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Nancy Dufresne
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 to Jesus the Healer. We're so glad to have you with us. And we are in the midst of a scene that I am enjoying so much. And I trust you're getting answers for your life. And listen, these things of the Word, aren't they thrilling? I mean, I love something that dad Hagin used to say to us. He said, it's when you get thrilled with the Word that it works for you. Amen. That means it lands on the inside of you. And we're trusting that this Word is taking root in you. And in this series, we're ministering about who we are in Christ and what belongs to us and what that in Christ, life looks like. And we're certainly not trying to think that we could articulate everything that that holds, but we're just following the Holy Ghost on what he's spotlighting. Because as we follow him, we know this, you're getting answers. And that's what we want. Answers for your life. And the Holy Spirit is catering these episodes to you. And so we invite you have ears that hear, recognize, and discern when an answer is coming your way. I remember something years ago. I was going through one test in particular, and I really. It was a unique situation for me, and I really did not know the specific answer to that, of what the Word had to say about it. So I gave as general as of an answer as I knew. But I realized I don't know enough about how to answer this situation. And so one day in the middle of all of that, I was. If I could say it, I was keeping my spiritual antenna up. God, how do I deal with this? And some friends came over, some minister friends, and the husband was talking with my husband, and the wife and I were sitting alone and talking, and she. She referred to a book, and she said, have you ever read and she named a book. And I said, yes, I've read it. I said, in fact, I have it in my library, but I probably haven't read it probably in eight to 10 years. But I do remember, I mean it was an important book. It was just by someone who had a rich fellowship with God. And when they said, do you have this book? And they listed it on the inside of me, I perceived my answer's in that book. See, God didn't say the answer you're looking for is in that book. I just perceived that when she said that, that the anointing on the inside of me started responding. So I call it this, connect the dots. That when something like that is stated and you sense that anointing, ah, something was just said that that anointing responded to. So I proceed, I go, I sense that that answer for me is in that book. Well, my husband and I were getting ready to leave on a trip the next day. So as I was packing, I just went and grabbed that book and threw it in my carry on bag. And while we were on the airplane, I just pulled that book out and I read through it. And it wasn't a thick book, it was maybe 65 pages or so. And I was reading through the whole book and there was nothing in it that spoke specifically to what I was facing. Until I got to the very last page. On the last page, this writer answered exactly, described exactly what I was facing and the answer of the word to that. And I go, there's my answer. And the moment on the inside of me, see, I discerned, that's my answer. There came a thought. I mean it was literally almost, it wasn't audible, but it was real. And said, that's not your answer. That's not going to, that's not going to address your situation. And when I heard that I'm considering what am I hearing? And then the Holy Ghost within me spoke and says, don't let go of your answer. When you, when the Holy Ghost offers us our answer and we perceive that's the answer of my situation, know this, the devil's going to try to talk you out of the application of what you just heard. He doesn't want you to arrive at your answer. So what's that mean? In these episodes, perceive your answer. And then as you say, that speaks to my need. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about you hearing an audible voice or something spectacular, but you perceive that's my answer for this situation I'm facing. Be Certain that you don't neglect to apply that, because the devil certainly wants you to let that answer slip from your remembrance. So that's why I say, when we are filming these episodes and you're watching them write down things God would say to you, because you're perceiving answers for your life. And sometimes an answer is landing in you that the need for it hasn't shown up yet. I have been. I have been in situations, in settings, in stores, and I will see a piece of furniture and I go on the inside of me something, get that. And I go, I don't have a place for that. I like it. I don't even have a place for that. But I went ahead and got it. And later something showed up. I mean, part of our California studio, part of the furnishings in that is when I was in a store and I didn't know we were going to have a studio and I saw that table that I teach from and I had a perception, get that. And then I said, I don't need it. I don't have anywhere to put it. I like it. I don't even know where it's going to go. And then a couple months later, oh, we have a studio now, we need to furnish it. And there it is. God does that with answers for your life. Before a need shows up, he will give you the answer if you'll perceive it and go, I'm going to store that up. I'm going to need that down