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Talk About Your Inheritance | Nancy Dufresne & Family | Sunday's Online Service | 3.22.2020
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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, World Harvest Church. We are so glad that we're getting to join you. No, it's not in the regular setting, but my family is here at my home. And so we're going to have a wonderful time together today. And we just have some things on our heart that we want to share with you. So we greet the congregation. We want you to know we miss you. We look forward to the next time we get to see you face to face. And for ministers who may be watching, partners who may be watching, friends of the ministry, we're just so glad that we can be with you and joining you right now with California. We have some restrictions that forbid us to get together in our building. So we're here at my home and we're just going to spend a good time around the Word together. And I want you to know I'm believing with you and my family's believing with you. Our staff is believing with you. For there to be divine increase even in this season when things are a little unsettled and they're not as normal, I want you to know that there's still a supply for you. And so we believe with you that there will be no diminishing, but it will be increase and you will prosper during this time. You know, I want to remind you, especially my congregation, faith is for times where when things especially try to get out of order. Now I know this. You know, the just shall live by faith. That's the way we live. But when things that try to get out of order around your life, we don't lay our faith down and then go back to life as normal. We go to our faith life and we go to the Word and we let the Word govern us. So I want to remind you as a pastor and Pastor Morgan and Stephen and Grant, we've been putting and feeding faith in you for many years now. And we know your full of faith. And so we encourage you, make sure that your responses are in faith and make sure that you stay in that flow of faith, because that's where the victory is. And so we want to remind you that this is when your faith shines. In times like these, it's not like laying it down and going back to maybe how you would have responded before the Word took its place in your life. So we encourage you in that. Also, if you have prayer requests you can get online, send those to us. We'll agree with you, our staff, and my family, Morgan's here and Steven are with me here. And we'll agree with you. So get online. If you want us to agree with you in prayer about something, we want to do that. But I would say not only just agree with you about things of prayer. What about testimonies? I'm expecting we're going to hear testimonies from people believing for things for their family and their homes during this time, that it's not just all of a prayer time, but it's a testimony time, too. And, and so, you know, learn to recognize how God is moving in very particular ways for your family during this time. And get, get online and send that testimony to us. We. We want to hear about it. And then also we want to remind you, take your stand against things that are not of the flow of faith. You know, there's going to be Morgan and Stephen. There's going to be a lot of conversations going on out there. And not only do you hear it through the television and stuff, but we're not obligated to get in a flow that people who have been untaught are in. I mean, we can establish the flow of conversation. So, you know, don't. Don't be swayed by conversations of fear. Don't let it in. Don't be swayed by conversations of what are we going to do? We're going to do what we've always done. We walk by faith. The just shall live by faith. And so when people are bringing to the forefront potential health issues, potential financial issues, we're aware of that. And we don't. We don't make life that people are facing things, but we know our faith is for these times, and the Word is for these times. So bring your faith flow to the lives of people, into the conversations of people. And, you know, I want to encourage you to encourage others to stay out of that fear flow. You've been taught as our congregation, but you encourage others, hey, there's no help for you in fear. Let's just believe God. And so I encourage you to encourage others in that flow. And when someone is struggling, be mindful that they haven't been taught like we've been taught. I mean, for years we have sat under the teaching of the Word. And so these truths that we draw on during times like this, they feel like home to us. But some of these truths are foreign to other people. And if I could say this and how to say this, I guess the best way is don't try to show off spiritually to people who haven't been taught. Comfort them. Don't try to make them feel like, I can't believe you're worried or I can't believe you're fearful. We don't want to spiritually, if I could say this, show off by making light of someone else that's struggling. But while you're comforting them, encourage them in their faith. Don't get in the flow they're in, but let them know that there's another flow. So we want to remind you, faith is the victory that overcomes the world. And so just stay in that faith flow. Right now we're going to, we didn't have our praise and worship, but we're going to go ahead