← 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.
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The soles of my feet.
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Welcome. We're so glad you're joining us today for Jesus the healer. And just know this. It is such a great joy for us to be able to come and spend this time with you and feed on the Word together, because the Word takes our life and it sets it on course when we do it. So how many of you know we're not just hearers. Only it begins with hearing, but the hearing is to move us to the doing of the Word. So we're just grateful that we can spend this time together so that we can all become better doers of the Word. The Word says this. It's the doer that's blessed. So we say we're blessed because we're doers. Amen. We're not just appreciating God's word. It begins with appreciation, but we don't leave it just saying, we appreciate that this is what God says, but we're doing what God says. Amen. We have been on a series. Oh, my goodness. I have been loving this, Loving it, loving it. And I'm so glad the Holy Ghost directed us this way. Teaching on In Christ. We've done, what is it, summer, 80 episodes so far on In Christ. I had no idea we'd end up with 80 because I was getting ready. When we were starting filming for that first episode, I was really going to go a different direction. And just as about two days before filming began for this, this series, God said, I want you to teach on In Christ. I said, great, but I got no notes on it. And so we just came to the studio. I had just a few different scriptures and just a couple pages of things, and that's what we went off of. And it has become 80 episodes. Why? Because we're just speaking by utterance that just comes out. And we're just grateful for it. And you know what? We're going to continue that same direction. How long? I don't. You got to stick around because to find out, because there's so much, everything that Jesus paid for, it belongs to us now. You know, you have to understand this. In the Old Testament, the emphasis of people praying, the emphasis of their need is them trying to get God to do something for them. That was the Old Testament approach to God, to trying to get God to do something for them, which was, which was right for their era. But now all has been done in Christ for us. So now it's not about trying to get God to do something. It's about us receiving what he's already done in Christ. So the Old Testament emphasis, the covenant, the Old covenant, the emphasis was endeavoring to get God to do something. The emphasis of the new covenant is receiving all that has already been done. What a difference that is. Meaning this. We don't approach our need as though we're trying to get God to do something about our need. Now that is so key and that is so critical. Because if we have the mindset that I'm trying to get God to move in my behalf, it shows that we don't yet know what has already been done for us. And not knowing will rob us of receiving all, all that has been done for us. So when we talk about teaching on in Christ, we're talking about discovering everything that he has already done for us. And we are in the mindset. I'm just taking it, I'm taking it. I am not waiting for God to show up. He showed up. He showed up in Christ and in Christ is in me. And so he's already shown up in my situation. Now it's just me employing the One who has shown up. And that's what receiving from God is. You know, someone was, had contacted me because they were dealing with a loved one that was in a very serious condition in the hospital. And their family had been praying and believing God for God's help in this situation. And so they called me and they said, we're praying, but it just doesn't seem like our prayers are hitting the mark. We're not seeing the help, the changes that we need to see because this is a life and death situation. You know, when it's a life and death situation, we don't have time to do it wrong. We don't have time to go the wrong direction and hope it works. You know, just crossing everything and saying, I'm just going to throw this at it and hope it works. No, we have to have some knowledge. We have to know how to cooperate with God. So I said to the people who had contacted me, I said, well, I didn't really. I didn't really ask them, how have you been praying? I could perceive, because I could hear, if I could say this, the desperation of the moment, of how they were expressing themselves. And so I said to them, I said, well, let me help you with this. Generally, most Christians are, when they're faced with a need, especially a very critical need, maybe an emergency of life. I said, most are approaching God trying to. They're going this way to God, trying to get him to send something down, trying to get him to insert himself into our situation, trying to get him to do something for us. And I said, if you do that, your loved one will die. Because that's not a bad confession. That's just not knowing how to cooperate with God. Under new covenant, Old covenant is they were endeavoring to bring God into their situation, but Jesus came and brought God into our situation. Now we just have to receive of that flow. So I said, go approach this differently than you have with this loved one that's in the hospital. Don't go in there and praying, oh, God, do something. Oh, God, would you heal? Would you do. Would you? Don't go in there trying to get Him. You don't have to coerce God into being good. He is good. And because he's so good, he already stocked our lives with everything we need. Now it's up to us to understand