Summary

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Podcast Summary: "Faith Is Grateful" | Nancy Dufresne | Paducah, KY | JTH Crusades 2024 | Wednesday PM

Date: May 9, 2024
Host/Speaker: Nancy Dufresne (Dufresne Ministries)
Theme: The transformative power of gratitude as an expression of faith, the necessity of receiving God’s promises, and cultivating a grateful heart to maintain spiritual and physical well-being.

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Episode Overview

Nancy Dufresne delivers a stirring teaching on the essential role of gratitude in the life of faith. Drawing from biblical texts, personal anecdotes, and practical wisdom, she explains how gratitude is more than a feeling—it's a spiritual discipline that positions believers to receive and retain God’s blessings. Throughout, she highlights the dangers of ingratitude, stresses practical ways to cultivate thankfulness, and connects gratitude directly to maintaining health, provision, and spiritual advancement.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Cleansing Power of God’s Word

• Opening Scripture: John 15:3 – Jesus declares, "Now are you clean through the word that I have spoken unto you."
  • Main Point: Repetition of God’s Word doesn’t just cleanse—it perpetually refreshes and builds health, both spiritual and physical.
    [00:00–01:51]
  • “The more you say it [the Word], the more it cleans.” —Nancy Dufresne (01:20)

2. Receiving vs. Getting: Key Lessons from Blind Bartimaeus

• Scripture Focus: Mark 10:46–52 — The healing of blind Bartimaeus.
  • Bartimaeus didn’t beg Jesus to “do” something; instead, he positioned himself to receive.
  • Insight: In the New Covenant, blessings (healing, provision, etc.) are already given. The believer’s role is to receive, not to persuade God to act. [03:00–09:22]
  • “When you need to receive from God, don’t go talking to him about his part. Talk to him about your part. …God can't do your part and you can't do God's. So stay out of his part.” —Nancy Dufresne (08:13)

3. Receiving is a Spiritual Act

• Faith is in the Spirit, not the Mind:

  • Faith-based receiving is done from the heart, not through willpower or mental reasoning.
  • Manifestation (physical evidence) is different from receiving (spiritual appropriation), and the latter always precedes the former. [09:23–16:44]

• Illustrations:

  • Healing testimonies where inward spiritual “receiving” preceded outward change.
  • Holding fast: The importance of not letting go of spiritual realities, even when circumstances oppose them.

4. Maintaining Momentum in Faith

• Key Analogy: Like a radio receiver, spiritual receiving requires the heart to be “tuned in and clean” — free of static from unforgiveness, bitterness, or offense.
  • “God’s power never stops, but we can turn off our receiver.” (19:29)
  • Momentum Principle: Consistent gratitude keeps spiritual momentum and advancement in life, ministry, and health. [16:44–24:35]

5. Three Ways People Open Doors to Sickness

• As revealed to Nancy in a past miracle service:
  1. Loss of Peace: Letting worry, fear, or doubt rule opens the body to sickness.
     • “Worry is not just an option. It's a sin.” (25:54)
  2. Departing from God’s Plan: Not walking in one’s divine purpose.
     • “Long life is connected to my plan, not just your routine.” (27:15)
  3. Lack of Gratitude: The surprise factor—ingratitude actually invites the enemy to steal health and blessings. [24:35–29:38]

6. The Weight of Gratitude

• Deuteronomy 28:47 (Amplified Classic): God’s people were warned that ingratitude would result in loss, not because God sends the enemy, but because it creates spiritual vulnerability.
• Testimony: A woman, healed of cancer, refuses to hear Jesus called “healer” without standing in gratitude—“That’s how you keep the devil off your healing.” (30:08)
• Principle: Whatever is left unthanked is left unguarded.

7. Gratitude in Relationships & Church Life

• Gratitude preserves marriages, strengthens church connections, and keeps the heart healthy toward spiritual leaders and fellow believers.
  • “No one ever stood before the divorce judge and said, ‘I’m so grateful for my spouse. I’m here because I’m grateful.’” (32:15)
  • “You need a pastor more than you need a job.” (33:03)

8. Gratitude Is a Heart Issue

• 2 Chronicles 34:27 — Tenderness of heart and humility are prerequisites for effective prayer and receiving from God.
• Philippians 2:12 (Amplified Classic): “Cultivate…your own salvation with reverence…and tenderness of conscience.”
  • Hard-heartedness blocks faith; gratitude softens and opens the heart to God. [35:00–38:34]

9. Practical Stories: Living & Teaching Gratitude

• Family anecdotes illustrate the discipline of gratitude in everyday life; lack of thankfulness is never rewarded.
• “If a kid is not grateful, that should not be rewarded.” (35:00)

10. Recognizing the Source of Blessings

• James 1:17: “Every good and perfect gift is from above…”
  • Gratitude must not be tied to preference or manifestations, but to God’s goodness—even when blessings take unexpected forms.
  • “Sometimes God builds a man by sending him a route he wouldn't choose.” (47:16)
  • Example: Joseph’s journey through slavery and prison prepared him for greatness.
  • Personal anecdote: Even in jobs or places that aren’t “ideal,” always recognize and thank God for every level of provision. [44:42–53:07]

11. Gratitude as Faith’s Language

• “Gratitude is the language of faith. There is no such thing as an ungrateful faith person.” (52:08)
• “You can check your faith level by checking your gratitude level.” (53:07)
• Advancing in God, ministry, and health all hinge on the attitude of thankfulness.

