← Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
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Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
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There's enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one that may be describing you. You may be in a sick room, you may be in a hospital room. And I want to remind you, power is present. That power is there to do a work, believe in what's not. Try to get something, but notice that he's already made it yours. It's present right where you're at. Say, I receive that power. I receive that power. I receive it right now.
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I receive it right now from the
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top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet. The soles of my feet. Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today for Jesus the Healer. And we're in the midst of our series called In Christ I Can. And we want to remind you of some resources that we've made available to you. You can go to our web site at jesusthehealer.org, go to the bookstore page, and you can download these resources for free. We have a, we have a small pamphlet here that is a sampling, just a taste of some of the main in him scriptures to show you who you are in him, who he is in you. And so we invite you, like I said, you can download them completely for free. You can store them on your device or you can print them out and keep them with you. Then we also have the larger resources. This the larger resource, rather, this is the complete listing of In Him Scriptures. This document's about 120 pages. And we have an extra treat with this resource. And that is a minister who's a friend of this ministry. And he had compiled or referenced 229 different Bible translations. He pulled the best of those translations and he included them in that resource that, that holds all the In Him Scriptures. So again, go to our website, jesusthehealer.org go to the bookstore page, and you can download them completely for free from there. And when it's telling you to add it to the cart, it's not it. You may think it's going to charge you. It will not charge you an amount for that. So, so go ahead and get that and then not only download that, but feed on it, begin to meditate on these scriptures and speak them, establishing it in your own spirit of who you are in Christ, what you have because you're in Christ, and what you can do because you are in Christ. Amen. In the previous episode, we were looking at Psalm chapter 81, verses 10 and 11. And this is the King James translation. It reads, God is speaking. And he says, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people would not hearken or listen to my voice. Now know this. He's speaking specifically to the Hebrews that he delivered out of Egypt. He's referring to that event. But know this. He brought us out of Egypt too. What's that mean? It tells us in Colossians chapter 1, verse 13, that God has delivered from the power of darkness. He has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Just as they were brought out of Egypt, we were brought out of the kingdom of darkness and we were translated into the kingdom of his dear Son. We need to talk about. I'm out of that old system. I'm out from under Satan's dominion. I'm out from under the dominion of sin. We are no longer subject to. To that former kingdom, and we need to talk about it. God told his people here in Psalm 81:10. He told them, I brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. They were to fill their mouth with something different than what they were speaking while they were in Egypt. Now that they were out, they were to talk about and keep in their mouth that which God had done for them. He was looking for them to fill their mouth with not only what he said, but what he had already made theirs. What was it? They had a promised land that was waiting for their arrival. But because they would not talk about it and put it in their mouth. What did they have in their mouth? The wrong thing. They had complaint. They had murmuring. They complained about Moses. They complained about God. They complained about their food. They complained about the journey they were on. They complained at every. At every place. They complained about everything that was around their life. And because of that, they filled their mouth with the wrong thing. And they partook of the wrong thing. They never arrived. Now, if we will fill our mouth with right. With the right thing. What's the right thing? The word of God. What God said is ours. What is ours in Christ, because he's made everything ours. If we will fill our mouth with the wrong thing, what that means is, is there will be no room for the. Excuse me. If we will fill our mouth with the right thing. Did I say that right? No. Okay, I'm correcting that. If we will fill our mouth with the right thing, there's no room for the wrong thing in our mouth. So notice we determine what fills our mouth, not God. God offers us the right thing. God offers us his plan. He offers us His Word. But it's up to us to put that in our mouth and to fill our mouth with what he says. Now, if we will listen to him as it says in verse 11, then we will know better what we're to be putting in our mouth. If the wrong thing is filling our mouth, it's because we're not listening. We're not being teachable of the Word. We're not to just speak the past. We're not to just speak hardship. We're not to speak what somebody did to us and dwell on the wrong thing. We're to fill our mouth with what is he's teaching