← 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.
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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 you're joining us today for Jesus the Healer. And we are in the middle of a series. I tell you, it's really. We're seeing who we are in Christ and what belongs to us. Because we're in Christ. And because we are in Christ, we need to utilize. We need to partake of who we are in Christ because He has made us so rich. And we need to be living as rich as we are. And I want you to know it does not offend God when we partake of all that is made ours in Christ. In fact, it honors God. It is. It honors who Jesus is in us. And so we have been in the midst of this episode, this series that. My goodness, we're well over 85 episodes in this series. And we invite you, go back and watch any that you may have missed. And just know this. Everything God wanted for us, he put in Christ. And then he put us in Christ and put Christ in us. And so we need to become skillful with drawing on the greater one that's in us, putting him to work. And can I say this? Letting him use us as his channel, because Jesus said. He said, my Father in me, he does the work. So what's that mean? Jesus was so skillful at being the channel that God could flow through and manifest through. And that's one of the reasons that the earth was different, because of Jesus, because He gave the Father free reign through Him. And so we're to become skillful with letting God manifest through us. Christ manifest through us. And know this, we've said it before in the previous episodes, is God has authored a plan for your life, but he does not expect you to fulfill that plan apart from Him. He gave you a plan, then gave you Himself to. To fulfill that plan. And it's not up to us to do it. It's up to us to allow him to do it through us. At our best, we are his channel. At our best, we are allowing him to manifest through us. And how many of you know that takes all the struggle out of it? If we're struggling, we're trying to do something apart from Him. But we see ourselves in him, see him, the One him in us doing the work. And know this, that he will manifest through us and then turn around and bless us for allowing him to manifest through us. It is such a deal. And we are just grateful that we're learning who we are in Christ. I want to read out of a passage to you. It's been one of our golden texts that we have used. Colossians chapter two in verse six, the Amplified Classic translation says this. As you have therefore received Christ, even Jesus the Lord, so walk, regulate your lives, and conduct yourselves in union with and conformity to Him. Know this, that we're not to ever conduct living apart from Him. It's only with him manifesting and flowing through us. How are we going to be skillful at letting him flow through us, Us being His channel that he manifests through Verse seven tells us, have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him, fixed and founded in him, being continually built up in Him. Now isn't that the emphasis here is in Him. And so we are to have it so firmly established in our spirits. I'm in him, he's in Me. He's going to do the work through me. So I draw on Him. I yield to Him. How do I yield to Him? I respond to him by obeying Him. As I obey him, he fills my actions of obedience with Himself, and He manifests through my obedience. Now, verse nine of the amplified translation there in Colossians 2, it says this. For in him the whole fullness of Deity, the Godhead continues to dwell in bodily form, giving complete expression of the divine nature. And 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, and you reach full spiritual stature. Now I want to take a minute and I want to read to you out of the living Bible, Colossians chapter two. And starting in verse six, it says this. And now, just as you trusted Christ to save, you trust him too, for each day's problems. Notice this. Christ didn't just want to manifest through you for salvation, he wants to manifest through you every day. Don't wait for the emergencies of life before you Draw on Him before you. Allow him to manifest through you. Make it a flow of your everyday life. We could say it this way. You're to say, in Christ, I can do this in Christ, I have the strength for this. In Christ, I had the provision for this. In Christ, I had the ability for this. Know this. In Christ is everything you need to experience God's best. Everything that's outside of Christ is what God's delivered you from. You are delivered from outside of Christ because you are now in Christ. And that's where the treasury of heaven is stored up, is who you are in Christ. Now I want to go on reading. In verse seven, Colossians, chapter two, the living Bible translation says, let your roots grow down into Him. Look at this and draw up nourishment from Him. Look, don't draw up out of your own mental understanding, your own reasonings too much of the time. We're so used to drawing out of our humanity instead of drawing out of the divinity that's in us, the Divine One that's in us, the Christ that's in us. He's in us. So we will yield to him to flow through us. He does not. He's not in us to remain inactive. He's in us so that we can draw on him and put him to work for us. So verse seven again says this. Let your roots grow down into Him. What's he talking about? He's saying, establish yourself. Establish in your spiritual foundation, in your spirit. Establish this foundation, that Christ is in you. You are in him. And you are drawing everything. Just like a tree when its roots go down into the ground, everything that ground contains is available to that tree. And that tree is drawing