Podcast Summary: “How To Keep Your Healing, Part 9”

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Host/Speaker: Pastor Nancy Dufresne
Date: May 11, 2023

Episode Overview

In this rich, faith-building episode, Pastor Nancy Dufresne continues her series on “How To Keep Your Healing,” focusing on the importance of meditation on God’s Word as a means of maintaining spiritual and physical well-being after a healing. She offers practical teaching drawn from both Scripture and personal experience, clarifying the distinctions between memorization and meditation, and giving listeners actionable steps to safeguard their healing by stewarding peace, staying in God’s will, and cultivating gratitude.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Don’t Coast After Receiving Healing

• Counterattack is Common: Pastor Nancy opens with the reminder that after a healing, it’s not a time to become passive. The devil often tries to launch a “counterattack” through returning symptoms or old pains, in an effort to make believers accept back what they’ve already been delivered from.
  • Quote: “Just because symptoms try to return doesn’t mean that you’re not the healed still. You are still healed. But how do you take a successful stand in the counterattack so that you don’t allow the blessing of God to be stolen from you?” (01:24)

2. The Power and Practice of Meditation

• Meditation vs. Memorization:

  • Meditation is emphasized as the process by which the Word becomes truly “owned”—embedded in your spirit, not just your mind.
  • Quote: “Memorization is a mental act. Meditation involves your heart... Meditation is a firm hold, a firm grip, unshakable.” (16:30)

• Scriptural Foundation:

  • Joshua 1:8 is discussed as a key verse highlighting that our prosperity and success depend on how we treat the Word, not merely on God or the devil’s actions.
    • “Our safety is in our preparation. If we’re prepared with the word, there’s a safety.” (04:10)

What Is Meditation?

• Real-Life Example:

  • Pastor Nancy likens meditation to worry in reverse, suggesting that most people know how to meditate—they just do it with the wrong (negative) content.
    • Quote: “Worry is meditation in the negative direction… What are you doing? You’re meditating. You’re searching into that thought of what can I do to address this thought? That’s worry in the negative direction.” (07:55)

• Practical How-To:

  • Take a scripture and personalize it, turning it over and over in your thoughts and words, examining it from every angle.
    • “Take a verse, take it one word at a time and preach that thing to yourself. Look at it from different angles.” (10:30)

• Difference from Confession:

  • Many confess the Word but lack the deep results that come from meditating it into their spirit. Confessions without heart-rooted meditation can lead to disappointment.
    • “Confessions that are just come out of the mind, but not out of the heart because they haven’t landed in the heart yet… just parroting.” (14:50)

3. Ownership through Meditation

• Memorization is Temporary:

  • Illustrates with personal stories (such as piano memorization and school spelling tests) that mental knowledge is easily lost under pressure, while meditated truths endure.
    • “If it’s just in your memorization at a time of great pressure, the mind will forget it... But if it’s meditated on, it comes down into your spirit and your heart.” (18:55)

• Practical Result:

  • Once something is truly yours through meditation, you can “spend” it—apply it—anytime, even years later.

4. A Powerful Example: Healing Cloth and Meditation

• Testimony Shared:
  • Recounts a story where a woman with cancer received a cloth prayed over for healing, but she deliberately waited two weeks before using it, spending that time meditating on the Word and building her faith.
    • Quote: “She was giving the word first place. The moment that cloth touched her body... She went back to the doctor. Every bit of it was gone.” (24:56)
  • Lesson: Meditation prepares faith to receive, drives out fear, and allows for full ownership of the promise.

5. Three Ways Believers Open the Door to Sickness

• Revelation Received in Ministry:

  • Pastor Nancy shares a direct insight received in prayer, listing three ways believers lose their healing:
    1. Losing Peace: Through worry, fear, or doubt.
       • “Worry is the offspring. When fear and doubt get together, they produce an offspring called worry. Worry is turning over in your thought life something you have no business touching.” (29:05)
       • Worry about one area can affect all areas of life; losing peace opens the door to the enemy.
    2. Veering from God’s Plan: Disobeying God’s specific instructions removes believers from his covering.
    3. Lack of Gratitude: Failure to express consistent thankfulness blocks the flow of faith and opens vulnerability.
       • “Gratitude is an expression of faith. And the devil cannot get past your faith.” (35:40)

• Practical Tips:

  • Protect your peace by rejecting thoughts of worry (“You don’t get rid of thoughts with thoughts. You get rid of thoughts with words.” — Brother Copeland, quoted at 32:14).
  • Stay obedient to God’s direction.
  • Make gratitude a daily lifestyle: “His praise shall continually be in my mouth. When his praise is continually in our mouth, the door is continually closed to the devil too.” (36:52)

Memorable Moments & Notable Quotes

• “You can’t spend what you don’t own.” (06:30)
• “Himself took my infirmities… God himself, the Godhead got involved in my health.” (09:45)
• “Meditating the Word as a lifestyle… your spiritual life will deepen because that word will become one with you and you one with that word.” (12:15)
• “If it’s just in your memorization, at a time of great pressure, the mind will forget it… But if it’s meditated on, it comes down into your spirit and your heart.” (18:55)
• “Don’t lose your peace. Don’t let symptoms rob you of your peace. Amen. You close the door to worry. You refuse to worry. I will not touch that in my thought life.” (29:45)
• “The devil cannot get past your faith.” (35:40)

Important Timestamps

• 01:24 – How the devil counters healing; you must keep standing in faith.
• 04:10 – The role of preparation and meditation on the Word; reference to Joshua 1:8.
• 07:55 – Explaining meditation using the example of worry.
• 12:15 – Meditating vs. confessing and memorizing the Word.
• 16:30 – The limitations of memorization under pressure.
• 24:56 – Testimony of healing after meditation on the Word and releasing faith.
• 29:05 – Three ways believers open the door to sickness: losing peace, veering from God’s plan, lack of gratitude.
• 32:14 – The power of words: using confession to get rid of wrong thoughts.
• 36:52 – Living a lifestyle of gratitude as a defense against the enemy.

Conclusion

Pastor Nancy Dufresne underscores the vital importance of meditating—rather than just memorizing or confessing—the Word to keep your healing. She provides practical steps, powerful analogies, and real-life testimonies to empower believers to protect their peace, remain in obedience, and cultivate gratitude, so they can walk in sustained victory and hold fast to the blessings that rightfully belong to them through Christ.

Final Encouragement:
“His praise shall continually be in my mouth. When his praise is continually in our mouth, the door is continually closed to the devil too.” (36:52)

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