← 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 to have you with us today for Jesus the Healer. We have been having such a good time in this series that we've been on, and some of you might have stayed with us through the whole thing. Thank you so much. But if you haven't seen all the episodes, go back and watch them. And, you know, sometimes you find out that one particular portion of an episode seems to speak to a specific need in your life. And we invite you, watch, watch any of them over and over and over that seem to really be addressing what you need at that time in your life. Because the Word has to be heard over and over again. I know that so much of if I will hear a particular sermon by another minister, and 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. So we're expecting that the things that are being taught in this series especially are a great help to you. We've been teaching on the subject of in Christ and what that means. And I will say this, that whenever we as believers renew our minds to who we are in Christ, that it removes the struggle from our lives because we are no longer overwhelmed by adversity and things that come against us because we realize we're not facing those things alone. We're facing them with the Greater One on the inside of us. And we're becoming skillful at putting him to work for us, through us and in us. And we're just grateful for this time that we get to spend with you. And again, as I always do, I encourage you get hold of your Bible and something to take notes on because we know that we know this. You can't hear the Word of God without it speaking to you in some way. And we want you to take note of that. Amen. And in this series, teaching on In Christ, it's loaded with so many benefits, so many privileges, and we feel like really, we're just scratching the surface in these episodes. We. But we know this, that all the wonderful things that belong to us because we're in Christ, healing and provision, wisdom, joy, all of the things that really make for a successful life, it's all contained in Christ. But it's our great privilege to learn to turn toward the greater One in us and put him to work for us. And it takes practice to not lean back to that natural man, to the. To even the flow of reasonings of the mind. But we just turn toward who we are in Christ. And we start saying, today Christ is in me, and I'm going to lean on him, rely on him, and let him take the lead in my life. Meaning this. I'm just going to follow him and obey him as he leads me today. And our lives will reflect who we're letting take the lead in our life. Amen. I want to remind us of something. We touched on some things in some previous episodes, but I want to go back and revisit a few of the things and go further with them. Because being in Christ does not just give us privileges, it also brings responsibilities to us. And I want to talk a little bit about, about that. I want us to go. Go with me, if you would, to Galatians, chapter 5. And I'm going to start reading in verse 22. And this is the King James translation, Galatians 5, verse 22, it says, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering. We could say this. Patience, gentleness, goodness, faith. Or really the word, better word there is faithfulness. And then verse 23, meekness, temperance. Well, temperance is self, self control, self restraint, self discipline. And so we're listed here, the nine fruits of the Spirit. When you were born again, the Holy Spirit imparted these fruits into your Spirit. They are resident in you now. Now know this. 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. And forces that will assist you no matter what you're facing in life. You know, when my. In 2011, the spirit of God spoke and he said this statement, he said, all I want you doing is practicing peace. Now, when he said that, I knew that he was saying, make that an emphasis. And so you Say, well, how did you practice peace? Well, 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. I did not turn it over in my thought life. And how many of you know, anytime the devil is suggesting something threatening with something, it will rob you of peace and joy. That's one of the things that helps you recognize the source of it. If it doesn't lead you to peace, God's not involved in it. If it doesn't lead you to joy, God has no part of it. But that helps us to recognize that the enemy is the source of that. So I paid attention to my thought life. And can I tell you this? If you're going to have the highest order of faith, that means you're going to develop this great understanding of who you are in Christ, and you're going to renew your mind to who you are in Christ. That's what gives you the highest order of faith. And I knew that if I was going to practice peace, as the Spirit of God said, I was going to have to pay attention to my thought life. Well, I'm so grateful that I followed what the Spirit of God told me to do. I paid attention to my thought life. I didn't just let my mind wander into any old thing it wanted to touch into. And I would cast down any thought and I would answer things, you know, you have to learn to answer troubling thoughts. You have to say to the devil, that's not my thought, and I'm not taking it, because the devil would love to do your thinking for you. That's exactly what he wants to do. And that's when people become so troubled in their thought life. And for two years I especially practiced and paid attention to stay in the flow of peace. I arrived at such a flow that really I did not recognize prior to that that there was such a peace available to us. And I was so grateful for the Spirit leading me that way, because in 2013, when my family came to the house and said, mom, Dad's plane went down today. And so I was already established in a flow of peace, because I had practiced that flow. And I bring that testimony up to tell you this. 