← 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 to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. And we invite you get something to take notes on. We want you to get your Bible follow along with us. Because we're believing God, that you will hear things that maybe don't even come out of my mouth, but you're hearing from God himself, because in the atmosphere of the Word is when we hear what he has to say to us. Amen. So we want you to take note of what God would speak to you, what he would show you, because we're expecting for answers for your life. Amen. And how many of you know the Word is the answer book? And we are. We have on the inside of us the answer giver, the Holy Ghost. And we should be hearing answers for our life. We are just thrilled to be able to bring to you the series that we've been on. We're teaching on in Christ. I can. So we're talking really about who we are in Christ, what belongs to us because we're in Christ, and what we can do and what God can do through us because we're in Christ. We've said it on previous episodes and it's something so important for us to get hold of is the emphasis of the New Testament is different than the emphasis of the Old Testament. That's not a negative statement. It's just that Revelation is progressive and the Word calls the New Testament a better covenant. So aren't you glad that in this church age that we're in, we are under a better covenant? Now, the Word tells us that we're redeemed from the curse of the law. So the curse that was spelled out under the old covenant, we're redeemed from that. But how many of you know we don't need to be redeemed from the blessings of the Old Covenant, we have those blessings still. But under the New Testament, we have the Old plus. We had the Old plus more, the Old plus better. And so in the New Testament, we always want to run everything of God's word through what belongs to us in Christ. Because that is the emphasis of the New covenant. The better covenant is we are in Christ. And you have to remember this, the Old Testament saints were not the dwelling place of God himself. Under the new Covenant, we are that. We are the temple of the Holy Ghost. The Old Covenant saints, they were not born again. They did not have the life of God on the inside of them. They did not have the nature of God. But Jesus came and put it all back the way God intended. What Adam lost, Jesus restored to us. And so we need to always feed on the Old Testament with the idea of understanding what belongs to us in the New covenant, so that we keep right in our thinking what is ours. Because now we're in Christ. Old Testament saints were not in Christ. They couldn't be. But now we're in Christ. And you do see in the Old Covenant, when it talks about that God that God credited to Abraham as though he were righteous. So it was by faith that Abraham, Abraham was called righteous or right with God. But how many of you know when we. We never see the terminology in Christ, it's just not present in the Old Covenant. But you do see the word righteousness. Well, how many of you know that? Now we can go back and we can read Old Testament, and when we see the word righteousness, we can also correctly say, in Christ because we're righteous, because we are in Christ. Amen. And that is still a faith transaction. We have to believe that. But in Christ, so much belongs to us. And under the Old Covenant, their approach to God, and it was correct for the. For the age they lived under, for the covenant they operated under. But they were endeavoring to get God to do something for them. They would ask, they would have a need, they would go to God and they would try to get God to do something for them. And of course, God would meet faith. But under the order, under the New Covenant, that's not our emphasis anymore. We are not trying to get God to do something for us. Because in Christ, he did everything for us. Every blessing, every benefit, every need supplied, it's all in Christ. So the New Testament emphasis is finding out what he already put in Christ, what He's already given us. Because Christ is in us and we're in him, all belongs to us. We are not trying to get God to do something for us because in Christ he completed the work. And so it's about us discovering and finding out all that belongs to us so that we'll spend it and we'll not go with an unrenewed mindset trying to get God to do something for us that he's already completed in Christ. Now this is huge for us to understand because if we come to God with a lack of understanding, the devil will rob from us and we will do without. When we've already been made possessors. It's just about receiving and activating and partaking of what God has already given us. Now that is critical for us to understand. It's already been given to us in Christ. Every. Every supply we need every answer, we need the wisdom, we need everything that we're going to need to live as days of heaven on earth has already provided through Christ. And we are the current possessors of it. But even though we possess something, doesn't mean we're partaking of it. So it requires us to know something, release our faith, agree with God, agree with his word, agree to who we are in Christ, so that God can manifest through us what he's already made available to us. Amen. And let me just say this. There's no use in living outside of Christ when we are in Him. You're already in Him. You might as well live that rich way. Outside of Christ is struggle. If we think as outside of Christ, what does it? Where does that arrive us? We're trying to do something with our own ability, our own resources, our own education, something of