the road. God wants you to perceive that he keeps you the head and not the tail. What's that mean? In front of situations, so that when a need shows up, he's already stocked the shelf of your life with the answer. If you perceived it when you heard it and didn't let go of it, just because the need for that answer wasn't immediate, does that make sense to you? That's why I say take note of things. Because God will give you answers before needs. And that is God's divine way of fulfilling his covenant with you. Because he said, I'll make you the head and not the tail. Think of a dog. A head comes in the room first. The tail's the last thing that comes in the room, Right? God does not want us to be the last one to know. He doesn't want us to be cleaning up behind what the devil's doing. That's called being the tail. We're not just running around cleaning up after this crisis and that crisis. And while we're cleaning that one up, another one, erupts, that's called living like the tail. We're to be the head. What's that mean? In front of. In front of situations, not behind them. In front of them. So as we perceive our answers and recognize that's an answer I'm going to need for my life. Be sensitive. Can I tell you something people will ask? How do you become sensitive to perceive that God is offering you answers? How do you become sensitive to that? Two ways. Number one, feeding on the word. Number two, praying in the Holy Ghost, speaking in other tongues makes your spirit sensitive to the Holy Spirit. And you can just sense when he prompts you a certain direction. You catch that. You don't let that get by you. And so by feeding on the Word, speaking in other tongues, you make yourself sensitive, your own spirit sensitive to the Holy Spirit within you. And it's the Holy Spirit that, if I could say this, it's. You're perceiving his movement in you. You're perceiving, ah, there was a quickening right there by the Spirit when I heard that verse. I'm going to remember that verse. I'm going to need that verse. In fact, I'm going to get on that verse right now and I'm going to start declaring that today. And you don't even know sometimes why this is called being the head and not the tail. And can I tell you what belongs to you in Christ? The head, not the tail. Amen. We're not the devil's cleanup crew going around cleaning up the messes he's made, just trying to hold our lives together. That's right. That's the wrong direction to live in. So as we're sensitive to the Holy Ghost, as we lean on the Holy Ghost, he will put us in front of things. Now, In John, chapter 16, it talks about around. In verses 13, 14, 15, 16, around in there talks about that the Holy Ghost will show you things to come. Isn't that right? Do you know that that's one of your privileges in Christ, that you are not out of the know, but you're in the know, so to speak. That you are. That the. That the future is not catching you off guard. That doesn't mean God's going to show you everything. It means he will show you what you need to know. Why? So that you can properly prepare. You know, when my children were born, even before my oldest son was born, God spoke to my husband and I and said that he was called to the traveling ministry. And you know, that would be either an apostle, a prophet, an evangelist, A teacher. And that wouldn't be a pastor, because a pastor, primarily, he's not a traveling ministry. He's a local man. So when God said that to us, that was well before Stephen ever would step into his role in the ministry. But what was that? God put us in front of that. Why? So we would know how to train him. Then when my second son was 10 days old, God spoke to me and said, pastor. Well, recently, at the age of 30, he stepped into pastoring our church. How were we able to train him that direction? Because we were in front, hearing, and God showing us things to come, put us in front so that we knew how to raise them up. Amen. What direction to emphasize in their life. So we know this, that as we lean upon the Holy Ghost, he will show us things to come. Now listen to this word lean. When we lean on the Holy Ghost, acknowledge him, respond to him. That's one way we are living as one in Christ. We recognize that we have divine help. Who's leading us, guiding us. My husband and I had gone many times overseas preaching in other countries. And when you get there, you recognize because you don't know the language, you feel very dependent upon, especially one person, the interpreter, whoever's going to not just translate your services, but who's going to read the menu at the restaurant to you. Because there were times that we would travel sometimes with a group and who was, you know, interpreting and translating for us. They would go to the restaurant with us and they would just start at the top and they would start reading off the menu line, the menu items to us, you know, and we stuck very close to the interpreter. At that time, when we would be doing any sightseeing or traveling from one location to the next. The most important person in the group was not always the pastor at that time. It was the person who knew the language, who knew the language of that land and who knew our language well. We need to know how God talks. We need to learn how he talks. And the Holy Spirit will lead us. He will guide us. And we. The more we enjoyed our trip was more we knew what was going on around us because we were listening