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. And so I've said that to say this. These fruits of the Spirit are not just so we can feel good in life. They are absolute forces that protect us from the strategies, from the devices, from the flow of the enemy in this world. And they are something that we need to, if I could say this, emphasize in our daily life. Because if we're going to live as one in Christ, we have to recognize that these. These forces of the Spirit that are ours to draw on every single day. When we're drawing on the fruits of the Spirit, we're drawing on Christ in us because it is the price he paid that even made these things available to our lives. And so we were talking about something in a previous episode I want to refer to. And then, like I said, go further when it says listing the fruits of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace, temperance, long suffering or patience is the same word for long suffering. These are not human flows that God blessed or elevated. He gave us his own love, his own peace, his own joy, his own long suffering or patience, his own temperance. Because God. These are the things that make up the characteristics of God. This is how he operates. He is love. He operates totally. There's nothing that robs him of his peace. There's nothing that robs him of joy. The Word talks about that. He sits in the heavens and laughs. What's he laughing at? The enemy who tries to think that he. He has even a standing against God. These are exactly how God functions. And if we're going to live in Christ, these things have to be dominating us and allowing. And we're allowing them to be part of our daily life. Now I want to go back to a passage that we were reading or studying previously. Matthew 5:43, and this is the King James translation. Jesus is speaking, and he says this. You have heard that it has been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. What's he talking about? That's how someone outside of Christ functions. They love those who are good to them and they hate those who are not good to them. So he's saying this. Someone outside of Christ, all they have to draw on is human love. Human love will not. It will not finish the course. Human love does not have the stuff to finish, right? It cannot stand up in the face of adversity. So when we got born again, we no longer had just human love to draw on. Now we have divine love. The fruit of divine love came on the inside of us. Now because God has imparted these fruits to our own Spirit through the Holy Spirit, they are resident in us to spend any time. We don't have to pray for God. God, give me love. God, give me Peace, God, give me joy. No. The Holy Spirit imparted these into our Spirit. And because we're in Christ, listen to this. God expects us to draw on these. We are no longer authorized to go back to human love. We're no longer authorized to go back to human joy, human peace. Because these things are. The human flow of these is outside of Christ, but the divine flow of these is in Christ. So when Jesus said in Mark 5, 43, you've heard it said, thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. He's talking about. That's how human love functions. If you mistreat me, I'll mistreat you. You're good to me, I'll be good to you. That's as far as human love can go. 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. Then he tells us what it means or what steps we take to love our enemies. Number one, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. So he's telling us to love our enemies involves three things. Number one, you bless them well. Why? They curse you. You bless them. How do they curse you? With the words that they speak. They speak against you. They speak something to harm you. He's saying this. When an enemy comes against you, number one, use your words to pronounce blessing on them. Not cursing. Do not equal them in the way you speak. This can only be done by divine love. Being yielded to human love will not do that. Human love will not speak good when someone has spoken bad about it. But you're to speak good in the face of someone speaking evil about you. Now, human love, as I said it, will only equal the other person. You treat me bad, I'll treat you bad. You treat me good, I'll treat you good. You spit on me, I'll spit on you. You hit me, I'll hit you. That's human love. Divine love has nothing to do. It doesn't even take into consideration the other person. Human divine love operates on one thing. Who's in us? The love of God is in us. He's in us. And we love them for one reason. Because of who's in us, we don't even regard well, they did this to me, or they did that to me. No, divine love takes into account, does not take into account anything they did good or or bad against us. We love them because of who's in us, not because of what they did to us. And so this is. This is the difference. Divine love is based on God. Human love is based on others. And human love will falter in the face