← 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 to have you joining us today for Jesus the Healer. We're going to continue along the lines of teaching on who we are in Christ. And the title of this these episodes is In Christ I can Look, God doesn't want us to do anything without him enabling us and us drawing on the greater one within us. And so we have so enjoyed teaching in this series and we have to become skillful with who we are in Christ so that we can fulfill all the greatness of God's plan. Listen, the plan of God for your life is great. And we don't want, we don't want any of God's plan for our lives to go untapped. We want to fulfill everything. But to fulfill all the wealth of God's plan, it's going to require us to draw on him. Because he not only authored a plan for our lives, but he filled Himself. He filled us with Himself so that he is the One that's enabling us to. To fulfill all he authored for us. And so just know this, in Christ we have everything we need. Outside of Christ is where limitations are, inability is, and limitations that really keep us from laying hold of everything. But in Christ, all is ours. And so we need to give ourselves the spiritual habit of every day saying this in Christ, I have this in Christ, I can do it in Christ, I can fulfill it in Christ, I can give it Christ. Look at this. I can obey it. Because being in Christ, we possess everything. I want to read to you out of Colossians chapter two. Now this is a golden verse that we've been going to so much in this series. But I want us to read it again. Colossians 2, verse 9 and 10. And this is the living Bible translation. But listen to how this translation, this translation reads. It says, for in Christ there is all of God in a human body. So you have everything when you have Christ. And you are filled with God through your union with Christ. He is the highest ruler with authority over every other power. Now, there are things that are going to come against us in this life. There's opposition, there's enemies. But know this, they are a lesser power. Sickness and disease is a lesser power than the power of healing and the power of divine health and divine life lack is a lesser power than prosperity. Everything that the, that comes out of the out of the devil's kingdom is a far lesser power than that which belongs to us in Christ. And that's the way we have to look at it. That's the way that we have to treat it. No matter what the opposition is. It's no match who for the greater one in us. It's no match for what belongs to us in Christ. But just because we possess all, because we possess Christ, we still have to become partakers of what we possess. Now know this. God turns us into possessors, but he cannot turn us into partakers. Now know this. He can supply us with everything, but we're the only ones that that can partake. He cannot make us partake of it, yet he makes us fully supplied with it. So it's not enough to possess it. We go on to not just be possessors, but we go on to be partakers. Well, how do we partake of everything that belongs to us in Christ? Well, Philemon, there's simply one chapter in the book of Philemon, but verse six says this, and this is the King James translation, and it says that your may become effectual. Look at this and let me read it. They put it on the screen for me. It says that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you, in Christ Jesus. Well, what does that mean? It means this when we communicate our faith. Now listen. Faith is in you. Faith is in your spirit. But until we speak, the faith we have can't be heard. Until we speak, the faith of God cannot be spent. But the communication of thy faith. Look at this. It becomes effectual or it goes into effect when we acknowledge every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus. So because we possess it, every good thing we possess because we're in Christ, Christ is in us. But it's not enough to possess it. We become partakers. How? By acknowledging with our faith. We believe by faith that everything we need is already fully provided for us. But we have to acknowledge it what's that mean? We say it, we speak it. And I've had people to contact me and say, pastor Nancy, due to some kind of physical limitation, they're not able to speak out loud. Does that mean that they cannot partake? No, it's talking simply about what you acknowledge from your heart and you can say it to yourself. You know, I remember that my husband, he was talking about, we were in the doctor's office one time because he was having some symptoms in his body and he went and was having a checkup and the doctor gave him a certain diagnosis. And he said that when we were in the doctor's office, he said, I could feel fear begin to strike at the bottom at my feet. And he said I could feel it tangibly coming up my legs. And he said, I just sit there. And under my. My breath said, no, you don't fear. You get back down there and notice I was in the room with him. I didn't hear him, the doctor didn't hear him. But he said it from within, from a place of faith. He said it under his breath, so to speak. And I want you to know, he said that fear stopped and it stopped rising up and it went back down. What am I talking about? When I say speaking, it's not just speaking out loud, but what are you saying to yourself? Because inwardly you can be believing the wrong thing and saying something to yourself where nobody knows what you're saying, nobody knows what you're thinking. So James tells us not to be double minded. Why? Because a double minded man, don't let him think he'll receive anything of the Lord. What's it mean to be double minded? Well, sometimes we can learn what faith should say and we can train ourself to say some things.
