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Making Changes Brings Glory | Nancy Dufresne | High Springs, Florida | JTH Crusades 2026 | Sunday PM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. I was. I was listening to the account of a man telling about a vision that he had years ago. He ended up having a healing ministry. This was decades ago that he saw a vision. And in that vision, he said he saw honeycomb over the earth. And he said there was just honey pouring out of that honeycomb. And he said people were walking up and down the streets, traveling and moving about. And he said some of them recognized and started partaking of it. He said others just ignored it. And then he said, but the ones that were partaking of it, they took it for themselves. But he said then they also started gathering it up and just distributing it to others. And when he saw this, he said, God, what am I seeing? And God said this to him. He said, that is my healing and my salvation that's already been poured out for everyone, and there's plenty. He said, don't ever beg me for healing or mercy again. It's already been poured out. And he said, the provision is down there. Receive what I've already provided. What did that do? He just made it easy. And too many times we're waiting for God to do something, and he's waiting on us to recognize. And just by faith, just step in and take it all. Amen. Hallelujah. Let's just raise that. Let's sing it again, if you would. David,
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Sh. Your house forever and bless your Lord Holy. I will dwell in your house forever and bless your holy name. Your holy name and bless your holy. And bless your holy name.
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Just a couple of days ago, I. I was at home, and just the spirit of God began to move on me. And I started praying for someone I knew it was in these meetings. If you're here tonight, I'll minister to you. If you're not here, I'll keep giving it a call in every service till we locate who it is. But it was a sense of someone so overwhelmed by what they were facing, such a loss of hope, that they even despaired of life. And if that describes you, I want you to know we've come to the place. Anytime you lose hope, go to the Word and get all you need, but also come to a place like this and be changed. Amen. So if that describes you, you know, I was thinking about it. I told my sons, you know, well, before Stephen married Morgan, Grant's not married yet. But I said, you will not do me like Esau did. His mother Esau married someone outside the covenant and said she so made the life of her mother in law, Esau's mom, so hard that it said that she despaired even of life. I said, you'll never bring someone in this household that causes me to be at that point. But I want you to know, sometimes circumstances, sometimes other people can do things that cause it to where you just go, just don't lay down your future for an event. Don't lay it down for any person. Because the greatness of God's plan for your life, it's not worth exchanging it for anything like that. So does that speak to anybody particular? Because like I said, if I don't find him tonight, I'm going to go after him in every service. But if that describes you, we've been singing about it tonight. And you can receive everything you need so that you walk out of here and it's as though it never happened. That's what the anointing does. It destroys every single yoke. And it may be for different reasons that someone is facing that. But I could do it at the end of the service. But I think you'd receive more from the sermon if I ministered to you early on. So if that's you come up here real quickly and you say, well, I don't want anybody to know. Listen, I'll take anything I can get. Any help I can get anybody else, come on up here because I want you to know there is complete. There is complete wholeness, spirit, soul and body. Amen. Hallelujah. Let's just lift up our hands and worship the Lord. Let's give people time to be ministered to. Father, we thank you tonight. We thank you, Father. Hallelujah. Just keep lifting up your hands. Let's sing it again. Go ahead and sing it. We thank you, Father.
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Worship.
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Every bit of that Go Every bit of that goat. Every bit of that goat. Every bit of that go In Jesus name. Every bit of that. Every bit of that go every bit of that leech. In Jesus name. In Jesus name, Jesus name your house
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forever and bless your holy. Mercy. Walk beside me all my days. I will dwell in your house forever and let your. Your house forever and bless your holy name.
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Hallelujah. Morgan announced that book called Victory over Grief and Sorrow. The Word tells us Jesus, he bore our griefs and sorrows. It's often spelled out as sickness, disease, weakness, pain. But why did he bear it? Because it's so devastating that you can't bear it. You understand that? And we have to recognize that we have to say, I'm not even going to try to come under that thing. And you just. I cast it over. I cast it. I cast it. And you remove yourself. You step out from under that, say, I'm not bearing it. He bore it. That's how I stayed out of that is because I chose not to give it a place to land on me. And I recognize grief and sorrow is so devastating that it requires the Godhead to get involved. And the Godhead got involved and bore it. Amen. And you're free from it. And when the enemy tries to take its place on you, you say, I'm removed from that. It's not me that has nothing. I'm done with that. Amen. You just have to. You don't wait for something to change around you before you decide. I'm not carrying that. Amen. Because our freedom is total. It's total. It's total.
