← Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
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Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
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There's enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one that may be describing you. You may be in a sick room, you may be in a hospital room. And I want to remind you, power is present. That power is there to do a work, believe in what's not. Try to get something, but notice that he's already made it yours. It's present right where you're at. Say, I receive that power. I receive that power. I receive it right now.
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I receive it right now.
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From the top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet.
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The soles of my feet.
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Welcome. We're so glad you're joining us today for Jesus the Healer. And it is our complete pleasure to keep teaching along the lines of the the series we've been in. We've on in Christ I can and we have received so many wonderful testimonies from you about what this, this message of the Word has been doing in your lives. Because when we see who we are in him, we rise to who he made us to be. Instead of just living based on what circumstances would tell us, based on what even our bodies would tell us, we're going to what he tells us in His Word about who we are in. Because I want you to know, in him we have everything I want to read to you. This has been one of our golden texts that we've been in in this series. And we're going to look first at Colossians chapter two, and this is verse six. I want us to read, but I want us to read out of the living Bible translation. It says this. And now, just as you have trusted Christ to save, you trust him too, for each day's problems. How many of you know we're in Christ not just for church time, not just for the emergencies of life, but for daily life that we don't have to be in the midst of a crisis. Before we start drawing on who we are in Christ and before we let him have movement in our life. And this is, this is to elevate the way we live every single day. When we come up into the understanding and the acknowledgement of who he made us to be, just know this. Everything God dreamed for your life, everything he planned for your life, everything he's provided for your life, he put in Christ. And then he put Christ in us and us in Christ so that we could, with skill and with knowledge, draw on all that belongs to Us because we're in Christ. And so when it says here in Colossians 2, verse 6, when it says, draw on him for each day's problems, trust him for each day's problems, that means that every day is to look like we're in Christ. We don't just wait for crisis moments. Every day is. We're becoming skillful. We're practicing who we are in Christ. Now notice this. No one gets good at anything without practice. And that is concerning spiritual truths also. So as we practice drawing on him in our everyday life, then we already have the skill. When the emergencies of life show up and we go, we know exactly what to do. We, we know exactly how faith is going to operate at these times, because we've been operating by faith who we are in Christ every day. And so just don't, don't be okay with living less than in Christ every day in the, in the respect of drawing on acknowledging who he is in you today, every single day, to put you over in everyday situations. And then let's go on reading. Well, let's read again, verse six. And now, just as you trusted Christ to save you, trust him too, for each day's problems, live in vital union with Him. Now what this again speaks of is fellowship. That living as one in Christ is going to be enjoyed when we are tending to our fellowship with God. If we're not stoking the fellowship, the fellowship that we have with God, what happens is we can, if I could say this, lose our grip or lose our handle on who he has made us to be. But we, we have to reaffirm, hold fast. If I could say this, strengthen our hand of faith every day on the acknowledgement of who we are in Christ on that revelation. And when we do that, listen, as we tend to our fellowship with God, it's easy for us to see ourselves in Christ. When we know what the Word says about who we are in him. It's easy for us to draw on who we are in Christ. So I can say this to you. Don't try to build the awareness of who you are in Christ apart from your fellowship with God. So as we fellowship with him, it becomes so personal and intimate to us that we easily grasp the truths of who we are in Christ to try to grasp who we are in Christ apart from feeding our fellowship with God. It's going to, it's going to make things seem foreign to us. So we come into that understanding and awareness of who we are in Christ best when we're, when we're Giving God the proper acknowledgment in our everyday life. And then verse 7 in Colossians 2 says this, Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment. Look at this from him. So he's in there to listen. He is the vine. We are the branches. Every single day. If we could talk to a tree and we would say, how do you produce your fruit? It would all say the life from the vine. If we were to say, where do you get your nourishment? The life is from the vine. The branch can't produce anything apart from the vine, as a branch always is receiving an ongoing flow from the vine. Even so we have him as our vine that every single day we're drawing on who we are in Christ, because that's what nourishes the life of victory he authored for us. So when it says in verse seven, let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from Him. How that. That really shows us a picture again of the branch drawing on its life from the vine. And then it goes on and says this. See that you go on growing in the Lord. How are we going to grow in the Lord as we draw on