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Because we know what faith should say. And we can out loud to other people say one thing, but inwardly we're believing something a little bit different. That's double minded. It matters that we say the right thing out loud, but it also matters that we say the right thing to ourselves. So if you're in that situation where you say, pastor Nancy, I can't speak out loud. It doesn't. It's not about just what's heard out here. It's what are you saying inwardly with your heart. And so your faith will still work when you inwardly speak. And you can, you can mouth the words. If nothing else, you can mouth it to yourself and your faith can still be released. So know this, that our faith, or the communication of our faith, see, faith has to be communicated what's that mean? Faith has to be heard, faith has to be released. It's not enough to have faith because you can have faith and not be receiving what faith has, can lay hold of. So we have to communicate the faith we have. And when we communicate our faith and then our faith goes into effect and all that belongs to us in Christ, we can become partakers of that. Notice this again, how does our faith go into effect? We have to acknowledge every good thing. Know this, that if it's not good, it didn't come from God. Don't acknowledge what isn't good. I'm going to ask them to put that scripture Philemon 1:6 back on the screen because I want you to see something here that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging. Your life is a picture of what you're acknowledging. When fear comes, if you acknowledge fear or give it a place, you give it a place in your tension, you give it a place in your thinking. And that's what's going to go into effect. If we're acknowledging, well, my body's hurting, my body's getting worse. If we're acknowledging that, we'll get more of that because that's what will go into effect. Just because something comes against you doesn't mean you have to acknowledge it. You should resist it, but don't acknowledge it by giving it attention. And if I could say this, if you talk about it to people more than you should, we have to wonder, why are we saying it to others? Do we want them to know what we're going through? We don't want that kind of attention, the acknowledging of wrong things, because it will get us attention, but not the right kind of attention. So be very guarded that you don't have to tell everybody everything you're going through because it can put you in a place of acknowledging the wrong thing. And then every time people see you, they bring that back up. Dad Hagin, now Kenneth E. Hagin, was a spiritual father to my husband and I for decades. And as a 15 year old he found himself bedridden. He was born with an incurable heart condition. He was. He had an incurable blood disease and he also was deformed throughout his entire chest cavity. That tubes and different things ran to the wrong place and things were not positioned rightly within the chest area. He told his doctor, he said, how come when I take a drink I feel that spread throughout my entire chest cavity? I don't just feel it going down to my stomach. He said, because you're deformed in your entire chest cavity. And so he had some very serious life threatening conditions in his body. At the age of 15, he was bedridden. But God began to teach him what the word said. God number one dealt with him about the sin of worry because he, he was a worrier. And what, what do you mean? How do you know if you're worrying about something, if you're thinking about it, I want you to know you're authorized to never worry again, even about your body and even about things that could threaten you. Now listen, not being a worrier doesn't mean we don't release our faith. The Word tells us, casting all your care on him, for he cares about you. So if the temptation to worry comes, what are we going to do? We're going to say, father, I refuse to worry about that, but instead I'm going to cast that situation into your hands. Because when it's in your hands, you can work on it. Now once you've cast something in his hands, you cast your worry in his hands. But you don't cast away your confidence, you don't cast away your faith. You still have to release faith even though you have cast the care of that situation into the hands of the Father so that he can work on it. Well, what does that mean? Once you cast it into his hands, that doesn't mean you're mindless about the victory that you, that you want to see operate in that situation. You're still going to release faith. So you're going to say, father, I'm so grateful you're working on that problem right now. I thank you that because I have cast that situation into your hands, you're working on it and power is working on it and Heaven is working on it. So see you, you cast your care on him, but you don't cast away your faith, your confidence. You still have to release faith that God's power is working on that situation. But don't, don't worry yourself into that situation because worry is not a conductor of the faith of God. And so brother Hagin, as a young boy, he was a worrier and the first thing God dealt with him about was to stop the sin of worry. And you say, is worry a sin? Well, Jesus said, take no thought for your life. What's he talking about? Don't worry about anything. So to do what the Word tells us not to do is a sin. So that's the first thing that God dealt with this young man about on his deathbed is he had to repent of the sin of worry, to stop that worry. When he finally committed to God, I'll never worry again another day of my life. He was having five to eight heart attacks a day when he was on his DeathBed as a 15 year old. And he said when he stopped the sin of worry, he said those heart attacks stopped. He still had other problems. He was paralyzed from the waist down. His heart wasn't beating right. He still had the blood condition. But notice this, when he stopped worrying, things started falling off of him. I'm talking about physical conditions. And so he, God dealt with him about the sin of worry. The second thing that God dealt with him about that healing belonged to him in Christ. Now.