that, employ that, and by faith, activate what he's already stocked our lives with. But I said, but if you go in there trying to get him to do something for you, that lack of knowledge will keep you outside of the flow of faith. Because faith is not believing God can do something. Faith is believing. God has done it, and he does it for me now. And that's what you have to realize. It's not God can do something. That's not faith. You know, even people that aren't born again believe God can do some things. They don't have to belong to God to know that God can do some things. But faith is believing. God not only can do, he does it for me now. And so this is what I had to help them understand is quit getting. Trying to get God to do something, because we don't have to coerce him. We don't have to talk him into our miracle. We don't have to talk him into healing us. He longs for it more than we do, and He So longed for it that he sent Jesus to pay the price before your need ever showed up. That's how much he longed for you to have his best. And so I would say this to them. I said, don't approach God or approach this situation with your loved one the same way you have been. I said, you walk into that hospital room and you say this, God's in me. God's in them. God's in this room. The power of God's in this room. The power of God's in me. Go in there talking about what you have. Don't go in there talking about trying to get God to do something, because faith cannot be attached. The God kind of faith doesn't work without the God kind of thinking. Now you get that a renewed mind thinks like God. But if you go in there thinking humanly, the divine faith of God that is on the inside of every believer has to. It can only work with God's way of thinking. You can't have man's way of thinking and have God's faith work with man's way of thinking. God's faith requires God's way of thinking. And the God's way of thinking for us as new covenant believers is everything already belongs to us in Christ. We do not have to try to get God to do something for us. Amen. So I want to. Let me insert here. Let's at this time, let's go to Colossians chapter two. And I want us to go to verse three, Colossians two, three. And I'm going to read this out of the Amplified Classic translation. We invite you, get your Bible wherever you're at. Get your Bible. Get something to take notes on. Follow along with us. Because we don't want these things that God would say to you to slip from you. And Colossians 2, 3. The Amplified Classic says this. In him or in Christ, all the treasures of divine wisdom. Look at that. All the treasures of divine wisdom. Now think of just that phrase. The wisdom of God is the treasure box that the treasure, the wealth of everything, the answer for everything we need, the supply for everything we need is stored up in the wisdom of God. And the wisdom of God is in Christ. In Him. In Christ. All the treasures of divine wisdom, the comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God. And all the riches of spiritual knowledge and enlightenment are stored up in Christ and lie hidden. Now look at that. It's all in Christ. Now know this. You're in Christ. So all the treasures of God's wisdom is in you, available to you, because Christ is in you, you're in Christ. Now, see, doesn't that dismiss us from going to God and trying to get him to do something for us? Because he's already done for us in Christ everything He wanted for us. Now listen to that statement. God did in Christ everything He wanted for us. Healing, health, provision, wisdom, freedom, victory. Everything he wanted for us, he put in Christ. And then we take and we attach our faith. That's all in Christ. Every need I ever am going to face, whether I currently face it or will face it in the future, every answer is already loaded in Christ and God. What's this mean? God is not behind the eight ball, so to speak. He's in front of it. He has already stocked in Christ with all the treasures of wisdom. What's wisdom? It is the thoughts of God. It's the will of God. It's the plan of God. Can I tell you, for the believer, the wisdom of God is who we are in Christ. That is the wisdom of God. For every believer to grow in the wisdom of God, we have to grow in the knowledge of who we are in Christ, what belongs to us and who he is in us and through us. And so it says here In Colossians, chapter 2, verse 3, in him, all the treasures. Look at that. It's so rich that all the word can call it is a treasure. We understand what a treasure is, right? A treasure box holds something of great value. A treasure box holds provision for every arena of life. And I'm not just referring to financial provision, but what about provision for your home, provision for your family, provision for your health, provision for the plan of God in Christ? The provision of God is already stored up. Now, what we have to do is think like God so that we can flow with, cooperate with, and think in line with what God's already made ours. Now, all that God has made ours is in Christ. So in Christ, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden. Now, notice this. What's that mean? It lies hidden? God's not hiding it from us. He's hiding it for us. So it is up to us to explore and discover everything that belongs to us. Now you go over to Proverbs, chapter 4. In verse 20, it says this, My son, attend to my words. Incline thine ear unto my sayings. And then it goes on. And then it says down in verses 21, somewhere, verses 21, 22, it says, for his words are life. Look at this phrase. Unto those that find them, how important that is, that's Proverbs 