How To Keep Your Healing, Part 6 - Dufresne Ministries Podcast

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Podcast Summary: Dufresne Ministries Podcast – How To Keep Your Healing, Part 6
Episode Date: May 11, 2023
Speaker: Pastor Nancy Dufresne

Episode Overview

In this episode of the Dufresne Ministries Podcast, Pastor Nancy Dufresne continues her multi-part teaching series, "How To Keep Your Healing." The central focus is on maintaining the healing a believer receives—recognizing the ever-active attempts of the enemy to steal it and the vital role of attention, faith, and the Word of God in keeping one's healing secure. Pastor Nancy provides practical, scriptural strategies for believers to ensure lasting victory in their health, emphasizing discipline in focusing one's attention and spiritual input.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Ongoing Battle for Your Healing (00:08–02:41)

Healing is not just a momentary event. Once a person receives healing—by faith, prayer, or laying on of hands—there remains an ongoing responsibility to hold onto that healing.
The enemy’s counterattack: The devil aims to bring back symptoms and sow doubt, attempting to make believers think their healing "didn’t work."
- “Just because symptoms return does not mean that you’ve lost your healing... The devil will use symptoms to try to get you to let go of your healing.” (B, 01:32)
Response to symptoms: They are framed as temptations to revert to sickness—resist them like any other temptation.
- “Pain and symptoms are nothing but a temptation to be sick.” (B, 02:04)
- “You just resist that temptation by taking your stand on the Word of God.” (B, 02:26)

2. The Role of the Word in Maintaining Healing (02:51–07:51)

Imitating Jesus: He healed, but also “went everywhere teaching, preaching, and healing.” Teaching ensured people had the Word in them to resist counterattacks and hold onto their healing.
- “Through the teaching and preaching of the Word, he was getting God’s truth into the people... as a safeguard.” (B, 03:56)
Giving the Word place in your life is essential. “So we have to take our place in the Word and give the Word its place in us so that we can hold fast to the healing that belongs to us.” (B, 04:43)
Pastor Nancy begins to teach from Proverbs 4:20–22, underlining its foundational importance.

3. Deep Dive on Proverbs 4:20–22 (07:51–19:40)

a. Attending to God’s Words: A Matter of Attention

“My son, attend to my words...” The call is to give God’s Word first place above every other word.
- “Put your attention on His words. Why? Because something else will always want your attention. And it matters where you let your attention go.” (B, 09:18)
The power of attention: Pastor Nancy recounts an anecdote about a scientist hearing a demonic being claim his attention:
- “Your attention is mine and it will always be.”
  She underscores: “If the wrong thing gets your attention, it can get everything connected to it—your future, your mind, your life.” (B, 12:08)
Personal discipline: “Whatever gets your attention gets an entrance into your life.” (B, 10:54)

b. Three Instructions in Proverbs 4

1. Incline your ear to my sayings (listen and tune in intentionally to God’s Word).
2. Let them not depart from your eyes (constant focus, not letting visual distractions or symptoms become central).
- Illustrated by a testimony: A 19-year-old tennis player, diagnosed with cancer, put a life-size poster of himself playing tennis at the foot of his bed as he underwent treatment. He declared, “I’ll do that again. I’m coming off this bed and I’m going to play tennis again.” (B, 20:58) After staying focused on that outcome, he was healed and returned to professional tennis.
3. Keep them in the midst of your heart (internalizing, meditating, and storing the Word within until it becomes faith).

c. Symptom Return and Selective Attention

Symptoms or negative words might come, but you choose what to attend to.
- “Just because the devil threatens or suggests some things and you hear it does not mean that you’re believing it.” (B, 15:03)
- “It’s not a sin to hear the threats of the enemy. It’s a sin to let your attention go to the threats of the enemy.” (B, 15:20)
Example from David and Goliath: David heard Goliath’s threats, but immediately turned his attention to God’s covenant. “The greatest thing David had working for him was the covenant and the God of the covenant.” (B, 18:47)

4. Practical Application: Guarding Ears, Eyes, and Heart (22:49–25:53)

To keep healing, you must actively control:
- What you hear (“Incline your ear...”)
- What you see (“Let [the words] not depart from your eyes...”)
- What you store inside (“Keep them in the midst of your heart...”)
“God’s Word is food for your spirit. It is faith food. It’s food for your faith. Amen. It’s also food for your mind. Your mind needs it. So that you think right.” (B, 24:18)

5. Healing Requires Active Seeking (24:31–26:07)

Proverbs 4:22: “For they are life unto those that find them, and health [medicine] to all their flesh.”
- Emphasis on finding the Word—blessings and healing don’t come by accident but by actively seeking, feeding, and storing the Word.
- “We can’t just sit back and coast into the blessings of God... They move in those who find them. Meaning this: you have to show yourself interested.” (B, 24:44)