and we're going to receive, give you the opportunity for tithes and offerings. You know, just as your family needs continue financially, the ministry needs continue financially, but not even so much that it matters what we do when circumstances try to press on us. It matters that we stay with the truth of the word. And so I want to encourage you right now, prepare to give. And when you give, release your faith. Don't just take an act out of routine of giving, but release your faith when you give. You can give online, you can do text to give, and in that, you can text whc to the number. And that way it will be able to, you'll be able to give that way. And it's convenient, of course, people can mail it or whatever. I want to just for a moment, encourage you and exhort you, instruct you regarding your giving before we go any further. You know, sometimes if people don't think right, you know, my family, we've been taught and others of you who have been with us for years, you might not face this, but the temptation with a lot of people at a time like this is, I can't believe you're going to receive an offering when people have financial pressure under them, you know, on top of them. But you know what? It's wrong thinking, to think that we should ever resent receiving an offering at a particular time of need. And you know, my dad was a cotton and wheat farmer. And there's one thing my dad never did, he never resented sowing his seed in his field. You know, he always looked forward to him to, forward to that. You, you went so many times with daddy on his drives, he would, he'd put you in the pickup, you already had to go out to see the different farms and you, he wouldn't go look at his crops to see what was happening. And it was an exciting time for him, he looked forward to the season when he got to plant. He didn't think, the ground's just trying to rob me of my seed. You know, he never treated it as a resentful action to take. And so in a time when people are so aware of financial things, I don't want you to. I don't want anyone out there to fall prey to the thinking that it's not appropriate to receive offerings. This is the time when the ground is so valuable, when you always need to be planting your seed. And it's not a resentful time. Never resent the ground that's going to produce a harvest in your life. And so I encourage you with that. And, you know, during a time of famine, you know, God will take care of us. And I want you to know that just because economic changes happen, you just stay consistent with what you know is in line with the Word and the giving of tithes and offerings. So I'm going to. While you're doing that, we're just going to go ahead and pray for the people as they give so they can release their faith. Stephen, why don't you lead us in praying?
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Father, we thank you, Father, and we bring our tithes and our offerings, and we lift it up before you. And Father, we declare a hundredfold in Jesus name, and we thank you, Father, for the opportunity to give and to sow. And we. We claim a full harvest in Jesus name.
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And, you know, it's so good to know that what you do at times like this, you remain the same. You know, that word anchors you, and you keep releasing your faith. You know, today I have something on my heart, and it's really something that the spirit of God began talking to me about, really weeks before the coronavirus ever became a report from the media. And I want to go back to what the spirit of God said to me before all this started coming to the surface and to the forefront, because I know this about God. God says in his word, he's made us the head and not the tail. What that means is we're in front of situations, we're not behind them. And so when he deals with his children, he's dealing with us to keep us in front of situations. We're not the cleanup crew going behind life and going behind the activity of the enemy doing a cleanup job. God will keep us in front of things. And so we have to be aware that keeping in front of things, he will show us answers before we even see a need arise. And so God began saying something to me he highlighted a particular scripture, and I've already taught on it to our church family. But I'm going to go back to it because I see it as a prescription for us during this time. And it's in Psalms 37. If you have your Bibles, Gary, get it out. Psalms 37, 18, 19. And I'm going to read out of the King James this translation. It says, the Lord knows the days of the upright. That means that God's acquainted with what's going on in our daily life. Amen. And their inheritance shall be forever. Verse 19 says, they shall not be ashamed in the evil times and in the days of famine, they shall be saved. Satisfied? Now I want to read. I love Stephen, how the NIV translation reads. It says, the blameless spend their days under the Lord's care. Oh, I like that. The blameless. Now, see, you say, well, am I blameless? If you're born again, the blood of Jesus has washed you, made you clean. You are clean and blameless in his sight. And so it says, the blameless spend their days under the Lord's care. You know what? Under the coat. Coronavirus days. We're still under the Lord's care. We're not under coronavirus days, you know, we're still under his care.
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Amen.
