← 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.
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From the top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet.
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The soles of my feet.
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Welcome. We're so glad you're joining us today for Jesus the healer. Come on in. We've been waiting for you. And know this, that I know that you love the Word. We love the Word. We honor the Word, Word and the. And the Bible tells us God's speaking. And he says, those who honor me, I will honor. When we show honor to the Word, the Word will honor us. And so thank you for joining us for the Word today. And we invite you, take notes, follow along with us in your Bible, but especially take notes of what God would say to you, because we're believing God for answers for your life. Amen. We have been on a topic in this series, and I'm just calling it In Christ we can do it. And do you know that is so huge? What? That what belongs to us in Christ is so vast that it's hard to articulate everything. Because when you talk about In Christ, you're talking about everything. The limitlessness of God is ours in Christ. I want to read to you. This is one of the main scriptures we've been using in this series, and it's in Colossians, chapter two, and it's starting in verse six. But this is the living Bible translation. And I want you to listen to how it reads. It says, and now, just as you trusted Christ to save, you, trust him too, for each day's problems. What's that mean? That Christ never meant just to be the Savior of the moment you got born again, but the Savior of every day, showing up every day as the Lord, as the Savior. Look at this. Not just church time. Every single day that we are to be drawing on him for daily supply, we're drawing on him for daily ability, daily grace. This is not a Sunday situation. It's an everyday flow of our life. So he says, trust him too. For each day's problems. What's this mean? Jesus wants to be brought in on everything. Jesus wants to be a part furnishing, supplying you with the strength, the ability to face and deal with everyday situation. Too many times when something is small in our day, if we're not careful, we tend to leave him out. But you remember it speaks about in the Old Testament, just this wonderful verse that I will bless your bread and water. Look at that. He wants to be involved in what we eat and what we drink to make sure that it is blessed to our life. Amen. The details of life, he wants to be involved in. What's this mean for us? This means turning our attention toward him all throughout the day and not just at a moment of crisis. Absolutely. He's there in the crisis moments. He's there in the emergencies of life so that he can equip, so that he can be leaned on, so we can draw on his divine ability and his help. But don't just wait for the emergency moments of life to enjoy the part that he brings to us. He wants to, he wants to supply his ability to every single flow of your daily life. This verse tells us Paul is writing, trust him too. Look at this for each day's problems. You know, sometimes a problem can be very little. It doesn't mean it has to be a big problem. Can I tell you the number of times I've said Holy Ghost? I don't know where that item is. Where is that item that I misplaced? And it's amazing how I'll think, oh look in this place. And there it is because it will involve him. Can I tell you just a few of the things that he has gotten involved in on that did not seem like life and death situations, but it showed his presence in our lives. I remember my husband and I were traveling and we had, we were going, we were flying commercially and we were going to multiple churches here in the United States. And we were Maybe on a 10 day, two week tour, something like that. And it was during the colder months that we were flying and my husband had taken his coat. So, so he, we got on the airplane, we put our carry on luggage up above, he put his coat up above. And because we're not used to, in Southern California, we don't, we have milder climate and so we're not used to carrying coats around. And so we got off the plane. I didn't think about it, he didn't think about it. But he left his coat there and he got his carry on luggage and we got off and we ended up making the whole trip without having that coat. We realized, you know, a day or so into it, om left the coat on the airplane and when we got back home, that coat was hanging up in his closet. What was that? Angels brought that thing back. You think, was it a life and death situation? It shows the father's care that he's interested in the details of our daily life. Amen, you say, what do you mean that angel came into your house? I don't care how he did it, I don't care when he did it. It was just a demonstra demonstration of his desire to not be left out of the everyday moments of our life. Too many times we limit him to crisis moments, we limit him to emergency moments. But what about fellowship moments? What about moments as a parent? What about moments in our marriage? What about moments of serving in our local church? Don't leave him out. He wants to be a part of the everyday moments. That can I tell you, many times it's the emergency moments of our life we want to forget. But we embrace the small moments. We remember when our child did this or we remember when our parent gave us that. And they weren't earth shaking moments, but they were moments that they meant something to us. God wants to be involved. Jesus is, we are