← Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne Audio Podcast
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Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
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There's enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one that may be describing you. You may be in a sick room, you may be in a hospital room. And I want to remind you, power is present. That power is there to do a work, believe in what's not. Try to get something, but notice that he's already made it yours. It's present right where you're at. Say, I receive that power. I receive that power. I receive it right now.
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I receive it right now from the.
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Top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet.
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The soles of my feet.
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Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today. For Jesus the healer, it is our complete joy to come and share this time with you and bring the Word. And don't you love the Word? I mean, oh, it gives us the best life. And Jesus made this statement. He said, it's the doer that's blessed. So thank God for the hearing. But the hearing is to lead us to the doing. So thank you so much for taking the time to hear. And it's going to help us become more skillful doers. Because when we do the Word, what happens is we see manifestations of the Word in our life. We see the fruit of the Word in our life. We've been on this series called In Christ I Can. And in this we're discovering all that belongs to us in Christ. But we've been talking, especially with the previous episode, making sure that we're not just saying, oh, I have all this in Christ, but not really employing it. Because what belongs to us in Christ will not just automatically come into manifestation in our life. We have a role to play. And what is our role? It's faith. Faith does more than just believe something. Faith says says something. Not only does faith say something, faith does something. So we know this faith comes by hearing the Word of God. But faith is not released by hearing. Faith is released by speaking and by acting on the Word of God. And then faith operates by love. So faith comes by hearing. It's released by speaking and by acting on the Word. And it operates by love. And so we have to make sure that we don't just say, well, all these things belong to me in Christ. I'm expecting them to show up. Well, we have to say some things. I want us to look at Philemon. We've been looking at this verse, Philemon 1:6, and the way that it reads, it gives us instruction on how to take what we possess in Christ and become partakers of what we possess. And it says this, that the communication of thy faith may become effectual or go into effect by. Look at this. The acknowledging of every good thing which is in you, in Christ Jesus. Notice this. It says that we have to acknowledge what's ours in Christ. It's not just enough to appreciate it, we have to acknowledge it and then notice this. Acknowledging every good thing. We can't just speak generally. Well, everything that's mine in Christ, I expect it to show up. Well, we should expect it to show up. But we have to acknowledge every good thing. Acknowledge healing, acknowledge prosperity, acknowledge victory, acknowledge peace, acknowledge joy, acknowledge all that belongs to us because we belong to Christ means this. We have to speak about it. We have to meditate on these things. We have to make them part of our daily life, part of our daily flow, that we're releasing our faith as a spiritual flow of our life. It's so important that we keep the word of God in our mouth, because then we're keeping the faith in our mouth. And then it's ever ready to spend at a moment's notice. And we don't just want to assume that because everything that God has made ours, that he put in Christ will just flow automatically. We have our part to play. We have to speak the word, we have to sow that Word in our hearts. Because we can't reap a harvest on something we haven't sown a seed for. And so we take the seed of God's Word and we speak it. And as we speak it, we continue to speak it, because that waters that seed. And then we're able to receive a harvest on the things that we speak. Now I want us to look at John chapter 17. John chapter 17 is really a. It's a prayer that that's recorded that Jesus made. Listen, if you want to hear how Jesus sounded when he prayed, take a look at John 17 because it says this. These words spake Jesus and lifted, lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father. So what is he doing? He's praying. So now we, we're going to get to hear how Jesus sound when he prayed. He said, father, the hour has come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. So these are words not long before he was arrested and before he became the sacrifice. So he's talking to God about that time. And in verse two, he says this, as thou hast given him Power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. Look at verse three. And this is life eternal. That they might know the. The only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent. Listen, this was the purpose of eternal life, that we could know the Father, that we could know Jesus, that we're one with them. And so this is my goodness. This is the goal of eternal life. And then it goes on to verse four and says, I have glorified thee on the earth. How did Jesus glorify the Father? He obeyed Him. He carried out what he was born for. Do you know? That's how we glorify God, is we. We obey Him. We carry out the plan that he has authored for our life. And therefore he receives glory in that. So verse four again says, I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do. Listen, none of us should agree to leave this earth until we have finished what God, what we're born for. So we have something to say about it, that we don't leave until we've finished our work. We're not just going to go halfway, but we're going to finish it. And Jesus said, I have finished the work. Look at this which Thou gavest me to do. Jesus didn't just come here to