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Last night I was that verse, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Well, that truth has to become revelation to you. And when it becomes revelation to you, the struggle's over. You understand that when I'm struggling with something, I know I lack revelation. I don't lack necessarily faith, I lack revelation. Because if I get the revelation, the faith is with it. The faith comes with the revelation. So many times we're trying to struggle to get something when all I need to do, I need to change the way I'm thinking about this. I need to change the way I'm thinking about this. And I'm just telling you, the change that you're authorized to always remember is Jesus bore every grief and sorrow. And I will never, never it rests with me again. Amen. And I don't wait for situations and circumstances to change before I walk free from that. I cast it over on him and I say, there you go. It's all yours. And I'm not touching it again. Not touching it. My thought life. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Well, the Lord is good. Father, we thank you, we thank you. We thank you. There's all kinds of situations that can that put us at a place where sorrow and grief tries to come. But I want you to know I'm not giving the day one more day of my joy. I'm not giving the devil one more day of my joy. He's not getting one more day of my peace. He's had all he's going to get. But now I know something. Now I know something. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Well, turn around and give somebody around you a great big God bless you. Then you can be seated. Seated tonight. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Just turn me up a little bit up here, if you will, for me. Just a little bit for me. Thank you. Hallelujah. Well, welcome, everyone. We're so glad you're here. Thank you for coming, Ms. Reba. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ma'. Am. Love you and all those up there. When you hear this woman sing, Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome, she's just not doing a cover for somebody that's her mama's song. We've been living off of that well for a long time. And so that is very personal when you get to hear Reba Rambeau sing. Dottie Rambo, right? Leanne. Who? Leanne Sews. There's Leanne. She was up there singing with them, and she said, I would have never dreamed years ago that I'd one day be standing on the platform singing with Reba Rambeau. I said, sister, me neither. But we're so glad you're here, David. Thank you. Thank you to the worship team. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Pastor Greg, it was a blessing this morning. Thank you. I got so many notes. And, you know, the thing is, is I wrote down stuff before the service this morning, and you just followed. Real pleased with my hearing that I was in line with the pastor here, so if you weren't here, get that service. Oh, my, my, my, my. It was wonderful. Thank you, pastor. Romans, chapter 12. But before, as you go there, Pastor Greg and Amy Anderson, stand up. I want them to give you a great big God bless you. Thank you for hosting us. Turn around, let them see you. Thank you. And thank you to the church family for all you've done to prepare for our arrival. You have done so, so much. Thank you. We appreciate it. We love the founding pastors here, Pastor Edwin and Angela Anderson. Stand up. Stand up. You're sitting in a building that their faith and your faith brought here and their ministry has for 43 years. They pastored you and their son so faithfully served, and now he's serving in another capacity. So don't you love it when families move together in the plan of God? And so you're sitting in generations and decades of faithfulness tonight. So we're just grateful to be here and thank you for joining us. Romans, chapter 12 and verse 1. And we'll just start there, and I'll leave. Tony, I'll let you stay up there just a little Bit, brother, you know, just helping me. Thank you. Romans, chapter 12, verse 1. The King James translation. God was speaking and said, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Can I say, you can only do that by the mercy of God. Amen. And then he said that you present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. What happens with the sacrifice? It dies. So you're the living sacrifice. You've died to your own plan. You've died to something you formulated. Aren't you glad that for the rest of your life you don't ever have to form a plan, you just have to hear one, because the plan has already been authored by heaven. Amen. Thank you, Tony. I appreciate it. So he said that you present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. The new Living translation said this. You can bring me down just a little bit. Thank you, Brother Joel. New Living Translation of verse one. And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with why is it because it's this critical that a man of God would plead with you? Make sure this is addressed. I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. What's he done for you? He's made a way for your body to succeed. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice, the kind he will find acceptable. Look at this next phrase, the new Living translation. This is truly the way to worship Him. Ah. Handling the body is a form of worship. How we handle the body is a form of worship. Isn't that something? This is truly the way to worship him. So worship isn't just something that we say. It's something, something that we do that involves our body. Also, how we handle our body day to day, where we let it go, what we let it participate in, what we engage in, what we respond to, what we don't respond to, that our body is for his worship, not just our words, our body. Amen. How I handle my body is not just a physical act, it's a spiritual act. Now listen to that. How I handle my body is not just a physical act, it is a spiritual act. And it's to be a spiritual act of worship that he's glorified. Amen. When it says, the King James says, present your bodies to God, you go, well, how do I present my body to God? Well, how did we present it to sin? We responded to it, we yielded to it, we participated in it. Well, likewise, instead of presenting it to sin or wrongdoing, now we present it to God that we're his vessel, that he fills and he sends us and he directs us and he leads us and we follow and respond to Him. And we need our bodies to do that. Amen. Yes, we're spirit beings. We respond from our heart. But your body's going to have to get involved. Amen. We have to realize this. Our bodies don't belong to us. You say, well, I gave God my heart. No, all of you. All of you. All of you. And you can't sing. God, I give you my heart. No, he's already God. Amen. You can't give him what's already his. I'm wearing this watch. Don't walk up. Take it off my arm, then turn around and present it to me. Can't do it. I'll go. I recognize that's mine. You can't give me mo. It's mine. You evidently took what was mine and you're trying to give it back to me and act like you've given me something. Don't take your body and your life and then turn around to God and say, I'm giving it to you. No, you shouldn't have beheaded to begin with. It was mine all along. And you've been carrying off something that wasn't yours. We're his from salvation. We're his spirit, soul and body. Amen. He purchased us. He purchased us. So it does matter what we do with our body. I know this, that if we don't get our bodies presented to God, our bodies can ruin our lives. Loving God in our heart, but our body ruining our life. God did something with your spirit at the new birth. He gave you a new one. He didn't give you a new body. He didn't give you a new mind. He told you, now. Now that you have my divine life, now that you have the nature of God, you take that nature, you take my word, and you do something with your body and you do something with your mind. You know, a sound mind