← 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.
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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 just know this. It is such a great joy to have this time with you and speak around the Word. Aren't you thankful for the Word? I mean, my, my, my. It gives us the best life whenever we're doers of it. Amen. And we appreciate the Word, but we do more than appreciate it. We do the Word. It becomes our manner of living every day. And how many of you know that the Word is not just a Sunday situation, it is the way we live. And so it's a joy to come and spend this time and just. We grow together and we learn. And thank you for being hungry for the Word. The Word tells us that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, something belongs to them. What is it? The fullness that we can come into full revelation, full understanding of what's ours in Christ. And we can live as God authored for us to live on this earth. How many of you know that we can live in heaven before we go there? We don't just have to wait for the location, but we can live days, a day of heaven on earth is what the Word says. And so how do we do that? By being doers of the Word. And just know this. When we know what the Word says, we're not sentenced to live lives based on those who don't know what the Word says. Don't look around you in this world and see the struggles and the suffering that people are going through and say, that doesn't belong to me. Now, yes, there's gonna be opposition, but because the greater one is on the inside of us, the outcome is so for our lives. So don't let what you see go on in the world around you. Think that that's your future. That does not have to be your future because the greater one on the inside has handed us the ability to live as God authored for us to live. Amen. And so we're just thankful for that Word and we're learning together. Aren't you so grateful that the Word of God shows us the right way to think? If it were not for the Word, we would not even know how what sound thinking looked like. And so we're having our minds renewed. And it's just such a joy to spend this time with you. We are on a series. Oh my goodness, where are we now? Summer, over 90 episodes on teaching in Christ. I can. And my goodness, the more you. The more you dive in, the more keeps coming out. And so we are just so thrilled to just keep discovering and learning together and letting the Holy Ghost show us more. Because we don't want to live this life cheated of what all Jesus purchased for us. We want to be partakers of it. Know this. Everything good and everything in Christ belongs to us. But we don't want to just be possessors of it. We want to also be partakers of it. Meaning that we're experiencing it in our everyday life and God has made all things ours because we're in Christ. Christ is in us. One Christian doesn't have more available to them than another Christian. We all have the same available. But what is it that's going to determine how much we enjoy and how much we partake of is how much we know how much we learn and our faith that we are going to apply toward experiencing what God's made ours. And I've said this before at different times, and it's so true. I used to say it to my congregation all the time, is God will allow you to have everything. You're okay with that. If you're okay with not having enough, he'll allow that. If you're okay with having a body that is really suffering or struggling, then God will allow us to have that. But if we will see what he's provided, what he's made available to us, and we'll say, that's what I'm going to experience in my life, then his power will back us up and we don't have to live life on autopilot. Let's not just keep doing what we've always done. Let's discover, let's find out, let's gain revelation by the Holy Ghost to see what belongs to us. And we put a demand on it to show up in our life. I want you to know you can put demands on your covenant and it is our privilege to do that. And that honors God. That pleases God when we put a demand on everything he purchased for us because it cost him everything for us to have everything. And so let's not live cheated, let's live as rich as we are. Amen. We've been looking at on a previous episode, we were looking at the passage in Second Peter chapter one, and we're going to start in verse three. Peter made this statement and I've been focusing on a few words in this scripture and it's and Peter writes, according as God's divine power, look at this, has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. Know this. If God has given it, it's up to faith to receive it. We are not trying to get God to give us something yet. We are simply receiving what he's already given. Now, as we've stated previously under the Old Testament, the focus of the Old Testament prayer life, the way they communicated with God was they were asking God to give them something. They were always endeavoring to get God to move on their behalf. But the emphasis of the New Testament is that the wealth of God is in Christ. It all is in Christ. God put in Christ in everything he wanted for us to have. And so everything we're ever going to need in this life has been deposited in Christ. And Christ is in us and we are in Him. So it's not about getting God to give us something. It's about us realizing it has already all been given us in Christ. Now it's up to us to explore that divine treasure and lay hold of it and spend and take into, and not just possess it, but partake of that which he put in Christ and made ours. So I so love what Peter says when he says, according as God's divine power has given already given. We're not trying to coerce God talk God into something. We are to realize