to our interpreter talk to us good, right? Even so, we are not foreigners in heaven. This land is foreign soil. Our homeland is heaven. This earth is not homeland. Heaven is homeland. We have to see this as foreign soil. And because of that, we need someone who will guide us. Our guide in those foreign lands knew where to took. Knew where to take us. We never once decided to venture out on our own without Our guide, our tour guide. When we were in other countries, we wanted to. We wanted to enjoy our trip. So that meant we had a guide we followed. Well, I want you to know the Holy Ghost is our divine guide that belongs to us in Christ. And the closer we follow the guide, the more we'll enjoy the journey on this earth. Now, I said this part of the role of the Holy Spirit. He leads. Now, we can follow or we cannot follow. He will always lead. But it's not his job to make us follow. It's our job to choose to follow the One in the lead. When my mother would go into a grocery store, and especially if there were the four of us with her, she would say, it is not my job to keep up with you. It is your job to stick with me. I will not have you wandering up and down different aisles. You stay with me. And if you're lost, that's because you left me. It's not my job to find you, it's your job to find me. If you get separated, what was she saying? That it was our responsibility. So we have a responsibility to follow the One who's responsible to lead us. Amen. Now, why do we want to follow the lead? Because then we know where to lean. Don't lean on something that God is not using to lead you. God is not leading you through finances. Don't lean on them. God's not leading you through humans. Don't lean on them. God is leading you through his own divine genius who's on the inside of you. Lean on God. Lean on the Word. Lean on the Holy Ghost. Lean on who you are in Christ. When things change, that reveals who you were leaning on. Every transition in your life shows and reveals what you've been leaning on or who you've been leaning on. If you become unhappy with someone because they didn't do something for you, that shows you were leaning on them. Amen. We should never become unhappy with people because they should never be our leaning place. Now, people will bless our lives, but God did not put them in our lives for us to lean on them. Why? We are to trust in the Lord with all of our heart. We don't trust in people. We don't trust in resources. What about if there is a layoff at your job and they come and say, we're closing down your department? How you respond to that shows who you're leaning on. Are you leaning on your paycheck? Are you leaning on an employer? Are you leaning on a company? Are you leaning on the government? My goodness, Don't. Don't. A government's not a parent. Amen. Don't lean on anything that's not big enough to deliver you. That's why God in His word is the only worthy place to recline. Now, we need to lean in such a way that if he did not come through, which is impossible for that to happen, that we don't have another route, we don't have another place we're looking to. Amen. But when we lean fully upon him, we receive full provision. Now, you have to practice making sure you're leaning on the right place. Sometimes others want us to lean on them so that they can feel good about themselves. But you are no one's savior. Don't ever set yourself up to be a leaning place. You know, even as my children got older, there are certain things I put back on them. I'm not your provider. I'll believe God with you. But don't come to me looking for God to. Looking for me. To supply your need, you have to learn how to lean on God. And if you hand everything to those around you and you don't teach them to use your own faith, you're teaching people to lean on the wrong thing. And you say, well, my children can always lean on me. Well, that's not safe. What if my husband had said that? And one day he's here and one day he's not, then he left his children without a place to lean. If that's what he would have taught them, he didn't teach them that. We taught him. There's one place you lean, and that's the unchanging place, the one who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if people are hurt in life by other people, many times it's because they were leaning on them and they put their expectation on them. And when somebody didn't come through for them, then they became unhappy and sometimes for years, and became offended. Well, the problem is we shouldn't have been leaning on someone who was not the proper support. The proper support is only who we are in Christ, him and who he is in us and through us. Amen. Now, when my husband went home to be with the Lord, as I've said at different times, I've shared different aspects of things we. We had to deal with during that season. My husband was a man of action. He was a man that was always building, always doing something. And he had eight projects, large projects that were unfinished at the time of his transition to heaven. And we did not. I did not know quite all the details. Of what he was involved in, because he's the one that handled so much of the business. So I told the staff, I said, if you remember or know of some project that I'm not aware of, let me know, you know. So some would say, well, I remember he was involved in this, or he had this going on, and, you know, we would address those things. But one