← 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 so glad you're joining us today for Jesus the healer. Thank you for taking the time to speak in the Word with us. And it is such a joy for us to get to bring the Word to you. And I tell you, there's nothing like the Word to take your life and set it on course. And we're just so thankful that the Word is not just something we appreciate, it's something we do. Amen. And we do appreciate it, but we appreciate it so much that we're doing it. And so we have been in a series called In Christ I Can. And how long are we going to be in this area? I don't know. But stick around, be with us. And we say this. Any previous episodes that you may have missed, go back and watch them. And you know, whenever you watch an episode that speaks to something of your life, you know, it's as though your spirit gets thrilled with it. When you hear it, God authors something in you. Light dawns on you. When that happens, go back and watch it again. Sometimes it's an entire episode, sometimes it's a portion of an episode. But that's one way we meditate on the Word is we hear it over and over and we take it into our life. You know, the Word says this in Hebrews. It says, Jesus is the author and the finisher of our faith. So what's this mean? We don't just want something authored, we want it also so much in our daily life that it finishes and has an outcome in our life. It changes the outcome of our situations. And so when Jesus is the author, he doesn't just want things authored in us. He wants it so much a part of our being that becomes a way of life. And it finishes out whenever a test comes, the faith in us finishes that test. Amen. The devil may start something, but we're finishing it, and we write the ending. My mother used to say this to us. You know, there were four kids in our family growing up, and my mother would say this to us. She said, you can start anything. You're big enough to let me finish. So that meant if you're going to talk back to me and you're going to start that, she says, I'm going to hand you a finish. And you better make. You better know this. You better be big enough to take that finish before you decide to start something with me. Well, we can say that with the devil, he might start something, but we, we write the finish by the word of God. And Jesus is the author, and he helps us to finish his word in our life and not just what the dev opposes our life with. You know, the devil can start something intending to take your life off course, but if you apply the word to it, I tell you what, the ending will be so much better than what you ever would have thought could have happened in your life when you let the word write the ending. And so God will. You'll, you'll hear some things of these episodes and God will, if I could say this author something in you, I mean, it becomes. You go, I, I see that. That dawns on me. That gives me a clearer picture of the word of God. And so when that happens, though, don't just speed past it, meditate on it. That means listen to it over and over again, because that's how it becomes a finish in your life in the sense of it plays out in your everyday life and rewrites endings in your life. I love something that George Mueller used to say in his book. He would, he would, he made this statement. Now, George Mueller was a man who had an orphanage in Bristol, England in the 1800s. At one time, he would have 2,200 orphans. At a time that he was just under the umbrella of his faith, that he was believing God for their care, for their schooling, for their housing. And there were well over 10,000 orphans raised that he basically took under his career throughout his years of ministry. And he made this statement. He said, I don't read through the Bible. I meditate my way through the Bible. What's this mean? It's not about how much can we read in a day and get it checked off. It's how much do we get in us, how much lands on the inside of us. So we're, we are going through this series and we're not just wanting you to listen to it. We're wanting you to meditate in it. We're wanting you go back and feed on something of it that speaks to you specifically. And as you do, listen more than once sometimes. And I said all that to say this. Don't just try to get through an episode as quick as you can. Get as much in you as you can. Amen. And so we have been in this series in Christ, I can. Because there's so much that belongs to. To us. Now, we had been looking at Colossians, chapter two and verse three. This is the Amplified Classic translation. And I want you to see how it reads. It reads in him or in Christ, all the treasures. Look at that word. I like this word, treasures. Ladies, don't you like treasures? I mean, ladies have their treasures. Men have things that they treasure. But God has what he treasures. And it's so rich of what belongs to us in Christ that the only way to describe it is a treasure. And so he said, in him or in Christ, all the treasures, look at this. Of divine wisdom. What's divine wisdom? It's how God thinks. It's the thoughts of God. It's what wisdom planned for us. It's what wisdom made ours. And in Christ, all the treasures of divine wisdom. And then the amplified says, comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God. And all the riches of spiritual knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden. What is that? It's all in Christ. So it is our pleasure and our privilege to be able to dive into what's ours in Christ. Why? So that we don't live less than we are. So that we live as rich as we are, as rich as he made us to be. Now, notice this. You can either live as a believer, you can live in Christ, or you can live outside of Christ. Now, we are all made in Christ. Once we're born again, you are in Christ. But don't live as one