← Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
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Nancy Dufresne
Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
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Kenneth Copeland
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. Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. Thank you for taking the time to join us. And we are going to be finishing up today on the series we've been on. We've been teaching out of my book called Daily Healing Bread from God's table. It's a 60 day devotional. And congratulations. If you've followed along with us, you've made it through all about all 60 days of the teaching. And we invite you go back and watch any previous episodes you might have missed. Because we just thank God for the word that changes our life. It sets it on course. And we take this word not just so we can be good note takers, but so we can also be good doers of the word. Amen. We've been starting this series with this golden text that we find in Mark 4:24, the amplified classic translation. Jesus made this statement and such an important one. He said, be careful what you're hearing. Make sure that what you're listening to is putting faith in you, not taking faith out of you. Amen. Be very guarded over your hearing because what you hear can land on the inside of you. It can land in your way of thinking. And it's easier to get it in than it is to get it out sometimes in the sense of it's easier for wrong thinking to come in than for people to recognize. Wait, that's wrong thinking. I gotta get it out. Because it can sometimes, if I can say, go unnoticed for a while. Jesus also went on and he made this statement. The measure of thought and study you give to the truth you hear will be the measure of virtue or power and knowledge that comes back to you. So he's letting us know, if we need an increased flow of the measure of God's power, we increase it by how much attention and how much, how big a place we're giving the Word in our life. So he's saying, the more you feed on the Word, the greater the degree of power that you are going to be partaking of. Amen. And so it's a blessing to us to know that it's not about waiting for God to give us something, but we can increase our hearing and our acting on the Word of God, and we increase the flow of God's power to our lives. Amen. And then we've also referred often to Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 20. This is such an important statement, such an important truth. When God spoke and he said, my son, attend to my words. When I see this word attend. I always think of the word attention. Because people don't recognize that connected to their faith is their attention. What you put your attention on is where your faith is going to go. It's what you're going to have faith in. If we have our attention on the wrong thing, we'll have faith in the wrong thing. But if we hold our attention on the right thing, then we will receive all God has for us. What is the right thing? What God says? Because everything else around us in this life wants our attention. How many of you know the devil? He doesn't have anything left. Jesus stripped him, spoiled him. The only thing he has left is the power of suggestion. So the devil will threaten us. He will suggest something to us. And if those wrong thoughts get our attention, then they can gain entrance into our life. And so we have to recognize that we must discipline our attention. That's disciplining the thought life. Disciplining the thought life. Amen. Attending to God's word. Now let's go over to Second Corinthians, chapter 10 in verse 5. This is so important in the life of every believer. This is not something that's optional if you. It's something that's mandatory. And Second Corinthians, chapter 10:5 reads, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought. Look at that. Every thought, every thought to the obedience of Christ. People will say, well, God can't really expect me to pay attention to every thought. Well, he doesn't just expect us to. He commanded us to. Not only that, let me ask you this. With a contract, if you're going to go sign a contract, maybe to buy a home, maybe you're going into contract with a bank, purchase something, and they lay out that contract with you, do they mean every statement I mean, surely they don't mean everything in that contract. Yeah, they mean everything in that contract. It's a legal contract. You have to pay attention to every statement in a contract because that's what you're signing up for, right? Even so, pay attention to every thought you let in because that's what you're signing up for. Well, that's just a bit. That's just a lot, you know, Pastor Nancy, I just can't imagine that God expects us to pay attention to every thought. Well, the devil will. Devil will. He'll pay attention to try to offer all kinds of wrong thinking to you and he can tell if you took it or not. And he's not all knowing like God is, but he can tell if you took what he handed you. Why? Because he can tell by what comes out of your mouth if you took that thought. So notice this. If we want to live days of heaven on earth and it's going to involve us disciplining our thought life, we just can't let ourself go off in any old wild imagination imagining the worst. Know this. If the, if, if someone received a very serious diagnosis from the doctor, don't you know the devil would love to try to give you imaginations of how that would play out in your life. Imaginations of dying early. What's going to happen to your home? What's going to happen to your family, your future? The devil would do that. You stop that casting down imaginations. Because if we let wrong imaginings continue unguarded in our life, it can dismantle our faith, rob us of our faith. And we have to make sure that we're not letting our thoughts just follow after vain imaginations. God gave us our