Voices of Victory: Nancy Dufresne, Sunday, 11AM

Summary

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Faith Life Church Podcast: Voices of Victory

Guest: Nancy Dufresne

Date: June 29, 2025 | Sunday, 11AM

Host: Pastors Gary & Drenda Keesee
Location: Faith Life Church, New Albany, Ohio

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Episode Overview

In this powerful episode, Pastors Gary and Drenda Keesee host evangelist and teacher Nancy Dufresne, whose ministry emphasizes living victoriously in Christ. Nancy brings clear, revelatory teaching on the importance of the local church and pastoral authority, activating faith for the miraculous, and understanding one’s identity “in Christ.” Through rich teaching, anecdotes, and ministry time, the message centers on honor, action, and the ongoing power of God for healing and provision.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Importance of the Local Church & Pastoral Office

• Nancy opens by honoring the pastoral role and local church community, emphasizing that a strong spiritual covering provides protection and direction for believers.
  • “Never let anyone diminish your pastor in your eyes, because what that does, we only receive to the measure we honor.” (06:40)
  • Dufresne explains that while all fivefold ministry gifts (apostle, prophet, evangelist, teacher, pastor) are valuable, “the pastoral office is the most important office of the fivefold” for the sheep because pastors live among and care for their flock (05:40–08:20).
• Choosing the right church is a matter of spiritual direction, not convenience. “There’s no such thing as the church of your choice. God knows who carries the mantle for your life.” (14:00)

2. The Role of Honor and Refusing Offense

• Nancy urges believers to highly honor the voices God appoints—both pastors and spiritual mentors, recounting her own intentional choice never to be offended with her spiritual father and husband.
  • “Offense is a choice. It’s beneath a faith person.” (16:50)
• Divine connections carry your destiny and safety; keeping your heart right ensures continuous spiritual flow (15:00–19:00).

3. Renewed Mind as Defense Against the Enemy

• The greatest defense for Christians is a renewed, disciplined mind; you cannot cast out an unrenewed mind, but must renew it with the Word (27:30).
  • Nancy references her books “Answer It,” “A Sound, Disciplined Mind,” and “Peace: Living Free From Worry” as practical tools (24:45).
  • “Your greatest defense against the devil is a renewed mind.” (28:00)
• She emphasizes the necessity of hearing and following both the Word and the Spirit for correct, destiny-shaping decisions (32:00).

4. Understanding Spiritual Warfare—Stand in Christ

• Exegesis of Ephesians 6:10–12: We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces. However, the real fight is about refusing to be “swayed” from God’s Word and plan.
  • “The devil is constantly wanting to sway you. So don’t be swayed—off the Word. Stand on the Word.” (42:00)
  • The analogy of the bullfighter: Don’t charge the distracting “cape” (people, circumstances), but discern the real enemy (45:30).
• Real faith stands immovable in Christ, refusing to be distracted or discouraged by natural opposition (48:00).

5. Living & Acting “In Christ” Reality

• Believers must consistently see, speak, and act from their position "in Christ," not from natural limitations or the flesh.
  • Illustration from Kenneth Copeland: When told to give $50,000 to Kenneth Hagin while in debt, Copeland said, “In Christ, I have it.” (50:00)
• Every good thing—provision, healing, wisdom—is accessed “in Christ.” Lack, pain, and struggle cannot exist in Him (53:00–56:00).

6. Faith Requires Action—Movement Releases Supply

• Faith is not only confession but necessitates corresponding action.
  • “You can’t steer a parked car. Confessions are so you’ll know how to act.” (66:30)
• Jesus multiplied loaves and fishes because He gave thanks and began to distribute what seemed insufficient: “In the distribution comes the multiplication.” (68:30)
• Take steps towards what God tells you—look at the promise, not your resources.
  • “God fills movement with supply. All the supply will meet every step I take.” (72:30)

7. Resurrection Power Is Ours in Christ

• The same power that raised Christ from the dead belongs to believers. Paul’s prayer (Ephesians 1:16–22) is for revelation of:
  1. Who you are in Christ,
  2. What you have in Christ,
  3. What you can do in Christ (75:00).
• Resurrection power brings dead things—marriages, bodies, provisions—back to life.
  • “Resurrection power trumps every other power because it holds all the rest within it.” (76:40)
  • Testimony: A young mother declared resurrection power over her dead daughter, resulting in complete restoration; later, even without a frontal lobe, resurrection power “became the organ” and empowered a normal life (99:30–105:00).

8. Application—Speak, Act, and Expect the Power to Work

• Jesus told Kenneth Hagin: “There’s enough power in every sick room to raise up the sick one—if they know it’s present and give it action.” (108:30)
• Dufresne led those present in declaring and receiving healing, especially over those with metal in their bodies—emphasizing daily confession and refusing to return to natural reasoning (115:00).
• Faith Life leadership reinforced: Don’t look at your lack, look at what He says you have; honor the Word, refuse to be swayed, and live out the miracle (“Because you said so, I put a claim on that. I have that. That’s mine.”) (121:00).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Honor & Receiving:
  “We only receive to the measure we honor… you can only receive to the measure of your honor.” – Nancy Dufresne (06:55)

• On Offense:
  “Offense is a choice. It’s beneath a faith person. I chose long ago that Brother Hagin will never offend me.” – Nancy Dufresne (16:50)

• On Pastoral Importance:
  “The pastoral office is not the most powerful, but it’s the most important. Without the office of the pastor, the fruit of every other office would be lost.” – Nancy Dufresne (07:00)

• On Being “In Christ”:
  “Stay in Christ. Get over here. In Christ, all sickness, all pain, all disease is outside of Him—not in Him.” – Nancy Dufresne (54:30) “In the New Testament, it’s all ours in Christ, baby. I’m not trying to get God to do one thing for me—He already gave it.” (73:00) “Whenever God says something to me, I say ‘In Christ, I have that’… I’m putting Him to work through me.” (62:50)

• On Faith & Provision:
  “God fills movement with supply. If you won’t move, you don’t need wisdom.” – Nancy Dufresne (73:45)

• On the Power of God:
  “The power of God will do it through you. All He needs is for you to give your Yes and He’ll show up and do it. Put your foot in the stirrup, baby.” – Nancy Dufresne (83:50) “If you can’t move anything but your little finger, move it toward God.” (110:15)

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Important Timestamps

• [05:29–08:20] – Honor for Pastors & the Pastoral Office
• [14:00] – God Assigns Pastors/Right Local Church
• [16:50] – On Offense & Spiritual Connections
• [27:30] – Renewed Mind as Key to Victory; Book Recommendations
• [42:00] – “Wrestle” Means “Sway”: The Real Spiritual Fight
• [50:00] – Copeland’s “In Christ I Have It” Testimony
• [66:30] – Faith Requires Ongoing Movement, not Just Confession
• [73:45] – God Fills Movement With Supply & Decision to Act
• [75:00] – Ephesians Prayer: Identity, Riches, and Ability in Christ
• [76:40] – Resurrection Power: The Supreme Power for Believers
• [99:30–105:00] – Miracle Testimony: Resurrection Power in Action
• [108:30] – "There’s Enough Power in Every Sick Room" – Hagin Vision
• [115:00] – Ministry Time: Healing Confession for Metal in Bodies
• [121:00] – Faith Life Church Leadership on Kingdom Provision

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Final Applications & Takeaways

• Honor your local church and spiritual leaders—your spiritual covering determines your safety and fruitfulness.
• Walk daily in awareness of who you are “in Christ”; respond to life from that position, not out of lack, pain, or human reasoning.
• Faith requires both confession and movement; supply always flows as you step out with God.
• Resurrection power is not just a concept; it’s a present, daily reality—available for healing, provision, restoration, and every need.
• Speak resurrection power over your situations. Your words and actions release God’s ability.
  • “Don’t be swayed by what you see or feel. Speak and move in Christ; let resurrection power go to work.” (120:00+)
• Corporate faith and declaration brings multiplied results.

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This message is a call to live and act from your God-given position, fully supplied, empowered, and victorious—every day, in every area of life.

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Transcript

[A]

Welcome online, Campus Powell. We're glad to see you today, Danville. And all of those that watch every weekend. We love you. You're part of our family here. It's great. We have had an amazing, amazing weekend so far. Last night, outpouring of the spirit and words of knowledge and people healed. And this morning's message.

[B]

Wow. Wow.