in him. Even in the small moments of life. I remember. Well, let me just say this as a parent, don't leave him out of the parenting moments. You need divine help in parenting. Amen. My husband, I've talked about it before because it gives you an idea of what our home was like. My husband traveled. He was gone about 3/4 of our marriage. So we only spent about 25% of our married life even together because he was traveling. And that was not a hardship on us because that was the plan and we were graced for it. And I never, I never thought in terms that anything in the plan of God has never cheated my life. That's right. I've never let my children think that anything of their life was cheated because the plan of God only blessed our life. And the plan for us did not have to look like the plan for the neighborhood. I did not have to imitate in our home and make our home look like every other family in the neighborhood. Our home life needed to look like the plan of God. It did not need to look like everybody else's home. That's good. And so I never would allow my sons, because I have two sons and I never allowed them to think that we were odd because I Would just talk to them about the plan of God. But because my husband was gone a lot, I leaned a lot on the one who was always present. And how the Holy Ghost helped me in everyday life. Do you know, I remember when my oldest son needed to be weaned off the bottle. The Holy Ghost helped me in that. He told me what to do, he told me when to do it. And it was no difficulty in the home because I involved God in the everyday, simple moments of life. But I remember one time, especially when my youngest son was probably about four years old, he was. Both of my sons always were mama's boys. Early on, when they got to be about 12, they really became big time daddy boys. But for those earlier years, they were with me all the time. I kept them with me everywhere I go, everywhere I went. And because I administrated our offices there at the church and at our ministry headquarters, I was able to take them to the office with. And that was just part of our life. But I remember one time I was going to a. I was going to the bank, to the ATM machine outside the bank, and I was getting cash and you know how you would put your card or whatever in the. Into the ATM machine. And I had done that and I had been getting some cash on the machine and I was kind of, I was holding my wallet, I was holding the ATM card, I was holding my car key, I was holding Grant's hand, my little boy's, I was holding the receipt and all these things are in my hand. And Grant wanted to carry, he wanted to help. And I just thoughtlessly, mindlessly, oh, wrong handed him just my card, you know, my credit card. And I'm just thinking, I'll hand it to him, let him carry this. Well, I've got my hands full. We get back into the car and I forgot to take it from him before I got back in the car. And I did not even realize that he had disposed of it, you know, he had let go of it. I get home, I drive into our garage. It's probably about four miles from the bank to our home. I drive into the garage, I get out on my side on the driver's side. I'm walking around the front of the car to go get him out of the car. But when I walk past the front tire on the driver's side, that credit card is sitting right on top of the tire. It's not stuck to it, it's not shaped to the tire. It's just sitting there. No doubt an angel put it there. Why Making my life easier. I had enough on my plate without having to deal with that. And God involved himself and what was at the Father's care, if you will. Could I say this in Christ, the Father's care belongs to you, that he will get involved in the things of everyday life. And don't misunderstand me, I don't over spiritualize something. I don't try to look, oh, angels got involved in this or got involved in that. And I become unsound in that because you have to keep soundness with that. But it was no doubt an evident care of my father that he used an angel. Didn't matter to me. I wasn't impressed that an angel got involved. I was impressed that my father noticed. And he noticed. He knew that it would be a difficulty for me to have to stop, put a stop on that credit card, get a new one issued and all the layers of that. So in his ever watchful care, you know, the word talks about that he knows he sees every aspect of our life. Do you think he just sees it so he can say I saw it? He sees it because he wants to be involved in it. So if I could say this in your, in life, in your life, in Christ, don't leave out the Father's care. He wants to be included on everything. Mamas, your children are not robbing you. Fellowship with God, bring him into the everyday aspects of your home life. Husbands, when you're out doing your job, working your business, do not leave him out. Turn your attention toward him all throughout the day. You know you can be turned toward him inwardly, even when outwardly is doing something of your responsibility. You can always have your insides turned toward, toward him. When my husband went home to be with the Lord in 2011, and the day he went home to be with the Lord, it happened because he was in the plane crash, that our ministry owned an airplane and that plane had gone down. And the Father's care started long before that event. And when I look back years before that, God was endeavoring to work. God was endeavoring, if I could say this, to rescue us from that day. God will always keep us in front of things. Don't you ever think that when something caught you off guard, it caught him off guard. It