← 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 to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. We just are expecting for God to give you answers for your life. And I will say this. I've noticed this even in my own life when I attend the services of other ministers that many times God will say something to me that didn't come out of their mouth. But being in that setting, then I could hear God say something. So, yes, you may hear answers that come to your life through what I say. But just be aware. God can even open up just in this setting of the teaching of the Word, and you'll hear things specifically for your life that didn't come out of my mouth. But I say this. Write them down. Take note of something that God says to you because we don't want to let slip anything that he gives us because our life needs everything he brings to us. Amen. We have been. This is. Congratulations those of you who have followed along in this series. We're on number 100 episode of just this series. I don't know. I think we're what summer maybe at, like the 900th episode that we've been recording, but this one has come into 100 episodes in the series called In Christ. And I am so. I'm just so blessed by what God is ministering to us through His Word and the treasury of all that is in Christ. And that treasury is in us. That he's in us. We're in Him. And it is such a joy to discover all he is in us and for us and through us. Because we want to be more skillful at being the channel that he can manifest through Amen. We've been talking about some things. We've read different scriptures, scriptures that show us that everything that God planned and has for our lives, he put into Christ. And then he put Christ in us. He put us in Christ so we can encounter every need in life, we can encounter every opposition in life and say, in Christ, I have healing. In Christ, I have victory. In Christ, I have provision. So let us get, have and develop this spiritual habit and mindset and the words to start everything that we face as in Christ, I can do this. In Christ, I have the answer for this. Because we want to employ his help, we want to employ his ability. And when we have this habit of speaking as one in Christ, then we enjoy to the full what God's provided for us in Christ. All the things he's made ours because we're in Christ is abundant. The Word tells us this. He loads us daily with benefits. There are so many benefits that one day can't contain them all. He has to spread them into each and every day. But of all the benefits that we have because we're in Christ, the greatest benefit is to have the fellowship of God himself. And that's what we've been talking about for the last several episodes, is not overlooking the richness of what belongs to us in Christ is the absolute fellowship of God himself. Amen. I was reading through and we tell you, go to our website and either download or print out. We have what we call in Him Scriptures, and they're free for you to download. And there's around 130 or so scriptures in the New Testament that tell us who we are in Christ, what belongs to us in Christ, what He will do through us. And so we compiled those. They were actually a list that Kenneth Hagin had compiled. And so we have made those available to you for free. Go and download those, feed on those. But I was reading through some of these just the other night, and I was reading through the Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Now, the Gospels are the books of the New Testament that record Jesus earthly life and ministry. But we see this, that we have four different accounts of his earthly life and ministry. But the Spirit of God led these men to write as they were moved on to record this. And when I looked at this, I saw that in the Book of Matthew, there were five different in Christ what we would categorize as in Christ Scriptures. Now, when I say in Christ, it contains the phrase in him, in whom, through whom, by him, all of these words that depict what Christ did for us or in us and through us. And so those are the ones we call in Him Scriptures. But of the ones that are listed in the Book of Matthew, there's five that Matthew recorded that show us who we are in Christ. And then in the book of Mark, there were four accounts or four different places where in Christ notifications were made notifying us of what we are in Christ, what belongs to us. The book of Luke has won. But when I looked at the book of John, there were 18 places that he recorded in Christ truths. Now notice this. Matthew, Mark and Luke, with all of them combined, it was 10 passages, just with John alone, it was 18. So we see that John evidently had a firmer grasp, a further insight, a greater revelation about him in Christ, who Christ was in him. Now also, if you read through any of the writings of John, you'll also see how often he refers to the love of God. In the Gospel of John, he refers to himself as the disciple that Jesus loved. He was so mindful of God's love for him. How many of you know that one of the. One of the strategies of the devil is to make you feel as though God is upset with you. God's mad at you. God's angry with you. I was watching something. There was a miracle that was posted on a. On a particular social media platform. And this girl had gotten saved. And she was, I would say, maybe in her late 20s, early 30s. I don't know her entire history or her testimony about this, but she got saved and they brought her to a baptism service, and she was going to be baptized in that service. When they brought her, they brought her in a wheelchair. I don't know the extent, but I know this, that she was completely paralyzed. I don't know how long she'd been that way. I don't know if she'd been born that way. I don't know if there was an accident. But when they brought her, she was in a wheelchair. They took her out of the wheelchair and they baptized her. When she came up out of the water, she came up whole. She her legs, she was completely healed and she fell to the ground. And listen to the words she said. She was weeping profusely. You can understand the thrill at receiving the healing. And she