← Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
Loading summary
Transcript10 lines
- [00:01]
A
Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
- [00:11]
B
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.
- [00:42]
A
I receive it right now.
- [00:43]
B
From the 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. Thank you for taking the time to join us. And we know this. Anytime we speak, taking in the Word, feeding on the Word, meditating on the Word, that it's going to bring about a rich harvest in our lives. So we're believing God for answers for your life. So we invite you, get hold of your Bible, get something to take notes on, because we believe that God is going to say things to us that's going to help us advance. And how many of you know the spiritual life is a progressive life, that you don't arrive all at once, but day by day as we keep giving the Word and keep giving God's power its proper place in our life, that we will advance. And so thank you again for joining us. We have been in the midst of a series called In Christ I Can and My, my, my. We are loving this. We're loving the time we're getting to spend with you in teaching this. And in the previous episodes, we kind of added another bit of a direction to what it means to be in Christ. And one of the things that I have said in this, these last few episodes is that so many times people in the body of Christ, they fear opposition. They fear things that the devil would bring against them. But we are not to fear demons. I want you to know. Demons are afraid of us because we are carriers of the anointing of God. We are carriers of the word of God, and we have the authority to use the name of Jesus. And they fear that name. They don't fear us as an individual. They fear who is in us. And so this is what we're talking about, is we're reminding ourselves of our great victory that Jesus gave us and of Satan's great defeat that Jesus handed him. And so Too many times we need to adjust the way we're seeing opposition and not giving it credibility, not giving it any kind of sway in our life. And so we have to renew our minds to what the Word says about who we are in Christ and who Christ is in us. And we begin to think in those terms, speak in those terms, respond in those terms, and live the kind of life that Jesus purchased for us. We've been looking at Ephesians chapter one, and I'm starting about halfway through on verse 20. Ephesians 1, verse 20. And this is the King James translation, it says that God raised Christ from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places. And look at verse 21. Where did he set him? Far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come and have put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things, and to the church which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. And I want you to see this, that it is no. The devil is not a close second in competition with Jesus. Jesus, the victory he won and handed us has placed him and us far above, not barely above, far above all the power, the demon forces that would be against us, that would be against God and his kingdom. And the devil is, I would say this. He is not a worthy opponent because he is a defeated foe. And in every single encounter, when the opposition shows up against our life, we are immediately to remind ourselves we are dealing with a defeated foe. We are not dealing with someone who can gain an upper hand over us. If we will walk in our righteousness, if we will take our place in Christ, we will recognize that our victory is. It puts us far above all circumstances, all situations that the devil would try to work against us. And we need to see ourselves as far above. And what that means is we need to rethink how we look at life. Life is not full of mountain peaks and then low valley times. Do circumstances. Are all circumstances favorable? No. Are all circumstances enjoyable? Not to the natural man. But I will say this. When you know who's in you and you know that the outcome already, the outcome of victory already belongs to you. You are unmoved by circumstances that if I could say this, would be what we call valley type circumstances. But we don't into a valley. I don't care what circumstances come against us. We don't. We're immovable. We stay in our place. Of victory. And that means I'm not having an up day and then a down day, then a down day and then another up day every once in a while. Nope. We are the same because Christ in us is the same every day, regardless of what circumstance arises. Our victory does not waver. And our position in Christ is is. It is certain, it is sure, it's not questionable from day to day. He is the same in us. And the anointing of God is the same in us every single day. And because you're born again, Christ is in you, the anointing of God is in you. And so we need to always see ourselves. We're in the victory position. And so we carry victory thoughts, we carry victory words and victory responses. Amen. Now, when it says that Jesus was raised far above all principality, power, might and dominion, Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 4 tells us, and really rather in verse 5 it says, even when we were dead in sins, God has quickened us together with Christ. So he's made us alive together with Christ. What's that mean? He gave us the exact same standing that Jesus is in. We are in the same position of victory, the same seat of authority that Jesus has been raised to. So as he is far above all principality power, might and dominion. We are far above all principality power, might and dominion. And so we need to operate that way. Think in those terms and know that anytime opposition shows up, we're above it. We are, we are its master. And listen, you can't stop the devil from bringing things against you, but you can stop them from getting in you. You can stop them from swaying you off of what the Word is yours. So Jesus has made us master. And it is time for us to take our place as master. To think of ourselves as master over all circumstances that come against us. No, we might not author all the circumstances that come against us, but we do write the ending of it. And we write it based on the victory already belongs to us. And I would say this now think of