nutrients, vitamins, minerals, water, moisture. It's drawing everything from that ground because that's what it's rooted in. This is what the Word says here. You're rooted in Christ. Your roots grow down into Him. Now utilize who you're in. Draw on Him. Don't just draw on the mental arena. Don't draw on the reasoning arena because you're cheating yourself from the highest flow when you just go to you to draw from. Draw from Him. And so again, verse seven says, let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from Him. Notice we're the ones who have to do the drawing up. He will not force his way into any situation. We draw on him when we're in every situation. It says this. See that you go on growing in the Lord and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught now know this. Our understanding needs to grow of who we are in Christ. Our. Our skill needs to grow in drawing on Him. Instead of drawing on the natural, drawing on the human side, let's draw on the divine that's in us. So see to it that you go on growing in the Lord and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done. Now look at this. Do you know that when we're rejoicing that we're in Him? That's one way of drawing on Him. That's one way of putting him to work. Father, I rejoice that you're in me, Jesus. You're in me, I'm in Christ. Christ is in me to do the work, and I rejoice that he's working right now. You put him to work as you rejoice over who he is in you and what he's doing now through you. Now let's look at this. In verse 8, it says, don't let others spoil your faith and joy with their philosophies, their wrong and shallow answers built on men's thoughts and ideas instead of on what Christ has said. So what's he saying? You have to guard the way you think because most people are living out of the mental arena. We're to live out of who we are in Christ. And not many know how to do that skillfully. But we're learning. And he's saying, don't let people who don't know who they are in Christ influence you to operate outside of Christ. You are to function and move as one in Him. Don't let the human reasonings, natural reasonings, the mental arena, cheat you of the low of the higher flow. You are in Christ. Draw out of that place. Then it goes on in verse 9. For in Christ there is all of God in a human body. Verse 10 says this. So you look, listen to this. So you have everything when you have Christ. Look at that. You have everything when you have Christ. So what's that mean? There's nothing left outside. There's nothing left outside of Christ that you need. Everything is in Him. So don't try to operate as one outside of Him. There's nothing for you outside of Him. Everything you need to fulfill the plan of God, to carry out God's best in the earth is all in Christ. Could we say this? He's the treasure box. And the treasury is in you to draw on and to spend as you need it. How do you spend it? You say In Christ I can do this. You in Christ I have that home. In Christ I have the funding I need. In Christ I have the business I need. In Christ I have everything of God's plan that that is needed to fulfill what he's assigned in my life. Amen. You have to say it. So verse 10 again says this. So you have everything when you have Christ. Now don't you know the devil doesn't want you knowing that? Don't you know he wants you to try to function differently than that by thinking differently than that? You have everything when you have Christ. And you are filled with God through your union with Christ. He is the highest ruler with authority over every other power. What's this mean? Opposition that comes cannot overcome the one you're filled with. You have everything when you're filled with Christ. And not only that you're filled with God, but because of your union with Christ. When we are co heirs with Jesus. What's that mean? Everything that's his is ours. I mean, my goodness, we are loaded. Why should we live less than who we are? We are in Christ and we are to speak as one in Christ, think as one in Christ and talk as one in Christ. And don't be pulled away by people who don't know that. Because many times people will talk to you out of their soul, but we talk and live out of who we are in Him. Amen. People, many times they mean to help us. But if we are not, if we're not bringing people back to who they are in Christ, we're missing the mark. And we're missing the mark of helping people. When we go to just the natural arena to try to help people, no, we have our roots in him and we draw up from Him. Now we started this in a previous episode and I want to pick up where we left off on this. When I take a situation that I'm facing and I put it into God's hands, do you know this? I'm putting it into the hands of provision. I'm putting it into the hands of him who is able to bring every good thing to pass. If I keep a situation in my hands, then all that situation can receive is what I bring to it. But if I put that situation in God's hands, He brings everything he is to that situation. We have to become skillful at anything that is opposing us. Anything that is that we face in this life, we put it in his hands. We don't worry about it, we don't struggle with it. We put it in his hands. And say, father, I trust you to do the work and to finish complete this. I trust you to supply the need for this. Put it in his hands. Now, I was telling this in the previous episode that when my husband unexpectedly went home to be with the Lord, the way God dealt with me is he said, put the. Your provision. And he was talking about income. The, you know, I receive a salary from the ministry. My husband received a salary. But he was saying this. If you will put the care of your salary, your income in my hand, I'll