of opposition. But divine love totally disregards what someone did to it, because divine love is drawing on God only. So God loves everyone because he is love. We have the same love of God that has been shed abroad in our heart. Now, because we're in Christ, we are no longer permitted to go back down to the low flow of human love because God stocked us with his own love. He imparted it. And he expects us in Christ to live off that flow, to draw on that flow, and to manifest that flow. So again in verse 44 of Matthew 5, when Jesus said, love your enemies, then he tells us what love will do. Number one, it will bless them that curse us. So we speak right words even when wrong words are spoken against us. Then the second thing, do good to them that hate you. That means that you're to take an action of blessing. God won't just. God doesn't say. It's enough to just say something nice or to say something kind. You have to do something. There's an action to be taken. Do good to them that hate you. And then notice the third thing, pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. When you're praying for someone, what are you doing? You're talking to God. You're bringing them into God's presence with you. That's the highest thing you can do for someone, is you can bring their name before God and then God blessed them in response to your request for them. So to love our enemies, number one, we have to speak right about them, even if they speak wrong about us. Number two, we're to take an action, do something that will bless them. Number three, we are to talk to God about them in a way that we're asking him to bless them. That's exactly what Jesus did when he was crucified. Remember, he said, father, forgive them. They don't even know what they're doing. People who would come against you, they do not realize the harvest they're going to reap when they oppose you. And you don't want them to reap that harvest. And you said, some will say, yeah, I want them to reap that harvest. No, we don't want to reap the harvest that we've sown for in the past, how many times we have asked God to forgive us because we wanted to be. If I could say this redeemed from that harvest that we sowed for. And so we have to be as kind to others as God has been to us. So you say, well, I just can't treat people that way. With divine love, you can. Human love will fail at verse 44, but divine love can fulfill verse 44. Now, how many of you know, if we say we're in Christ, it's not just about, oh, that will cause my body to be healed, or that'll cause my. My bills to be paid. That's true. Being in Christ, you have provision for all those things. But it also puts the responsibility and the privilege on us to walk in love, to spend divine love when unlovely things are going on around us. Because God will no longer permit us to go back to the flesh, to try to walk in that low level of human love that will not accomplish what his word says. Amen. Then verse 45 says this. Jesus is telling us to love our enemies. Why? He says that you may be children of. Of your Father, which is in heaven. Another translation says, so that you're demonstrating that you belong to your Father. You know, when we say that we belong to God, that needs to show up in the way we respond to people. And so he says, God makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good. He sends rain on the just and the unjust. So notice this. God treats everyone the same, not because of how they treat him, but because of his great honor, because of the way he is. He loves based on him, he doesn't love based on them. Therefore, he can treat everyone the same. And so that's what divine love does for us in our own life. It causes us to equal God instead of equaling people. Now, the divine love of God, as I said, it's on the inside of you, but it's up to you to draw on it. If we don't yield to it, that love can go unexpressed. So we have to be skillful. To walk in Christ means we're skillful at drawing on the love of God. Now look at this. In Galatians, Chapter 5, we were reading the fruits of the Spirit. It lists that that which is already resident in us. It's love. Look at this joy. Peace. Let's look at these. This is divine joy. It's not human joy. Human joy means that something good out here has to happen before someone is joyful. But divine love, it's independent. Excuse me. 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. We. We should never be anxious again. Why? Because we have a divine flow to draw on. Even if circumstances don't offer us joy, no big deal. We brought our own joy. And it's the exact same joy that was in God himself. Listen, we know this, that Romans 12:3 says that we have received a measure of the faith of God. Now, when we were born again, God put a measure of his own faith in us. He did not say, hey, hope you get you some faith. No, he gave us his own. And then we're to cause that faith to develop, cause it to grow strong, and we're to cause it to flourish. But he did not go outside of Himself for us to find faith. He gave us his own faith. Well, even so, these fruits of the spirit are out of God himself. They are his. And he expects us to operate in them as he operates in them. We are no longer authorized to go down to human joy. We're to stay in divine joy. This is where so many people don't realize God. When you got born again, God does not just take human joy and, and energize it. He gave you his own joy. He doesn't just. He