never did. But that's a whole nother teaching that I don't want to go into today. But know this, that the Father prepared us for that. It was God's best that he be able to intervene and stop that. But not everything is under my authority, you see. And so I God involved me as far as he could involve me. And God not only involved. Involved us in that, it was involved in us making that transition. After my husband was no longer here, the divine help we received from heaven was so impressive, so comforting it was. What kept us on course was his care for us. And one of the things I decided this family would have no fear of owning another airplane. I was not going to let an event so fear in me in any aspect. And so I began talking to God and I said, father, if it's your will that we have an airplane, and I know sometimes he'll leave it up to us, I understand that. But an airplane, there's a lot of responsibility with it. So I want to have his leading on it, his guidance on it. And I said, if it is your plan and if it's your best for us to have an airplane, I said, I want to release my faith for that. And I had the sense, not necessarily him speaking to me, particularly in words, but I had the sense, I'm going to give you one. And so it was 10 years from the time that I first sensed that until the time that there was an aircraft sewn to us. And the aircraft that God gave us is an international airplane. It's a wonderful airplane. It can go into other countries, anywhere in the world. And every time that God would speak to me all along those 10 years, he would say something to me about that airplane periodically. And you know what he always said? He said, the airplane is my care for you. Listen to that. It wasn't just so. No doubt it makes it easier for us, because I took the year 2014, which was the year after my husband died, and God said, I want you to go around and I want you to strengthen those who are part of your fellowship. My husband has a ministerial organization, and so there were about 170 ministers that were part of that. And God said, I want you to go around and minister in their churches, let them know that nothing is lost of the mandate on this ministry, that the plan of God has not been altered, the plan of God has not been lost. So that that following year there was extensive travel. And when I calculated the number of days I was in the airports, the commercial airports, it was 90 days out of that year that I was just traveling in an air. In a commercial airport, waiting for the next airplane. That means that if you took me to the main airport in Los Angele, which was one nearby US and you dropped me off for January, February and March, that's how many days I spent in Airports. So in just one year. So you can understand that having an airplane gathers back those days for me so that I don't. If I'm preaching at night, I don't have to fly the previous day. I can fly right before the service into where I'm at and I recapture that day. What is that called? Redeeming the time. And then after a service, if I want to, I can fly home and be in my own bed. Why? Because it's a two hour time difference from two and three hour time difference. So I get. I can capture more time even going back. But what is all this? It's the Father's care. Can I tell you? The Father's care for us is not cheap. He's not trying to work a bargain in caring for you. He will spend what he'll spend lavishly on you to take care of you. Think about it. The price he paid for us to be born into his family was the price of blood. The blood of his own son. The most valued commodity of heaven, the most valued life of heaven, his own son. What was that? An expensive price for humanity. Now, with God spending so lavishly to turn us into his children, to bring us into his family at the cost of the blood of his own son, do we think that now that we belong to him, he's going to cheapen his care for us? He's every bit as lavish. Amen. And he is. When he goes to take care of you, he's not looking for a bargain. Now don't misunderstand me. I'm not against saving money. But the thing is, God's care for you is foremost in his mind. He's not trying to get the best deal. He's not trying to save money at your expense. He will spend the wealth of this earth to bless you. Because his care is abundant, but his care is lavish. Amen. So when God said to me, when he gave us that airplane, he said, it's my care for you. When I get in that airplane, my words will be, my Father's taking care of me. Amen. And every time we'll get in that airplane, it's the Father taking care of us. Do you think that God only wants to take care of us in the emergencies of life? God gave us that airplane so that every time we get in that airplane, we get in his care. God wants you to recognize that you being able to pay for your home, meet the utilities, pay those bills of your home, put clothes on your back, put food in the kitchen for your family, that's the father's care. Every time you partake of something of your household, the father got involved in that. It's his care for you. If you will acknowledge his care, you will recognize his care more. Can I say that many times people don't recognize his care because they're not perceptive. They don't discern that the father was involved in this. Now, back in the 1970s, before my husband and I met and married, he pastored a church in Southern California. God gave them a building. And on this broadcast, in episodes past, I've told how God worked in a very spectacular, supernatural way to not only get that billing into their hands, but pay it off. And in paying