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And so it says, the blameless spend their days under the Lord's care, and their inheritance will endure forever. In times of disaster, they will not wither. In days of famine, they will enjoy planting. So when it looks like your salary might have been cut back or your work hours cut back, the word here says, in days of famine. What's a day of famine? Well, a day of famine is anytime there's not the usual supply around you, meaning there's not enough of resources. And this word says in those days that his people will enjoy plenty, not just barely enough. Right. But they'll enjoy planting. The new living translation says this. I like this, too. Day by day, the Lord takes care of the innocent. And you say, well, is that me? Yes. If you're blood washed, you're innocent. The blood cleanses you. If you're born again, you are innocent. You qualify for this. Day by day, the Lord takes care of the innocent. And they will receive an inheritance that lasts forever. They will not be disgraced in hard times. Yeah. Now what's a disgrace in hard times? For us, it would be something like not being able to pay your bill. That's a disgrace. That's a hardship, that's a point of shame, that if we didn't have enough to meet our financial obligations. And the Lord says they will not be disgraced in hard times. And it says even in famine, they will have more than enough. Don't set your faith for just your meals met. Set your faith for more than enough. If we're going to walk in the light of this passage, we're not just believing enough to get to the next pay. We are believing for more than enough. And that's why we want you to set your faith on that. Now, this passage in this Bible verse speaks of two times the evil time. And it speaks of the days of famine. You know, there can be, in some countries, there could be a countrywide famine, There could be a regional famine, but there can also be a personal famine. It doesn't have to just be a time when something of crisis is going on around you. Sometimes just your own life is. You're facing a time when it seems like there's not enough. And I want you to know the word has something to say about those times when personal famines try to threaten you. Now, I want you to. It doesn't just talk about the evil time. It doesn't just talk about the famine before. It even refers to the evil time and the word famine. It refers to your inheritance, that you have an inheritance. And that inheritance is for when things try to get out of place. And that's when that inheritance becomes so visible. Yes, because others may be struggling. And we go, no, we have an inheritance. And so it says, our inheritance is forever. So that means if your job hours were changed, your inheritance didn't change. I mean, if they're saying, no more. Not the same work hours, you have to stay home. Your inheritance from God stays the same. And this is what you need to be talking about in your home. This is what you need to be focusing on. Not focusing on, oh, they cut back my hours. I still have a mortgage that's due. I still have, you know, car insurance that do that's due. What you need to talk about, Wait a minute. Before these days ever showed up, God applied an inheritance to these days. I'm in his care. And so that's what I want you as the congregation, our congregation, and those of you viewing, I want you to be mindful that there is an inheritance for the evil day. What's the evil day? Anything that the enemy, anytime the enemy shows up, it could be with sickness, it could be with lack. It could be any kind of test and trial against your home, your family, your children. You have an inheritance at those times. And so this is what God began talking to us about before this whole coronavirus thing ever got reported. God gave us this verse. And so I want us to stay camped on this verse. I want you as a congregation, keep feeding on it. Keep feeding and repeating this verse and confessing it. That means the inheritance that he's made ours works for us no matter what the circumstances are that surround us. Because our inheritance is forever. It's not going to fluctuate. You know, just because economy fluctuates and because supply and demand fluctuates, the inheritance never fluctuates. And so changing and difficult times are not going to alter our inheritance. It's always been the same. So that's why we can, in our conversations, be the same. We don't have to go into crisis conversation or crisis mode because the same inheritance that was ours two weeks ago is still ours. And so that's what we want to focus on and draw on and talk about.
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And can I say this too? Be mindful as you go into the store or you're out and about and there has been what people thought would be shortages. And you see empty shelves. And those times fear or worry can get on you. You can physically, intangibly feel the condition that other people are struggling with. But when you see the. There's, you know, you went to get bread and you know what? There's no bread, so we've got to come back tomorrow. These are real things except you're facing when you go to the throne room. The inheritance never runs out. It never empties out. Every believer, believers everywhere, that inheritance is available to rush to the throne room, say thank you, Father, that it's mine and somebody else isn't going to get your portion.
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No, you don't have to become conflicted on how your behalf behave.
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Right? So don't approach God in a desperate way the way you would approach going about these daily tasks that we have to do. God, you can come in peace, you can come in joy. You can come knowing that it is set aside just for you. And like she said, you'll never wither. What is a plant that withers? A plant that withers is one that hasn't had enough poured out on it. God has poured out every good blessing on us. It's already the windows were open. He's poured out such a blessing on his people that we don't have to wither because he's already. It's a flow. It's. It's a flow that's already in our direction. So I wanted to remind you don't approach God from a desperate place.
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We're not desperate people.
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Right.
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We are not.
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You may be desperate at the grocery store because you don't have toilet paper, but God's inheritance, you're not fighting for anybody. Jesus provided the fullness and he'll make.
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Sure you get everything.