[A]

It was such an incredible message about putting our attention on. On the word of God and not on what the enemy's doing. Such a great word. Great.

[C]

Hey, how many have followed Nancy Dufresne on tv Victory Channel? Yeah. Quite a few of you. Well, she's here.

[A]

Yay.

[C]

She is here. I'm going to just give you a little brief review of who she is, if you don't know, but I'm sure a lot of you know she's been in ministry 40 years, so she's qualified. 40 years.

[A]

It's over.

[C]

She's pastor 25 years, and that was in California. And president of Defrain Ministries and the president of World Harvest Bible Training Center, I think. Let's see, she's also president. President, president, president. You're doing good, girl. Fresh Oil Fellowship, a ministry organization. And she now travels a lot and teaches and miracle crusades. She's known for her simple, easy to understand, powerful revelation of the kingdom. And so I think if we'd all stand to our feet. Let's just get her up here and. Oh, hey, you want to do that right now?

[A]

Yeah. Real quick.

[C]

Hold on a second, Nancy.

[A]

Oh, man. These books answer it. We've been marinating in that and the price of the double portion anointing. So she has some resources back there.

[C]

She has 20 some books.

[A]

Wow. These have ministered to us and they're good. Answer it. She shared some of that last service and we're excited to see what God's going to do in this service. Amen. Don't you love it when someone flows with the Holy Ghost?

[C]

Amen. Amen.

[A]

Let's give a great big faith life church welcome to Nancy Dufresne.

[B]