4:22. Let me read to you again. For they God's words. Couldn't we say God's wisdom? Because God's wisdom is his words. God's words is his wisdom. So for they God's words are life not to everyone. Look at this. His words aren't life to everyone. They're life to those that find them meaning. You have to be interested enough to lay hold of discover what's yours in Christ. And you have to by faith say that belongs to Me. And it says that his words are life unto those that find them and health to all their flesh. Now if his words are health to all your flesh, don't you think that his words are health and wholeness to every arena of your life, that every arena will be enriched? What about for your mind? What about for your finances? What about for your relationships, your marriage, your home? What about this for your business? His words, they bring the life of God into every single arena. But notice, it's for those who find them. What does that mean? We must be interested. We have to put forth to show desire that we don't want to live the way we used to live. We don't want to think the way we used to think. None of us got saved so that we could live the way we were living right now. Think about it. If the way we were living before we were born again satisfied us, why did we ever receive Christ? Because none of us were satisfied that we hungered and we desired for something more, Number one. We desired God Himself. We desired Christ Himself. We didn't just desire the things he gave us, we wanted Him. And so in him is everything that supplies every single longing, every single desire, every single dream that we would ever hope to experience experience in this life. So why would we say I want him, but we never dive in to what belongs to us in Him. We never show interest enough to discover what's ours in Christ. No, that doesn't describe us. We're hungry, aren't we? I said we're hungry. That means we're interested enough to find out what belongs to us. Why? So we can become doers of what is ours in Christ. What belongs to us in Christ? We don't have to earn because he made it ours, but we do have to do our part to partake of what he already made ours. So this is where many people miss it. They think they have to earn what God has made theirs in Christ. And that's not true. We're not earning it. But we do have to Put forth diligence to partake of what he already made ours. So know this. You don't have to talk God into healing. You don't have to talk God into provision. You don't have to talk God into leading you. You don't have to talk God into a plan for your life. You don't have to talk God into fulfilling the desires of your heart. He already has completed everything of his best for your life. And then he stalked Christ with it. And then he put Christ in you and you in Christ. It's an amazing system. I mean, it's divine. It's the genius of heaven. It's the genius of God. It's the wisdom of God. Now here again, though, it says that in Christ, in Colossians 2, verse 3, again in Christ, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden. Now notice. Look at this. Lie hidden. Don't leave it hidden. Go in and find it. Partake of it. And that's what we're endeavoring to do in these episodes. We're uncovering and discovering what belongs to us in Christ. But even though we can teach it to you, we cannot partake of it for you. It's up to us to partake of it for our own lives. And we have to be interested in it enough to partake. What's that going to require? That's going to require the exercise of faith. Because we can only partake of what's ours in Christ by faith. Without faith, it won't just drop on us, it belongs to us. But faith is the hand that dips into the treasury of in Christ and draws it out of the treasury and into our situation. Amen. Where is that treasury? In you. It's in you. Isn't that something? In you lies all the wealth of heaven. Why? Because Christ is in you the hope of glory. Christ in you the hope of glory. So that puts a responsibility on us as vessels to open up that treasure box that's on the inside of us, who is Christ himself. And we say, I receive of that. Now, this is what I was telling the people who were believing God for that loved one in the hospital. I said, you can't go in there acting like you'd have something in Christ. Go in there and talk about, I'm in him. He's in me. That means all the power we need for this situation is in the room. It's present right now. We're not waiting for God to send it. We're not trying to coerce it from the Hand of God. We're not trying to talk him into it, but we are. If I could say this, we are knowledgeable. We are understanding of what we're dealing with. Amen. We are not going in there oblivious and just taking a shot in the dark and hoping that this prayer works. We don't operate that way. We are intelligently cooperating with God. And I'm talking about spiritual intelligence, not mental intelligence, spiritual intelligence. To say, in Christ is the deliverance in Christ is the victory. In Christ is the turnaround for this situation. In Christ is the health and the healing for this situation. So we're going to go in there like we're intelligent about what is ours in Christ and we put a demand on it. Amen. And this is what we have to take as our approach. We are not trying to talk God into goodness. He is good. He's already stocked our life with his goodness. Well, what is his goodness? Anything your life needs. And so we go into any situation, we face any need talking about who we are in Christ, what He's made ours. And we're done with the old unrenewed thinking of trying to talk God into