← 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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Narrator/Announcer
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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Nancy Dufresne
I receive it right now from the.
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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. We are continuing with a series that we've been on for a while, and it's called In Christ We Can do it. And we're. And not only that, not only in Christ can we do it, but in Christ we have it all. I tell you to realize what all belongs to us in Christ. It's so vast that it's. This world will not be able to give us enough time to search it all out. It's going to be carried off into eternity. We're still going to be learning all that Christ made available to us. Now think of this. Ephesians 1:3. The King James translation says, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us. Look at this. With all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, or because we're in Christ Jesus, this all belongs to us. My favorite translation of this verse is the Norlie translation, and it says, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with everything that heaven itself enjoys. My, my, my. What is heaven enjoying right now that belongs to us here? That's because we're in Christ. Meaning this. We don't have to wait till we go there to live there. We can live on this earth, everything that heaven is enjoying. But notice this. Even when we get to heaven, we're going to see more than we ever realized heaven held. And we're still going to be enjoying the who we are in Christ up there in eternity, right in heaven. So in Christ holds so much for us that if we were to teach from now till the end of time on this earth, we could never exhaust all that it holds for us. We have invited you to go to our website@jesusstheheater.org and download just some in what we call in Him Scriptures. Why do we want you to get hold of these? It's called homework. We want you to download these documents and listen. Print them out. They're free of charge. We have an abbreviated collection of them. And then we have also the full collection. I don't know, about 130, 140 Scriptures that refer to in Him. In whom? In Christ. Who, through him, through Whom. All of these phrases reveal to us who he is in us and who we are in Him. So if you'll feed on these things, meditate on them, get them in your spirit. Can I tell you what it will be? The end of a poor self image. When we just try to conduct living based on ourselves, we're robbed from. Because we listen. We have to remember what the Word says, that old things are passed away. Behold, all things become new when we become born again. Why is that? Because we become new creatures. Look at this. In Christ, everything He is is available to us here and now. The life Jesus lived was to demonstrate what the new creature in Christ can accomplish. And so when we find out who we are in Christ, it changes everything. Amen. And when we let that dominate us, instead of reaching back into ourselves to find help for this life, we're going to come up short every time. But when we draw on who he is, how do we draw on who he is in us? Number one, obey Him. When he gives us something to do, the way we respond to him is respond to what he's commanding of our life. Amen. So do you know that when we yield to love, we're yielding and responding to the greater One in us? Because the love of God on the inside of us is not human love. It's divine love. All the fruits of the Spirit, they are the attributes of God and they are resident in us. When we yield to the fruits of the Spirit, we're yielding to the greater One in us. We're walking and living as one in Christ. And the Word calls that walking in the Spirit. Praise God. Amen. And so there is such a vast, unsearchable treasure on the inside of us. Because he's in us now. Let's not live just off the surface of our flesh, the surface of our emotions. Let's draw down deep to where the treasure is. Amen. And learn to yield. Learn to respond. And like I said, how do we respond to him who's in us? Obey Him. Obey Him. Be a doer of the Word. Every time we're doing the Word, we're drawing on Christ. Why? Because Jesus Was the Word made flesh. And when we become a doer of the Word, then we are living as one in Christ. When we don't do the Word, you know what we're going to end up doing? Our emotions, our feelings, our circumstances. So doing the Word automatically throws us into the flow of drawing on Christ. Amen. Because Jesus is the Word made flesh. And so we're talking about, and we're just, if I could say this, we're following the Holy Ghost in articulating and uttering some of these things because only these things of who we are in Christ. This, oh my goodness, this life giving flow, we can only search it out by the Holy Ghost. He's the revealer of who we are in Christ and what that means. It's so vast that we need divine, a divine teacher, a divine guide to lead us into the wealth of what it means to be in Christ. Amen. He will take of these truths and he shows them to us. It's called revelation. Right? Paul made this statement and it wasn't really a statement, it was a prayer that he prayed. And if we'll look at that in Ephesians chapter one and I'm going to start reading in verse 16, Paul prayed this for the different churches and it's, thank God it's recorded for us. Learn to pray scriptural prayers. What's that mean? Go to the epistles. The