← 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. It is such a joy to spend this time with you, to be able to come into the place where you're watching it, whether it's at home, whether you're listening, maybe driving down the road in your car. But we're just appreciative of this time to share the Word with you. And aren't you so thankful for the Word that takes our life and sets it on course? But I say this, the Word gives us the right way of thinking. If it weren't for the Word, we would not even know how to think right. But the Word is the thoughts of God. It's how he thinks. And he became an author and shared his very thoughts with us. So it benefits us to take on God's way of thinking. And that's called renewing the mind with the Word of God. And this topic, this series that we've been on and we're renewing our minds with it means this. We've been on this for over 60 episodes now. And that is knowing who we are in Christ, what belongs to us because we're in Christ, and the benefits that are ours in Christ. We finished up the previous episode. We were talking about the love of God, that different translations of different verses would carry this idea, hold on to the truth that God loves you. Why is that? Because the accuser, the brethren, is always trying to paint in your own understanding that you are a failure to God, that God's upset with you, God's mad at you. But that's against the Word. We cannot go by our own feelings. We can't go even by our own way of thinking. We have to go to the Word and let the Word define how we think. And the Word tells us this in John 3:16 for God. Look So loved the world not was mad at the world, not hated the world, not looking to get revenge on the world. He so loved the world that love became an action. And what was the action he gave his only begotten son. So notice this. Love turns you into a giver. And God couldn't help but give because his love will not let him remain stationary. His love turned him into an action of giving. And so we have to know this. The devil is always trying to dismantle the goodness of God, the character of God in our own understanding. He's trying to paint God in a different light than God is. Why? So that we will weaken in faith. So we won't be confident in the fellowship with our Father. Because the devil knows if we ever really get revelation of who we are in Christ, the struggle's over in our life. The devil's done playing havoc in our life. And the devil wants to try to paint us with the wrong understanding in the mind of God and God in our mind. So we have to go to the Word to hold to right thinking. We were. We left off the previous episode we were reading out of. Let me find it. Romans 8:37. Now you'll remember this passage. You're well acquainted with it. Paul was writing and he said in all these things we are more than conquerors through him. Look at this. That loved us so. Notice that our victory is a result of God's love for us. He sent Jesus to pay the price so that we could have victory for one reason. Not because we earned his love, but because he loved us. And so we are to live within the forefront of our thinking. God loves me. And no decision that I've made that might have been wrong, no step or direction that I took that might have been wrong could ever weaken the love God has for me. We were referring to something about John the disciple John, the Apostle John in the Gospel of John. The four Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These record Jesus earthly life and ministry. And John was one of those disciples that took record of the account of the time he was with Jesus and of Jesus life. And when John writes his Gospel, the way he refers him to himself is the disciple that Jesus loved. He constantly refers to that he's loved by Jesus. Now, of the 12 disciples, 11 of them were martyred. They tried to martyr John. And every time they tried to martyr him, they could not. Why is it I firmly believe it has something to do with John Had a revelation that God loves me, Jesus loves me. And the love God has for me will interrupt any opposition that comes against me. It will abort any attack that the devil would try to work against my life. The revelation that we need to so build in us is that we are in Christ. And because we are in Christ, we are in. In the love of God. And that love can never be earned. It can never be interrupted. It can never come to an end. There's nothing I could do that can earn God's love. Therefore there's nothing I could do that could interrupt God's love for me. And we need to build that in us. Why? Because the accuser, the brethren, is constantly trying to dismantle our understanding and the truth that God loves us. So therefore, to keep right thoughts in line with this, we have to go back and find what the Word says. Now, we read that passage in Romans 8:37. In all things we are more than conquerors. Look at this. Through him that loved us. It was love that put us in that position of conquerors. It was love that sent Jesus to pay the price so that we could leave the ranks of. Of failure and join the ranks of victory. And it was love that was the motive behind that. But I want to read. I want to take some time. Can I do that with you? Just take some time. And I want to read an entire passage here in Romans. And I want to start Romans chapter 8. I want to start in verse 28. And this is the amplified classic translation Paul is writing. And he says, we are assured and know that. That God, being