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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. And aren't you glad he is the healer? I just. It never gets old. Never. It never gets old. Thanking him for all that blessing, the blessings of God. But I tell you what, to have health, to have health, it's an honor, and it's a joy to live healed. Amen. So we're glad you're with us today. We invite you. Get your Bible, bring your faith with the word you hear today. Mix your faith in with it, because your faith converts that word into power in your life. Amen. We've been talking about how to keep your healing. Healing belongs to us. And many times we receive a manifestation of healing in our body. But many times people, I don't know if they just think, well, if I'm healed, I'll always be healed. Since I receive my healing, I'll always be healed. Well, healing always belongs to you. Absolutely. But we have an enemy. And Satan comes to steal, kill, and to destroy. And he will launch what we would call counterattacks where he will try to put symptoms on you to dupe you into thinking that you are now sick again. And we're talking about how to. How to have the Word so in us that we don't allow anything of our health to be robbed from us. Amen. And so we've been looking at Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 20. I want to again go back to there. We invite you. Go back. Watch previous episodes because we've been saying so much about this wonderful privilege we have of walking in faith so that we can keep our healing intact by the power of God, the Word of God. Amen. Through faith in the Word of God. Proverbs 4, verse 20 says, My son, attend to my words. And I like saying this, put your attention on my words because it matters what your attention is on. Amen. My son, attend to my words, Incline thine ear, or turn your ear to my sayings. Let them my words not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thine heart, for they his words are life unto those that find them, and health or medicine to all their flesh. We were saying on the last episode, we for medicine to do its work, even just naturally, you have to stay on it. You can't just take it once, set it aside and be done. It's an ongoing process of taking that medicine in and letting it do Its work. When we. I want us to look at something here. When Proverbs tells us, incline thine ear unto my sayings, it means this. Listen to what God's Word says. And when you feel symptoms in your body, God's Word has something to say about that. Listen to him on that. What does Matthew 8:17 tell us? It says, jesus took our infirmities, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. That is the Bible talking to you. That's Matthew 8:17 has something to say to us when symptoms show up. Listen to it. That's what it means. Incline thine ear unto my sayings. The Word is talking to you. The Word talks to you. Treat it. It is God's voice into our life. So turn your ear to what he's saying. And he's not saying it by standing in the room. He's saying it by giving you His Word to read on and feed on. Those verses are talking to you. And we have to learn to turn our ear from anything else we hear that's in opposition to what His Word is saying to us. Amen. So it says, let God's words not depart from thine eyes. Proverbs 4:20. Let God's words not depart from thine eyes. It is so tempting when you feel pain, when you feel symptoms, to focus on that body that's feeling something. So it takes a spiritual discipline. It takes the discipline of faith to say, oh, there's that. There's that symptom. There's a symptom there. I'm not going there. I'm going back to the Word. And I'm listening to what Matthew 8, 17. What other foundational healing scriptures are saying to me? Because they're talking to me. So it takes practice turning away from what you feel, away from what you hear, away from what you see. Healing doesn't flow from the body. Now notice this healing. You're not healed because healing flowed from the body. Healing. The body is not the source of healing. So you don't check the body to see if healing's flowing. Very good. Amen. The source of healing. The Word tells us God sent His Word and healed them. Ah, the Word is the healer today, Jesus the healer is healing through the Word he sent. And he is the Word made flesh, isn't it? When he was walking on this earth, he was the Word made flesh. So the Word tells us he sent His Word and healed them. So healing doesn't flow from the body. Don't check the body to see if you're healed. You Check the place it flows from. Check the Word. The Word is the place healing flows from. We check the Word. What's the Word say about this? Amen. And so that's when we're instructed. In Proverbs 4, 20, it talks about, incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thine heart. He's talking about that healing word is the source. The body is the recipient of healing. It's not the source of healing. It's the recipient of healing power, but it's not the source of it. To live healed and walk in divine health, we need to check the Source. Stay focused on the Source. Keep our eyes on the Source. Keep the Source what the Source says in our mouth, not what the Body says in our mouth. Because the body tell you you're in pain. The body will tell you you're getting worse. But the Source says himself took your infirmities. This is what faith does. It holds to the Source in the face of circumstances. Amen. It takes a spiritual discipline. That is the flow of faith. Colossians, chapter three, and verse 16 says, Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. What would we say there? In an abundant measure? If the Word is in you richly, there's an abundant measure of the Word in you. When you are full of the Word, it's easier to stand your ground in the face of opposition. Let me use an example. Might be a weak example, but I'm gonna use it anyway. Have you ever had a flower pot, A large flower pot, and it is empty. You just bought it. It's easier to pick it up and move it. Fill that big flower pot with dirt and try to move it. Sometimes you can't try. I mean, I have had pots, big, big ones. Even a dolly wouldn't have been able to move this. I'd have to empty it back out before I could move it. When you get full of the healing word and opposition comes, it can't move you because you're full, you're anchored. Does that make sense to you? Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. Get full of it. Because then the winds of adversity can't blow you around. Amen. And you may say, pastor Nancy, is it difficult when your body is in pain to keep your tension off of that body, off of that pain? Unless you're full of something else. Yes. Come on. Yes. And you have to practice. You have to practice holding your attention on the Word. Amen. Amen. So remember what it talks about. In Romans, chapter four, it talks about Abraham talks about his faith. It says, he considered not his own body. He considered not his own body. Now dead. What was that? Unable to produce a child, he considered not his own body. That's what faith does. When he was considering not his own body. What's that mean? He didn't let his attention go to his body. He didn't let his conversation go to his body. He didn't let his thought life go to his body. He considered not his own body. So that's what faith practice is doing. Yeah. And then we're also told in Romans, but consider Jesus. If we're not to consider something, what are we to consider? Because if we're going to take our tension off something, we have to put it on something. So the Word tells us, abraham, consider not his own body. Then in Hebrews tells us, consider him. Consider Jesus. Consider the price he paid. Consider what he said. Consider that it was laid on him. Amen. So it's a re. You're still considering something, but you're redirecting on purpose what you consider. You're not considering your body. You're not considering symptoms. You're considering the one who bore that for you. Amen. So is it difficult to keep your eyes off your body when you're in pain? You have to practice it. You have to practice it. And one of the best ways also to practice it is worship. Yes, ma'. Am. Worshiping will immediately get your focus directed to something greater than what you're feeling. Speak the word, worship God for His Word. Thank him for His Word. Amen. I can't tell you the number of times when I was feeling something and I was feeling pain and I would just start worshiping, worshiping God, worshiping God for His Word, thanking God for His Word, thanking Him that His Word was true in me. And while I'm worshiping, then all of a sudden my tension left the pain. And before long the pain left. Why? Because it couldn't get my attention. Amen. The devil comes to get your attention. And if he can't get your attention, he goes somewhere else where he can get attention. Yes, that's true. That's true. Amen. Then the Word tells us in. It tells us in Proverbs 4 Again, keep them. Or keep God's words in the midst of thine heart. Notice that. Why is that? Because the heart is the storage place for the faith of God, the life of God. It flows from in your spirit, your heart, not the organ of the heart, the heart of your being, the center of your being, which is the spirit of man. So your heart is a storage place. Store up God's word there. Then you'll have a rich supply of heavenly food for your life. You know this, ladies. It's easier to cook a meal when the pantry shelves are full rather than empty. That's true. It's very. It's slim pickings when there's not much on the shelf in your kitchen of resources, supplies. But if it's fully loaded, you can make so much, you eat so much better. Right? I want to quote something that. Proverbs 18:14. Let's go there. Proverbs 18:14, and this is the Amplified classic translation. I want to read it. It says, the strong spirit, a man sustains him in bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit, who can raise up or bear. Now look at that again. Go back. Verse 14. The strong spirit. How is someone going to have a strong spirit? Be full of the Word. The word stored up in your heart makes your spirit strong. The strong spirit of a man, look at this. Sustains him in bodily pain or trouble. What does that mean? Well, it means this. When pain comes, trouble comes. But your heart is full of the word. Now you have a higher place to draw from than on the pain you draw from that word that has strengthened your spirit. Now you've got a strength to draw on. And what you're drawing on can now dominate that pain and trouble and overcome it. Because you've got a resource of divine words in you. You just haven't. You have a higher place to draw on than your flesh. Amen. A higher place to draw on than the symptoms that may be trying to come. Amen. We're told in Matthew 12:34, for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. So when we're storing the word up in our heart, we don't just leave it stored. You know, if a woman stocks her pantry in her kitchen with all this food, but she never goes in and takes anything off the shelf, the family doesn't eat it. And it can sit there and become at one point unusable, Right? Because it gets old, it becomes unusable. You can't even use it. It's not stocking everything up that guarantees success. It's stocking it up and accessing it, using it, spending it. Well, how do you spend? When Colossians said, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, why? So you can spend. And so Matthew 12:34 says, for out of the abundance of the heart, what you put in your heart in abundance. Look at this. The mouth speaketh. So we can always tell what's in us in abundance by listening to what's coming out of our mouth. And to get what's in our heart out of our mouth, I mean, out into our life, we have to put it in our mouth. So we store up the word. We have to draw on that word by speaking it out. Amen. We store up the faith. You draw it out through the mouth by speaking when we're faced with opposition. Because we're talking about how to keep your healing. Make your mouth do its work. When symptoms show up, make your mouth do its work. You can't just say, well, I'm feeding on the word. I'm feeding on the word. Hearing the word does not change this realm. Now get that. Hearing the word does not change this realm. Hearing the word stores God's word and the faith in your heart. But this realm isn't changed until what you heard is spoken and acted on. It has to be released. So after you've received healing symptoms, try to come back on you the faith that you've been storing up in your heart, you're going to have to spend it. Then start spending it. Amen. Boldly proclaim every day. It's so good to be healed. Thank God. Listen, listen. What you're grateful for, the devil can't steal from you. Lack of gratitude means lack of watchfulness. If we're grateful, it's because we're mindful of something. Isn't that right? Yeah. If we're thanking God for our healing, it's keeping us mindful that we're