is not one. People think that all unsound minds are contained somewhere in a mental institution with soft walls around them. And that's not true. God became an author, wrote down his thoughts. Thoughts and said, here, take them. And it's an unsound mind that says, no, I think I'll stick with my way of thinking. That's unsound. In Christ, we have been given the mind of Christ. Amen. My mind is his. So that means that I have To I have to agree with his thoughts and make his thoughts my own. And that is a glorious privilege, not a hardship. It's not hard work to renew the mind. What's hard is to live with the unrenewed mind. Now, that's the hard work. Amen. And so we present our bodies to God. We are the stewards and custodians of our bodies, but we're not the owner. He owns us. He bought us. And isn't he a lovely owner? He is not a hard taskmaster. I was talking to some minister, and they were talking about their schedule and that they weren't able. They were just so busy that they were going here and they were going there and they were worn out. And I said, well, the bad thing is you're working for the wrong taskmaster. Because I said, God is not a hard taskmaster. Wearing you down and destroying. Destroying that which he owns. Well, praise the Lord. We're talking about a healing crusade here. So let's go all the way. Talking about the body, right? First Thessalonians, chapter 5. First Thessalonians, chapter 5 and verse 23. This is the King James translation. First Thessalonians 5, verse 23. And Paul is writing. And he said, in the very God of peace, sanctify you wholly. And I pray God, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it. So involve him in this. You're not trying to do this apart from him? Well, I'm trying to keep my flesh under. Not apart from him, you can't. It takes the mercy of God. And as Pastor Greg said today, this morning, talking about repentance, it's a gift from God. But can I also tell you what repentance is? God rewards repentance. He rewards it. It's not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength. And when the prodigal son came back and repented to the Father, the Father just loaded him up and he put the robe on him, put the ring on him, and then killed the fatted calf for having a party. What's this public announcement? I'm not ashamed of my son. I am not. People might have been ashamed. The Father was not ashamed. When you repent, the Father's never ashamed of you. Don't you ever fall under the shame of the devil because the Father of the prodigal son put on a public display of the Son's favor with him again. Amen. The amplified classic translation of First Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 23. And may the God of peace himself sanctify you through and through, separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God. How does he separate you from profane things? Well, he has to have your agreement because he won't force you, but he empowers you to walk away. And you try to enjoy what you used to enjoy, and you go, hmm, how come I just don't enjoy it the same? That's God's goodness helping you to not enjoy that which destroys your life. Amen. You find new enjoyment. I can't believe y' all go to church so much. Oh, yes. I've been separated from that which ruins my life. Right. I've had people that. People that said to me that y' all go to church all the time. I said, how many times have you been to your grandchildren's basketball games this week? Y' all go all the time to sports events. And like my husband used to say, if you teach your children to serve something that can't deliver them. He said, when they get sick, lay that football on them. See what happens. You got to teach them. You got to serve something great enough to deliver you. Yeah. Yeah. And how does God help us? We quit enjoying what we used to enjoy. That's the help of God. Don't keep trying to enjoy what you don't enjoy anymore. So he will separate you from profane things, make you pure and holy, consecrated to God. And may your spirit, spirit and soul and body. Look at this. Be preserved. I'm preserved. Spirit, soul and body be preserved, sound and complete, and found blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So this verse tells us, how is our spirit, soul and body going to be preserved, live, sanctified, live separated. Amen. Touching what we ought. Don't touch what we ought not touch. Yeah. You remember Jesus? He went to Jerusalem on one occasion, and he went in. And one day he went to church. And did no preaching, did no ministering to the sick. He just watched. He watched what went on in the temple. And then he's loading his gun, and the next day he comes back with a loaded gun and he starts kicking over the tables of the money changers. Why? He said, my father's house is to be a house of prayer. You made it. You made it. See, you can make something different out of what God planned and intended. He said, you made it a den of thieves. So what was it? They were robbing the temple of its highest purpose by how they were conducting themselves in the temple. People going there, turning a buck. They were had a business and they're using, See the anointing is a people gatherer. And then they were taking the gathering of the people and then turning a buck on it. And so you don't ever use the anointing for something different than what the purpose of it is. Don't try to profit off of it. And so Jesus was not okay with them robbing the temple of its highest purpose. And notice that after he turned over the money tables and then it says and then they came and he healed sick, he had to get out that which was robbing the temple of its purpose. And then healing power, God, if I could say this was blessing his action. God was not displeased that he started kicking over money tables. He made a way for God to have his way. And that's when God showed up. The pleasure of the healing power began to flow because he that's the goodness of God. But know this. Jesus was not okay with the temple being robbed of its highest purpose. And I want you to know sickness and disease robs this temple of its highest purpose. And Jesus is not okay with that. And he kicks over. Amen. He's not upset with the temple. He's upset with that which tries to rob from the temple. We are the temple of the, Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Yes, I know our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost because our bodies are the temple of our own spirit. But your body is still his and it still matters to him about the condition of the temple. Amen. Some of us do a lot more Temple Matthew maintenance than others, You know. So it's okay if you want to put it on, tighten it up, do whatever you want to do, do whatever you want to do if you want to maintain the temple. But don't leave out his maintenance. And don't you ever think that an exercise plan and a diet plan will ever be the substitute for the healer. Every man needs the healer. Every man needs the healer. Amen. Go with me, if you would to First John, chapter five. First John, chapter five. In verse 18, we. I like what dad Hagin used to say. He'd say this in his crusades. He'd say, I'm a strong, I'm a slow starter, strong finisher. What are we doing? We loading a gun this week and we're going to see some results from what God has for us, aren't we? But we're thankful for the word that helps us. First John 5, 18. He says, we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself. And that wicked one toucheth him not. Look, this is the plan of God. The wicked one touch you not. The wicked one touch you not. That's the plan of God. And that's what we have to lay expectation on our life. The wicked one touches me not. Not him coming in and struggling. Then we gain victory and we push him back. No, he touches me not to begin with. And if he's touching me, God's not okay with you violating the temple. I am the temple, and I'm not going to be okay with. And too many times we're okay with something we're struggling with. And