and learn what he has already given and he's given it to us in Christ. It's not outside of Christ, it's in Christ. Do not try to function and see yourself as one outside of Christ, outside of Christ, trying to get something. You are in Christ. Once you're born again, you are in Christ. He is in you. Now we are to explore that and we're to spend it. Amen. And it says this that he has given us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. Look at this through the knowledge of Him. So we have to gain knowledge of what is in him and what's in us because we're in Him. And then we can use our faith to lay hold of it. Now, faith is this. Faith is not trying to get God to do something. Faith is receiving what God has already given. Now, I so appreciate something that Dr. Lester Sumrall said. He said, if God did not have what I needed, God would make it just for me. Well, I want you to know we will never do without because in Christ, and He has provided everything we'll ever need. And he does not want our life to ever look less than because it's not the true representation of in Christ when we're struggling, when we're doing without. And so we have to realize that all things are already given to us in Christ. I was telling how several years ago I had been talking with God about something that I just, I wanted to find out his plan concerning something. And there was a piece, equipment that our ministry needed. And it's an expensive, it's a large piece of equipment. And I was talking to God about it and God said to me, he said, someone is going to give you that. And I was willing to purchase it, but God said someone was going to sew that piece of equipment into our ministry. And after several years that happened, someone did sow that into our, into our ministry. But before that was delivered to us, I was quoting what God said to me. God said, someone's going to give you that piece of equipment. So I was saying, father, I thank you that someone is going to give that piece of equipment. And God said to me, remove the middleman. He said, don't focus on that. Someone's going to give it. Focus on, I have already given it to you. Because we know this, that even if God were to move on someone, command someone, direct someone to give us something, if they don't obey, God will find someone who will obey. Amen. So we don't ever want our faith to shift to the person who God uses. We always keep our faith on the God who gave. Now that's what God was correcting me on. Because without realizing it, you can shift your faith to people. You can shift your faith to avenues. And God will use many different avenues. But he never wants our faith attached to. To an avenue. Our faith is to be attached to the provider who provides the one who gives. And so basically God was correcting me in my confession. He was saying, don't emphasize or focus that someone's going to give it. Emphasize and talk about that. I have already given it, therefore it must show up. So if we're not Careful. We can let our faith drift to something other than God himself. So God will use many avenues in your life. Do you know that if you have a job, receive a paycheck, that's an avenue that God blesses you? But know this, that's not the only avenue God can use to bless you. Don't ever think that your provision is limited to your avenue. God has many avenues he can use. Don't limit him in your thinking. And I would say this. Never connect your faith to an avenue. You say, well, Pastor Nancy, how do I know if my faith is connected to an avenue? Well, what happened if that avenue changed? What if you're. What if you came in one day to work and your. Your company says, we're closing down this whole department and that affects you? Do you become upset? Do you become fearful? Do you start struggling in your thought life? Do you lose peace? Do you. Do you lose sleep over it? Well, that's a sign that our faith was attached to something changeable. We cannot attach our faith to something changeable. Avenues are changeable. And how. If your faith is in God, you don't even care what avenue God uses. It matters not to me what avenue he uses. I'm not limited to avenues because God's not limited to avenues. My faith is attached to him. And God was correcting me because without realizing it or meaning to, my faith was beginning to shift. That someone was going to be used to sew this piece of equipment. And God corrected me. Stay with. Keep your faith on. I give it because he said, once I give it, there will be an avenue that will manifest what I've given. He said this to me. He said it this way. Leave out the middleman. Is there always a middleman? Well, the Bible says that God will bless us through the hands of men. Don't magnify the middleman. Appreciate someone's obedience to God that they blessed you. You should acknowledge if God uses someone to bless you, you should show proper gratitude. But you should never give to that middleman the confidence and the faith that you put only in God. Amen. And so that's something that people have to watch because so much of the time, if we're not careful, women can put pressure on their husband to be their provider. Your husband's not your provider. Your husband is the head of the home, just like God said, he's the head of that family. But he's not the head because he's responsible to provide. He's responsible to lead the family to believe. God, who's the provider so even in a family, do not turn a person into your the resting place of your faith. Ladies, it's unfair to expect your husband to be the provider. The two of you believe together that God's your provider. That means this because I know sometimes you people will enter a marriage because they're looking for financial security. Marriage is a poor financial security plan because then you're going to shift your faith to a person in that marriage to take care of you. Don't ever put your faith in an avenue. Always put your faith in God. And I so love something that the day my husband went home to be with the Lord, Brother Kenneth Copeland called me and was. He had the Word of God in his mouth for me, and it was such a blessing. And I love when he prayed for me that day. I love something he prayed because I loved the wording. He said, father, bless her in ways unknown to her and unused with her before. And God has done that. But notice this. It was God who blessed. It wasn't the way who blessed. It was the God who blessed the way that he used. So make sure that you're not trusting in your paycheck, in your spouse, in a family member. Because I notice this what you're putting your faith in is also what you put your pressure on. If you're putting pressure on someone to take care of you financially, to meet a need for you to lean on, then what happens is you're identifying where your faith is resting, where. And I always put. I can put all the pressure on the Word, a demand on the Word, because it always produces. And that's my resting place. That's my safe place. That's my place of security. Because why God and His Word are unchanging. I know that they will always produce for me when I lean myself on the Word. The Word talks about, in all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your paths. Then the Word also says this. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. Why your understanding is just. If I could say this. It's an avenue that God deals with you through or blesses, or he will help us renew this understanding. But know this. We don't lean on it. We lean on Him. We lean on the Word. We don't even lean on our own education. We don't lean on our own intellect. Why? Because it can fail us in the face of adversity. And know this. Never put your faith on something that's not big enough to deliver you. Your finances are not great enough to deliver you. Your Employer is not great enough to deliver you. Your spouse is not great enough to deliver you. Relatives are not great enough to deliver you. Never have your faith resting on something that's not great enough to deliver you. And so God is unchanging. And God is the only one worthy to have the. If I could say this be the leaning place of our life. So the Word says, trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. What you're trusting in is what you're leaning on. And so make certain that you lean on him. If I were, and I can't really demonstrate in this setting right here, but if I go and I lean on somebody, you know, if somebody's standing up, I lean close to them and I lean my body partially on them. If I'm not fully leaning, I'm just partially leaning. If they move, I can recover myself. But when we're to lean on God, it's like if we're leaning on somebody and we're leaning so fully on them that if they move, we hit the floor. That's the kind of leaning that we're to do on God. We don't have something else we're falling back on. We're not leaning on something that can fail to support us. We are fully leaning on God, not partially, because that's not faith. To be able to recover yourself, so to speak, to go to a plan B. If this doesn't work, when you have plan B and plan C and plan D, I have to wonder what you're leaning on and are you leaning fully? Because when you know what God has said to you, what God's provided for you, you can lay your entire exist on him and His Word and know that he is more than enough. That he supports in Christ is all the support you're ever going to need to fulfill the plan of God for your life. So examine yourself. What are you leaning on? What if your employer calls and said, there's been a change at the work? Well, praise God. God's got something better for me. That should be your immediate response. Why? Because in Christ I'm always provided for, for. It's not my job. That's my provider. And know this, that if God tells us, let's say God were to tell you to give a certain amount of money to someone and you start struggling with that. What's that mean? It's an indicator that you're leaning on that amount of money. That you think that that amount of money is your support. Well, that's a. That's a no wonder God helps us all along the way to check our leaning place. Because when he tells us to give something, do we struggle? What we're leaning on will show up if we're struggling to obey what God commanded of us. So whenever God says, I want you to give this, you say, okay, let's do that. And you do it joyfully. You do it without struggle. Then that note, then you're notified, ah, I'm leaning on the right place. I'm leaning on the right one. Now, if he tells you to do something, you struggle about doing it what you're leaning on. Because if we lean on something other than him, we'll live cheated. Know this. In Christ he has given you everything you're going to need. You can lean fully on Him. Amen. Now I want you to see something in Colossians chapter two. Now, we were there in two. Peter and I wanted. We were. We were focusing on this phrase that his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him. Now I want us to go over to Colossians, because this has really been a golden text for us in this series. Colossians chapter 2 and verse 6. The Amplified classic translation says this. As you have therefore received Christ, even Jesus the Lord, so walk. Now, when the word says walk, it's talking about your manner of everyday life. So it says, so walk, regulate your lives and conduct yourselves in union and conformity. Look at this. To him, have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him, fixed and founded in him, being continually built up in Him. What is this? What's the repeated point or focus of this passage? It's in him that we fix ourselves in Him. We're rooted in Him. We're leaning on who he is in us and who we are in Him. Now it goes on to verse nine. I want you to see what verse nine says in that passage, the Amplified Translation. It says, for in him, in talking about Christ, in Him the whole fullness of Deity, the Godhead continues to dwell in bodily form, giving complete expression of the divine nature. Now look at verse 10. 