Loading summary
Transcript10 lines
- [00:01]
A
Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
- [00:11]
B
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.
- [00:42]
A
I receive it right now from the.
- [00:43]
B
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. And we are in a series that is so. It's so loaded. We're teaching on in Christ who we are in Christ. Why? Because we look so much better in him than outside of Him. And we can produce more in him than outside of Him. Can I tell you this? In Christ, you're whole. Absolutely. We cannot be standing in Christ sick, right? There's no sickness in Him. So we are to speak about who we are in him, not talking about who we are in the flesh. In the natural, symptoms are what shows up outside of Him. But wholeness is what is in Him. So instead of talking about what the body feels outside of him, talk about who you are made to be in Him. In Him, I'm whole. And in the face of symptoms, I'll talk about my wholeness, because I'm talking about in Him. I'm not talking about in the natural. The devil is constantly trying to hold us in the natural arena. But can I tell you this? In Him, I'm provided for. If I'm going to think and talk as one outside of Him, I'm going to run into lack of provision. But if I will talk as one, in Him, In Him, I'm fully supplied. Well, likewise in Him, I'm whole. In Him, I'm whole He, in Him, I'm provided for. In Him, I'm peaceful. In Him, I'm blessed. Amen. Now there's nothing but me outside of Him. I'm done with that. Right. We got born again because we needed a savior from us. So we certainly don't want to keep conducting life on the basis of us, on the mindset of us. But now we're to think about and talk about is, wait a minute. I'm in Him. And so I'm going to draw on the greater One who's in Me, because He filled us with Himself so that he could manifest Himself through us. So we're to become skillful at not drawing on us, but drawing on Him. How do we do that? Through what we say, through what we do. We have to first of all find out what belongs to us because we're in Christ. Hosea, chapter four and verse six, it says that my people, God, is speaking here. And he said, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. When we have lack of knowledge of who we are in Christ, then we don't draw on him as we ought. One translation. Or we could read it this way. My people are cut off from the blessings of God because of their lack of knowledge. The devil can't cut you off, but ignorance certainly will. So we don't want to not know what belongs to us in Christ. Amen. Not only do we have so much that belongs to us in Christ, but I want to tell you, I want to remind you, in fact, I want to go here just briefly. In Christ, in us. He's in us, right? The life of God is in us. But you know what else is in us? All the fruit of the Spirit is in us. What's the fruit of the Spirit? Well, it's his life, his nature, his ability, his character. Everything of him is in us at the new birth. If we go over to Galatians, chapter 5 and verse 22, it says this. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. Or we could also say faithfulness, meekness and temperance. So notice, these are nine things listed of the life of God, the nature of God, the attributes of God that are in you. When did they come in? Not because you prayed, but because you received Jesus. You don't have to pray and ask for these things. When he came in you, all he is came in with Him. Amen. And this is the character and the life, the nature of God. These are not just good qualities that make you easy to live with. These are forces against the devil too. I said they are absolute forces against the devil. They are mighty when they function. And how do they function when we draw on them, when we yield to them, when we spend them? We don't have to ask God, oh, God, give me love. He put love in you when he came in. Love came in you don't say, oh, God, give me peace. He put peace in you. These are fruits of the Spirit that when the Holy Ghost came in you, this is what He Produced in you. Amen. It's in there. But what are we to do? We are to develop our skill at yielding to them, drawing on them. And what do you have to do to fruit to enjoy it? You have to pick it. You can't just leave it on a tree and let it drop to the ground unused. These are the fruits of the Spirit. These are forces of heaven that you need in the face of opposition, in the face of dealing with people, and in just in the face of daily life. Amen. We don't wait to use these whenever we're in a crisis, but we draw on them all the time. I want you to see this. The fruit of the Spirit is really Christ in us. That's part of Christ in us. Amen. So we see here the first thing that's listed is love. It's not human love. It's God's love on the inside of you. All these fruits of the Spirit found their fountain in Him. They were already. These are the forces that are resident in God. And he took of his very own and made them ours. Isn't that amazing to think of? My, my, my. He did not. When he put love in you, he didn't go outside himself to find that love. He took of his own love and made it yours. So if you draw on human love, that will run out. Human love does not have the stuff to finish. It'll quit every time. Divine love has no end. It has no stopping place. It has no quitting sense. Amen. Then the next thing that's listed, that is a fruit of the Spirit. And can we say this? It's in Christ. Who's in you is joy. What's this mean? You don't have to live sad and sour. You don't have to wait for somebody to treat you right before you're joyful. If you're waiting for others to behave themselves before you're joyful, you will live a sad life. I have pastored for 25 years, and in that 25 years, I was able to meet with different ones who were encountering marriage problems. And, you know, if the wife came in and said, oh, he's not easy to live with, or he would say, she's not nice to live with, or whatever, I'd say, first of all, let's just work on us. Let's quit working on each