there have been times, anybody ever faced this, you just didn't want to deal with it. Just didn't want to deal with it. You should have lived in Carolyn Chapman's house. There was never a time she didn't want to deal with us children. She always wanted to deal with us children. Why is it that we come up to situations that seem to gain momentum against our life and we just put up with it? We're invited to fullness. When we're full, we're stirred up to say, no, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't. And the life of faith is a life of resisting anything that tries to touch it, that shouldn't touch it. Amen. This is the plan of God. The wicked one toucheth him not. Amen. We have to not be okay with anything less than that. Ephesians 4:27. We know it. Paul was writing. He said, neither give place to the devil. So if the devil is touching us, we gave place. He didn't gain more authority. We didn't lose our faith. We didn't lose the Word. The Word's not working. We gave him place. But the good news is, if we gave him place, we can take back the place we gave him. And we can again say, you're not touching me again. You're not touching me again. You're not touching me. Because God's best is that the wicked one touches him not. Amen. And if we've been putting up with something we say today, that ends, and from here on forward, the wicked one touches me not. Amen. The Living Bible Translation of I John 5:18 the Living Bible says this. No one who has become part of God's family makes a practice of sinning. Does that mean that we miss it? We sin, yes. But they're not practicing it as a lifestyle. Why? Because their own spirit is indwelt by God anyway. No one who has become part of God's family makes a practice of sinning. For Christ, God's son, holds him securely. And the devil cannot get his hands on him. That's what we're to say. Devil, you can't even get your hands on me. And if he's had his hands on us, we're closing the door to that. What did we do that allowed him to get his hands on us? Because God's best and God's flow, he should not have even gotten his hands on me. Now it's going to go back to. I'm going to point back to what the pastor was talking about this morning. Correction. Amen. I'm so glad we get to correct our course. I'm so glad we get to make corrections. And I don't care how long we've been on the wrong course. I don't care how long we've been putting up with symptoms. I don't care how long something has been troubling our life. I don't care how long something's been troubling our marriage. We get to correct something and come into the place where the wicked one touches us. Not from this day forward. Amen. He cannot get his hands on us. The amplified translation of this verse. We know absolutely that anyone born of God does not deliberately and knowing practice committing sin. But the one who was begotten of God carefully watches over and protects him. Christ's divine presence within him preserves him against the evil. And the wicked one does not lay hold, get a grip on him or touch him. We need to build this in us. Amen. Christ's divine presence within him preserves him against the evil. The wicked one does not lay hold, get a grip on him or touch him. Well, if the devil has got his hands all over your business, get back in the process. Presence of God. God said to me years ago, I was sitting at Southwest Believers Convention, which is Brother Copeland's annual meeting, and I got a contact from somebody that asked me to loan them a large sum of money. And I was thinking, I don't think I'm going to do that. I'd already done it once, and they were now asking a second time. But I always check here. I always check here. I mean, I just always check here. And when I checked here, God said, I want you to do it. And I said, okay. I don't even, you know, it doesn't even do any good to have A conversation about it. How many times have we tried to converse? It doesn't matter. We always arrive back at what he said. So I just. I texted Francine. Where's Francine? I texted Francine, and I'm sitting in Southwest Believers. And I said, why are they this amount of money to such and such? And the moment I did that, someone's preaching up there. I'm sure I heard none of it. The devil was sitting there and saying, sitting on my shoulder. You have just now put yourself in a very difficult financial situation by doing that. Well, see, I answer the devil why? Because his word doesn't stand. My word stand. Amen. You say, well, it's God's word that stands. Yeah, but you have to say it. So I said, I never put myself in a bad financial situation obeying God. And he said to me, you have just now put yourself in a very bad financial situation. And I said, I never put myself in a bad financial situation obeying God. And this went on for. For 30 minutes. I didn't hear one preacher. I didn't hear one revelation up there. I was sitting in the chair, standing my ground. At the end of 30 minutes, God spoke, why, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. And he said, if you would just live in my presence, you wouldn't even have to listen to that. In other words, you are too low. You're living too low. There have been many times that I have worried about something, and I catch it a day or two. I've been, you know, you're worrying and not even realizing because you're just cycling it over in your thought life, and you don't even realize you're worrying about it. Dad, Hagin taught us, how do you know if you're worrying if you're thinking about it? Oh, that nail's hiding to the wall, doesn't it? And I was thinking about it, and I was thinking about it, and it dawned on me. After a day or two, I caught it. God, that's worry. I said, forgive me. And I didn't even resist the devil. You want to know why? I said, father, forgive me, I was too low. I was too accessible. Because over in Psalm 91, verse 8, the amplified classic says, you shall dwell in the presence of the Lord most high, and you yourself inaccessible. I want you to know the blood of Jesus made us inaccessible. But we have allowed our thinking to be too accessible. We've allowed our body to be too accessible. We've allowed our conversation to be too accessible. So what is it we've been raised and seated with Christ. Come up. Come up in your thinking. Come up in your resting place. Amen. So it says here, Christ's divine presence within him preserves him against the evil and the wicked. One does not lay hold, get a grip on him or touch him. Psalm chapter 9, verse 3 says that in the presence of the Lord my enemies shall fall and perish. What's that mean? When something is troubling me, the first thing I do, I turn my attention away from that and I get in the presence of God. And then when that thing tries to reach me, it runs right into his presence and it falls. That's how when my husband went home to be with the Lord, I kept grief and sorrow out. I got in the presence of God and I. I did not try to figure out how to pay that bill. I didn't try to figure out about the future. My only job at that moment was getting the presence of God. Why? The presence of God was my defense that nothing could touch me. Deal with every situation from that place. Amen. Now, I was writing a book years ago. It's called God, the Revealer of Secrets. It's about how to know the will of God for your life. And while I was writing it, God said this. Make my people to know that long life is connected to my plan. I want you to know if you're going to live where the devil can touch you, not it has to be in his plan. In your plan, you're completely accessible to the enemy. But in the plan of God, you're completely off limits. If you'll walk that plan out by faith and stay with the word. So I'll just read, just for time's sake, some of these passages to you where John 4:33. Jesus said, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. Look at this. Jesus wasn't going to succeed on the earth because he was a son of God. He was going to succeed because he followed the will of God.