who we are in him, as we acknowledge, today I'm living in Him. Today I'm giving place to who he is, to flow through me. I'm going to draw on the divine life that's in me. I'm not going to draw on the natural man, the old man. I have the new man. The new man is in Christ. Christ. The old man is outside of Christ. But we are new creatures in Christ. Old things have passed away. All things have become new. That's speaking of the in Christ life. And so whenever we say, I'm in Christ today, remind yourself, today I'm drawing on Him. Today I'm putting Him to work for me. Today I'm relying on who he is in me. And this is exactly what Paul is talking about here in Colossians when he says, see that you go on growing in the Lord. Well, how do we go on growing in the Lord? We keep becoming more skillful, more dependent, gain more knowledge of who he is in us, and we become adamant that we're not going to live this life apart from him. So it says, see that you go on growing in the Lord. Look at this and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. See, we can teach these things, but if we don't apply them, we're not benefiting from being taught. So know this. When we're taught the Word. The Devil comes immediately to steal that Word from us. How do we keep him from stealing the Word from us? Well, the Word says that this when. When we hear the Word preached that Satan comes immediately to steal that word. Why does he do that? He does not want us to experience the success being a doer of the Word. But if we will immediately employ and put to use what we're taught, what that does is the devil cannot steal something from you that you're using. What. What is the devil able to steal from us when we're not being a doer of the Word? When we take what we've been taught and we set it aside in the face of circumstances and don't employ it, then the devil can easily steal that. But when we're using the truth we're taught, then the devil cannot steal what we're. So this is our great success at not being stolen from is immediately use what we've been taught of the Word. So when you hear the things of the Word that we're teaching in these episodes, immediately apply them. Say, today I'm living in Christ. And can I say this? Don't try to grasp that with your mind. Because the mind cannot really fully process what all belongs to us because we're in Christ. But the heart can believe it. If you'll just say, I'm in Christ. Christ is in me. All that he is is Mine. All that he is belongs to Me. It's flowing through me and I'm going to draw on it. I'm going to employ that. The more you talk as one in Christ, you talk in Christ's truths. What happens is more revelation about it begins to flow to your spirit. The mind cannot figure it out, the mind cannot reason it out. But revelation comes to your spirit and that's the light that we need when the Holy Spirit begins to open these truths up to us. But know this is that the Holy Spirit cannot enlighten us with something that we're not, that we're not hungering for and we're not applying ourself toward. You know, he doesn't give us truth about healing. If we're not studying on healing, if we're not seeking him regarding healing, what he opens up to us is what we're seeking about. So when you start saying, today I'm living in Christ, today I'm drawing on in Christ. When you start doing that, you're applying that Word. And the Holy Ghost will open that up more and more and more to you. So that's why it's so important that what Paul says here, see that you go on growing in the Lord and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Don't lay down the truth we're taught, but become a user, a doer of the truth we're taught. And listen, we have to be so careful about this that we don't just go on living on autopilot. We don't just live the way we've always lived. We don't just process things the way we've always processed them. When we're faced with some circumstance, we don't just go back to the way we always handled those, but we say, wait a minute, what does the word say about this? Now to stop living on. And it's what I call living on autopilot, meaning you just do mindlessly the same thing you've always done. Learn to put this one action in place. When you're faced with opposition, when you're faced with circumstances that arise immediately, train yourself to go to this. What does the word say about this? When you ask yourself, what does the word say about it? You're saying, I'm going to put the word in place. And that keeps you from just reverting back to mental habits, to physical habits. But you first go to the Word and you start drawing on what the Word says. Now let me say this to you. If there's anything in your life that you say, you know what? I need to get past this one place in my life. Maybe there's something you're wanting to get past a bad habit. You're wanting to get past a tripping place that maybe has been in your life. Can I tell you, don't just say, God, I want to get past that. I'm going to try to get past that. Speak, speak the word over that situation. The life is in the word. So let me just say this. For example, if there's problems, maybe in a relationship that's in your life, and you seem to get into more of a combative type setting with them, maybe it's the same person and you just, you tend to go head to head with them over that. Instead of walking in love, you can't just walk away from that situation. Say, you know what? I'm going to do better next time about walking in love. You can intend to do better, but the intent is not the power. The word is the power. So don't try to do better in your own self. Say better. What do you mean by say better? Start speaking the word in the face of that say today I'm walking in love because love is patience, love is kind. And then you start saying those love scriptures and it's the, it's speaking the word that puts you past that point that you're trying to not trip over anymore. It's not just I want to do better, say better. When you say what the Word says, the power