other. Have you ever noticed you're only anointed to fix you? You're not anointed to fix your spouse? Well, I'm married to them. Yeah, but that doesn't Give you an anointing to fix them. That gives you a responsibility to fix you. Yes. And so I would try to get the people's eyes off of their spouse, get it back on you. Because you can't control if they're ever going to talk nice to you. You can't control if they're ever going to treat you a certain way, but you can control whether or not you're joyful. So I said you need to practice being joyful. Apart from how they do or don't treat you now, they need to treat you right. In a marriage, you need to treat each other right. Amen. You need to be good marriage material. Can I say that? You have a responsibility to be a blessing to those in your home, not trouble those in your home. If you wouldn't do it to Jesus, don't do it to them. If you wouldn't say it to Jesus, don't say it to them. If you wouldn't think it about Jesus, don't think it about them. Amen. But what if somebody is not treating you right? Well, are you going to lay down joy? Are you going to decide to be? Well, I'm just. I'm just going to be unhappy. Well, you can choose to be joyful. Why? Because your joy doesn't come from anyone around you. The joy that yours, it's in you and it's God's own joy. And you brought your own joy and you better know how to spend it when nothing around you is joyful. You don't have to wait for joyful circumstances before you're joyful. You brought your own joy with you and you can draw on it and spend it anytime you want. Now, you can be upset with people and you can be sad about how people treat you. And I'm not dismissing how someone may be treating you wrongly, but I am saying no matter how you're treated, you can choose to be joyful. Amen. Because that joy is not dependent on their treatment of you. That joy is dependent upon the greater one who's in you. And you can just go ahead and enjoy God even if the people are treating you wrong. Amen. And there's no greater joy than his joy that's in you. The next thing is the fruit of peace. What about this? God doesn't just want your heart to be at peace. He wants your mind to be at peace. And I could say this, he wants your body to be at peace. How many of you know that a body full of symptoms and pain is not at peace? So you can draw on the force of peace. And you can lay it on your body when symptoms try to show up and say peace, I receive of that. Flow into my body right now and it runs out symptoms and pain. I'm at peace in my physical body. Amen. God ordained and authored peace for your mind. It is part of your inheritance in Christ. That's why he said he has given us the mind of Christ. How many of you know Jesus did not live tormented and harassed in his mind? And we are to have the same thing, thoughts that belong to Him. How do we find out how Jesus thought the thoughts of the Word? Amen. And where will that arrive us? That will arrive us at peace. Do you know when you're drawing on peace, you're drawing on Christ in you. Sure you are. What about this long suffering? Long suffering? What's this mean? Patient. I'm not giving up. I am patient in the face of adversity. If we're not patient, we will settle for less than God's best. I want you to know single people, you need to be patient, waiting for the right one. Because if you are impatient, you could easily settle for something less than God's best. Notice this. If you're called to fulfill something, let's say you're called to the Fivefold ministry. You have to be patient through the time of preparation, patient through the time of training. Because if you try to bypass the time of training and the time of the time of preparation, you will not be equipped to walk out what God has for you. Even though you're called, you have to be prepared to be equipped for what you're called to. And if you're impatient, you can step out ahead of God and cause all kinds of difficulty for your life and for your family. If you're not patient and long suffering while God is preparing you. Amen. You say, well, I'm not called to five fold ministry. Well, God's prepared you for something. He has called you to something. Even if it's not the Fivefold ministry and not a pulpit or public ministry, he still has a plan for your life and he has to prepare us all. So be patient while God is preparing you. Don't try to take his plan in your own hands and try to force something to come to pass, but let him bring it to pass. Amen. But you do have a part of obeying that plan. But you don't want to be impatient and step out ahead of God because it can cause a all kinds of difficulty. Sometimes we can even want something that our faith is not Ready to believe. For in pastoring, I've dealt with people that, you know, they. There was a home that they wanted, but it was beyond their measure of faith. And although they wanted it, you still have to follow the leading of the Spirit because the Spirit of God will lead you based on your faith. He will lead you. And if you'll follow him and be patient, he'll take you from step to step to step. See, as humans, we want to arrive at the best all at once. But the Word lets us know that spiritual growth and the development of our faith is a process. What's it say? The Word tells us first the blade, then the earth, than the full corn in the year. What's that mean? It's a process to grow in God. It's a process to spiritually develop. And you have to make sure that you're patient during that process so that you don't jump out ahead of what you're ready to believe God for and what your faith can believe God for. And then you put yourself in a place of compromise. You put yourself in a place of undue pressure. Always follow the Holy Ghost, because the Holy Ghost will always lead you based on where you're at today in your walk of faith. Amen. He'll not put you out where you're overwhelmed. He'll not lead you to do something that's beyond what you can believe. You say, well, I can believe God for anything. Well, our faith has to grow. And we