supply it. Now, if you want to take it in your own hand and you want to calculate and you want to take in, you want to take as much salary as your needs demand, that's fine. It's perfectly appropriate to do that. But he was saying to me, I'll offer you myself to provide for you. And he wanted to demonstrate to me that it's not about having two incomes in my household, it's about his involvement in my household. And so I have not ever changed my salary from the time my before my husband died, which was, my goodness, in 2013. That's over 12 years ago now that I've not adjusted my salary. Why? Because I want to show God that I'm not going to trust in the avenue of my hands. I'm going to trust in the avenue of his hands. I don't trust in any avenue that God may use. I trust in God, the provider. I don't attach my faith to avenues. Now know this. God will use avenues to bless you, but your faith is not to be attached to those avenues. Your, your faith is to be attached to the provider. And God is the provider, not the avenues. Avenues can change, avenues can come, avenues can go, but the provider remains the same. I don't want my faith to shift to my paycheck, away from my provider. Don't you let your faith shift to a paycheck or to some kind of customer base that you have. Don't attach your faith to an avenue. Always have your faith on in Christ. He's my provider and he never changes. And what's that mean? No matter what happens in the economy, the provider's the same for me. The provider's the same for you. If people get uneasy, if they become unsettled when there's an economy change, that's because their faith is attached to the economy. Their faith is attached to some source of income. God is my provider. God is your provider. Put your faith on him. What's that mean? My care is in his hands. It's in the hands of the provider, as I said. How do you know if your faith is attached to. To an avenue instead of to the provider? Well, if there's a change in an avenue, how does that change affect you? If you were to, if I could say this, if the department in your company was closed down and they shut down every job associated with your department and they laid off you and laid off everyone in your department, how did that affect you? Did you worry? Did you become upset? Did you start, if I could say this, become angry because you lost your job? The way you respond is determined by what your faith is attached to. So I'm not attaching my faith to an avenue. That means I can remain the same even though avenues may change. And God wanted to demonstrate to me, I'll provide for you. So I just leave my provision in his hands. And I want you to know his care has been so much richer than self care that I could have provided. And you just have to follow the way God tells you to do it. God dealt with me that if you raise your salary, and like I said, it's perfectly appropriate, every minister should be taken care of through the gospel that he preaches. That means the word says that the ox who treads out the corn, he must be a partaker. That harvest that he is laboring in. It's the same way with a preacher. But God gave me and said to me, I want to demonstrate to you my care for you. Don't limit him to an avenue. That's what he was wanting me. Don't limit me to the avenue of your salary. You know, people will make this statement, I'm on a fixed income, but I love something my husband used to say, who fixed it? Because God didn't fix it. God is unlimited. You're not limited to a certain amount of income when your faith is in the provider. Now if your faith is on the avenue, you just limited yourself. But if your faith is connected to the provider, you are in an unlimited flow. Hallelujah. I don't know about you, but this is good. This is good, good understanding for people because it frees us from the struggle of having to make something happen on our end. That doesn't mean we sit back and do nothing. It means we obey what God tells us to do. And that's the way I was just led. God wanted to demonstrate to me that he would provide for me, that I didn't have to calculate how am I going to make my ends meet the way I'm going to do it. I'm Going to put my faith on my provider and do what he leads me to do. Know this. He will lead people differently, but he will never lead you in a way that removes your faith from him. That gets your faith attached to a channel. Get your faith attached to an avenue. God's never leading you to put your faith anywhere except on him. So when your faith is on your provider and not on an avenue, that means you're the same. No matter how that avenue changes. You're untroubled, you're not worried, you're not struggling because you know your provider never changes. Amen. Because God was leading me not to increase my salary when my husband died. If I would have increased my salary, then that would have meant I decided, God, I'll take it into my hands. I'm going to make this work based on the numbers I can calculate based on my budget. I don't use a budget the way people think of a budget. Let me say, for example, if people, people use a budget so that they can limit themselves. I don't use a budget to limit myself. I use a budget to know how much faith I need to release. For example, if someone's in, let's say someone's income was $50,000, but you put a plan in place in my heart this year, this is what I want to see come to pass financially. Let's say if I know that my income is $50,000, but what I have in my heart to do requires $80,000, I know I got to bring my faith up to that point. My budget is not to limit me, it's to direct me in the use of my faith. So know this, God doesn't put you on a budget. Don't you put yourself on a budget? But you do have to be sober