← 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. 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. I receive it right now from the top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet. The soles of my feet. We're so glad to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. Thank you for joining us. And we say this bring your expecter, release your faith with us as we feed and teach on the Word together and take notes. What may God say to you? Don't let that slip from you. You know when God says something to you, it's because you're going to need it. And if you're not careful, if you think, well, I don't need it right now, and you let it slip, you're going to need it down the road. So when God speaks to you or something stands out to you in a pronounced way, take note of that because God is stocking the shelves of your with answers as you hear the word taught. Amen. We started really about last week or so. I was teaching on righteousness. I did in previous episodes, and then yesterday's episode, we started on talking about something Jesus said. He said, the kingdom of God is in you. Think of it in us. The kingdom of God is within us. Then In Romans, chapter 14 and verse 17, Paul goes on and gives us a little bit more detail. He said, the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but it's righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. So now we know what comprises that kingdom that Jesus said that's on the inside of us. Righteousness, peace and joy, those are flows that belong to us. They are forces, but they're also flows. Why? So that we live the best life. So if you were not with us yesterday, I invite you, go back and watch yesterday's episode because it's going to help us, help you to understand some things as we go further today and what we're teaching on, as we did say yesterday, all around us in this world are flows, offered us the flow of fear, flow of worry, the flow of Doubt the flow of unbelief. But we choose our flow. Just because a flow is offered us doesn't mean we have to permit it, step into it, or yield to it. Because every day the flow of the kingdom that's in you is available to you. Turn toward that flow and draw on that. When the wrong flows are all around you and offered you, what is the flow that's in us? Righteousness. Instead of believing something against you, instead of believing because the devil will accuse you with all your faults, failures, weaknesses, at that moment, instead of becoming self critical, instead of becoming condemned, instead of getting under a sense of shame, turn toward the flow of righteousness that's in you. Jesus made you right with God. Amen. And because of his blood, his blood cleanses us from all the things we've done wrong, all the wrong decisions, all the wrong directions, all the mistakes, all the failures. He cleanses us from that. And now we can draw on the flow of righteousness. So when a flow of accusation is offered, you draw on the flow of righteousness instead. You say, Pastor Nancy, how do I draw on the flow of righteousness? You talk it. You say, no, you don't. You're not going to bring up my past sins, failures, mistakes, faults, weaknesses. They're under the blood. And Jesus erased them, cleansed them away. They are no longer, they no longer stand up in the court of heaven. And then you say, I'm made right. I'm right with God. Not because I've done everything right, but because Jesus did everything right. I will not accept condemnation. I will not accept guilt, I will not accept shame. I won't do it because I'm drawing on the flow of righteousness that's on the inside of me. So you draw on it with your words and you entertain right thoughts, thoughts of who you are in Christ. Amen. Instead of who you are in the flesh, who you are in Christ. That's how you draw on the flow of righteousness. Draw on the flow of peace. Draw on the flow of joy. They're in you, at your disposal. God filled you with those so that you could spend them when you needed them. Now I want to look at Deuteronomy 11, Deuteronomy chapter 11. And I want us to read in verse 21, now you know this is old covenant, and we're under the new covenant, and it's a better covenant. So if they had this, under the old covenant we have this, but better. So Deuteronomy 11, verse 21 reads that your days may be multiplied, not shortened. Multiplied. Right. And the days of your children. Notice this. God wants us to live long. And he wants our children to live long. Amen. So that your days may be multiplied and the days of your children. And in the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers to give them. Look at this next phrase. As the days of heaven upon the earth. Look at that. Days of heaven upon the earth. Not just days of heaven in heaven, days of heaven on the earth. That before we go to heaven, the flow of heaven fills our days while we're on the earth. Now, that's up to us. That's not up to God. He put in us the flow of heaven. What's the flow of heaven? Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. That's the flow of heaven. Now it's up to us to turn to that flow. Draw on that flow, and as we do, we will live days of heaven on earth. Instead of days of torment, days of fear, days of doubt, days of wandering. Amen. Listen. God has. This is. This is what God planned for us. Days of heaven on this earth. Settle for anything less. I decided long ago, I'm not settling for anything except heaven's flow every day. Now, everything that comes to me doesn't come from heaven, but everything that I choose to cooperate with is heaven's flow. Every one of us are offered circumstances that heaven had nothing to do with. That heaven is not involved in, the devil's involved in. Or the spirit of the world is involved in it. But just because it's offered us doesn't mean we have to take it. That's right. In an interview more recently, somebody asked me, nancy, what was your darkest day? And I said I couldn't say that. One day is my darkest day. My most difficult time was before I knew the Word, before I had any skill with the Word, before my mind was renewed with the Word, before I knew how to answer opposition. Those were difficult days. But as our mind is renewed, meaning as we learn who God has made us to be in Christ, as we learn what the Word says is ours. As we learn that, and as we're doer of that, life becomes easier. And we end up living days of heaven on earth. The day you got born again, the flow of heaven was put in you. Righteousness, peace and joy came in you at the new birth. Why? Because you are a new creature in Christ. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new, including the flow of your everyday life that he offers you a different flow. You don't have to have a flow of depression. A flow of oppression, a flow of fear. You can resist that flow and say, this new creature in Christ will not live under the old flow anymore. It's a new flow, the flow of righteousness, peace and joy. So before I knew that, before I understood that. And listen, I'm learning still. We're all learning still how to be more skillful with what God has made ours in Christ. This righteousness, peace and joy has been made ours in Christ. But we have to learn how to draw on it in the face of opposition. So when I was asked by that interviewer, what is your darkest day? People would naturally look at that would know my situation because my husband died unexpectedly one day. People would say, well, that was your darkest day. Well, I would say this. That was my greatest tragedy. But the day wasn't dark because I chose a different flow. Now, if I would have yielded to the sorrow and the grief that I could have yielded to, life would have gotten dark. But I decided, wait a minute, there's a flow. See, it matters what you remember in the emergencies of life, in face of tragedy, in face of opposition. See, having faith doesn't mean that wrong things don't show up. Having faith means you determine the outcome in your life. Now, I can't determine the outcome in someone else's life, but I can determine the outcome in my life. That's it. So the day of that tragedy, of my husband's unexpected homegoing, I had a choice to make. Am I going to yield to emotions that will lead me into a dark place? Am I going to choose the flow that others have chosen when they were faced with same tragedy? See, we've had examples in life, even of wrong examples. Or I can go to the Word. What's the Word say about this? In the face of difficulty? Ask yourself, what does the Word say about this? Ask yourself, what does the Word say? It matters what you remember at those times, and it matters what you choose. That's right. Remember what the Word tells us. God speaking said, behold, I set before you life and death, blessing, cursing. They don't both stem from God. He reveals them. He reveals to us what life and blessing look like, what death and cursing look like. And then he says, choose. Then he said this. He gave us the answer. Choose life. This is the choice to make when you got born again, you chose life. But every single day, you have to choose the flow of life. Don't choose the flow of difficulty. Don't choose the flow of fear. Don't choose the flow of worry. Choose the right flow. What is the right flow, righteousness, peace and joy. The day of my husband's unexpected homegoing, I had a choice to make that day. My husband left my life that day. But my choice didn't. I still had a choice. No devil can take your choice from you. No devil can take and eliminate the flow from you that God put in you. That's good. Righteousness, peace and joy was the flow put in me. Now that difficulty could not rob me from that flow. Now if I pay attention to that, if I let that tragedy lead me instead of the word, if I let that tragedy guide me instead of the Holy Ghost, if I let the wrong thing lead me, then I lay down the best choice and take up the wrong choice. But I know this and listen. Every single one of us at some time have made the wrong choice to go with the wrong flow. We've all done it. But you know what we found out after we chose the wrong flow? We had to come back out of that direction and choose the right flow. And the right flow is still available to choose. I don't care if you've chosen the wrong flow for free 50 years of your life, the right flow is still available to choose. And I knew this, that if I go, if I get in the wrong, if I get into the wrong flow, the flow of sorrow, the flow of grief, I'm going to have come back out of that direction. I'm going to have come back out of that flow. And it may not be so easy, because what you practice, it's easy to stay in that that's good. And you lose skill with the right flow. And so I said, if I yield to sorrow, if I yield to grief, it's not going to arrive me at a better place. So choose. Don't let your emotions choose. They'll always choose wrong. You choose out of the renewed mind, agreeing with the flow that's in your heart. I told my children, I said, don't you touch the wrong flow in your thought life. Don't you get into, why, How? What could we have done different? How did we miss it? Start this self accusation that's against your righteousness. Anything that accuses you is