Summary: How To Keep Your Healing, Part 2
Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Host: Pastor Nancy Dufresne
Date: May 11, 2023
Main Theme & Purpose
In this episode, Pastor Nancy Dufresne continues her teaching on "How To Keep Your Healing.” The focus is on the believer’s responsibility to maintain and defend the healing that God has provided, addressing the reality that while receiving healing is a victory, keeping it requires ongoing faith, the right mindset, and a continual dedication to the Word of God. The episode emphasizes practical ways to remain steadfast against the enemy’s attempts to steal health, notably through hearing and acting on God’s Word.
Key Discussion Points & Insights
Why Keeping Your Healing Matters
- The devil aims to steal every good thing believers receive, including healing. ("He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Anything that steals, kills, destroys. God had nothing to do with." [01:00])
- Believers are custodians, not the originators, of their healing. Jesus won it, but it is the believer’s job to steward that victory ("We’re the custodians of our body...We're occupying that victory ground." [02:40]).
Methods of Receiving Healing
Pastor Nancy lists several biblical methods for receiving healing. These methods accommodate different levels of faith and spiritual growth ([03:20]-[07:20]):
- Using the name of Jesus
- Praying for healing to the Father in Jesus’ name
- The prayer of agreement
- Healing anointing with oil
- The laying on of hands
- Sowing faith for others’ healing and reaping a harvest (“The law of sowing and reaping goes into place even regarding healing.” [06:20])
- Gifts of the Spirit (gifts of healing, working of miracles)
- Simply knowing healing belongs to you and refusing symptoms (“You just know it...When symptoms come up, you go, ‘Oh, no, you don't.’” [07:50])
Notable Quote:
“We are not the sick trying to get healed. We are the healed, and Satan is trying to rob our health from us. Pain, symptoms—nothing but a temptation to be sick. And we resist that temptation just like we would resist any other temptation.”
— Nancy Dufresne [00:40]
Defending Your Healing: The Role of Faith and the Word
- After healing, your responsibility continues: “That which we receive from God is not automatically maintained. We have to watch over what we’ve received from God with our faith refusing to allow things to be stolen from us.” [01:35]
- The enemy may bring back symptoms to tempt you into doubt or to “rob” your healing. Stand your ground and declare, “Symptoms are simply a temptation to yield to sickness. We’re not yielding.” [09:25]
- Key passage: Luke 5:15 — Emphasizes that the multitudes came together “to hear and to be healed,” with hearing coming first ([11:50]).
Notable Quote:
“Just because symptoms come back doesn’t mean that we’re not the healed. We’re still the healed. We’re always the healed. I’m always the healed. And symptoms showing up does not change that.”
— Nancy Dufresne [09:10]
The Necessity of Continued Hearing
- Hearing the Word is central to both receiving and keeping healing. Jesus’ ministry combined teaching, preaching, and healing in that order (“Teaching, preaching and healing flow together. They belong together.” [10:45]).
- After receiving, it’s essential to stay connected to the Word—hearing must not stop. “We still have a responsibility toward the Word after we receive anything from God, not just healing, but anything.” [15:05]
The Power of Hearing
- Romans 10:17: “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” ([15:30]).
- Hear in the area you are believing for—in this case, healing. “When you need healing, hear on healing… what we hear is what we’re going to receive.” ([16:45])
- Beware of hearing doubt or fear. “The devil...will try to position things or people or conversations around you so that you hear the wrong thing… Faith for the wrong thing comes by hearing the wrong thing. Fear is really faith in the negative direction.” ([18:31])
Notable Quote:
“Faith doesn’t come by praying. Faith doesn’t come by being around people who have faith. Faith comes by hearing.”
— Nancy Dufresne [15:30]
Community and Environment Matter
- Position yourself with those who encourage healing faith (“The sick didn’t stay home, they came together. They inconvenienced themselves to get where they could hear what they needed…” [12:15])
- "It’s not just enough to be in a right location. You have to expect the right thing in that location. You have to expect something from God." [21:00]
Unbelief Blocks Receiving
- Mark 6:5-6 — Even in Jesus’ hometown, disbelief blocked God’s healing; the issue wasn’t God’s willingness, but people’s receptivity ([22:40]).
- “He marveled because of their unbelief. Why were they in unbelief? Because they wouldn’t listen to His teaching. ... When they wouldn’t receive the teaching and the preaching, they couldn’t receive what it offered.” [23:40]
Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments
- “We’re the healed. Satan is trying to rob our health from us.” [00:40]
- “Symptoms are nothing but a temptation to be sick. And we resist that temptation just like any other temptation.” [00:50]
- “When symptoms come up, you go, ‘Oh, no, you don’t. I know what belongs to me and that’s not it.’” [07:50]
- “As you sow it, you can reap it...when you need healing, you say, Father, I reap the harvest on all that seed I’ve sown in believing for healing for others.” [06:35]
- “Faith doesn’t come by praying.... Faith comes by hearing.” [15:30]
- “If people aren’t hearing, they will struggle to hold fast.” [20:00]
- “It’s not just showing up at church; it’s what are you drawing on? ...What are you laying hold of with your hand of faith?” [21:15]
- "He wasn’t withholding healing...But when they wouldn’t receive the teaching...then they couldn’t receive what it offered." [23:40]
Timestamps for Important Segments
- 00:40: Definition of healing identity; resisting symptoms as temptation
- 03:20–07:20: Pastor Nancy outlines multiple scriptural methods of receiving healing
- 09:10: What to do when symptoms try to return
- 10:45: Importance of teaching, preaching, healing as a divine order
- 11:50: Luke 5:15 — Hearing precedes healing
- 15:05: Ongoing responsibility to the Word after healing
- 15:30: Romans 10:17 and the principle of faith by hearing
- 18:31: The devil’s counterfeit—fear comes by hearing the wrong thing
- 20:00: The crucial role of hearing in retaining healing
- 21:00: The necessity of expectation and right environment
- 22:40: Mark 6:5-6—Unbelief and its effect on receiving healing
- 23:40: Why Jesus kept teaching in the face of unbelief
Conclusion
This episode serves as an empowering reminder: receiving healing is only the beginning. The believer’s ongoing responsibility is to remain in faith, to keep the Word central, choose the right influences, and expectantly steward what Christ has provided. Remaining steadfast in teaching and hearing the Word is the key to preserving all that God has given.
“To hold fast to what you have received, keep hearing. Keep hearing the right thing. Amen.”
— Nancy Dufresne [21:35]