← 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. And we say this, thank you for honoring the word, loving the Word, and it is such a joy to speak this time with you. And we're just diving into the Word and we're expecting God to speak to us. You know, it's what God says and what we agree with and what. We are a doer of the Word that takes our life, and it rewrites the story of our life. I want you to know it does not matter how you started in life. It matters what we're doing today. You know, not every one of us maybe were raised in an ideal home or an ideal community or an ideal setting. Some people had more advantages of life than others had. But you know what? It doesn't really matter. What matters is what we're doing with the Word today, because the Word gives everyone the same access to victory. And we just need to realize that victory belongs to us because we belong to Christ. You know, I have to go back and think of the testimony of my husband. We met and married in the mid-1980s. And, you know, it's. It's kind of. It's kind of unusual for me today because I'll hear the young people say, oh, you were born in the 1900s. Yes. And that was just like a couple years ago. I mean, right? I've got a studio audience in here. They're all nodding their head because the 1900s. We all came out of the 1900s. That reminds me of, you know, when I was growing up, you'd say the 1800s. Well, we're saying the same thing people are saying about us. We were of a former century. And it sounds old, but it was a few years ago. Just letting you know. And those of you who were part of the 1900s, you know, just a couple years ago. But my husband and I, we met and married in the mid-1980s. And his testimony is so different than mine was. I was raised in a, in a smaller community, precious people. We grew up going to church. I had a precious, wonderful home. We had a sound home, we had a happy home, we had a blessed home. But my husband, his start in life was different. And he was born into a home of mental illness, he was born into a home of alcoholism. He was born into a home of great difficulty and hardship. And his mother had all kinds of difficulties that she had to overcome. And there were times that she was not mentally well enough to take care of her family. My husband was born the oldest of five children. And because he was the oldest, when she was unable to care for her family, he would have to, as an 8 year old, a 9 year old, a 10 year old, he'd have to take care of his younger brothers and sisters. And he was. There was a lot of responsibility thrust upon him early. And so his home life was very different than my home life. But I was so blessed to watch how my husband, when he was born again at the age of 25, there was a 20 years difference between us. So when I met him, he was in his early 40s and. But he had already of course, been in the ministry almost 15 years. And when I heard his story and I saw the testimony of his life, I was so impressed how God and his Word that when it gets our agreement, how it completely rewrites everything of our life, that my husband took the Word and was such a joyful doer of the Word that I was impressed to see how far the Word took his life. And he went all over the world preaching the gospel. And if you looked at his life in his ending years, it looked nothing like his beginning years. And I want you to know, don't you ever look at your start in life and say, well, you. If I would have been raised in a different home or if I would have been given different opportunities, or if I would have been raised in a different community, it's not how you start in life, it's what you choose to do with the Word today that's going to write the story of our life. And do you know that that is completely within our own control? Nobody can keep us from the greatness of God when we belong to God. It's all up to us to access and to take full advantage of. How do we access it? How do we become a partaker of the Word? We're doers of it. We don't just appreciate and say, well, this is God's Word. And I appreciate that God said this. No, he said it so we would know how to live. He said it so we would know how to think. He said it so we would know what to do. So know this. When you were born again, you were brought into Christ. Christ dwells on the inside of you. And not only that, you belong to Him. He belongs to us, we belong to Him. And we are co heirs is what the Word says. What's that mean? We're co heirs with Christ. What's that mean? It means everything that belongs to him belongs to us. How many? And Jesus made the statement. He said, father, that they may know that you love them just as you love me. Do you know that God does not have any more affection and love for his own son than he has for you as a child of God? Everything that belongs to Christ belongs to us, including God's love for us. And Jesus, he operated as one and thought of himself as one. I'm one with my Father and this is why Jesus came, so we could be one with the Father. And I want you to know one of the highest and greatest things that belongs to us in Christ is fellowship with our Father. So it doesn't matter what your life started with. You can fellowship with God and you can move into the God life that he has for you by learning who you are in Christ, what you have because you're in Christ, and what you can do, what you can fulfill, what fruit you can bear because you are in Christ. Don't let your Word, your past life dupe you out of what the Word has said is yours. Don't let your life be cheated today because you're too