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Episode: Healing School #18 | The Ten Lepers, Part Two | Nancy Dufresne | Jesus the Healer Broadcast
Date: July 8, 2021
Host/Speaker: Pastor Nancy Dufresne

Episode Overview

This episode continues the in-depth exploration of the healing of the ten lepers as recorded in Luke 17. Pastor Nancy Dufresne emphasizes faith, worship, and gratitude as keys not only to receiving healing but also to experiencing wholeness and restoration. She breaks down the importance of choosing to believe, acting on God's Word, and cultivating a lifestyle of thankfulness, stressing that worshipful gratitude can lead to miracles, even the restoration of lost body parts.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Centrality of Healing in Jesus' Ministry

• Healing accounted for a significant portion of Jesus' earthly ministry (00:08).
• "Your health is so important to Jesus, it cost him everything so that his people could live healed." (00:36)

Faith Is a Choice, Not a Feat

• Believing for the impossible is a choice, not a mental struggle.
• "Choose to believe. Even when arguments try to come to your head... say, no, I choose to believe." (01:45)
• Faith works even when we cannot figure out how the solution will manifest. Example: believing a plane will fly without comprehending the physics (02:20).

The Ten Lepers: A Closer Study (Luke 17:11-19)

• The context: Lepers were societal outcasts; only priests could declare them cleansed (03:22).
• Jesus commanded the lepers to show themselves to the priests, the only ones authorized to readmit them into society (04:05).
• Obedience in Motion: Healing occurred "as they went"—they acted on Jesus' Word before seeing results (05:40).

Obedience, Faith, and the Process of Healing (05:45)

• Most healings come as a result of acting on the Word, not merely through contact with a minister.
• "The primary way, and the best way, is just to hear the Word... act on it and receive your healing." (06:33)
• Listeners are encouraged to assess their own obedience when healing or prayer answers seem delayed (07:10).

The Grateful Leper: Heart Posture Matters

• One leper, a Samaritan (lacking a covenant), recognized his healing and returned to glorify God loudly and publicly (08:00).
• "Never be ashamed to loudly be thankful... Worship and praise is one thing that you can just let God know, I'm grateful." (09:51)
• This leper's gratitude sets him apart; public testimony stirs faith in others (11:04).

The Power of Testimony and Gratitude (12:19)

• Sharing testimonies is a form of glorifying God and helps others build their faith.
• Ignoring God’s blessings or failing to return thanks leaves one vulnerable to the enemy's attempts to steal what was gained (13:14).
  • "Gratitude is a safeguard. As you show gratitude and worship to God... it keeps the devil from stealing that from you." (14:39)

“Hold Fast” to Your Answer

• Reference to Hebrews 10: not forsaking the assembling together.
• Jesus expected all ten to return; ingratitude marks absence (16:08).
• "If the enemy sees that you don't return to give thanks, Gratitude is a safeguard." (14:43)

Worship Moves from Healing to Wholeness (17:53)

• All ten were cleansed/healed, but only the grateful one was "made whole"—restoration of lost body parts.
• "For the one who worships, there's something more. God has for them." (18:44)
• Worship can restore even surgically removed or congenitally absent body parts, as an act of faith (19:06).
  • Quote: "Worship will put back body parts. And you may say, I was born without a particular body part. Worship will put back body parts." (19:09)

Faith = Worship; Worship = Faith (19:50)

• Jesus called the leper’s gratitude an act of faith: "Your faith has made you whole."
• "We could state it this way: Your worship has made you whole... Your worship has put back your body parts." (20:09)

Practical Encouragement & Application

• Listeners are urged to worship persistently, regardless of how long it may take for results to manifest.
  • "You can lay in bed at night and say, I worship you... and that power will begin to work and put back body parts." (21:12)

Scriptural Support and Spiritual Safeguard (22:26)

• Deuteronomy 28:47-48 (Amplified Classic): Ingratitude leads to vulnerability; gratitude keeps the enemy at bay.
• "The devil cannot touch what you put gratitude on." (24:00)

Worship Unlocks Heaven’s Blessings (25:00)

• Testimony from Brother Hagin: "Reverence must be restored to get into the miracles of the last days." (23:23)
• Testimony from Norvel Hayes: Jesus said, "My children basically love me but they live in poverty and sickness and defeat... because they don’t worship me enough." (23:45)
• "Worship brings the anointing and the anointing destroys the yoke." (24:39)
• Listeners encouraged to worship persistently, "till the anointing comes" (25:42).

Corporate Prayer and Declaration (27:22)

• Pastor Nancy leads a spoken blessing and declaration for listeners regarding physical wholeness and restoration, encouraging them to receive by faith and worship (26:35).
• "We speak to body parts, that the body parts come back into your body… in Jesus' name." (27:22)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Believing is not a feat, it’s a choice. So choose to believe." – Nancy Dufresne (01:40)
• "As they obeyed Him… as they obeyed him. If we’re not receiving something we’ve been believing for, check up: are we obeying what He said to us?" – Nancy Dufresne (05:56)
• "Never be ashamed to loudly be thankful. … Worship and praise is one thing you can just let God know, I’m grateful, I’m grateful." – Nancy Dufresne (09:43–09:51)
• "Your faith has made you whole." – Jesus (19:41)
• "Worship will put back body parts." – Nancy Dufresne (19:09, 20:10 and throughout)
• "Gratitude is a safeguard. As you show gratitude and worship to God… it keeps the devil from stealing that from you." – Nancy Dufresne (14:39)
• "Worship brings the anointing and the anointing destroys the yoke." – Nancy Dufresne (24:39)
• "If you’ll teach my children to worship me more, I will do great and mighty things for them." – Jesus (as told to Norvel Hayes, 25:58)

Important Timestamps

• 00:08 — Introduction; overview of healing in Jesus’ ministry
• 02:20 — Faith as a choice, not requiring full understanding
• 04:05 — Background on leprosy and priestly authority in Israel
• 05:45 — "As they went, they were cleansed"; the connection between obedience and healing
• 07:10 — Personal check: are you obeying what God said?
• 08:00 — The healing and return of the grateful Samaritan leper
• 09:43–09:51 — The power and appropriateness of loud, public gratitude
• 14:39 — Gratitude as protection against losing your healing
• 17:53 — Difference between being healed and being made whole
• 19:09 — "Worship will put back body parts"
• 21:12 — Encouragement to worship continuously until wholeness manifests
• 24:00 — "The devil cannot touch what you put gratitude on."
• 25:42 — Worship “till the anointing comes”
• 26:35 — Corporate declaration for body part restoration
• 27:22 — Blessing spoken over listeners

Conclusion

Pastor Nancy Dufresne’s teaching on the ten lepers explores how obedience, faith, and especially worshipful gratitude can elevate believers from healing to full restoration and wholeness. She underscores the need for persistent worship—not merely as habit or tradition, but as a dynamic act of faith that invites miracles. Practical encouragements, scriptural references, and vibrant testimonies are used to impart hope and stir faith in listeners for God’s miraculous power to restore, even above what is thought possible.