Podcast Summary: Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
Episode 773 | In Christ I Can, Part 13 (June 18, 2025)

Episode Overview

In this thirteenth installment of the "In Christ I Can" series, Nancy Dufresne delivers an encouraging, faith-building message centered on the believer’s union with Christ. The episode's central theme is that Christians are not alone in fulfilling God’s plans—they are empowered by Christ's presence within them. Nancy explores how to develop spiritual habits, maintain right-thinking, and draw on Christ’s resources for every aspect of life, using biblical teaching, personal testimony, and practical exhortation.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Power and Presence of God is Always Available

• Opening encouragement: Nancy reminds listeners that God’s healing power is present wherever they are, even in hospital or sick rooms.
  • Quote (00:12):
    “Power is present. That power is there to do a work...believe that he’s already made it yours.”
• Call to action: She invites listeners to declare they receive God’s power from "the top of my head...to the soles of my feet" (00:41).

2. Importance of Fellowship and Bringing Your Supply

• Nancy describes the value of a hungry, engaged studio audience: their spiritual hunger draws out deeper teaching for everyone’s benefit (00:53).
  • Quote (01:25):
    "When I have people around me that are hungry for the Word, it draws something out of me...we’re all bringing our supply."

3. Dominion Flows From Fellowship with God

• Drawing from Genesis, Nancy teaches that Adam’s dominion came from fellowship with God (02:33).
• Application: Our partnership with Christ is similarly vital—God intends to carry out His plans through our relationship with Him.
  • Quote (03:45):
    “He’s not leaving us to do it on our own...He is our ability, our strength, the one that gives us wisdom.”

4. Living "In Him": Mindset and Biblical Foundation

• Colossians 2:6-7 (Living Bible):
  • Nancy reads, emphasizes, and interprets Paul’s call to “live in vital union with Him” (04:33).
  • Right thinking: shift from "self-minded" to “in Him-minded.”
    • Quote (05:44):
      “If we’re not careful, we just live our life with us in mind. But it’s no, we’re to be in Him minded.”

5. Practical Obedience: The Testimony of Moving to California

• Nancy shares a detailed personal story (07:13–15:55):
  • Despite financial strain and delay due to initial disobedience, Nancy and her family experienced provision when they stepped out in faith toward what God directed.
  • Key learning: Don't wait for all circumstances (like the sale of a property) to align before acting on God’s command.
  • Quote (09:32):
    “When God tells you to move, don’t wait for something else to give you permission for what He’s already commanded.”
  • Their movement of faith resulted in securing a house by miraculous favor tied to a past act of ministry (13:45).
  • Quote (15:22):
    “You don’t need money when you have the Word. The Word will cause the money to come.”

6. Giving God a Job: Faith in Action

• Nancy stresses that obedience gives God something to work with. Making steps in faith—no matter how small—allows God to supply and manifest His provision (13:45–17:08).
  • Quote (16:17):
    "God needs to see that faith has a movement. And so when we made movement, God filled it with His supply."

7. Establishing Deep Roots: Spiritual Resilience

• Returning to Colossians 2:7 (18:22):
  • Deep spiritual roots ensure steadfastness in adversity.
  • Quote (19:04):
    “When storms come and try to blow, something deep-rooted can’t be moved...There was one reason we could have that house—because God said it was ours.”

8. Knowing and Responding to God’s Specific Word

• The importance of personal revelation and what the Spirit specifically says, in addition to the general promises in Scripture (20:22).
  • Quote (21:18):
    “There is no scripture...that told us that house was ours. But the Spirit of God said it.”

9. What It Means to Live "In Christ"

• Nancy emphasizes the fullness of Christ within the believer (Colossians 2:9, 23:03).
  • Quote (23:30):
    “For in Christ, there is all of God...So when God tells us to do something, how could we ever say no? Because we’re filled with Him, who is everything, who has everything, who can do everything.”
  • Encouragement to renew the mind and refuse to operate out of self-reliance (24:30).

10. Counsel for Believers: Identity, Supply, and the Fruits of the Spirit

• Nancy emphasizes that a Christian's solution is always found in who is within them—not in worldly methods (25:15).
  • Quote (26:12):
    “You’re not prosperous because you have money. You’re prosperous because the Provider is in you.”
• She explains the fruits of the Spirit are God's attributes within: love, peace, joy, etc., drawn upon by faith (26:45).
• Anchor your thinking and speak out the truths of your identity in Christ.

Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On acting in faith:
  “Talking about it didn’t put anything in it, you know, so we just didn’t talk about it.” (15:00)
• On God’s provision:
  “If He says we can have it, we can have it. That’s what we’re talking about in Christ.” (17:45)
• On spiritual roots:
  "When storms come and they try to blow, something deep-rooted can’t be moved." (19:04)
• “Put pressure on your covenant. What’s that mean? Put a demand on it. Put a demand on who’s in you. Give Him a job.” (22:55)
• “You have victory because He’s in you. You have healing because the Healer’s in you. You are prosperous because the Provider is in you.” (26:12)

Action Steps / Homework

• Download the free “In Him” scriptures at jesusthehealer.org (27:11)
• Meditate on who you are in Christ; speak these truths and remind your family of their identity and supply in Him.
• Live every day drawing upon Christ within you, not just in emergencies.

Key Timestamps

• 00:12 – Opening declaration of God’s present power
• 02:33 – Dominion flows from fellowship
• 04:33 – Teaching from Colossians 2:6-7 (Living Bible)
• 07:13–15:55 – Testimony of moving to California and miraculous provision
• 18:22 – Importance of deep spiritual roots
• 23:03 – Teaching from Colossians 2:9 (Fullness in Christ)
• 26:45 – Fruits of the Spirit as attributes of Christ within
• 27:11 – Resource: Free downloadable “In Him” scriptures

Tone and Language

Nancy’s style is warm, instructive, and filled with encouragement. She repeatedly affirms the listener’s spiritual capacity in Christ, using vivid personal stories, practical illustrations, audience interaction, and citations from Scripture. The tone is candid, faith-charged, and exhortative, consistently returning to the theme: “In Christ, I can.”

Summary Conclusion

This episode is a practical and inspiring call to live daily from the reality of Christ within. Nancy Dufresne challenges listeners to renew their minds, act in faith, and expect God’s supply in every circumstance—not just for emergencies, but for victorious, overflow living. The message is clear: If you are in Christ, there is nothing God directs you to do that you cannot fulfill by His empowerment.