← 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 we are continuing in the series called In Christ. I Can. And we invite you, go back and watch any previous episodes you may have missed, because, my goodness, we're just speaking as the Spirit gives us utterance about some of these things. You know, I may have a few notes in front of me, but we just really are allowing the Holy Spirit to tailor this to the needs of you, the viewer. And I'm just enjoying what he's bringing out for us because there's so much, so much that belongs to us in Christ, and we know this. We don't want to leave any of it unaccessed, untapped. We want to enjoy all that God has made ours. And how many of you know, in Christ, we are so rich, so we are learning what belongs to us in Christ and how to partake of that. You know, we can possess something, but we also need to be partakers of. Of what we possess. God made us possessors, but it's only us that can become partakers. He can't partake for us. He can only make it ours, make it our present possession. But we have to partake of what he made ours. And so this is what we've been learning as we've gone in these series. And as I said, go back and watch any that you may have missed. And I want you to do this also. If you. A particular segment or particular episode speaks to you, watch it over and over and over, because really, that's part of meditating on the Word so that you can drive that truth on the inside of you, drive it down into your spirit and take ownership of it, because you have to. Something has to be a living, real thing to you of the Word for it to work for you as fully as God wants it to. Amen. So we've been looking at different passages and I want us to see again Ephesians 1:3. It reads, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us. And we could say this, who has already blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. Look at this in Christ. Because the blessings of God, everything God had forgotten for us that he wanted us to have in this life and in eternity, he put in Christ. And so then he put Christ in us, us in Christ, so that we could partake of everything that's in Christ. And know this, we are co heirs with Christ. Everything that belongs to Christ belongs to us. My, my, my. That's. You know, the natural mind can't really wrap. We can't really wrap our heads around that fully, but your heart can agree with it and your heart can receive of it. So he's already blessed us with everything that heaven itself enjoys is what one translation says of Ephesians 1, verse 3. But I want us to look at. Even though he's blessed us with everything, that doesn't mean we're partaking of everything. We can't just sit back inactive. But we have a part to play so that we can partake of what he's made ours. So when we look at Philemon, and there's only one chapter in Philemon, but verse six says this, that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging. Look at this acknowledging of every good thing which is in you, in Christ. We could say it this way, acknowledging every good thing which is in you, because you are in Christ. So it's him who is the treasure box of God's blessings, of God's fullness. And he belongs to us, we belong to Him. He's in us, we're in Him. So what's that mean? Everything that is in him is ours. I mean, what a deal. And we just have to learn what's made ours. Why? So we can put a demand on it. If we don't put a demand on it, it won't flow. And so this verse in Philemon tells us, how do we become not just possessors of something, but partakers of it to where it's showing up in our everyday life. And it says here that our faith becomes effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in us, because we're in Christ. Now notice this, it also uses this wording, the communication of thy faith. You can have faith that you're not communicating, but we are to communicate Our faith. How do we communicate the faith that's in us? We acknowledge what belongs to us because we belong to Christ. That acknowledgement activates it when we say, in Christ, I'm healed. In Christ, I'm whole. In Christ, there's no sickness. In Christ, there's no disease. That's how we activate that which belongs to us in Christ, which is healing, health and wholeness. Now, if we fill our mouth with, oh, I just don't feel good today, I'm feeling worse, that's not going to activate who Christ is. But we are activating the wrong thing. Just like God needs words, he needs us to acknowledge what he's made ours so that he can fulfill those words. Well, even so, the devil needs us to acknowledge what he offers too. So if we speak as one outside of Christ, we're giving the devil permission to work. But if we will speak as one in Christ, then we're giving Christ permission to fulfill those words in us. Amen. So it matters what we're acknowledging. That's what I'm referring to. What we acknowledge is what's going to show up. If you acknowledge fear, fear, Fear grows. If we acknowledge the blessing of God that's upon us, then we become partakers of that blessing. Can I tell you this? One of my favorite verses? The Word says this. God loads us daily with benefits. There is so much in Christ that belongs to us that that one day cannot contain it all. It takes the unfolding of every single day to be loaded with blessings for us, to even begin to move in the measure of blessing that God has for us. What's this mean? Every single day. Look at this. He loads us daily. Now, if we're. If there's a load of something, that means you can't just carry it in one trip. You have to come back time and time and time again. Have you ever had a vehicle loaded with