← 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.
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I receive it right now from the.
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Top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet. The soles of my feet. Welcome. We're glad to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. We're just so thrilled with what the Word holds for us today. And so we thank you for joining us. Thank you. Thank you for being hungry for the Word of God. Because when we honor the Word, it works for us. And we can say this. If we're honoring the Word, then we're doers of the Word. You know, Jesus was preaching one day in the synagogue, and there was a woman that called out right in the middle of his teaching, and she said basically this. Oh, your mother's so blessed. She must be so pleased with you and proud of you. Blessed is the woman who nursed you. And Jesus said, rather, blessed are those who hear, hear my words and do them. So he's saying this, that the person who is a doer of the word of God that they hear is more blessed than the woman who gave birth to him. So know this. We can move into great blessing. Not just hearing, but the hearing is to turn us into doers of the Word. And we can understand this, that it's only the part of the Word that we honor that will work for us. You know, when I was growing up in a denominational church, very sweet people, we loved God, but we just didn't know the Word that well. We didn't know that Jesus was a healer. We didn't know that God would provide for us. We didn't know about the peace and the joy and the victory that belonged to us. And because we didn't know it, we did not see those things flow in our services. We didn't ever. I never saw anyone healed. I never heard a report of anyone receiving a financial miracle. Why, we didn't know to honor that flow of the Word. And so we weren't receiving of it. So we know this. If we need the Word to work for us in a particular arena. We have to honor the Word in that arena. So let's just honor the Word in every arena so we can receive of the flow of God's power and blessing. Amen. Because we can't receive of God's Word arguing with it, but we have to agree with it. Do you know this? That a renewed mind is a mind that agrees with the Word of God. An unrenewed mind is one that argues with the Word of God. And if we're not careful, people can become very practiced at arguing. You know, think about it. When God delivered his people out of Egypt, he brought them out. It says, the Word says that there was not one sick among them. There was not one feeble among them. Now when you think of this word used, not one feeble one among them. These are slaves bodies. They aren't just somebody who was just living a regular daily life. These were bodies that were abused, they were neglected, they were overworked. But whenever they partook of the lamb at the Passover supper, as they ate the body of that, of that animal, what was happening? No doubt healing power was flowing. And so when they went the next morning to exit Egypt, not one feeble one among them, God healed bodies, made them whole, so that when they came out, they came out whole. I want you to know, when God brought us out of the kingdom of darkness, translated into the kingdom of his dear Son, wholeness is what he offers us. That's what belongs to us. Not only did those, those Hebrews come out of Egypt with healed bodies, they came out with the wealth of Egypt. They had the gold and the silver. So they came out well. But notice this. Although they came out with every need met, their thinking never changed. And so as they were journeying toward the promised land, all their conversation was filled with complaint. They did not fill their mouth with agreement. They complained against, well, we don't have water, we don't have food, we don't have this, we don't have that. And at every complaint, God fulfilled their every desire. Rocks flowed with water, manna from heaven. That was not something. Can you imagine? It stated that there would have been about 3 million Hebrews. And although there was not the resources enough to have enough food for every meal, God rained down out of heaven the provision they needed. What's that mean? If the earth doesn't hold what you need, Heaven will get involved and heaven will will open up and supply everything you need. Never dismiss yourself from provision just because of where you live. If Heaven has to. Heaven would open up heaven to provide something for you. It did that for these Hebrews. 3 million Hebrew every single day, receiving complete provision. But notice this. The complaint in their mouth robbed them of the gratitude of all the good things God had done for them. So an unrenewed mind is one that argues with the word of God. Well, why am I saying this? In this series that we've been on, that we've been on episodes, we have well over 65 episodes teaching and talking about in Christ, because we're in Christ, it puts a demand on the way we think. We have to change the way we think and the way we. The way we're to change how we think is we have to feed on the Word of God, come into agreement with it, and our words have to agree with the Word of God. If we're. If our thoughts and our mouths are in agreement with the Word, there is absolutely no room for complaint. Complaint is the language of doubt and unbelief, but gratitude is the language of faith. You just have to know the difference. And too many times people have a bad habit of complaint. It will rob them of who they are in Christ, just like it robbed the Hebrews of the inheritance God had already provided for them. That first generation never arrived in the promised land. Why is that? Because they're complaining and gave them a lesser journey. And their complaining kept