ourself. We're trying to generate success of our own. But we are redeemed from that kind of struggle because our victory is in Him. If we will just discover who we are in him, speak of that, think in those terms and respond and believe in those terms and know this. It's not enough to believe it, you have to say it. But too many times people are trying to accomplish something on their own that he has already accomplished for them in Christ. So the in Christ mindset and I've given us homework in the past episodes, I've referred to this. But this is so critical. Beginning our confessions and beginning our thought life with In Christ I have this. In Christ, I'm already whole in Christ, I have all the provision I need in Christ, I have the wisdom I need. In Christ the Spirit of God is leading me. I know exactly what to do. And we need to give ourself the habit of speaking and starting our confessions and starting what we say with this phrase in Christ I have, and then complete that with the supply that heaven has already put in Christ for your life. But if people think that they've got to coerce something out of God, talk him into it, convince him that they're worthy of receiving his divine help, they've missed the whole point of who they are in Christ. It's not about us earning something. It's about us learning something that we have already been made rich in Him. Amen. So these are things that's so important for us to learn. I want us to go and I'm gonna ask the control room if you would put up two Peter 1:1 and turn with me. In your Bibles, we do put the Scriptures on the screen, but don't leave out making notes in your own Bible, because these things will bless you. But two Peter, chapter one one, it reads this, that it says Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ to them. Look at this. That have obtained like precious faith with us. Now see, you already have like precious faith. Well, what faith is that? That's the faith of God. When God put faith in us, he did not go outside of himself to get that faith. It's his own faith that he gave us a measure of it. And we can develop it, we can strengthen it, we can become skillful at using it. We have obtained a like precious faith. So you have to say in Christ, I have faith. Because I guarantee you, every time opposition shows up, the devil will say, you don't have enough faith to get past this. Well, too late, devil in Christ, I have obtained like precious faith. Now look at this, that we have obtained like precious faith with us. Look at this. Through the righteousness of God. Now, righteousness is a gift given us. Contained in that righteousness is the faith of God. So just as righteousness was gifted to us, faith was gifted to us. Now it's up to us to feed that faith, strengthen that faith, become skillful with that faith. Amen. Let's go to the next verse, if you would. Let's go to verse two and see how it reads. Look at this. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you. I don't know about you, I don't want to live on a small measure of grace. I don't want to live on a small measure of peace if it can be multiplied to me when I'm walking in greater peace. What's that mean? I'm running, struggle out of my life. Grace is what God's divine ability made ours. Grace is just simply God's ability. God working through us, God empowering us, God enabling us. So grace is God's part of what he's given. Faith is our part. Meaning this. We add our faith to his grace. We receive by faith the grace that he made ours. So grace and faith are to move together. But grace can be multiplied. Look at that. That it's not about getting God to give something more, it's about us learning something more. Because the more we know, the more we can cooperate with the greatness of God's grace. Now Peter said this grace and peace be multiplied unto you. How? Through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. So we have to know something to go further, to experience a life that where God's ability is flowing through us in a greater degree. God's empowering, moving through us in a greater degree. We have to know something. Not only that, for peace to be enjoyed at a greater measure than we're walking in it. We have to know something. Well, we have to know who we are in Christ, what He's already made ours. Now let's go to verse three and let's see what Peter tells us. He says this according as God's divine power. Look at these next words. Has given unto us all things that pertain to unto life and godliness. God's power has already given us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. What's this mean? What has God withheld from us? Nothing. He has made all things ours that we're going to need for this life. To. To, if I could say this, to produce in our life what was produced in Jesus life. We have that so that we can also have that. We're moving in a flow of godliness. When I see the word godliness, I think of the word godlikeness. Living as he lives, as Jesus lived, we live that way. That's godliness. God likeness like him in all things. So his divine power has already given unto us all things that pertain or that we need to live the divine life to produce a God likeness in our life in this earth. Look at this. Through the knowledge of him, through the knowledge of him, we have to have knowledge. Knowledge of who we are in Christ. Who put us in Christ? God did. Christ is in us. We're in Him. Let's not ever separate what God joined. You know what the Word says and well, many times you'll hear it quoted at a wedding when it says what God has joined together, let no man put asunder. Well, it certainly would apply to a marriage covenant. But what