something you bought? You know, at different times over the years? I have purchased things for our church. I purchased things for our ministry. I purchased things from my home. I purchased things for different homes that I've had. And I have loaded our vehicle with so much that I could not carry it all with one trip. It was multiple trips of going back and forth. And can I tell you, I have loaded stuff through the windows of the car. I would load up so much stuff in a vehicle that if you open the doors, everything would start falling out. So I'd lower the windows because the doors are holding in stuff. But I can still get room up in the top. I'M loading that. When God loads, he doesn't just load the corners, he loads everything. Baby, you got to let the windows down because he can put more in through the windows. But when I get to the house, I can't just open the doors. It'll all spill out. I don't want my load spilling out and losing it and it breaking and me not enjoying it. What do I have to do when I get home? I have to let down the windows first. Start taking stuff out of off the top. That's called a load. That is what I'm talking about. It's not sparse. It is a load. And look at this. It says, God loads us. Too many times people are talking and feeling the load of opposition. But what about the load of blessing? What about the load of what belongs to you in Christ? Don't settle for anything less than being fully loaded, right? And notice this. It was God's idea. It was not even an idea that came that you came up with. God loads us daily. So what's this mean, loads of blessing? Don't offend God. He's the author of them. He's the one that bestows them upon our life. I don't know about you. Some people, you know, some people, they. They have terminology, you know, that they'll talk about what they. I've heard the terminology, love language. What's your love langu? Meaning this. They'll say what seems to mean the most to you. Somebody will say, well, if somebody just writes words, just. Just words spoken to me, sweet words spoken to me, you know, written on a card or something, that just. That just, you know, satisfies me. Others will say, you know, if you do something for me that satisfies, maybe you clean the house. And that meant a lot for me when I came home and found out a family member cleaned the house. That's a blessing. Well, me, my love language is stuff. I mean, gifts. So I like stuff. And I don't ever tire of opening stuff. Well, you know, people will say, well, you're just carnal. No, I'm Godlike, because God loads me with stuff. He wants us to have all we want. And I don't know about you, I'm kind of liking this online ordering stuff because I can be gone and I can be on the road traveling, order stuff. And I get home and stuff is waiting for me to open it. That just. You know what that is? That's like Christmas every day, baby. That's like birthday every day. And I like it. And I don't get Tired of it. And so I will go. Even if I haven't ordered something, I still look on my porch to see if it's out there. I want you to know God wants you to acknowledge and recognize that he has loaded the porch of your life with all of his blessings. Don't leave it out on the porch, baby. Bring it in and partake of it. And don't put a limit on yourself. Keep opening up the treasure box of heaven. Who is that? Christ himself. In Christ is every loaded blessing that God has for you. So don't limit the load. I just know this. So many times people struggle with, I shouldn't have this much or I shouldn't spend this on me. Well, I'm not saying go and get in debt to have something that you can't afford or something that you haven't put your faith on. But I just say this. Don't limit what God wants for you and get your faith on everything that's in Christ. You want to know why there's no debt on that? Jesus already paid that debt. And so in Christ, everything has been paid in full. Don't leave it unaccessed. You know, when I was growing up, my dad was a cotton and wheat farmer. And he had a couple of barns. He had one barn where one of his farms were, but he had a barn that was also close to our house. And behind that barn he had his own fuel tanks. And he would have those fuel tanks filled up because he then every time his tractors needed fuel, he didn't have to go get it. He just drove to the back of the barn and he would fill up with it. And so when I was able to drive, when I turned 16 and I had a car and I was able to drive, Daddy said, baby, anytime you need gas, you go back behind the barn and there's a fuel tank there and you fill your car up with that gas. Do you. Oh, you think I've said, oh, no, Daddy, I can't do that? I go, okay, I'll do that, Daddy. Because he had already paid for that fuel. It was just waiting for me to. To pull the switch and put it in my vehicle. I want you to know in Christ, he has paid for every blessing. God has a load for you every day. It would not be if I could say this holy or spiritual of me to say to my daddy, oh, no, Daddy, I can't receive that from you. He paid for it because he wanted us to. Not only, not only, he didn't just want it for his vehicles, he wanted it for his family. Well, I want you to know, in Christ we are his family. And God paid for his family to enjoy everything. And I will say this. God did not just put all good things on this earth for the devil and his people. God put all good things on the earth for his family. And it does not please God when we don't receive of what he provided for us. Can I tell you this? The earth is to serve man. Man is not to serve the earth. When God created Adam. When God made Adam on the sixth day, he