would have sensed the presence of God in such a dramatic way. But the first words were out of her mouth was, Jesus, I love you and thank you. You're not mad at me. That was because no telling how the devil had accused her that she deserved this physical condition because she had displeased God some way. The devil is always misrepresenting God to us. He's always trying to get us to blame God, see him as someone against us. And I want you to know John had a Revelation. God loves me. And I want you to know it is so important that in Christ you understand you are so loved by the Father. If you will establish that in you, then you quit being a co laborer with the devil accusing him with you. He accuses you and then he gets you, accusing you, turning you in on yourself. And I was so blessed to see that the strategy of the enemy was disarmed in that young girl's life when, when she, she received that Healing is a flow of the love of God. It's not just simply something to feel better. He doesn't. Yes, he wants us to be pain free, but it is an expression of God's love for us. His healing flow is. And she realized when he healed her, it was his love working in her. And that was the first thing she recognized, that it dismantled the thinking that the devil had no doubt bombarded her with, that God was mad at her and that's why she was in that condition. I want you to know God's not mad. He just wants so much more for us than we've ever realized that he wanted. He wants us to know the truth. And it so blessed me that when she realized he loves me. Well, this is what John understood because he referred him to himself as the disciple that Jesus loved. Can I tell you every general in the body of Christ that I've gotten to be around, they have a firm grasp on the grace of God, the goodness of God, the love of God over their own life. They don't turn in against themselves and become a co laborer with the accuser of the brethren accusing themselves. They see themselves as the love target. And that's one of the things I've noticed about those who have a bold, daring faith. They are not questioning God's love. They are firmly rooted in the understanding that God loves me. This is what we see in the Gospel of John. He refers to himself as one that Jesus loved. Not only that, in the letters that he wrote first, second, third John, you see him referring more than any other letter to the love of God. He has always made love for God, God's love for him and how much he would be in fellowship with God. That was a central theme of his letters. Well, when we look at the different disciples, the 12 disciples that Jesus personally trained, we know this from just historians that have recorded how each of those disciples died. Eleven of the twelve were martyred. They tried to martyr John, but it didn't work. In fact, they put him in a pot of boiling oil. That was one way that they would put their. Put their, you know, victims to death. They tried to do that and it didn't work. And people would say, well, he probably came out of there not looking so good. No, that's not true. Because when Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown in the fiery furnace, they came out, there wasn't even the smell of smoke on them. I guarantee you it would have frightened those people that day that tried to. To martyr this man, that they put him in oil and there was no mark of it on him. And that's why they were afraid to try to continue martyring him, because they knew this is supernatural. So what they ended up doing was sending him to an isolated place, a secluded place, the isle of Patmos. And while he's there, he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. And Jesus appears to him and he writes this book of Revelation. He has this revelation directly from Jesus. What did they do? They meant to punish him. And all they did was put him in a place to see more than he had ever seen before. But I want you to see something. It's no coincidence that this man, that they could not martyr this man that had so much revelation of God, the love of God and the plan of God, that he knew who he was in Christ. His. His. His emphasis was the love of God. His emphasis was also he saw who he was in Christ and who Christ was in him. What does this mean for us? Let's become skillful, let's become knowledgeable of what belongs to us in Christ. Because that automatically puts us in a place of such skill in the face of opposition. And what the devil tries to work and is able to work against others won't work because we know too much to allow something that is not of in Christ have a place in us. Listen, if Christ didn't give it to us, we got no business with it. If Christ didn't work it in us, we have no business trying to. Trying to live with it. Nothing. We know this. The devil tried to sow things into Jesus, but he couldn't get it in him. I mean, Luke chapter four talks about how he was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. And for 40 days and nights he was tempted of the devil. It records the last three of those temptations in Luke chapter four. But notice he was in that wilderness and the devil was trying to sow a wrong seed in him. And he never could get it sown in him. When Jesus made this statement, he said, I only see. Well, I only do what I see. My Father. Do I only say what I hear my Father say? When would he hear it? When would he see it? In times of fellowship with his Father, when he's spending time with God, God would show him people. God would show him what he was going to do throughout that day. And then he would go out among the people and he would just become the channel of what he saw. He would become the voice of what he heard. So he got in. This is where fruit bearing comes from. In a place of fellowship, we hear, we see, and then we go out and we live our day based on what we saw in that place of fellowship. So I just remind us all, of all the things that belong to us in Christ, the highest and the best is fellowship with the Father himself. Amen. I want to read to you one of my absolute favorite passages, John, chapter 17. Now, if you want to know what Jesus prayer life sounded like, read