about this. He joined me to Christ. I'm one with him. And for me to see myself outside of Christ, I have just divided what God joined us under. And you can't be blessed dividing what God joined. You have to see yourself as in Christ, think as one is in Christ, talk as one in Christ. Because it changes everything about how you're going to live and produce in this world. When you recognize, I'm in Him, he's in me. Well, what does that mean? I am not my drawing place. He is the place I draw out of for my everyday life. Now, I love these words that I see in verse 3. His divine power has given. Look at that. He's already given it. I was. There was something that I was. I had in my heart that I knew that we needed to have in our ministry. A piece of equipment. And I talked to God about it, and it was in my heart. When I was talking to God, it came to me, someone's going to give you that piece of equipment. And I was, you know, I was willing to do, if I could, say, go any avenue, God would direct me in it, whether we just believe God for the finances to purchase it, whatever. I didn't tell God how to do it. But in holding this need up before God, he said, someone's going to give you that piece of equipment. Well, it took several years for that to happen. But it came to pass in the process of that as I was just worshiping God because, see, I'm not mindful of the need. I'm mindful of what he said. So I remember one day I was saying this. I said, God, I thank you. I've already heard from you on this. You told me that someone's going to give me that piece of equipment. And I would also do this. I would also pray for the person that God was going to use. I didn't know who he was going to use. See, it's wrong for us to decide who God is going to use. Like, if I could say it this way. Don't ever pray. Oh, God, I pray for Sister Mary to give me this. That's covetousness. You are not. You have no scripture to stand on to see what someone else has, even if it's finances. Don't try to manipulate finances through your prayer life out of someone else's hands just because you know they have it. I never tell God who to use. Why, God will bless us through the hands of men. We know that God's going to use people, but it's up to him who he uses. And so I was saying one day I said, God, I don't know who it is that you're going to use, but I pray for them because I know this. Anytime God speaks something to us, the devil's going to oppose that, even for them. So I pray for them that they would hear what you would say. I'm not trying to manipulate something out of them, but I just know how the devil works. Haven't you known that anytime God will say something to you, the devil tried to talk you out of it? So I thought, the devil's gonna try to talk them out of it? So I just lift them up before you. Well, in the course of me just taking this approach regarding this piece of equipment, praying for the giver, God corrected me on that. He said, yes, I told you someone is going to give you that piece of equipment. But don't focus on the someone. Focus on it is given. He said, if I hadn't have given it there, it doesn't matter what someone else may give you. You only want. And I'm this way. If God doesn't give it to me, I don't want it, no matter who may hand it to me. Because what is it? Psalm, chapter 127, verse 1, says this. Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it, know this, you can build something that God's not involved in, I don't want. If God can't build it, I don't want it. If God doesn't build it for me, I don't want it. And what God builds for another man, I'm not going to try to take part of that. If God didn't give it to me, I don't want it. Because you can do something on your own and build apart from him. But at the end of it, it will be full of struggle, it will be full of difficulty, it will be full of all kinds of oppos. But when God gives it, there's a flow with it, there is a joy with it. It does not rob from you, it always adds to you. You know, sometimes people have been adamant about things that they wanted and called it faith. Just because you're adamant, don't call that faith. You know, the world is adamant about what they will or won't have in their life. You know, they're adamant about their dreams, they're adamant about their plan. But it's dangerous to be adamant about something and mistake that for faith. And just because you can, with dogged determination, make some things happen, don't think that that's faith in God. Sometimes we're just pretty specific. Or if I could say this, we're pretty strategic about how we can. What steps we can take to make something happen, because we can do things in the natural to make some things happen. But I don't want to do anything apart from what God authors. And so this is what God said to me. He said, don't focus on that. Someone is going to be used to give you this. Focus on it is given. And he said, I'm the giver of it. And if I give you something, even if one person doesn't obey, another one will. Because he said, what I give must reach your life. So it redirected the way I was thinking and the way I was really speaking now. I was repeating what God said in the sense he said, someone is going to give you that piece of equipment. But God did not want me to emphasize someone. He wanted me to emphasize it is given. He's the one that gave it. No one would have given me that if God hadn't given it first. So when we're as people of faith, what we need to focus on is it is given. That means you can say, I have already. I am the healed. Because God has already given healing. He doesn't wait until your symptoms show up before he tries to gather up healing and