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Yes, he will. And more and more.
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You know, the thing that we have to remember is that we have a better covenant than the old covenant.
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That's right.
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And in that when you look at what God did with delivering the Hebrews out of Egypt, he led them to wilderness. You know what? You know what? No. No toilet paper in the wilderness. You know, no grocery stores in the wilderness. Right.
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That's right.
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None of the what they were used to in Egypt was there. There's no civilization out there. They're in the wilderness. And God led them there. Now, they stayed too long. You know, God intended they pass through, but they stayed too long. But while they were in the wilderness, God was so committed to the inheritance that was theirs. And you know what he did? He dropped food out of heaven for them.
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Amen.
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I mean, meaning this. If God had to, which he doesn't have to, but I'm saying if God had to, he would. He would take the resources of heaven and bring them to earth. And you say that's not even feasible. That's what he did with the manna. The Bible says it was angel food and it came out of heaven every day. Meaning this. God would do whatever God has to do to make sure that you're not just that you don't just have enough, that you have more than enough. God will work. What? Maybe you've never seen him work before in this time for you. They had never seen God supply for them through that avenue of manna before, but they saw a new activity of God in their behalf to meet their needs because he's committed himself. And see, it's not. We're not trying to talk God into taking care of us. He has the. This was his commitment toward us. And so what we have to do, I want you, in fact, before I go and say any further, I want you to turn with me to Psalms 107. 2, Psalms 107, verse 2. And it says this. It says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. My husband used to make such a great statement in connection with this verse. And he would say this, your redemption won't work unless you say so. So if we aren't Talking the right thing, then the right thing can't flow. So there is an inheritance waiting on us to call for it, with us making right confessions, with us saying the right thing. So we are the redeemed. And we are to say, in the face of difficult times, we're to say, I'm redeemed from this. And it says here, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. So when the hand of the enemy starts becoming apparent, when circumstances start escalating, that's the time to start talking to that hand of the enemy. To those circumstances say, I'm redeemed. So that's what he's telling you. When the hand of the enemy starts moving, you see things escalate. You're gonna have to say something at that time. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. You have to say so. So this is what I. This is what the Spirit of God gave for me. Several weeks ago, before all this showed up, he gave us that verse in Psalms that our inheritance is forever. But you're gonna have to say so. Say, I have an inheritance. In the evil day, I have an inheritance. When there's not enough, it's not seemingly going around, we'll have more than enough. And so this is what the spirit of God said to me. You have to tell your need what God said, that's good. And this is what we're doing. When it looks like you may not get the same amount on your paycheck, tell your need what God says. What did God say? This is what he wants you to say in the evil day. This is what he wants you to say in a time of famine, he wants you to say, I have an inheritance. I am under the Lord's care every single day, and that inheritance flows for me. But it won't work automatically, Stephen, you know this. Because people will think many times, well, if it belongs to me, it'll just show up. Yeah, but we have to release our faith.
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That's right. You know, one thing that dad always talked about was in Matthew 6.
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Yes.
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And he says, don't take no thought. Don't. I heard that sermon, don't take the thought sign a hundred times. You know, and I heard it, and I heard it and I heard it. And, you know, a lot of people like to say amen when the grocery store is full. They like to say amen when they got their bonus. But then when they go to the grocery store and it's cleaned out, you Start to really. That gets on you. You know, it can get on you.
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Yeah. We have had that same amen. Right?
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And I just, you know, I went to the grocery store and I noticed.
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A lot of stuff was gone.
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You know, the candy was still there.
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Oh, no, you.
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The toilet paper was gone. And, you know, some of the essentials, the meats were gone and the eggs were gone. And then, you know, I started thinking. I was like, wow, you know, but this thing's really getting cleaned out. And I really, I went back and I was just thinking, and I remember what dad would say, take no thought for what you're going to eat.
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Yes.
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What you're going to wear.
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Yes.
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What you're going to drink.
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How are you going to pay for it? How are you going to do it? And he said, you know, in every country, this was Dad's add on, was, you know, not in every country. Do they have giraffes? Do they have tigers? They don't have that in every country. But he says, then Jesus said, look at the birds. He said, in every country, there's birds. Every morning they wake up and there's going to be a supply.
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Those birds are our reminders. God's taking care of us.