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. Now I want to read to you verses 9 and 10 from the Living Bible Translation, Colossians 2, verses 9 and 10. The Living Bible says this. For in Christ there is all of God in a human body. Look at that. In Christ there is all of God in a human Body. What's that mean? None of God has been withheld. None of himself. All of God dwells in him. Then verse 10 says this. So you have everything when you have Christ. Look at that phrase. You have everything. What's that mean? It's all been given you. And where does that abundance live? In the treasury of him. So you have everything when you have Christ. And you are filled with God through your union with Christ. Amazing. If we would learn to think of ourselves in terms of that. Christ is in me. I'm in Him. I'm everything in Him. He's everything in me. God is everything in me. There's none of God that has been with me, withheld from me. I'm the possessor of all of him. Now, why would we not spend him? Let's spend him. What's that mean? Draw on him. Draw on who he is in us. Say, Pastor Nancy, how do I draw on him? You obey him. That's how you draw on him. You respond to him. You know, we say, well, I'm going to respond to God. Then you have to obey him. There's no full response to God without obedience. What is he telling you to do when you obey what he tells you to do? He feels that action with himself. Now look at that. He feels that action with himself. Let's think about the first miracle that was worked under Jesus earthly ministry. It was in a marriage, you'll remember. And Jesus mother was there. The disciples of Jesus were there with him. And Mary comes over to Jesus and says, they've run out of wine. And basically he said, woman, what's that? What I've got to do with that? In other words, I'm not the caterer, you know, that's not my role here. And she was done talking to him after he answered her that way. But she turned to his servants and she turned to the servants rather that were there. And she said, whatsoever he says to you, do it. What's she saying? Obey. Why? Because if he tells you to do something and you obey what he tells you, he gets in that obedience. He meets that obedience and fills that action of obedience with his own self, his own ability, his own power. So what did he tell him to do? Well, first of all, she put a demand on Jesus. Say something to these servants. Servants. There's Mama. Mama showed up and you go do what Mama says here. And so she put a demand on Jesus to say something. Can I tell you what? It is a privilege to hear what God would say to us. Too many times people are hoping he doesn't command something of them, but the privilege is hearing what he commands of us because he intends to fulfill that command through us. So she put a demand on Jesus, and he met that demand. He said to the servants, go fill the water pots up with water. And so they had to do that task. It's estimated in those days that those water pots were about 30 gallons. Now, you know you have a clay water pot that in itself that can hold 30 gallons. That's heavy, empty. So they are. They are hauling 30 gallons of water to fill up those water pots. It's a labor. But he doesn't command them to do something they can't do. He commands them to do something that they can do. But when they obey him and he tells them, take the. Take a cup of that to the governor of the feast, take that over there to him, what happens? They filled it with water, but he filled it with power. And so when they obeyed, he met their obedience with what only he could do, God working through his words. Amen. So how do we draw on the greater One in us, the Christ in us? Obey Him. What is he telling you to do? Because when you obey him, he will manifest himself, his power, his provision, his life, his health, his wholeness through your obedience. Every time you need something from God, he's going to involve you by giving you something to obey. He's not trying to keep you away from your miracle. He's trying to involve you. But he needs your action of faith so that he can feel that with Himself and you are filled with Christ. Spend Him. Don't just spend your own effort, your own ability, your own humanity. Because when you spend him, you just stepped into divinity. You stepped into a flow of the divine, moving and operating in your everyday actions when you draw on him and obey Him. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss next time because we're going to continue this direction. And until next time, remember this. Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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If you have received a healing or have any other testimony to share with us as a result of this broadcast, we would love to hear about it. Please call us, write us, or contact us through our website. 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. We invite you to join us at World Harvest church, home of Dufresne Ministries in Murrieta, California, located at 23109 Palomar Street, Marietta, California, this is a Word and Spirit church. Join us in person or online Sunday mornings at 10am and Tuesday nights at 7pm Pacific. For more information, go to defrainministries.org.
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