12. Gratitude and Physical Healing

• Instead of focusing on what’s lacking or malfunctioning in the body, thank God for what is working.
• The spiritual habit of gratitude keeps the “receiver signal” clear and ready to receive more. [58:22–59:49]
  • “The point we complain at is the point we’re stuck at. …We don’t go further until gratitude replaces complaint.” (61:10)

13. Gratitude is a Choice, Not a Feeling

• “If you'll choose it, you'll feel it. …Gratitude is a sign of faith.” (58:22)
• Gratitude replaces struggle and makes serving God and others a joyful act.
• Personal advice from Nancy's mother: “You need to stop and listen to yourself, how you sound, because your spouse is tired of listening to it.” (61:10)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Faith is grateful. Unbelief is a complainer. Faith is grateful.” —Nancy Dufresne (62:30)
• “There is no movement in complaining.” —Nancy Dufresne (62:44)
• “If you can’t be grateful for what you have, why would I give you more?” —God’s word to a minister, shared by Nancy (52:08)
• “Gratitude is a heart health issue.” —Nancy Dufresne (35:50)

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Important Timestamps

• Cleansing Power of the Word: 00:00–02:36
• Blind Bartimaeus & Receiving from God: 03:00–09:23
• Spiritual vs. Physical Receiving: 09:24–16:44
• Faith Momentum Analogy: 16:44–24:35
• Three Ways Sickness Enters: 24:35–29:38
• The Centrality of Gratitude: 29:38–44:42
• Recognizing Every Good Gift: 44:42–53:07
• Gratitude in Practice (Family/Ministry): 53:08–62:30
• Gratitude Releases Struggle and Advances Faith: 62:31–65:46
• Ministry and Prayer for Congregants: 68:34–75:26

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Tone and Style

Nancy's delivery is warm, practical, and sometimes humorous, punctuated with southern colloquialisms, family stories, and transparent commentary on ministry and life. Her approach is both corrective and compassionate, challenging believers to mature in faith through gratitude while reassuring them of God’s unwavering provision and presence.

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Conclusion

Nancy Dufresne concludes by encouraging everyone to “choose to be grateful about every aspect of the ministry,” emphasizing that the progress of faith halts wherever gratitude ends. She reminds listeners that gratitude is proof of faith and a key factor in receiving—and keeping—every blessing God has given.

“Faith is grateful. I said, faith is grateful. …We can all give ourselves a checkup. Amen. Praise the Lord. Say this: I’m so grateful Pastor Nancy’s telling me this. You’re welcome.” (63:24)

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For Further Engagement:
Listeners are invited to visit dufresneministries.org for more resources, testimonies, and upcoming meetings.

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Transcript

[Nancy Dufresne]

Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. John, chapter 15, verse 3. Jesus is speaking, and he said, now, are you clean through the word that I have spoken unto you? Now are you clean through the word? What Reba was talking about, that song was the word. And as that song went on loop, every time it clean and clean and clean and clean, you can say, himself took my infirmities, bear my sicknesses. And every time you say it, the word cleans and it keeps cleaning and it keeps cleaning, and it keeps cleaning. And someone says, well, I don't have any physical issues. It'll build health in you. It will build health. The word going in always does something. Amen. As we believe that word. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

We glorify you. We glorify you. So if you say, I need an overhaul from the top of my head to the soles of my feet, and people say, well, I said it, you know, I said the word once. Well, that's good, but the more you say it, the more it cleans. Amen. Now, are you clean? The cleaning happens now every time you say it. Every time. It's now. It's now.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Through the word. Through the word. Through the word that I have spoken unto you. Amen. What has he said, said to you about any situation? Any situation. If you'll keep repeating that, answering that opposition with what he said to you, it'll build what he said to you in place. Amen.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

We thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Glorify you.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Well, you can be seated, if you would tonight. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

On previous. A couple previous nights, we referred to some things I just want to touch on real quick, and then we'll move ahead. We looked at this mark, chapter 10. Go ahead and go back with me, if you would. Mark chapter 10, verse 46. Mark chapter 10, verse 46 dot.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

And.

[Nancy Dufresne]

It reads, and they came to Jericho. And as Jesus went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. When he called him son of David, he's acknowledging he's the Messiah. That is the Messiah, son of David. So he acknowledged what others did not. Thou, son Of David, have mercy on me. And many charged him that he should hold his peace. But he cried the more a great deal. Thou son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stood still. He always stands still for faith. He will not pass faith by. And he stood still and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying unto him, be of good comfort, rise. He calleth thee. And he, casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus. And Jesus answered and said unto him, what wilt thou that I should do unto thee? It was obvious to Jesus that he was blind because he saw him come to him. When someone who's blind is called and comes to him, it's going to be an obvious different walk than a sighted person walks. So Jesus did not ask that question because he did not know. He asked that question because he had to get the man saying it.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Yeah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

He had to get him to say what he believed. He had to get him to say what he was inviting God in on. And so he said, what wilt thou that I should do unto thee? Not only this. He has to have permission. Jesus has to have permission to do to work what you need. And what you say either gives him permission or closes the door to him. So he's getting permission. Why? Why does he have to have permission? Because of God's great honor. He will not violate any man's will. His great honor will not allow him to insert himself uninvited. So the blind man said unto him, lord, that I might receive my sight. And Jesus said unto him, go thy way, and thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way. And so when I was looking at this passage just several days ago, it stood out to me not just what Bartimaeus said, but what he didn't say. He didn't say that God would heal me, that God would say, sin power, that you would lay hands on me. Nothing wrong with that. But we see this, that his approach was not about, I'm trying to get God to do something for me. And this is where so many people in their need is always trying to get God to do something for them under the new covenant. First, Ephesians, chapter one, verse three. Blessed be the Lord. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath already blessed us with what? All spiritual blessings in heavenly places. In Christ Jesus, one translation said, who has already blessed us with everything that heaven itself enjoys. So it's already yours. And then we are delivered from the kingdom of darkness, translated into the Kingdom of his dear Son. Amen. And then we're told in Romans, sin shall not lord it over you. Well, if sin can't lord it over you, sickness can't lord it over you. Why? Because sickness came in at sin. When Adam sinned, sickness came. And so since sin can't lord it over you, sickness can't lord it over you. Amen. So in the New Testament, and we quoted this of something, when Moses prayed for his sister Miriam, who became leprous because she attacked leadership, she misspoke drastically. She misspoke and she turned leprous immediately. And Moses prayed, heal her now. And that was fine under the Old Testament, but it's not fine under the New Testament. It's not heal them now. It's now healed. It's a done, accomplished fact. Moses had to pray that way because it had not yet been accomplished, yet faith could lay hold of it. But now it's accomplished, and we have to treat it as accomplished. So that's why we say, not heal me now, but now healed. And so this is something we see that Bartimaeus did not say, God, I'm believing for God to do something for me. Because so much of religion is all about, I'm waiting on you, God, I'm waiting on you. And here he said that I might receive. Blind Bartimaeus talked about his part, not God's part. When you need to receive from God, don't go talking to him about his part. Talk to him about your part. I'm doing my part. What did you say, Pastor Noel? You do what you do and I do what I do. Yeah, you do what you do and I do what I do. Meaning this. God can't do your part and you can't do God's. So stay out of his part. Stay out of it.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Very good.