Thank you, Pastor. Love you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much, Pastor. Hallelujah. Good morning, everyone. We are so glad to be here with you and it's been such a joy. And thank you, pastors, for having me. It's been such an honor to be with you, spend a little bit more time with you. We've only gotten to see each other in passing, so I'm just so grateful we've gotten a few more moments together. So hallelujah. Father, we thank you today. What an honor. To be here together. Father, we love our family, we love our church family. We love one another. And we're so grateful that we can come here and receive of what you have. And Father, thank you for not leaving us like you found us today. You offer us something. You offer us change, and we take it. And we know this, that on the other side of change is greater glory. For we are changed from glory to glory. So we didn't come in here to stay the same today. We came to have something change that we come up in our thinking, we come up in our believing, we come up in our speaking, and we come up in our doing. And Father, we thank you that as Acts 17:28 tells us, in him we live, and in him we move. And in him we have our being. So we thank you, Father, that you've not left yourself out of anything. And we won't leave you out, but we move with you. We are one with you. And we're so grateful that we are in Christ this morning. Christ is in us, we are in him. And that changes everything. And we're so grateful. And Father, thank you for our precious pastors. Thank you for their obedience, their faithfulness. Because of them following the plan of God, this earth is different. This region of the world even is different, but it's going beyond this region. And we thank you for homes that are put back together, bodies that are healed, lives restored because they have been obedient to the call of God. And Father, we honor our local church, we honor the pastors you've given us. And we will protect their voice in our life, all the days of our life, because we need their voice more than we need a buddy. We need the voice of the pastor. And we thank you that we have that. And we thank you for loving us enough to give us a pastor. And Father, we're just so grateful we belong to this church family. We love one another. We honor one another. And we're so grateful that we're here today to move further with you, with people who honor what we honor, love what we love. And we're different today. And everybody said, amen. Aren't you glad you're here together?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Hallelujah. And you have precious, precious pastors. I tell you, there's. Yeah, There was a multitude on one occasion. It's recorded, a multitude came to Jesus and it said he was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick. He said, because they were. He was moved with compassion for them because they were scattered as sheep. They were scattered and fainted as sheep. Having no shepherd, it didn't say sheep. Having no prophet, sheep having no apostle, sheep having no evangelist or teacher, sheep having no pastor. Because the pastoral office lives with you. All other four offices can travel and leave you, but pastors, they. They live with you. And the pastoral office is the most important office of the fivefold. It's not the most powerful, but it's the most important. And it's the most powerful in the life of the sheep because they're. They're the parents of your. Of your spiritual family here. And what an honor that is. Amen. And people will say, it's the truth. Never let anyone diminish your pastor in your eyes, because what that does, we only receive to the measure we honor. And many times people are trying to get God to give them something when their honor is too low. You can only receive to the measure of your honor. And so we honor our pastor. Why? Because we're going to receive everything God has for us through our pastor. And can I say this? The apostle, the prophet, the evangelist and teacher, their job is to assist the pastor in their great work. They're to come into a region and not work apart from a pastor, not work apart from a local church. Because without the office of the pastor, the. The fruit of every other office would be lost. You understand that? Because a man can come in and be an evangelist and win a bunch of people, but if a pastor isn't over them, that man's fruit will be lost. So every four. Every other fourfold office must have the office of the pastor to care for the fruit that he won, the fruit that he brought into the kingdoms for it to last. Amen. And to have a pastor, you are authorized to say, devil, you can't scatter me. I got a pastor. Devil, you can't make me faint, not finish my course. I have a pastor. Amen. Hallelujah. Now, let me. Let me just. Let me just present it to you this way. There is such protection in the office of the pastor for your life that you're not even aware of. There's an anointing that is upon the pastoral office that no other office carries. They all carry their own specific graces within their offices. And there's such protection for the sheep in the life of the pastor, in the anointing of the pastor. If you were the devil and you wanted to attack God's people, the primary strategy you do is get them away from their pastor, because then he has access to them as a pastor. A pastor has oversight of your soul, meaning this. There's a protection that comes through that office for your life. People will say, jesus is all I need. Well, you got to qualify that statement. Jesus is all you need for your redemption. You understand that? He's all you need to set you right with God. But to grow up, you gotta have a pastor. And to be safe in the earth, you have to have the oversight of a pastor. Or your life isn't safe and your children aren't safe and your family's not safe and your marriage isn't safe and your business isn't safe. Amen. Well, I don't know why I said that, but it's the truth. I'm just saying congratulations for finding the pastor God has for you. And you have to know this. There's no such thing, the church of your choice. No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. Why? Because God has anointed and appointed and graced pastors to feed sheep. And he knows who carries the mantle for your life. And not every pastor carries a mantle for your life. The one God told you to be with carries the pastor, carries the mantle for your life. And you can say, well, you know, there's all these kinds of churches, community, and you know, they preach a good word. I'm sure that's true, but they're not anointed for my life. The one that's anointed for my life is a place where God told me to be. And I can never dismiss myself from where God told me to be. What about this? God told Abraham, go off for your son. Well, and he told him what mountain to go to. Now he had to travel several days to reach that mountain. There were mountains closer to him, but that's not the mountain he better go to. Why? Because there's a ram waiting on one mountain. And if it gone to the wrong mountain, no ram waiting for you. His son would have died going to the wrong mountain. You understand that? Because God was waiting for him at a particular mountain. And so I'm saying God tells you where your local church is. God tells you who your pastor is. Not convenience. Well, this one's closest to my house. No, no, that's not how it works. Can I tell you? God's not just. God's not concerned about our convenience. I wonder how convenient it was for Jesus to die. Not about convenience. It's about the plan. God has a plan. And I'm so grateful. God has voices in my life. God has voices in your life. And you better know who those voices are. And you better not let the devil separate you. From those voices because the devil wants wrong voices around you. But when you know who the right voices are, no one can separate me from the right voice. I said no one can separate me from the right voice. I decided long ago, dad Hagin was our spiritual father to my husband and I for decades. And I chose long ago. Brother Hagin will never offend me. See, offense is a choice. It's beneath a faith person. And I don't care what he says, what he does, he's still the voice God put in my life. And I'm not looking to change that. And I won't let offense change that. So I'm going to overlook. I'm going to ignore any offense so I can stay with my spiritual father. And you know what? My husband was my Bible school. I got to live with my Bible school. Not too many get that privilege, but I got that privilege. He had been in the ministry over 15 years when I married him. I'd only been saved and filled with the Holy Ghost a couple of years when I married him. I never even heard. Go ahead and be seated. I never even heard of the five fold ministry when I married my husband. Can I tell you that I was raised in a denominational church and all we ever heard of was a pastor and his name was Bob. We didn't call him pastor such and such. We didn't know. We didn't understand that. But. So my husband became my Bible school. And how many of you know, in a marriage you had the opportunity to be offended if you want, or is it just in other people's homes? And I had to decide long ago my husband would never offend me. Why? Because I needed. I needed that covenant in place more than I needed to win my way. Hallelujah. Well, you're mighty quiet this morning. I'm just wondering if you just listen. Are you listening? Okay. Yeah. And? Well, I'm trying to go one direction, but I keep going another direction. I got other sermons. I started that way last night. This morning I had multiple sermons. But I just get in the room and go. I just get in the room and go with what's in the room. Yeah. And so I just decided my husband would never offend me. And did I have the opportunity to be offended? I guess I just didn't notice. Why? Because I need divine connections in place more than I need to win my way. Praise the Lord. I said praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Pastor, would you hand me that notebook? No. Excuse me? Not the notebook. The brown briefcase. The brown briefcase. Should I tell you it's on your left or your right. Would that take a moment? That's an inside joke. It's not. This is. Just set it right there. Pastor Noel and Ruby, stand up. Pastor Noel, this is. These are pastors. They live in California. I'm staying right now in Texas. I've been there maybe about, I don't know, what, six months or so. But this couple have traveled with me since my husband's home going. They have traveled with me nearly everywhere. They pastor in San Diego area, suffering for Jesus in San Diego. But they have done so much to stay with me and I so appreciate that, the supply that they have been. And I say this, they're fun. And if you're not fun, you can't go with me. Yeah, we don't have time for cranky people. We don't have time for high maintenance people. You better be low maintenance and you better be fun. And so they live. They pastor in San Diego, but they live in our city where our church is in Murietta. It's what, about an hour and 15 hour and 30 minutes from your. On a good day. It's getting further away as the traffic grows. But they live in our city and commute to their own church just to bless us. And so they teach in our Bible school. They travel with me and they're from the Philippines and they teach me how to talk English. Yeah, well, praise the Lord. So give them a great big God bless you. There they are. Thank you. Hallelujah. The Lord is good. I said the Lord is good. Turn with me, if you would. We've got a few more books back there. The pastor's been talking about this. Could I tell you this? There's really three. She mentioned the book. Answer it. There's three that I call the bundle on the mind. And that's the book she held up. I think they're sold out, but you can go to our website and get it. And I think. I don't know, they may be downloadable too. I don't know if you know, Kenny. I don't know. We're staff, but we don't know. They don't pay us enough to know that. And I'm teasing, but there's two others. A sound, disciplined mind. And then peace, living free from worry. Those three, if you get those three, the skill with those three, life is going to be heaven on earth for you because your own mind's not troubling your life. Can I tell you your greatest defense against the devil is a renewed mind. That's your greatest defense. And you can't cast out an unrenewed mind. People would love to get in your ministry line and say, well, I'm having trouble with the devil. Well, you can't cast out an unrenewed mind. You got to renew your mind so that you can run things out of your life. And then I think such an important book, following the Holy Spirit. The Word of God is God's general word for all of his people. It tells what it's covenant, what belongs to us. But there are specifics about your life that the Word does not spell out. God tells you there's a plan for your life, but the Word doesn't tell you who to marry. It tells you general guidelines. Don't be unequally yoked. Right? But it tells you general guidelines. Doesn't tell you who to marry. It doesn't tell you what city to move