← 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. 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 you're joining us today for Jesus the Healer. And we are enjoying ourselves so much in this series that we're on because we're talking about in Christ and what belongs to us in Christ. And can I tell you this, it's so vast. I mean, what belongs to us in Christ is as limitless as God himself. And I want to read to you. Just let me. Let me read a passage. We've been going back to a passage in Colossians chapter two intermittently throughout this series. And. And I want to read to you Colossians chapter two and verse nine. And this is the living Bible translation. It says this. For in Christ, there is all of God in a human body, so you have everything. When you have Christ, what is all? What does he mean? Everything? All of God. Everything. God is at our disposal, indwelt by this limitless father. It's the mind can't even capture it all. The mind can't calculate it all. The mind cannot process all that's ours in Christ. But let's read it again. For in Christ, there is all of God. All of God. Where is there room for worry? Where is there room for hopelessness? We just have to build this in us. All of God, all He is, is available to me in every situation. Now, what determines whether or not he's able to manifest all he is is whether or not we lean on him, whether or not we respond to him, whether or not we rely on Him. How do we respond to Him? We've been saying this in the previous episodes. We obey Him. He will always give us something to do. Always. Do you remember the passage when Jesus was invited along with his disciples to the marriage, the wedding in Cana? Remember that? This was the first place a miracle was worked under his earthly ministry. His mother was there Him, Jesus and his disciples were there. And Mary came up to Jesus and it's so interesting. I love the dynamic between a mother and a son. It wasn't just between a woman and the Savior. It was a mother and her son. And she came up to him and she said, they've run out of wine. And he said, woman, what have I got to do with this? In other words, I'm not the caterer talking to the wrong person. And he said, woman, what have I got to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. Notice this. She perceived he was at a transition, that it was now he was moving into the time when his hour had come. And so basically it sounded like, and I'm not going to get involved statement, right when he said, what's this got to do with me? Mine hour has not yet come. And she was done talking to him. And thank you, they put it on the screen for me. John 2, chapter 4, or John chapter 2, verse 4. Jesus saith unto her, woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. Now go to the next verse, verse five for me. And I want you to see what his mother did. His mother said to the servants, I love this. She done talking to him. I love that she said something to him. He said something that sounded like he was not going to involve himself. And so she's done talking to you. I'm going this way now. Now she's talking to the servants and she says, whatsoever he says unto you, do it. Now what did she do in that statement? She assigned him to say something to those servants. Now, he couldn't be silent because she said, whatsoever he says, do it. So he thought he was not going to get involved. And she involved him by putting a demand on him to say something. Do you know Peter did the same thing to Jesus? Jesus is walking on the water. He said, if that's you, bid me come. Well, it was him. So he had to bid him come. He had to, because it was him. Peter put the same demand, say something to me. Give me something to obey. And so Jesus said, come. And as long as Peter did what Jesus said, he walked as long as he. But when he quit doing what Jesus said, he quit coming. And he started looking. He started paying attention to surrounding circumstances. And when he quit coming, then he started. He started to sink. Now notice this. If he would have kept coming. Because when Jesus said come, that doesn't mean come halfway and stop. Just keep coming. Keep doing what he said and you will end up arriving at where you're supposed to be. But this is what faith does. It puts a demand on Jesus to say something. And this is what Mary did. She said, whatsoever he says to you, do it. How many of you know when you need a miracle? Many times you go to God and you say, God, I need a miracle, whether it's in my finances, whether it's in my body, whether it's in my business, my home, my marriage, whatever arena you need a miracle in. And you start talking to God about that. Have you ever noticed he usually gives you something to do? Why? Because when we obey him, he gets us leaning on him, he gets us responding to Him. And now when we respond now we've opened the door for him to get involved. That's why he gives us something to obey. Not because he's trying to put a hardship on us, but because he's to trying. He is looking for an opportunity, an open door to get involved in our situation. What opens the door to him? Faith. What kind of faith? A faith that obeys. So he will give us something to obey. And when we just make a movement toward obeying what he says, then he fills that movement with his ability, his power. And he does the work through us. Now, I think one of the best illustrations of this is in a story that Lillian B. Yeomans tells in one of her books on divine healing. If you don't have her materials, get hold of them. She wrote four books that were on the subject of divine healing. Lillian B. Yeomans. And that's to help you. That's spelled Y E O M A N S. Get hold of that. Get online and get her materials. They are just rich with revelation on healing. She was raised up off of her deathbed. She had been in a backslidden state and had found herself at the point of death. And she just got in the word and just began to work that healing. Word responded to it. And she became. She had been a medical doctor till she was about 45, and for the next 35, 45 years, she became a minister teaching on divine healing. And in one of her books that she wrote, she tells the story of when she was a little girl, that her father was in the military, and that was in the 1800s, and they rode horses in the military. And she was on post with him one time. And so the father had set up for one of the soldiers to give her riding lessons. She would have been about eight or nine years old. Well, the man who gave her riding lessons, when he came to the place where they were designated to Meet to give lessons. When he would arrive, he always found her already mounted. She was already on the horse. And so he