mindful of what life was like before Christ. You're in Christ now. So that's to rewrite the story of your life. And I am so grateful that my husband let the Word rewrite the story of his life. Not only did my life, the my husband's life change at the doing of the Word, do you know that generations changed because my husband became a doer of the Word. My husband witnessed to his own parents they were born again before they died. He ministered to those in his family. He brought them into Christ. And because of my husband's walk with God. And he did not let his past dismiss him from what God offered him. And because of that, our sons are growing in the plan of God, moving with us in the plan of God. So it does matter that we're a Doer of the Word. It does matter that we find out what belongs to us in Christ, and we conduct our lives based on that. Because it doesn't just affect us, it affects our children, it affects future generations. And know this, that whether or not we're a doer of the Word is going to reach in to our children. It's going to reach in to our grandchildren. We're not just somebody who hears the Word and doesn't do it, but we're doers. I remember the passage where Jesus was preaching in the synagogue one day, and a woman that was present was so moved by what she was hearing that day that she called out and she said, blessed is the woman that nursed you. She was thinking, as a mother, you know, that emotional side when she's hearing this man say these words and she's thinking in motherly terms and she's thinking, my, a mother would be so pleased to have a son. That sounds like you sound. Say the words you say. And so she said, she called out right in the middle of the congregation, she said, blessed is the woman that nursed you. She's talking about his mother. She no doubt probably was a mother, because that's why it struck that chord with her. But Jesus brought her back to not just appreciate that the role his mother would have had or that the role that he played in a family. He brought her back to this. He said, rather, blessed are those who hear my words and do them. So she was magnifying his mother, but he was magnifying the doer of the Word. Because when we do the Word, the Word lifts us. So know this. It's not about what word we can confess. It's not about what word that we appreciate, but it's what word are we doing? What are we living by every day? You know, the Word talks about unfeigned faith. What's that mean? It's a sincere faith. It's insincere to agree with the Word of God and not live it. It's insincere to know what God says but choose not to do it. That's an insincere faith. And we don't ever want to have a faith that isn't genuine and sincere. Because a sincere faith turns us into doers of the Word. Because, can I tell you this? The tests and the storms of life will reveal whether or not we're doers of the Word. We may try to appear to be doers of the Word. We may know what that looks like and appear to others, but the Test of life will expose what level we've been moving with God in. So sometimes we can see in the face of a test. You know what? I should have sown more of the Word in me. Well, it's not too late. We can all, no matter opportunities we may have missed or neglected in the past, we can say, you know what? I'm not just going to live life on autopilot. I'm going to keep pressing. Paul said this. I press toward the mark of the prize, of the high calling of God in Christ. What's he talking about? What does that mean? Well, that we go on until our life looks like Christ's life. That we walk in his perfection. We walk in what his life produced. Our life is bearing what his life bore. And so we can. We can live the same way. And Paul said, I press toward that. Meaning this. I don't just float mindlessly in this life on purpose. I'm a doer of the Word on purpose. I meditate on the Word on purpose. I take in the Word to. To. To change my own way of thinking, to come up into God's way of thinking. Listen, God's word is his wisdom. And when we take the Word of God and we choose to make his words our words, when we choose to make his thoughts our thoughts, we begin to move with. If we begin to move with God at His level. I'm so grateful that God didn't just keep his thoughts to Himself. He became an author and wrote them down. And in becoming an author, he says, here are my thoughts. They're available to you. You can have them if you want them. Know this. He doesn't force us. He doesn't make us take them. We choose to take them. And what kind of an unsound mind is it that says, here's the way God thinks, I think differently. And over here's the way I think. I think I'll stick with how I think. How unsound is that right? But we're not making those unsound decisions by staying with. With the old kind of thinking. But we're bringing our thoughts in agreement with God. Because in Christ, a sound mind belongs to us. Outside of Christ, our thinking will not be sound. But in Christ, our thinking is to be sound. And he gave us his own words that we could rewrite our thought life. Now we know this. In Psalm 23, David is the writer of that psalm. He says this. