← Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
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Nancy Dufresne
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 it has been our complete joy to bring to you the series on in Christ. I can and we're going to stay on it as long as the Spirit leads us to But I'm hoping he leads us to stay on it a while because it's doing so much for us to renew our minds to who we are in Christ. Until we think in those terms without effort that we begin to see ourselves really naturally in that it just becomes our natural way of thinking that we just automatically go to who we are in Christ instead of struggle to see ourselves and as he's made us to be. We were looking at a previous on the previous episode we were looking at Isaiah chapter 60 and verse 1. And I want to read to you out of the King James verse, it says arise and shine, for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. But I especially like how the amplified classic reads it says this arise from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you rise to a new life. How many of you know he's talking about really you're in Christ life that when we were born again, old things passed away. Behold, all things have become new. So we have to make sure. Listen, we've been raised and seated with Christ, but our thoughts have to come up to there. We have to take our place in our daily doing of who we are in Christ, who He made us to be and who he is in us and through us and for us. Listen, God delivered his people out of Egypt. They were no longer held in slavery, but their thinking stayed in that slavery flow that they didn't come in their thinking to who God had made them to be and all that he had given them as his people. And that first generation never arrived in the promised land because their thinking never went there. You can be raised and seated with Christ, but you have to bring your thoughts into that. And that's called, called the renewed mind. And so we have to realize that there is a flow that belongs to us and a flow of thinking that belongs to us because we're in Christ. And how many of you know depression and fear? It's beneath the flow of who we are in Christ. That is a low level flow. And we have to not be okay with fear pushing us around, with depression, hounding, harassing, trying to trouble us and hold our, hold us back. But know this, that the accuser of the brethren is constantly going to try to hold our thinking in that low flow, thinking as one, as we were before Christ, always pointing back to our faults, failures, weaknesses. And the devil tries to make us mindful of faults, failures, weaknesses, because he knows that in ourself we cannot accomplish all that's in our heart. But God never intended for us to accomplish his plan in ourself. He intended to fill Himself, to fill us with Himself so that he could accomplish it through us. And that's what he did in Christ. He made us one. And so Christ is in us, we are in Christ, and we are to spend Him. Now the only way we can fulfill what we're born for is we have to rise to that in our thinking, in our speech, and quit allowing the things of the old man, quit allowing the things and the flow before Christ to become part of our new life in Christ. So I appreciate that the amplified classic of Isaiah 61 says, Arise and arise to a new life. Listen, our life should not look like it did before we were born again. Our marriage shouldn't look like that. Our health shouldn't look like that. Our family shouldn't look like that. Our finances shouldn't look like that. Everything should come up to the flow that we've been born in in Christ. And so it's up to us to enforce that in Christ life. Because the devil's always going to point to your inadequacies. He's going to point to those faults, the failures, the weaknesses, and try to tell you why you cannot accomplish what God has called you to. And that's a strategy that the accuser of the brethren is going to work on every single human. So know this. Just because he tries to point to your own inadequacies as a reason to not fulfill the will of God, the devil works that same strategy on everybody. It's not just you. Don't let him paint you as being the only one with these problems, these inadequacies. Because every man of God that God has raised up has had to bypass and step over human inadequacies to agree with who he was in Christ and let God manifest through him. As we were saying in the previous episode, Moses had to deal with that. When God said, go back to Egypt. I want you to go tell Pharaoh. Let my people go. The first thing out of Moses mouth was telling his own inadequacies. Why is that? Where did he get those thoughts? God didn't give him those thoughts. The devil gave it to him. Well, when you think of thoughts of your own inadequacy, God didn't give you those thoughts. That's the devil that is trying to accuse you with reasons why you cannot fulfill what you're born for. Then with King Saul, he did the exact same thing when he was anointed to be king. All he was talking about was the voicing of inadequacies. And we find that so much of the time, and we see that in the life of one man in particular, Jonah. We see in chapter one, verse one of Jonah, it says, now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah and said, arise, Go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So what did he do? He did not feel that he was adequate to do it. So he went a different direction. Well, not to paint, not to preach a sermon on Jonah. But we all know what happened. That he ended up in a place he certainly didn't expect to end up, in the belly of a whale. But while he was there, he started evaluating and he started changing his mind, and he started changing his response to God. And he finally did obey God. But he had to deal with those same inadequacies. And they almost caused him to abort the plan of God for his life. And so many people will use their own inadequacies as a reason not to obey God. But because we're