this chapter. Because this chapter is a record of the prayer that he prayed before he was arrested. He starts off. Listen to this. He starts off his prayer, John chapter 17 in verse 1. And it says this. These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven. What's this mean? When Jesus lifts his eyes up, what's he doing? He's setting his attention. He's setting his acknowledgment. It matters where you're looking, whenever you're faced with something. And it says, he lifted up his eyes to heaven. And he said, father, the hour has come. Now look at this. The hour has come. He knew the seasons of his life. He knew what was in front of him at different times and places in his life. Can I tell you this? Because you're in fellowship with the Father. You need to know what's to come. He will show you things to come that you're not walking through this life oblivious, not knowing which way to go, not knowing what to do here, what turn to make there. We should be living with some understanding of what the future contains. Why is that? Because John, chapter 16. Jesus talked about that he'd send the Holy Spirit, that he would pray the Father, and the Father would send the Holy Spirit. He talks about it in John, chapter 14, John, chapter 16. And one of the things that Jesus said, three times in a row in three different verses, he said, and the Spirit will show you things to come. He will show you things to come. He will show you things to come. Why? Because in fellowship with God, we are to see what's ahead so that we can add our faith to what's ahead and walk Accurately. We know this about Jesus from his place of fellowship. He said, father, the hour has come. He knew the hour of his life. We need to be knowing what the plan of God contains for us. We're not just walking oblivious and blind and bumping into walls and saying, I hope I'm going the right direction. I hope I'm making the right decision. That is an incorrect and inaccurate way to live. We should live knowing the will of God, knowing the plan of God. And we know our steps are full of purpose. So Jesus looks up to heaven. He says, father, the hour has come. And he said this. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. Now notice this. Everything Jesus did was with the motive of glorifying his Father. This is what is so imperative that we pick up in the place of fellowship with God, that our motive becomes him. Our motive is to glorify Him. Motive is everything to God, and don't you forget it. I guard my motive on things. Why? Because I might do the right thing. But if I do it with the wrong motive, God will not accept it. God will not be pleased. Motive is everything. For example, God has had me to write books. I don't know, I've written maybe 23, 24, 25 books, something like that. I never, never, never pick up a pen to write or pick up my computer to write and say, I think I can make money off of this. I never touch it. I will not allow my mind to go to a motive other than I'm wanting to be a blessing to the people. The only reason I write the books I write is because I want to bring the revelation God's given me to help the people. Motive is everything, and it's to glorify him. Guard your motive above all things. If you want God to trust you with his purposes, with his plans, its motive is everything. Notice Jesus said, glorify thy Son. Now he tells, this is why I want you to glorify me, so that I can glorify you. Notice this. His motive is forefront in his mouth. His motive is forefront in his heart. He didn't say, glorify me so that I can show every one of my enemies that I was right and they were wrong. No. Glorify me because my intent is to glorify you. Amen. Then in verse two, he said, as thou has given him, talking about himself, you've given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him. So notice this. The reason Jesus was so unflinching in the face of the price he was to pay. Because he wasn't looking at what it would cost him. He was looking at what it would purchase for us. He wasn't thinking about the price he would pay. He was thinking about the fruit he would bear. He kept his heart on the end. He kept his focus on the end of this, not on the steps that would get him there. The Bible says, it says in Hebrews, it said that Jesus, he. He did not shrink back. He did not. It says he looked with joy on the other side of the cross. That's how he kept going. He didn't look at the cross, he looked on the other side of it. What's on the backside of this? And I want you to know the devil would love for you to focus on what's what opposition is against you. But know this. If you every opposition is trying to hide something from you. It's trying to get your focus and attention on the wrong thing. They put it up on the screen for me. It's Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 2. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Look at this. For the joy that was set before him endured the cross. It wasn't the cross that was the joy. It was. He looked clear through the cross. On the other side of it, there's the joy. It's going to be bringing many sons to glory. How did he face the cross and was undaunted, unafraid. Because he wasn't looking at the price, he was looking at the reward of the price. And that was many sons to glory. This is what he's already talking about before he's even facing the cross that moment. He says this in verse 2. As thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given in him. He's talking about the harvest of the seed he's going to sow of his own life. He's talking about you and me. He went to the cross with you and me in mind. He didn't go to the cross with him in mind. He went to the cross with you and me in mind. Whenever you're faced with opposition, if you will look on the other side of that opposition, what's the devil trying to hide from you? First of all, you'll have greater skill at getting past opposition once you get past that which is in front of you. When you learn how to move with God and get past the opposition, you know what, you can help someone else get past their opposition. You lay hold of the more that God's offering you. And