have to be aware that we are to be patient in the growing, developing process of our spiritual life and our spiritual walk. All of God's best belongs to us. But there is God can only take us as fast as grace can carry us. Amen. You know, you can have somebody who's in the second grade that would love to graduate from high school tomorrow, but they're not going to. They've got to go through the process of growth and development. Well, it's the same thing spiritually. We have to develop. And we determine how fast we can develop based on how much we cooperate with the Word and act on the Word and fill up with the Word. But still, that's a process, and we have to be patient in the process. Well, Christ will not lead you. The One in you will not lead you to bypass patience. He will not lead you to get out beyond how God is leading you. Amen. So this fruit of long suffering, of patience, is very important to moving with God. The next fruit that we have on the inside of us is gentleness. How many of you know People can't say, well, I was just raised to talk a certain way or act a certain way. Well, if it's not in line with the fruit, you're offered a high flow. You can't just go by your culture when the Word tells you another guideline. Amen. You know, some people are very dramatic in their talking, and it can come across where it will hold them in a carnal, unrenewed state. Well, that's just the way I was raised. It doesn't matter how we're raised. It matters what the Word says when we stand before Jesus to give an account for our life. Because one day we'll all do it. And he will not deal with us based on how we were raised. He will deal with us based on what His Word commanded of us. Amen. You can't say, well, in my family, the husband always talk hateful to the wife, so that's okay. Well, if it's not in the flow of gentleness, it's not okay. Well, you know, in my family, the women always controlled and manipulated the men. That's the way our culture is. Well, not in the culture of the Word. Amen. The culture of the word is a higher culture, and we're to be gentle. Amen. What's that mean? Our words are never to cut, hurt or injure, and neither are our actions. We are to be smooth in our flow with people and in our flow with others. Amen. What about goodness? The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever. If it weren't for his goodness, none of us would still be on the earth. His goodness has rescued. It has. It has. It has dealt wonderful things into our life. And so God expects us to be good to others not because they're good to us, but because the good One is in us. And he expects us to respond to others based on who's in us and not based on how others have treated us. We're good no matter who isn't good to us. Isn't that something? The force of goodness, when there's no goodness being offered you. Yeah. And then this next one, this next fruit, faith. Well, we could also say other translation, call. Other translations, call it faithfulness. Because if we're faithful, that means there's no quitting in us. That means we finish what we start. That when God tells us to do something, we do it. And we don't quit on it halfway. We're faithful to the Word. We're faithful to the one who's in us. We're faithful to the plan of God, we're faithful to the call of God upon our life. We're faithful to our family. We're faithful to those that God has put in our life. We cannot live as one in Christ and then be a quitter. Anytime we feel like it, we have to deal with that. We have to be faithful to the finish. Amen. Sometimes. And I want to. I want to even qualify this because I have seen people make a choice that's outside of the plan of God and the devil will say, well, you need to keep your word. Well, if it's not what God directed, you need to back yourself out of the wrong direction. I know that in the past, before I met and married my husband, I was in relationships and headed toward marriage. But once I realized it wasn't God, I didn't let the devil say, well, you need to keep your word. No, I need to keep God's word. I need to back out of that wrong direction and I need to take on the mind of God and do how he's directing me. And I need to be faithful in that direction, not faithful to do it wrong in my wrong direction. Amen. And then what about this word meekness? This is a characteristic of Christ who's in you remember, he would refer to he's meek. What does that mean? Well, meekness, you're easy to be led. You're submissive, you're teachable. You're not a know it all. You make yourself a student of someone who knows God better than you and you listen to them. Amen. If we're going to be a know it all, we're going to hit a lot of hard walls in life. And I don't want to have to go all the way to the bottom before I listen to somebody. Do you know God's way of teaching, instructing and correcting us is not through tragedy, crisis and hardship. His way of teaching and instructing us is through His Word. God does not use, he does not intend to use the difficulties and the tragedies of life to teach you something. Now, don't misunderstand me. When we go the wrong direction and we end up in difficulty, we can certainly learn something from that. But that's not God's doing and that's not God's way of teaching us. Even though we can learn something, God wants us to just listen to words and be led by words. Don't wait until hardship comes before we listen. This is the flow of meekness. And how many of you know Jesus said he was meek? That's Christ in Us, the meekness in us. So if we're going to be bullheaded, going to be. You can't tell somebody anything, they're making life hard when there's meekness in them that they could yield to and make life easy. Amen. Then the next one. I like this one. Temperance. It's not maybe a word that we hear commonly in our everyday speech, but what is temperance? It's self restraint, self control. What is this? It's keeping your life out of the ditch. It's keeping yourself in the middle of the road. Self restraint. And why? Because sometimes you have