in Christ. Christ disarms those inadequacies because he is our adequacy. He's the one that makes us more than enough because he's more than enough to accomplish the work through us. So if we're looking to our own inadequacies, what's that mean? We're not. We're not occupied with who we are in Christ. We're not renewing our minds as we ought to, who we are in Christ because so many people have lived disappointed lives, disappointed with themselves, disappointed with their own past, disappointed with their own failures. Well, I know this. Every time I look at me, I sink low. But every time I'm occupied with Him, I come up to who he made me to be and who he is in me and through me. And so we're not trying to make ourselves feel better about ourselves. We're getting occupied with who he is. And that causes us to come up to a higher flow. I was saying this on a previous episode. Every time God's trying to bring us into more, the devil is going to endeavor to bombard and harass the mind with these inadequacies. I can look back in my own life and I can see crossroads in my life when God was bringing me into the next phase or the next room that he had for me in the flow of his plan and in the flow of his blessing. And I noticed that well before I reached those places of advancement, there was great obstacles that came against my mind, great opposition, great hindrances, great accusation. But I had to step over those and keep going. How do you step over them? Talk about who you are in Christ. Don't talk about and think about who you are in yourself to accomplish things or how you missed it. You always go back to who you are in Christ. And that's going to get you past that opposition. Listen, the devil doesn't have any more power over you than you give him. And that's why he constantly points back to those inadequacies to try to make you feel as though you cannot do it, why you cannot fulfill it, why you can't come up to the fullness of God's plan. But you have to make sure you do not yield to those. I'm reminded. Just let me share one experience that I had in 2018. I was taking a trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, and a few weeks before I left on the trip, God spoke to me and he said, I'm going to speak to you while you're over there. So I kept my spiritual antenna up on that trip. Now notice God was speaking to me. I was in Southern California at my home there when God said, I'm going to speak to you in St. Petersburg, Russia. Notice this. He was speaking to me in California, telling me how he was going to speak to me in Russia. And it's like you could think, well, why don't you just say to me now what you would say to me in Russia? But because I had to get at the place where he told me to be so I could hear more of what he had to say to me. So know this. It does matter that you go where God tells you to go, that you be where God tells you to be, because he has more for you in that place. For me, he said, I'm going to speak to you when you go over to Russia. But notice sometimes he might just tell you, I want you to take that job, or I want you to move to this, or I want you to. To, you know, join yourself to that local church. Just be where he told you to be. Because when you're where he tells you to be, there's something more waiting for you than you ever had from the place that you were at before. So I was over there in St. Petersburg, Russia. I was there doing five days of meetings. And I had other minister friends that were with me, but I kept my spiritual antenna up, so to speak, to be aware. Wait a minute. He's going to speak to me. And I want to be sensitive to that. And about the fourth night we were there, my pastor friends and I, we were around the dinner table in the hotel, at the restaurant. We had done the service that night, and we had gone back to the hotel to eat dinner. And we were sitting around the table. And I recognize that the presence of the Lord came into that. You could feel it tangible. You know, when the power of God comes in a. In a strong way, and you can sense it in a very particular way. But I also sensed a troubling at the same time. Well, how many of you know the presence of God doesn't trouble you? But when Jesus walked up to that table, an evil spirit also walked up the table. And I sensed both of them. Why was that? Jesus had something to say to me, and the devil wanted to interfere with that. So I recognized the presence of both. And so our conversation continued a few more minutes, and then I went up to my hotel room. And when I walked in the hotel room for the next hour, Jesus began to talk to me about just something about ministry that he had for me and some teaching revelation that he had for me. And I put it in a book. It wasn't just for me. It was for the body of Christ too. But he was talking to me for the next hour. And you say, did you see him? No, it was by word of knowledge. And that's the way God works with me. He works differently with different ones, but that's the way he worked for me. It was, though I was his secretary that night, and I'm simply Writing everything he's saying to me. But the whole time he was speaking to me, I could have, I had this. I was receiving what he was saying in my spirit. But I could, I could feel the bombardment of the mind. Don't agree with this. You'll fail at this. You can't fulfill this. Don't say yes to all this. And what was that? That was those low level devils that try to interfere with our receiving. What God has for us, it comes to everyone. And so I, I knew this. I knew that was the enemy and I simply ignored it. But I could tell it was there at the end when Jesus was done speaking to me. Then he said, now speak to that devil that's trying to. That's been trying to harass your mind. And. And all of that left the room. What was he trying to do that that enemy of opposition was trying to so trouble my mind that I would miss what the spirit of God was saying to my spirit. But I had enough skill at that point to recognize which is coming from where. And