← 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. We are continuing with a series that we've been on for quite a while now, and we're not in a rush to get off of it because this, this topic is so loaded with what believers need to renew our minds in. And when we do that, it will rewrite so much in our life. And we're talking about basically who we are in Christ, what belongs to us, not only who we are in him, but who he is in us. And so we invite you, go back and watch any previous episodes in these series that you may have missed, because I think we're up to like 65, five or so episodes in this series. And listen, Jesus did so much for us, and it takes really, it'll take all through eternity to really underscore and search out and really, if I could say this, appreciate as we ought, all that Jesus made available to us. And so we're just scratching the surface on this, but we want to stir you up about a different view of yourself, because how many. The enemy is always trying to show you the view of the old man, the view of the past, the view of struggle, and the view of difficulty. But we have to learn to see ourselves as the Word shows us ourselves. This world does not show us who we are. The Word shows us who we are. You know, I so appreciate something that you have to understand about Jesus. When he was born into the earth, he was not born knowing who he was. He had to find out who he was by looking in the Word. And you say, well, he was the Word made flesh, yes, but he had to find that out about himself. And just as Jesus had to feed on the covenant, the Old Covenant was in place, but it showed through the prophets what God was going to do for mankind and who he would use. And Jesus had to recognize himself in the Word. Do you understand that? I mean, the prophets of old, they described the Messiah, they talked about his coming and what would happen for humanity with that. And Jesus had to read those words and say, that's me. He's talking about. That's me. I recognize myself in these words. Well, do you know what? We go to the Word to find our true identity, to recognize us. And we are not to allow ourselves to be talked out of by the enemy. The who we really are in Christ. That when we see the Word and we see how the Word describes us, what we are in the Father, who the Father is in us, and what we mean to him and what he means to us, we need to recognize those words in His Word and say, that's me. That's who I am in Christ. That's who Christ is in me. And we have to find that. And not only find it, agree with it. You know, over in Proverbs 4, 22, it needs to verses 20 through 22, those need to become verses. You are highly acquainted with Proverbs 4, verse 22 says, My son, attend to my words. Look at this. What's it mean? Put your attention on my words. Why is he telling us that his words need our attention? It's because there are other things trying to get our attention. How many of you know your past will try to get your attention? The mistakes of the past, the wrong steps of the past. If I could say this, even past lifestyles or sins of the past will try to get your attention, to hold you back. And the accuser of the brethren, the enemy will certainly energize those kinds of accusations against yourself. So that you will, if I could say this, not live being as rich as you are, not live as free as you are. And so we have to put our attention on what God says so that we can find ourselves in the Word. This world does not show us the true us. The Word describes how heaven authored our lives to be what it looks like. And we are to find ourselves in the Word and say, I agree with that. I choose to see myself in light of the Word and not just in light of, of the past. No doubt Jesus would have read the prophet Isaiah talking about that. That he took the infirmities, he took the sickness and the disease, that sin was laid on him, that he became a man so marred that he didn't even look like a man anymore. No doubt when Jesus read those words, he's saying, father, who's that talking about? And The Holy Ghost says, that's you. And he says, I agree with that. Jesus had to agree with every facet of the of how the Word revealed him. And he had to say, I find myself in the Word. Quit looking to this outward man, to find yourself, find yourself in the Word. And so it says again in Proverbs 4, verse 20, My son, attend to my words. Look at this. Incline thine ear to my sayings. Look at that. What's that mean? Incline. Turn your ear to another voice. What is that? Leave out the voice of the world. Leave out the voice of opposition. Turn to the voice of the Word in your life. Put your attention there. So it says, my son, attend to my words. Incline thine ear to my words, or what I say to you. And look at this. The next verse goes on and says this, let them not depart from mine eyes. Why is that? We have to, on purpose, hold to the Word, to what the Word shows us about ourself, so that we continue to see ourselves as God sees us. So it goes on. And it says, keep his words in the midst of thine heart. And look at verse 22, for they are life. Look at this unto those that find them. So it's our joy, our privilege, but also our responsibility to find us in the Word and recognize the way God authored us to be, authored us to live and what our in Christ life looks like. And so it's up to us to find that. And if we don't