day, one of the staff members came to me and said, pastor Nancy, I remember something. Now, this was in February. They came to me. My husband went home to be with the Lord in the previous October, so about five months or so before. And they came to me in February and said, I remember something. I said, what is it? They said, $500,000 is due on July 1 for some property. I said, okay, now, that wasn't the only money due, so don't think that that's the only financially thing that we were responsible for. There was more. And I said, okay, that $500,000 is owed July 1st. Yes. By who? By the ministry. Yeah. Or by this girl. She said, personally, you I go praise the Lord. Now. I said to God, right then when that person walked out of the room, I said, you have an answer for this. You have a supply for this. Now all I need to do is hear my part. Amen. What is my part? I know faith is my part. But sometimes he will say, do this, do that. Because when I hear how he's leading me, I'm hearing his wisdom. And wisdom is the principal thing. When I get the wisdom, I've got the principal thing. I've got all I need. So I said to him, what do I do? And this was his answer. Nothing. Ah, other projects, he gave me assignments. There were steps I had to take. But this one, he said, don't do anything. Can I tell you this? It almost took more faith to do nothing than to put my hand to something. Because we always want to feel like we're addressing a need, right? And I would check, and it wasn't a voice that I heard. It was a sense, don't do anything. Wow, wow, wow. Do I need to. It was a loan that was coming due. Do I need to see if I can extend that loan? Do I need to see if I can get another loan to pay off that loan? I was looking at just naturally, what options could I take? And then God said, don't do anything. Wow. Okay. And so March I did nothing. April, I did nothing. And I'm thinking to myself, I know of one avenue that possibly that money could come through, but I will not Attach my faith to any avenue. Why is that? Avenues are what God uses to meet needs. Avenues are not the provider. They're channels. I do not attach my faith ever to a channel. My faith is attached to God who uses channels, God who uses avenues. But avenues are not the landing pad, the landing place for your faith. Never attach your faith to an avenue or channel. You know your paycheck is an avenue. It's an avenue God will use to bless your life, but it's not the source. God's your source. God's your provider. You might have a business. That's not your avenue. That's an avenue. Excuse me. That's your avenue, but that's not where your faith is to be attached to. So I knew of one avenue. But I told God the day my husband left, my faith will never be in any avenue that you use or don't use. Therefore, I don't care which avenue you use, because I'm not attaching faith to any avenue. My faith is attached to you, the provider. You're the source that uses any avenue you want. And I'm not going to limit you to an avenue just by what I know. I don't know enough to limit God. That's right. So I knew of one avenue, only one that could have been a sufficient avenue. We came to June 1, and I received a phone call from my attorney. And he said, nancy, he said, we were anticipating that this one avenue would pay out a certain amount of money and that would have taken care of this financial responsibility. And he said, what? We heard from them today, and that is closed down, that's not any longer in place. I said, okay, this is, mind you, one month before the money's due. And I said, God, you said, don't do anything. Is that still the instruction? And I sent, nothing's changed. I said, no problem. I did not become untroubled when I heard that avenue changed. Why? Because I had no faith on the avenue. What you're leaning on, what you're leaning on will be revealed. And so I refused to worry. I refused. I refused to touch it. In my thought life, I refused to touch it. And one week later, the attorney called me back and he said, nancy, he said, I decided that company was not going to do you that way. And. And all week long I've been working on them. He said, tomorrow you'll receive a check for half a million dollars. Now the devil was able to adjust avenues. Why, if he could have gotten me in worry, in fear, and gotten me speaking words of doubt, words of fear that avenue would have been eternally closed down. But because I refused to worry. Why I had no faith in the avenue in Christ. I lean only on him. And God was able to open that back up because faith was still in place. Why my faith was on Him, I'm not congratulating me and my faith. He's the place I lean. Amen. You have the perfect place to rely on, the perfect place to lean on. Amen. God who? In Jesus, in Christ, the same yesterday, today, forever. Well, you don't want to miss next time. 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 in this book, Responding to the.
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Holy Spirit, Nancy Dufresne instructs us how to properly respond to God and the moving of His Spirit. Order this book now@DefrainMinistries.org if you need prayer, please call our prayer line. We have trained ministers on staff who are ready to agree with you for your miracle. 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.
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Nancy Dufresne
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