against your righteousness. And it comes from the accuser of the brethren. And the devil is called the accuser of the brethren. And he launches that accusation against your righteousness so that you'll choose the wrong thing instead of the right thing. And I told my children, don't touch it in your thought life told my congregation the same thing. Why? Because we don't have to choose the wrong flow just because others have. When we know I know too much to act like I don't know it. I know too much to act like I don't. I don't know it. When you know the word, act like it. Act on the word. Act on that word. You know? Amen. People will say, well, Pastor Nancy, you know, I think it's disrespectful that you didn't grieve. I think it's disrespectful that you weren't sorrowful. Well, if grief was a flow of honor, if sorrow was a flow of honor, why did Jesus come redeem us from it? He said he bore our griefs and our sorrows. Why? Because he knows those flows don't make for days of heaven on earth. They make for days of hell on earth, not heaven on earth. So he came and redeemed us from a troubling flow and offers us and puts in us the greatest flow, the heaven flow. What is the heaven flow? Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Amen. That event of my husband's homegoing did not offer me joy. It did not offer me peace. No problem. I got my own. It's in me. Circumstances will not always offer you joy. Circumstances will not always offer you peace. But you're still not left without peace and joy. It's in you. Draw on it. You brought your own to the party. You don't have to wait for circumstances to be peaceful before you're peaceful. You don't have to wait for circumstances to be joyful before you're joyful. You choose the flow. You choose it. Amen. The way for me to honor my husband was not to grieve that he wasn't here, because that's not going to change anything. The way to honor him is to be a doer of the Word. He taught me that's the way to honor. Honor God. Honor the word that's in you by being a doer of it when something else is offered you. When the wrong flow is offered you, troubling circumstances are offered you. Choose the right flow. Amen. It takes practice. I said, it takes practice. If we practice choosing the wrong flow, you know what happens? We choose the wrong flow next time. I took piano lessons growing up, and I was a classical piano performance major in college. And I heard this years ago when I was young. Practice makes perfect. And I remember when I started with one of my piano teachers, and she was an excellent teacher. She was not easy, but she was an excellent teacher. And she said, You've heard this phrase, practice makes perfect. She said, that's not true. She said, perfect. Practice makes perfect. Could you practice something wrong and you'll learn it wrong? If we practice the wrong flow in daily life, we will not be skillful at choosing the highest flow, the heaven flow, Righteousness, peace and joy. Amen. So practice choosing the right flow in the little things of life. Because when you choose the right flow in the little things of life, then when the more dramatic circumstances, the greater, more weightier situations of life show up, you're already practiced at the perfect flow. Amen. Listen, we're not perfect, but the flow within us is perfect. Don't get upset with yourself for not being perfect. The flow that's in you is perfect. Learn to choose it perfectly and you'll always enjoy days of heaven on earth. Amen. It matters to us what it matters to us, to our life, what we choose. But it also matters to heaven what we choose. I had something interesting happen. God told me because God gave me a home. I owned a home at the time of my husband's home going. But God said, I have another home for you. And he gave me that other home, first home I've ever paid cash for. And he told me, he said, one of the reasons I'm giving you this home is it is a reward of how you handled your husband's homegoing. Now, notice this. He said, it's a reward when we choose the right flow, it not only blesses our life, then he turns around and rewards us for choosing the right flow. Why was it important to God that I choose the right flow? The flow of righteousness, peace and joy at the time of tragedy. Why was it important to God? Because it affected our entire church. It affected everyone in that ministry. It affected the future of the plan of God for that church. Dad Hagin talked about how times past he would sometimes go to churches, and he said they were difficult to preach in. Why? Because they had allowed wrong flows in. And I decided the day my husband went home, no preacher will dread preaching in my church. We're going to have the right flow, the highest flow. And it's all by choice. It's not by circumstances, it's by choice. So God said to me, he said, this home that I'm giving you, it's a reward for how you handled your homegoing, your husband's homegoing. Why? It's not just about me and how it affected my life, but how I affect others. The choices you make every day is going to affect not just you. It's going to affect others. You're training your children in choices and we're to be an example to others of what a right choice looks like. I'm going to to choose the flow of heaven. I'm not going to choose a tormented flow. I'm not going to choose the fear flow. I'm not going to choose the worried flow. I'm going to choose the righteousness flow. I'm not see what the devil does. He points to our faults, failures and weaknesses and then tries to get us to turn in upon ourselves with those. I'm not going to choose that