Memorable Quotes

“Pain and symptoms are nothing but a temptation to be sick.” – Pastor Nancy (02:04)
“Whatever gets your attention gets an entrance into your life.” – Pastor Nancy (10:54)
“If the wrong thing gets your attention, it can get everything connected to it—your future, your mind, your life.” – Pastor Nancy (12:08)
“Just because the devil threatens or suggests some things and you hear it does not mean that you’re believing it.” – Pastor Nancy (15:03)
“It’s not a sin to hear the threats of the enemy. It’s a sin to let your attention go to the threats of the enemy.” – Pastor Nancy (15:20)
“The greatest thing David had working for him was the covenant and the God of the covenant.” – Pastor Nancy (18:47)
“God’s Word is food for your spirit... Your mind needs it so that you think right.” – Pastor Nancy (24:18)
“We can’t just sit back and coast into the blessings of God... They move in those who find them. Meaning this: you have to show yourself interested.” – Pastor Nancy (24:44)

Timestamps for Key Segments

00:08–02:41: The ongoing battle after healing; resisting the enemy’s counterattack.
02:51–07:51: Teaching, preaching, and the Word as safeguards; introduction to Proverbs 4:20.
07:51–19:40: In-depth discussion on attention, Proverbs 4 breakdown, anecdote about the scientist and the tennis player.
22:49–25:53: Practical application—guarding what you hear, see, and store in your heart.
24:31–26:07: Active seeking for healing; summary and closing encouragement.

Closing Note

Pastor Nancy concludes with a promise of more teaching in future episodes, urging listeners to “come back next episode.” She reiterates the central truth: “Jesus is the healer.”

For listeners new and returning, this episode underscores that lasting healing is possible, but requires focused, ongoing faith discipline—especially regarding where you place your attention and which words you allow to shape your belief.

Transcript

A (0:00)

Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message.

B (0:08)