thought she knew how to mount a horse. So they would just go about their riding lessons. And this went on for months. He would give her writing lessons. And one day, one of the fellow soldiers said to the man who was training Lillian Bjomans, he said, have you ever seen her mount? It's a real hoot. It makes you laugh to watch this little girl mount her horse. Well, he realized then that there was a reason she showed up already mounted, that she did not know how to mount properly. And so, come to find out, the way she would mount is she would pull her horse because she was a short little thing. She would pull her horse alongside of a little structure, and she would climb up on the structure and then just roll over onto the horse, onto the back of the horse. And so there was no skill in this. She was just getting there. And so when her instructor found out she was taking a shortcut and doing wrong, the very next day that they showed up and he showed up for writing lessons, she was there at the place they were to meet, and she was already mounted. And in his most commanding voice as a soldier, he commanded her dismount. And she just sat there and refused to dismount because she knew she didn't know how to mount. And he said again, but this time a more firm voice, dismount. So she said, no, thank you. And he said a third time, dismount. She said, I don't think I'm interested in riding today. And he said, I said dismount. He would not let her leave the site till she dismounted. So she climbed off of the horse, and he said, now mount. And he realized that she thought because I'm too short, she thought she had to get on the horse all by herself. And she knew she couldn't do it because she was of small stature. And so she said, I cannot mount. And he said, yes, you can. And he said, you put one foot in that stirrup. So she put her left foot in the stirrup to mount. And he said, all you have to do is put your foot in the stirrup. That lets me know you're ready to mount. Now, notice this. She had to take an action to show she's ready. That's what faith is. We're not doing the work. We're taking an action to show God we're ready to. For him to perform. When we take that first step, all God's wanting us to do is put our foot in the stirrup to show him we're ready for his movement. So she puts her foot in that stirrup. And to her surprise, he told her, all I need you to do is spring up. You don't just stand there like dead weight, but spring up. And she found that when she springed up, he grabbed her other foot and he, with his ability, he placed her in that seat. And she realized, all I have to do is show I'm ready and make movement. And then the instructor came along and he added his ability. And that it was his ability that put her in the saddle. It was not her ability that put her in the saddle. It was her action that showed the instructor, I'm ready for you to put me in the saddle. This is what the act of faith is. It's us showing God we're ready. It's not us doing the work. It's he will give us a command. And when we make movement to fill that command, then he adds his ability to our action. And we spring into the place of victory, not because we did it, but because we had enough faith to take the first action to show him we're ready. Now, this is what Jesus. This is what Mary understood. She said to those servants at the wedding that day. She said, whatsoever he tells you to do, do it. Now, what he told them to do was something they could do, which was this. Fill the pots with water. Now, that was not impossible. That was completely possible for them to do right. Why he did not tell them to turn the water into wine. That wasn't their part. Their part was to show him they're ready for the water to become something different. Now, they didn't understand what he was going to do. I know that. But he understood what he was going to do. So he gave them their part so that he could then add his part. This is where most people miss it. They want God to do his part without them doing their part. So what am I saying to you as one in Christ, he has a part and we have a part. Whenever we do our part, then he comes alongside and he supplies his part. What's our part? Put the foot in the stirrup and spring. What's that mean? Be ready for action. Don't settle down and think you're not going to go any further. But just give God action. And when you do, he will empower that action with his ability, and you will arrive at the fulfillment of your miracle. So Jesus told these servants, fill the pots with water. Now, this was no small task. And let me say it this way. It wasn't a convenient task. These pots are not made out of plastic like ours are today. They were clay pots. They're heavy. They didn't. I don't. I doubt that they moved the pots. They probably hauled water to the pots. These pots, they say, would have been containers that held about 30 gallons of water. That's a lot. Can you imagine the weight that they're dealing with? They've got to haul it from a different place, from a different location. And he said, fill the pots with water. When you study this, different ones, different theologians have said these pots were used for people to wash in when they would arrive. They might wash their feet, they might wash their hands. These were washing pots. But something just as daily as you would use as a washing pot became a miracle flow. So when they filled the pots with water, can you think of it that those servants would have thought, they're out of wine. Why are we filling pots with water? What sense does this make? And were they complaining every step of the way? We don't know. But we know this. They filled the pots with water. Can I say this? Just do what he says without complaint. It makes the doing easier. Right? I wonder if they would have thought, he's crazy. Why is he filling pots, telling us to fill the pots with water? Notice he didn't fill the pot. He stood there and watched their obedience. He gave them something to obey, then waited for their obedience to be fulfilled. Many times people think they're waiting on God to move, and he's waiting on our obedience to be completed. Why? So that his part could come into play. He cannot and will not do our part. We cannot do his part, but he won't do our part. And so he watched, waiting for their obedience. And as their obedience was completed, then he brought his part. What was it? He spoke words. He said, draw out of that pot and go give it to the governor of the feast. And if I was one of those servants, I might have thought, you give it to him. You know, they didn't know. He didn't say to them, this is going to become wine. He did not tell the way this was going to be