[Nancy Dufresne]

And when you're trying to get God to do something that he's already done, then you're going to miss receiving. So notice this. Blind Bartimaeus knew that I might receive, that I might. That I might receive. Not that God may do, but I might receive. Not that God may do, but I might receive. And we know this. We receive because God has already done. But Jesus said your faith made you whole. When he started talking about receiving, receiving. Jesus called it faith. Amen. So we were talking about the other night that you can only receive with your spirit, with your heart. You can't receive with your mind. Why? Because there's no faith in your mind. The faith of God is in your spirit. And receiving is a faith act. Receiving and manifestation are two different things. Know that receiving is a spiritual act. Manifestation is a natural appearing something that appears in this realm. So Mark 11:24, what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you believe. Receive. Believe, receive. What's that mean? You can only receive through believing. You don't, you don't. You don't believe. Just. He's not saying to you believe it's manifested what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive it and you shall have it. He's not saying, believe it's manifested and you shall have it. He's saying, believe you receive it so your spirit can receive what has not yet manifested. That is key. This is why so many people misunderstand faith, because they think that faith means you're trying to believe something's manifested that's not manifested. No, you believe with your. You receive with your spirit what has not yet manifested. Why? Because God deals with man, spirit to spirit. He's not going to deal with you from his spirit to your mind. We're created in his image so that he could deal with us at his level, which is spirit to spirit. So with your spirit, you can receive on the inside of you. What is that? Something dawned on you inwardly. Revelation. It dawned on you. The body doesn't show it. Maybe your finances don't show it yet. Maybe. But something on the inside said, I see that, I see that, I see that. I grab that. There was a woman years ago, that she was given up to die. She had tuberculosis, or as Ed would say, tuberculosis, because that one's really a miracle. And she was on her deathbed and she called for some to come and pray for her, and they did. But when they prayed, her spirit grabbed.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

It.

[Nancy Dufresne]

And she said, I got it, I got it. And for days she knew inwardly she had it. Yet nothing changed here. But she held to. She held to. What is that? Her spirit received it. In fact, before anything can manifest, your spirit has to receive it first. Before manifestation, you have to perform the act of receiving with your heart. You say, Pastor Nancy how do I know? What's that mean? You've got to. Well, people say, how do I know if I'm believing with my heart? Have you ever told anyone you love them? A child, a relative? A spouse? A family member? If you told them you love them, did you mean it? That was your heart. When you say it from your spirit, you mean it. Meaning no one can talk you out of it. No symptom can talk you out of it. No circumstance can talk you out of it. Because I meant it on the inside of me when I said it. How many times have you told somebody and you knew this was the right person to marry? I mean, you knew on the inside of you, this is God. This is not just, you know, the clock is ticking. This is God. People get under pressure and think there's not going to be a better opportunity, you know, and so God is speaking. No, the clock is ticking. So don't misunderstand the two. And so I'm talking about someone who really knows it on the inside of them. When they know it, no one can talk them out of it. You're not married yet, but you know, you know that's the same thing. When you receive from God, you haven't seen it yet, but you know. And our job is hold fast to that which you have. Now, when we read this phrase and know this about the life of faith, it's holding fast to what you have. It doesn't mean just hold fast to what's already manifested. You do have to do that. When you receive a manifestation of your healing, you have to hold fast to it. Because the enemy is busy trying to steal from you everything God's ever blessed you with. And people get this foggy idea of if God does it, it'll always be done. As you hold fast to it, it will always be done. So when it says, hold fast to that which thou hast, you hast a paid for redemption, hold fast to that. Hold fast that by his stripes you were healed. Cause you already have that, that's already yours. He supplies all my needs according to his riches and glory. That's already yours. And you have that now. Hold fast to that. When things that are around you try to tell you something different. Faith holds fast not just to what's manifested, but what's yours in Christ that hasn't yet manifested. That's how it comes into manifestation. Because you refuse to let go of it. Because you can receive a miracle and lose a miracle. You can receive something with your spirit and then let go of it.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Amen.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Amen. Can you receive a miracle and lose a miracle? Ask Peter, who thought he was going to drown. He walked on water and then he began to sink underwater. Why? Because he did not hold fast to that which he had. What did he have he didn't have walking on water. He had Jesus saying, come. He quit coming and stopped and started looking when you quit. The life of the walk of faith is a continual stepping forward. Because if you stop and pause and you start looking around at Circumstances. The circumstances will try to stop you at, talk you out of momentum. And it is so dangerous to lose momentum. The momentum of faith. It's dangerous. I mean, right now, God said to me, I'm renovating Amy Silver McPherson's home, the home I'm renovating. And he said to me, it'll be time. As soon as that house is done. Build the next. Build the next. Why carry the momentum? Once that momentum is going, stay on it. Why? Because you're staying with what you have. And if you pause, what you have pauses. And then you got to get it going again. So that's why. Have you ever noticed that before one thing is ended in your life, God's already tagged on the next thing? What is that? That's the flow of faith. It's an ongoing momentum. So there's no pause in the manifestation of what faith can produce. Sometimes this is where people miss. If they believe God for a home, they believe God for a business. Pastors are believing God for buildings or whatever. They get it done, they go, oh, now we can relax. You better not. You better not. You better not. Now it's time to keep laying hold of more. Amen. So hold fast to that which you have. What do you have? You have a redemption, you have a covenant. Hold fast to that when everything around you says, it's not manifested. And when the devil says, look, it's not working, it's not manifested, Remind him, devil. Faith is for the unseen. Sorry, you don't know that, but faith is for the unseen. I'm not failing because it's unseen. I'm in faith because it's unseen. Amen. So we receive with our spirit. You have a receiver in you. It's your spirit. Just like a radio, you know. You have a. I guess.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Do you?