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. Look at the next phrase. He restores my soul. What's your soul? It's your mind, your will and your emotions. Sometimes we have not taken on God's way of thinking because we don't bring our will in agreement with God's. But notice this, that he will restore our soul. He'll restore us to where we will to do the right thing instead of willing to do the wrong thing. That's part of the renewed mind that when we chose our way previously, but now as the word of God, we sow it into our minds, we sow it into our thought life. What happens is we, our will starts demonstrating that we're coming into agreement more and more with God and not holding to our own plan, our own way of operating. But we're choosing his way of thinking, his way of operating. And we, we quit kicking against him. We quit resisting his dealings. You remember that Paul on the road to Damascus, he had been persecuting Christians. He had a letter that gave him political and church permission to persecute Christian, imprison him, do whatever he saw fit to do with them. But on his way to carry out what he thought was a representative of what God wanted him to do, Jesus spoke to him. And notice Jesus said to him, saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? So notice this. Jesus said, what you're doing to Christians, I take that personally. I treat that as you doing it to me. And Jesus also made this statement. He said, it's hard for you to kick against the pricks. Can I tell you this? When our will is separate and different than God's will, it makes we make our life hard. When we say, I'm going to stick with my way of doing things, we're making it hard on us. And every direction we try to go, that is not God's best, not God's plan. It only ends up causing struggle in our life, causing us to be afflicted by our own poor choices. Notice Jesus offered. He offered Paul. His name was Saul then. But he offered him a different way of thinking, a different way, a different thing to bring his will in agreement with. Because when Paul was getting his own way, Jesus said, you're kicking against the pricks, you're making your life hard. Notice the devil wasn't even mentioned, just having his will out of agreement with God. And I want you to know, in Christ we see God's will for us, God's plan for us. And God's will blesses our life. Our will can trouble our life. And it was troubling Paul's life. And not only that, it was troubling his eternity until he came into agreement, brought his will into agreement, and received Jesus and really rewrote the story, not just of his life, but rewrote the story of his eternity because he came into right thinking. I want you to know right thinking is a privilege that belongs to us in Christ. It's part of our inheritance. And as David said in Psalm 23, he restores my soul. Why? So that I think right. I bring my will into agreement with God's plan. And can I say this to you? God doesn't author a plan for our life and reveal his will for our life to us so that we can be robbed of something. It's because he wants to bring us into more of something good. And because God knows this, if we get our own way apart from God, it will harm our lives. And he doesn't want our lives harmed. You know, when I was a pastor for 25 years, different people had needs that they would come and speak to me about and I would spell out what the Word said to them. And I wasn't trying to get my way when I would counsel them. I was trying to show them if you go differently than God's way, you make your life hard. And God doesn't want your life hard. You marry someone that God did not put in your life. It's not that God's mad at you. He's trying to spare you the hardship of going the wrong direction. Know this, that in the will of God is everything to bless your life. Outside the will of God is everything to harm and injure your life and make life hard. So part of the restored mind is this. We not only bring our thinking in line with God, we bring our will in agreement with God. And that is part of the privilege of being in Christ. A will that agrees with the greatness of God's plan. I don't want to get to heaven one day and God push the play button on a life he had authored for me that I didn't live. I don't want to see what I could have had. I don't want to just see the life I could have walked out. I want to live it out now. I want to fulfill what God has for me on this earth. Well, what am I going to have to do? I'm going to have to bring my will in agreement. I remember there had been times when I could sense the battle for my will. Can I say it that way? I could sense the devil bombarding my Mind with something different than the way God would have it for me. Because he wanted me, the devil wanted me to change my will. I willed to go God's direction and the devil would bring all these opposing thoughts because he's trying to get me to change my will. The Devil cannot change your will. You are the only one at the helm of your will. The Devil's not at the helm of that. The Devil can't control your will. No circumstance can control your will. You're in total control. But the Devil will throw all kinds of troubling thoughts, accusations against your mind because he's wanting to get you to change the direction of your will to go against go instead of in agreement with God. And it's not wrong to face that test because every man will face it. Why Jesus in the garden before he was arrested. He sweat great drops of blood holding his will in agreement with God's will. Because there was such opposition against his mind that he sweat drops of blood holding himself unswayable away from the will of God. And there have been times when I have recognized bombardment came on my mind. And God said to me, the Devil's trying to get you to change by bombarding you with wrong thinking. And I said, it's not happening. I hold my will in agreement with what God has for me. I so love what the word of God says. It says this to us. It says that God is