to restrain your body from wanting to go the wrong direction. You have to restrain your thought life, take control of your thought life, discipline your thought life. Well, can I say this, the world talks about discipline, but they're talking about a self developed discipline. There is not enough discipline in your ability to manage your flesh. You have to have divine discipline to manage the flesh, to keep the flesh in place. You need the God kind of discipline and it's in you. It's called temperance. You don't have to go out and develop your own discipline. How many people have said, I just, I'm just not disciplined? Well, the discipline of God's in you. The restraint of God is in you. You go, what do you mean the restraint of God? You know God restrains himself every day. Yeah, he does. He restrains himself every day. Why? From people who falsely accuse him, people who talk wrong about him, people who accuse him of wrongdoing, that he's never done wrong. And he restrains himself. Why? Because he's a love God and he responds based on love. He restrains himself from responding based on how he's treated. Amen. No one's been treated worse than God. You think you've been treated bad all through humanity God's been lied on. Yeah. The devil will falsely accuse God and people will get mad at God when the devil does something to harm their life. Jesus said, he said, Satan the thief, he comes to steal, kill and destroy. But I've come that you might have life notice anything that steals, kills or destroys, it's authored by hell and Satan. And how many people they've had something lost in their life, something stolen life, something killed in their life, so to speak. And then they get mad at God. What are they doing? They're blaming God. They are so wrong in blaming God. When Satan is the one who steals, kills and destroys, they are falsely accusing God. And when they falsely accuse God, the devil sits back and laughs because then they're cutting off God's ability to help them. Because offense will never receive from God's flow. Why? Offense is outside of the flow of God. We can't be offended with God. And so why are people offended with God? Wrong thinking, wrong believing. And we have to set it right that we have to understand that if it weren't for the goodness of God, no one else would be on this earth. He has protected us and kept us when we didn't deserve it. Can I tell you this? We never want what we deserve. God does not give us what we deserve. And you can say this if people will say, well, you deserve that job, or you deserve that new car. You deserve that house. No, I don't. But God's still good anyway. It's his goodness that gave me that. It is not my deserving something because what I deserved was hell. And Jesus took my place. Amen. So we have temperance, the discipline of God, the restraint of God in us. When people blow up, so to speak, at someone else and they say, I just couldn't help it, yes, you could have. Because there's the restraint of God, the temperance of God in you. And you have to depend on that. What is this about? People who may be held by addictions, they're held by bad habits, and they want to see those broken. So much of the time when they go to outside worldly programs to try to get help for these, you appreciate that they're seeking out help. But the way the world tries to help you is they try to teach you. You got to get disciplined. You got to have your own discipline, and your. Your own human discipline is never enough. In the face of addictions and bondages and bad habits, you need divine temperance. You need divine restraint, divine discipline, and you have it. If you're born again, it's temperance. It's on the inside of you. So in the face of these things that try to hold you in bondage, what you're to say is, the discipline of God is in me. And I can say no and mean it. Amen. I can stick with my no. I'm not yielding to that. And when the body feels the pressure to give into that, you say no. No, you don't. Because I'm drawing on divine temperance. It's in me. I'm not trying to have discipline apart from God. I have his own discipline residing in. In me, and I'm spending it. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, thank God that these things are in us. What is this Christ in us? The hope of glory. Do you know that one time, one way that we are walking as one in Christ. We are letting the fruits of the Spirit have their way in our life. We're responding to them. Amen. They're in you. Draw on, spend them, pick the fruit and enjoy life. Amen. Well, we're going to keep going this direction. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
- [26:54]
A
To watch or listen to today's message and other messages by Nancy Dufresne, visit dufresneministries.org.
- [27:06]
B
In Romans 8:14, God gives His children the promise that he will lead them by His Spirit Spirit. So we have a right to expect to be led. In this important book by Nancy Dufresne, following the Holy Spirit, you will learn how to recognize and follow the leading of the Spirit and receive God's help in every arena of your life. 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.
- [27:41]
A
In Nancy Dufresne's book Faith in the Power of God, she teaches how God wants us to know his power that is in our direction. It belongs to us. We cannot live the life God authored for us without his power. 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.
- [28:30]
B
This is Nancy Dufresne and I want to extend an invitation to you to become a partner with Dufresne Ministries today. God bless you.
- [28:39]
A
Partnership helps with crusades held nationwide and abroad, printing and publishing of books and other materials, operational costs, and TV and other media broadcasts. For more information and to sign up to become a partner, go to defrainministries.org.
- [28:55]
B
We'Re excited to announce a new worship album called in youn glory by Grant DeFresne. For more ways to listen to in youn Glory, scan the QR code on your screen. Your presence is my reward. Your glory is your power.