take the time to find that in the Word, we will easily believe the wrong thing about us. We'll believe what the accuser of the brethren says. But God wants to define us to us through his own Word, not through past experiences, not through what someone did to us. But the real, the Word of God reveals the real, the true us in Christ. And so that's why it's so important that we have taken the time to feed on who we are in Christ. And Jesus had to do the exact same thing. How do we know that the Word tells us that Jesus grew in wisdom? Now see, if he was born with all wisdom, why would he need to grow in wisdom? He had to go through the exact same process that every man born into this earth has to go through. And so he had to find himself in the Word. He had to accept and agree with what God said about him in the Word. And as he did, he was growing in the wisdom of God. We are growing in the wisdom of God when we find out who we are in Christ. Can I tell you this? The wisdom of God is who you are in Christ for your life. The wisdom of God is who he made you to be in Christ. And so it's our privilege that we have to grow in that wisdom. Amen. We must grow in it. I want to take a moment now. I want to read to you. Well, I'm trying to look where I have it right here. I want you to go with me, if you would. Let's go to Colossians 2. 6. We have referred to this passage throughout our time of teaching in this series, but I want us to go back to it because it shows us so accurately what I'm talking about. Finding ourselves in the Word. And then we have to grow in our understanding of what we find in the word. Colossians 2, verse 6, and this is the Amplified classic translation, it reads, as you have therefore received Christ, even Jesus the Lord, so walk. Now, when the Word is using this phrase, walk in the, walk in the spirit, walk in a certain truth. It's talking about your manner of everyday life. He's talking about our everyday walk. So he said, as you have therefore received Christ, even Jesus the Lord, so walk or regulate your lives and conduct yourselves in union with and conformity. Look at this. To him. Not to your past, not to what someone did to you. Don't conform to that, but be conformed to who you are in him. And then verse seven tells us, how are we going to be able to walk and regulate our lives? That they look like him. Verse 7 tells us, how have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him. That means that this truth has to take such a deep root in you that the winds of adversity cannot blow you off of that truth, because you are planted in that, you know, on my back patio here at the home that I'm at in Texas, because we're in our Texas studio right now, but I have, on the back patio, I have some potted plants. Well, the other day the wind was blowing. And although these plants, they have a place to sit that they should be sitting in, the wind came and blew them over. And not only did the plant blow over, the dirt blew out. And now what happens is they're exposed to the elements in a way. The root system is exposed to the elements in a way. It's not supposed to be. We're not to be potted in the Word, we're to be planted in the Word. What's that mean? You know, if you're potting something in a moment, you can just take it right out of the store. And put it on your patio or put it in your house and it looks like it's in perfect, perfectly good condition. Well, it is, but it's very susceptible because it's potted. It's not planted. Anyone can come along and pick up that potted plant and move it where they want it to be. The Word only ever talks about being planted. What's that mean? That the roots grow down into not just an isolated vessel or container, but your roots grow down deep into the ground that's established. And therefore there's no limits to that root system. That root system can keep growing, it can keep going further and further down. So when this word says, have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him, fixed and founded in him. That means that he is the ground that our root system goes down to when we're anchored in who we are in Him. Why? Because the winds of adversity are going to come and they're going to try to move you. But we love what Paul said in Acts 20, starting in verse 22, 23, 24, he talked about that he was going to when he went. When he arrived at Jerusalem, God had showed him, you're going to face great opposition when you arrive there. But I love what he said. He said, none of these things move me. So what do we know? Things have the ability to move us if we're not planted as we ought to be planted. And Paul decided, none of the adversity that I'm going to face is going to move me. How can you not be moved when the winds of adversity are blowing strong One way you had to be planted. You cannot just be potted. And what I'm talking about, let's refer to this. If someone comes and they start attending a local church and they keep themselves, if I could say this, isolated from being firmly planted in that church, maybe they come and they. As soon as the preaching starts, they show up late to the service and they sit there and then they're the first ones to. To leave after the service. They don't develop any kind. They don't establish themselves in that local church. They just come and they visit and they see themself as a visitor. Well, I'm just