off that building, there were two angels that appeared to my husband one day and said, we've been sent from the throne room of heaven to straighten out your finances. Because he was in need of $126,000 to be able to secure the purchase for that building. They were in jeopardy of losing it. I'm not going to tell the whole story of that. But those angels appeared to him and said, we've been sent from the throne room of heaven to straighten out your finances. And then they just stood there looking at my husband. And he said, well, what are you waiting on? And they said, we're waiting on the faith command. So he spoke the word. He said, my God shall supply all my need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus, go and cause the money to come. And they disappeared. Two days before the money was due, a man walked into his office with a Cashier's check for $126,000. And he said, There are two fellows in my room that keep telling me to bring you this money. This man was not even part of his church. And so what was it? God's care for him involved making sure that that local church was provided for. Right? Now, about six months before my husband went home to be with the Lord, this would have been about, what, 40 years later, after these angels had gotten involved in the payoff of his building. You say that just sounds weird to me. Well, then you need to read the bible. Hebrews, chapter one, verse 14 says, speaking of the angels, are these not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who are heirs of salvation? And how many of you know they'll minister something good? They ministered the provision of heaven. They weren't the providers. They were just the messengers that knew where the money was and brought it to my husband. Through this man, they. They exerted holy influence to bring, to pass the supply for this need. Now, about 40 years later, about six months before my husband went home to be with the Lord, God spoke to him, and he said, if you'll talk more about those angels that paid off that building, he said, they'll do more of it because then you're giving them permission to work. When you talk about it, you're giving them permission to work. Well, he's not here to talk about it, but I am. And that's why I refer to it, because I believe in their participation, to help us fulfill the plan of God. Now, what am I saying that for? I gave you that illustration because God said, if you'll talk more about it, they'll do more of it. Can I say this? If you'll talk more about how the Father takes care of you every day, you'll recognize it more and more every day, and you'll be able to receive more of it. When we're not grateful for it, we won't receive the measure of it he'd like to bestow upon us because we're not discerning his movement. I love something that Dr. Bill Winston said recently in our service. He was talking about when Jesus had the multitudes that were following him for several days before he sent them back home. He turned to his disciples and he said, you give them something to eat before they go back home. They said, we don't have enough for this. And he told them, go see what's available. And a little boy with five loaves and two fish offered his well. Notice what one of the disciples said. They said, well, we do have this. Five loaves and two fish. But what is this among so many? What is it? He did not discern that God's care was in that which looked like it wasn't enough. He didn't discern it. Jesus discerned. Ah, there's the answer. And he took what wasn't enough. He looked to heaven. Now, see, it matters where you're looking when what you hold isn't enough. And Jesus demonstrated, when what you're holding is not enough, where are you going to look? That's going to determine what happens to that which you hold. And he looked to heaven and he blessed it, and he gave it to the disciples. And in the distribution, it multiplied. Notice. I want you to recognize that something Dr. Bill Winston said, he said Jesus discerned his provision. This is where many people are cheated of experiencing all that God has for them because he brought them their harvest, and they never discerned that it came to them and it just went right on past them. Oral Roberts made this statement. He said, every day miracles are coming to you or going past you. But many times people don't discern that their answer, their provision is in the daily care of their Father. Well, that's what belongs to us in Christ, the daily care of God's provision. Amen. Well, we've been talking about in Christ. You don't want to miss it because we're going to keep going this direction. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the Hebrew God bless you.
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To watch or listen to today's message and other messages by Nancy Dufresne, visit dufresneministries.org.
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We will never receive from God beyond the measure of our response. In this book, Responding to the Holy Spirit, Nancy Dufresne instructs us how to properly respond to God and the moving of His Spirit. Order this book now@dufresneministries.org.
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If you have received a healing or have any other testimony to share with us as a result of this broadcast, we would love to hear about it. Please call us, write us or contact us through our website. In Nancy Dufresne's book Faith in the Power of God, she teaches how God wants us to to know his power that is in our direction. It belongs to us. 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.