to, doesn't tell you what job, what profession. So you need the Holy Spirit to lead you in the specifics of your life. That's why you need to know the Word and the Spirit. Because if you don't know how to follow the Holy Ghost, you'll get the specifics of your life wrong. You'll end up moving to the wrong places, marrying the wrong people, going wrong directions without knowing the specifics. Because the Holy Spirit unveils the specifics. He shows you things to come, and you have to know how to. How he leads you. If you're not careful, if you're untaught, you'll just think a positive feeling is the leading of the Spirit. You have to know how the Word describes the leading of the Spirit. And so we teach you how to follow the Holy Spirit. People who don't. People who don't get this understanding and the skill developed in their life end up making lots of wrong decisions. And we don't have time for wrong decisions. We don't have enough money to fund bad decisions. You know, the supply of God is for his plan. And we don't want to be funding a plan different than his plan for us. And then this one, this one surprised me when God told me to write it. And I had no idea the famine of understanding of this. But it's called Victory Over Grief and Sorrow. It's not a sad book. It's called Victory Over. And we just. God taught us and we just decided that there's many places and times in life, if I can get you. There's many times and places in life that offers you grief and offers you sorrow. It can be at the time when a relationship failed, maybe a business failed, a home was lost, something of that nature. And you have to know, especially at the homegoing a loved one. People say they think that grief is a flow showing that they loved someone. But grief is so devastating that it took the Godhead to deal with it. Jesus bore our griefs and sorrows because you could not bear them. It's so devastating. And we have no business trying to carry something that Jesus removed from us. And we don't show our love and honor for someone by grieving for them. When my husband went home to be with the Lord unexpectedly, I didn't show honor and love for him by grieving. I showed love and honor by fulfilling what he was born to, by what he started and carrying it on and being a doer of what he spent almost 30 years teaching me. That's how I honor. And so I just want you to know that we don't take our cues from the world and we don't take our cues from those with an unrenewed mind of what's proper response. We go to the Word because the Word has something to say about it all. Amen. Praise the Lord. Turn with me if you would. Go to Ephesians chapter six to begin with. Ephesians chapter six and we'll see where we end up. That's always my sermons. We start and see where we end up. And that's not lack of preparation. It's because I'm leaning, I'm leaning on the leading of the Spirit because He knows the needs in the room and I want him to be able to minister to the needs in the room. No, no. Service is my opportunity. Every service is his opportunity. And it's your opportunity to receive of Him. Amen. So Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 12, Ephesians 6:12 says this. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. So there's four different, if we could say this, categories of evil spirits that are moving. Jesus told dad Hagin on one occasion, he said the fourth one, against spiritual wickedness in high places. He said, you don't deal with that. I deal with that one. But as we operate, dealing without with the ones we're to deal with, then he's enabled to deal with some things on our behalf. But here, against principalities, powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places. Notice this. We wrestle not against these, against flesh and blood. Why did he have to tell us, don't wrestle against flesh and blood. Because these try to manifest through flesh and blood. They've got to have a channel to have expression. And if we're not careful, we'll think people are our problems. When it's evil spirits influencing people, and it's almost like this, he's telling you, don't go after people, don't fight people, or you'll miss the target. It's almost. We don't have this in this country, which I'm kind of glad about. But in other countries they have bull fighting. And you'll have a matador who's holding a cloth and he's holding this cape out. And what's he doing? He's trying to get the attention of the bull, right? With this cape. And behind that cape is a sword. And every time that bull charges that cape, that sword gets driven into that bull and he begins charging into the thing that injured him. And this is the way the devil does. He holds up a person, he holds up a situation. So you charge at them, charge at the situation. And you just want to tell the bull, move over about two feet, right? Leave the cape alone. Go after the dude holding the cape and the sword quits going in you. Right? It's the same way the devil holds up circumstances, holds up people, holds up something of this realm. So you'll charge it and miss the dude holding the cape. So this is what Paul's saying. Don't go after what the devil's holding up. Go after him, the one behind the situation. Amen. Now, it says, we wrestle not against flesh and blood. When you look at this word in the. You look at it in the We Vines expository dictionary, New Testament words, wrestle. When we think about wrestle, we think about hand to hand kind combat, the physical side of it. But We Vines says this word wrestle is sway. The devil is constantly wanting to sway you. So don't be swayed is what he's saying. What does that mean? Don't be swayed. Off the word. Stand on the word. That's what the good fight of faith is. We're not fighting to win victory. We're fighting to be unswayed. Off the word. You understand that? You don't have to win against the devil. Jesus already did it. But you have to stand firm and immovable on the word of God, refusing to be swayed. And the devil will hold up circumstances, hold up people, hold up situations. Don't let him dupe you. Don't let what he's holding up sway you. Off of the plan, off of the word of God, because the devil is trying to sway you constantly out of where you're supposed to be, off of the plan of God for your life and away from the word of God. Isn't that right? Amen. So also now go back a few verses there in Ephesians 6, we were looking at 6:12, but let's look at 6:10. He tells us something to do first so that we're not swayed. So how many of you say verse 10 is before verse 12? Right? So verse 10 tells us, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Notice this. Be strong in the Lord, not strong in yourself. Strong in the Lord. Can I tell you this? God doesn't just. When we say the strength of the Lord is working for us, you know, the joy of the Lord is our strength. These verses that tell us this. God doesn't just take human strength and touch it and energize it and elevate it. He gives you his strength. We're to live off of his strength. This is thing. This is. You have to know this. You're in Christ. I said you're in Christ. Everything that's his is yours now. Live off of him and not living off of you. Now, the plan of God can only be fulfilled as you operate in that plan. In Him, God gave a plan for your life, for every life. And then he gave us himself and said, now I will fulfill my plan through you. Jesus said, my Father in me, he does the works. God is not going to use your resources. He's going to send his resources into your resources. Does that make sense? Now, Brother Copeland was telling. I've done, I think, 80 episodes recently called in Christ I Can on our television, on our television broadcast. And that stems from a testimony Brother Copeland gave. He said in the early 70s, he was, of course, just learning him and Sister Gloria the principles of prosperity. They were in debt. And God spoke to him and he said, I want you to give brother Hagin $50,000. Now listen, in the 70s, $50,000 is a big amount. It's big today. Back then, can you imagine, we looked it up, that if you took it back then, in today's terms, it would have been over $400,000 in today's money back then, in the 50s. And so can you imagine, you're in debt. You don't have resources of your own. You're just learning about faith. You're learning about prosperity. The plan that God has of prosperity for your life. And God Says, give this ministry $50,000. But the skill of Brother Copeland's answer has blessed me so much. He didn't look at his resources and said, where am I going to get that? How am I going to do that? His answer was this. In Christ I have it. Look at that. In Christ I have that. And in Christ I can give it. You understand that the devil always wants you. Talking about you outside of Christ, we're to remind him, I'm in Christ, and everything is mine in Christ. Everything that's his is mine in Christ. So the skill of the renewed mind is I'm in Christ. And I answer from the place of I'm in Christ. I move from the place I'm in Christ, not outside of Him. And the devil's always trying to point you back to who you are in the flesh and your faults, your failures, your weaknesses. Because he wants you to function as you and not as one in Christ. Because outside of Christ is failure. In Christ is nothing but victory. You are to see yourself in Christ. Remember we quoted it while we were praying. Acts 17, verse 28. In him, we live in him, we move in Him. Our entire being finds its sustenance in Him. Now, when the devil attacks me, he just took on in Him. He didn't just take me on, he just took on in Him. And if I will occupy and not be swayed from who I am in him, then this opposition is not going to last. This opposition is not going to overcome me because I standing in Him. And I won't be swayed back into me when I go out to preach. Before I preach, I say, father, there's nothing in me to help these people. But there's everything in the Christ in me for these people. I go out mindful of him, not mindful of me. But he's got to have a vessel to operate through, a vessel to flow through. Listen, you are in Him. Don't cheat yourself. Living in you, he offers you him, his strength, his wisdom. Can I tell you this, that in Christ there's no symptoms in Christ there's no pain, there's no disease and sickness in Christ. So stay in Christ. Get over here. In Christ, all sickness, all pain, all disease is outside of him, not in Him. So we talk about from the place of in Him. And it dominates anything that's not in him that's trying to affect us in Him. I'm completely provided for. There is no lack in Him. So I'll just talk from the place of in Him. Amen. And I'm not swayed from that. And the devil's going to use people and he's going to use situations to try to pull me back into myself. So I try to win on a low level. And it doesn't work. Can I tell you this? The fruits of the Spirit are nothing but God's own character in you. It's him. Love, joy, peace, goodness, temperance, meekness, all these things. The fruits of the Spirit are in Him. So notice this. You have. There's human love. It's a quitter. Human love can't run. It can't go the distance. Why? Because its origin is human. So God says, you know what? I'm gonna give my own love. So you have the love of God on the inside of you. And his love can accomplish what your love never could have accomplished. Why? Because human love says this. I. I'll be good to you as long as you're good to me. You nice to me, I'm nice to you. You ugly to me, I'm ugly to you. That's human love because it's a quitter. It doesn't have the stuff to go the distance. But divine love isn't based on anybody else. It's based on God himself. So I love you because of who's in me. Regardless of what you say to me, regardless of what you do to me. Because I have his love. I'm spending. I'm not trying to on the lower level of spending human love because human love will derail my life. It will cause me to equal every unsaved person in this world. Since God gave us divine love, we no longer have permission to go back to human love and try to function there. Since we have the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace. Heaven will not permit us to. To go back to lower levels. You understand that? Human joy won't cut it. Human peace won't cut it. But divine peace, divine love. See, the faith of God is in you. You understand that? His own faith is in you. He didn't go outside of Himself to give you faith. He took of his own faith and put it in you. Think of that. But his faith. Faith comes by hearing, but it operates by love. So he not only gave you his faith, he gave you his love so that his faith will operate. So what am I saying? In Christ, you're a love creature. In Christ you're peace. In Christ, you're joyful. In Christ, you're temperate. In Christ, all the fruits of the Spirit are Him Himself in you. And it's just you saying, I going to draw on the him that's in me. Amen. This elevates life to live as one in Christ. So when the devil comes, what's he trying to sway you out? He's trying to sway you back into the natural outside of Christ. So God said to Brother Hagin. I mean, to Brother Copeland, I want you to sow $50,000 to Brother Hagin. But