something good for our lives. We don't have to coerce Him. I said, we don't have to coerce him. Look at John. Let's look at 3 John, verse 2. There's only one chapter in 3 John, verse 2. Beloved, I wish above all things Thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospers. Now notice this. The Word tells us that men of old were writing these words of God as they were moved on by the Holy Ghost. So this wasn't just John. Out of his affection and care for the saints writing this, John became the secretary to the Holy Ghost. And all he did was write down what the Spirit of God. What the Spirit of God spoke to him, spoke through him. And he becomes the penholder, the secretary, and writes down what the Spirit of God is saying to him. So this isn't just John having affection for the saints. This is what God is saying through John. Beloved, I wish above all things. What's that mean? It's God's desire. It's God's longing. I wish above all things. Look at this. That thou mayest prosper. Know this. The desire for your prosperity did not begin with you. It began with God himself. So the devil will try to paint you as being covetous or greedy because you want to prosper. No, you're coming into the desire of God. And he desired that for you before you were ever born. So he provided it for you in Christ. Now John said, I wish above all things, thou mayest prosper and be in health. So what's God's plan for every one of his children? Prosperity and wholeness. Prosperity and wholeness. So what's that mean? If it's not prosperous and if it's not whole, we're not putting up with it. And we're not okay with having less than what God desires for ourselves. So he said, I wish above all things, thou mayest prosper and be in health. Now here's the condition. Even as thy soul prospers, he's saying this. We will enjoy prosperity from God. We'll enjoy divine health to the measure that we think like God. So a prosperous soul to the measure that our soul prospers, is to think like God. So what is this letting us know? It's not a lack of prosperity and it's not a lack of healing. It's a lack of thinking right. When people are not receiving what God's provided, it's not because there's a shortage of provision or shortage of healing. And you don't have to try to talk God into it. It's because God is inviting us to thinking more like him. If we're. If what God provided for us is not flowing, it's a lack of us thinking right. Now get that. It's a lack of us thinking right? So John called it the prospering of the soul. He said, beloved, I wish above all things, thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy look soul prospers. Now Paul in Romans 12:2 said, Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the reap the renewing of your mind. So Paul calls it renewing of the mind. John calls it prospering of the soul. David in Psalm 23, he says that. That God restores our soul. What's that mean? God brings us back into his way of thinking. So David calls it restoring of the soul. Paul calls it renewing the mind. John calls it prospering of the soul. James calls it this. Receive with meekness the engrafted word that is able to save your souls. So he's. James was writing to saved people and telling them, your soul's not saved. What's that mean? Your spirit is born again. God is in you. The life of God is in you. But you're carrying around the mentality and the thinking like a man who's not saved. What does that mean? He's saying, you need to take on God's way of thinking. And he calls that the saving of the soul. And when he's talking about the saving of the soul, he's not talking about the whole of man. Soul is mind, will and emotions. Now, in the word, the soul can mean. When you see the word soul, it can have a double meaning. It can mean the whole of man, or it can mean the mind, the will and the emotions, which is a soul. Let me, let me explain it to you this way. The word says, he that wins souls is wise. He's not talking about just the mind, the will and the emotions. He's talking about the whole of my that he that wins souls is wise. So in that passage, it's talking about the whole of man. But James isn't talking about the whole of man in his passage because he's writing to Christians that are saved and he's telling them their soul's not saved. That's your problem. That's what he was telling them. You're having struggles because your soul's not saved. So how do you get your soul saved? Receive with meekness the engrafted word. How many of you know you don't. You don't have the word engrafted into your soul, spirit, or planted into your spirit just by reading it. You have to meditate on it. Think it to yourself. Say it when you're driving down the road in your car, when you're traveling somewhere, when you're doing your work around the house. At the free moments of life. Let the word move around on the inside of you. Speak it. Say it to yourself. Why? Because then you come into thinking like God. And when you think like God, you start dipping into the treasure of Christ that is on the inside of you and you start living rich instead of struggling. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss next time because we're going to go further with this. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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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. At Dufresne Ministry, 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. Nancy Dufresne is the President of World Harvest Bible Training center in Marietta, 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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