outside of him in the way you think, in the way you speak, in the way you respond. Because the way we think, believe, speak and respond can be as one in him or one outside of him. Even though we're all in Him. Don't act like we're not in Him. Don't think as one as outside of Him. Because everything God has for you is in Christ. So why would we go and function or think or speak on the level as though we're outside of Christ? If we're outside of Christ, we're outside of God's wisdom. If we speak as one outside of Christ, as we think of one outside or Respond as one outside of Christ. We have dismissed ourself from the whole thing. God included us. Let's not dismiss ourselves from what he already included us in on. He wants us to live as rich as we are and that's in Christ. Now what we need to do is to learn to answer things and think of ourselves as in Christ. If someone struggles with a poor self image due to them thinking as one outside of Christ, in Christ you had no poor self image. There is no poor self image in Christ. So what's that mean? Change how you're thinking, Change your position. The Word tells us this, that we are to put on the new man. Now see, the Bible tells us this, that we are new creatures in Christ. The old man has passed away. The man before Christ, who you were before you were born again. The Bible calls the old man, but now you're a new man. What's that mean? You're a new species in Christ. Now ladies, let me say this. Don't ever trip up over this word man in the Bible. New man, old man. The word man in the Bible refers to mankind. It refers to the whole of of humanity. It's not referring to a gender. So don't trip up over that. Just like the Word calls the body of Christ the bride of Christ. Well, men are in that, but we're not talking about a gender thing. And so don't be limited by today's terminology and how the world thinks when it says the old man or the new man, he's talking about mankind. The old you has passed away. The new you has come. The new you is in Christ. Now when people have a self image, they're thinking of themselves as the old man. They're thinking of them outside of Christ. So to deal with a poor self image, you cannot counsel yourself into a good self image. You have to see yourself as in Christ. You have to find yourself in the Word and say, that's who I am. And I'm not letting the old man define me. I'm a new creature. I'm a new species of being that never existed before until I came into Christ. And I'm not going to go back to the way the old man thought, the way the old man operated, the way the old man spoke. Because that man is dead in Christ. A new man is now living. And this is what Paul said in Ephesians, put on the new man. What's he mean? You are a new creature in Christ. Now put on that way of thinking. Put on that way of speaking. Put on that way of Responding. Put on that way of believing because you're new. Don't think. Think like the old, talk like the old and carry the shame of the old. Carry. If I could say this, the poor self image of the old. You can't dress up the old man and make him look any better. He can't get better looking. God didn't try to make the old man better. He did away with him and put you as a new man in Christ. Amen. And how we are to function in Christ is that that's how we're putting on the new man. Now let me say it to you this way. Under the old covenant, they were not new creatures in Christ, were they? They were made righteous. God would make them. If I could say this, a righteousness was accounted to Abraham, right? So God could account righteousness to them. But they weren't in Christ. When you see the word righteousness in the Old Testament, you know what you can do? You can put the terminology in Christ because they were not in Christ under the old covenant, but we are. And what did Christ do for us? He made us righteous. So when you say in Christ, you're also saying righteousness. When you see in the old covenant. Let's go. Let's think of Isaiah, chapter 54. I think it's verse 14. He said, Establish yourself in righteousness. What's that mean? Well, under the old covenant they could establish themselves in righteousness. But under the new covenant with we're in Christ and that's why we're righteous. So we could say this, establish yourself who you are in Christ. And that would still be correct and accurate to state it that way. But under the old covenant, they were not in Christ. Yet they could be a righteousness like Abraham. It was accounted to him that he was righteous by faith. Now God's people were held captive in Egypt. God sent divine help and he sent Moses to go. And he said, go tell Pharaoh, let my people go. Notice this, God spoke to Pharaoh through Moses. He gave Pharaoh instructions of how to make this transition with without hurt or harm. Because God was delivering his people into freedom, right? He was telling Pharaoh, what's your part in this? Your part is to let my people go. God was trying to spare Egypt the heartbreak, the difficulty of disobeying. And so he told them how to be blessed in this transaction. Let my people go. Well, Pharaoh didn't believe that they needed to comply with what God said. So what happened? Their disobedience opened the door for all kinds of havoc not worked by God, but worked by the enemy. Why? Because Satan's the destroyer. And these things were worked. God was working miracles for his people. But it became devastation for those disobedient to God. And so God worked and they were delivered from Pharaoh's rulership. What was it? No longer slaves. If we could say this, that's us no longer slaves. We're not slave to the old man anymore. Now, when God delivered his people out of Egypt, what did he say to them? He said, I have given you a land that flows with milk and honey. Can I tell you this? He told that to