← 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 are having a delightful time around the Word, teaching on who we are in Christ and what belongs to us in Christ. And I will say this. If we will become knowledgeable and skillful with who we are in Christ, we will come into the highest order of faith. Because when you know who you are in Christ, you're done with struggle. Faith is no issue. And so many times people are trying to fix their faith, or if I could say this better, their faith. Now, listen, faith comes by hearing. We want to keep hearing, but what do we need to hear? We need to, number one, hear who we are in Christ and what belongs to us. Then we're not struggling, trying to, if I could say this, thinking that we have to coerce something out of God. Because in the Old Testament, what we see is they would be asking God for something. They would be trying to get God to move for them, trying to get God to work for them. But under the New Covenant, all things belong to us. It's not about trying to get God to work for us. Everything is ours because we're in Christ. And the Old Covenant saints, they were not in Christ, but we are. So that's why you want to be careful when you read the Old Testament. And you're going to apply something from the Old Testament, you have to run it through who you are in Christ, because they were not in Christ, Christ was not in them. And the emphasis of the New Testament believer is on all things belong to us. And it's faith that lays hold of what we are possessors of so that we can partake of it, so that it can show up in our daily life. And the new. Listen, the Old Testament, there's so much truth in it that blesses us and to feed on it. But always run anything of the Old Testament through Christ, through who we are in Christ and who he made us to be. And I want you to know we all look so much better in him then outside of Him. Since we are in Christ and He is in us. We need to think of ourselves in those terms. We need to stop evaluating and seeing ourselves merely on human terms. The devil is always going to point to you, to your humanity. He never is going to appoint to you as one in Christ. That is your job to point to who you are in Christ when the enemy shows up, when he accuses you. Because what's the Bible say about the devil? The Bible lets us know Satan's strategy against us through the name that we see given him in the word, accuser of the brethren. So the Word is unveiling to us that the way and the strategy the devil uses is to accuse us. He will never accuse you of being in Christ. He will always accuse you of being of who you are outside of Christ. Where you missed it, your faults, your failures, your weaknesses, your poor decisions, you shouldn't have done this, you shouldn't have done that. All of that is outside of Christ. Because in Christ there's nothing, there's nothing to trip up your life. So what faith is authorized to do and what children of God are authorized to do is to focus on who I am in Christ. And I turn my back to who I was outside of Christ. Now that's where the devil is able to really dupe so many Christians is he gets them mindful of where they missed it, what they haven't been the poor decisions and tries to bring them into a place of embarrassment, into a place of shame by pointing to outside of Christ. Listen, if we made a decision that was out of the will of God, we did not do that in Christ. We made that decision outside of his leading. Therefore, once we recognize, wait, I missed it and we repent of that, we're authorized to never point to that again. Because God will never remind us of anything we did outside of Christ. It's all in Christ. He sees us in Christ. When God looks at us, it's in Christ that he sees. And just know this. We are all better in him than outside of him. We all look better in him and than outside of him. What is in Christ? Everything good. Remember this. In the Old Covenant they did not have the same revelation given about the devil and about how he worked among men. He was not unveiled to them the same way as the New Testament. Why was he not unveiled the Same way, because they did not have the same authority over him in Christ. We have authority that the Old Testament saints did not have. We're able to say Satan, in the name of Jesus. You take your hands off that. See, they could not use in the name of Jesus. They did not have the authority restored. But when Jesus, when he was raised from the dead, what did he come back with? He came back with the keys of hell and death. What is that authority? He restored the authority back to the church that Adam lost. Adam once had the authority, but he turned that authority over to Satan and Jesus got our authority back. So the Old Testament saints did not have the same authority that the New Testament saint has. Therefore, God did not expose and reveal Satan the same way because they didn't have the same authority over him that we do. Now think about John chapter 10 and verse 10, when Jesus unveiled something that man had never heard before. And he said this. He said, the thief cometh not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy. But I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. Now look at this. Jesus was making it very clear. Anything that steals from you, anything that kills, anything that destroys, that's the thief. Anything that is life giving, anything that blesses, anything that is abundance, that came from God. Very clear. Even if you have no Bible knowledge, you know, if something's good or if something's bad, you know, if something's blessing you or harming you, it's the