us with what he says to us. So in verse 11, God was saying, but my people would not hearken or listen to my voice. What's his voice to us today? The voice of the Word and the voice of the leading of the Spirit. God speaks to us through His Word. He speaks to us by His Spirit. So we are to take our cues of what's to fill our mouth from His Word and what the Spirit is saying to us. Like I said, if we will fill our mouth with that, then if we will open our mouth wide to what God says, then he will fill our mouth with the goodness of those words that we are to when it says open your mouth wide, it's talking about speak large. Don't speak with a restricted mouth. Don't speak limitedly. Don't limit the Holy One of Israel. Know this, that God has no limits on him, except we can put limits on what we'll allow him to do in our life. So we're to open our mouth wide. Don't speak with limits. Don't speak small, don't speak well. I've struggled with this. I struggle with that. God's never done this for me. God's never done that. I've never heard God. I've never. I don't know which way to go. All of those things are speaking with limits. All of those things are speaking in a way differently than he invites us to speak. Speak, open your mouth wide. Speak large about what God has for you. Speak large about what God has said. But not only that, it's to open our mouth wide. We're never told when to close it, only when to open it. And so we're not to just say something once and then keep our mouth closed to it. An open mouth that is Wide open is speaking continuously what belongs to it in Christ. This is so important that we understand that our mouth is involved in what we receive, in what God has already made ours. Our mouth is involved so that he can feel. He can feel his feel those words that we speak with his performance, with his ability, with his provision. So it says again, Psalm 81:10, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide and I will feel it. I want to refer to four different commentaries that Jewish rabbis on these verses. They gave commentary based on the original Hebrew and referring especially to Psalm 81:10, 11. One commentary said this. I am Hashim, your God, who raised you from the land of Egypt. How many of you know? Doesn't that sound a lot like us? We've not just been delivered from something, we've been raised above something. What is it Ephesians, chapter two talks about? We've been raised and seated with Christ in heavenly places. Far above all principality, power, might and dominion. Anytime you read something from the Old Testament, run it through the new covenant. That's why we can look just as they were delivered out of Egypt. We've been delivered from the kingdom of darkness under the new covenant. And so here he says, I am Hashem, your God who raised you from the land of Egypt. What's that mean? You're above the old system that God delivered you out of. We're not anywhere near it. We have been raised far above it. And then it goes on and says this. Remember, I am a benevolent God who seeks your welfare. Just as I redeemed you from Egypt to improve your lot, so do I continually search for ways to make your existence more wholesome and pleasant. Look at that. That's one Jewish commentator on that verse. He said, this is what the Hebrew meaning carries. I like this that he says, I redeemed you from Egypt to improve your lot. Listen, our life should always look like we are part of the better covenant, part of the higher kingdom. Then not only this, he makes this. This. This comment on it. On this passage saying, I continually search for ways to make your existence more wholesome and pleasant. God has you in mind. God is always wanting for you to experience more and more and more of his goodness. You say, how is it that God would continually search for ways to make my existence more wholesome and pleasant? Well, what about this? His mercies are new every morning. What is that? That is God offering us further today than what we had yesterday. When we wake up in the morning, there's a New there's a fresh flow of God's mercy for our lives that's going to cause us to have a life that is so far elevated above the life we used to live. Not only that, for the Lord is good and his mercy endures forever. His goodness is to fill each and every day of our life. I love one passage in the Psalms that says this, that he loads us daily with benefits. Notice that there are so many benefits to having him as our Father. All that he's provided for us, that one day cannot contain it all. It's going to take every day receiving its own load of benefits to even exhaust or even partake fully of what God has for us. There is so much that one day can't contain it all. So he loads us daily with benefits. Why? He never runs out of ways to bless us. He never runs out of ways to make our life better. And this gives us this idea. When this Jewish rabbi commented on this passage and said that it carries with it the meaning that God continually searches for ways to make our existence more wholesome and pleasant. Now another Jewish rabbi, he. He gave his commentary on Psalm 81:10 with this. He says, I did not merely take you out of Egypt, rather I raised you to a higher plane of existence and spiritual achievement. Well, isn't that true? I mean, once we were born again, we were raised seated with. Seated with Christ in heavenly places. We not only were delivered from the kingdom of darkness, we have a brand new nature on the inside of us. We are new creatures in Christ. How this elevates and brings us to a higher plane of living. Then the third rabbi, his commentary on this scripture is