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Once he saw how to cooperate with the healing word, he saw Mark 11:24, what things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them. That's the verse he acted on. And he was able to receive his healing. And it's a long teaching and a lot of processes that he went through to arrive at that. But one day when the revelation of that verse dawned on him, he saw, I have to believe I receive it before I see any change in my body. That's what faith does. It believes at what God says, it doesn't believe at what appears. Now notice this. Faith believes at what God says. It doesn't just believe at when something or the manifestation appears. You say, why does God expect us to believe something is ours before we see it? Because God wants you to rest. And people who only believe what they see, they can't rest until what they see comes into favorable conditions. But God doesn't want us to wait until this natural realm shows it. His realm shows us. His Word shows us that he is the provider. He's the healer. He's the answer giver. He's the supplier of everything our life needs. So he authorizes us that the moment we release our faith, we are authorized to say, it's mine now. And so that's the flow of faith. Well, when dad Hagin saw that, he saw as a young man on that deathbed. I've got to believe that I'm healed even while my heart isn't working right. I've got to believe that that incurable blood disease is healed even before I know it has changed in my body. So when he, he got the revelation of that, within 10 minutes he was up and out of the bed, healed and whole. Now he went down and he ate breakfast with his family for the first time in a year and a half. And they all recognized that God had raised up this young man. But after he was raised up, he was a student in the high school, and he would have to walk a mile and a half every day to school. Now, see, he had fallen down in his weight to 89 pounds. Now, he was over 6ft tall. And you can imagine how he looked like a skeleton. And he said his strength didn't all come back immediately because he had lost so much weight. And it's a process, you know, to put weight back on him. But he said he would walk to school. He didn't have a. He didn't have a ride to school. And he talked about how during that process, weeks after, how symptoms would try to come back on him. What did that mean? It did not mean that his faith wasn't working. It meant that the enemy was working his strategy, which is he would launch a counterattack. And so brother Hagin, he recognizes a young man after he's raised up off that deathbed, that symptoms were trying to come back little by little. And he said people would ask him, does your heart give you any more trouble? Because he said, I really look like I couldn't put one foot in front of the other sometimes. I was so weak and in a weakened condition. And he said people could recognize that I was struggling just even to walk the great distance to school. And they would say to him, ken, does your heart ever give you any more trouble? And he'd say, well, yeah, sometimes that, you know, I can feel that it's not beating normally. And he said within a short amount of time, he said nearly every symptom had come back on him, and he was almost completely bedridden again. And as he was laying on his bed one day, he recognized that he was going backward in his health instead of continuing to move forward in his health. And he asked himself, what am I doing differently now than I did when I was raised up? Well, he recognized when I was raised up from my deathbed, I was acknowledging healing. But he said, now I'm acknowledging that symptoms are trying to come back. And he says, I recognized I was trying to carry two confessions. I was confessing that God was my healer, but if somebody asked me about my heart, I would confess, yes, I'm having heart trouble again. So he said, I recognize I can only have one confession, not two confessions. Why? Because two confessions means you're double minded. So he recognized, I've got to drop off that other confession. When people ask me if I'm having any kind of heart problems, I'm just saying The Lord is my healer, and by his stripes I'm healed. And so he went back to one singular confession. When he quit acknowledging the symptoms that were trying to come back, they left. Now, see, this is what I wanted to get to, is that what we acknowledge is what will manifest. When he would acknowledge and people would ask him something, listen, they're not asking to get him back into a place place being mindful of his body. But that's what was happening when they say, does your heart give you any more trouble? And he would say, well, yes, he thinks he's being honest, but really he's talking against who he was in Christ. When you talk about who you are in Christ, that's the truth. You're being truthful. When you say what God says, when you're talking what your body feels, we're not being truthful to the real us because our body is not the real us. When we're talking about the circumstances that are against us, that which the enemy would move and work, try to work against us. If we talk about that, we're not being truthful. The truth is I'm in Christ. And in Christ, I have everything that God planned and authored for my life. So you are being truthful when in the face of symptoms and pain, you say, in Christ, I'm whole. Do you know you're speaking the truth? It's what God says. The truth is what God says. The truth is not what our body feels. The truth is not what circumstances say to us. Why? Because all of that is changeable. Anything of this natural realm that you can see, it's up for change. But know this truth is what God says. And what God says is never up for change. And so we recognize that when we're speaking the Word, when we're speaking who we are in Christ, we're speaking the truth. If we say, I can't pay my bills, we're not speaking the truth. Because in Christ we have a provider. The provider's in us, and he's already