[Nancy Dufresne]

Yeah, I have a radio in my car. I'm wondering, do we still have radios in our car? Because we don't listen. You know, we don't always listen to them, but I grew up listening to the radio in my car. And if that radio was not on, the receiver was not on. And the station sending out a signal never stopped. It never stopped. And you could Turn it on 24 hours a day and receive a signal. How many of you know God's power never stops? The answers of God never stop. There's never a turn off from the station, but we can turn off our receiver. And Bartimaeus said that I might receive. So this woman, she had tuberculosis. And on the inside of her, she knew she had. She received that miracle before she Saw that miracle, what things ever you desire. And I would say, I would quote it to you this way. Mark 11:24. What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it while it's still in its invisible form. And you shall have it in its visible form, because your answer is in two forms. The invisible form, then the visible form, the unmanifested form, then the manifested form. What is receiving for? It's receiving the unmanifested. It's receiving the invisible. That's what receiving is for. And that's what the faith that's on the inside of you deals with. The invisible, the unseen. Amen. So this woman, she believed she received it, but nothing changed here. Nothing changed here. And she did. She just laid up in her bed and said, oh, thank God, I'm healed. Thank God, I'm healed. Thank God. She didn't say, oh, God, I'm believing for you to give it.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Come on.

[Nancy Dufresne]

No, that's wrong. That. That's not New Testament. That's not faith. But she just said, thank God I have it. Why? Because she performed the act of receiving. You have to perform the act of receiving before something will manifest. People are waiting for God to give it, and he's waiting for them to perform the act of receiving so he can manifest it. It's your receiving that causes it to manifest. Does that make sense to you? It's your receiving. You're not waiting for God to do something. He's waiting for you to perform the act of receiving. Once you perform that act and it has not yet manifested the receiving, talk is, thank God, it's mine. Thank God, it's mine. Thank God. Thank you, Father, that it's mine. Why it is yours? Because you received it. It's yours at the receiving. It's not just yours at the manifestation. It's yours at the receiving. You say, pastor Nancy, how do I perform the act of receiving? I believe I receive. Here you go. And shut your mind down. Keep your tongue going. Shut your mind down. Keep your tongue connected to your receiver, your spirit, and don't think about it. Don't think about it. That's called worry. People will listen to this and they'll go, I don't quite get it. If you will listen to this over and over and over and over, it will dawn on you. It will dawn on you. Amen. So what we have to do. And boy, I'm repeating all the previous sermon, we're trying to go further, but what we have to do is make sure our response receiver is in good Condition, because everything's based on our receiving. Everything is based on the condition of our spirit. You understand that? So we have to make sure that we are keeping a right spirit because that keeps our receiving signal clean. So it's not full of static when I drive up to it. Because one of the things I will listen to on occasion is classical music. Just because I don't know of any other radio station. I can't get my phone hooked up to my car. And I don't know what's the issue. It's so I just want a cassette, people.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

I just want to.

[Nancy Dufresne]

I want a cassette. Because when I put my cassette in, it starts where I left off. All progress is not forward. And I'll put on this classical music station. But when I get near my residential section, I start losing signal. And it's just nothing but static. And you can hear something faint and you know it's there, but you can't partake of it because the signal is interfered with. The signal isn't clean. We want to make sure that our spirit has a clean signal. That there's not unforgiveness, there's not bitterness, there's not offense. All of these things will affect the signal. It doesn't affect the station, doesn't affect God. God is not giving you something then taking it back. You misbehave today, okay, it's mine again. He doesn't give it and take it back. There's an ongoing flow, and you either step in or you step out. You step in or you step out. God's flow never changes. It's our steps that change. So it's not about getting God to do sin something. He's never stopped flowing, never stopped moving. Your covenant is yours for eternity. Amen. But there are components that will affect us receiving. And one of the things that God began to deal with me about was this. Just let me state it real quickly. Years ago, Ed was doing a miracle service in our church. And after he was done preaching, he said to me, you've got something. So I just got up. I didn't know I had something. But Ed said, I got something. And I've gone through that public argument before, and that doesn't work. I've just learned if somebody said, I have something, here I go, and I trust God to just give me something out. Because I obeyed. Even if I thought I had nothing. I obeyed God now. So I spoke in tongues three short times, and then I interpreted each time. And God said to me three primary ways that sickness enters the life of the believer. Why? Because we're redeemed from sickness. But how do we open the door to sickness? And he gave me that night three primary ways believers open the door to sickness. Number one, he said, through the loss of peace. The loss of peace will arrive you at sickness. Your body will start breaking down. It matters that you are skillful in the thought life. It matters that you renew your mind. It matters that you keep the door closed to fear. It matters you don't go to bed afraid at night. Because if you go to bed afraid at night, you left the fear door open while you slept. Deal with the mind through the loss of peace. That's the first way he gave me that people open the door to sickness and disease. How do you lose peace? Worry, fear, doubt. Fear and doubt get together and have an offspring called worry. You understand that worry is the child of fear and doubt. So that's why worry is a sin. Worry is not just an option. It's a sin. So the second way he said that believers open the door to sickness and disease is through bearing from the plan of God for their life. God said to me years ago, make my people to know that long life is connected to my plan. It's not just connected to your exercise routine. Not belittling that. I'm not saying don't have one, but I'm saying if the plan of God is set aside, everything is available to the enemy. You're going to have difficulties. And then the third thing he said is the one that surprised me. The third primary way that people open the door to sickness and disease is through the lack of gratitude. Lack of gratitude. That surprised me. I had no idea. The weightiness of that, the lack of gratitude. And then we read the other night, Deuteronomy chapter 28 in verse 47. And I'm going to read out of the Amplified classic translation, Deuteronomy 28, verse 47.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Amplified classic. Deuteronomy 28, verse 47 reads, because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness of mind and heart in gratitude. What's the main issue here? Gratitude. Gratitude in gratitude for the abundance of all with which he has blessed you. Therefore you shall serve your enemies. God's not telling you he's sending the enemies. I'm just saying that when we lack gratitude, the enemy comes in and steals. What we're not thankful for, the enemy steals from us. There was a woman that came to a pastor, a friend of mine. She came to his church years ago, and the first Sunday she was there. He had mentioned something about Jesus being a healer. And she just real quietly, not in a way that distracted or drew attention to herself, but she real quietly just stood up and raised her hands and began quietly worshiping God. And every time that she would visit the church, and this went on for two years, that anytime he mentioned anything about Jesus healing, she would stand up and start worshiping God. So he asked her one day, he said, I noticed that this is what you do every time. He said, I was just wondering why that is. And she said, pastor, she said, fifteen years ago, I was dying of cancer. And she said, and Jesus healed me. I cannot hear him referred to as healer. And me not thankful and grateful. That's how you keep the devil off your healing. That's how what you fail to be grateful for is now open access to the enemy. He'll steal from you. Can I tell you, every marriage that God put together that broke down, someone lost gratitude. Someone lost gratitude. Amen. No one ever stood before the divorce judge and said, I am so grateful for my spouse. I'm here because I'm grateful. Or the other one say, I'm here because I'm grateful. No, there's no gratitude being spoken of. You know what I'm saying? Be grateful for one another. I'm saying when God puts it together. Now listen, I'll say something that shocks some people. I have told some people divorce because when they refuse to renew their mind, all you're doing is tearing each other up, tearing the family up. And you will not do the word. God desires peace for you. Get away from each other.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