met. He just. What's this mean? He doesn't have to tell you everything for you to obey him. He doesn't have to tell us everything for us to believe him. He did not lay out the steps. He bypassed all natural law. No grapevine was planted, no grapes were grown, no grapes were harvested, no grapes were fermented. He bypassed all of it. And they had no idea how he was going to do it. But his words were his part. What did he do? He said, now draw out of that pot and go take it to the governor of the feast. Why? He was not looking for credit. If he were looking for credit for himself, he would have done it. But he was ready for the servants to show in the privilege of this miracle. Isn't that wonderful of him? He involves us in a miracle flow and then rewards us for getting involved. It's amazing. And so this is what heaven will do. When you need a miracle, heaven is always going to give you something to obey. And you say, I can't do it. Listen, remember what the woman who had a great debt to pay her husband was a prophet of God and he had died. And she's trying to pay off his debts. And they're coming to take her sons into as prisoners until the debt is paid off. Not only is she now under debt, she's in jeopardy of her sons being imprisoned. And so the prophet, she goes to the prophet and tells her situation. And what does he do? He says, go borrow pots from your neighbors. Now notice this. He didn't give her something impossible. He gave her something she could do. He was telling her, put your foot in the stirrup. And when she went and gathered pots, then he spoke words and he said, keep pouring the amount of oil that you have. Just keep pouring it into all those pots you gathered. And as much as she gathered, that's how much flowed. So notice it wasn't God who determined how much oil flowed. It was her that determined by how much she gathered, how many pots she gathered up. When she ran out of pots, the flow stopped. Notice this, if you will. Just keep pouring, the supply will keep coming.
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Thank you, Father.
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You know, I can't tell you the number of times I just get. I'll just get up and say to the staff, my financial office, pay that, pay that, pay that. And I watch God fill the accounts back up. I don't have it all in hand, but I do have a supply in hand. Amen. All I do is pour out of the account, pour out of the account, pour out of the account. Many want the account full before they'll pour out of it. Just keep pouring out of the account the way God tells you to. And as you do, he'll keep filling it back up. That's what happened with this widow woman and all of her debts were paid off and her sons were rescued from being imprisoned. What did God do? He gave her something to obey. This is what Jesus did He gave the servants at that wedding something to obey. And this is what Mary did with Jesus. She put a demand on him to say something. Because when he says something, something's going to be worked. So notice this. When God commands something of you, it's because he intends to work something through you. So don't ever be afraid to step out into obedience of what he tells you to do, because he intends to fill your action with his ability. This is what in Christ includes, that you obey and he does the work. Amen. Amen. That way we can never take credit for ourselves. Can I tell you this? Never take credit in your prayer life. I prayed this through for them. I prayed, and this is what God did. Don't ever take credit. All you did was put your foot in the stirrup. All you did was your natural part. And he filled that prayer with his divine ability and he meets the needs. Never take credit for anything. If God's going to trust you with his anointing and his ability. Amen. Mary gave put a demand on Jesus. Say something to these servants. And she told the servants, whatever he tells you to do, do it. Meaning this. What he tells you to do might not make sense, but do it anyway. Amen. God delights in using things that don't make sense to bring miracles out of them. What is it? He uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. Amen. So we see this, that if we're going to move in Christ, that He intends to fill our movement with Him. So he gives us something to obey. Now I want to go back here to Colossians, chapter 2, verse 9. Let's read it again. For in Christ, there is all of God in a human body. So you have everything when you have Christ. And you are filled with God through your union with Christ. Notice this. You're filled with God. You're not filled with you. You don't want to be filled with you. You ain't enough. We ain't enough, right? Not at all. So what are we? We're the glove. If we could say it this way. He's the hand that goes in the glove and gives all the movement. And all the success to that glove comes from the hand. No glove. If a glove could talk, it could never say laying on the shelf. Look what I accomplished. You didn't accomplish anything. You got moved upon. A hand went in you. And this is what acts chapter 17, Paul says, for in him we live, in him we move. And in him we have our being. What's this mean? As one In Christ, we are simply the vessel that he fills up with his movement. And when we respond and obey him, then his movement comes into play and miracles are the result, not because of us, but because of who's in us. You're full of Him. Amen. To be in Christ what that means oh my goodness. Only the Holy Ghost could ever unfold that to us in a measure. And I don't believe on this side of the veil that we'll ever really see totally all that that means. But let's go ahead and draw on as much as you want. Amen. Don't limit God. Just keep drawing. Just keep leaning, keep responding. Whenever you come up against something difficult, say in Christ that need is met. In Christ, I have all the money I need to meet that need. In Christ, I have all the healing power I need for that physical condition. In Christ is all the health flowing to run every symptom out of my body. If you'll talk about in Christ, then everything that is not of him has to leave. It has to leave because of him, who is being put in motion by your faith. Your faith invites his movement. He cannot move apart from our invitation. Can I tell you what our faith is? It's an open door, that's what. Our faith doesn't heal us, he heals us. But faith opens the door for his grace and his power to flow and meet the need. Amen. Well, we're learning and you don't want to miss next time because we're going to continue this direction. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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