Abraham. He said, future generations, he says, I will give them the land God had already given them. The land that they had not even arrived at. I want you to know God's not. God has given you things you haven't partaken of yet. So don't leave it unclaimed. Partake of it. So notice this. Who did God use to bring his people into freedom? He used the only free Hebrew in the earth. There was only one free Hebrew in the earth, and it was Moses. Every other Hebrew was in slavery. God gave Moses freedom when he was as a child. Remember, his mother made a basket, sent him down the Nile river, which was not the lazy river. It was a violent, functioning, flowing current where all of this, if I could say, this business transaction, ships and things were on this water. God directed, led him, guided that basket. And just by, if the world would say, by coincidence. And it wasn't by coincidence, it was a divine plan ended up at the Pharaoh's backyard at the time that Pharaoh's daughter is at the water, right? So Pharaoh had given out this edict, this command that all the Hebrew babies be killed. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So God sends one right to his household and said, you'll pay for him to be raised. He will partake of your household. He will partake of your freedom. He will be in line for the throne. And he's put him right in his house and moved upon the Pharaoh's daughter. He will be my son. God did all of this, why he freed a man? Because it's only a free man that can lead others into freedom. A bound man cannot lead into freedom. So God made one man free. And God was not making Moses free for his own good only. He was making him free because he had a nation in mind that he was going to use him for his freedom. When God made you free, it was not just with you in mind. It was so everyone he brought you into contact would come into the same freedom. Just know this. Your freedom is not Just for you. It's for you to help bring others into that freedom. Amen. So God had to use someone. He had to get. He had to make someone free. And he did this with Moses, so that Moses could lead a nation into freedom. Although they exited Egypt no longer slaves, how did they come out? Not one feeble one among them. You have to remember this. And not one feeble one among them know this. These were slave bodies. These were bodies that had been abused, misused, worked hard, neglected, not treated right. And in that that they were. They walked out of that nation. Look at this. Not one feeble one among them. Nobody's dragging somebody in a wagon out of Egypt. Every single one of them were made whole. Not only did they come out healed and whole, they came out rich. What was that? God told Moses tell the people to command of their masters all the silver, all the gold of their household. So they walked out with the health of heaven, and they walked out with the wealth of Egypt. And then, notice this. He sent them to a place where their money wouldn't work for them. He sent them to a place where they couldn't spend it. They were in the wilderness. What was that? God was training them. Just because you got the wealth of Egypt, you're not going to have your faith in that wealth. Your faith is going to be in me. And he sent them to a place where they couldn't buy enough food, they couldn't buy enough water. They had to believe God. God brought them into the flow of. Of miracles. And trusting him because he let them know, your money is no substitute for your faith in God. And so they walked out with complete health. They walked out with complete wealth. But the problem was this. They never changed the way they thought. They. They carried a slave mentality into this journey to their new land. And because they never changed the way they thought, they never arrived. I want you to know they ended up doubting because they would not change the way they thought. It's not that they could not. They would not. How were they to change the way they thought? They should have meditated on what God said. God said, I have given you a land. Notice this. You don't have to talk God into giving it to you. Hebrews. God said, I've already given it to you. They should have said, God already gave us this land. Let's go get it. That's what Joshua said. That's what Caleb said. They said, we are well able. Let's go at once and possess the land. And everyone else said, no. Why? Only two men Built into them. What God said. Look at this. It's some. It's estimated that there were about 3 million Hebrews that were. That were delivered out of Egypt. 2 out of 3 million. Joshua and Caleb. 2 out of 3 million that did that. They took what God said and they meditated on it. They spoke it, they held it before them and they never let it go. Although no one else around them valued it enough to build it in them. Because they did not build it in them. They. They were complainers. They were gripers. They complained against God, they complained against Moses, they complained against manna, which was food from heaven. Can I tell you this? Heaven opened up and fed them every day and they still found complaint with it. Do you know this? You can. Everything of Christ can belong to us. But if we don't renew our minds and find out, we can complain about our bodies, we can complain about our finances, our homes, our marriages, our pastors, our local church. We can complain against our boss, we can complain against. Against our spouse, when God's already made everything ours. Amen. The devil wants to hold us into a state of the old man. Can I tell you, when the devil opposes you, he's never going to talk to you about who you are in Christ. He's always going to talk to you based on the old man. He's going to try to bring back to you your faults, your failures, your weaknesses, your bad habits, your sins, where you