listen to the skill of Brother Copeland's answer. In Christ, I have it. He stepped outside of humanity, stepped into the divine and said, in Christ, I have it. Did he have the money and his own resources? No. Because God was offering it to him by telling him to do it. Can I tell you this? When God tells you to do something because he's offering you that, does that make sense to you? When God says, give this amount and you say, I don't have that. I know. He says, I know I have it to. I'm. I'm endeavoring to bring that into your hands. And I'm telling you what I'm wanting to bring through you, if you'll agree with me. So brother. Brother Copeland said, in Christ, I have it. That just went off in me so big. I saw. Outside of Christ, he doesn't have it, but in Christ he has it. So my. That's. That's where worry is. You're out. You're thinking is one outside of Christ. That's where fear comes from. Thinking as though you got to accomplish this outside of Christ, you can't. In Christ, there's no fear. Why? Because God's working through me. It's his ability. It's His. See, that's what grace is, his ability. But it has to meet your faith. You understand that? So in him is everything you need. So think. Think as one in Him. Talk as one in Him. And when. When it comes into your heart. I want to. I want a home of my own. Say in Christ, I have it in Christ, I have a home in Christ. I have that business in Christ, I have that equipment I need. But the devil wants to sway you. Bring you. He wants to. He wants to get you on human territory, human level. Because then you'll lay in bed. How can I afford that? And. And then you'll pull out your financial sheet and you'll look for it to give you permission. And it doesn't give you permission. So you got to get over in Christ where all your permission is. All the promises of God are yes and amen. Get over in Christ, I'm in Christ. In Christ, I can have that house. Why? Because he's going to fund it. Through me. He's not asking for my resources to buy it. He's going to fund it through me. If I will say in Christ, I have a house. In Christ, I'm whole. In Christ, there's no pain in my body. In Christ, there's no disease. Why? Because in Christ, he ain't sick. But the devil wants to sway you. So you start talking as one outside of Christ. Because that's where symptoms and disease and lack and torment and fear and all the. All the difficulties of life are. There's no struggle in Christ. When you start seeing yourself in Christ, talking as one in Christ, letting that be your thought. Life struggle's over for you, you understand? That's the end of struggle in your life. Because it's all him doing it. Amen. So anytime God says something to me, I say, in Christ, I have that in Christ that that comes to pass. Why? Because I'm putting him to work through me. God's offering us buildings. We're right now pursuing other buildings. God offered me I a property on the lake there in Southern California. 42 acres. We buying it and we're developing it in Christ. It's already mine. And angels are over that property right now. This realm is only a matter of time before it shows up. But in Christ, I have it. Why? Because he offered it. He gave it. Anything he gave. See, you don't ever have to talk. In the Old Testament, they're always trying to get God to do something for them. Pay attention to this. The Old Testament, they were always trying to get God to do something for them. In the New Testament, it's all ours in Christ, baby. I'm not trying to get God to do one thing for me. He already gave it. In Christ is everything I ever need. I just see myself in him. I talk in him and I move in him and say, in Christ I have it and I don't. Get over to the middle arena. The middle arena wants to talk about you. The renewed mind talks about him. So when Brother Copeland said, in Christ I have it, he didn't have it in his own resources. If he was going to look at his own resources, he's going to say, can't do that. But he went to his resources in Christ and he said, in Christ I have it, and in Christ I can give it. Now what did he do? Once he agreed with who he was in Christ, then he took action. Faith is a movement. And until you give a movement, God's got nothing to fill. Faith is an action that you take. Now you can't steer a parked car. Neither can God if you're just parked, sitting at home in your chair. Confessing. I'm confessing. I'm confessing. Confessing. I'm confessing. I'm confessing. I'm confessing. I'm confessing. I'm confessing. But you're not acting. Your confessions are so you'll know how to act. Your confessions are not the fulfillment of all the action. Confession is an act, but it's not the completed action. When you say, in Christ, I'm whole and in Christ my body works. That arm works in Christ. That shoulder works in Christ. When you say that, now you know how to act, I'm getting up and I'm doing it. That confession is to lead you to action. The confession is not the completion of the action. You understand that? And that's where faith people get stuck. They think, I'll just confess, confess and confess. But until you give a movement, God's power's got nothing to fill. So notice this. Jesus ran into a place where he didn't have enough. You ever run into a place where you didn't have enough? Yeah. Jesus came up to things that weren't enough and he changed them. Why? Because he applied God's ability to it. Whenever he wanted to feed the multitude, he said to one of the disciples, what shall we do? And they said, well, there's a little boy here with five loaves and two fish. They hid on it, but then they let go. They got swayed. Their mental reasonings kicked in and they got swayed off of the answer they didn't discern. The answer was in their mouth and their mind reasoned them out of it. Your mind can talk you out of who you are in Christ. Your mind can rob from you everything you are in Christ. If you let that reasoning meant that reasoning arena lead you. So the disciple had the answer in his mouth. There's a little boy here with five loaves and two fish. And Jesus discerned it. There's our answer. There's our answer. But they let go of it. Why? It didn't make sense in Christ. It makes sense outside of Christ. It doesn't. Just know that everything in Christ makes sense. Everything outside of Christ doesn't make sense. So if you're going to be swayed outside of Christ, you're going to live in the place where it doesn't make any sense to do that. So he held up. He took what was not enough. My son. When my son preaches on this, it's so funny because he said, why is it that the little boy is the only one that said he had any food. He said, you know, these women had food. These women always carry food. They always got snacks in their purse. I said, yeah, because you men are asking for it. We carry your junk in our purse. We got kids snacks and ladies, don't we? And grandmamma's always got a little something in there. And Steven, my son, says, you know those women. But none of them offered up their stuff. I said, no, because an adult thinks this isn't enough. But a little boy thought, this is enough for me. Why isn't it enough for them? So he offers up what was enough for him. It looked like enough. Jesus took what was not enough and he looked to heaven. When you're holding what's not enough, it matters where you're looking. You better be looking at in Christ. In Christ, this is enough. Amen. So it says, he looked up to heaven. He didn't look at what was not enough. He looked at the God of more than enough. And it says, he looked up to heaven and blessed. He didn't say there's not enough money in the account to pay this. Honey, I know we got this bill, but there's not enough. Well, you're looking at the wrong thing and you're talking about the wrong thing. If you'll look at in Christ. There's more than enough in Christ to pay that bill. Amen. You get it? The devil's wanting to sway you. This is the fight of faith. Don't be swayed. And so Jesus looks at was not enough, holds up what's not enough and blesses it. And when does it become more than enough? In the distribution, while you're spending, people want all the money to show up before they make a move. It'll never show up. You gotta be moving. God fills movement with supply. God fills movement with supply. God fills movement. God's offering us a building right now. And I said to my son, I said, go tell him we want it. Mom, what are we gonna do? I don't know. I'm making the movement a saying. I want it. Mom, are we going to finance it? We going to pay cash? I don't know. Just make a movement. Go check. Go tell them we want the building. And every step will show up. I got to make movement. And then the wisdom comes for the movement I'm making. But if I'm not making movement, I don't need wisdom. Amen. Faith is a movement. Faith takes action. Faith doesn't stop and wait for God to draw. But faith Moves right into it. In Christ, it's mine. In Christ I can have it. And as I move as one in him, all the supply will meet. Every step I take. Do I have it right now? In Christ I do. Outside of Christ I don't. But in Christ I do. So every morning I gotta get up and think in Christ and talk in Christ and speak in Christ. That building's ours. In Christ. I've already named it. I don't call it the name of the former business. It's the name of my business. I call it that in my own private time. I don't call it that way in the pulpit yet because I haven't told the congregation about it yet. But in Christ, it's mine. See, it's all about, did God give it? If God gave it, it's mine. And God has given us all things in Christ. Amen. Well, I haven't gotten to my sermon yet. Just don't hold on with me here. Hold on with me here. Amen. Don't be swayed about out of who you are in Christ. So here Brother Copeland gives the answer, the skillful answer. In Christ, I have it. In the natural he had debt, but in Christ, he had $50,000. So what he did, he took. At the end of every day, when he'd break a dollar bill or break a larger bill and they'd give him coins back, he'd take those coins and throw them in a box. At the end of the day, are coins gonna pay $50,000? No. But what's he doing? It's movement. It's movement. It's movement. So at the end of every day, he'd throw his coins in a box. When that box would fill up, he'd send it in to the ministry. He did that several times. After several times of doing that, he says, I have no idea how much I've given. He said, I called Buddy Harrison, who was dad hagin's son in law, and he said, buddy, how much have I given? He said, well, let me check. He checked. He said, kenneth, you've given well over $50,000. Brother Copeland said, there's no way in coins. I gave over $50,000 in that amount of time. What happened when he made a movement? God made up the difference. God, he gives seed to the sower. But you got to know this. What God gives you to sow, don't eat it like it's your bread. It's not your bread. And you better discern what your bread and what your seed to sow. Because if you eat Your bread, if you eat your seed like it's bread, you ended up eating your harvest. And so brother Copeland, in Christ, see, he did that in Christ. And then he just took a little movement that really did not affect him financially at all. He didn't miss coins, right? But when he gave a movement, God made up the difference. What is it? Power. You understand that power makes all the difference. I don't know if you've ever heard of a. Or read after the books of Lillian B. Yeomans. You ever read any of her books on healing? If you don't have them, you need to get them. She was a medical doctor that was dying on her deathbed, and God raised her up, and she went to preaching divine healing for 45 years and lived as divine Health. She was an instructor in Amy Simple McPherson's Bible School at one point. And when she was a little girl, her dad was in the. He was a doctor in the army during Lincoln's time, and they were stationed on a military post. And she was a little girl at the time, during the Civil War. And her dad said, I don't want my little girls out there not knowing how to ride a horse because they're on, like a frontier type a military post. So he told this commanding officer, give my daughters riding lessons. So Lillian B. Yeoman, she's about 8 years old at the time, and he comes out and he finds her mounted for her lessons every day. So he gives her riding lessons. And then one of the other officers said to this officer that was instructing her, said, have you ever seen her mount her horse? It's a hoot. And he goes, what are you talking about? And it dawned on him that every time he came for lessons, she was already mounted. So he showed up that day, giving her her lesson, and. And she's already mounted. And he says in his most commanding voice, dismount. She said, no, thank you. He said, dismount. She says, I don't want to go riding today. He said, you're going riding. Dismount. So finally she got off the horse and stood there. Come to find out the other officer that had seen her. The way she mounted was she would take the horse over to a little short. It was some kind of a shed, but a low shed, not a high one. It was just a little structure. And she would climb up on