about releasing your faith. You know, we have been. Now our ministry is completely out of debt. Now when my husband went home to be with the Lord, we owed millions. But God has brought us to a place to where we are completely out of debt. And God spoke to me. He said, Nancy, he said, if you're going to live in a paid for flow, you have to function differently than you did when you were in debt. He said to live in a paid for flow, you have to forecast what's coming ahead. How do you forecast what's coming ahead? The spirit will show you things to come is what the book of John tells us that the spirit of God will show you things to come. What's that mean? You had to be sensitive in your spirit to where God is Taking you and what the future holds for you. And then God said you have to forecast what's coming and you have to get your faith on it before you arrive at the place where you need that money. So if you can say in the next two years or in the next year, my family and I need a bigger home, get your faith on it now. Don't wait until you feel the constraints of that, that home that's too small or you say my business. I have it in my heart that I'm to believe for this amount of customer base. Get your faith on it now. You have to forecast what's ahead and get your faith on it now. If you want to live in a paid for flow now. That's how God led me and directed me. And that's the only way I use a budget. I want to see where I'm at today and where I need to be next year or in several years from now. Because now I know what to get my faith on and no budget becomes my limit. I never look at a budget to limit me. I look at a budget to know how I must release my faith to arrive at what God has put in my heart to fulfill. Know this, that anything God's put in my heart, he has obligated himself to fund it. So I'm going to get my faith on it now. And I'm going to say this, this that's in my heart is already funded because God authored in my heart. He funded it also. And so you have to start speaking now. What he's already funded before the need for it ever shows up. Amen. Too many times people will wake up one morning, say I want to do this, I want to do that. And they go and they want to do it there immediately. And because they don't have the resources in place and they go and get themselves into debt. Listen, you follow the way God tells you to do it. But the way that we are to operate is as the head, not the tail. What's that mean? We have to be in front of situations, not behind situations. If we just wake up the day, the need arrives and we start recognizing, oh, I have this need today that's operating like the tail. The head is in front of everything. Just look at a dog when he comes in the room. The head comes in first, not the tail. Right? God wants us in front of situations, not behind them. Cleaning up and trying to make something come to pass and puts us at the tail and we're behind financially, we're at the tail end of that thing. We're to be in front of situations. How can we be in front of situations? The Spirit will show us things to come and we get our faith on it. Now, my husband had started the construction of a building several years before he went home to be with the Lord. And when he. When he went home to be with the Lord, that building was about 70% done. He had paid cash for it all along the way, but there was about 30% of that building yet left to complete. And so we needed to believe God for that finance those finances to come in to finish the building. And in doing that, we believed God. And God was good, God was gracious, God was abundant. And within one year, we had that problem finished, plus every other project that had been left undone. When we, when we finished that building, it sits next door to our. To our building where our sanctuary is. And that building's not intended to be a sanctuary, but I told our congregation we're going to have our midweek service in that building just to celebrate its completion. The day we were to have that service in that building, I had a dream. And in that dream, I saw an angel holding something. And I said to the angel, what are you holding? And he said, the corner timber piece for the next building. See, before we'd even celebrated the current building, he was already on the next one. I want you to know God's already on. What's in your future. Get your faith up there with him. Get your faith on the head end of that, not on the tail end of it, behind it. Because when we put our faith on it, God will meet everything we put our faith on with his ability and his power. Amen. Well, we're going to keep going this direction and you don't want to miss it next time. And until next time, remember that Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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To watch or listen to today's message and other messages by Nancy Dufresne, visit dufresneministries.org.
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In this book, responding to the Holy Spirit, Nancy Dufresne instructs us how to properly respond to God and the moving of his spirit. Order this book now at defresinministries.org join.
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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@dafrainministries.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.
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This is Nancy Dufresne and I want to extend an invitation to you to become a partner with Dufresne Ministries today. 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.
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My counselor advocate it, intercessor my strengthener and stand by.
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He's my.