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That's right. So, you know, and one thing dad Hagen says, and people, you can get wrapped up in your head real quick. And you go, what do I do?
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What do I do?
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And one thing dad Hagen said, that always helps me when you're struggling, just act like the word is true.
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It's a fresh thought. Right?
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Right. It's like with all that junk going through your head, you know, trying to diagnose what to do, it's like, all right, what do we do? Just act like the word is true.
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And it anchors you.
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It does. It brings you back down to reality. You know, it's like, okay, we're going to act like the word's true. We're going to believe when we go there, we're going to get what we need.
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So we, we encourage you, keep the conversation in the faith flow because there's so many conversations out there of what are we going to do? How are we going to make it, you know, all these things and, you know, you may not know everything of how things are going to transpire for you, but the thing is, they're going to transpire in the, in the God direction for you. There's inheritance. Don't worry about it. Like I said, when other people may be fearful, encourage them. Don't make light of what they're Saying, struggling with, but encourage them in the faith flow. And you know what? People are looking for something to hang on to, to anchor themselves.
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You know, the world doesn't have this hope that we have. No, they don't understand. That's why everyone's panicking, because they really believe. They don't understand the supply. They don't understand that. They believe that when they go to the grocery store, they have to. To just be aggressive to get things. They don't have any, any hope, you know, of getting money or getting finances. It's all lost. It's all lost to them, and they start panicking. But we have, like you said, we have a different. A different hope that the Bible tells us, don't worry about these things.
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You know, think about it. If you were facing life without faith, right?
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I'd have a mask on, too, and I'd wear the face shield. I'd get the hazmat suit. Right.
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Get out of Star wars, right?
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Because really, that's your best hope not to get.
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When you don't have faith, life looks different for you, doesn't it? Yeah, but that's what I'm so grateful that God has put in us what he's put in us. And it's such a treasure and a value because life looks different with eyes of faith, with words of faith, with thoughts of faith, with conversations of faith. Life is completely different. So be an encouragement to someone else to help bring up their faith, not take faith out of them during this time by having a wrong flow in our conversation, because faith settles everything back down into place. You know, the thing the Word tells us that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so we just realized that he keeps us consistent and anchored. So I want to pray with, with you. I want you to release your faith right now. And we've been talking about our inheritance, what we're going to say. This is the big point I want to make to you today. Tell your need what God says. Tell the evil day. I have an inheritance. Tell famine, I have an inheritance. Any time of struggle, not just during this season. This. This is our artillery for whatever shows our life. And so right now, as a congregation, as ministry friends, as partners, let's release our faith together. Father, we're so thankful for your word. Thank you. Your word is a lamp to our feet. It's a light to our path. It shows us how to keep walking when dark times show up. We're not in the dark, we're in the light. And so today, we release our faith together and we say we delight in your word. Word. We're doers of your word, not just hearers. We don't just amen when we're sitting in the church building, but in everyday life, we're amening your word. We're saying it shall come to pass in our life. Father, you said to us in your word that we are under your care every day. You said that your inheritance in our direction, that it's forever. It's not going to fluctuate, it's not going to change. We believe you. We believe your word. And Father, we're standing in times that are different for us. We see times around us fluctuate and we're so grateful that we know what to say, that we know what to believe, we know what to do. And in the face of evil day, in the face of famine, in the face when it seems like there's not enough, we say, we have an inheritance. We thank you for our inheritance. We worship you for that inheritance. And we say, our inheritance is flowing to us Today it's flowing to you. Today. It's flowing to the congregation members. Today it's flowing to our partners. Today it's flowing to every believer. Today it's flowing to our ministry friends. It's flowing to our pastors and pastors. I say this if there's pastors watching us. Don't believe that your finances and your church have to suffer because of what's going on. Do not even start making that plan. Start talking about your inheritance. We say we have an inheritance. And we tell our need, there's an inheritance for you. And so we believe that. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. We're redeemed from evil days. We're redeemed from evil times. And we have more than enough. We're believing for more than enough. Amen.
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Amen.
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Now, one of the things that it makes today special too for, for us is that we've been planning for months now about DM Day. And so, Morgan, I want you to tell them a little bit about what that is.