flow. I'm going to choose the righteousness flow. Devil, the things in my past, they're done. They're over. The blood of Jesus has cleansed them away. They no longer pertain to me. What pertains to me is I'm right with God. Now I can be bold with him. I'm not living afraid of him. That's right. Amen. He's not mad at me. See, the devil wants to paint the picture that God's mad at you. Why? So you draw back from him. You draw back from the flow that God offers you. But instead be skillful at choosing the righteousness flow. Remind yourself I'm right with God because of what Jesus did for me. Amen. I'm not going to live with a bad self love. A self image of shame, a self image of regrets, a self image of turmoil. I'm not going to do it. A bad self image invites you to pick up an awareness that you're right with God. A bad self image can be completely run out of your life by you reminding yourself I'm the righteousness of God. It's not about what I've done right. It's about he made me right. Amen. So that you stop turning in on yourself of what you're not in the natural and you focus on what you are in the Spirit and who you are in Christ. Again, I encourage you go to our website@DefraMedMinistries.org and download the collection of scriptures called in Him Scriptures because that shows who you are in Christ. Feed on those, repeat those to yourself. Meditate on those, speak them over and over. Make those your thought life as you do. You run out. A bad self image. A self image of shame. People are many times trying to reconcile their emotions, dominate them, boss them around. God gave you your emotions, but not to. Not to lead your life and not to trouble your life and not to reconcile. They're just there to color your life. Color your life, bring the color to you, but it's not to lead you and to dominate you and to push you down. We find. We find who we are in him. We don't find who we are in our emotions. Amen. So it is up to us to decide are we going to live days of heaven on earth or days of troubling. That's right, yes. It matters what you choose, because what you're choosing is what people around you are seeing demonstrated. And they need an example of someone who chooses the flow of the word. How do you choose the flow of the word? Well, Paul said this. He told Timothy. He said, stir up the gift that's on the inside of you. Stir it up. Well, to tell you the truth, everything that God puts in you has to be stirred. Otherwise, even though these things are in you, they'll lie dormant and inactive until you stir them. God put them in you, but it's up to you to stir them up. You say, pastor Nancy, how do I stir them up? With your words. What you say, amen. Praising God for them stirs it up. You can praise God. Thank God I'm right before God. Thank God he's made me righteous. Amen. Instead of, oh, I miss this and I miss it at that. And I messed up so much. Instead of talking about how much you messed up, talk about how much Jesus did it right and made you right. See, you stir up the wrong thing. If you listen to the wrong thing. Haven't you ever been at dinner with somebody and they start talking about an event that maybe was. Maybe somebody mistreated them, and they start talking about that and they're breathing hard and before long, you're breathing hard with them. You know, I can't believe they did that to you. And you're just as stirred up in their situation, toward their situation. Well, even so, stir yourself up toward God's flow. How do you stir it up? You listen to it, you talk about it. You meditate on it. You put those things in your mouth. What is stirred is what's going to flow. If the flow isn't very strong, stir it up more. Amen. Talk about the flow of my life is righteousness. I'm not going to get under a cloud of failure. I'm not going to get under a cloud of what I've done wrong. I'm not going to get in a flow to where my mind's tormented. I'm going to stay in the flow of peace. I'm going to stay in the flow of joy. That's Right. It's up to you. I said it's up to you. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, some of these things we're talking about in my book called Peace Living Free from worry. Listen, since God authored us the best life, we can't live the best life doing our own thing. We have to do it his way. Amen. That means we yield to his flow that's on the inside of us. Get your book. Go to Defrain min. Yeah, defrainministries.org and make sure that you let us know you want your copy and we'll get it right out to you. How about this? How about buying it for a friend, passing it out? Because the thing that people long for most in life is peace. It's peace. People jump from job to job, home to home, city to city, sometimes marriage to marriage. What are they looking for? Peace. But the good news is, remember the announcement the angels made when Jesus was born? Peace on earth, good will toward men. The first thing he brought is peace. It belongs to you. Amen. Well, as you go, we invite you to join us next time. But remember this, Jesus is the healer. God bless you. To watch or listen to today's message and other messages by Nancy Dufresne, visit dufresneministries.org in the book Victory Over Grief and Sorrow, Nancy Dufresne shares from firsthand experience how even death is no match for the mighty force of peace that is available to every believer. Order this book now@DefrainMinistries.org we trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, submit a prayer request, or visit our online store. Thank you to the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries for making this production possible.