exchanged. He gave you an exchange. There's not just him elevating what you already had. He gave you a brand new. All things are new. All things are new. And so no matter what isn't joyful around you, because listen, there are some people, their homes. What goes on in that home and what others allow in their lives would not offer you joy. But no problem. Because the one in you has provided you with divine joy for you to draw on. What's that mean? That means that even if someone doesn't treat me right and it would rob my home of joy, I'm never robbed of joy because of who's in me. I have divine joy to draw on. I don't wait for someone to be joyful to me around me before I live in joy. Amen. Now, God expects us. Listen. He expects us to draw on these fruits because he put them in us so that our lives could look like His. Amen. So that we could walk as Jesus walked. The next thing. Love, joy, peace. The devil is constantly trying to rob us of peace. Why? Because this world has no peace in it. Well, you're not left to just human peace to try to survive on. You know what human peace does? It tries to cope with things. We're not called to cope. We're called to rule. And reign in the face of death. In 2013, when my husband died unexpectedly, I was not left with human peace to try to keep myself together during that. During that season, during that tragedy. But I had divine peace. And divine peace was so much a greater force than the death that came to take our life, take our family, and take our ministry off course. It did not work because divine peace was a far greater flow than anything. That's the flow of this world. Amen. So I don't care what happens against you. Just know this. The force of peace will hold you in God's flow if you'll yield to it and you draw on it. But you have to choose to walk in divine love. You have to choose to walk in divine joy. You have to choose to walk in divine peace when everything around you doesn't offer you that because it's all in you to draw on. You're never left without it. You can spend it anytime you want, 24 hours a day. 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. That's what Paul told Timothy. Stir up the gift of God, which is on the inside of you and part of what he's. Everything that he's put in you. The fruits of the Spirit, they have to be stirred. Well, how do you stir them up? You choose them. You start talking. The joy of God's in me. I don't care what's going on around me. The joy of God's in me. And I refuse to sink to the low level of human joy that will not finish the task. Divine joy. God's own joy is in me. And the joy of the Lord is my strength. And I can face anything because the same. Listen. 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. You won't have to pray for strength when you draw on joy. The joy of God will produce the strength of God in your life. And so God expects us because these divine forces of him are in US 24 hours a day. We don't ever pray. Oh, God, give me patience. No, he's already given you patience. Now. So stir it up. Draw on it. That puts a responsibility on us that as we're in Christ, that we draw on these higher flows. Now it says that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. The next one says long suffering, patience. That's really what it is? Well, the Word tells us that through faith and patience we inherit the promises of God. 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. No, the patience of God. Just think of it. The Word talks about that God has long patience. What's he doing? He's waiting for the precious fruit of the earth to be gathered in. Aren't you thankful that he didn't get impatient and and sin, judgment or judgment come before you got born again? That he was patient long enough for all of us to come into the family and he's got more people that he wants to come into his family. And he's patient waiting for the the early and the latter rain to be fulfilled. Why? Because he has a harvest and he has long patience waiting for it. I want you to know the patience of God will ignore the clock in the calendar. And if your faith is going to endure, you have to join patience to your faith. Because without patience, faith will quit. Patience has to be joined to the to our faith so that we don't get talked out of receiving our miracle. Our answer Just because time is passing, because the patience of God is on the inside of us, we will not settle for anything less than God's best. We won't give up. We will outlast every devil, every opposition because we had divine patience to draw on. And because of that, we can endure to the end. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss next time because we're going to keep going this direction. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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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@dufresneministries.org we trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at 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. We invite you to join us at World Harvest church, home of Dufresne Ministries in Murrieta, California. Located at 23109 Palomar Street, Marietta, California, this is a Word and Spirit Church. Join us in person or online Sunday mornings at 10am and Tuesday nights at 7pm Pacific Time. For more information, go to defrainministries.org.
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But I Believe youe Died so that yout Could Provide.