I knew not to open the door or believe the accusations because God was bringing me greater revelation to bring me into something more. And I was able to write that in a book. And that is available. And it's called the Price of the Double Portion Anointing. And what I want you to see in that is that when God speaks, so does the devil. He will try to interfere. When God advances, the devil tries to hold back by bringing all these circumstances against your life. Don't be duped by circumstances. Just because circumstances show up doesn't mean you're losing. Just because circumstances may heighten doesn't mean your faith isn't working or that the word isn't working. It just means the devil's trying to hinder your advancement into something more. And every man of God, every woman of God that's ever moved with God has had to bypass and step over these accusations, these inadequacies. And you don't do it by dealing with it naturally, you do it by speaking the word. Know who you are in Christ. Speak who you are in Christ, because that will dismantle every argument and every accusation that the enemy would bring against you at a time of advancement. I know this, that before the door for television ministry opened to us, I remember so clearly where I was. And I was. I was staying for a period of time at a certain location. And I mean, it was continual opposition against my mind. But I had learned how to not let it trouble me. I was aware that it was present, but When I noticed that that opposition is present, my first thought always goes to what am I getting ready to come into that the devil is so afraid of? Because he's trying to get me to fall into a low flow by trying to harass the mind, by trying to trouble it, by trying to point to my own inadequacies. Listen, everything of God's plan that he intends to fulfill through you cannot be fulfilled apart from Him. It's not your adequacy that's going to do it, it's his adequacy and he's more than enough. And so we have to recognize these strateg are to try to affect our faith. The devil wants to get us to where we don't agree with the plan of God, with what God's bringing us into. But right during that time when the devil was bringing so much opposition and troubling against my mind, it was at that time that the television ministry opened to us. My husband, when he, he went home to be with the Lord when he was 72. When he turned 70, God spoke to him and he said, you ministry is going to produce more from your 70s to your 80s than any all the previous years of ministry put together. So he had been in the ministry almost 50 years at that time. So what was God saying? The next 10 years will be far more fruit. Well, he went home to be with the Lord at 72. And you say, well, didn't God know that he would go home at 72? Yes, he did, but he went home. That wasn't God's plan that he go home at 72. And listen, when God speaks to us, he doesn't, he speaks to us about his plan. His plan was that my husband be here from 70 to 80 and that he fulfill that. And I said to God, after my husband went home to be with the Lord. Now there was 20 years age difference between us. So he went home, he was 72 years old, I was 52 years old. And it wasn't until I was about 56 that I remembered, wait a minute. God told my husband that from him being 70 to 80 would produce more fruit than all previous years of ministry put together. I said, I'm not willing for that word to fall unfruitful to the ground. I'm going to pick up that word. And I said so that would have been for me, for me 50. Well, at this time I'm 64 years old. But that, that time I was about 56 years old. And so there was now about four years left till that that 10 year period would have passed. And I said, God, my husband traveled so much, he's ministered to so many people, preached thousands of sermons. I have no idea how you could cause from the time I'm 56 to the time I'm 60 for the ministry to produce far more than it ever produced in all the previous years of ministry combined. I don't know how you could do that. But I want you to know I set my faith on it. I received that by faith. And it was with just in a matter of months that I got a phone call that offered for us to come on television. And then we're in 186 nations of 195 nations in the world. And in one phone call we were now in the position to fulfill that word. And now, my goodness, billions of homes and billions of people that have had potentially being reached by the preaching of the Word. What was it the devil was trying to stop the advancement. And I've noticed that every time there seems to be an acceleration of opposition, it's because of God has a great and effectual door that's, that's going to open to us. I want to read again 1st Corinthians, chapter 16 and verse 9. Notice Paul's wording here. He said, a great and effectual door has opened to me. See, God is the door opener. He offers us more, he offers us advancement. He offers us more than we've been in before. But I want you to see these words a great deal. Effectual door. So when we think of great, we're talking about a large opening. And then this word effectual, it's going to have a great effect. It won't just affect you, it won't just affect one, but it will affect many. And so know this, that the blessing God intends to bring to you and through you is not just for you, it's for many. So when the devil's opposing, he's not just opposing your life and he's opposing the many that are to be affected by your advancement in God. Don't let the devil have your advancement. Don't let him have your future just because he's pointing to your own inadequacies, your own weaknesses, faults and failures. Because you're not accomplishing the plan or going through that door by your own adequacies. It's by the greater one on the inside of you that's going to bring to pass the greatness of the plan. And anytime that we get occupied with, I can't do this. How can God use Me, how can God ever work this through me? How can I ever start that business? How can I ever