made Adam. But know this, there were five previous days that he created. Why did he. Why did he spend the first five days creating before man was ever made? Because God was stalking the earth, preparing for man's arrival. I want you to know in Christ God has stocked everything that your life needs, waiting for your faith to arrive and lay claim to it. Amen. We need to honor what God created in creation. That means we don't waste it. We don't treat it as unimportant. But know this, man is not here to serve the earth. Earth is here to be an abundant place for the life of man to be provided for. God put everything here for his family. And that's you. When you're born again, you belong to the family of God. So don't. If I could say this, dumb down your provision don't receive less thinking you shouldn't have it. Well if you shouldn't, who should not the devil and his kids. God did not put all the good things on here in on this earth for the devil. He put it here for his people. And so we need to be skillful and honor the great price that was paid in Jesus so we could have all things richly to enjoy. Notice this, the Word says God has given us all things richly to enjoy. Not barely, not living on slim pickings, but richly all things to enjoy. Do you know that there are some things you should have in your life for one reason. Just because you enjoy having it might not even perform a function. It might not even really be necessary to your existence, but you just enjoy having it. Well, that does not offend God because He has given us richly all things to enjoy. He has not given us richly all things so that we can serve them, so that they can, if I could say this, dictate our generosity. We don't withhold something just because we want it for ourselves. No, we are generous with others. We're generous to be a blessing because we know this. God gives us generously all things so we can enjoy. And we don't have to be tight fisted with what he's blessed us with. Because we know this. If we sow it, there's more coming back to us. Amen. And so God has designed that every day carry the fullness of his blessing. So get rid of a poverty mentality that says I shouldn't have something that nice, I shouldn't own that much. If you were to see a beautiful, magnificent home on a hill, let me tell you what poverty will say. Poverty will look at that and say nobody should have something that big and that nice. But prosperity will say everybody should have something like that. Amen. Listen, the word tells us Jesus made this statement. He said, in my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you. So notice this. What does God have in mind for his children? Mansions. He doesn't have a just a tent in mind. Not to say if you want to, if you want a tent in heaven, God will give you that tent. But I guarantee you he also has a mansion for you. And I don't know about you, I like multiple homes in heaven. I want multiple homes. Why multiple locations, multiple scenery, multiple enjoyments. Why not? Why can't. If there can be one mansion, there can be two mansions, right? But I say this, listen to the wording that Jesus gave us. In my father's house are many mansions. Ah, in my father's house. Oh, so the Father has a house. And he so loves his children. He built our mansions in his house. That's how near he wants us to be. And notice it didn't say, in my father's house are many pitch tents. In my father's house are many log cabins that are just small. Listen, the design of your mansion may look like a log cabin. If that's what you desire, I'm sure there are some fabulous ones there. Whatever suits you, he will provide for you. But I want you to see, God doesn't think small. God doesn't think limited. In fact, his house is so large that every one of his children can have a mansion in his house. Now, the same spirit that God is a spirit. And he made us spirit beings. And we have the same spirit of faith in us. And we have, if I could say, all of heaven available to us. Why would we think limited? Why would we think struggle? Why would we withhold from ourselves thinking that that is a flow of spirituality? A flow of spirituality is to think like God. A flow of spirituality is to receive in the measure of with which he has provided for us. I so appreciate that. When we see this scripture. Let me just read it to you. Colossians, chapter 2. In verse 3, the King James translation says this in Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I want you to see what another translation says. It says Christ is the key that opens all the hidden treasures of God's wisdom and knowledge. Can I tell you this? That when we partake of the wisdom of God, the knowledge of God, it arrives us at a treasure. Christ is that treasure. And God does not falter at speaking of his provision for us in terms of treasure. Amen. Not just a little bit. A little dab will do you. A little bit here, a little bit there. We're not, if I could say this, conserving in the kingdom, we are invited to tap into the treasure of heaven, which is Christ himself. And that treasure will manifest as wisdom, manifest as knowledge and who we are in Christ and what belongs to us in Christ. So what's this mean? We need to think in the terms that God thinks. That's how renewed mind operates. To think like God. Now, to think limitedly is to think in terms of this world. But to think unlimitedly is to think in terms of God's realm. Listen, all of God's realm is available to us. So if we're going to receive of the abundance of God's realm, we can only do it with God. God's way of thinking. That's why we have the word of God. To find out who we are in Christ and what belongs to us in Christ. So that we take the limits off of how we think. Because the way we think is as far as we'll go. Now this is what God had for his people when he delivered the Hebrews out of Egypt. You know what he had in mind for them to turn them into owners. These were for generations his people had been slaves in the land of Egypt. God was not okay with them maintaining something that belonged to another man. God was turning them into owners. And he is the one that said, I have given you a land that flows with milk and honey. But they walked out of Egypt. With God's divine help, they walked out. And the Word says that there was not one feeble one among them. Now we're talking about slave bodies. That God so restored their bodies that every single one of them were whole. They're not pushing one out in a wagon, dragging one out in a wheelchair, laying one on a bed and carrying them out of Egypt. Every man walking under divine strength, every man walking unto divine health, leaving that land behind them. Not only did they walk out with health, but they walked out with wealth. They walked out with the wealth of Egypt because God said to Moses, tell them to demand of their masters the gold and the silver. You say, well, did it belong to them? Back pay, baby. All in one day. Back pay for all those years of slavery showed up. And it says that God gave them favor in the eyes of their masters. So the masters willingly turned it over. There was no dog fight, so to speak, trying to get it, they didn't have to steal it. They had such favor given to them that the masters willingly turned over of the funds, their gold and their silver. Why? Because their land was devastated and they realized this gold and silver is not going to replace everything we've lost. And they, they just released that wealth into the hands of God's people. So notice God's people walked out. Well, they walked out wealthy. But what happened? The problem was they walked out and kept wrong thinking. And because of their wrong thinking, they spent 40 years wandering. Why do we not partake of the fullness of what God has? We're wandering around in less than what God offered us if we don't come into the way God thinks. They were free men thinking like slaves. That's the job, that's the big job in the life of man, is to bring our thinking in line with the Word. Why? Because as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. And you say, well, the Bible says as a man thinks in his heart, yes, but as you think in that mental reasoning, that mental reasoning arena, that's what you're driving down into your heart. If you think that you, you shouldn't have something nice, you'll drive that down into your heart. And when it becomes a flow of your heart, that's where you'll live at the level of what we sow into our hearts. So we have to think in terms of what, of who we are in Christ, how rich we are in Christ. And know this, we are not to let our life before Christ determine what we can have. Now that we belong to Christ, we are redeemed from low thinking. We are redeemed from limited thinking. We are brought into the unlimitedness of what belongs to us in Christ. Years ago, God made this statement to me. He said, the greatest enemy to your prosperity is your past. What did he mean by that? In past seasons of struggle, past seasons of not having enough, past seasons of maybe growing up in a home or a community that was poverty ridden, that was full of struggle, that was full of not enough, that was full of lack if we're not careful, we let those flows, those experiences and those pictures of the past dictate how we live today. So what do we do to get past that? We put in our mouth what God says. We say, in Christ, all belongs to me. In Christ, I'm as rich as he is because I'm a co heir with Him. Everything that belongs to him belongs to me. We have to speak who we are in Christ. And when we do that, we start, if I could say this, reprogramming the thoughts of the mind with how God thinks. And this is where the Hebrews failed when they were delivered from Egypt. They walked out with wealth, they walked out with health, but they never changed the way they thought. And that first generation never arrived. That's where an unrenewed mind lives, never arriving, never enjoying all that belongs to them. But what's a renewed mind do? It takes on God's way of thinking. And know this, to receive of God's realm, you have to think like God's realm to just stay in the flow of this world. You can keep the the thinking of this world, but God invites us to higher thinking. Notice what it says in the book of Isaiah. He says, my thoughts are higher than your thoughts. My, my ways are higher than your ways. So we not only have to have God's thoughts, we have to have his ways of operating. God wasn't making that statement to show us and to keep us low and to push us down by saying, look how far beneath you are. No, he's saying, my thoughts are higher. Come up. My ways are higher. Come up in your ways. So he invites us into his flow. Because when we think like him and when we take on his ways, then we receive of all that his realm has made ours. And I want you to know, in Christ, all belongs to you. So let's learn to think and talk in terms of what belongs to us in Christ. And let us learn to live as rich as we are in Him. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss next time. And until next time, remember this. Jesus is the healer. God bless. Bless you.
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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 Murrieta, 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.