know this, the devil's not going to congratulate you on your advancement in God. He's going to try to hinder you in your advancement. How does he hinder you? He tries to get your attention occupied with what's coming against you. But it is your job to hold your attention on what for you and who's in you. Acknowledge him who's in you. You know, when you talk about, of course, we know so well the story of David and Goliath, but this is what David did differently than what the other soldiers did. When he came to the battlefield, he saw the Israeli army hiding. You know, there may be a strategy that when soldiers are taught to hide out until a time of attack, but they're not taught to hide out so they don't have to attack. Right? But this army was hiding so they wouldn't have to attack. And David walked in into that scene and he saw that God's people were hiding. And then he heard Goliath come out, as he did every day. And he would taunt and mock and make fun of God's people in hiding. And of course he found out what's going on here. They told him. And David asked a critical question. He said, what does the guy get who beats him? What did he do? He didn't start thinking about how big life was. His first question was, what's the reward of beating that guy? He was already on the backside of that. He was already on the other side of that. There's a reward to the other side of opposition. If you get occupied with opposition, opposition can rob you of that reward. But if you'll treat that opposition as nothing. Why can we treat opposition as nothing? Yeah, because greater is he that's in us. When we magnify who's in us, instead of what's against us, we treat the devil as he is. He is a defeated foe in every encounter with the enemy. Treat him, approach him, think of him as a defeated foe. And when you do that, you're not occupied with what's opposing you. You're occupied with there's a reward on the other side of this. David was asking about reward when no other man was talking about reward. Why? Because they were so occupied with what was in front of him. But notice, I want you to see when Jesus is getting ready to face the hour of his arrest and his trial and his ultimate crucifixion. He said this in verse 2, as thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give Eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Look at this. John 17, verse 3. This is the verse I wanted us to get to. This is eternal life that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Look at that fellowship, our fellowship with God, our place in God. This is eternal life. It's not just what we get. Because what God has provided for us in Christ is the outflow of eternal life, but the very flow of eternal life itself is God himself. So don't get, if I could say this, distracted from your ultimate, which is fellowship with God, and think that, well, I'm born again. That's all there is. No, you have just now come into the threshold of the greatest, which is offered you fellowship every single day with God himself. How do we do that? We acknowledge Him. We turn our attention toward Him. We put our words on Him. We put our thoughts on Him. And as I said, let's give ourselves the renewed mind and the spiritual habit of saying, in Christ, I have it all in Christ, I have every single need is met in Christ. I have every answer I need in life. And my. This natural realm will catch up with it. But it's already been given me. Amen. Well, we're able to come to you for one reason. We get to come daily into your home, into your place of business, wherever you watch this because of the generosity and the faith of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. Years ago, they made a decision that no programmer on the Victory Channel would pay for the airtime. And so they gift this airtime to our ministry. But not only that, they are sowing seed into every home, every person that watches anything on the channel. It's an amazing gift. It's an amazing, strong, bold faith decision that they made. And if this ministry, if this teaching, if this broadcast and the broadcasts of all the other programmers is a blessing to you, if it feeds you, it's only honorable and it's only right that we fund the place that feeds us. Because as we sow into that, we're not only helping feed others, we're feeding our own lives, our own family. And I would say this. If you're not already a partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, become a partner today. And I would even say, I don't think that people have to pray. Should I sow into a place that feeds me? It's just what honor does. And so you may, I say, pray about how much God wants you to be a partner monthly or weekly. But I say this. It's only appropriate that we sow back into the place that's nourishing our life. And so you can go to kcm.org and you can follow the prompts there to sign up to become a partner. And until next time, 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 In Nancy Dufresne's book Faith in the Power of God, she teaches how God wants us to know his power that is in our direction. It belongs to us. We cannot live the life God authored for us without his power. Order this book now@DefrainMinistries.org.
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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 a reality in your everyday life. You can order your copy@jesusthehealer.org God bless you.
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We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@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, Murrieta, California, this is a Word and Spirit church. Join us in person or online Sunday mornings at 10am and Tuesday nights at 7pm Pacific Time. For more information, go to defrainministries.org shop Nancy Dufresne's books and other products as well as Jesus the Healer merchandise on our website@jesusthehealer.org or call us at 951-696-9258 to place your order. Today.
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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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But I believe you died so that yout could provide.