Podcast Summary: Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne

Episode 799 | In Christ I Can, Part 39
Date: July 24, 2025
Host: Nancy Dufresne (Dufresne Ministries)

Episode Overview

In this episode, Nancy Dufresne continues her teaching series on “In Christ I Can,” focusing on the reality of what it means for believers to live “in Christ”—the fullness, authority, and resources that come with that position. She emphasizes the importance of renewing the mind to the truth of what has already been provided in Christ, and how faith receives what God has already given, rather than trying to get God to do what He’s already done. The message is practical and faith-building, including teaching, stories, and prayers for those needing healing or provision.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Power and Presence of God Is Always Available

• Nancy starts by affirming that the power of God for healing is always present wherever believers are, including hospital rooms and places of sickness.
  • Notable Quote:
    • “There’s enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one... Power is present. That power is there to do a work… I receive that power right now from the top of my head, the soles of my feet.” (00:10)

Faith Comes By Hearing—And Hearing Continually

• Encourages listeners to repeatedly listen to teachings that resonate, explaining the necessity of continual “hearing” for faith to develop.
• Shares a testimony from her own life of listening to a Kenneth Hagin message up to 60 times until healing manifested.
  • Notable Quote:
    • “Full faith never comes with one hearing. We have to hear and hear because faith will continue to grow as we hear over and over.” (02:08)
• The Word works as water, cleansing lives, and repeated exposure brings deeper results (like washing a stubborn stain).

What It Means to Be “In Christ”

• To be “in Christ” is to be positioned in the unlimited—no limits on God and thus no limits on the believer.
  • Quote:
    • “To be in Christ means to be in what’s unlimited… When we start drawing on ‘in Christ’ we just drew on the limitless flow.” (05:44)
• Christ in us and us in Him—requires acknowledgment, obedience, and responsive faith.

Meditating on “In Him” Scriptures

• Nancy refers to Colossians 2 as the “golden text” for this series, particularly focusing on verses 6–10.
  • Colossians 2:6 (Living Bible): “And now, just as you trusted Christ to save you, trust him, too, for each day’s problems. Live in vital union with Him.” (07:15)
• Encourages listeners to draw nourishment and strength from Christ daily (it’s not just a Sunday thing).
• Highlights the abundance believers have: “For in Christ there is all of God in a human body… so you have everything when you have Christ.” (09:24)

God Is the Source, Not the Channel

• Shares a personal story about believing for ministry equipment and God instructing her to focus on Him as the source, not the human channel.
  • Quote:
    • “Don’t focus on that someone’s going to give it. Focus on that I already gave it… They’re simply the channel. I’m the source it came from.” (10:47)
• Reminds listeners to magnify the source (God), not the avenue through which blessings arrive.

Everything Needed Has Already Been Given

• Emphasizes the completed work—healing, provision, and every need have already been given in Christ.
• The challenge is not to get God to “send” something, but to receive what’s already given.
  • Quote:
    • “You cannot look at symptoms and be aware of your healer… Pay attention to the healer, and you won’t see health looking at symptoms.” (12:32)
• Opposition often increases as a distraction when faith begins to lay hold of what’s given, paralleling the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (14:30–16:30).

Sin and Fellowship: Nothing’s Withdrawn In Christ

• Sin doesn’t cause God to withdraw what He’s given; instead, sin takes us out of “receiving territory.”
• The solution is repentance—returning to love’s territory and discovering nothing has been lost.
  • Quote:
    • “When we repent... we’ll find that none of Him was withdrawn from us.” (18:51)

Refuse to Settle for Lack, Sickness, or Defeat

• Uses the story of the woman with the issue of blood (Mark 5) to illustrate faith that refuses to accept “what tries to live with you.”
• She received her miracle by hearing, believing, and acting—refusing to settle even after 12 years of sickness.
  • Quote:
    • “She would not accept what was trying to live with her... She kept seeking to find help. No wonder her faith was ready to receive.” (22:14)
• Time spent in struggle does not add legitimacy to lack or sickness—it’s still not rightfully yours.

On Prayer and Receiving

• Stresses that prayer should not be an effort to persuade God to act, but rather a laying hold of what’s already ours in Christ.
  • Quote:
    • “When you walk in and try to talk God into sending something, you’re demonstrating a lack of knowledge. And the devil will rob you of everything that’s already been given.” (20:12)
• The prayer of agreement adds faith to faith, but everyone involved must lay hold of God’s promises for themselves.

Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Receiving:
  • “All you have to do is perform the act of receiving what’s already been given.” (13:21)
• On Symptoms:
  • “I’ll say, too late, devil. I’ve already been given healing. Too late.” (13:59)
• On Longstanding Problems:
  • “I don’t care how long symptoms have been in your body, they’re still not yours.” (20:56)
• On the Prayer of Agreement:
  • “The prayer of agreement does not happen when someone turns their need over to someone else to pray. No, you’re still going to pray. You’re still going to believe God, but we’re just going to add our faith to you.” (25:42)

Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:10 | The power of God is present for healing—wherever you are | | 02:08 | The importance of continual hearing for faith | | 05:44 | Exploring the meaning of “in Christ”—limitless supply | | 07:15 | Colossians 2:6–10 as “golden text”—vital daily union with Christ | | 10:47 | Story on God as the source vs. the human channel | | 12:32 | Fixing attention on the healer, not the symptoms | | 14:30 | Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—opposition increases as faith draws from God | | 18:51 | Sin, repentance, and nothing being withdrawn from believers | | 20:12 | On not trying to talk God into sending what He’s already provided | | 22:14 | The woman with the issue of blood—refusing to settle for sickness | | 25:42 | The true meaning of the prayer of agreement—faith must be personal | | 26:40 | Closing faith declaration and corporate prayer |

Tone & Takeaway

Nancy Dufresne’s tone is warm, instructive, and faith-building, mixing practical teaching with exhortation and encouragement. She repeatedly stresses that believers should approach prayer and needs from a place of completed work—God’s provision for healing, provision, and fellowship is already given in Christ. Faith receives, not pleads. The listener is encouraged not to settle, not to focus on outward circumstances or waiting for “channels,” but to continually feed their faith and rest in what Christ has done.

Faith Declaration & Prayer (26:40)

• Listeners are led in a declaration to “take” healing and freedom from pain, emphasizing that it is already given in Jesus’ name.
  • Quote:
    • “Say, I take healing, I take freedom from pain, I take freedom from symptoms in Jesus name. And everybody said amen.” (27:00)

Summary for New Listeners:
This episode is a stirring reminder that everything needed for life—healing, provision, peace—has already been given to the believer in Christ. Nancy Dufresne skillfully blends Bible teaching, personal testimony, and practical encouragement to equip listeners to grow in faith and confidently receive from God every day, not by striving, but by resting in what is already theirs.