imagination, but not for it to be distorted by wrong thinking. God gave us our imagination so we could see some things that faith offers us, that the word of God offers us. We see ourselves healed. Instead of imagining yourself dying prematurely, imagine yourself living out God's plan for your life. Imagine not being in the condition you may find yourself in right now. On the other side of this, you have to imagine the right thing. Don't let the devil pervert the imagination that God gave you for good and let the devil turn it for bad to work against you. If you allow wrong imaginations, you're giving yourself something to overcome. So stop. Wrong imaginations. Cast them down. Down. So it says, cast down imaginations. And every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. How do you know if something needs to be cast down? Is it in agreement with the word of God, or is it against it? Right there. And if it leads you to peace and joy, embrace it. If it robs you of peace and joy, cast it down. I don't care how spectacular it is. I know this. And pastoring people have told me through the years. Pastor NANCY I had a dream and I saw this devastating thing happen in the dream. And I said, when you woke up, what did you feel? They said, I was in complete fear. And I said, yeah, because the devil was trying to. He was trying to sell you something. He was trying to get you to take hold of something. It doesn't matter that you had a dream. That doesn't make it more true. That doesn't make it more acceptable just because it came in the form of a dream. If it's against the knowledge of God, reject it. I don't care if some angel, some angelic being, the devil disguises himself as the angel of light. He's not light. I don't care if a divine being stood in front of you. And if they said something that's not in agreement with the word, don't you accept that experience? No. Experience equals the word. The word trumps every experience. And so don't accept something just because something might have happened dramatically or supernaturally, because the devil is also in a supernatural realm. Amen. So we have to measure everything by knowledge of the word, whether or not we take it. When I see these two words casting down, those are an aggressive approach to wrong imaginations. To cast down. It doesn't just say, you know, don't give it your thought. It says, cast it down. I tell a story. Cause I like telling these stories. They're not only stories of my past, but stories that help me to demonstrate what I'm referring to. But years ago, my dad was a cotton and wheat farmer. And years ago we went out fishing with Daddy one day and he had some rivers and creeks and stuff with his property. And we went out fishing. And there was just a little fishing boat that was flipped over on the bank. And it had been there, oh, I don't know. My goodness, several years. And so we decided him, Daddy, mother, my sister and I. I think it was just the four of us that we flipped that boat over and we got in it. We're going to go out to the middle of the water there and we're going to go fishing. So we're out in the middle, and all of a sudden I see something going. Something just darted inside this boat. There shouldn't be anything darting in this boat. And I knew what it was. It was a rat I saw. And what had happened when that boat was upside down on the bank. There were benches, you know, across that we could sit on. And evidently we flipped it and it was in the boat. And we just ended up flipping it toward, you know, it was in the back and under a bench, so we didn't see it. And so you got out in the water and found out you got a. You know. What do they call it when somebody gets on board and they're not. They didn't buy a ticket. Stowaway. We had a stowaway. And so. So I go. I go like I pick up my feet. I don't want my feet down there. So my sister, you know, we all picking up our feet. The girls pick up their feet. Daddy didn't, you know. And so Daddy. I saw this. This rat run to the end. And there was a bench over that end. It came to a point and then there was that bench. And at the end. So he couldn't really see. So Daddy just took out his pocket knife. Every good farmer got a pocket knife. Got a pocket knife. And he. He couldn't see up under there. And so he just started going like this, you know, with his knife until he felt something. And he got, you know, got hold of that rat. Listen, it's a rat. No compassion on the rat. They're disease carriers, you know. Right. Anyway, so daddy had. He realized he made contact with it. So he drug out and he had caught in the back leg that rat. So Daddy just grabbed it, picked it up and held it by its tail. And so we're rowing, you know, we're getting over back with these oars. We're rowing. We didn't have a motor on it, so we're rowing. We get off to the back and daddy steps out of the boat and there's a big flat rock there. And Daddy started winding that thing up. Bam. Right down on that rock. That's called casting down. Casting down. That's what I'm talking about. We don't just push it off to the side. We cast it down so it doesn't come back. That's what. When I think of casting down, it's an aggressive action. I'm not playing with this thought. I'm not just touching into it and just try to. Oh, you know, and feel bad about something or get attention from. I'm not playing with this thing. Can I tell you this? If you want to walk free from something, you better not play with it. There are people who have been held by habits, addictions, bondages, in wrong relationships. But. And they say, well, I want to walk free from that. Then don't you play? Don't you play. You have to sincerely turn your back on something, reject it in your thought life, in your conversation. People saying, you know, well, I just, you know, I need to get out of this relationship. It's troubling if you know, you shouldn't be in a wrong relationship. That means this. You