healed. If we don't. If we don't acknowledge it much, it's because we're not thinking about it. And I'm not talking about 24 hours a day solid. I'm talking. It's sprinkled throughout your life, throughout your day. You're just grateful. You get in your car. Oh, God, it's so good to be healed. Thank you. I so appreciate it. And when you say that the gratitude is a flow of faith. It's a flow of faith. You're releasing faith through gratitude. Praising, worshiping God, showing gratitude, Speaking words of gratitude is one way of releasing your faith. And as you're releasing your faith, the power of God is flowing and the devil has a closed door. He cannot get in. Amen. Now go with me to Joshua, chapter one. We're talking about how to keep your healing that you received. Joshua, chapter one, verse eight. It reads this book of the law, shall not depart out of thy mouth. What's that mean? It's just a lifestyle of keeping the word in our mouth. It's not something foreign to us. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night. What's this mean, lifestyle? It's not saying 24 hours a day. That's all you're doing. It's saying it's part of your day and it's part of part of your night. Amen. Thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Notice it doesn't say, God makes your way prosperous. You're making your way prosperous by how you're treating the word. Amen. Now in this verse. Now we have to remember when this verse was spoken to Joshua. It was right after the death of Moses. That first generation that was delivered out of Egypt. They're wandering for 40 years in the wilderness. They never arrived into the promised land that God had made theirs. They never went on in living in proximity of God's best, but never arriving. I don't want to do that. I don't want to just live in proximity of God's best. I want to be a full partaker. Amen. Of what he's provided. So this first generation didn't enter in. God was telling Joshua, this next generation, how is he going to turn a people that didn't arrive into God's best into a people that arrives into God's best? This verse is how. This book of the law. I love these two words at the front of that verse. This book, this book. There is no book like this book. He's very specific. It's this book. Why? Because this book holds God's words. They are God's words. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth. He's saying, you're going to have to do something with God, with what God said if you're going to arrive when we receive healing manifested in our body and symptoms come, we're going to have to do something with God's word. We're going to have to take the words of this book, put them in our mouth, and notice this. It says, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night. How come the first generation didn't arrive? Well, they were in doubt. They were in unbelief. Right, we know that. But why were they because of how they treated God's Word. They were in unbelief because of how they treated God's Word. So basically, God is telling Joshua to get this second generation in. They're going to have to treat my Word differently than their parents treated them. It's all about how we treat the Word. It's all about the place we give the Word in our life. Amen. How we honor the Word. In this verse, God's not mentioned, the devil's not mentioned. But what is mentioned? Well, the last phrase is then Thou shalt make thy way prosperous and have good success. This verse is telling us how to prosper and how to have good success. How many of you know good success with your health? That's right. This isn't just talking about a financial situation. Thou shalt make thy way prosperous. That's talking about. That includes financial success. But it's not limited to financial success. We want prosperous health. We want a family that's prosperous, that there's just inconsistency, increase all in their life, in every arena of life. How's that going to happen? How are we going to arrive at this fullness that has been made ours? How we treat the Word. How we treat the Word. As I said in this verse, God's not mentioned, the devil's not mentioned. You know what's mentioned. The Word is mentioned and we are mentioned. How we treat the Word determines how we're going to live. Right there when symptoms try to come back. How we treat the Word is going to determine what happens when we get married, how sweet our home is. It's going to be how we treat the Word. It's going to determine how sweet our home is, our children blessed and sound. And sound minds. It's going to be how we treat the Word we are receiving in life. How we're treating the the Word. Everything is how we're treating the Word. The people that are not born again, that are not saved, it's because they are that way, because of how they've treated the Word. Some haven't heard the Word, but those who have heard the Word, it's how they're treating the Word. Then those who haven't heard the Word, sometimes they haven't sought out to know God. They go to a place where they can hear him about Him. You see, everything in life, in our life is going to show up and going to be a testimony of how we're treating the Word. Amen. When symptoms and a counterattack shows up to try to steal your healing from you, what you're going to do. It's going to be based on how you treat the word. How we treat the word. Now, it says here, thou shalt meditate therein in the word day and night. What's this word meditate mean? It means to think into it deeply. Let it roll around on the inside. Speak it to yourself. Drive it down into your heart. When we meditate on the Word, that's how we put the Word in us and that's how we put us in the Word. Amen. So that we take ownership of that word. It's no longer just words in a book. Those are my words. I love when Paul talks and writes in the New Testament. He said my gospel. How many times he called it my gospel. Well, he was writing as it was moved on. He was moved on by the Holy Ghost, but it was so much a part of him, he called it my gospel. Meditating on the Word is how you take ownership of the Word. And you can't spend what you don't own. You have to take the time to get it in you so you can spend it well. You don't want to miss next time. We're going to continue this direction and you got to hear it. Amen. So until next time, remember this Jesus is the healer. God bless you. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings and share your testimony. Become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.