have this? Or how can I ever lay hold of that? All of those questions come by us, looking at us. But I want you to know, when we look at him, there's no questions. If we're asking questions, we're looking at us. And we're yielding to the feelings of inadequacy. And know this. The devil can produce feelings of inaccuracy, of inadequacy to where you feel inadequate. But that's why we don't walk by what we feel. We don't walk by what we see, but we walk by who we are in him and who he's made us to be. And we have to hold fast to the Word. And I want you to know God has planted things in your heart. God has spoken to you about things that he has for your future. And it's not just for your benefit. It's going to have a great effect for other people. And so it does matter that you step past and cast down these feelings of inadequacy that are from the devil. And you get past those so that you can lay hold of more. Because other people need what God has for you. I want to read to you. Let me find the passage. It's over in Isaiah, chapter 60, going back to verse one. Now again, I'm going to read this out of the Amplified classic translation. Isaiah 61. It says, Arise from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you. Rise to a new life. Shine. Be radiant with the glory of the Lord. What's that mean? His presence will be seen upon you when you yield to what he's bringing you into. That's only by his ability. That's by his power. And so his power begins to flow and work in your behalf when you step past these oppositions that try to slow you. But it says, shine, be radiant with the glory of the Lord. For the light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Look at this. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness, all peoples. But the Lord shall rise upon you, and his glory shall be seen on you. What's he talking about? The glory and the rising, the coming up higher, the moving into the furtherance of God's plan for you. It's not just for you, but there's people living in darkness all around you. And they need what's on the inside of you. So whether or not we arise is going to affect. Affect the people around us that People that are bound, people that are troubled, people that are harassed and held in the grip of the enemy, that they're waiting for someone to come and tell them of their freedom. And that's you that God intends to use. But you're going to have to rise past the strategies of the enemy that works against you so you can go set others free from the strategies that the enemy works against them. So when God is offering you more, it's not just for your benefit. It's for the benefit of other people who need to know what God has for them. And he wants to use you. You know, while I'm ministering today, I can sense the power of God present because we need to not only renew our minds, we need to use our authority and that anointing against things that would hold us back against those inadequacies. Listen, I know of ministers who did not fulfill all that God had for them because of their own feelings of inadequacy, that they stepped back from the call of God. They stepped back from the further ministries that God had for them. I've even had conversations with ministers that so often when you talk to them, they would talk about, oh, you know, I had such a bad start in life, my upbringing this or my upbringing that and all those, those, although that may have been part of their experience, that's not what God's drawing on for them. And God has made us in Christ. And in Christ is nothing but God experiences that override any human experience that we could have had. Don't let the devil rob you of your destiny because of him, pointing to your faults and failures, because in Christ he put it back as though you've never missed it. The blood of Jesus has cleansed you and you are made righteous by what Jesus did for you. So I want to pray for you just for a moment. Those of you struggling with inadequacies, depression, oppression, feelings of my goodness of thoughts, failures, weaknesses, I say, Satan, you take your hands off God's people in Jesus name. And I say, be free in your mind. And I say say, stand up in the strength of God. May you be strengthened with might in your inner man and live free so that you can fulfill all that you're born for. Step over the human and step into the divine and be who he made you to be and be free in Jesus name. Amen. Well, I want you to know that we're able to come to you for one reason. Because of the generosity of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, that they made the decision that no programmer on this channel would be buying the airtime and they have gifted us this time. And so if this broadcast is a blessing to you, I ask that you become a partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries if you're not already, because that's going to keep messages and the teaching of the Word coming into your home 24 hours a day. And so we ask you, if you're not already, become a partner and you can sign up by going to kcm.org and follow the prompts there and become a partner today. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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If you have received a healing or have any other testimony to share with us as a result of this broadcast, we would love to hear about it. Please call us, write us or contact us through our website. 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 DeFrain Ministries in Murietta, California, located at 23109 Palomar Street, Murrieta, California. This is a Word and Spirit church. Join us in person or online Sunday mornings at 10am and Tuesday nights at 7pm Pacific Time. For more information, go to defrainministries.org shop Nancy Dufresne's books and other products as well as Jesus the Healer merchandise on our website@jesusthehealer.org or call us at 951-696-9258 to place your order today.
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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.