make the decision, I'm out of it. And you don't text them later to see how they're doing. You don't play. You don't play. Well, maybe, you know, I just want to, you know, I just want to keep them close to God. You're not the Savior. Get out of the relationship. Don't play if you know you're not supposed to be in that. Don't play. That's what you can't play with. Wrong thoughts. There's one precious man of God. He made this statement. He said, if you play with sin, he said, sin will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and make you pay more than you ever thought you'd have to pay. That's true. What's this? You don't play with it. You don't play with wrong thoughts. You don't imagine what would happen at this. And you don't let your mind go there. You cast down imaginations. You don't play when, if you hear a diagnosis, a serious diagnosis from a doctor, you don't allow yourself to lay in bed and imagine the worst. You don't play with that. You don't play with that. No, sir, I'm holding to the word in my thought life, not just in my confession, but in my thought life. Now the Word says this. A double minded man is unstable in all of his ways. And don't let that man think he will receive anything of the Lord. What do we mean by double minded? To say the right thing. But in your private life and in your time alone, you allow your mind to touch into something different than the thing you said. Because if we're not careful as faith people, we've learned what right faith words sound like. And we make right confessions, but in our imaginations and in our thinking to ourself. And what we're saying to ourself that no one else is hearing can be different than what we have learned that faith sounds like. So what am I saying? We are to make faith confessions, but they begin in the Thought life. We hold a strict guard over our thought life. You know, sometimes people think, well, this thought comes to me. I guess I have to learn to cope with it. No, you don't. We're not called to cope. I don't cope with worry. I don't cope with fear. I don't cope with troubling thoughts of my past. I lay it under the blood of Jesus and let the blood of Jesus cleanse it away. I don't cope with it and try to talk it out. Learn this. When people try to talk out their past, they're not letting it out, they're letting it in. You lay the past under the blood of Jesus. Know what happens when you come to Christ? It says the old man, old things are passed away. It doesn't say they're talked out. It said they're passed away. They're passed away. Paul said, forgetting those things that are behind. He didn't say talking about them. He said forgetting them. Forgetting them. We're not authorized to talk about them because what that does, that updates them to the present and it just gets further entrenched. Cast down imaginations of the past. Cast down imaginations reliving things of the past. Cast it down, say it's under the blood. I will not touch it in my thoughts. That's not making light of it. That's dealing with it based on the Word and not trying to just deal with things psychologically. You can't just overcome demonic influences by using psychological methods. You deal with it with the Word. The Word is the weapon. Amen. Jesus answered the Devil. It is written and he spoke the, the Word. So we have to realize this, that we cast down imaginations. And the way we do that, we say what the Word says. I reject this. Now sometimes the devil wants to, wants to draw you into lifestyles that are not right. You know, all kinds of. He wants to, if I could say this, he wants to energize the body to engage in things that are immoral. Yeah. And know this. Whatsoever you do, in word or deed, do all to the glory of God. If it doesn't glorify God, we have no business entertaining it. We have no business participating in it. No business playing with it. Amen. Because sometimes when we think we're just going to touch into something and play with it, it'll play with us. And let me say this, it won't be play anymore. It will take over some things. And if I could say this, how can a devil influence Christians? One way. Listening to him. Listening to him. I Don't take my counsel from the devil. Can I say this? One of the first skills, faith, is recognizing what isn't from God. You have to recognize. You have to recognize something that must be resisted or you'll never resist it. Sometimes people have cooperated, for example, with worry so long, they don't even recognize they're worrying. Some people have cooperated with fear for so long, they don't recognize that fear is dictating how they treat people, how they're handling their marriage, how they're overseeing their children based on fear, afraid that something wrong is going to happen. Then some have been operating in fear concerning their bodies for so long that they don't recognize that they're dealing with their body based on fear, not based on faith. So one of the great skills that we have to develop in our spiritual life is recognizing what's not in line with the Word. You have to pay attention to every thought. I said pay attention to every single thought. We not only have to be successful in our faith life, you have to be successful in your thought life. Yeah. Because a mind that is left undisciplined will trouble your life. We'll never get away from our mind. Wouldn't it be great. Wouldn't it just be great if before we left the house, if our mind was being troubled, we could just. You know what? I'm gonna leave you behind today, and you take it off and we go out and we live without that troubled mind trying to follow us around. But you can't do that. You take your mind with you everywhere you go. So you might as well have a mind you can live with. And the Word tells us what to do to have a sound mind. I will say this, a sound mind is part of our inheritance in Christ, just like healing is part of our inheritance. Provision, wisdom, peace, joy, the