Welcome. We're so glad you're with us today. For Jesus the healer, we invite you. Get your Bible, get something to take notes on, because we're expecting for God to speak to you and answers to come for your life. Amen. We've been taking the last several episodes and we've been teaching on something that's important in the health of the believer, and that is how to keep your healing. You know, we can believe for healing power to flow, healing power to operate, someone can minister to us. But once we walk away from that setting, once we walk away from that place of releasing our faith and a manifestation of healing has come, we're not finished. I mean, we have. We are sustained by a lifestyle, faith in the word of God. So we have to carry on with a lifestyle of faith. Why is that? Because the enemy is busy trying to steal from us everything that God's ever blessed us with. And so we have to, if I could say this, just make sure that we're ever turned in our faith toward God and his Word. So we're talking about how to keep your faith. So we invite you go back and watch previous episodes, but we're not going to get it all finished today, so you're going to have to come back and visit us again. No matter what method that you received your healing through, whether someone laid hands on you, whether there was the prayer of agreement, whether you just released your faith in God and you said, I know healing belongs to me, and you receive your healing because you released your faith. No matter what method is used, the devil will launch a counter attack to try to again bring back the old symptoms, the old pains that might have been so familiar to you. He's trying to deceive you into thinking that your faith doesn't work for you or the word doesn't work for you, and just know this, you, just because symptoms return does not mean that you've lost your healing. That's right. Amen. The devil will use symptoms to try to get you to let go of your healing. And what do you do in the face of symptoms? Well, what do you do in the face of any temptation? You just resist. And you say, I'm not going that way. That's not something I'm going to yield to. If the temptation, if I say to lie on somebody came, you would say, I'm not gonna do that. You would just. You would resist that temptation. Right. You would remember something. What do you remember? No. This is against the Word. I'm not doing that. Well, even so, pain and symptoms are nothing but a temptation to be sick. Yes. So what do you do? You say, no, I'm not going that way. The exact same way. It's a tempt temptation that comes to the flesh. And you just resist that temptation by taking your stand on the Word of God. Amen. So the devil will try to launch a counterattack. It doesn't mean your faith isn't working. It doesn't mean God's Word isn't working. It means that the devil's working. Amen. Why? Because that's what he does. He's a destroyer. He's not satisfied in your life until he can take something from it. Well, don't let him be satisfied. Don't let him have anything that belongs to you. Amen. And so the Word of God instructs us different things that we're to do. Whenever we have received something from God, we have to take a stand. One of the things first we have to do is. How many of you know Jesus? Whenever we're teaching, preaching and healing, we. What was he doing? He was getting the Word in people. Through the teaching and preaching of the Word, he was getting God's truth into the people. Why? So that they could cooperate with the healing. Then once they left where he was and counterattacks tried to come, the teaching of the Word was in them, the preaching of the Word was in them. And that teaching and preaching was a safeguard to them. As they exercised their faith in God's Word, then that Word would work in their behalf. That so Jesus did not just go everywhere healing. Jesus went everywhere teaching, preaching and healing. Why? Because he was equipping them with something to help them hold fast to their healing by giving them the teaching of the Word, the preaching of the Word. So we have to take our place in the Word and give the Word its place in us so that we can hold fast to. To the healing that belongs to us. Amen. Amen. We finished off the previous episode. We were referring to Proverbs chapter 4. I want us to go back there. Proverbs 4:20 gives us some important instruction. It needs to be a keynote verse for your life. Proverbs 4, verse 20 reads, My son, aren't you glad you're his? When he uses the word son, that's a family term. That's a family term. So we're his family. But as family, he instructs us to do something. My son, attend to my Words. What's that mean? Well, that means give his word first place. That means place his word above any other word. That means when we say the word attend, we can also look at the word attention. If we're going to attend to something, we're going to give it our attention. If you're going to tend to your children, attend to them. You're going to give them some kind of attention. If you're going to attend to your finances, you're going to put your attention on that and you're going to deal with that. So when he says, my son, attend to my words, one of the best things to remember is put your attention on his words. Why is that? Because something else will always want your attention. And it matters where you live. Your attention. Go. Then he tells us what to do to attend to his words. The next phrase is tell us how to attend to his words. Number one, incline your ear to what he says. Number two, let them not depart from thine eyes. Number three, keep them in the midst of thine heart. And then he tells us, why are we attending to his word through doing these three things with the eyes, the ears, the heart? Why? Because the next phrase tells us what we'll arrive at. For they are life unto those that find them in health. Or the Hebrew says, medicine to all their flesh. So when God says, attend to my words, he's saying, take my medicine. Amen. Take my medicine. The doctors will prescribe people medicine. Why? For them to take it. Well, God prescribes the medicine of his word. Well, what do we have to do? We have to take it. Now go back. I want you to see in verse 20. My son, attend to my words. You know it will help you when you're feeding on the Word, to go through a sentence and emphasize each word independent of the other, meaning this, My son. If you say, my son, what does that mean? He calls me my His. He says, my son, I'm so glad I belong to Him. Meditate on these things. I'm so glad I belong to Him. I belong to Him. He belongs to me. My son. That was. That means something. I was purchased to be his son. Adopted. The blood of Jesus. So you focus on one word at a time and preach it to yourself. My son. Attends. Put your attention on. Look at this. My words. Why does he tell us to put our attention on his words? Because we're going to hear other words and he's telling us, choose whose words. Don't just mindlessly listen and take in and put your attention just on any words. He tells you what to do with your attention. Put them, put your attention on my words. Why? Because the devil says words. Your body will talk to you, your flesh will talk to you, your feelings will talk to you, your emotions will talk to you. They'll say, we want attention. Amen. And whatever gets your attention gets an entrance into your life. So God is telling us if we're going to as in this, in this life of faith and to hold fast and to enjoy a life of health and healing, we're going to have to do something with our attention. That means once you've received healing, it matters what you do with your attention. You cannot let yourself go back and entertain things of the past, things of past symptoms, things of past pains. And you put your attention back on that. Keep your attention in the right direction. Amen, my son. Attend to my words. I want to, I want to tell you about years ago, maybe 15 years ago. I was going across the television flicking, you know, through the channels. And I've always been one who liked more history, historical type things, biography type things. And there was on like a biographical channel where they're doing biographies of people. And they were talking about a structure, some large structure, a scientific structure that was built out here in Southern California. And it was built in the early 1900s. And there was a scientist who developed some, something and this structure was, you know, housing that scientific thing that he was working on. So he was, he was developing all this building a building to house it. He had really gotten a lot of financial funding through millionaires of the day that they would fund scientific exploration, so to speak. And they had, they had given him multiple millions and he was leading a scientific team. So he had a lot of responsibility because he had to answer to these people. There was a lot of money involved, he had promised some things and he was just under a lot of obligation to carry this project through. In the process of it, he wasn't resting and over time, just through really not even resting properly and working his mind really, it was a lot of mental strain. Just even naturally what he did and his mind started breaking down and he started having mental problems. In the course of this project, in this television broadcast, they were interviewing one of his fellow scientists that had worked with him. Now this man had died that had headed up this. But his co worker, his co scientist was being interviewed and he was a man well up into his 90s and he was telling something that happened with this lead scientist. And the lead scientist had come in one day and had said to him, he said, I was laying in bed last night and he said he couldn't fall off to sleep. And he said some being came into my room. Now, I don't, I don't know that he was a Christian. There was nothing that alluded to that. But he said a being came into my room and stood by my bed and listen. And we know this. What is it? It's an evil spirit. Because we know by what's said. And this being said to this scientist said, you, attention is mine and it will always. Well, see, this man heard that and it frightened him. Notice what that evil spirit didn't say. He didn't say your mind is mine. He didn't say your future is mine. He didn't say your life is mine. He said your attention is. Why? Because if the wrong thing gets your attention, it can get everything connected to it can get your future, it can get your life, it can get your mind. God's already told us what to do with our attention. Attend to my words. So when a counter attack may come, it comes to get your attention. Symptoms show back up. Pain shows back up. Why? Because it wants your attention to again go back to the body. But God tells us what to do. Attend to my words. Attend to my words. Don't attend to what your body's saying to you. Don't attend to the reasonings of the mind. Attend to my words. This is critical and key if we're going to hold fast to everything we've received from God. Because this symptoms pains trying to return will talk to you and people will say, come up with this idea. They'll formulate these words. Well, I thought I was healed. I guess I'm not. You see those kinds of thoughts that the enemy will give you, you better at that time have your attention on what God says and not what opposition Sundays. So Proverbs 4:20 is critical and key to the life of faith. My son, attend to my words. In other words, he give. When he. He didn't say attend to words.