a partner in their labor, all things work together and are fitting into a plan for good, to and for those who love God and are called according to his design and purpose. For those whom God foreknew, of whom he was aware and loved beforehand. Listen, God loved you before you did anything right or wrong. Before you did anything good or bad. God loved you. And that was by choice, not by you earning it. God chose to love us. It says that he was aware of and loved us beforehand. He also destined from the beginning for ordaining them to be molded into the image of His Son. What's that mean? Just like him, in his eyes. Just like Jesus in the eyes of God. When God sees us, he sees Jesus. Amen. And share inwardly his likeness that he might become. Talking about Jesus, the firstborn among many brethren, and those whom God thus foreordained, he also called. And those whom he called, he also justified. What's that mean? You know, I heard Dr. Lester Sumrall make this statement. Justified means just as if I'd never done it. Amen. He justified us. He also glorified raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being. What then shall we say to all this? Now look at that. He says something about God loved us. He loved us before we ever knew Him. He loved us before we ever did anything good or bad. But notice verse 31. Then what shall we say to all this? It matters that we say the right thing when we're opposed. It matters that we say what God says about us. What then shall we say to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? Who can be our foe? If God is on our side, he did not withhold or spare even his own son, but gave him up for us all. Will he not also with him freely and graciously give us all other things? Notice, he gave us his own Son. Would he not give us everything else? What would everything else be? What about peace? What about joy? What about the home to live in? What about a job? What about a peaceful marriage? What about children that you would long to have in your home? God will give you free. Look at this. Freely. What's this mean, freely? You didn't earn it. It's freely given. And the devil is always trying to get us into an earning something from God mentality. No, we don't. We aren't blessed because of anything we earned. We're blessed because of the price Jesus paid. And Jesus paid that price because God loved us enough to send Jesus to pay the price. Now, verse 32 again, Romans 8:32. He who did not withhold or spare even his own son, but gave him up for us all? Will he not also, along with this gift of him, freely and graciously give us all other things? Not some other things, all other things. Who shall bring any charge against God's elect when it is God who justifies? In other words, God's not bringing up charges against you. The devil is the one that'll bring up charges. And then don't let the devil get you thinking like him. And you start bringing up charges against your own life in agreement with the condemnation of the devil, the accusations of the devil. Because God doesn't bring up charges against you. God's not finding fault with you. God's not critiquing you to see how he can withhold something from you. He's not withholding because he's already given his son. He's already given the best he has. Amen. And then let's go on down to. Well, let's again, read verse 33. Who shall bring any charge against God's elect when it's God who justifies, that is, who puts us in right relation to Himself. Look at this. He put us into right relation with Himself. We didn't earn it. We didn't do anything to get there. It was he, his work of putting us there. Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will it be God who acquits us? Absolutely not. It won't be him. Verse 34 says, who is there to condemn us? Will Christ Jesus the Messiah who died, or rather, who was raised up from the dead, who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as he intercedes for us? Listen, Jesus is there as our ever present intercessor, at the right hand of the Father. And in that intercession there's no accusation, there's no condemnation. There's only intercession in our behalf. Verse 35. Look at this. It says, who shall ever separate us from Christ's love Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation, or calamity and distress, or persecution, or hunger, or destitution, or peril or sword. I want to read to you out of a different translation, starting in verse. Well, let me go ahead and read verse 37 of the Amplified Classic. It says, yet amid all these things. Amid what things? Amid suffering, amid affliction, tribulation, calamity, distress, persecution, hunger, destitution, peril or sword? Amid all these things. Look at this. We're more than conquerors. What's that mean? They can't overcome us. Just because that opposition shows up doesn't mean it's going to win against us. We're more than conquerors. And look at this. And we gain a surpassing victory through him who loved us so. Our victory surpasses every other opposition. Our victory in Christ surpasses suffering. It surpasses affliction, tribulation, calamity, distress. What's that mean? The love of God surpasses any hate the devil could ever launch against you in the form of opposition. So great is the love of God for us that the victory of God surpasses every anything that the devil could ever work against us. Now again I want to read verse 37 of the Amplified Classic. Yet amid all these things, we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him. Look