this. Ask of me all your heart desires and I will fulfill every request on the condition that you listen to me. You will never, then you will never know, want, hunger and thirst. Just as you were completely provided for when I brought you out of Egypt. Know this. Since we have been delivered, we should never even taste of the scarcity of the struggle of our former life, of what the old man lived in. Why? Because we're new creatures in Christ and we have been brought into a whole new new system of living. Not only that, that we are living a life that would have never been, that had never existed before until we received Jesus as Savior. It not only delivered us from the kingdom of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. It gave us a brand new start in life. We have a whole new beginning. Remember when you were a child and maybe you were playing a game or doing some kind of competition you mess up and you say, wait, do over. Do over. Well, I want you to know Jesus blood is our great do over. He gave us a whole new life that we are not to be tasting of. What Egypt, what the former life, what the flow of the world is that we are partaking of a higher system. A higher flow. Then the fourth rabbi, the fourth Jewish rabbi, his commentary on this verse carries this meaning. He said, let your desires be extensive. Look at that. When he God says, open your mouth wide. He's saying, extend what you're saying. Go beyond where you're at. Don't just speak in light of what you're of what the past showed you. Go beyond that. Be extensive. Extend further. So he said this. Let your desires be extensive. I will gratify them. As you remain faithful to me. You will lack no good thing. I am rich enough to meet all your needs. Look at this. I am rich enough to meet all your needs. He didn't just say this to a man, he said it to a nation. And I want you to know that there is no end to the richness of God's provision. It's not. We have to get past this thing that God can only fulfill one thing in our life at a time. There is no limits to what God can do for our lives every day. When God delivered his people out of Egypt, he was not only leading them, he was present with them. A pillar of fire by night, a cloud by day. They saw the presence of God tangibly. Not only that, he supplied them with manna, he supplied them with water. He supplied them with everything they needed. Every direction. Their life called for a supply. And he met it all at once, every single day. So don't be limited thinking God can only do one thing for you at a time. Do you know that? He can. He can supply the business he told you to start and also get you in the house that he's directed you to buy. He can do more than one thing at a time. Don't limit him. Now, what we need to understand is that the plan of God for our lives is so great that it's going to call for an open mouth to fulfill it. We have to open our mouth wide because the plan of God calls for our agreement, but it also calls for largeness of speech. We have to. We have to speak large about the plan of God for our life because God can only perform to the measure we speak it. We don't ever want to get to heaven and say, I'm seeing a picture or God is showing me what I could have had on earth. No, let's just speak large and let him bring us, reveal to us what he has for us in his plan. So know this, that we are the. We are the ones that limit Him. He never has has shown any limitation toward our own life. It's only the way we speak that can limit Him. Remember this. Tomorrow will tell us what we said today. If we spoke small today, then that's what we'll encounter tomorrow. But if we'll begin to speak large, speak with enlarged expectation. Speak knowing that God has not put limits on this. This redemption that is ours on the plan of God that He's authored for our life, then he can fulfill it. Now, I want you to know that when it says, open your mouth wide and I will feel it, don't leave the Holy Ghost out of that. Let him direct you into what you say. Because if we only speak large based on our own education, based on our own knowledge, there are some. There's some abundance we're not going to. We're not going to be even partaking of. The Holy Ghost will show you things that you could never have dreamed of for yourself. So when you're. When you're declaring what God has for you, when you're laying hold of with your faith, the plan of God, say, holy Ghost, show me more. Let me. Let me see more. Reveal to me more so that I can ask and speak in line with what you know about the plan of God for my life. If we're not careful, we'll only speak based on what we can figure out. But God will get you declaring things. And you'll. You'll. You'll stand back and say, why did I say that? Why did. Why would I even dare think of that? Well, because the Holy Ghost is offering you a larger view. He's offering you more than you could ever calculate on your own. He's not just leading us to call for what belongs to today. The Holy Ghost is leading us to call for what belongs to the future. Because if we will begin to say today some larger things, then we'll recognize them when we run into them in our future. Sometimes people have been offered opportunities and they say, oh, no, I couldn't do that. Why was that? Because they thought small yesterday. They smoke. They spoke small yesterday. And because of that, when God tried to bring them into something larger, they faltered. They stepped back. They didn't move into the further thing that God was offering them. So what am I saying when you're going to say, I'm going to open My mouth large. I'm going to open my mouth wide and