No, that's right.

[Nancy Dufresne]

I mean, because God did not sentence you to a life of torment from someone who doesn't honor the word that you honor. Amen. God authored peace for his people. Yeah. And so anyway, so what if you will find something to be grateful for? Always grateful for your local church. Always grateful. Always grateful. Always grateful for your pastor. Not critical. Not going in there with a critical eye and seeing what you can find wrong. I don't like this church because. No, you find the reason why you like the church. And that's what you talk about. Because no church is perfect. No church, family is perfect. It's just not there. And you need a pastor more than you need a job. Because if you'll have a pastor, you'll never be without a job. If you'll have a pastor that you listen to and be a doer of that word that that pastor preaches, it'll help hold everything in place. Jesus looked with compassion upon the multitude. In Matthew, chapter 9, verse 35, he was moved with compassion on the sick, and he healed their sick. And he was moved with compassion because they were as sheep having no shepherd. It didn't say sheep having no prophet, sheep having no apostle. It said sheep having no shepherd. And they fainted and were scattered abroad. And many times people don't know if you don't have a pastor, you're going to have all kinds of problems with your children. They don't realize that, but they will have all kinds of problems with their children. Even traveling ministers, even traveling ministers have to have a pastor because their family needs someone who's watching out for their soul. Well, I'm gone all the time, but your family's probably not. And when you're home, where do you go? Who are you accountable to? Who speaks the word into your life? You have to be grateful for the pastor that God leads you to and stay there and find a reason to stay there instead of a reason to leave. Because the devil will always offer you reasons to leave. But gratitude will keep you in the place where God directs you to be. Alright, I got a little off base there, but it's important that we understand. I said it's important that we understand. Gratitude is a heart health issue. It's a heart issue. When there are some kids that grow up with a lack of gratitude, they think their parent owes them this, owes them that, it's time for something to start being stripped off with no gratitude. The only thing that a parent owes a child is food, clothing and shelter. From then on, they don't owe you a game boy, a PlayStation, they don't owe you a motorcycle, they don't owe you the phone. All of that is out of the parents goodness, not out of the parents responsibility. Yes, you're welcome kids. I just helped you. Because if a kid is not grateful, that should not be rewarded because you're teaching that you don't reward lack of gratitude. I remember one of my grandkids, I'll not name which one, but this was years ago when they were ba. You know, they were young and they opened something that they got from me at Christmas and they go, oh, I don't like that very much. And I said, sister. Oh, I just labeled it. Brother. And I mean the mama jumped on them so quick. They have. And before they open anything, I said, remember, be real grateful for everything. You don't like that you open so that you can keep opening the rest of the stuff. Because if you show lack of gratitude, going to get cut off Going to get cut off. Second Chronicles 34, verse 37, amplified classic. Second Chronicles chapter 34, verse 37. Sorry, nanny cake. Second Chronicles chapter 34, verse 37, amplified classic. This is speaking about King Josiah. Second Chronicles 34, 37. Do I have that right? I don't have that right. There's no 34. 37. Well then that's your problem, because my Bible had one. The good thing is I have it written down. It's 27.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Thank you.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Right. Is it? Does it end at 27?

[Various Participants/Attendees]