the shed and then roll off onto the horse. That was her way of mounting. And so when this commanding officer came to her and said, dismount. And she did. He said, now you're going to mount properly. She said, I can't. He said, oh, yes, you can. Oh, no, I can't. I can't. She's a little thing, you know. She's got to reach her foot up in the stirrup. She can't reach it. Her little old limbs just don't reach it. And so she thought she couldn't. Why? Because she's thinking her. When he says mount, he's thinking him. So he said, yes, you can mount. He said to her, put your foot in the stirrup. Well, she could get up one foot, but she didn't have enough strength then to swing her body and mount the other leg. So she put her foot in the stirrup, and when she did. Now he knows she's ready. You understand that? And he said, now you're going to spring up. That's all you're going to do. You're not going to put your other leg over. You're just going to spring up. And he said, now spring up. And when she just. With that leg, she sprung up with this leg, he grabbed it. He grabbed that other one and. And he put her up on that horse with his ability. But what was it? When she put her foot in the stirrup. Now he knows she's ready to mount. Until you make an action, God doesn't know you're ready to mount. And if you'll make an action, he knows they're ready to mount. Now, I'll bring my ability, I'll bring my strength, I'll bring my supply, and I'll put them over. You understand that? That's why action is everything. She couldn't just stand there by the horse. She could have a horse, he could be saddled. She couldn't just stand there and say, I'm ready to mount. No, you've got to take the posture of mounting. You have to put one foot in, right? An action is one foot in. Get one foot in, baby, because God's fixing to step both feet in. You understand that? Don't be swayed by the mental arena. By the mental arena that says I can't give that. I can't do that. I can't afford that house. All God needs you to do is agree with his command amount. Put up your foot, and he will provide the power behind that action to make it come to pass. Don't be swayed by the devil who is trying to dupe you into. Outside of Christ, in Christ, everything is already yours. Now put your foot up and go for it. Amen. Now. Now turn with me, if you would. Let's Go to Ephesians, chapter one. Are you still with me? Are you getting something out of this? Yeah. Ephesians, chapter one. And let's look at verse 16. Ephesians chapter one, verse 16. Paul's writing. He said, I see cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers. Just know this. Don't get into. Don't be duped into this spiritual thing or religious idea or lawful religious idea that says it takes a long time to pray. He said, I make mention. Mention of you. The devil tries to make you think if you don't spend at least 30 minutes to an hour doing this, that you haven't done much. When you. If you're outside of faith, an hour's not enough for praying. But when you're in faith, a mention is all it takes. I'm not saying that prayer time is to be short or long. Don't get into a law of how you figured out because you can just live in communion with God. And in a mention, things change. And he said, making mention of you in my prayers. You know, you can just pray. Well, you know what? It's just praying for the nation. Father your will be done on this earth as it is in heaven. There's a mention that just invited God in, right? But see, you think that I have to spend 30, 40 minutes in a prayer room somewhere. And I'm not belittling that there are times you do that, but don't bypass that. A mention of faith brings God on the scene. So he said, making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. We could say in revelation of who you are in him, couldn't we? Verse 18. He says this, I'm praying this. That the eyes of your understanding. Or we could say this, the eyes of your spirit being enlightened. That you may. Number one, that you may know what is the hope of his calling. Number two, that you may know what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. And number three, that you may know what is exceeding greatness of his power to us. Ward who believe. What's all that mean? It means simply this. That you may know what is the hope of his calling. That you may know who you are in Christ. That's who you're called. You're called in Christ. That you may know who you are in Christ. What's the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. All that belongs to you. The wealth of God. That's yours because you're in Christ. That's what that means. And number three, that you may know what is exceeding greatness of his power to us with that belief that you may know all that you can do because divine power is yours. So basically in a nutshell, Paul's saying this. I pray that you may know who you are in Christ, what you have, how rich you are because you're in Christ. And number three, what you can do because you've got divine power, who you are. So say it with me, that you may know who you are in Christ, what you have in Christ, and what you can do because you're in Christ. That's basically what Paul's saying in a nutshell. Now look at verse 19. That you may know what is exceeding, exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe. Then he's going to go on and describe what power he's talking about according to the working of his mighty power which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead. What kind of power is he talking about? Resurrection power. He's saying that you may see and know in Christ. Resurrection power is yours. He didn't compare the power that is yours to creative power like he used at creation. He didn't single out creative power. He didn't even single out miracle power like the parting of the Red Sea. He didn't single out healing power that we saw in Jesus earthly ministry. You know what he singled out? Resurrection power. What's resurrection power for? Dead things? Anything dead comes back to life because you showed up and you know something and you believe who you are in Christ. A marriage can be dead, but you lay resurrection power on that and it comes back. You can have family relationships dead and God's power, resurrection power makes them live again. Yeah, what about a dead business? It's bankrupt. No, not when resurrection power gets on it. It brings dead things back. I got a dead limb, Father. My arm doesn't work. Lay resurrection power on it. Resurrection power trumps every other power because in resurrection power is the ability that every other power possesses. Creative power, miracle power, healing power. Resurrection holds it all. Now, not only did Jesus, it says that this power raised him from the dead. Resurrection power wasn't done when he raised him from. From the dead. Resurrection, listen, it wasn't done. The power according to the working of his mighty power, verse 20, which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead. And so that power's continuing now and what set him at his own Right hand in the heavenly place. His resurrection power put him there. It wasn't just resurrection power that got him out of hell. It put him. It took him to heaven and seated him. Amen. Look at this. Verse 21. Far above all principality, power, might, dominion. That's what we read over in Ephesians 6. Remember that? What's that mean? All those levels or categories of demon powers in hell dogpiled on Jesus trying to stop the resurrection and it wasn't enough. Every demon power, and I guarantee you it was no close fight, baby. I mean, there have been songs that depict it as a close fight. It was no close fight. Resurrection power showed up and it dealt with every level of demon power. Knocked them all back. They all dogpiled and none of them were sufficient. None of them were sufficient. Don't be swayed off this in Christ. This is yours, you understand? Don't be swayed to living by your mental reasonings. Don't be swayed by thinking about who you are outside of Christ. That doesn't spend anymore. You're in Christ now. We're not authorized to go back and live as one outside of Christ. We're not authorized to go back to human level. We're not authorized to go back to the human love and human ability to produce finances. We're not authorized for that anymore. Why? We had the faith of God. We're operating in him, his ability working through us. We're nothing. If I could say it this way. We're the glove. And the hand is the one that does all the movement. But it sure makes the glove look good while it's moving. God makes us look so good in Christ. He fills us, moves through us, and then turns around and rewards us for allowing his movement to flow through us. Baby, that's a deal you don't want to decline, right? Yeah. So it raised him from the dead. It threw off every principality, power, might and dominion, the power of God and every name that is named. Look, verse 22. And it put all things under his feet. Resurrection power is still working doing this. It put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church. This is done by resurrection power. Amen. Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. Verse 1. And you hath he quickened who are dead in trespasses and sins. Paul said that you would get this revelation that you are in Christ and all that you are rich with because you're in him. And that you would know the power, the same thing that it Worked all this for Jesus. That's what's working for you. So when God says to you, give this to the church, you go. I can't. You're talking outside of resurrection power. The power of God will do it through you. The power. All he needs is for you to give your yes and he'll show up and do it. Put your foot in the stirrup, baby. Just put your foot in the stirrup. And his power will come and supply the ability to bring it to pass. Get this. Meditate on this. Notice this. The exceeding greatness. Exceeding greatness. Adjective heaped upon adjective to describe the power that's in your direction. The exceeding greatness of his power. Look at that. The exceeding greatness of his power. It's not to everybody. It's to us. Word what who believe. This power is activated by faith. You have to believe in the power of God for it to work every day. Say I'm kept by the power of God. You don't have to bind that. This won't happen. That won't happen. That won't happen. Don't get on the negative side. Stay on the positive side. Don't say what won't happen. Say what will happen. Amen. Power's working for me today. Amen. That will knock back anything that tries to work against me. I'm kept by the power of God. Peter said you're kept by the power of God through faith. That's what I say. I'm kept by the power of God through faith. My family's kept by the power of God through faith. I don't have to go single out devils that you won't do this and you won't do that. Because I've already said what power will do. Does that make sense to you? Don't get devil conscious. Be God conscious. Be power conscious. Don't talk about the devil. Talk about power that already dealt with him. Amen. Praise the Lord. When we see this exceeding greatness of his power. Exceeding greatness. We see this exceeding. It means this. It exceeds every other power. There's no power. That's a close second. You understand that the word exceed. The dictionary definition of the word exceed. To go beyond the limit. What's this mean? Resurrection power takes you past limits. I don't care what the economy says. I don't care what your race says. I don't care what your upbringing said. Your lack of education says that's a limit. And this power, take it exceeds limits. Another definition. It says it's greater than and superior to every other power. What's that mean? Every other power is lesser. Can I tell you this lack is a lesser power than prosperity. Sickness is a lesser power than healing. Talk about the greater. Don't talk about the lesser and most. Most listen. Outside of Christ, the lesser reigns in Christ, the greater reigns. Treat every encounter with the devil. Treat him as devil. You're already defeated in this. I don't care the first day he shows up to oppose you. I just want you to know you're a defeated foe. You deal with him as a defeated foe at every encounter with the devil. And I'm in Christ. I'm far above you. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Now, the exceeding greatness of his power, then I'll close with this testimony. Jesus, when I open my broadcast, I don't just start with a good statement. I start with what Jesus said to dad Hagin. It's in keeping with the Word. It's in keeping with this scripture we just read. Jesus said to dad Hagin in a vision. There's enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one. You know you can get healed. Just listen to that opening. If you believe it. He said there's enough power in every sick room and every hospital room to raise the look, to raise up. Not leave them the same. Raise up, Raise up that sick one. Look at this. Regardless of their condition, regardless of the longevity of it, regardless of how close to death, there isn't a power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one. Then he said this. If now we're coming to conditions if they only know it's present, and number two, if they'll give it action. So power number one, you have to believe that it's present and that it's for you. Number two, you have to give it action. How do you give it action? What is that? Put your foot in the stirrup, baby. Show God movement because his power cannot fill a part. Action. It has to be a moving action. My husband used to say this. If you can't move anything in your body but your little finger, move it toward God. Move it. He's saying, give God a movement that he can fill up. People want a home. Well, where have you shopped? Have you looked? It's free to look. Well, I can only afford this. Well, why don't you go on one you can't afford and see if God says something to you. I'm not saying get out beyond your resources. I'm saying this. Don't go beyond his leading. But don't decide what you can't have before you gave him a chance to talk. I'll use this because I always get after. I have one staff member. She's precious to me, but she keeps making this mistake. She says, pastor Nancy, I find out later, oh, you had a party at your house and I wasn't invited. All the staff was there, and I wasn't invited. She said, pastor Nancy, I know you're so busy. And she says, I don't want to put pressure on you, so I don't invite you. So I said, so you decided for me that I can't show up. And you know what? I might not be able to show up. But how dare you decide for me? That's what you're doing when you decide for God. I can't afford this and I can't afford that. Why don't you take him shopping and let him speak for himself instead of you deciding what you can't have? I would go in houses I couldn't afford, and I'd walk in and say, lovely house, but I know it's not mine. That's the witness of the spirit. That one's not mine. But at least I take God shopping. And I don't decide that. He's already decided, I can't have this. I take him shopping and you'll get more with him than without him. Praise the Lord. So anyway, there this resurrection power. Jesus said, number one, you have to know it's present. Number two, you have to give it action. He gave it action by making it yours. So that means you can spend it anytime you need. You don't have to ask God, can I have power? No. He will wired you with power. You are wired at the new birth. Power came in you. It's yours to spend any time you need it. And people are waiting for God. Remember when I said Old Testament? They're always trying to get God to do something New Testament. You're already filled. You already have. He says, I've already blessed you with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ. It's already yours. You can spend it anytime you want it. You don't have to wait for heaven to give you permission. Heaven gave you permission by filling you with it. You understand that? Hallelujah. Thank God for resurrection power. I said, thank God for resurrection power. There was this one. There was this one lady. She was about 20. She was 21 years old and already had four kids. Another. She lived in another country and she had four kids. She was driving down the road one day and she had a cataclysm accident. It took off the top of her head and the frontal lobe fell out. She's dead. So when the people came and the emergency team came, they saw she's dead. They just scooped up what had come out and just laid it by her head. They went over and tended the children. The children are still living. They took the children to the hospital, took her to the morgue. They called her mother and said, told the extent of her injury. And the mother said, all. All she needs is a little bit of resurrection power. Matters who you call when you're faced with situations. It matters what they know and what they're going to say because they'll either bury you or they'll deliver you with their words. She said, all she needs is a little bit of resurrection power. Power. She's driving 12 hours to get to the morgue where her daughter was, and the whole time she's driving, she's striking the power of God. See, you got to know it's present and you got to give it action. She's striking the power of God with what? Words, words, words, words. And so she's saying, the power of God's where my daughter's at. It's working on her. It's raising her up, it's making her whole. And that's what she's saying for 12 hours. She gets to the morgue, and the guy at the morgue said, she's not here. Come to find out this guy's in the morgue and her body's in a body bag zipped up over on the table. And after a while, he hears movement in the bag and he goes. He just thinks to himself, that's muscle movement. You know, it's just the movement of muscles. Well, did she know Chicken? You know, you cut off the head and the body flops. But he's appeasing himself. This is just muscle movement. But it kept moving, and it kept moving. Finally, he went over and he unzipped the bag and he goes, oh, no. She's looking straight up at him. And he goes, no, you can't be alive. Not that he didn't want her to live. He said, your body is a mess. See, her head's part's missing. Part of her brain's laying in the body bag next to. He said, you can't be alive. Your body is a mess. But she is. Now he's got to take her to the hospital, had her transported, because she's living. Now the mother arrives, she goes into the Hospital. She walks into the hospital room, gets up on the bed, straddles her, standing on that bed and said, resurrection power's working in you. Resurrection power is raising you up. See, that's what's in our direction. But you got to know it. You got to know it. Within a few days, about five days, she's up and out of that hospital. They release her. She goes and stays with her mother. She comes back out of that state. She's wasn't on a comatose type state. She comes back with the mentality of a seven year old. She's on the floor playing with her young children like a seven year old. And after two months of her mama saying, every day, resurrection power is working in you. See, you got to believe it. You got to believe it every day. What do you believe every day? Not just on Sunday, what do you believe every day? What are you saying? Every day? You got to continue. This is our life, people. This is the way we talk every day. This is not a Sunday situation. So every day for months she's saying, the power of God's working in you. Resurrection power. Within a few months she goes back home. She's completely normal, 21 years old, completely normal. After that, after that, she's 50 something years old. Over 30 years later, she decides to start a new profession. They require her to have a physical exam before she can enter this profession. They'll license her for it. They do a physical on her. They do, you know, they do testing, take pictures, all this stuff. She's sitting in the room waiting for the doctor to come back. This is the first time she's been to the doctor since she was released from the hospital. He walks in the room, he pulls up a chair and sits in front of her and says, you can't be alive. She goes, well, I am. He says, no, you can't be alive. She said, why can't I? He said, you have no frontal lobe. There's not a brain in there and the frontal lobe is missing of your brain. The frontal lobe of your brain is missing. God did not recreate one. He did not make one. The resurrection power became the frontal lobe. She was living. She was living every day on resurrection power. Every day. The power became the organ. It functioned as the organ. That's what's in your direction. Don't be swayed from that by the devil offering you something natural. In Christ, everything is yours. In Christ, everything is yours. Everything God has given is already yours. You don't have to wait and ask for him to do it. Start speaking Start acting, start moving. Let God know you know. Can I take five minutes and do this? Can I take five minutes and do this? Metal rods, plates or screws in your body. Come up here, will minister to you. Metal rods, plates or screws. If that's you, stand up. If everybody in the congregation, stand with me, if you would. You've got metal rods, plates or screws causing you problems, causing pain, causing limitations. If that's you, come up here. Why? There's power for you. I said there's power for you. Anybody believe in that? There's power here. And who's it for? If it's not for you, who's it for? It's for you. That's what Paul said, that you would have revelation, wisdom, that it would dawn on your spirit who you are in Christ, the riches, what you have, because you're in Christ. And what you can do, you're in Christ. Resurrection power is yours. We're done with this mess, right? We're done with the pain. We're done with the struggle in Christ. There is no pain. And we're not going to tell God how to do it right? We're just going to let him do it. You know, people would have thought, well, God, why didn't God put a brain back? What does it matter? It functioned right? Hallelujah, congregation. Does it matter to you that, that they receive what God has for them? It matters to us, doesn't it? We join our faith. That's the wonderful thing about corporate faith. Corporate faith. It sets the atmosphere so multiplied results can be had. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. I want everybody to step, Give me enough room to just walk right in front of you, but come on up as close as you can because I want to give the ushers room to walk. Come up close, come up close. Just give me room to walk. That's all I need. Because I want to give the ushers room. Ushers, I don't want you hold them up, I want you to catch them. I don't want you to hold them up and keep them from falling. Okay? If anybody up here, if you say, I would like to have a chair behind me, put a chair behind this lovely lady here, if you would. I don't want them distracted about, you know, is it difficult, difficulty for me to get up if I, if, if I fall. So just get one and put behind her. Anybody else want a chair behind you? This lady. Put a chair behind her, if you would. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. I believe in the power of God. What about you every day, can I tell you this? Talk about the power of God. Jesus told dad Hagin, number one, you have to know it's present. And number two, you have to give it action, talk about it. The power of God's working in me. The power. God's in my home. It's working in my family. It's working in my business. Your words give it permission. Your words give it permission. It's not God that gives it permission. You give it permission. He gave you permission to assign the power. He. He wired you with it. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you for resurrection power. We thank you that when we lay hands, say this with me. When hands are laid on me, say this up front. Those of you who are up here, say this. When hands are laid on me. Resurrection power goes into my body and it makes me whole from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. Hallelujah. I believe in the power of God. It's mine. And I sign it, I agree with it. And it flows in Jesus name, love. Where's that. Where's. Where's. Where's the problem in your body? Where? Do you have metal rods, plates or screws? What? All up and down your spine? Rods, Screws. Yeah. Father, we thank you. We thank you. Oh, there goes that power. There it goes in you. There it goes in you. There. It's working in you, love. What about you, love? Your need. Father, we thank you for. We thank you for new needs. We thank you, father. What about you, love? Left ankle. Father, we thank you for wholeness. We thank. There it goes in you, love. There it goes in you. What about you, love? Knees. Your knees. Father, we thank you. We thank you, father, for new knees in Jesus name. What about you, love? Your right ankle. Father, we thank you for wholeness. Wholeness in that ankle. In Jesus name, we thank you. What about you, love? Your right ankle? Father, we thank you. There it goes in. There it goes in there. That went in you, love. What about you? Two hip replacements. Father, we thank you that you replace. What about you, love? In your lower back as well. Father, we thank. There goes that power. There it goes. We thank you for it. Father. What about you, love? Both hips, both knees and an elbow, Father, and we thank you for wholeness. Father, we thank you for that. Resurrection power. Resurrection power. Working. How many of you know what's resurrection power for dead things. Dead hips, dead joints. It's for dead things. Why? Because now they live. Now they live. I said now they live. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So every day. Listen to me. Every day. Every day, those of you I had laid hands on, every day you say, resurrection power's in me. It's working in me. It's working in me. And pain comes back. Say, no, you don't. Resurrection power's already in me. Talk as one in Christ. Don't talk outside of him. Talk in Him. There's no pain in him, there's no limitations. Amen. In him. You're whole talk about in Him. Don't. Don't go back to that mental reasoning. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Pastors, thank you. Thank you, love.

