Dufresne Ministries Podcast: Now Healed
Speaker: Nancy Dufresne
Date: May 6, 2024
Location: Paducah, KY | JTH Crusades 2024 | Sunday PM
Episode Overview
In this powerful service, Pastor Nancy Dufresne teaches on the New Testament reality of healing and the vital importance of right thinking. With a strong focus on renewing the mind, Nancy emphasizes that healing and victory are ours “now” by faith, rather than something to plead for in the future. The evening includes testimonies, practical teaching, personal stories, and multiple exhortations for physical, mental, and emotional healing, culminating in a time of prayer and ministry for various needs in the congregation.
Key Discussion Points & Insights
1. Presence of God – The All-Inclusive Benefit
- The service opens with worship and the reminder that, “in the presence of the Lord is everything He is—health, peace, victory, provision, joy, everything” (00:12).
- Nancy underscores that when we come into God’s presence, everything we need is already made available in Christ.
2. Old vs. New Testament Healing Mindset
- Old Testament: “Heal me now” – focuses on asking God to act.
- New Testament: “Now healed” – focuses on believing and receiving what’s finished.
- Nancy illustrates the difference with a story from Joel’s book, referencing Moses praying for Miriam (01:32).
- Quote: “Old Testament is ‘heal me now.’ New Testament is ‘now healed.’ Have to know the difference. That one tweaking in the thinking is mandatory to receiving.” (02:10)
- She stresses that right thinking aligns us with God’s power: “Right thinking is this word; wrong thinking keeps the power of God from fulfilling what you need it to do” (03:00).
3. Dream & The Battle for the Mind
- Nancy recounts a vivid dream of a serpent latching onto her head rather than her body:
- The attack was against her mind—symbolic of how spiritual attack often centers on our thoughts (04:00).
- Insight: “He didn’t latch onto the arm… he latched on to thinking because with wrong thinking, he’s got access to everything.” (04:55)
- The dream shows that spiritual perspective (“seeing from above”) reveals the enemy as defeated and powerless (05:15).
4. Decisive Faith—Declaration of Independence Analogy
- Drawing from an earlier message by “Miss Cindy,” Nancy parallels healing to the Declaration of Independence:
- Breakthrough happens not when symptoms leave, but when you “decide” in line with God’s Word (07:40).
- Quote: “We’re not coming to the service saying ‘Oh God, heal me now.’ We’re coming, ‘Now healed.’ We walk in healed, we receive healed, we walk out healed.” (08:19)
5. The Importance of Renewing the Mind
- Nancy reminds that healing begins in the mind, not just through external prayer:
- Quote: “Your healing does not begin because someone laid hands on you. It begins because you begin thinking like God thinks.” (09:26)
- Changing thoughts is crucial to lasting results; the devil aims to attack thinking during every trial (11:30).
6. Right Thinking Applies to All Areas of Life
- Whether financial, relational, or physical, breakthroughs stem from right thinking:
- Quote: “People think… ‘Well, I have financial issues.’ You have thinking issues. ‘Well, I have physical issues.’ You got thinking issues.” (14:15)
- Right thinking is strongly connected to every breakthrough (14:30).
7. Activating Faith – Receiving, Not Just Believing
- Congregational ministry time identifies specific healings: lower back, spinal cord, shoulders, vertebrae, knees, headaches, allergies, heart regulation, and more (17:16–33:43).
- For each, the congregation is encouraged to declare, move, and act in faith, not “checking if it worked,” but “giving action to that anointing” (18:58).
- Quote: “How do you receive it? What Cindy said, you declare it. ‘I take it. It’s mine now.’” (18:14)
8. Testimonies & Words of Knowledge
- Testimonies include dramatic recoveries from severe illness and heart conditions.
- The congregation hears: “You are now to readjust your approach to that need. And it’s no longer, ‘God do this’; it’s, ‘I do this’” (36:54).
9. Biblical Case Study: Blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52)
- Nancy unpacks the story of Bartimaeus:
- Jesus requires Bartimaeus to say what he wants, teaching faith gives God permission to move (39:05).