I think.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Okay, 27. The good news is I've got it written out and I can read it to you. So try 34. 27. We'll try it. I don't even know what I say, but we'll try. Is 27. Because I got 27 there. And I got 37 there. It's like. Which one is it? Verse 27. God speaking to the King. Because your heart was tender and penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants. And humbled yourself before me. And rent your clothes and wept before me. I have heard you. The way or the condition of our heart matters when we go to him. Deal with it. Before you start praying to him. Let go of anything towards someone else so that you're praying to him. Hits the target. Philippians chapter 2, verse 12. And I'm very certain about that. Philippians 2:12. Begin the amplified Classic. It says, therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed my suggestions, so now, not only with the enthusiasm you would show in my presence, but much more because I'm absent. In other words, just as thrilled as you would be when I'm looking at you. Be that thrilled when I'm not looking at you. Cultivate, carry out to the goal and fully complete your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling self distrust with serious caution. Look at this tenderness of conscience. Tenderness. A tender heart. A tender heart. Watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ. So we see this, that a receiving heart is a tender heart. Not hard hearted. Hard heartedness. And we won't take time to turn there. But when it refers to hard heartedness in the New Testament it says, because of your unbelief. Yes, hard hearted. So faith turns you tenderhearted when you're believing God. Amen. Gratitude is a heart health issue. So have you ever read on a cereal box they'll advertise good for your heart health. We could say this gratitude for your heart, health, gratitude. Amen. My mother, growing up, my mother had very unique ways of solving things with the four kids. My two brothers, they were only like a year and a half apart. No, I take. Yeah, maybe. I don't know, maybe 11 months apart. Was it closer to 11? Taylor? They were close. Close. And so mother was a great cook. And mother had made some pie. And in our house, that stuff didn't last long. You didn't eat it because you were hungry. You ate it because it was there. And if you don't eat it when it's there, it won't be there. So we did not handle desserts and eat stuff because we were hungry. We ate it because it was there. Yeah, it was your opportunity. And so there was one last piece. And my brothers were fighting over the last piece of pie, and they were about 9 and 10 years old. So my mother said to the one brother, said, they both want it. Mother said, okay, you cut it and then you choose. So the one cutting is going to cut straight because they don't get the first choice, you know. So Mother said, you cut it, you choose. And David says, no, I'm not cutting it. Because he didn't trust his hand. So he said, I'm not cutting it. So she turned to my other brother, said, okay, you cut it, and then you choose. And he said, no, I don't want to cut it. Because they wanted to make sure they got it equal. And they knew. They, you know, they were young. They didn't know if they could do it. Mother said, okay, you're not going to cut it? He said, no. You're not going to cut it? He said, no. So she picked it up, shoved it in her mouth, and walked off. Meaning, I'm not going to coerce you into receiving something. Either you want it or you don't. First Corinthians, chapter 8, verse 3. First Corinthians, chapter 8, verse 3, the Amplified Classic. But if one loves God truly, with affectionate reverence, prompt obedience, look at this. And grateful recognition of his blessings. Grateful recognition of his blessings. It doesn't say grateful recognition of what's manifested. Grateful recognition of his blessings, what he has made yours in Christ, if you will gratefully recognize that what he has made yours will come into manifestation, you don't. You're not just grateful because it showed up, you're grateful because it's yours. Amen. Gratitude is the language of faith. There is no such thing as an ungrateful faith person. Not possible. Amen. As our faith grows, our gratitude should grow because gratitude affects your receiving. James, chapter one, verse 17. James, chapter one, verse seventeen.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

It reads, every good gift. Every good gift. Every good. Every. Every good gift, Every perfect gift is from above. It's not from your talents, it's not from your business savvy. It's from above and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Everything good that came in your life came out of God's care for you and me. It came out of his provision for us. Does that not warrant gratitude? Amen. It's a dangerous thing to fail to recognize when God is behind something. It's a dangerous thing to fail to recognize that. Can you fail to recognize that? Yes. Yes. God gave you a job. Well, that's not the job I wanted. In pastoring. I've had on a couple occasions someone come into me and say, I can't get a job. Pastor Nancy talk to me about what I need to do. And so I would talk to them about natural things as well as spiritual things. Because the job you need is in the natural. Yes. You can't just do all praying, you can't just do all confessing. You can pray and you confess. Then you get your little self out of the chair and you go put in applications. And they said, I have put in applications everywhere. And I said, well, what kind of places have you put applications in at? Well, and they told me where. And they were high paying jobs, they were high skilled jobs, and they were jobs that required certain degrees. And I said, okay, so there's nothing in this community available in those areas. No. Well, I said, well, I was in a store the other day and they said, help. Want it? But I have a degree. But you don't have a job with that degree.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

But.

[Nancy Dufresne]

I should make more. You're not making diddle now. So now we know this. Sometimes God will send to build a man, he will send them a route they wouldn't choose so he can build them. Because if you'll only go the route you choose, you're not built. You're not being built, you're being petted, you're being favored. God was building a man in Joseph. Where did he end up? Slave prisoner. Forgotten for 12 years in a prison, but not forgotten by God. A route he would have never chosen. A route he would have never dreamed for his life. But at the end of that, by the time he's 30, he's prepared and ready to run the economy of the greatest nation on earth. By the time he's 30. God will put us on an accelerated course if we'll say yes with a clean heart instead of no. I don't want that job. I'm above that. Nothing's above an unemployed man. Any job. Any job. That's what I appreciate about my husband. He didn't care. I mean, if he needed money, he would go put on snow chains out in Mammoth in California when people would. He'd just go up and down the road and find cars that'd sell. Slid off in the ditch. He needed money, feed his family. Nothing was beneath him. Amen. Because gratitude recognized supply in whatever form it comes. Amen. So when God gives you the apartment and it's not your dream home, what's your conversation about? That when something isn't your preference, every good perfect gift comes down. It might not be your dream location, but you better learn to recognize God in something. Come on now. I'm just saying because if we practice lack of gratitude in other things, it will play off into the health. It'll play into every arena of life. And so we have to learn to have gratitude when things are not as we wish them or we would have authored them to be. If it's a good thing from God, I refuse to let my personal preference devalue and diminish it. You understand that? Because gratitude is just grateful. It's just grateful. It's just grateful. It's just grateful. Because can I tell you this? Every good thing that comes to our life is better than we deserve. You know what we deserved? Hell, that's what we deserved. Of course we know we've changed families. But I'm just saying in ourselves, what we deserved was hell. And if he gives me anything different than hell, I'm grateful. That means I had no complaint with my boss, I got no complaint with my job. I got no complaint about my spouse, I got no complaint about the apartment I live in. That it's not my home. And it's. There was one minister that a worldwide known minister was a friend to a traveling minister. And this traveling minister had this well known, the world known minister in his home. And I so appreciate this, the world known. The well known minister said, I want to see your office, your ministry office. And they said, it's just a room upstairs in my house. And he said, I don't care, I want to see it. And he went up there and he said, this is great. You can do so much out of this. This is wonderful. Look at this home God's given you and it's capable that you can have your office right here. How wonderful that is. And they were apologizing, you know. Well, it's just got a desk in it. And you know, and they were.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

And.