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My meat. The thing that nourishes, nourishes me. The thing that sustains me is to do the will of him that sent me. Look at this. And finish. And finish his work. How many times Jesus enemies tried to push him off a cliff? Tried to. They plotted against his life. He had enemies on every side of him. And no matter what they planned, he was untouchable. Why is that? Because you can't touch a man who's in the plan. Amen. And we know this. Jesus said, no man takes my life from me. I Lay it down. Even the devil thought he was fulfilling his plan. Jesus was walking out God's plan. On Calvary's day, he was not walking out the devil's plan. He was walking out God's plan. And he laid his life down to God's plan. None of those people took it from him. He laid it down because if he hadn't laid it down, they never could have touched him. Because in the plan of God, he's untouchable. He had to lay it down so they could touch him. That's how protected you are. That's what belongs to you. Nothing should be touching us. Just saying. But why have we let it? Because we haven't been seeing it demonstrated. Why don't we demonstrate it? Why don't we demonstrate it? Amen. I want you to. When Jesus said, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and finished his work, no one could touch him. What's that mean? In the plan of God, he was immortal. I want you to know. In the plan of God, you are immortal. What's that mean? Nothing takes you out. The only thing that makes us mortal is disobedience. When we disobey God and step out of the plan now, things can touch us. But in the plan of God, nothing can touch me. Nothing can take my life. I'm immortal in the plan. You understand that? Why? Because in the plan, Jesus, I know he immortal just because he was the sinless Son of God. But that's what obedience to the will of God does. It makes you untouchable. And if the devil's been touching our family, touching our children, touching our minds, touching our finances, touching our health, something's wrong. And we need to stir ourselves up and start backing out these things that are robbing us of the highest flow. Because Jesus was not okay with the temple being robbed from its highest flow. Amen. Disobedience will turn you touchable, but obedience makes you untouchable. And this is why you have. Think of it. You go back through history, what was it even? John Hagee, I believe, was, if I remember correctly, years ago, was standing in his pulpit in a shoot, came in and shot at him. It went through his clothes or something and went around him, went in, went around his body, came out. Untouchable. In the plan of God, you're untouchable. How many, like George Washington, was it Andrew Jackson, in battle, that things would try, they would be shot, holes shot, their garments shot full of holes and them untouched. Why they were in the plan of God. When you're in the plan of God, you're untouchable. That's why you don't fear the plan of God. You fear not being in the plan of God because protection is compromised outside the will of God. God will protect us as far as he can. But in the will of God, I'm untouchable. My family's untouchable. My children are untouchable. My business is untouchable. Amen. You think that just sounds too good to be true? That's God's idea for us. That's God's plan for us. Go with me to First Corinthians, chapter three. First Corinthians, chapter three. What's this mean? We need to stir ourselves up to quit putting up with what we've been putting up with. First Corinthians, chapter 3, verse 21. The living Bible translation. First Corinthians 3. 21. So don't be proud of following the wise men of this world, for God has already given you everything you need. Look at that. God has already given you everything you need. Doesn't that sound like that honeycomb that was already over the earth and just dripping out honey that God has already supplied the earth. God has already given you everything you need. Then he begins to just single out a few things that you need to be mindful of that God's already given you. Verse 22. He's given you Paul and Apollos and Peter as your helpers. What's he saying? I've given you men who know God better than you so that they'll lead you to me. You need men who know God better than you, and God gives you that in your past. Amen. When your pastor is in the pulpit, he doesn't belong to himself, he belongs to you. Draw on him. That's why the pastor can go down rabbit trails and answer 50 different questions that sit in that auditorium. Because that man belongs to them. In that service, God gave you a man. Don't leave your man. God gave you because then you leave your help. Yeah, he said. He, Paul said that God has given you Paul and Apollos and Peter as your helpers. You leave the place God put you. You just left your help. Well, I can go get it somewhere else. Not if God didn't give it to you, you can't. Your help is where God told you to be. Your help is in the church God put you in. Your help is not with your buddies that decided to go to closer church and you decide to go with them. Because we've been friends, you know our kids Grew up together. What's that got to do with life? Well, all my friends are in that other church. Get new friends. Be where God told you to be. There's your only. That's where your help is. And you need that help so that the wicked one touches you not. Amen. Without help, the wicked one touches you. He has given you Paul and Apollos and Peter as your helpers. He has given you the whole world to use. Notice what he hasn't given you. He hasn't given the world to use you. You're to use the world. It serves me in the plan of God. That property I need for the plan, I get. That home I need. That business it serves me. Why? Because God owns this earth. People say, well, Satan is the God of this world. You have to read it this way. System. Satan is the God of this world's system, not of the earth. God owns the earth and the fullness thereof. And he gave it to the sons of men to use. Amen. That house you need, it's for you to use. And God has already given it. And you're waiting for God to do something. And he's already given you everything you need. You just need to know the truth so the truth will set you free. So you quit paying another man's rent and go pay your own. Well, praise the Lord. He's given you whole world to use. And I want you to know this. God can fund more than one thing at a time. He can fund your business and your house and he can fund the vacation. He can fund the local church and he can fund the pastor's vision. And you're picking and choosing, but the whole world is yours. And he's already given you everything you need. Why are we not living as we rich as we are? We don't think as he thinks, but we're learning. He has given you the whole world to use. Look at this. And life and even death are your servants. Life and death are your servants. Yeah, Dr. Sumrall, we heard it firsthand. Dr. Sumrall knew this. Life and death is my servant. He stood in front of a bank in the Philippines. Manila, Philippines. He had already built his church. He had a revival there that. The effects of that are still going on today. 