in the Word gets you past that. So you're not just trying by self effort to get past something. Well, see, this is what Paul is saying here. He says become strong and vigorous. Look at this in the truth that you were taught. So he's saying apply the truth. What's the truth? It's the word of God. Now can I say something here? We have in the United States, I don't know if other countries have that may be watching this, have heard this phrase. But in the United States we're hearing a lot of this phrase my truth. We need to disarm that in the life of the believer. Because the truth is of God's word is the only truth that's in the earth. What God says is the truth. What God's word says is the truth. When you say my truth, what people mean is my experience. But my experience doesn't always necessarily reflect the truth of God's word. So we cannot call, we should not as Christians be saying my truth because my truth as Christians is the Word. Our truth is not what happened to me as a child, what happened to me in the past, what somebody said to me, an experience. We can't call a past life experience. My truth. That's call it what it is, it's an experience. Don't call it truth because the word is truth. Nothing else is truth in this life. There may be facts, there may be experiences, but they're not truth. Because if someone mishandled you, if someone mistreated you, that wasn't truth operating, that was somebody's behavior taking an action against your life. Don't call that truth because what happens, it begins to confuse the spirit of man. And the truth is the word of God. So when Paul is saying, see that you go on growing in the Lord and become strong and vigorous in the truth. It's not talking about your truth, it's talking about the truth of God's word. And we should always govern our lives back to the truth of God's Word. That's the only truth. And the experiences that I've had in life, I will not call it my truth because my truth is the word of God. I've chosen to make what God says is true. I've chosen to agree with what he calls truth, not choosing to agree with what my experience is. If there's an experience that happened in my life that was not good, or in your life that was not good, we should not hold to it as truth. It's not truth, it's an experience. And the Word of God will put us past any experience that would have harmed us, that would have caused us to struggle. But the way you undo the influence of past experiences is speak the Word over them. Don't say, well, this is my truth. No, that's your past experience. And many times it's the experience of the old man, not the new man in Christ. And so we should not bring the truth of God's Word down to the level of our experience. Let's not dumb down the Word to our experience. Let's bring our lives up to the truth of God's word. And let's say I'm going to let the truth of God's word dominate this. If someone, for example, let's say if someone were having a habit, maybe some kind of physical habit, maybe smoking that they want to break in their life, don't call, well, smoking is my truth. No, smoking is not your truth. Smoking is maybe a habit, but don't call it my truth. Lay the truth on that habit and it will annihilate that bad habit. But you can't just get past bad habits wishing or making a resolution to do better. You know, there's some, what we call coming into the new year, when there's a new year change, people will have new Year resolutions. What about we just that those don't spend very long because it's based on self effort, it's based on self will. And I guarantee you there's not enough discipline in my. There's not enough self discipline and human discipline to manage flesh. You know what I mean by that? We've all tried that. That, that don't, that don't work. And so what do we do? There's enough power in the Word, the truth of God's word, if we won't lay it down and we'll do that truth, there's enough truth in that word to dismantle something that's tripping us up to overcome it so that it's not by self effort. So know this. It's not by us committing to do better, trying to do better. It's by us doing what Paul said here. He said, become strong and vigorous in the truth. How do you do it you lay the truth of God's word on it. You speak the truth to a situation that's trying to hinder you, hold you back, a bad habit, some point that you've tried to struggle with. Don't try to do better with that. Speak better, speak the word over that. So instead of the next time you say, well, the next time I see that person, you know, I'm going to do better, I'm not going to get upset with them, I'm going to walk in love. Well, you better speak something of the word to that you better say, because love is patient. Love is kind. I am patient, I am kind. Speak the word to that. And when you do that, then the power that's in the word will put you over. And it won't be by self effort, it will be the power of God's word doing its work. And that's called the branch drawing on the life that's in the vine. So again, it's not self effort, it's not willpower, it's speak the word in the face of situations. Because you can want to get past something, but you're going to have to employ what will get you past. And that is the power of the Word. Now, now, as we were saying in quoting Colossians 2, verse 7, when Paul says, see that you go on growing in the Lord and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. When you're taught the Word, the only way to grow is employ that word you're taught. Don't lay it down and just go back to the way you used to operate. When you're trying to get past a situation, use the word. When you're using the word, the devil can't steal it from you. And that word will produce. Now why does the devil come immediately to steal the word that we're taught? The reason he comes immediately is because he knows that if you employ that word, you're going to see how well it works and you'll keep working the word. He does not want you to have the experience of the great victory the Word