it. When Jesus went into the wilderness of temptation, Luke chapter four talks in that passage about this. This season in Jesus life. It lasted 40 days, 40 nights. And he was tempted all the while. He went into that season. And the Word says that he was led of the Spirit to the wilderness. Why? The Spirit of God was leading him into that place to demonstrate his mastery and skill over the enemy. It was not to see who would win Jesus. Jesus did not face that season to see what the outcome would be. Jesus went in Victor. He. He displayed victory during those 40 days and nights. And he came out as Victor. And he came out, he was full of the Spirit. And the Word tells us that when he, when Satan left him, Jesus went on from that place to other points of ministry, other locations of ministry, and said he went full of the Spirit. So notice that season of temptation, that season of testing did not empty him out. So I don't care what comes against you, it's not to empty you out spiritually. You are to be victor in the in, right in the midst of tests, right in the midst of storms, because that does no test you changes our victory position. No test changes who we are in Christ and who Christ is in us. Opposition is to be a time when we demonstrate victory, not question our victory, not falter on our victory. So Jesus has won the victory for us over the devil. He handed us the victory and says, now go be master. Now go and demonstrate that victory in the face of every single circumstance. Are there mountain peak days or valley peak days? Well, let me say there are circumstances that would challenge you. But you are never to say, I'm in a low point, I'm in a valley. No, we're not. Because Christ Christ didn't go into a valley. We are in him. He's in us. And he gives us the best life every single day. I want you to know, when circumstances arise against your life, your victory does not wane. Your victory does not leave. It is not diminished. It for us to demonstrate that victory right in the face of opposition. We also read in previous episodes, first John, chapter four. In verse four, the amplified classic translation says, little children, you are of God. Now see, that needs to mean something to us. That needs to matter to us. When God's word says, you are of God. We came out of God. We were born of God. We are filled with God. He is our Father. We are his divine offspring. We are adopted into his family. We're of God. And that automatically elevates us above every circumstance. That is not of God. And so it says, you are of God, you belong to him and have already defeated and overcome them. And then the Amplified says, which them is being referred to the agents of the Antichrist. What is that? Anything that opposes the anointing, anything that's against the kingdom of God. And it says, because he who lives in you is greater mightier than he who is in the world. We have to recognize that, hold to that, and not veer from that at any point, no matter what the circumstance is. We are victor going in. We are victor during it. And we are Victor, Victor coming out of that. Amen. And so we're not. We're not seeing our victory as a fluctuating flow. It is an ongoing place that has been assigned to us by the one who won the victory for us. The Living Bible Translation of first John, chapter four and verse four, it says this. Dear young friends, you belong to God and have already won your fight. Now know this. We're not out fighting the devil. We are fighting the good fight of faith. And if you say, well, I'm fighting the devil, well, you're fighting the wrong fight. Because the only fight the Christian is called to is the good fight of faith. And notice this. It's a good fight because it's a winning fight for us. We are answering opposition with what the word says. We hold our faith in the word of God, and we refuse to veer in faith off of what God says is ours. We are in the winning position every single day because of who is in us. So we're not fighting the devil. Jesus already defeated him. And listen, you alone, apart from Jesus, was no. You were no match for the devil. That's why Jesus had to come and defeat him in our behalf. And the devil wants to make you think that you're entering into a fight with him. No, I'm entering into a demonstration of my victory over you. That's what we say about circumstances that challenge us. I am not entering a fight. I am demonstrating my victory. And the devil would love for us to think differently than that. But we have to realize that we are in authority over him. Amen. Then we know in Luke 10:19, Jesus made the statement. He said, behold, I give unto you power or authority to tread upon serpents, scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. And look at this next phrase. And nothing shall by any means hurt you. Hurt who hurt? The ones who are treading over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. Now, if you're just going to sit back and not demonstrate your authority, not exercise your authority, things will take advantage of you. But if you will exercise your authority. And when it says tread on serpents and scorpions, that word tread, the dictionary definition means to step over. In other words, when opposition shows up, don't wait for it to leave you alone. Just step over it and keep going, keep progressing, keep moving forward in the plan of God. Don't slow your progress for anything. I love something that Kathryn Kuhlman. She made a statement that she would often make through her years of ministry. She was an evangelist with a healing anointing on her life. And she had remarkable miracles that happened in her life. But I, when, when there would come opposition against her and against her ministry, she said, this train is moving too fast to stop it, to throw rocks at barking dogs. Well, I want you to know, circumstances are nothing but barking dogs. They're trying to get your attention, but you just keep moving past them. And that's exactly what Luke 10, verse 19 says. When Jesus said, I give you authority or power to step over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. That means just keep going, don't slow your progress. And when Jesus came up against that fig tree, he was looking to get figs off of it because he was hungry and it was demonstrating