miss God, where you did it wrong. All of that's the old man. All of that is outside of Christ. In Christ. We don't miss it outside of Christ, we miss it. And the devil is always trying to hold us in the mentality of what we look like outside of Christ. So it is our privilege to build in us the revelation of who we are in Christ so that we're living based on who he made us to be and not based on our performance in ourselves. Because we look so much better in Christ than outside of Christ. Right? So the devil is constantly trying to pull us back into the mentality of the old man, thinking like the old man, seeing ourself as the old man. What is that? Sin consciousness. It's trying to. The devil is constantly accusing us as. What is that he's called? The accuser of the brethren. He's trying to bring us into condemnation. Why? Because the old man lives under condemnation. The new man is righteous in Christ. So the devil's wanting you to constantly feel a sense of condemnation, shame, guilt. All of that's the language of the old man. All of that is the mindset of the old man. That's why Paul said in Ephesians, he said, put on the new man. What's that mean? Don't permit yourself to think like you thought before you were free from slavery. Before you were born again. You were a slave whether you knew it or not. The devil was doing you thinking for you. The flow of this world was dictating to you the flow of your life. But now we're in Christ. We're delivered from the kingdom of darkness, translated into the kingdom of his dear Son. Now, we don't want to make the mistake the Hebrews made of not building in themselves what God said to them about them. And because they did not build in them what God said, I have already given you a land. It flows with milk and honey. They did not build what God said in them. They complained their way through 40 years of wilderness and never arrived at why they were delivered. I want you to know God didn't deliver us so that we can just struggle in this life. He delivered us so we could live days of heaven on this earth. Does that mean there won't be opposition? No, there'll still be opposition. But God. But Jesus made us master over opposition. We are not the devil's victim. And if people will hold to a victim mentality, thinking that the devil can push them around, do their thinking for them, then they're going to live less than what God authored for them. But we are nobody's victim, including the devils. And we're not the victim of circumstances. We are to rule and reign. How are we going to do that? We're going to see ourselves as in Christ. We're going to talk as one in Christ. We're going to think as one in Christ, and we're going to respond as one in Christ. And we're not going to follow the devil's accusations and be swayed out of who we are in Christ. Swayed back to the old man to think like the old man, respond like the old man. And if I could say this, get under the feelings of the old man. Well, my feelings were hurt. Well, unforgiveness and offense and bitterness and ill will. That's all the old man. In Christ, no one's. No one is in offense in Christ, no one is in unforgiveness. That's the behavior and the attitude and the response of the old man. In Christ, we behave as him. We think as him, we are as him. So know this. We have been put in Christ. Now let's demand that our thinking Reflect that. Our words reflect that. Our believing reflects that. And our actions, our responses. God will not permit us to respond based on the Old man. Why? Because he's put us in Christ and he expects us to respond as one in Christ. When we respond as one outside of Christ, even though we're in Christ, but we take on the behavior, the response of the old man. Now the devil has access because that's the part that he's always trying to. If I could say, getting us to respond based on who we used to be. And you need. When the opportunity to be offended comes, when the opportunity to be in unforgiveness comes. Nope. You say devil. That's the old man. The old man would have done that. The new man doesn't do that in Christ. I am not offended. There is no offense to the One in Christ. There is no unforgiveness. Why? Because the love of God's on the inside of me. And love will not let me enter the flow of the old man. And the old man is the one that got offended. The old man is the one that got in unforgiveness. The old man is the one that held ill will towards someone. I'm not flowing that way because the love of God's on the inside of me and it elevates everything of me. See, we have to not be okay with ourselves as we used to be. We're putting a demand on ourselves that we will not permit anything of the Old man to raise back up and start dictating and pushing our lives around. We are ruling and reigning in this life, and we're doing it based on who we are in Christ. Because as I said, we look so much better in him than outside of Him. So all that, the treasure that is in Christ, as we see ourselves in Christ, think as one in him and say, I'm in him and I'm not responding as the old man in Him. There's no shame in Him. There's no condemnation in Him. There's no guilt in Him. There's no fault and failure. Why? Because the blood of Jesus put it back as though I never missed it. And it's by the blood I'm in Christ. Amen. Well, my goodness, we didn't. We haven't even gotten to point one in what I wanted to talk about. But we're going to be continuing this direction in upcoming episodes and you don't want to miss it. And until next time, remember this, Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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We'Re excited to announce a new worship album called in youn glory by Grant DeFresne. For more ways to listen to in youn Glory, scan the QR code on your screen. Jesus thank you Lord.