at this. Who loved us? Notice he keeps referring to his love for us. Everything God did for us and everything Jesus won for us was for one reason he loved us. He loved us. He loved us. We have to constantly build in our awareness. We have to keep it in the forefront of our thinking. We need to constantly be saying it. God loves me. God loves me. God loves me. Why is that? Because the devil is always trying to paint us as a failure, as someone God's mad at. As someone God's disappointed in. God loves me. And because he loves me, he's not disappointed in me. Because he loves me, I love him. And because I love Him, I want to please Him. How do I please Him? It matters to me that God is pleased. It should matter to all of us that God's pleased with us. Can I tell you this? God's very easy to please. He made it so clear how to please Him. He says, without faith, it's impossible to please Him. What pleases God? Faith. Believing that he loves you pleases Him. Believing that he made victory yours, that pleases him. When you believe the right thing, God is pleased with you. When we believe the wrong thing, it doesn't please God. Why? If we believe the wrong thing, God can't manifest for us the way he wants to. And so it pleases us. It pleases God rather when we believe the right thing, because then the door is open for God to perform all his goodness in our behalf. Amen. Now I want to read a different translation in that verse 37. Actually, let me again read verse 35, amplified classic. Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love shall suffering, affliction, tribulation, calamity, distress, persecution, hunger, destitution, peril and soared. How many times people think, well, God doesn't love me, and that's why these things are happening to me. I've missed it. I have failed God so many times, and that's why these things are happening to me. That's not what the Word says. I want to read now verse 37 in different translation. It says, no. Suffering any one of these things is not proof that Christ does not love us. For in spite of all these things, we have a decisive victory over life's difficulties through the care shown for us by Christ who loved us. Look at that. Don't ever let opposition that comes against you convince you, or blame or accuse God of not loving you simply because you're facing difficulty, simply because you're facing hardship. How many times people have bought into this way of thinking, God doesn't love me anymore. That's why this has happened. Or I failed God. Or I, you know, I just don't deserve the love of God. You have to go back to the Word and find out that God loves you apart from your performance. God does not love you because you're a performer. God loves you because he is love and can't help but love you. God loves us because his essence is love. His being is love. God doesn't just have love. He is love. And we are the target of his love. And we have to build in us and establish in us this same understanding that the apostle John built into him. God loves me. Now, see, why did John so often refer to himself as the disciple that Jesus loved? Because he kept that in the forefront of his thinking. He kept that in the forefront of his communication. Can I tell you this? I dare to say he kept it in the forefront of his fellowship with God. That in his fellowship with God, he enjoyed the Father that loved him and he loved the one who loved him. So we have to build in us. God loves me. And this. If you're going to build that in you, God loves me. That means we never accuse or blame God for the things that happen against us. You know, I'm alarmed in. In 25 years of pastoring, a few times I would hear different ones that would say, well, God failed me on this or God failed me on that. And they're blaming God for things that happened in their life. But here Paul is writing and he says, none of the things that come against us are ever proof that God can be blamed. Why is it God's not the author of anything bad? God only ever authors good. And you have to guard your thinking because the devil would love to give you the wrong definition of God in your life and in your thinking. Why? Because if you think wrong about God, you start blaming God and speaking against God and laying down your faith in God because you're believing the accuser of the brethren. Do you know God? The devil not only accuses us, he accuses God of not being as good as he is. And you think you've been accused of a lot of things in life. God's been accused for eons of time, ages of time, for things he's never done. I mean, even in our insurance policies, they will cause. They will call hurricanes and earthquakes and fires acts of God. They blame God for the devastation that happens on this earth when Jesus made it so clear in John, chapter 10, verse 10 that the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. But I have come that you might have life. How many times people accuse God of what the devil did and find fault with God, Blame God. Well, why did God let my child Die. Why did God take my spouse? Why did God do this? And why did God do that? Anything that robs from you, God had nothing to do with. And so many times God is blamed for people's actions. Well, would you like to be blamed for your neighbor's actions? Well, God doesn't want to be blamed by for actions that he didn't take either. If you will believe the love of God, you'll never fall into the deceptive flow of the devil who's trying to paint