that it was to have fruit because it had the leaves on it and the leaves appear at the time of the figs. But when he went up to the tree, there was advertising fruit, but it actually had no fruit. And so Jesus made a statement. He said, no man eat fruit of the hereafter. And then he just turned around and walked off and kept going on his way to Jerusalem. He didn't stand there and watch to see, did what I say work? Did. Did that tree really die when I told it to? He just went on and left his words to do the work against that tree. So I want you to know that's what Jesus is saying. You're authorized that when you encounter the enemy, you use your authority over, and then you keep going. Don't let the devil stop you or slow your progress in the plan of God and in the pathway of God. You just leave your words with that situation, and those faith words will do the work. Amen. And so we realize this, that we are not called to pause in our life to fight against the devil. We use our authority and we keep going on and we fulfill the plan of God. How many of you know, faith is a movement. It doesn't stop to host the devil's opposition. It doesn't stop to host sickness. Well, I don't feel good today, so I'm just going to stay home and, you know, tend to myself. Well, there may be a time that you are in such a situation that you physically can't keep going. But I want you to know the mindset of this is we're not stopping for this and we just keep going against it. That's the one thing, you know, I so appreciate about my parents growing. There's one thing mother did not appreciate, and she didn't appreciate drama in the household, she would not permit it. And any time. I just did not see my parents sick at different times, there would be times that I know my dad did not feel well. He was a farmer. But, you know, with a. With a farmer, they can't. They can't have days off anytime they want because it could cost them their crop, their harvest. And so it didn't matter whether you felt good or not. You had to go tend to that seed. You had to take care of it. And there were times that my dad didn't feel so good. I would see him get up in the morning and not feel good. He'd go get out on that tractor and he would just do his work. And by the end of the day, he'd come home and he didn't have any symptom. Why is it? Because he just kept going past it. He didn't know the word that I'm teaching you today. But I want you to know you are the custodian of your body, whether you're saved or unsaved. Every person is the custodian of their body. And they have a right to resist anything trying to attach them, attach itself to their body. And you don't even have to be saved to resist anything, any opposition, any symptoms, any pain. I remember the testimony of somebody that was close to our ministry for years, and she was adopted from another nation. And her. Her parents raised her in New York City. And she said when she was about five or six years old, she began having physical conditions. And her mother took her to the doctor, and the doctor said to her, to. The mother said, she has multiple sclerosis and she needs a brace. She needs all this equipment. And he began to say, talk to her about how this disease would progress and how, you know, they would have to prepare for the different things that this little girl would encounter. And the mother thanked the doctor very nicely. She didn't argue with him because, listen, what the doctor says is not our problem. It's what we say that matters. It's not what the doctor says that matters. It's what we say that matters. So it's not our job to change the doctor's confession. It's our job to make sure that nothing changes our confession to the negative. And this mama, she was not born again. She did not know anything about God as a healer. But she walked out of that. Out of that doctor's office and stood in the hallway right before you went into that doctor's office. And she walked out there with her little girl, and she turned to Her. And she said, listen, little girl, I don't have time for this. I don't have money for this, and you're just going to have to get better. And that's all she said to it. She didn't go home and cater to it. She didn't ask her how she felt day after day. And that little girl said. She said, I never had another symptom after that. She said, and I grew up perfectly healthy. And she came to work for our ministry years later, not one sign of multiple sclerosis. Why? Because somebody forbid it. Why? You are the custodian of your body. And if we give. If we give opposition and symptoms and pain the wrong kind of attention, we end up being its host instead of ruling and reigning over it. And this mother, she just. There was just something in her that just wasn't going to have it. And because she wouldn't have it, the devil couldn't work it. Now, I want to. I even experienced that for myself in one capacity when I was younger. When I was about 12 years old, I was spending the night with a friend. There were about three of us that were best friends during that time in my life. And we were on the weekends, if we weren't in school, you know, during the week, we had to go to school. But on the weekends, we'd take turns spending the night with each other. And I remember I woke up in the middle of the night because I sensed an evil presence come in the room. And I was about 12 years old. Now, listen, I wasn't born again. I didn't know anything about the word, but I perceived an evil presence come in the room. I knew it wasn't just something with me that originated with me. And I sensed it trying to put pressure on my mind. What was it? Fearful, bombarding thoughts. But I recognized that wasn't me. That was something that came in the room. And there's one thing that I appreciated about my mother. She did not put up with stuff. And she would not put up with stuff with her children. I remember if we would wake up and we'd say, mom, I don't feel very good today. She said, get up, get out of bed, get to school. You'll feel fine. And that's exactly. She didn't take your temperature, she didn't check you. And this is the problem, that today, with all the Internet and stuff, people get on there and they check this and they check that, and they're sowing the wrong kind of seed into