Podcast Summary: Healing School #1 — Blind Bartimaeus, Part One

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Host: Pastor Nancy Dufresne
Episode Title: Healing School #1 | Blind Bartimaeus, Part One
Date: March 11, 2021

Main Theme Overview

In this “Healing School” episode from Jesus the Healer, Pastor Nancy Dufresne embarks on a deep study of healing miracles in Jesus’ earthly ministry, beginning with the story of Blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46–52). The episode’s purpose is to encourage listeners to become diligent students of biblical healing examples, emphasizing how right hearing, faith, and speaking God’s Word are central to both receiving and maintaining healing.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Importance of Studying Jesus’ Healing Miracles

• Nineteen Individual Cases: Of countless healings in Jesus’ ministry, the Holy Spirit specifically chose to record 19 individual cases in the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John).
  • “The Holy Ghost selected what would be recorded...it would behoove us to be diligent students...to really familiarize ourselves.” (01:14)
• Emphasis on Detailed Study: By analyzing these cases, believers can learn the conditions, dynamics, and actions leading to healing and apply them today.

2. Hearing Precedes Healing

• Hearing and Doing: Referring to Luke 5, Pastor Nancy highlights that crowds came “to hear and be healed.” (02:30)
  • “Just hearing the Word taught positions you for healing if you’ll accept it and act on it.” (02:43)
• Increasing Your “Hearing”: If healing hasn’t manifested, increase your intake of God’s Word through reading, listening online, attending church, etc. (03:50)
  • “If you’re not experiencing healing, increase your hearing, because they came to hear and be healed.” (03:59)

3. The Superiority of Teaching

• Teaching vs. Healing: Teaching is foundational because it positions people to receive and keep their healing, even in the face of the enemy’s counterattacks.
  • “Teaching is more important than healing...because if you’re taught, you can receive your healing.” (05:50)
• Skillfulness Against Counterattack: Knowledge from teaching enables believers to hold onto their healing when the devil tries to steal it.
  • “If you’re taught, then you know how to overcome in the face of a counterattack.” (07:03)

4. The Value of Exercising Faith Personally

• Learning Through the Process: Sharing a quote from John G. Lake, Pastor Nancy notes the lasting benefit of receiving healing by standing in faith yourself as opposed to only instantaneous miracles.
  • “When people get it with their own faith, they know how to get it next time, and now they know how to help someone else get theirs.” (08:22)

5. Walking Through Mark 10:46–52 (Blind Bartimaeus)

• Heard, Believed, and Called Out: Bartimaeus was notable as a well-known beggar whose healing became a significant public miracle. His actions are laid out as a blueprint for believing and receiving.
• Your Past Doesn’t Define Your Future:
  • “People may have known you one way from your past, but let God rewrite some things...” (11:45)
• Faith is Not Silent—It Calls:
  • “He didn’t just sit silently by and hope...He got loud and said ‘I’ve got a need!’” (16:02)
  • The difference between a “cry of faith” and a “cry of desperation”: God responds to faith, not desperation.
• Faith Calls For What’s Missing:
  • “Faith calls those things which be not as though they were.” (22:01)
  • Faith doesn’t deny your current reality (pain, lack); instead, it calls for a new reality in line with God’s promises.

6. Practical Application of Faith’s Call

• Speaking In Faith: Examples include calling your body healed, calling provision into your life, in accordance with the “law of faith.”
  • “I call myself healed. Yeah, I know there’s pain in my leg. But...I call myself healed.” (32:48)
• Let the Redeemed Say So: True redemption requires a confession—“Your redemption won’t work until you say so.” (Psalm 107:2)
  • “I say that I’m healed...Start calling yourself healed.” (34:38)
• Confessing the Promise, Not the Problem:
  • “Let the weak say I am strong...Let the poor say I am rich. You say what you want, not what you see.” (28:56)

Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “If we will do what those people did, we will get what those people got.” (01:09)
• “Faith is not silent. You can’t just say, ‘I’m just quietly believing the Lord’...When faith is in your heart in abundance, your mouth is going to start saying some things.” (20:00)
• “It’s not crying that God answers. It’s faith, He answers.” (17:40)
• “Faith calls those things which be not as though they were.” (22:01)
• “You say what you want, not what you see. And this is the law of faith.” (28:56)
• “God performs what He hears you say...when He hears you say the Word, He performs His Word that He hears in your mouth.” (36:02)
• “Your redemption won’t work until you say so.” (Quoting her late husband, referencing Psalm 107:2) (33:56)

Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:14 — The significance of the 19 recorded healing cases
• 02:30–03:59 — Hearing precedes healing
• 05:50–07:03 — Teaching is foundational to receiving (and keeping) healing
• 08:22 — John G. Lake’s insights about faith and instantaneous healing
• 11:45 — Blind Bartimaeus’ transformation and the power to leave your past
• 16:02–20:00 — The faith call vs. desperation and application to Christian life
• 22:01–28:56 — Romans 4:17 and the law of faith (“calling those things which be not as though they were”)
• 32:48–36:02 — Speaking faith over your body and circumstances; God acts on the Word in your mouth
• 33:56 – “Your redemption won’t work until you say so.”
• 36:00+ — Encouragement to confess God’s promises and walk in them

Conclusion

In this foundational episode, Pastor Nancy Dufresne invites listeners to engage their faith like Blind Bartimaeus: by prioritizing hearing the Word, believing it, and actively calling for what God has promised—even in the face of ongoing need. The law of faith, exemplified in speaking God’s truth over our circumstances, is presented as the key to both receiving and retaining healing today.