speak large. Don't leave out the Holy Ghost because he knows what the plan of God carries for your life and he needs your mouth to agree with the plan of God. Amen. One thing that is going to hinder how large we speak is not listening. We must be someone who's teachable, we must be someone who's led. You know, God tried to correct his people all along the way while they were in the 40 years of wilderness. And they would not be corrected, they would not be taught, they would not hold to the correction and see it as a positive in their life. They just held to their own way of complaint and complaining kept them out of large speaking and it kept them out of the plan of God. Why is that? Because complaint is the language of someone who's in doubt and unbelief. It's the language of fear. Faith has no complaint in its mouth. And I would say this as your faith. As you're feeding your faith and you're wanting your faith to strengthen and develop and grow, make sure you rid your mouth of all complaint. If we're not careful, we can complain about the weather, complain about the food, complain about this, complain about that, complain about the boss, complain about the job, complain about the job description. What we were asked to do, a habit of complaint will make sure that we are not enjoying the flow of faith. Faith has no complaint in its mouth. So we have to rid ourselves of anything that would keep our mouths from speaking and being open wide to the plan of God. Now, one of the things that we can look at and see in Jesus earthly ministry. What about blind Bartimaeus? He was with a crowd that was alongside the roadside. Jesus was making his way cross down a particular road and there came word that Jesus was coming that direction. And so blind Bartimaeus was sitting and he was sitting in a crowd of people. But when he heard that Jesus was passing, what did he do? He started opening his mouth and he opened it wide. What was he doing when we say opening his mouth wide? He was asking for something he had never partaken of before. He was saying, jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. What was he calling out for Healing mercies? Do you know that healing is a flow of the mercy of God when you're a cripple? And he was born a cripple. He'd been crippled his whole life. It was. It was a large request for him to ask for healing. And so he was making. He was raising his Voice making it loud. And it offended the others in the crowd who were silent. Listen, when you open your mouth wide and you speak large about what God's going to do for you, not everyone's going to congratulate large speaking. Who is it that won't congratulate you? Those who don't have their mouth open wide. Those who aren't speaking large. They will think you're inappropriate. Well, I can say this. You don't want to share the things that are most dear to you with people who would, if I could say, try to persuade you differently. Be careful who you share your faith with because you don't want to surround yourself with people who will try to take faith out of you. You want to be find your fellowship with those who will put faith in you. But here, Blind Bartimaeus was sitting in a crowd of, if I could say this, people who weren't saying anything, they weren't in faith calling out for anything. Well, he didn't let their silence keep him from receiving his miracle. They told him he was aggravating them. They told him, be quiet, basically, you're a nuisance. Be quiet. Well, they weren't the one that couldn't walk. It was him that couldn't walk. And he refused to let their lack of interest in his condition keep him a cripple. What did he do? He just got louder. And I want you to know, when there's opposition that tells you it's not going to happen. That tells you you're crazy for how you're saying this. And you have no business calling for this and calling for that. Just get louder. Drown out the people who aren't saying anything. And I would say this, it's more so opposition from the enemy. The devil will try to bombard you, giving you reasons why you shouldn't have this, why you shouldn't claim something more. Well, I want you to know, get louder than what the devil would be saying to you. Out talk his threats, out talk his suggestions. Because whenever Jesus got close enough and he heard Blind Bartimaeus, he called him to himself. And Blind Bartimaeus received his miracle that he was no longer called Blind Bartimaeus. He was called Miracle Bartimaeus. And everybody else could have received a need met if they would have opened their mouth wide. But know this, in a crowd that day, only one man opened his mouth wide. And only one man is recorded as walking away with a miracle. It's people who talk large about what God will do. It's people who don't just say it once. But they talk as a lifestyle about the largeness of God, the greatness of God to meet their need and supply their need. And those are the people who are going to receive. So don't take your cues from people who have a closed mouth. Take your cues from the word of God that invites you. Open your mouth wide and God will fill it. Do you know there's no, there's no uncertainty in that? Open your mouth wide. Look, God said, I will feel it. So there's no, there's no hesitancy, there's no mm. Will that come to pass? How long will it take? It doesn't matter. Just open your mouth wide, talk large. Keep continuously calling for those things. And notice this. It will be filled with what you said. Amen. Well, we're going to continue along this line next time. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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