same thing. Jesus made it very clear in that statement. But can I tell you this? Jesus, when he spoke, that man had never heard the clarity, definition of how, of what was God and what was the devil. So much of the time when we read the Old Testament, we will see Old Testament saints attributing things that were wrong or bad that happened to God. They thought God did everything. So much of the time. Remember, if you, if you go through the Book of Job, you find that he thought he, he made this statement, well, God gives and God takes away. Well, God, that's not, that's not New Testament. God's a giver. He doesn't take anything away except anything to harm you. But this is where you have to always run any Old Testament doctrine through the New Testament, because what does that mean? Greater light has come, Revelation is progressive, that they did not know under the Old Testament the things that Jesus revealed under the New Testament. So we know this. Anything that harms your life, anything that takes something out of you. And I want to even go further, anything that makes you Feel less than anything that makes you, that puts you down, anything that diminishes you, anything that damages your self worth, your self image, anything that makes you feel like a failure, anything that makes you feel unworthy. All of that is the devil. He's come to steal, kill and destroy. And many times he wants to steal people's identity from them. Who are we? We are in Christ. That's our identity. And so the devil always wants to confuse people about their identity. He wants to diminish their self value, their self worth, because he always points back to who they are outside of Christ. To do that, you cannot know who you are in Christ and feel less than you cannot. You are to build and establish in you who you are in Christ. So that when the accuser, the brethren, comes and points to your faults, your failures, your weaknesses, you say you're talking to the wrong man. I'm a new man in Christ. And in Christ I have his life, his ability, his genius, his wisdom to draw on. And so it is our job that when the accuser of the brethren comes and tries to draw us out of a mindfulness of in Christ, he's always trying to paint a picture of who we are in ourselves. That's how the devil is able to push people down through his accusations. And his condemnation is he points to them in their humanity, where they missed it, what they did wrong, their bad decisions, how they've done this wrong, how they've done that wrong. That that is what he is banking on to push people and hold them back from the real them. The real you is in Christ. So when Satan comes and accuses you, say you're talking about someone who's not real. That's the old man that's been crucified with Christ. I've been forgiven of that. That no longer describes me in Christ. Describes me. Wrong decisions, doing it wrong, going wrong directions does not describe me. Not anymore. Because I'm in Christ now. Now think of this. Paul, outside of Christ, was a killer. Paul was persecuting Christians. Now listen, in his religious mind, he thought he was doing God, God's work. He thought that he was cleansing the world of people who were. Who were wrong. But when revelation came, when light came and he had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, there was a divine interruption in the order of his life. And he was. He heard the voice of Jesus and he said, who are you? And he said. He said, saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? So we know this about Saul. He persecuted Christians and Jesus took it personally. He said, when you touch one of mine, you're touching me. Now know this. You tell that to the devil when you touch me, you just touch Christ. And you better not be touching him, because he will not win when he touches Christ. But the devil always wants you to make you think you're apart from Christ. You're not. When you're a child of God forever, you are together with Christ. Never take on anything of the devil apart from Christ. You are dealing with him based on who you are in Christ, who Christ made you to be. And so here it is, Paul, he. He was persecuting the Christians. He was consenting to their death. And but once he was born again, once he began to gain these in Christ revelations, Paul made a statement in his writings and he said, I have wronged no man. Now listen to that. Paul said, I have wronged no man. And you would say, Christians would say, wait a minute, Paul, wait a minute. Can I point back to those days? No, not in his mind. Because he had so separated himself from that old man, he was a new man, that he was so new in his thinking he was in Christ in his thinking that he was able to say with an absolute clear conscience, I have wronged no man. Because he was talking about the new man, not the old man. And I want you to know the devil is always trying to point you back to the old man. You cannot dress up the old man and make him look better. The old man was only worthy of one thing, being crucified and buried with Christ. And it's the new man that was raised. That's you. And so Jesus exposed how the devil operated. That was the first time when Jesus spoke. And it's recorded in John 10:10 when he said, the thief comes not but for to steal, kill and destroy. That's the first time humanity had heard those words. But he says, but I've come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. So we know this. Anything connected to life, anything connected with the abundance of that which is good, comes from God. You don't have to know a bunch of different scriptures to know what you should