throw at your direction. Jesus is the healer. He already bore the price. Healing belongs to you now. And because it is already given, long before you were ever born, long before your symptoms or sickness ever showed up, God had already provided healing. He already gave it. And that's what faith talks about. It talks about what God has already given. It doesn't talk about the symptoms or the opposition that's opposing doubt and unbelief talks about this realm and what it feels. But faith talks about what God has already given. And so I so love in second Peter 1:3, when this wording as his divine power has given unto us, it already belongs to us. Faith is authorized to talk about what God has given, regardless of whether this realm shows it or not. That's what faith does. God has given it. And know this in Christ. He has given you everything that pertains to life and godliness. There is nothing your life will call for that he hasn't already given. Now it's up to us with our faith to know and to talk about what he has already given. Amen. Doesn't that make it all easy? And you say, well, Pastor Nancy, I'm not sure what all has been given. Well, it's good for us to learn specifically what the Word teaches. But look at the this verse in 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 3, he said he's given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. If it pertains to your life and if it pertains to you producing in a godlike manner, it's already given. Even if you can't spell out the specifics of it. Everything that pertains to my life, everything that pertains to eternal life, everything that pertains to the life of God, everything that pertains to my God likeness to produce fruit in his image, to produce fruit like Jesus prod. It's all given to me so you can give that very general answer and still realize I'm not trying to coerce something out of the hand of God. He's already given it. Now how many of you know that the flow of the enemy wanting to adjust the way we think. He's always trying to get us to doubt that we have something. He'll try to get us to think I've got to get prosperity. I've got to get my healing. He wants you ignorant that it's already been gotten for you. All you have to do is receive what God has already given. But the devil's always trying to tweak our understanding out of and away from what belongs to us in Christ. And he will. He will throw accusations like at. At you, like this. This is one time you're not going to get your healing. Too late, devil. I've already got it. See, if we don't realize and catch the wording of the enemy, we'll end up trying to get something and lay down the understanding. He has already given it to us. When we're struggling, it's because we have not agreed that Jesus has already given it. Struggle only comes because we're not holding to who we are in Christ. We're not agreeing with who made us to be and what he made ours. So it is so critical that in Christ we understand it's already given. Everything you need in this life, it was put in Christ. Christ was put in us. And know this. God put in Christ everything He wanted for you. Now get that. Everything God has for your life, he put it in Christ. Then he put Christ in you and you in Christ. There's the key. There's the emphasis of the New Testament. And can I tell you this, this is the mystery of the gospel that was revealed to Paul when he talks about this great mystery. Christ in us, the hope of glory. Everything that God has for your life, present, your future, eternity, everything, the plan of God for your life. He has stocked it all in Christ. And then he says, you're in Christ and Christ is in you. Spend him. Quit trying to spend you. Quit trying to spend your ability, your strength. You know, the Word tells us that God is the strength of our life. The Lord is the strength. He doesn't just take your strength and touch it and make it do something special. He doesn't even use your strength. He uses his. And he says, I am your strength. So many times people are saying, I'm trying to. I'm trying to. I'm trying to be strong in this. Don't try to be strong. Spend his strength. God doesn't need yours because he's already given you his. You can spend every bit of Him. The faith of God, the love of God, the joy of God. What are the nine fruits of the Spirit? They're the characteristics of God himself deposited in you so that you're not trying to spend you, but you have full authority to spend. All of his ability, all of his graces, all of his nature is made yours. So quit trying to do it in you. And that's what the Devil's always trying to bring us back to who we are outside of Christ. He's always pointing to our faults, our failures, our weaknesses, where we missed it. Wrong decisions we've made, wrong choices we made. Wrong, wrong directions we've made. What's the Devil always pointing to what we did outside of Christ, where we missed it outside of Christ. Because I tell you this, in Christ, we never miss it. So let's stop thinking of ourselves outside of Christ and being swayed by the devil into that mindset. I'm trying to do better. I'm trying to get something. No, it's all given you in Christ. Start. Learn to start every phrase with in Christ I have this. In Christ, I have. In Christ, I have strength. In Christ, I have wisdom. In Christ, I have his ability. And just start seeing yourself as one in Christ and live as rich as he's already made you to be. Amen. Well, we're going to continue along this direction and you don't want to miss it next time. And until next time, remember this, Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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