brings, so he wants people to let go of that word before they even have an experience of the victory that word will do. So if you will immediately put in place what you were taught, then what will happen is the devil won't be able to steal it. You'll see the success of how good the Word works when it's put into action, and then you will want to live by that word every single day. The devil doesn't want you to see how all conquering the Word is he wants you to lay it down as an option. Well, you know, you think too many times, if we're not careful, we're good at being note takers in church and then leaving it in the notebook and not putting it in our daily life. And the devil delights to see you record it, write it down, put it in a notebook. As long as you don't do what you're taught. Well, we're not, we're not falling prey to that strategy we're employing and we're using every single day what we're taught of the Word, what we read in our, in the Bible, in our devotional time, what we hear our pastor teach, what we hear taught on programs like this. We're going to not just say, oh, I like that sermon. No, I'm living that sermon. That's what we have to decide we're going to do. We're going to immediately be doers of the Word because if we don't, we can't do this. What Paul tells us, we can't grow, we can't strong and become vigorous in the truth unless we're doing it. So it's not enough to appreciate the Word, it's not enough to admire the Word. We have to become a doer of the Word. Jesus said, it's the doer that's blessed. So we so appreciate that Paul is warning us that it's not just enough to say, oh, I know what the Word says. No, we become strong and vigorous in the truth when we're do what we're taught. And then it goes on in this, in verse seven, Paul says, let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done. Now know this praising and thanking God is a. It's a flow that helps you stay mindful of who you are in Christ. It helps you stay mindful of employing the Word of God when you say, father, thank you, that everything that is in Christ, everything that you dreamed for my life, you put in Christ. Thank you. I worship you for that. When you're mindful to praise and thank God and worship God, that holds you in a flow to where you don't lay down the truth you hear, but you start employing the truth you hear. And how many of you know that when we are just praising and worshiping God, it gives place to the flow of the Word rather than the flow of circumstances around us. How do circumstances when circumstances linger in our lives? Can I tell you why? They're getting too much attention from us. But if we will take our attention off of circumstances, put our attention on who we are in Christ, employing who we are in Christ. Circumstances are not fed and they start. They start, if I could say this, weaning away from our life. They start falling away from our life. Circumstances cannot find a place in us when they can't get our attention. And so when we're putting our attention on who we are in Christ and we're employing that, then we're holding ourself in the flow that God authored for us. Not only that, praising and worshiping and thanking God helps to hold us mindful of that. Now it goes on in verse 8 and it says, don't let others spoil your faith and joy with their philosophies, their wrong and shallow answers built on men's thoughts and ideas instead of on what Christ has said. What's that mean? Well, he's not telling us to be rude to people, but he's letting us know this. Not everyone is hearing what you're hearing about who you are in Christ. And people will talk to you from the place they're at when you're taught the Word. Don't let someone else's Word draw you away from what you've been taught when they're not being taught what you're being taught. Because people will always speak to you from the place they're at. But if you feed on who you are in Christ, it's going to raise your understanding, it's going to raise the way you think, it's going to raise the way you speak, the way you respond. And don't let others who don't know what you know cause you to stay back and come down. And he's saying this. Don't let others spoil your faith and your joy with their philosophies. Because not everyone is renewing their mind. Now, that doesn't mean that we're prideful that we have maybe progressed and that we're growing and that we're being strengthened. Because if it weren't for the Word, we would be in the same situations as people. Untaught, because there was a day we were untaught. But as we grow, we want to bring others along with us. But we don't bring them along and help them by staying back at the level they're at. The way we help those around us is we keep progressing, we keep growing stronger. Because then it will put something in place in our life that they can observe and say, listen what they have in their life. I want what's in and I want that in my life. And then it goes on in verse nine and this is where we were headed is what Paul said, 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. In Christ is all that God ever planned for you. And I want you to know he put Christ in you and you in Christ so that you can spend everything that God authored for you, not so you could do without, but so you could enjoy the the benefits and the riches of who you are in Christ. Well, we're going to continue along this line next time and you don't want to miss next time. And until then, remember this Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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Us, and we are to make it our quest to pursue the way Love leads order. Love the Great Quest now@DefrainMinistries.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. 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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We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your tag 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. 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.