accept. If it's bad, don't take it. If it's good, take it. If it pushes you down, don't take it. If it elevates you, take it. Because in Christ there is nothing to hold you back, push you down, or make you feel less than. That's all. The accused are the brethren at work. So we have to. When the devil accuses us, when he points back to Sins. Now listen, the Word tells us this, that there are many voices in the world and none of them without signification. Now what's that mean? When the devil is going to try to accuse you, he's not going to use something insignificant to you. He's going to try to accuse you with something significant to you. It applies to you, it's attached to you. It was part of something you're acquainted with because he knows if he accused you with something you never did, it wouldn't land. So he's going to reach back into your past and he's going to accuse you with something that was significant to the old man, but it's not significant to the new man. So even though we hear the Devil say something to us, accusing us with something of our past, whether it's a wrong decision, whether somebody got in a wrong marriage, started a business, lost the business, lost a home, went a wrong direction, whatever it is, the devil will not accuse you with something that did not apply to you as in the old man. But it's our skill to say you're talking about the old man. That man is crucified, that man is buried with Christ. I'm a new creature in Christ, and that no longer applies to me. Now, until you learn to answer that way, the devil will beat you up. But the renewed mind is always talking about the new man. The unrenewed mind is always talking about the old man. The mistakes, the faults, the failures, the weaknesses in Christ. Everything is right. Outside of Christ, nothing is right. The devil is always trying to point you back to what was not right about your life or what someone did against your life. Don't allow him to go there. Now, there is. There is instruction that people will give, instruction that people will receive. That sounds like this. You need to talk out the past to get it out of you. That's not scripturally based. The only thing your past is worthy of is. Is being blotted out. That's what God did with the blood of Jesus. He nailed all your old past to the cross, blotted it out. Your past is worthy of one thing. Forgetting. And it's the blood of Jesus. That is the delete button on your past. Now this. If men are trying without Christ, they're trying to feel better about themselves, they're trying to feel better about their life, then they try to resolve the past. Did you know something? Jesus never tries to resolve your past. He just blotted it out with his blood. That's how heaven dealt with your past. Heaven did not Say, talk about it. Go tell somebody how they did you wrong. Go work it out. He never did that. He just cleansed it and forgave it, and it's gone. That's how heaven dealt with your past. That's how you have to deal with your past. You have to say, that's under the blood, and I'm not going to touch it anymore because what's under the blood is no longer recoverable unless you decide to bring it back up. Now, the devil has no right to bring it back up. And I'll say this. In resisting the devil, can I tell you this. You don't belong to him. He's got no business pointing to your life. He's got no business telling you what you should or what you should not have done because you don't belong to him. It's the same thing. You don't let your neighbor come maybe down the road and say, you know, you shouldn't buy that new car, or you shouldn't have bought this house, or, you shouldn't do that with your kids, or you shouldn't spend your money on this, you know, as graciously as you could be. You could say, you know something, that's mine, that's not yours. Thank you. Anyway, go to your business, right? I mean, we wouldn't take that from neighbors in the sense trying to insert themselves in something that does not pertain to them. Why in the world do Christians sit and listen to the devil, talk to them about something that doesn't pertain to him, and you don't pertain to him. You don't belong to him, you belong to another. You've been bought and purchased with a price. And it is wrong for us to sit and have fellowship in thought with somebody who we are redeemed from. Amen. And so we have to. We have to think, right? And when the devil brings something up, we say, I'm none of your business. And that is none of your business. I belong to God, and he deals with me. I don't take my counsel from an opponent. I don't take my counsel from the enemy of God. The enemy of God will not correct me. The enemy of God will not tell me what I'm not because I'm listening to God who already told me who I am. And I am in Christ. I'm cleansed in Christ. And all of the success of God, all the success of Christ, all the success of heaven is mine. I have been moved into success when I was moved into Christ, when Christ became indwelt me Success indwells me. So this is where many times people get in this conversation with the devil and they're saying, well, I'm so troubled by the thoughts that are coming to me. Well, quit conversing with them, quit listening to them. That was Adam and Eve's problem. They had no business sitting and having a conversation with that serpent who was challenging what God said to them. That was the problem, that if they listened to the wrong thing, and the longer they listened to the wrong thing, it started making sense to them. If you listen to the wrong thing long enough, it will start talking you out of the right thing. Don't