them out of God's best. So we know this as one in Christ. We have to change the way we talk. We cannot just say anything we want and think that our privileges of being in Christ will flow unhindered. Why is it that they complained, the Hebrews complained in the wilderness? Well, no doubt with 400 years of slavery, they had the habit of complaining as slaves. It would have been a. It would have been a terrifically difficult life. It would have been a hard life. And their life wasn't their own. Their children wasn't their own. Their food wasn't their own. The clothes on the back wasn't their own. They were owned by another man. So you know this, that they would have had the habit of speaking complaint because of their life. But when God brought them out, they were no longer in slavery. They had whole bodies. They were provided for. They had the presence of God as their companion through that journey, through that journey. But yet they never changed the way they talked. And so because of that, their wrong words robbed them of the flow that God intended for them. Well, if we're not careful, we can have the same problem we are in Christ. And In Christ, all He is belongs to us. All that belongs to him belongs to us. So we have to lose the language of the man that wasn't born again before we were born again. We dropped that language because that no longer describes us. We have to learn a new way of talking. And the Word gives us the way to talk. Amen. And so we have to realize he, if we're going to do what Acts chapter 17. In verse 28, it says, in him we live, in him we move, and in him we have our being. That's going to put a demand on our mouth. We're going to have to talk as one in him if we're going to move as one in him and have our being with his power and ability manifesting through us. Amen. So what's that mean? We're to rid ourselves of of all complaint. We're to never find a reason to be ungrateful. God has blessed us with so much in Christ that we have no room in our mouth for what isn't of Christ. And what we're talking about and what we're allowing in our mouth shows us how we're living. Are we living as one in Christ or are we living as one outside of Christ? Because the way we're living is going to show up in our mouth if we talk as one outside of Christ. That's what we're going to end up. That's the flow. We're going to end up partaking of is one outside of Christ. But if we will put our words as one as in Christ, then we are going to have manifesting in our life what what in Christ belongs to us. Amen. So if we're going to live as rich as we are, we're going to have to speak as rich as he made us to be. Because it's our words that either move us ahead or hold us out. The thing we so love about Joshua and Caleb, they let their words agree with what God said. Now, this is what where we started at the top of this episode. An unrenewed mind argues with what God said, but a renewed mind agrees with what God said. Now, why is that so important in this series? I have gone back repeatedly to Brother Copeland's testimony that in the early 1970s, him and sister Gloria were in debt. They were learning the principles of prosperity. God was teaching them the law of faith. And in the midst of that, God gave him a command and said, I want you to sow $50,000 to Kenneth Hagin's ministry. Well, Brother Copeland was renewing his mind. And he gave an answer as one who was renewing his mind, Christ. And this is the answer he said. He said, in Christ I have it, and in Christ I can give it. Because he agreed with what God said instead of reasoning why he couldn't give it. Because in his own personal resources he didn't have that money. But in Christ, he owned everything God commanded him to give. So I want you to know you have so much more inside of Christ than outside of Christ. So Christ, in the way you think, in the way you speak, and in the way you move, what's that mean? When I say to think as one in Christ, act as one in Christ. Think about what belongs to you because he's in you. Think about what he is doing in you, for you and through you. Let your thoughts go there, let your words go there. And it's a retraining of the thought life. It's a renewing of the mind that has to happen so that our words are in agreement with God. Because know this, words we speak either open the door to God or close the door to God. Our words either open the door to the devil or close the door to the devil. Right thinking is God's open door. Wrong thinking is God's closed door. Wrong thinking is the devil's open door, and right thinking is the devil's closed door. When we think right, the devil has no entrance. When we think wrong, God has no entrance. So it's all in the thought. Life. What are we going to do with our thoughts? Because the way we think is the way we're going to end up speaking. And the way we speak, life and death are in the power of the tongue. And so God wants to perform and fulfill in our lives that we are in Christ. But it's our words that will either allow him to do that or not allow him to do that. Know this. God never withholds power. He never withholds any benefit. But what can happen is wrong thinking can close the door to the flow of God's power. God never draws back his power, never withholds his power. If we speak wrong, God's power doesn't stop flowing. But wrong words shut the door so that power can't reach our need. And so we have to make certain that we are not a hindrance through how we think or through what we say. Now remember what Hosea, chapter four in verse six says. It says, God is speaking here. And he says, my people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. When people don't know what belongs to them in Christ, then they do not become partakers of what they possess. Can you possess something and not partake of it? You