Podcast Summary: Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne – Episode 839 | In Christ I Can, Part 79

Date: September 18, 2025
Host/Teacher: Nancy Dufresne
Series Focus: Identity and inheritance in Christ, faith, healing, walking in the Spirit, and practical application of biblical principles.

Episode Overview

This episode of Jesus the Healer continues the ongoing series "In Christ I Can," with Nancy Dufresne teaching on the life-transforming realities of being “in Christ.” The focus is on how believers can draw from the divine resources Jesus provides—specifically, the fruit of the Spirit—and how these supernatural qualities are not just privileges but also responsibilities. Nancy emphasizes the profound difference between human capabilities and the divine flows now accessible, equipping listeners to live victoriously, particularly when facing adversity, opposition, or the need to operate in love and patience.

Key Points & Discussion Highlights

1. There Is Power Present for Healing

• Nancy reminds listeners that no matter their circumstances, the power of God is present to heal:

  "There's enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one... Power is present. That power is there to do a work." (00:10)

2. Importance of Repetition in Learning

• Nancy encourages repeated listening to sermons for transformation, not just information:

  "It's not unusual for me to listen to that thing 50 or more times because I don't want to just have it authored in me. I want to have it finished in me so that it becomes a part of my daily life." (01:20)

3. Series Theme: What It Means to Be ‘In Christ’

• Being “in Christ” removes struggle from life by shifting reliance from human effort to Christ within:

  "When we as believers renew our minds to who we are in Christ, that removes the struggle from our lives... we're not facing those things alone. We're facing them with the Greater One on the inside of us." (03:10)

• All the benefits for a successful life—healing, provision, wisdom, joy—are contained in Christ.

4. The Fruit of the Spirit: Our Divine Internal Supply (Galatians 5:22–23)

• Upon salvation, the Holy Spirit deposits divine flows—love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control—in the believer.
• These are not enhancements of human attributes but God's own nature:

  "These are divine flows. This is not human love, human joy, human peace. These are all divine in their origin. They make up the character of God. And these are in you." (05:30)

5. Practical Application: Practicing Peace and Managing Thoughts

• Illustrates with her own experience: God told Nancy in 2011 to "practice peace," leading her to aggressively guard her thought life:

  "Any thought that didn't lead me to peace, any thought that troubled my mind, any thought that didn't arrive me at joy, I immediately cast it down.... If it doesn't lead you to peace, God's not involved in it." (07:30)

• Recognizing and rejecting troubling, joy-robbing thoughts is key to establishing the fruits of the Spirit.
• Personal Testimony: This discipline prepared Nancy to withstand the grief of her husband’s sudden passing with supernatural peace:

  "The force of peace was so great that day that death was not a worthy opponent, because peace put me outside the reach of grief and sorrow that comes when death shows up." (11:20)

6. The Responsibility of the Believer: Drawing on Divine Resources

• In Christ, believers have both privileges and responsibilities. We must choose to operate from our new nature, not resorting to natural/human ways:

  “Being in Christ does not just give us privileges, it also brings responsibilities to us.” (04:50)

• We are not authorized to use “human love, human joy, human peace,” but must access the divine versions deposited by God.

7. Comparison of Human Love and Divine Love

• Jesus' teaching in Matthew 5:43–44 distinguishes between human and divine love:

  "Human love will not finish the course... But he tells us in verse 44 what divine love will do. Divine love is this: He said, 'But I say unto you, love your enemies.'" (16:00)

• Divine love operates independent of how others treat us. It manifests by:
  • Blessing those who curse us (right words)
  • Doing good to those who hate us (intentional actions)
  • Praying for those who mistreat us (bringing them before God in prayer)
• Jesus modeled this on the cross: "Father, forgive them; they don't even know what they're doing."

8. Divine Joy and Peace

• Divine joy does not depend on external circumstances:

  "Divine joy is independent of the circumstances. There doesn't have to be joyful things happening for you to be joyful. That's why for the believer, we should never be depressed again." (23:00)

• We do not pray for joy or peace as if we don’t possess them—they are within us to stir up:

  "You do not ever need to pray again. 'Oh God, give me joy.' He already gave you joy. The fruit of joy is in you. Stir it up." (25:09)

9. Long-Suffering/Patience: Outlasting the Enemy

• Patience is required to inherit God’s promises; it ignores time and hardship:

  "If we're not patient, what we end up doing is we start following the clock and the calendar. And so people will let go of things they're believing for because of the passing of time." (26:17)

• God’s patience waits for the harvest; so too must ours, joined to faith.

Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Practicing Peace (Personal Testimony):

  “The force of peace was so great that day that death was not a worthy opponent, because peace put me outside the reach of grief and sorrow that comes when death shows up.” — Nancy Dufresne (11:20)

• On Divine Love:

  “We love them because of who's in us, not because of what they did to us.” (19:40)

• On Joy as Strength:

  “The joy of the Lord is a conductor of the strength of God, that when you start drawing on joy, there will come a flow of strength through you. Because joy is a conductor of the strength of God.” (25:40)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:10 — Importance and immediacy of God's healing power
• 03:10 — How knowing who you are in Christ removes the struggle
• 05:30 — The fruit of the Spirit: divine flows, not human traits
• 07:30 — Practicing peace by managing thought life
• 11:20 — Testimony: peace in the face of death and grief
• 16:00 — Human love vs. divine love (Matthew 5)
• 19:40 — The real motive and nature of divine love
• 23:00 — Living in divine joy and peace, not determined by circumstances
• 25:09 — Stirring up the fruit of the Spirit within
• 26:17 — Patience and enduring faith for God’s promises

Actionable Takeaways

• Actively guard your thought life—reject thoughts that rob peace or joy.
• Choose daily to yield to divine love, joy, and peace—these are resident in your spirit.
• Respond to mistreatment with blessing, action, and prayer—imitating Jesus and letting divine love flow.
• Remember your responsibility: Don’t seek from God what He has already put inside you—learn to draw it out.
• Patience is essential for faith’s endurance—don’t be guided by time but by the promises of God.

This episode is a deep, practical exploration of living out the reality of “Christ in you,” emphasizing not just the inheritance but the daily spiritual discipline needed to walk in victory.

For more teaching or to access the full series, visit Dufresne Ministries.