themselves, and it's robbing them of faith. And so my mother, she was exactly right. She. She just said, get up, get going, you'll feel better. And that's exactly what happened. I mean, we just were not allowed to lay down to things. And my mother taught us that. And people who lay down to things are going to have more things to lay down to. But people who resist laying down to things, you are authorized to resist because you're the custodian of your body. Even if someone's unsaved and they don't know anything about the. About the name of Jesus, you can still resist. You know, there can come to anybody saved or unsaved, you ought to do this or you ought to do that. And I'm talking about some kind of evil act. And you can go, no, I'm not going to. You can say, because of your own heart, the own convictions of your heart, you can say, no, I'm not going to do that. And you don't have to do it. The devil, just because he offers you a suggestion, you don't have to do it. And you know, throughout your own life, you can look at times you could have done something you were tempted to, maybe to say something against someone, do something against someone. You go, I'm not doing that. And you resisted it. And nothing could make you do what you. What you refused to do. I want you to know pain and symptoms are nothing but the temptation to accept sickness. And we can resist that. But I remember when that evil spirit came in, that came in that room that night. And I knew this. My mother would not allow us to lay down to something. I remember that there were. There were relatives and that they would battle with depression. And mother would say that stuff tries to come to me, but I don't have time for that stuff. I don't. I got children to raise. I got a home to run. I'm not putting up with that. And she would just take a stand against it. And I never saw my mother get under a spirit of depression, but I heard my mother talk that way. And I knew this, that if I was going to struggle with this thing that was trying to captivate my attention, I'd get in trouble with Mother. That was my first thought. I was not impressed that this seemed to be some kind of supernatural force against me. All I was thinking about is, I can't let my mind go unsound because I get in trouble with Mother. Do you know that's a healthy thing? That's a good thing? Because she taught us you don't put up with stuff. You don't yield to stuff. And Mother did not coddle us. I mean, we'd come to Mother and, you know, something be bleeding. She says, oh, your arm's still on you. You're fine. Just keep going. She we didn't have band aids in the house. We didn't have, you know, all these antiseptic things. She didn't give it any attention. And because she didn't make much of it, we didn't make much of it. How you resist is an everyday flow of your life. So I remember thinking to myself, I mean, for. For about three weeks, I could feel tangibly the opposition, the bombardment of something trying to get hold of my mind. It was suggesting fearful thoughts. If I would have accepted it, it would have been a spirit of depression. But I recognized that's not me. That thing came in the room. I know when it came in. And that was not just me feeling something. That was a force outside of me. Like I said, I didn't know anything about the Bible. I didn't know the things I'm teaching you. But I said I'd get in so much trouble with Mother if I told her I was having some kind of problem with my mind. And I said, I will not have this. And do you know, at the end of three weeks, that thing just turned and left and never came back. Why? Because I was the custodian of my life, my body and my mind. And you are, too. And how much more with the name of Jesus? How much more when you know that Jesus has defeated and destroyed the enemy and he has stripped him of his ability to harm you. You are the custodian of your body and you don't. And of your mind. And you don't have to accept something just because it tries to persist. You be more persistent. You. You employ the authority every day. Answer every day, every symptom and every opposition. But this is where many people miss it. They just do it randomly. They just do it periodically. It's a consistent standing. My mother, every day she dealt with us in a consistent manner. And she held that home in place with her consistency. Hold your victory in place by your consistent stand on the word. Amen. Going to continue along these lines next time. And until next time, remember this. Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
- [27:03]
A
To watch or listen to today's message and other messages by Nancy Dufresne, visit dufresneministries.org.
- [27:13]
B
Jesus gave us the key to his success. He stayed with the plan that God gave him to fulfill. In this book by Nancy Dufresne God the Revealer of Secrets. You will learn how to know God's perfect will for your life and how to accomplish that divine plan. Order this book now@dufresneministries.org if you need prayer, please call our prayer line. We have trained ministers on staff who are ready to agree with you for your miracle.
- [27:43]
A
Come join us for special services with guest speaker Kenneth Copeland on January 9th and the 10th, 2026. Services will be at World Harvest Church in Murrieta, California on Friday night at 7:00pm and Saturday at 10:30am and 7:00pm for more information and to register for in person attendance, please visit our website@DefrainMinistries.org 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 Answer 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 at jesusthehealer.org or call us at 951-69692 to place your order. Today.
- [29:11]
B
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. In youn presence is my reward.
- [29:29]
A
You'd Glory is yous power.
- [29:34]
B
I want you to know that every single person in this world needs a Savior. And the greatest thing of all is that we have one. But this Savior must be welcomed. This Savior must be received. And it's so easy to receive Jesus as the Savior. The Word says that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. So right now do that with me. Say, Jesus, I receive you as my Savior. Come into my heart and be the Lord of my life, and I'll live for you all the days of my life. God bless you.