certainly can. You know, at my kitchen, I have some things in my pantry. I have some things in my kitchen, in my refrigerator, my freezer. But just because they're in there doesn't mean I'm partaking of it. I have the same food that I bought and put in there can spoil within a certain amount of time if I don't partake of it. Well, the wonderful thing about is all the benefits in Christ will never spoil, but they can certainly be not enjoyed if we're not speaking right and thinking right in terms of these. The devil is constantly enticing us to think and speak as one outside of Christ. But if we're following the Word and following the Spirit, we're checking our thought life to make sure we're thinking and speaking as one in Christ. Because how we speak determines how what we receive in this life. And it's not about getting God to do something. It's about getting us to say something that God can move through and manifest through. Amen. So we have so enjoyed this time of these episodes, talking about who we are in Christ because who we are in Christ puts a demand on us. What demand does it put on us? To agree with God, to renew our minds, to. To watch the words we say. Because how we answer things will determine whether we're going to move in Christ or outside of Christ. The plan of God that God has joined to your life. Listen. God formed and authored a great plan for your life. Never let the accuser of the brethren diminish the value of that plan in your life. Never let the accuser, the brethren, paint it as though the plan of God for your life is not very good. Listen, what came out of God and what can only come out of God is greatness. Nothing that's poor, nothing that's weak, nothing that's mediocre can ever flow out of God. The plan of God he authored for your life is great. And we need to treat that plan as great. It's worthy of being fulfilled. But God's plan for your life, he never intended for you to fulfill it apart from Him. He gave you a plan that's impossible for you to fulfill apart from Him. So we have to. We have to recognize that what he has for us requires his involvement. So we need to give ourself the habit of talking about, he's in me. The greater One is in me. Because he's in me. I'M going to allow him to work through me today. He's going to perform his plan through my life. And my part is to agree with him. Remember, that's what a renewed mind does. It agrees with the plan of God. And not only that, it obeys what God says to it. So when we agree with the plan of God, how many times we have had something come in our heart and people would, in thinking of recognizing this is in me. But you know, I could never do that. No, you couldn't. That's why he's in you, so that he can do it through you. So it's amazing what can happen if you simply agree. Now think of this. Jesus was preaching to a multitude. The Bible says that there were 5,000 men present that day. We could say this, there's at least 4,000 women. I mean, at least if every man is. Nearly every man is married, but there were just a lot of women. And then you got men, you got women, you got children. So we know, we don't know the final count on how many were present that day. We just know there were 5,000 men present. But after several days of the people being out in this out of the way place, listening to Jesus talk for several days, he's dismissing them, he's releasing them, sending them back home. But he says to the disciples, he they've been with me now for several days. I don't want them to faint because they have not eaten in these several days. And so he says, give them something to eat. Well, see, outside of Christ, you can't do that. He never intended. Listen, Jesus said, the Father in me, he does the works. When Jesus gave that command, he was thinking of the Father. He wasn't thinking of what the disciples possessed. He wasn't thinking of what was in his treasury bag. He was thinking of who was in him when he gave that command. But notice this. Jesus put a question to the disciples. He said, how shall we do this? What shall we do? And the Bible says he already knew what he was going to do. Why did he ask them that question? He wanted to find out, what do you know? And one of the disciples spoke up and said, well, there's a little boy here. Ah, he's got five loaves and two fish. That disciple hit on the answer. But what happened then? He flipped to the mental arena and he thought, but what is that among so many? So he, he spoke the answer, but it didn't make sense to the reasoning. And so he dismissed the answer. But notice this, Jesus perceived the answer. He knew the answer he discerned. That's the answer. Now I have to think this. How come the disciples knew that there was a little boy there with five loaves and two fish? That little boy no doubt offered it to him. Why did that little boy offer, you can have my five loaves and my two fish? Because he knew it was enough for him. And he thought, if it's enough for him, it's enough for y' all, too? Well, in that form, it wasn't enough. But with the Father doing the work, it became more than enough. Notice this. Anything God commands of you, what you hold as your own resources is never enough to fund the bigness and the greatness of God's plan. Your own resources are never enough for his plan. That's why we have to be skillful at drawing on the greater one in us. Because God does not intend for us to pay for it. I love something that brother Jesse Duplantis says, God never asked me to pay for it. He asked me to believe for it. Well, what are we to believe? We're to believe. The Father in me, he's doing the work. The Father in me, he's providing this plan. He's providing the resources I so appreciate. When God delivered his people out of Egypt, what he did. Remember what I said earlier? They came out, there was not one