100,000 people saved in three weeks. Built that great church there. After several years, God told him to come back to America. He. He put his nephew in, who's still over there as pastor, and they needed something and they went to the bank for funding. And the bank told him no. And Dr. Sumrall said, you keep going. He's talking to his nephew, the pastor. You keep going. You keep going. And they didn't go. And Dr. Sumrall, under the anointing of God, said, you stand out in front of that bank and you curse that bank. And they said, within a year, every one of the people that were on the board of that bank died within 12 months. Why? Life and death are your servants. Don't be going out killing people. I'm not saying that because we'd have people laying everywhere. But when you're in the plan of God and some of the goes against the plan, vengeance will deal with you. And God will use my words to speak it and declare it. Maria Woodworth Eder was threatened on her life when she was holding a tent crusade. And they came armed, ready to kill her. And she stood up and she said, anybody that makes a move toward me will drop dead right here in the service. Why? She understood, life and death are my servants, not yours. You can't touch someone that's untouchable. We think too low. We don't realize how broad our authority is, but we're learning. I love the testimony I was reading of Freda Lindsay. She took over for Gordon Lindsay, who is her husband that put together the voice of healing organization during the healing revival here in America in the 1940s and 50s. After he went home to be with the lord, she took it over and that flourished under her. She was 91 years old, and she was in her office one day and two angels came into the office and she said, God, what are those angels here for? And he said, if you're ready to come home, they're there to escort you. And she said to the angels, I'm not ready yet. I got more work to do. They stepped back and she said, they disappeared. And she lived another four years. Life and death are at her servants. This is where we're to live. But not if we can't control. We start here and we go out and we dominate. Well, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. If something of the enemy has been able to attach itself to us, there's help to change that. Go with me to Hebrews chapter 12. We could go a lot of different directions on this. A lot of different directions. I'll try to speed this along. Hebrews, chapter 12. If we have been touched when we should not have been touched, because I guarantee you any believer that's been touched should not have been touched in the plan of God, in the mind of God. But we did something to make Us touchable. The devil can't make us touchable. We are the only ones. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 12. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet. Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed. This verse is essentially telling us that for healing to be received, sometimes corrections have to be made. And I want to teach that before we try to minister healing to people. Because if corrections aren't made, the healing will just leak right, right back out and not accomplish what it's meant to. But as we know in second Corinthians 3:18, just let me quote it. We're changed from glory to glory. And as pastor said, what does that change? So we look more and more like Jesus. Look at that. We're changed from glory to glory. Love change, choose change. Change is the only way to go on with God. Change is the only way to handle. Have more than you have today is to change. Don't allow the God given glorious process of being changed from glory to glory. Become a place that the accuser, the brethren, condemns you. Because what happens, you see in yourself things that need to be changed. And the devil, when you acknowledge that he wants to jump on that and accuse you and get you under condemnation, when what God says is, I'm offering you more glory when you recognize that there's change, don't beat yourself up with it. Don't let the devil define that needed change. You say, I'm going to take the opportunity God gives me to repent and change so that more glory is the result of this. Amen. Hallelujah. How many times have you seen, I
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change that, that's God's help. So that you recognize glory is waiting you. More glory is waiting for you. More glory is waiting for you. And what we do, we let the devil start. If I could touching into that mindfulness to change and use it as an accuser, as the accuser of the brethren to condemn us. You should be further along. You should be further along. I can't believe you're. No, no. God is offering me change because. Because glory waits on me. It's a positive. It's a positive. Amen. Hallelujah. And we know this. Whom the Lord loves, he corrects. What's that mean? A flow of the love of God is correction. And if people become practiced at defending themselves, then when they do that with God, they won't be able to advance into greater glory. That has and in greater glory. The devil touches you not. Amen. So know this. When God corrects, he does not correct through hardship, tragedy, things going wrong, sickness, he corrects through his word. Can I tell you when I have needed the most dramatic corrections? God has shown that to me. I've had dreams, I've had visions. He never did it through hardship. He always did it through words. Words. He spoke to me. He said something to me. God's way of showing you change is words. Amen. Now look again. In Hebrews 12, verse 12, wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees. Can I tell you this? For the rest of your life, God is going to be revealing things to you to change. He's always going to give you something to be working on. Why? Because he is endeavoring to bring us under the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. And we ain't there yet. Pastor, I do say ain't. Mom's in heaven. It wasn't allowed in her house, but in this house it's allowed. And so God is always going to be dealing with us about something. Do not let the accuser, the brethren, get in on that. That is the glory of God being offered you a greater degree to recognize and to say, Father, and can I say this, Let me not say it that way, let me say it this way. You see a three year old that made a mess in the house, did something, broke something when he's 13. And the mother says, see that over there, you broke that 10 years ago. He doesn't go, oh, I'm so sorry. No. He goes, well, I grew up and still at least I'm not breaking it anymore, right? He recognizes he did that because of the season of development he was in. He couldn't help but break that. Don't look at what changes you need to make and say, I can't believe. No, you're growing, you're growing. And in a previous season that was not an issue. Don't beat yourself up with needed changes and then the devil puts you down under condemnation as accuser of the brethren. Can't believe you're still doing I can't believe you're still dealing with this. You should be further along. Don't take counsel from someone who's only ever failed. He has only ever failed. Amen. He was in the very presence of God and still failed. So Hebrews 12:12. Wherefore lift up the hand which hang down and the feeble knees. Can I tell you the way to make change begins Here, start worshiping God. Start praising God. What happens in the atmosphere of worship? You hear he'll tell you steps to take. He'll tell you what to do so that you're not left to your willpower to try to fix you and to try to come into a further place. You don't have enough willpower to manage your flesh. It's by the mercies of God. We present our bodies to God, a living sacrifice. Amen. Lift up the hands which hang down. The word in Greek, lift up means to set it right again, restore and set straight again. So notice this. Lift up the hands which hang down. And it says, and the feeble knees. How did the knees get feeble? Because the hands went down. Praise lost its place. And then it started affecting the steps. The first place, when you need to make a correction. Start worshiping God. Get back into his presence. Why? Worship brings the anointing. And the anointing destroys the yokes. So if