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DM Day is a time where our church, along with the churches, we've got a couple, I believe, some churches in Canada and around the nation, they take today. It's usually one set Sunday out of each year. And they give an offering to defrain Ministries. Pastor Nancy's schedule is so busy, she's not able to get to every congregation, every church. And I want to remind you our congregation because I'm talking to World Harvest Church congregation. But if you're watching and you're a partner and your church didn't receive this offering. I'm going to encourage you in the word right now to get be a part of this offering. There is already a trip that she has not been able to make. Currently we've had to completely cancel at least one and that is an overseas trip to Russia and Estonia. She was going to go to some European countries. And then we've got some trips right now that are on the line that we're going to have to make some decisions about. Of course that affects the income to Defrain Ministries, but we can't get to.
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Those places as easily now.
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So travel is affected. But because she can't get everywhere and now even more than ever because she's not being able to get out, Defray Ministries needs to continue. That is a huge part of the outreach church family, part of our outreach at World Harvest Church, it's the overseas outreach. It's going to the churches that are across the country in all different places. The pastors love to receive her. They expect her, they expect the flow of the spirit and revelation and impartations to come while she's there. And part of this Defrain Ministries offering, the DM offering, it's going as a one time offering that we receive once again year to just flood Defrain Ministries to help propel us into the rest of the year. So we don't want to falter on our commitment that we have made to the defrain Ministries offering. It's so important now more than ever. And I want to read something to you because Pastor Nitze is traveling full time now. Paul, just as Paul traveled full time, he wrote back to the church there at Philippi. And we know this. And if you've been around, you've heard Pastor Nancy talk about this, other ministries have talked about this. The church there was in much want. They were one of the poorest congregations. And so we don't even have to look at the time and the season that we're in. We know this church here they were of much need of their own. But they refused to neglect and to quit on their commitment of faith, of giving to poverty. Paul and Paul was able to tell them I was made very happy in the Lord, that now you have revived your interest in my welfare after so long. You indeed thinking of me, but you had no opportunity to show it. So now they've finally gotten an opportunity to show their appreciation. And they had been giving to him, not he said, not that I'm implying that I was in any personal want For I have learned how to be content, satisfied, to the point where I am not necessarily disturbed or disquieted. Whatever state I am. He talks about, he knew how to be settled, to be a base, to be confident, to be comfortable, no matter what financial condition he was in. So we're not coming to you. We're not having DM Day because we have.
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It's not a crisis.
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We're not in a crisis and we're not having some great need. But we don't want to fall back on our commitment that we made to this.
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Well, I remember a pastor friend of ours who's so close with us. Where this came from is God spoke to him several years ago and said, where is my aunt? Where is your honor for this ministry? Talking about defresh Ministries. Because he was saying his life had been changed, his ministry had been changed. And God was basically saying, when something has been used by God to bless and change your life, you honor that. And so he said God spoke to him, Give the people chance to honor what they've received from the ministry. It's not a crisis thing, it's an honor thing that helps us go forward, but it's honoring. And he was saying, you know, I'm not always able to have the defrains in my church because of their calendar. But he said, my honor for them remains the same and I still must express that honor even if they're not able to be present in my church.
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And this is above and beyond partnership, a monthly partnership. So you may be watching. You're not of part. Part of World Harvest Church because I'm primarily talking to our church to receive our dufresne Ministries offering. But you may not be part of our church, but maybe you've been in a meeting with Pastor Nancy. Maybe you have been a part. She's come to your congregation and you say, well, I'm a partner. This is above and beyond that. And when, when Paul says here, it says, but it was right and commendable and noble of you to contribute to my needs. It's right, it's an. It's commendable and it's noble for us to receive this one time offering in the eyes of God. And of course he goes on and he says, you know, my God shall supply all your needs. And we know that. So we encourage you today, my congregation, we're not going to quit. We're not going to falter on our commitment. We've been preparing for this. This is the time right now that you show God and we love What Brother Norville Hayes says, God believes what you do, not just what you say. It's about what you do. So right now is a time of doing for us. We're giving ourselves an opportunity to be doers of the word that we show God. You supply all my needs by giving to Defrain Ministries. This offering, if you're watching and you partner with us or you're not part of our church, know this. This offering doesn't go to the church. This offering goes directly to. To Defray Ministries, which is the traveling portion of this ministry, the outreach portion. It's all going towards that. So we will not keep any of it in the. The Four World Harvest Church. It's all going for Pastor Nancy and the traveling.