feeble one among them. He healed them before they exited Egypt. Number two. They went out. They went out of Egypt with the wealth of Egypt. They commanded. They demanded of their masters the silver and the gold. What was that? 400 years of back pay? Baby. It was back pay. And so they walked out with the wealth of Egypt. But notice, God sent them to on a journey that led them through a wilderness. So although they had the wealth of a nation, they could have bought anything, paid for anything. God sent them to a place where money wouldn't work for them. Why is that? Because he was teaching them that money you own is not your provider. I'm your provider. Can I tell you this? Never trust in anything that's not big enough to deliver you. Money is never great enough to deliver you. And God sent them with their pockets full, but he sent them to a place where their money would not purchase anything for them. Because he was teaching them, I'm your provider. No matter how much money you have as your resource. Can I tell you what? In Christ, you have every resource fully provided for, and it's just waiting for your faith to collect it. It's waiting for your mind to think in those terms and for your mouth. To speak those words. The plan of God for your life he has already funded. It's just waiting for your faith to show up. The Word tells us this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. What's that mean? It means this. Your victory is already won and waiting for your faith to lay hold of it. And so we recognize, in him we live, and in him we move. And in him we have our being. Never talk about what you don't have. Because when you talk about what you don't have, you just now stepped outside of Christ. Because in Christ you have everything you're ever going to need. I want to read to you. This is a verse that we've gone to at different times. But it's such a loaded passage. I want to read it to you. Colossians, chapter two and verse six. It says this. As you have therefore received Christ. This is an amplified classic translation. As you have therefore received Christ, even Jesus the Lord, so walk, regulate your lives and conduct yourselves in union and conformity to Him. Have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him, fixed and founded in him, being continually built up in Him. Notice the point of the message. The central theme of is in Him. Then it says, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith. Then go down to verse nine. And it says, for in him the whole fullness of God, the Deity, the Godhead, continues to dwell in bodily form, giving complete expression of the divine nature. And look at verse 10. For you are in him, made full. And having come to fullness of life in Christ, you too are filled with the Godhead, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Now I want to read it to you out of the living Bible translation. This again is in verse 6. Colossians, chapter 2, verse 6. The Living Bible. It says, now, just as you trusted Christ to save you, trust him too, for each day's problems. Live in vital union with Him. Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from Him. See that you go on growing in the Lord and become strong and vigorous in the truth. And you were taught, let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done. Look at this. No complaint in our mouths, only gratitude. Because that's the language of someone of faith. And that's the language of someone who knows they're in him. Verse 8 says this. Don't let others spoil your faith and spoil your joy with their philosophies. What's that? Mental reasonings. The thinking of man. They're wrong and shallow answers built on men's thoughts and ideas instead of on what Christ has said. For in Christ there is all of God in a human body. So you have everything. Look at this. You have everything. When you have Christ and you are filled with God through your union, through your with Christ. And he is the highest ruler and the highest authority over every other power. No matter what comes against you in Christ, they are no match for him. And you, your life is hid with God in Christ. These verses are so loaded. We have to think as one in Christ, speak as one in Christ. And that's what the renewed mind does. The renewed mind speaks in Him. I have it in Him. I can do it. Don't let even your own human reasoning say, well, where are you going to get the money from? Not my problem. He's in me and he's working to bring it into my hands. He's working to bring it to pass. God never joined a plan to your life that he expected you to feel apart from Him. You are to walk it out only with his ability to his power and his divine help working through you. What is it that puts him to work? Your words when you say, today I put him to work for me today I'm leaning on Him. Today he's bringing to pass his plan in my life and you say so. Therefore I'm going to obey him in everything he tells me today. Because that's how we cooperate with and respond to the Christ that's in us. We have to respond to him and it's our obedience is how we respond to Him. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss next time. And until then, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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Visit us at defrainministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings show, 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. Join us for our Jesus the Healer crusade in Collinsville, Oklahoma at a glorious church with pastors Chip and Candice brim October 5th through the 9th. For more information and to register for in person attendance, please visit our website@dafresneministries.org 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.org for more information.
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