working in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure. When I sense that the devil's opposing in such a way against the mind that he's wanting me to change my will, I say, father, I thank you that you're working in me both to will and to do. See, to do right, you have to will to do right. That means you have to agree that this is the way I should go so that you can walk out the way you should go. So I know this, that in Christ I have my will that can be accurate. It can be in agreement with God. That's part of what belongs to us in Christ. A will in agreement with God. God does not ever go against our will. And I want you to know this. God does not want us to not have a will of our own. He just wants us to bring our will in agreement with his. He won't force it. But in Christ, what belongs to us is a will that agrees with God. So when David wrote and he said he he restores my soul, we can all look back at our lives somewhere and say, on purpose, I went against what was right on Purpose. I went the wrong direction. I was wanting my own way. But I'm redeemed from that in Christ. Because when I got my own, my own way, it hurt my life. So I'm redeemed from even wanting to go separately. God helps me. He's working in me so that my will I clearly see, oh, look at what the good things God offers me. So I choose what he offers me and we bring our will in agreement. Now, notice this. David said, he restores my soul. Well, how does he restore our soul, our mind, the way we think, our will? Look at this, our emotions. How many times people have let their emotions go unguarded. They've let their emotions go without restraint. They fly off in anger, they fly off in resentment, in offense and bitterness and all these different things. It starts demonstrating through their emotions and they become a tornado in their own home, tearing up their home, tearing up their marriage. That can all change as you, your soul is restored. How does God restore our soul? It says he restores our soul. That doesn't mean we don't have a part. But how does God restore our soul? Don't we wish that we could just go to bed with the way we were at night? And then while we're sleeping, he opens us up. He puts in right thinking. He puts in all the good, right ways of operating, doing. We wake up and we go, oh, I'm restored today. No, he restores us as we feed on His Word, as we see how he thinks, as we agree with how he thinks, as we move, how he would have us move every day as we move with Him. He's able to restore our soul when we come into agreement with His Word. So how does he restore our soul? As we are doers of the Word, as we think in line with the Word, he cannot restore our soul apart from us. He has to have our permission to work in us, through us, and for us. And so in Christ. Oh my goodness. A sound mind belongs to us. It is, think of it. It doesn't matter how you started in life. It doesn't matter that maybe you had years of mental oppression, years of depression, years of fear, years of poor self image. All of that is fixed in Christ. It's restored back to right thinking. If we have a poor self image, our soul needs restoring, it needs further restoring. A poor self image is a self image that someone has outside of Christ. Because when you see who you are in Christ, all poor self image is answered, it's done away with. Because he is our identity. He elevates everything of us. He doesn't just elevate us physically, which he does. He doesn't just elevate us financially, which he does, but he elevates how we see us, that when we see who he is, we really are seeing the true picture of us. Don't look at the old man to find your identity because you're redeemed. That old man is dead now. God has given you a new life. You are a new creature in Christ, and your true identity is who you are in Him. And when you see Christ, you see the real you. Because he's in you, you're in Him. And everything good for your life is when you say in Christ, I have this in Christ he has made me more than a conqueror. In Christ, everything of the story of my life is rewritten. Can I say this? Don't ever again go back to the lower flow, being outside of Christ in your thought life or in the way you speak. Everything is in Christ, and it is our pleasure and our honor every day to say in Christ, I'm complete. In Christ, I'm whole. In Christ I have all that God ever authored for me and I'm living as one in Christ. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss it until next time because we're going to continue this direction. But remember this, 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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We will never receive from God beyond the measure of our response. In this book, Responding to the Holy Spirit, Nancy Dufresne instructs how to properly respond to God and the moving of His Spirit. Order this book now@dufresneministries.org When God increases you, every single arena of your life will increase. In this book that I've written called I have a Supply, you will learn how rich and unending your supply is from heaven, how to receive of that supply and make it it a reality in your everyday life. You can order your copy@jesusthehealer.org God bless you.
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Today we're excited to announce a new worship album called in youn Glory by Grant Dufresne. For more ways to listen to in youn Glory, scan the QR code on your screen.
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My comforter, My counselor, advocate and intercessor. My strengthener is standby.