Podcast Summary

Dufresne Ministries Podcast

Episode: How To Keep Your Healing, Part 5
Date: May 11, 2023
Host/Speaker: Pastor Nancy Dufresne

Overview

In this episode, Pastor Nancy Dufresne continues her series "How To Keep Your Healing," offering in-depth teaching on why maintaining one's healing is as crucial as receiving it. Through personal stories, biblical principles, and practical advice, Nancy emphasizes the importance of faith, confession, and regularly feeding on God's Word to resist the enemy's attempts to rob believers of their health.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Importance of Learning How to Retain Healing

• God Provides Many Methods for Healing:
  • There are about seven biblical methods by which believers can receive healing (laying on of hands, gifts of the Spirit, prayer of agreement, etc.). Regardless of the method, the principle of keeping one's healing remains the same.
  • "No matter how healing was received in your life, we all have to learn how to keep our healing, how to hold fast to that which belongs to us in Christ." (01:45)

2. The Enemy’s "Counterattack"

• Satan’s Strategy:
  • The devil acts as a thief, aiming to steal blessings from believers through deception, especially after a healing.
  • He often brings back familiar symptoms to create doubt and trick believers into accepting illness again.
  • "The devil can't do anything to your life from within... he has to do everything and affect everything out here. So when something is affected out here, know this. There's something higher on the inside to draw on." (04:25)
• Response to Symptoms:
  • When symptoms return, it’s not a sign that healing has vanished but a test of whether the believer will stand on God's promise.

3. The Power of Confession & Holding Fast

• Real-life Story – Woman Healed of Blindness:
  • A woman born blind received healing but temporarily lost her sight again. Despite the symptoms, she continued to thank God for her healing. After several weeks, her sight was restored, illustrating the importance of not letting symptoms shake one's confession. (08:15)
• Testimony – Two Women Healed of Cancer:
  • Both women were initially healed. When symptoms returned, one accepted them back and died, even though an autopsy showed no cancer. The other refused to accept the return of symptoms, stood her ground with faith, and remained healed.
  • Notable moment:
    • "All the symptoms tried to come back on me. And I said, no, you don't. No, you don't... after a few days, they all left." (14:05)
• Lying Vanities:
  • The devil can "falsify symptoms." Believing the lie can have fatal consequences even in the absence of actual disease.

4. Authority Over Symptoms

• Testimony – Man Healed of Clubfoot:
  • Pastor Nancy recounts a man whose clubfoot was miraculously healed. When pain and symptoms tried to return, he physically took hold of his ankle, boldly declared, "No you don't," and the symptoms left.
  • Memorable quote:
    • "There’s healing power in you, everyone. Because the healer’s in you... He said, 'I just took that ankle, and I said, no, you don't.' That thing just came right back out." (18:00)
• Principle:
  • The presence of symptoms doesn't redefine your status—your healing, secured in Christ, is the reality.

5. The "Now" of Faith

• Faith is Always Present-Tense:
  • "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1 discussed at 19:50)
  • Faith requires a present-tense confession:
    • "If people are praying and releasing their faith, they have to say thank you, that it's mine. Now. That is the language of faith. That's the flow of faith." (22:10)
  • Hammer analogy:
    • Unless you say "now," you're "hitting around the nail head" but not completing the work of faith.

6. The Role of God’s Power and Our Faith

• Faith as the Doorway, Not the Source:
  • It’s God’s power that heals; faith merely opens the door:
    • "My job is to hold the door open to his power to come in and work it. Faith doesn't heal us. Faith opens the door to God's power that heals us." (23:40)
• Letting God Work:
  • Believers are not responsible for manifesting the healing themselves, just for believing and resting in what God promised.

7. The Necessity of Continuing in God’s Word

• Taking God’s Medicine:
  • Don’t substitute a belief in healing for actively taking the Word (God’s medicine).
  • "Don't make the mistake of substituting your belief in divine healing for the actual taking of God's medicine." (24:55)
• Practical Application:
  • Like a prescription, healing scriptures must be taken daily, even after symptoms leave.
  • Proverbs 4:20-22 instructs us to attend to God's Word, keep it in our ears, eyes, and hearts—"for they are life to those who find them, and health (medicine) to all their flesh." (26:10)
  • "How do you take God's word? With our mouth." (27:00)
  • Continue to confess healing, even after it manifests, to keep building on health and resist recurring symptoms.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Symptom Return:
  "Don't let the calendar and the passing of time deceive you into believing the wrong things." (15:20)
• On the Deceit of Symptoms:
  "The devil can falsify things to dupe you. And if he can get you to believe the wrong thing by creating symptoms... there's a power in you. You go by what's in you. You don't go by what's out here." (17:35)
• The "Now" of Faith:
  "Until you say that word now, all you're doing is hitting around the faith board here. You're hitting around that faith nail, so to speak, trying to get results... Now hits it square. Amen. Now faith is." (21:55)
• On Our Role:
  "It's not our job to get rid of sickness. It's not our job to get rid of pain... It's our job to believe that his power gets rid of it." (24:03)
• On Continuing in the Word:
  "You sure should be feeding on healing scriptures even after you're healed. Because it'll continue to build health in you." (28:00)

Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:09-02:30 — Introduction to the topic, methods of divine healing
• 04:10-06:20 — The enemy’s counterattack and the source of true power
• 08:15-11:30 — The blind woman’s testimony and the battle of confession
• 11:45-16:15 — Cancer testimonies: contrasting responses to recurring symptoms
• 17:00-18:30 — Clubfoot testimony: taking authority over returning symptoms
• 19:50-25:00 — The "Now" of faith and what it means to act in faith
• 25:00-28:30 — The role of God’s power and faith, the necessity of taking God’s medicine (healing scriptures) daily

Final Thoughts

Pastor Nancy Dufresne passionately teaches that keeping your healing requires an active, present-tense faith, strong confession, resistance to the enemy's deception, and a continual intake of God's Word. Healing, once received, must be guarded like a precious possession—with the believer’s faith serving as the protective "security system" that holds fast to what God has given.