listen. So when the devil starts talking, you stop him. You say, that's not my thought, those aren't my words, and the blood of Jesus has already cleansed that. I'm not talking to you about it. And you tell him to go. You don't sit and just let his thoughts just infiltrate your thought life. And you just turn those over and over and over in your thought life and say, well, I. I don't know why I'm depressed. I don't know why I'm troubled. Because you're listening to someone who is the enemy of God, listening to someone who is against Christ, against the anointing that's in you. And you belong to Christ and you have no business, none of us have any business listening to the accuser of the brethren. Now this is what you have to do. You have to identify who's talking to me. How do I know who's talking to me? Well, what effect does it have on you? Does it lift you or does it push you down? You know whether something is lifting or if it's pushing you down. You know if something's taking hope out of you or putting hope in you. You know whether something is taking faith out of you or putting faith in you. If it doesn't build you up, you're to resist it. If it pushes you down, you're to resist it. God, even when God corrects us, do you know that doesn't push us down? It doesn't take hope out of us. It doesn't take faith out of us. Believe me, I know I've been corrected by God. And do you know that the correction of God is a flow of the love of God? Because the Word says, whom God loves, he corrects. But notice, correction and condemnation are two different things. Condemnation is the tool of the enemy. Correction is the flow of heaven. God will correct us to keep us from going the wrong way and to help us out of the wrong way. But condemnation is always pointing to your faults, your failures, your weaknesses, and it pushes you down and makes you feel less than. So evaluate what I'm hearing, what I'm listening to, and what I'm thinking about and what I'm letting go over and over in my thought life. Is it lifting me up or is it pushing me down? Well, you're the only one who can take control of your thought life. So many times people are wanting God to do something about their thought life. He did. He gave you his thoughts and he put them in his word and said, now feed on my thoughts. Take my thoughts and make them yours. He cannot make his thoughts yours. That's your privilege. That's what we get to do. But it's up to us to take his thoughts and make our thoughts come into agreement with his thoughts. When his thoughts become our thoughts, that's when we start having a peaceful mind. That's when we start having joyful thoughts. That's when life becomes a joy. So pay attention to your thought life. Because the devil is saying stealing, killing and destroying through the thought life of people who think they have no control over their thoughts. Well, I will say this. If people have allowed the devil to do their thinking for them. Because that's why the devil, that's why he accuses you. He wants to do your thinking for you. If we have fallen into that. If I could say this, if we've been doing that a while, we. If, if I could say it this way. We dig a trench, we get rutted in a certain way of thinking. You can step out of that rut. How do you step out of it? Take on a thought of God. It will lift you out of that low way of thinking. When a thought that troubles your life keeps coming and you say, well, I've always thought about myself that way for years. Change it. One right thought will displace and overcome a wrong thought. But you have to. You have to on purpose choose the right thought. I don't care that you've always thought that way. You can change it. You apply what God says to it. God's words are so much higher than what the accuser says that his words lift you. You don't have to try to get above wrong thoughts, if you will, just make God's thoughts yours. How do you do that? You speak it, you meditate on it. You agree with it that when you do that, God's thoughts will automatically just lift you above. You don't have to try to get above depression, just take on God's thoughts. And those thoughts will lift you above that depression, that oppression, that, if I could say this, that poor self image, that self image loathing, all of that is the devil. And if you're not going to stop it by taking on God's thoughts, God can't do it for you. You can stop it. You are qualified to stop it. And it's by you making a choice. I choose thoughts of God. Now listen, the Word tells us God sets before us life, death, blessing, cursing, and then he says, choose life. Listen, God gave us the answer book, then tells us, choose this. It's like someone standing beside you. If you were a student in class and you're taking a test and the teacher was standing over you and they saw you getting ready to write the wrong answer, they say no, choose this answer. That's what God does. That's what His Word is. It's the answer book that tells us, choose this. You're going to hear the wrong answers. You're going to hear the wrong thoughts. But just because you hear them doesn't mean you have to choose them. So choose the thoughts of God. Choose what God says that lifts you because that will lift you to the understanding of who you are in Christ. Amen. Well, we're going to continue along this direction and until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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We'Re excited to announce a new worship album called in youn glory by Grant DeFresne. For more ways to listen to in youn Glory, scan the QR code on your screen. Jesus, thank you Lord.