attending. Well, we don't want to be just attending. We want to be planted. Why? Because if we're just. We have this mindset, I'm just attending. You're isolating yourself. But when you become part of a local church, you need to be planted in that local church. The Word talks about that Being planted in the house of the Lord. Notice that. Being planted in the house of the Lord. Don't see yourself as a visitor. Don't just see yourself as an attender. I'm planted in the place God told me to be. Why? Because people that don't get planted in their local church, any kind of offense can easily remove them. Because if I could say this, if you're not planted, you're only potted. And anything that's potted is susceptible to being moved by offense, by unforgiveness, by ill will, by winds of adversity. And so it's so important that we not isolate and keep ourselves isolated from other members of the body. We need to let our roots grow down deep into that local church so that we have a rich fellowship with one another. In that congregation, we're connected to our pastor. And that way we're not easily removed or easily moved by any opposition that's going to come. Well, even so, it's the same way within Christ. You cannot just see yourself. Well, I'm born again, but not know what that means. You have to be planted in the truths of what it means to be a child of God. He's in you, you're in Him. Everything that belongs to Christ belongs to you. You have to deeply root that in your understanding, in your spirit. And how does that come? By meditating on it, feeding on it, hearing it taught, but not only that, speaking it to yourself. When adversity comes, say, in Christ, I overcome that in Christ, that opposition cannot defeat me because it would have to defeat Christ to defeat me, because I'm in Christ. So these are things that we have to establish ourselves in. Listen, Jesus made us righteous, but we have to establish the truth of that in us. We have to see ourselves as he made us to be. So here in Colossians 2, verse 7, when it says, have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him, fixed and founded in him, being continually built up in him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith. Listen, the Word is telling us to do this. Do you know Jesus did the exact same thing in his earthly walk? He had to establish himself. He had to establish the Word what the Word showed him about who he was. He had to agree with that, establish that in Him. Well, we have to do the same thing. And you know, sometimes people can look like they're firmly established now and not be as established as they appear to be. Let me explain it to you this way. In a previous home that my husband and I lived in, we had some cottonwood trees and cottonwood trees, their, their roots are shallow. And these, that's why they grow quickly. Because the root system does not go down deep. It is very shallow. And so these trees grew massive quickly. But one time we had a lot of rain. And after that soaking, saturating rain, we had hard winds. We came out one day and this tree that was maybe, oh my goodness, 20, 30ft in height, wide branches, we came out and just with a little bit of wind, that thing just easily got uprooted and blew over. You would look at that thing before the winds and go, that tree is established, but its root system was shallow. And I want you to know some people can look like they're established, but we need to not just look established, we need to be established down deep. This is what this verse is talking about. Don't just look like a Christian. Don't just look like you love Christ. Let your roots grow down deep into the revelation of God's word. So that no matter what rains come, no matter what winds blow, you're not going to. You're not going to walk out and be a spectacle or a sight that people go, how did they get uprooted that quickly? Well, we don't want to just appear to be growing spiritually. We want our root system to take the time to be developed and go down deep. Because adversity is coming to every single person on this earth. And the root system will determine what happens to that tree. And it tells us how to not be moved in the time of adversity. Have your roots down deep. Now again in Colossians 2, 7, it's not just having your roots anywhere. Cause you can root yourself in the wrong things. But look what verse seven says. Have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in Him. Not just in your job, not just in your family, not just in your education, your academic life. Some people so are so rooted that I've been highly educated. Well, that's fine to be highly educated, but you better not lay your root system there because that ground cannot support you in a time of adversity. You can't just say, well, you know, I was born into a family that, you know, they walk with God. That doesn't matter. That's not your root system. You have to have your own root system firmly planted, but not just in any ground, but in the ground of who you are in Him. So verse seven again says, have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in Him. Look at this. Fixed and founded again in him. Being continually built up in Him. Do we see a theme here? It's all about having our root system in the, in the ground of who we are in Him. What that means is you cannot, we cannot give a passing thought. It's going to have to be