[Nancy Dufresne]

That well known minister was just so appreciative. Why? Because the well known minister didn't start well known. They started at the beginnings like everyone else. And when that minister left, God said to that traveling minister, I want to talk to you. If you can't be grateful for what you have, why would I give you more? Why? Because sometimes we think that something only notable is worthy of being grateful for. Amen. Traveling ministers, if you only got one preaching assignment in a year, be grateful that God would ever let us go preach his word to anyone. Not complaining about your boss. Cause I guarantee you, you complain about your boss. He hired you, he agreed to pay.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

You.

[Nancy Dufresne]

And you have to look, there wasn't a line of people trying to hire you behind him. Be sober about it. You need to be grateful. Well, they don't pay me enough. Did you know the pay when you took the job? Did you know it? See, it's wrong to be grateful the day you took it and then gripe the day after it's wrong. What am I saying? These things will affect our receiver and put static on the line. If God said gratitude or lack of gratitude is a main reason why there's sickness in the body of Christ, whatever he calls me to do, I'm grateful. I'm grateful. But I wanted personal preference will rob you of gratitude. If God, I mean, I pastored for 25 years. I absolutely loved it. I absolutely loved it. But now I'm traveling and you know what? Absolutely love it. You know how I love it? I choose to. I absolutely choose to. Everything God lets me do. He could just knock you on the head and say come on home to heaven if you don't like that. You know what I'm saying? There is no such thing as an ungrateful faith person. When you leave gratitude, you left faith. You can check your faith level by checking your gratitude level. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do that. Better stop. Better stop. Because if you'll just say I'm grateful. God allows me to do this. I'm grateful. God calls me. Amen. I'm just grateful. Well, I didn't get to greet. I didn't get to be the department head. Just be grateful that a pastor let you in his church. Because I guarantee you in 25 years of pastoring, there are some people I refuse to Let in. Just because you walked in the church didn't mean I had to be your pastor. Because if you brought damage to the body of Christ, I'm not harboring fugitives. We got to be right. I said we got to be right. Grateful. Grateful. A blessing to the body. A blessing to the body. It is dangerous not to be a blessing to the body. Body. It's dangerous. Amen. Praise the Lord. If we practice lack of gratitude in the natural realm, we will carry that bad habit into spiritual things. Amen. You know, when, when pastors start, you know, sometimes we can have large ideas. I'm going to have, you know, 500 people the first Sunday I open. People are going to hear I'm here. John Osteen talks about it. It's so funny because he was a missionary first. He came off the mission field. He didn't want to be off the mission field. He loved the mission field. And God told him to start the church in Houston. And he started out, he thought, everybody's going to flood my church because I'm a well known missionary. And everybody did flood his church out of the doors. They didn't show up. The flood was outside his church, not inside his church. And he just had 100 people for a long time. And then he made this statement. He said, slow growth is good growth. And it's true. Why? Because God's not just growing a church. He's got to grow a man. He's got to grow a man. He's got to grow a man. And listen, I think about dad Hagin. That man was the most well rounded, developed spiritual leader. I'm just so grateful I got to be alive when he was alive. Oh, my goodness. And another thing I'm grateful for, that there were recordings, recordings that he lived in an era where it could be captured because we didn't capture Smith Wigglesworth. He didn't capture, you know, John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards and all these others. And I'm just so, so grateful. But the thing is, he was almost 60 before God put him on the fast track. Why? Because the greater the work God has for you, the longer the preparation times, the longer the preparation time. So be grateful for the preparation time. Be grateful because it's only prepared people that succeed. The unprepared will not succeed. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Know this. Every place that God puts you is a stepping stone, stone to something more. If you won't fall off that stepping stone through lack of gratitude, you can keep progressing. If you're Grateful. Amen.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Gratitude is something we choose. It's not something we feel. And if you'll choose it, you'll feel it. But it is a sign of faith. It is a flow of faith. Complaining and lack of gratitude will keep us from advancing. Amen. And it can even keep us from advancing in our health.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Instead of complaining about the part of the body that doesn't work, you got one finger that's not working right, Father? Thank God. I got nine that work. I got nine that work. Thank you, Father, for the nine that work. Oh. And so what happens? The one part that doesn't work gets all the attention. And all that does work gets ignored. So if you'll learn, just be grateful. Just be grateful. Be grateful. Be grateful. The habit. The spiritual habit of gratitude. The spiritual habit of gratitude.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Well, we could go on, but we better stop.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Praise the Lord. Listen, I'm not trying to give you something deep. I'm trying to give you something you live with every day. Because these are the places we trip up at. I said, these are the places we trip up at.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

You know, I choose to be grateful about every aspect of the ministry. So so little of the time of ministry is pulpit time. It's a fraction. I won't. I refuse to hang on my joy on the pulpit time. I love every aspect of it. Why? Because I choose to. I choose to. I welcome, embrace every aspect of it. Amen. You can't just gripe all the way to the airport, sit on the plane and complain about all the stewardesses. You just can't. You just can't. Because God hears it and knows whether or not you're ready to be advanced or not. You had to be grateful for every single aspect. Well, I don't want to do that. Well, stay where you're at. Because the point we complain at is the point we're stuck at. We cannot go past the place of complaint. What we're complaining about, that's our stopping place right there. We don't go further. We don't go further until gratitude replaces complaint.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

