Podcast Summary: "How To Keep Your Healing, Part 1"

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Host: Pastor Nancy Dufresne
Date: May 11, 2023
Episode Theme:
How believers can maintain and protect their healing, walking in the wholeness provided by Jesus, and the necessity of active faith and resistance against the enemy.

Episode Overview

Pastor Nancy Dufresne shares biblical principles and practical faith strategies on "keeping your healing"—not just receiving it, but ensuring it is not stolen by the enemy. Emphasizing the Christian's authority to enforce Christ's victory, she explores foundational healing scriptures, the importance of speaking faith, and resisting the devil's tactics. The message is full of encouragement, practical instruction, and scriptural backing for living in continual health and wellness.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Reality of Spiritual Resistance (01:00–07:00)

• Receiving vs. Maintaining Healing: Many assume God’s healing is permanent, but believers must actively keep what God has given, resisting the enemy’s attempts to steal it.

  • "Satan is a thief ... so when we talk about how to keep your healing, we're saying, 'Satan, you're not taking what God's made mine.'" (02:12)

• Christian Life as a Battle of Resistance:

  • Maintaining victory is about enforcing what Jesus has already accomplished at the cross, not fighting to win it all over again.
  • Military analogy: Even after victory, troops enforce the win, not keep fighting.
  • "Fighting the good fight of faith is not trying to win the victory. It is keeping the enemy off our victory, keeping our enemy from stealing what has been won for us." (06:09)

• Active Faith:

  • Believers must say "No, you don't" to symptoms, pain, worry, and fear—these are temptations to accept defeat and sickness.

2. Foundation in God’s Word: Key Healing Scriptures (07:02–28:00)

A major segment is dedicated to laying a scriptural foundation for healing, using the following passages:

a. Isaiah 53:4–5 & 1 Peter 2:24 (07:20–10:45)

• Isaiah looks forward: "By His stripes we are healed."
• Peter looks backward: "By whose stripes you were healed."
  • "We are, we were. We're not trying to get it. That's who we are ... our present position. We are the healed." (10:22)

b. Matthew 8:17 (11:10–13:45)

• "He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses."
• Spoken word is crucial:
  • "God had Isaiah to speak it, and Jesus fulfilled it. Now we speak it, and it's fulfilled in us ... The unspoken goes unfulfilled." (12:45)
  • Faith requires confession: “I’m healed ... I was healed at Calvary.”

c. Galatians 3:13 (14:00–15:30)

• Jesus redeemed believers from the curse (which includes sickness, poverty, death), releasing us into the blessing of Abraham.

d. Romans 8:2 (15:45–16:48)

• The “law of the Spirit of life” sets believers free from the law of sin and death—this law works every time.

e. Psalm 107:20 & 107:2 (17:05–19:14)

• "He sent His Word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions."
• Disease is personalized (delivered from "their" destructions) because the enemy attacks uniquely.
• Redemption must be spoken to activate—“Let the redeemed of the Lord say so."
  • "Redemption is voice activated. When we say something, it activates what belongs to us." (18:25)
  • Christians might not experience their redemption's benefits because they’re not speaking it.

f. Exodus 23:25–26 (19:30–22:59)

• Serving and worshiping God leads to health:
  • "When you serve God ... He comes on the scene ... and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee." (20:55)

g. Romans 4:17 (23:00–25:45)

• Faith “calls those things which be not as though they were.”
• Speak what you want to see (“I call my body pain-free”), not what exists, aligning with God’s reality.

3. The Power and Language of Faith (25:46–29:40)

• Wholeness, not just temporary relief, is God's aim.
• Jesus to man at Bethesda: “Wilt thou be made whole?”—He offers restoration, not just pain relief.
• "Faith has its own talk ... its own way of speaking. It's God talk, calling those things." (29:10)

4. Mark 11:23–24—Speaking to the Mountain (29:41–36:40)

• Jesus teaches to speak directly to obstacles (mountains), not about them.

  • "We're not to talk about the mountain. We're to talk to the mountain." (31:00)
  • Faith-empowered words move problems; dwelling on them only enlarges them.

• Doubts may come to the mind but don't invalidate faith in the heart.

  • "The faith in your heart will work even when thoughts of doubt are coming against your mind ... they're not your thoughts." (33:20)

• God’s promise: “He shall have whatsoever he saith.”

5. Practical Encouragement for Believers (36:41–End)

• Foundation for “holding fast” to healing has been laid; more teaching to come in Part 2.
• Key Takeaway:
  • "We are not the sick trying to get healed. We are the healed. And we are refusing our health from being stolen from us." (27:15)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On resisting temptation to sickness:
  • “Symptoms, pain, all of these are nothing but the temptation to be sick ... we’re not taking that. We’re resisting.” (05:49)
• On voice-activated redemption:
  • "Redemption is voice activated. When we say something, it activates what belongs to us." (18:25)
• On faith’s language:
  • "Faith has its own talk. It has its own way of talking ... It's God talk, calling those things." (29:10)
• On mountain-moving faith:
  • "We're not to talk about the mountain. We're to talk to the mountain. So many are talking about their obstacles ... it doesn't say talk about it, says talk to it. The more we talk about it, the bigger it grows. The more we talk to it, the more it's removed." (31:02)
• On the heart vs. the mind in faith:
  • "The faith in your heart will work even when thoughts of doubt are coming against your mind ... they're not your thoughts." (33:20)
• On the believer’s stance:
  • "We are not the sick trying to get healed. We are the healed. And we are refusing our health from being stolen from us." (27:15)

Important Timestamps

• 01:00 – Introduction to the need for “keeping your healing”
• 06:09 – The difference between enforcing victory and fighting for it
• 10:22 – “We are, we were”—healing as a present-tense reality
• 12:45 – The necessity of speaking the Word for healing fulfillment
• 18:25 – "Redemption is voice activated"
• 20:55 – Serving God activates His promise to remove sickness
• 27:15 – “We are not the sick trying to get healed”
• 31:02 – Mark 11:23/24: Speaking to, not about, your mountain
• 33:20 – Faith in the heart vs. doubt in the mind

Conclusion

Part 1 of "How to Keep Your Healing" is a foundational message filled with Scripture, practical advice, and encouragement for believers to actively, verbally, and persistently enforce their healing through faith. Pastor Nancy Dufresne emphasizes the necessity of spiritual resistance, the power of confessing God's Word, and the believer’s authority. The episode equips listeners to stand firm against symptoms and challenges, ensuring God's gift of health remains secure.

Key takeaway:
Maintain your healing by standing on the Word, speaking it aloud, resisting the enemy, and calling your health as God sees it—yours, now and always.