God in a negative picture in your eyes. I remember one pastor, he was telling me that in his city, he rented this very visible billboard in his city. And you know what message he put on the billboard? God is not mad at you. He put in these big letters, God is not mad at you. This pastor told me after time that that billboard was up. He said, you cannot believe the number of phone calls that I have gotten from other Christians and other ministers that has said, how dare you tell people that God is not mad at them? Because they, in religious thinking, people think that God is mad at them. But you know how many times people would draw back from God because they think God is displeased with them. God doesn't love them anymore. That is absolutely against the Word. We have to go to the Word to find how God thinks. We have to go to the Word to find out how God responds to us when we miss it. God responds to us in goodness and mercy. What does the Word say for the Lord? For his mercies are new. How often? Every morning. Every morning. His mercies are new. Why? Because that's how good he is. You can never, you can never spend and use up all the mercy that God has for you. Because when you think you spent all his mercy because you've messed up so much, well, just wait till in the morning, there's a whole another bucket load of it. Because God never runs out of mercy for us. And the devil always wants to paint that. God's mad at us. He's upset. Why? Because he wants to cripple your faith. He wants to rob you of your faith. He wants you to not be bold in the presence of God. If you miss it, what you need to do is run to the One who loves you. This is what Adam and Eve did is when they missed it and they sinned against God, what did they do? They hid. But God had never done anything to them that would warrant them hiding from Him. Do you know? In God's goodness he gave them the opportunity to repent. What did he Do? He said to Adam, he said, did you eat the fruit of the tree? Why? Because Adam wasn't coming clean. You know when they missed it, when they sinned against God. And the word says that God would come in the cool of the day and he would fellowship with Adam. He would fellowship with Eve. And after they had partaken of the fruit of the tree that they were not supposed to touch, they heard God's presence in the cool of the day. And when they heard his him approaching, they hid themselves when they should have run to him in their fellowship. I guarantee you they had never experienced any judgment. They had never experienced. Experienced any condemnation. They had only experienced love in fellowship with him. What they should have done was run and say, we disobeyed, we sinned, and what would have happened? Love would have forgiven them and cleansed them. And they didn't run to him. But God was so wanting them to ask him to confess to them to him what they had done. So he asked, did you eat of the fruit of the tree? He what was he doing? He was making it easy for them to repent. And. And what did Adam do? He blamed Eve. He said, the woman you gave me. Instead of taking responsibility for his own actions, he blamed another. Do you see what sin nature does? It blames someone else for its own wrongdoing. How many times the devil wants to blame God for something he did. And he wants you to get you. He wants you to blame God for something that the thief himself did against your life. So God gave Adam the opportunity to repent. And he. And he rejected the opportunity to confess his wrong. And he said, eve did it. And then he went to Eve and he gave her the exact same opportunity to repent. What she do? The serpent. They blamed one another. And because of that they had to be removed from the place that God had put them. Well, what's that mean for us? If you miss it? Run to the one that loves you. He will meet you with goodness and mercy. We know this about the prodigal son. When he recognized that he had just been ruining his own life by the decisions and choices he was making, he made a different choice. He said, I will go back to my father's house and I will repent. And. And before he even reached his father's house, we see a picture of what God is by how this father responded. He ran to meet him. He did not run to condemn him. He ran to meet him. I want you to know you just turn toward love and love will run your direction. Why you have to build in you the understanding. No matter where I missed it, God loves me. And if I will turn his direction, I'll only run right into his love. I won't run into judgment, I won't run into condemnation. I'll run right into his love. What is that? That's because his love belongs to us. Because we're in Christ. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss next time. We're going to continue this direction. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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Nancy Dufresne is the President of World Harvest Bible Training center in Murrieta, California. This is a Word and Spirit Bible school where you will receive impartations and revelations. So whether you're called to the five fold ministry or want to bring a greater supply to your local church, this could be the school for you. We're now accepting applications. Go to whbtc.com for more information.
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My comforter, my counselor, Advocate intercessor, My strengthener and stand by he's 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.