completed all the provision we ever need. What's it waiting on for us to acknowledge what's ours in Christ? If we acknowledge the flesh, if we acknowledge what's coming against us in natural circumstances in this world, we're not speaking the truth. We're speaking the flow of this world. The truth Is this what God says. Their truth doesn't live anywhere else except with what God says. So when you say, in the face of symptoms and pain, in Christ, I'm whole, you are now speaking the truth. And that is what Faith does. It fills its mouth with the truth. Whenever you sit down to pay bills and it looks like you don't have enough, you're authorized to sit there and say, in Christ, I have all I need to pay these bills. And so every week you just sit down, anytime you're paying the bills and you say, in Christ, I'm debt free. In Christ, I have more than enough. In Christ, there is no lack. I'll never have an unpaid bill in my life. Now, will that show up automatically? And maybe the first time you say it? Well, it might not, but you just keep speaking the truth. And what happens? You're. You're sowing the seed of the Word into your heart. You know, when my dad would sow a seed in the ground, he was a cotton and wheat farmer. The day he sowed it is not the day that harvest manifested. It took time. It was a process. But the more we speak the Word, we can speed up that process. We can cause the fruit to manifest quicker. But if you will sit down when you go to pay your bills and you say, pastor, Pastor Nancy, I haven't been able to keep current with all my bills or I'm behind, or it's constantly a struggle. Every time you sit down, you say, in Christ, I'm provided for. All the money, all the supply, all the resources I need, they are mine in Christ right now. And so the next week you sit down to pay the bills, you say the same thing. What are you doing? You are sowing that seed. And you have to sow a seed of the Word before you're ever going to see a harvest on that word. Many times people want to harvest provision, but they haven't sown the seed in their heart. You have to sow this Word in your heart. And that's what dad Hagin was doing that day. He was sowing the seed of the Word for the. He was on his deathbed for a year and a half, but he kept sowing the Word, sowing the Word, feeding on the word, sow, speaking the Word. And one day there grew up a harvest on it. Now, even though he was raised up off his deathbed, he changed what he was acknowledging. Now, that's what I wanted to remind you of. At first he was acknowledging that he was healed, but then as symptoms tried to return. Because the devil is always going to launch a counter attack. And you don't be afraid of it, just refuse to. To let it in, refuse to believe the counterattack, keep believing what God said. And when Brother Hagin went back to Acknowledging just one truth, one thing. He quit acknowledging his body, but he just acknowledged what God said. Then his body straightened back up and his heart went into line and everything about his health returned. And it is so important what we're acknowledging, not just what we're speaking out loud, but what are we acknowledging inwardly. If we're going to live as rich as Christ made us to be, we are going to have to guard our thought life. Because what you're thinking about is what you're acknowledging. What you're meditating on is what you're acknowledging, what you're, what you're entertaining in your thought life. When nobody knows what you're thinking about, that's what you're acknowledging. Now know this, the enemy will suggest a thought to you. Every thought that comes to you did not come from you. And just because it comes to you, you have to guard your thought life and say, that's not my thought. Why don't acknowledge something as your thought when the enemy is the one offering it to you? And I don't care if a thought seems to be bombarding your mind, do not let it in. It's not your thought, it doesn't belong to you. And you have to answer that thought and say, that's not my thought. You know.
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We see this, that in Philippians, it gives us a checklist of what we're to allow in our thought life, what things soever are pure and true and right. He gives us a checklist that every thought has to line up with all of these, all of these flows before we accept it. One of the things that Paul wrote in that, in that passage, he said, whatever is worthy of praise. What's that mean? A fearful thought? You can't say, thank God for fear, praise God for fear. If you can't praise God for it, you have no business talking about it. If you can't praise God for it, you have no business entertaining it. If you can't praise God for it, you have no business taking it in to your thought life and speaking it to others. So to live with in Christ truths dominating us, we have to pay attention to what we're thinking about, what we're acknowledging, what we're meditating on. Amen. Well, we're going to continue along these lines next time. 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 Love is to lead and govern us.
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And we are to make it our quest to pursue the way love leads. Victories await us as we learn to walk in the truths of divine love found in this book by Nancy Dufresne the Great Quest now@dufresneministries.org 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.
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Thank you to the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries for making this production possible. Nancy Dufresne is the President of World Harvest Bible Training center in Murrieta, California. This is a Word and Spirit Bible school where you will receive impartations and revelations. So whether you're called to the five fold ministry or want to bring a greater supply to your local church, this could be the school for you. We're now accepting applications. Go to whbtc.org for more information. 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.