a meditated action that we take. We build this in us, we take the time to build it in us. And can I tell you, it's not hard to build these truths in you when you're just driving to work or out running errands. Say, today I'm in Christ. Christ is in me. And today, no matter what comes against me, the Christ in me is far greater than anything I'll face. It's so easy to meditate on those things, talk about those things. Let your thoughts go there, let your meditations, your words go there. Why? Because when adversity comes, your words better talk about who you are in Christ and not talking about what's coming against you. Listen, the Word talks about this in Romans, chapter four. It talks about Abraham, the father of our faith. And God told Abraham when he was 75, I'm going to give you a son. Do you know that that son was not born until 25 years later, when Abraham was 100 years old and when God told him that the passing of time could have talked him out of believing and holding to what God said. What's that mean? Faith can never be time conscious. Faith has to ignore the clock. Faith has to ignore the calendar. Because if you don't, the passing of time can talk you out of some things. But you're going to have to be firmly rooted and planted in what God has said in His Word and what God has said to you. Now, through that passing of time with 25 years, Abraham did not let go of what God said. And it tells us how Abraham was able to keep going with his faith even though the calendar was passing. And it says this, he considered not his own body. Neither yet did he consider the deadness of Sarah's womb. What's that mean? He did not let his and attention get focused on what wasn't happening. He had to keep himself focused on what God said. Not on his body that couldn't produce, not on Sarah's body that couldn't produce. He had to keep his attention focused on what God said. Now this is what faith does. It keeps itself focused on what God said. It doesn't take, it doesn't take account of the passing of time. It doesn't take account of the calendar that's clicking off the days. It's totally absorbed with what God says. Now, Caleb and Joshua had to do the same thing for 40 years. The calendar was passing, the clock was ticking, and they had to wait for an entire generation who refused to hold to what God said. They had to wait till that entire generation had passed before they could enter into what they believed. How were they able to enter into what they believed? Well, their bodies were kept alive. Why? Because they were fixed on what God said. If adversity comes and you consider it, you talk about it. If you make adversity and hardship the centerpiece of your conversation, the centerpiece of your focus, the centerpiece of your thought life, that adversity will stay because your attention is going to water what it's on. And this is why Abraham, it says he considered not his own body and he didn't consider his wife's body. If we consider symptoms, if we let our attention be focused on symptoms on our body, if we let our attention be focused on the lack of money, that's why those things stay. But every time our. Our focus and our attention is on what the word of God says, we're fortifying and we're growing our roots down deep into what God says. Now, if you don't want something to stay in your life, get your attention off of it. Your attention is watering it. If we talk about symptoms, if we let our attention and focus be on symptoms or adversity tests and trials, if we let our attention be on depression, if we let our attention be on what somebody did to us in the past, that's why it continues to trouble us, because our attention is on it. If we have our attention on the wrong thing, the wrong thing will stay. But if we will let it go out of our thought life and replace it with something greater with what God says, then that's what will begin to manifest. And some people would say, pastor Nancy, you're making light of what bad things have happened. No, I'm making much of what God did for you. And so we need to not make much of what the enemy has worked against our life. Quit being impressed with what he put against our life. But we're impressed with what God has done for our life. So you say, well, I've tried to let it go out of my thought life. I can't. This is how you let it go, is you pour into your thought life what God did. You don't try to get rid of the wrong. You pour in the right thing. Meaning you hold your attention. You hold your words, you hold your attention, your thought life. On what God is doing, build up on the inside of you, establish on the inside of you. I'm in Christ and in Christ, none of those things pertain to me anymore. Those things of the past. What someone did against me does not pertain to me anymore because I'm in Christ. And what he did for me and in me is what pertains to me now. Amen. You. You. You run out the wrong thing by pouring in the right thing. And this is what the Word tells us to do, that we're to be firmly rooted in who we are in Him. Amen. Well, I tell you what, in him life is so much better than out outside of Him. So we're so thrilled to share this word with you and we don't want you to miss it because we're going to keep going this direction. In future episodes and until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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