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Thank you. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. Glory to God. You're healed by the stripes of resurrection power of Jesus. You are healed. Praise the Lord. Your finances are abundantly supplied. You have everything you have need of in him. Amen.

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In him.

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In Him. Let's stay in him. Amen. Refuse. Refuse to remove. Amen. Hallelujah.

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Your name's already on it, right? You own it all. Co heir with Jesus Christ. Going over to Luke chapter five. Luke chapter five is a great picture of the kingdom. Fished all night, nothing. And then so many fish they couldn't even contain it. That's the kingdom. That's the kingdom. That's what it looks like. That's what you should see when you read these promises. That's what you should see. But Peter said we fished all night and caught nothing. His mind was arguing with this whole thing. This rabbi is going to tell him how to fish when he grew. He grew up on that lake. He knows that lake better than anyone else. But because you said so, there's your answer right there. Because you said so. Because you said so. That's what she's been teaching. Because you said so, you put a claim on that. I have that. That's mine. So today, as you give, don't look at what you have in your hand. Look at what he says you have. Don't look at what. Like she said, don't look at what you can afford. You're. You're giving. You're laying. You're laying claim to his promise to you, which is you have it, right? You with me? Right? Okay, let's say this together. Say Father. Father, you said. You said that you give me seed.

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That you give me seed.

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And you're going to increase my seed.

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And you're going to increase my seed.

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You're going to give me bread to eat.

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You're going to give me bread.

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Take care of my family. Really, really, really, really good.

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Take care of my family.

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Really.

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Increase my seed.

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Increase my seed.

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Make me rich in every way.

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Rich in every way.

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That I may be generous that I.

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May be generous on every occasion. On every occasion.

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That is my destiny.

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That is my destiny.

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That is who I am.

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That is who I am.

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That's who you made me.

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That's who you made me.

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That's what you gave me.

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That's what you gave me.

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In the name of Jesus.

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In the name of Jesus.

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I agree.

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I agree.

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And I say amen. So be it.

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Amen. So be it.

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I'm going to say it, believe it and receive it. In the name of Jesus.

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In the name of Jesus.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Glory.

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Glory to God. I was reminded many years ago, we got a call in the middle of the night. Someone was having a baby and the baby had been born dead. And the midwife called and she was. The doula was calling with the midwife and said, the baby's been born dead. Pray. We did not speak English. We began to pray in the spirit. We ran straight to the car. We got in the car and we began to ride down the road straight to the hospital where we're headed. And there was a point in the road where immediately we both felt at the exact same time, like a whoosh through the car.

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And we both.

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The baby's alive.

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Look at each other.

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The baby's alive. The baby's alive. And we get to the hospital, we're down in the foyer and they're all surrounded. I mean, doctors, nurses, they're all in the emergency area just surrounding that baby.

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But no smiles.

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No, they were in shocked faces.

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No smiles.

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It had been radioed.

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The baby was a big smile.

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25, 30 minute drive, probably 20, 25 minutes at least to the baby's fine.

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The baby's perfect.

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I go upstairs and I go to see the mother and I say, jennifer, the baby, the baby's great. She's pink, she's beautiful. And the nurse looks at me and she goes, that baby's in a body bag. It is dead. That baby lived. And that child today is a woman of God. And so the Lord, the resurrection power of God is still at work.

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Amen.

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Don't ever forget what God's done in your life. Don't let the enemy sway you off of what he's already done as well. Amen. The enemy would love to come. If he can't stop you from believing, he'll try to come behind that and get you to forget all that God has done. All that God has done and cause you to move off of the word of God little bit by little bit by little bit, he tries to sway you away. But in Jesus name, the word of God is in you and it is resurrection power and it is producing and it will continue to produce. Amen. Amen.

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Just take someone to believe the word. The story is that mother, the mother said when that baby was born dead and pronounced dead, turned to her husband and says, don't you say a thing. This baby is fine. The baby was dead all the way to the hospital, 20 minute drive and came back to life without any resuscitation, no cpr, nothing came to life at the hospital. That's why those nurses and doctors so shocked, they're holding that perfect baby. And the baby was pronounced dead at the house and at the hospital. It just came back to life because a mom, the mother refused to accept what she saw with her eyes and believe what Jesus said to her. That baby is fine.

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And there are times you cannot speak in English. You got to pray in the spirit, when you don't know what to say. When it doesn't look, look right, when it doesn't seem right. Don't say the wrong thing. Just start praying in the spirit because the Holy Spirit knows how to pray the words right, Intercedes it, makes intercession with groans. That's such a. Don't come into the awesome word. Pastor Nancy, awesome. Let's give her a big round of applause. Praise God. Praise God. If you missed first service today, last night, Holy Ghost prayer time with amazing words of knowledge, words of wisdom, this morning, the 9 o' clock amazing message, we're going to make all of them available because you really need all of them. Let's go back and go again and again.

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Her books, it's all in her books, right? So a gift to the body of Christ right here. Nancy is a gift. She's been faithful all those years. God's trained her. So we appreciate that. So today is your turn. Now it's your turn. She's taught you, now it's your turn. You go home and you exercise and do it. What you learned today, you go out. You go out and enjoy what you already have. So we bless you in the name of Jesus. You are his people. You are a co heir with Christ. You already have everything Jesus has. You have the kingdom, God gave you the kingdom. And so we leave here today in agreement. And I bless you that you have a fantastic week in the Lord. And oh, the offering. Do we not do that yet? We didn't do that yet. That just proves we're not. We're not. We're. You know, we're going to trust God for the money.

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All right?

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That's right. We need the offering. We did speak over it, Jason. Are you kidding me? After. After three services, I get confused. Jason, what are you saying I didn't do? I don't know.

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We did.

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Okay. Yeah, we spoke over it. Yeah. Okay. We did. That's right. Yeah, we did. Okay. We can get the videotape out and verify it. We did it, but. We did it. All right. Well, bless you. Have a great, great week.

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And we will see you West Wednesday.

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First Wednesday and first Wednesday date. And this next weekend is 4th of July. And you know how we take movies and kind of dissect them. It's at the movies this weekend, so make sure you come and bring your friends.

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And it's a powerful one. It's a powerful one.

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We'll see you then. Thank you. God bless you.