first four books of the New Testament are called the Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Those are written about Jesus earthly ministry. But the books after those four gospels are written to the church. That's you in that, that's where you want to draw your prayer, prayer life from. If you don't, if we don't pray based on the Word, you know what we're going to pray based on what we think of. And brother, that's going to miss the Mark every time. That's going to cheat what God offers us. So Ephesians 1:16. This is a spirit inspired prayer by the Holy Ghost. What's that mean? That means that there's always life in it. Anything that came out of the Spirit is to be repeated time and time and time again. Do you know, I can tell the difference between sermons that I wrote and sermons the Spirit gave. Because the sermons that the Spirit gives are to be preached over and over and over because you never run out of revelation that those sermons contain. If a person, me or any other preacher, we just write a sermon of our own intellect that can hardly stand one preaching, you know, but when the Spirit gives it, you cannot exhaust the revelation that something that comes out of him holds. And this prayer that was given to Paul, he prayed it, and no doubt it was a spirit inspired prayer. And he said it in Ephesians 1, verse 16. I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. And this is what he prayed. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Look at this. The Spirit of wisdom. Well, where's that from? It's God. It's his wisdom that when we start partaking of the flow of wisdom, we just touched into the mind of God, because all wisdom finds its source in him. And the Spirit of God, who knows the mind of God, takes of God's own wisdom and he gives it to us. Now notice the wording here. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom. This is not something we earn. You can't study it out enough. Even in our studies we have to depend on the Holy Ghost who takes the mind of the Father, takes the wisdom of God and unveils it, reveals it to us. So the wording here that is given is that or that Paul used is that God would give unto you the spirit of wisdom. And look at this revelation. What's revelation? Something revealed. The Spirit of God will reveal something. Can I tell you that when you have something revealed to you, that's the end of struggle. Amen. When I hear from God, that's a revelation. When the Spirit of God takes of the wisdom of God and makes it known to me for my situation, I have my answer. Right. Then is the end of struggle. That test is over. Because revelation is a revealing of what God knows about your situation. And when you understand that and you act on that, you spend that revelation in the face of opposition. It dismantles all opposition. I don't even remember in this series if I've told you about this, but even if I have, we're going to tell it again. I Several years ago, God spoke to me about sowing a particular seed, an amount of money. And I did. And after I sowed it. See, the devil doesn't just fight you before you sow, he'll fight you after you sow. Why? Because he wants to affect your faith, your faith to sow and your faith after sowing. Why? Because we always sow in faith. But we're also going to reap a harvest in faith. So we need faith before the seed and faith after. After the seed is sown. And so the devil. I've learned this. When God tells me to give something, the quicker I give it, the less time the devil has to try to talk me out of giving it, Right? So just do yourself a favor and respond quickly because then you bypass that opposition of trying to talk you out of sowing. But I found this out in a whole particular way, is that after I had sown, there came such an attack on my mind, a threat. And so because. And it was associated with that seed that I had sown. So I learned this. Anytime the devil speaks something to my mind, I answer it. I talk back. And I talk back as specifically as I know how to. So, for example, you say, what do you mean, Pastor Nancy, by answering specifically? Well, if the devil were to threaten you and say you're going to lose your home, don't just say, devil, the Lord loves me. Well, that's good, but that's pretty general. Faith becomes specific, and you have to answer specifically in line with the threat. So if the devil were to threaten you, suggesting you're going to lose your home, it's not enough to say, the Lord loves me and I love the Lord. Those things are true. But that's not the answer for this. And so you would answer something like, no weapon formed against me will prosper. My God supplies all my need. My home is blessed and I'll never lose it. And you don't make that confession from a flow of fear. You make that confession from a flow of faith in the word of God. But what I am saying to you is you become specific in your answers. Because when people answer too generally, many times it's a sign. They generally don't know much about that, about that word. So the more specific you are, it shows knowledge, it shows skill. So when I had sown this seed, the devil opposed after I sowed, and so he would threaten me about that seed, I would answer him because I answered him as specifically as I knew. And this is the way I would answer him. Devil, God told me to give that seed. I had peace about sowing that seed. And anything I have peace about that's acted upon is safe. You're safe in following peace. How do we know this? Because Isaiah talks about, they shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace. Sometimes when God tells me to do something and I act on it, I didn't hear that in words. I just had a peace about it. And that's what I tell the devil. I had peace about that. That Means I had the way the Holy Ghost leads. The Holy Ghost leads through peace. So I had the leading of the Spirit through peace. And I'm always safe in following peace. That's how I answered him. I said, God told me to give that seed. I obeyed. I'm on safe territory obeying God. I had peace about giving that seed. That means it was leading of the Spirit. I didn't miss God. And I would answer it as specifically as I knew when I would answer it, that spirit threatening, that would stand back. That meant the immediate pressure left. But I could sense that it didn't. It backed off, but it didn't leave the room. If I could say it that way, I could still sense it was present, although it wasn't immediately the pressure on my mind. But I could sense it was still in the room. I would stand back and about a week or two weeks later it speak again. I'd answer it again, it would stand back, but it didn't leave. After about a month or two of this, I remember where I was in a hotel room and that thing came back again, said the exact same thing. Now I've learned this with the discipline of the thought life is that you cannot let your mind touch into certain threats of the enemy. When he threatens you, you better make sure you don't turn that threat over in your mind. Now, you can't keep threats and suggestions of the enemy from coming, but you can keep them out of your mind. That's right. Now you're going to have to make a very disciplined action on your side to not turn that over. Because if I could say, when bombarding thoughts are coming, does it take effort to keep those out of your thought life? It sure does. You have to pay attention on purpose. You have to fill your thoughts with something other than what's threatening you. That's right. And you can't try to get rid of a thought or outthink a thought. My goodness, I tried that for years, years ago. That doesn't work. You cannot outthink a wrong thought. You do. You try to outthink it and you'll find yourself entrenched in it. That's a good word. You have to speak God's word and you have to absolutely turn your back on what that threat is suggesting to you. In Christ, you behave as he did Jesus when he was threatened. He turned his back to things in the wilderness of temptation, Satan threatened him. And what did Jesus say? Get thee behind me. What's he mean? I refuse to keep you in front of my focus. In other words, my attention is completely off of you. You're behind me. I will not turn and face the this threat. I keep it behind me. What's that mean? I refuse to keep it in view. I refuse to keep it in my hearing. I refuse to keep it in my eyes. You get behind me. That's what Jesus did. When you're in Christ, you do what he did. Then he also did this, Peter. He was telling the disciples, I'm going to be offered up. He was talking about he would become the sacrifice. Of course they didn't understand that. And you wouldn't have either if you had been in the crowd that day. Because we understand the price Jesus paid simply because we have the entire New Testament to feed on. They didn't have that. So they did not understand fully what he was talking about. And so all they heard is Jesus is thinking something bad's fixing to happen to him. And Peter, ever ready to support Jesus, says Jesus, not you. He meant that from the right place, but it was the wrong words. It lacked revelation. So Jesus basically took him aside and said, get thee behind me, Satan. In other words, Jesus recognized that through the affections Peter had for Jesus, the devil was speaking words through those affections to try to get him off course of paying the price. Satan was always trying to get Jesus to keep from shedding his blood. He was offering Jesus really what Jesus ended up with and what the plan of God was. What is that? Remember in the wilderness. Temptation, Satan. One of the threats, the temptations that he offered Jesus was if you'll just bow down and worship me once, all the kingdoms of the world will be yours. Listen, all the kingdoms of the world are his. I'm talking about right now, Jesus. The government's on his shoulders, right? So Jesus, by becoming the sacrifice, would end up with everything. But Satan was trying to offer it to him without blood. I'll give it to you without blood. He offered him a bloodless lordship. And that wasn't God's plan. Jesus arrived there to where the government's on his shoulders. But notice this, he was not willing to bypass and go the shortcut. The Devil will offer you a shortcut, but you're going to compromise something. You will not end up with all God planned and you won't arrive the route you were supposed to take. What's that mean? The devil will offer you relief as long as you never get victory. So good he doesn't want you. He didn't want Jesus ending up with it all. He wanted still control, you see. So when Peter hears. Jesus said, I'm going to be offered up. Peter, in his affection for Jesus, he means well, thinks wrong. And the devil used his good intention to fill his mouth with words that Jesus recognized. Those aren't God's words, therefore they're an enemy to God's plan. And what did he tell Peter? He said he turned his back to him and said, get thee behind me, Satan. Now notice Jesus physically turned his back. What was he doing? He acted out in demonstration. What his attention