you see something needs changing in your life, don't just say by willpower, just start praising every day. Start praising. Father, I thank you. You're my helper in this. I thank you. You have empowered me that this change happens now in my life. This change, and I worship you. It comes with uplifted hands. So wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down. When hands are hanging down, the posture of faith has been lost because the flow of praise has stopped. When praise stops, help stops. Because faith stopped. Faith. People are praising people to stay in faith. Keep. Keep praising. When you see something that needs changing in your life, that can only be changed by faith. Why? Because you're not already at that change. You just see it needs to be made. So you're praising now for change that God's bringing you into. Because you're not there yet. And you can only get there by faith. Thank God. Thank you, Father, for changing my home. Thank you for changing my body. Thank you for. For changing my finances. He is the doer, the worker of the change. As you will respond to him, he empowers you to make that change. So we lift up the hands that hang down. Amen. Brother Copeland would say this. I wish that I heard this 30 years ago. I hope it lands on you because it's your rescue statement. When you pray, you lay hold of things. But when you praise, you win back. You don't win battles by praying. You win battles by praising. And people are trying to pray their way through to their victory. When you praise your way, praise the Lord. Amen. I'm not against Prayer. When you pray, you lay hold of things, but when you praise, that's how things get changed. Amen. Then Psalm 34. One, I will bless the Lord. What's the next phrase? At all times. Do you know that every time you're going to face already has its assignment? I will bless the Lord. That's the assignment for the time you're facing right now, you say, Pastor Nancy, you don't understand. My life is hanging by a thread. Your life has an assignment. I will bless the Lord at all times. At this time, when it looks like my home is falling apart, my body's falling apart, my finances, my business is falling apart, God has already prescribed what to do at that time. I bless the Lord not because my situation is falling apart, but I've got to get him in it. I've got to get his power in that. And it's my praise that's going to bring the anointing that destroys that. Yes. And. And people are trying to feel better before they praise you. Praise. To feel better, you lift up the hands that hang down. Amen. You've got to lift them up when they feel like hanging down. And you do that by faith, not by feeling. And if you wait to feel like your hands can lift, you'll never get out of that place. You lift your hands. You make yourself. You make yourself. I did that the day my husband went home to be with the Lord. I made myself take the posture. Amen. I will. It doesn't say I feel. I will bless the Lord at all times. Times. Because that's the only way to fix all times. That's the only way to change that time. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. I got to get my faith in my mouth. And the highest form of my faith is praise. I've got to get my praise there. Pastor Nancy, I don't understand why this happened. You will not figure it out, but you can praise it away. Amen. The highest form of faith is when you don't understand, and you say, I still trust you, Father. I don't have to have you answer 49 questions before I'll trust you. I don't have to have you answer, well, why this, why that, why me? That kind of thing is a lack of trust. Amen. Amen. And you have to say, when you don't understand, you say, father, I just trust you. And that's the highest flow of faith. Amen. Anybody can trust when they see it all laid out in front of them. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. There was a man. I don't know if anybody remembers him in this day and age, but his name was Dr. Eby. And you remember him, some of you. Yeah, he was a medical doctor. He was at a. I think a gathering somewhere. I don't know if it was a home. Maybe some of you can remember he was on a balcony and the balcony broke and he fell from the second story and literally destroyed his body. And I don't remember. Do you remember if he died or anything? Did he die? He died and went to heaven and he came back and his body was just a mess and he received healing and he did something as an experiment after. Every day. Every day he woke up praising God. Every day he woke up and he worshiped and he praised and he worshiped and he praised. And he thought, I wonder, if I didn't do this, what would happen? And he decided, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to leave that off for several days. He said within three days he was completely bedridden again with all of his body hurting the way it was. And his wife came in and he couldn't get out of bed the third day, and she was frantic. What's the matter with you? And he said, oh, oh. He said, honey, I forgot to tell you, I was just doing an experiment. And he got up and started praising God and all the symptoms left. But it took praise to keep his body going. Why the wicked one touches him not. Lift up the hands that hang down. Yeah, yeah. Praise the Lord. If we leave all praise, we leave off. We leave off the flow that keeps us safe. And then notice this I want us to see. Let me go back to there. In Hebrews chapter 12, and it says, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees. Look at that. When we veer, when we veer, when we veer from. With our hands, we veer with our feet. Your hands are connected to where your feet go. Did you know that? Yeah. Yeah. And so it says here, and make straight paths your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way. When we veer from the straight path, we get onto rough and stony paths. And then what happens? Then we start becoming lame. It starts injuring our step, it injures our walk. And we become lame and unable to walk, unable to advance. And the problem was we put our hands down. And when we put our hands down, our feet started going the wrong direction. And what happened then? Things started going wrong. The body, the finances, the marriage, the home and it got lame. But notice what, Notice what? It says here that when we, when we do that, it says here that if we will, if we'll make straight paths for your feet. Ah, get your feet back. What you going to do to get your feet back? Get your hands back up. Get your hands back up. Get your hands back up. Get your hands, hands back up and make straight paths. It doesn't say God's going to make straight paths. You make straight paths for your feet. Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed. When you get your path straight, you get back on the right path. What happens then? Your steps come back into order and your life starts lining back up. Yeah, the lameness can show up in a. Show up in finances, show up in a marriage, show up in our health. I remember when Ed and I, God told us back in the end of 1980s, he said, go back to California and get in position for the last day revival. We said, okay. We agreed with that. We stayed in Tulsa. We agreed we intended to do right. We intended to move with God. But Edward, Ed had a plan of waiting for the building. We had a building that seated 1,000 people. It's on 85 acres. He had a plan, we're going to sell that first and then we're going to go back to California with all the money. And it didn't sell. And we sat there for two years and we became more and more crippled financially. Everything started slowing down. We became lame, the advancements stopped. And one morning he was going to go on a Monday morning to fly out, to go preach for a couple of weeks. And I said, you're leaving to go on your trip? I'm leaving. He said, where are you going? I said, stephen and I are moving to California today. You are? I said, yeah. I just bought us two tickets. Stephen and I are going on the morning flight. We're flying to California. What are you going to do? I'm going to find a house and I'm going to act like God told us to get there. He said, you're going to go without me? I said, I really am. I'm going without you. Not out of contention, but out of purpose and out of plan. I'm going. And I said, I'm going to go today and I'm going to get a house. And by 3 o' clock, I had a house, brand new home, rented. And I called him, I said, when you get off the road, travel, come out to California. I got your house, you'll like it. Real good. And all of a sudden. And then it started. God started. Started restoring us. But we had become so lame for two years. We became so lame financially and we. It cost us time. But when we got our feet, we made our path straight again. We got back in the will of God. We got back in the plan of God. Can I tell you what will make a preacher lame? Get out of your coal. Try to be a pastor if you're not a pastor, try to be an evangelist if you're not an evangelist and watch things go lame in your life. Because getting out of the plan of God, all that waits is lameness. And it's very difficult for our faith to work right because we're not anointed for the wrong path. Well, praise the Lord. When we have missed it and veered from the straight path, the first thing to put back in place is praise. Because when you. When you missed it. I was. Before I met and married my husband, I had gotten engaged. It was not good. It was a wrong situation. It was a wrong relationship. And when I got out of that, I got out of that relationship. But everything was connected to that. My job, my friends, everything connected to that relationship. But I wanted the plan of God. And so I just had this sense. I've got to get out of the wrong place. I don't know where the right place is, but I've got to get out of the wrong place when I know it's wrong. I got to leave that. I've got to get back on neutral territory. I've got to get out of the place I know I shouldn't have been in to begin with. And I got back on neutral territory. And then I could hear here again. I didn't know where the right path was, but this is what I did. I didn't know what in the world to do with my life. I'd quit my job to get out of that relationship. I got out of that relationship. I didn't know where to go. My parents lived in a different city. I was there all by myself. And I decided, I'm going to take an hour a day and I'm going to just do nothing but worship God. Then I'm the second hour. I'm going to read the word, I'm going to feed on the word, and for the next several hours, I'm going to pray in the spirit. And I did that for three weeks every day. I got to praying so long in the spirit that it's hard to get back over into English. At the end of three weeks, My brother and I went to attend a meeting, and we came and we sat in this section right over here. And the man was. The man that was preaching. He taught a good message, and he called for a healing line. He had about 100 or so people that came up for the healing line. And this man made a mistake. He tried to teach his way through a healing line. You can't teach your way through a healing line. He'd stop at each person and teach and then go, oh, jeez, we're going to be here forever. And my brother and I were completely unspiritual. We were thinking, how can we get out of this? We got 100 people, and this man's teaching his wife. Throw a healing on. You know what you do in a healing line? You lay hands on the sick, baby. You just. And then you'll find a momentum with that anointing instead of killing everybody in the service. And this man realized about five people in. He's taken so long because his habit of ministering to the sick was just standing and chit chatting and teaching and talking. And you're losing your crown, man. You're not losing your crowd. And he recognized that. He's, you know, overwhelmed here with this long line. And he said, I'm going to invite a friend of mine up to come up. And he said, he's got a strong healing anointing. I'm going to ask him to come up. He said, ed Dufresne, would you come up here? I'd never heard of the man. Never seen the man. He walks up. Ed was sitting over here. But because that preacher was down there, Ed just went down over here to the line and he said, boom, boom, boom, boom. And people flying, just flying, flying. And I go, no, that's what I'm talking about. I like that. That's what I'm talking about. But. And then five weeks later, I was married to that man named Ed Du Fern. Why? It didn't begin with the Word. It didn't begin with praying in tongues. It began with praise. Because praise is the word, it's doing of the Word. You can just read and read and read the Word. And if you don't ever do it, lift up the feeble hand. Lift up the hands that hang down. Lift them up. If you're in a difficult spot, if something needs changing, the first thing do lift up the hands. Take the posture of faith again. Begin praising. Get the praise of God in your mouth. Because when the praise of God is in your mouth and the voice of God will be in your spirit. Amen. You'll know what to do. It all begins there. And then you've got to correct something. And I want you to know you don't even have to walk out the correction before God will credit healing to you. He will turn a situation just the moment on the inside you purpose to turn. He will take you at your word and you can receive your miracle. At the moment you choose to make the correction, you don't even have to show proof of the correction. You say, how do you know? I've been there, I just agreed with God and all of a sudden things just change. Amen. So this week, it's healing week. So anytime we recognize Father, I'm up for making correction. I love correction. I'm not going to beat myself up over correction. Don't be a double agent in the kingdom of God, belonging to the kingdom and working for the devil by beating yourself up with the accuser of the brethren getting under condemnation. Amen. I've come to change every service. I've come to change every single service. Something come up in my thinking, my speaking, my believing, my faith. Something change in me. Why? Because glory's on the other end of change. Greater glory. Amen. So I don't care how long you've been struggling or dealing with something, I want you to know you can say today, the devil touches me not anymore. Going forward, the evil one touches me not. And for that to happen, I'm going to have to change something. And the way I'm going to change, I'm going to lift up my hands and I'm going to submit myself to God. Submit yourselves to God. Then resist the devil and he flees. People are trying to resist the devil and they're not yet submitted. You've got to get your hands up, get your praise, get your attention on him and off of your situation. You will never fix your situation looking at it. You fix your situation by looking at the one who changes it. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. This is the highest place of faith. It's a place of rest and it's that you are fixed on him and not on your problem. This is the problem with psychology. Psychology holds you in view and you're trying to fix you. But you are all you see, all your past. What this person did, what this person said, what this person didn't do, how they treated me. And all you see is you. You don't fix you by looking at you. Everything changes when he's in view. Amen. 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