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And you know, this year we're going to six countries. Yes. And so that, that, that helps. It just helps to be a part of what God. Where God is sending us and what God is doing.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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So the offering will be, say, be quarantined to Defrain Ministries. If we're using the lingo these days, it's. It's going to go right to Pastor N. It's designated there. So we won't take it and distribute that to any other needs. But we are thrilled at the call, the increase in the anointing, and the revelation that is on her life. And we want to be a part of that. We want to sow into that. So my congregation, you need to make sure go to the website. Now, listen, this is very important instructions. You can do text to give, and that is the. The code is DM Day. If you text any other code, it will not go to Defray Ministries Day. So DM Day, if you're partnering with us, you can go to our website, give by, via our website, by Belief credit card, debit card, but you can also do debit card, credit card via text to give. So either one of those, you can mail it in. We've got churches that are mailing in their offerings that they're receiving today. And I've gotten word. I just had a pastor text me today, and he says we're still receiving our DM Day offering. We want to know if it's still on. I said DM Day is still on. So we're. We're not gonna quit. And I, I love what a pastor friend of ours, he always says, if you just don't quit, you win.
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Yeah.
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If you just don't quit in the word, you'll win. And we see that over and over again. Men and women in the Bible who just wouldn't quit.
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Why don't you pray with them that are giving for Toward DM Day?
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Father, we thank you for every seed sown, every seed sower that is faithfully committing to what they have purposed in their heart. Oh, Father, I love what your word says in second Corinthians, he who purposes in his heart. And Father, I know there are many out there right now, congregations everywhere today, that are receiving their offering for defrain Ministries. Our congregation receiving our offering for defrain Ministries. We're purposing in our heart to be cheerful givers. We are rejoicing at the opportunity to give. We love giving, Father. We love what you've done. We say our lives have been changed through defrain Ministries. Our families have been changed. Our ministries have been changed through defrain Ministries and through the impartations that have come through defrain Ministries. And Father, we know this. We are quick to give. We're quick to sow.
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And.
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And we rejoice over this offering. I pray for every giver, Father, that as they give, we call in a full bountiful harvest into their lives and their home. And Father, I know this. That as being part of defrain Ministries, we're authorized as a family to speak. A quick return, Father, that that return is going to come quickly to each home. Because they obeyed and they restored, responded in a time where others would say, what are you doing? When the mind would say, what are you doing? But Father, they responded quickly and with a joyful heart. And so we say a quick return, a full return. And we thank you, Father, for it. In Jesus name. And we thank you, Father, that for defrain Ministries and the traveling part of this ministry, we say the rest of the year is filled with. With glory. The best days are ahead.
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The.
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The best times are ahead. And Father, we say the miracle signs and wonders, the confirming of your word is going to be manifested in a way that we have never seen before. The confirming, Father, of all that we have been preaching and expecting in Jesus name. Amen.
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Well, you know, the word says all. So we've been talking about finances, we've been talking about your saying, but the word says also pray one for another that you may be healed. So before we leave today, I want. Stephen, if you would pray. There may be people that are facing difficult physical situations, pain in their body, and we want to let them know they're not alone in that home watching right now.
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So if you're at home or wherever you are watching, just put your hands up. And Father, we thank you that we receive healing together. Father. If there's anybody out there, Father, that. That. That needs healing in their life or they've had fear or whatever has been going on in their life, Father, we declare that they are healed. In Jesus name. We. We join our faith and. And we say, stop the fear. In Jesus name. We say healing is for flowing through your body. If you're there now, just say, I. I receive healing now. I receive healing now in my body. I receive everything I need in my life. In Jesus name. Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, I've enjoyed getting to be with my DeFrain family, but I missed y'. All. And we'll get. We'll get to be back with you again soon. And we look forward to it. And you know, when you have. When you have times like this, you realize how dear your family is to you. I'm talking about the church family. So we long to see your face and we look forward to the next time. But until then, we want to hear from you. We want to hear anything. We pray with you about or as we said, testimonies. We're expecting great testimonies out of this time. So God bless you. We love you and we will see you soon. God bless you. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, 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.