was on, he took on in his physical action. I'm turning my back to this. That's how aggressive you have to be to say I'm turning my back to that thought. I will not let that thought in my thought life. I will not entertain it. I will not let it have a living movement in my thought life. To be in Christ, we be as him, we are to be as he acted. How did he respond? He turned his back to it. There are thoughts you must turn your back to. To keep them out of your thought life, you're going to have to fill your thoughts with something else. Now we know this now we've been raised and seated with Christ. Satan's under our feet, but we also have to keep his flow behind us. Amen. Meaning we refuse to face it in fellowship with the circumstances, listening to the circumstances, repeating the circumstances. So this is what was happening is when Satan was suggesting, the enemy was suggesting to me threats about this seed I had sown. I answered it as specifically as I knew. I did not know fully why that threat came. I didn't understand it then. Cause I obeyed God. You know, you think that the devil just wants to stop your obedience, but he wants to stop what your obedience produces. That's good. So I answered him as specifically as I knew. And after several weeks, as I said, I was in a hotel room again and that thing came back. And that spirit spoke those words again. And this time when that evil spirit spoke to me, well, what I had learned is that when the enemy would attack my mind regarding that seed, I got to where I didn't even want to touch that seed in my thought life because then it would open the door to what the threat was from the enemy. Does that make sense? Anything? I just turned my back to the whole thing. And that day, when the enemy again made that threat, this time the Holy Ghost spoke. And God said to me, ask me about that threat. Ah, I hadn't thought about that. I don't usually talk to God about what the Devil says. I just resist. But he saw I needed some further wisdom. I needed some further revelation. So I said, God, what about that threat? He said, he's threatening you regarding that seed because he does not want you to release your faith for the harvest. Because, see, he got me to where I wouldn't even the threat of the enemy got me to where I wouldn't even touch it in my thought life, just so I wouldn't open the door to that threat. But God was revealing. When you turned your attention away from that threat, you also quit releasing your faith for the harvest. And when he said to me, he said, he's sending that threat to keep you from releasing your faith for the harvest on that seed. And I said, got it. And I didn't have to say anything to the devil. I turned around, that thing was gone, and it's never been back. This is what I wanted you to see. When Paul writes in Ephesians, chapter one, you think I left Ephesians behind? It's still here. He said that God would give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation. Remember, what I said earlier in this broadcast is that when revelation comes, struggle is done. Because the revelation that God gives exposes the actions, the strategies, the devices of the enemy. And when I understood, oh, it wasn't just me standing my ground about that threat. Now I know why that threat came. To rob me of the harvest that my faith could lay hold of. And when that was revealed, then that was the end of the struggle. That's what belongs to you in Christ. Revelation. On every opposition, every test, every trial, there's revelation on how to get past that. And in Christ, revelation belongs to us. My, my, my. It's so rich. It's so good. It's so good. Amen. And this revelation belongs to us for one reason. Because we're in Him. So what's this mean? Don't rely on your own understanding. Ask him. If you're endeavoring to stand your ground and you're not getting past that opposition, ask him. He has revelation. Not that you can earn, but that he gives. Amen. Well, we don't want you to miss next time because we're going to continue along this line. 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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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 this is Nancy Dufresne inviting you to join us for our annual ladies conference right here in Murrieta, California at World Harvest Church. The dates are September 9th through the 11th, Tuesday through Thursday. To register for your attendance, go to defrainministries.org.
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Nancy Dufresne
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 through our website.
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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.
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Nancy Dufresne
My Comforter, My Counselor Advocate Intercessor My Strengthener. Instead, we invite you to join us at World Harvest church, home of Dufresne Ministries in Murietta, California. Located at 23109 Palomar Street, Marietta, California, this is a Word and Spirit church. Join us in person or online Sunday mornings at 10am and Tuesday nights at 7pm Pacific Time. For more information, go to defrainministries.org shop Nancy Dufresne's books and other products as well as Jesus the Healer merchandise on our website@jesusthehealer.org or call us at 951-696-9258 to place your order today. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at DEFENSE 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 defresne Ministries for making this production possible.