I don't gripe about the cost of things. I don't gripe about the cost of airline. Don't gripe about it. Why? It's God's responsibility to make sure I have to supply to get there. I'm not going to gripe about it. I'm not going to gripe about this and gripe about that. I'm just grateful. I'm not In a covered wagon, having to get to you people. Because there was a generation, many generations. My gosh. Right? Yeah. And people who struggle with their call is for one reason. They're not grateful. I don't want to preach. Not grateful. I don't want to give that. Not grateful. You got it to give. I don't want to serve. Not grateful that they asked you. It's all gratitude. You step into the gratitude flow and nothing's hard for you anymore. All the struggle leaves. All the struggle leaves. Faith is grateful. I said faith is grateful. Unbelief is a complainer. Faith is grateful. Amen. So we can check our. My mother used to say this to us kids, you need to stop and listen to yourself. She said that to us all the time. You need to stop and listen to yourself, how you sound, because your spouse is tired of listening to it. I'm trying to help. Spouses sit at the dinner table and hear the same complaint over and over. It's like, oh, my gosh, this horse is dead. Get off. Complaining about the same people, the same situations. Get off that dead horse. As Ed said, when something's dead, it goes stiff. What is it? This sets in. Rigmarole. Rigamarole sets in. Rigamarole sets in, and you're just not going to go anywhere in life. There's no movement in complaining. There's no movement in it. Amen. I'm just grateful God would call me to do anything. I'm so grateful. The word says that he. It says he sets us in the body as it pleases him. If he's pleased to set me there, I'm pleased to be there. Well, I don't want to be there. Gratitude issue, and it's injuring your faith. We can all give ourselves a checkup. Amen. Praise the Lord. Say this. I'm so grateful. Pastor Nancy's telling me this. You're welcome. Stand with me to your feet. Hallelujah. I'm grateful. I'm grateful. Grateful. I'm grateful. Grateful, grateful. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Just lift up your hands and worship him tonight. Father. Every good and every perfect gift comes down from above. We thank you that we are recipients of that flow. And we call every movement of God in our life good. Every command that you've put in our life, it's a good command. Everything that you have called me to do, called me to complete, called me to do. I thank you, Father. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you that I have a reason to get up every morning. And it's the best reason. It's your plan.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

What you want to do.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Thank you. I just want to thank you. I just want to thank you. Thank you, Lord. I just want to thank you for all you've done for me. You, Lord, I just want to thank you. I just want to thank you. Thank you. I just want to thank you always coming. Don't. Just want to thank for all you done for me. You just want you. I just want to thank for all you've done for me. I just want to thank for all.

[Nancy Dufresne]

You'Ve done for me. Dad Hagen made such an impression, important statement on one occasion. And he said, if you'll get your spirit where it ought to be, your body will start responding. If you get your spirit where it ought to be, your body will start responding. Many times people are trying to get the body fixed without adjusting something that's inward. Many times an inward agreement with the will of God, an inward agreement with the plan of God. That's what gratitude is. It's an inward agreement. It's not just, if I could say this, an imitated agreement by just saying it, but not really meaning it, but from the inside agreeing. Amen. We're not giving him lip service. We inwardly agree. Amen.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

One of the things we've said. Tomorrow night we will lay hands on anyone who needs hands laid on them for healing. But if you say I can't be here tomorrow night, we still want to minister to you. If you came for the purpose of having hands laid on you, come up here if you would, and we'll minister to you before the end of the service.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

I just want to thank you. I just want to thank you. Thank you. I just want to thank you for all you've done for me. Thank you, you love. I just want to thank. I just want to thank you. Thank you. I just want to thank you all you've done for me. Me.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Congregation, reach your hands out towards those that that are up front because we're joining our faith with them, aren't we?

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Pastor, what is it for this for? We had a neighbor of one of our church members in the very center of correct today. Today.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Broken bones.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Yeah. Yeah. He asked for this. Yeah. Father, we thank. Oh, there goes that anointing. Father, we thank you, Jesus Christ. You said that anyone who's under the care of a doctor that you'll speed up the Process. We thank you for a speedy recovery. Supernatural recovery. Miracle recovery. And when this. This cloth is laid upon their body, we say no pain. We say wholeness in Jesus name. And we thank you for it.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Thank you. What is it with you, love? My lower back.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Back.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Your lower back? Been having some problems lately. I don't know how to. Just feels misplaced. Uhhuh. Something's out of place. Yeah. Father, we thank you. We thank. There it goes in. There it goes in. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father, we thank you for. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, father.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Hallelujah. When you came up here, did you have difficulty with it? It was just felt like I had to. It felt like if I moved too far back, my spine would just out. I'm assuming you don't feel that anymore. Hallelujah.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Nancy Dufresne]

What about you, Miss Mary, MD? Two new knees. We'll take that, won't we, Father, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you for new. We thank you for wholeness in Jesus name. We thank you, father. There's so much traveling, so much ministering yet to be done. And we thank you that she has all she needs. All she needs. All she needs. We thank you for it, father. We thank you for it, father.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

What about you, love? My daughter. My son. My daughter is fighting lyme disease and also mold disease and nodules on the fibroid. And my son has been fighting intestinal disease for 20 years.

[Various Participants/Attendees]

Wow.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Okay. Can you get these claws to them? Okay. Father, we thank you for that anointing that goes into these cloths. And when it's laid upon the bodies of her children, we thank you that they shall be whole from the top of their head to the soles of their feet. And if there's a presence of an evil spirit, that anointing will drive it out. In Jesus name.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Thank you, love. What about you, love? Continue my sobriety journey. Say that again. Yeah. Father, we thank you. We thank you, father, for the fullness. The fullness of the plan. The fullness of the plan. We thank you for it, father. All that you have. All that you have coming to pass. What about you, love? A normal man. Mammogram when I go, huh? And then for healing of scar tissue in my ankle. Yeah. Is there A. Any. Is there any metal or anything in there? They took it out. Gotcha. Yeah. Father, we thank you. We thank you. We speak that ankle. Be whole. In g. We speak for wholeness. We thank you, Father, for wholeness. What about you, love? Uh huh. Father, we thank you. Dry that. Dry that. Dry up. In Jesus name. In Jesus name.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

We praise the Lord. We praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let's thank him tonight.

[Congregation/Chorus]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Hallelujah. We worship you, Father. We glorify you. We glorify you. Jesus, you're such a wonderful healer. You're such a wonderful healer. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Every single one of us in here. We hold fast to that which we have. All that we have in Christ. We hold fast to it. All that you have made ours. We hold fast to it. All the manifestations of power that we've received. We hold fast to it. We thank you. We thank you for it. We thank you for it. We glorify you. We glorify you. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at defrainministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.