- Major insight: Bartimaeus doesn’t say, “That God would give,” but “that I might receive” (43:36).
- Quote: “It’s not about getting God to do something. It’s about us receiving.” (44:00)
- Faith focuses on the believer’s receiving, not on persuading God to act (44:50).
10. Keeping It Simple – The Childlike Approach
- Using personal stories (Scrabble games, cruise anecdotes, family moments), Nancy illustrates the power of simplicity.
- Quote: “This simplicity of the gospel. Not ‘heal me now’—‘now healed.’ Simple. So easy, so simple. What holds it out of our grasp? Hard thinking.” (56:32)
- God made faith simple so anyone, child or adult, educated or not, could receive.
11. Easy Faith vs. Hard Labor
- Drawing on Oral Roberts’ experience, Nancy stresses not to pray or believe “hard,” but to pray and receive “easy”:
- Quote: “God doesn’t need your hard praying. He doesn’t need your hard believing. Easy faith, easy saying, easy receiving, easy obedience. It’s all easy with God.” (59:52)
12. The Invitation: Now Healed, Now Supplied, Now Free
- As the ministry time concludes, Nancy directs the congregation to declare in faith:
- “Now mine. Now healed. Now provided. Now wisdom. Now clarity. Now understanding. So simple.” (65:55)
- Those who came forward for healing are ministered to directly with affirmation, “Now whole.” (73:02–74:11)
- Assignment: Repeat daily: “Now whole. Now I’m whole. I’m not trying to get it. Now I’m whole.” (73:37)
- “The moment hands are laid on you, faith is released. It always begins working.” (73:49)
Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments
- “Old Testament is, ‘Heal me now.’ New Testament is, ‘Now healed.’ That one tweaking in the thinking is mandatory to receiving.” (02:10)
- “He [the serpent in the dream] latched onto thinking because with wrong thinking, he’s got access to everything.” (04:55)
- “Healing begins with right thinking.” (06:48)
- “Your healing does not begin because someone laid hands on you. It begins because you begin thinking like God thinks.” (09:26)
- “People think… ‘Well, I have financial issues.’ You have thinking issues… They don’t operate independent of each other. Every arena is associated with that thinking.” (14:15)
- “How do you receive it? … You declare it. ‘I take it. It’s mine now.’” (18:14)
- “It’s not about getting God to do something. It’s about us receiving.” (44:00)
- “The simplicity of the gospel. Not ‘heal me now’—‘now healed.’ So simple.” (56:32)
- “God doesn’t need your hard praying, your hard believing. Easy praying, easy faith, easy healing, easy supply.” (61:54)
- “Your receiving is in the shallow end of that, not the deep end of mental calculations.” (65:39)
- “Now whole. Now restored. … I have it now. Thank you that it’s mine now.” (73:39–74:11)
Timestamps for Important Segments
| Time | Segment/Topic | |-------------|----------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00-02:10 | Worship; In God’s presence is “everything He is” | | 02:10-03:00 | Old vs. New Testament healing language | | 04:00-06:00 | Serpent dream: Spiritual attack targets the mind | | 08:00-09:00 | Decision = manifestation; “Now healed” mindset | | 09:20-14:40 | Renewing the mind for breakthroughs in all areas | | 17:16-19:16 | Words of knowledge & physical healings called out | | 25:48-33:43 | More healing ministry: knees, headaches, allergies, aFib | | 39:00-47:00 | Mark 10 – Blind Bartimaeus teaching | | 56:32-61:54 | Simplicity of faith; Easy faith vs. hard effort | | 65:24-66:37 | Declaring: “Now mine. Now healed. Now provided.” | | 69:17-74:40 | Laying on of hands; Individual needs addressed |
Conclusion: The Flow of the Service
Nancy Dufresne’s message weaves together practical counsel, biblical teaching, stories, and a supernatural expectation for healing and provision—rooted not in striving but in the simple act of believing and receiving. The focus is on aligning our thinking and declaration with what God has already accomplished in Christ, and living in the “now healed, now supplied” reality of the New Testament. Listeners and attendees are repeatedly urged to shift from asking God to do something, to declaring and receiving by faith that it is done—now.