fruits of the Spirit, all these things, faith, all these that are part of our inheritance in Christ. Don't leave out a sound mind. And I would say this. Don't ever. Don't ever put up with anything that troubles your mind. You have to be, as nicely as I can say this, you have to be mean and ugly against wrong thinking. You have to be mean and ugly against a suggestion. You have to boldly say, I'm not putting up with that. That's not my thought. I will not have that in my life. You can't just passively deal with wrong thinking. You have to deal with these things in boldness. Because the devil doesn't believe you if you're not bold. Amen. And we know this even with children. You raise children. I'm not calling them the devil, but I'm saying this. Children don't think that you mean it unless there's firmness in your voice. They have to know that you're the boss and not them. Right. The devil is the same way. He has to know you mean it. I'm not playing. I'm casting this thing down. And you're not going to. You're not going to live around my head. I'm not taking you to bed with me at night and let you lay on my head. Pillow with me. Not putting up with this. You have to get bold against what is not. The flow of peace. You have to. Amen. Because you can't play with these things and think you're going to come out on top. The Word says in Hebrews, chapter one, that Jesus was anointed with the oil of gladness above his brethren. Then it tells why? Because. Because he loved righteousness and he hated iniquity. What's that mean? He didn't play with what was wrong. He loved what was right. He would only embrace what's right. He would not even play around with that which could trouble him. And because of that, he had joy beyond anyone else. Amen. And let me tell you this. He wasn't troubled knowing that one day he would pay the price for mankind. He wasn't living under the burden of what it would cost him to be the Savior. Amen. He knew how to hold that in check, that that was not going to trouble him because it would be his great victory. Amen. Well, before we go off the air today, I want to pray for you. I want to pray for those of you who say, pastor Nancy, you may seem like you're a little bit overwhelmed by circumstances. Well, I want you to know we're going to join our faith with you. Amen. Because I want to remind you of this. Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. We are not an overwhelmed people. We are a conquering, ruling people because of the greater one that's on the inside of us. So those of you who you want me to pray for you, you say, pastor Nancy, I need help right here with my thinking, with my mind. Know this, number one. Renew your mind with the word bring. Do what I said today. Casting down imaginations. Now, Satan, you take your hands off God's people. You take your hands off God's property. You take your hand off their mind, off their home, off their families, off their bodies. Off their children, off their business. And we say the peace of God rules and reigns in their life. The peace of God is on the inside of them. We yield to that peace. We draw on that peace. And I say, father, I pray that you strengthen them with might in their inner man, that they would be strengthened to rule and reign from that place of dominion on the inside of them, from their spirit. In Jesus name. And everybody said amen. We've been teaching out of my book called Daily Healing Bread from God's Table. We invite you to go to our website and you can purchase it there@jesusthehealer.org now today we're able to come to you for one reason. Because of the generosity of Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Copeland Ministries, he has decided that their ministry, Kenneth Copeland Ministries, would pay for every moment of airtime on the Victory Channel, not only for my broadcast, but for every programmer. I've never seen a decision like that in the earth. And this man has made that decision. And so I'm a partner. Our ministry is a partner, the traveling ministry, our local church is a partner because we want to keep funding this Voice of Victory Channel coming into our home. So we ask you if this broadcast is a blessing to you and you're not already pray about becoming a partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries. It's appropriate to sow to the point place that feeds our life. Amen. And you can go to kcm.org and follow the prompts there and you can sign up to be a partner. And until next time, remember this, Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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Nancy Dufresne
To watch or listen to today's message and other messages by Nancy Dufresne, visit dufresneministries.org.
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Kenneth Copeland
We'Re excited to announce a new worship album called in youn Glory by Grant Dufresne. For more ways to listen to in youn Glory, scan the QR code on your screen. Jesus. Thank you, Lord. I invite you to get hold of my book called Daily Healing Bread from God's Table. It's a daily devotional on the subject of divine healing. I encourage you to feed yourself every day on the truths of healing and faith because either you're going to need it or someone you come in contact with is going to need it. You can order this book by going to jesusthehealer.org God bless you.
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Nancy Dufresne
Nancy Dufresne is the president of World Harvest Bible Training center in Murrieta, California. This is a word and spirit Bible school where you will receive impartations and revelations. So whether you're called to the five fold ministry or want to bring a greater supply to your local church, this could be the school for you. We're now accepting applications. Go to whbtc.org for more information. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at 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.