live a life of no effort, no productivity notice. He said he came to do a work. How many of you know that all that's in us has to be worked out, that God has loaded us with so much? But until we put our hand to something, what he has loaded us with is not worked out until we do a work. So he said, I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do. Listen, God has a work for every single one of us. And it's called his plan, his purpose. And then he says in verse five, and now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was. I have manifested Thy name unto the men that Thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them me. And they have kept Thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given are of Thee. I want us to look at verse eight. Look how verse eight reads. He says, for I have given unto them the words that Thou gave us Me, and they have received them. So Jesus is talking about those that. That he discipled, those that traveled with him. Not just the 12, but we know this at one time he sent 70 out that were his disciples. But not only that, he gave the entire congregations and multitudes that heard him. He gave them words. And in those words that he gave them, manifestations of power came out. They saw healings, they saw miracles, they saw body parts put back. They saw provision multiplied. How was all of that coming to pass? Through words. Jesus gave them words. And the words produced works and manifestations of power, miracles and healings. Now, I want you to see this. How did Jesus get these manifestations? He said, for I have given them the words. Look at this which thou gave us me. So God gave Jesus words to speak. And as he spoke those words, that there was fruit that came out of those words. There was results, as I said, there were healings and miracles. Jesus wasn't about this earth, just speaking what he thought of. He was taking the words of his Father and he was speaking them. And no wonder he was bearing such great fruit, because they were heaven's words. And Jesus said, here he is, he's getting ready to leave the earth. And he's saying in his conversation with God, and thankfully we have record of it, he said, father, I have given them words. What words? The same words you gave me. So if we speak the same words Jesus was speaking, we should be getting the same results Jesus got, because they're the exact same words. Now Jesus had to speak the words that were given him. That's how he got results. He never just walked up to someone who needed a healing and needed a miracle and just looked at them. He spoke something to him. He said to the 10 lepers that cried out for mercy, he said, go show yourself to the priest. He told them something because in his words carried the power to perform the miracle that they needed. And then he always told them something to do. He told the man with the withered hand, stretch out your hand. So he spoke words. And in those words, when they. When they acted on those words, they received the power that those words contained. And Jesus was basically letting us know. Everything that was worked through me in this earth came through the words that I heard my Father say. And he said, and Father, I have given unto them the words that you gave me. Think of that. We don't have any less than what Jesus had to work with on this earth. We had the exact same thing that he had. He had the words of the Father. So it's not enough to say all these things that that Christ made ours belong to us. We have to speak words. That's how Jesus activated and moved with what God had Assigned to his life, he spoke words. If Jesus couldn't get results unless he spoke words, we won't get results unless we speak words. So we have to sow the word of God in our spirit so we can get a harvest on it. But we have to speak to things around our life. So much of the time when people run up against a situation, they say, oh, God, do something. And he did. He gave us words to speak in his Word. We're to take what he says and we're to make them our words, put them in our mouth, and when we speak them, we get the results that we need in that situation. But so much of the time, people go this way, looking to God, acting as though he needs to send something more down to them. When he's put everything that we need in Christ, he's given us his words. He's given us the victory that Jesus won for us, the righteousness, all this that Jesus won for us, he already gave it to us. But it's words that activate it. Now we even have devices, we have some cars that are word activated. You have to say something. You know, sometimes when I'm driving to a location that I'm not sure of how to get there, I can just talk to my phone or I can talk to the device in my car and I can say, give me directions to and say an address. And those words activated that system to pull up those directions. And what is that? That's word activated technology. Well, we get so impressed with ourself in this generation of all the technology. But God's been doing that since before creation. His is a word activated technology. And that's the law of faith. That is how faith operates. And so we have to speak something. I was listening to a preacher. It was funny because he had gotten a new vehicle. This was years ago. And this is when some of this advanced digital technology started being put in vehicles. And he said that there were parts of his vehicle that would only work if you said something. If he wanted to activate maybe the air conditioner or the radio. He said you had to say something. And he said he was in the car lot and the salesman was showing him how to what to say to activate these things and showing him how the different features worked as a voice activated instruction. And he said there was also some people that had bought that exact same car. And they were in the parking lot there at the car lot, and they were trying to drive off, but they evidently wanted something to work. And they were trying to turn buttons, and the buttons weren't connected to that direction. They could only get those things activated by speaking. And he said, I saw them start hitting the dashboard. They got frustrated because they're, they're frustrated. They can't figure it out. And he was saying, he said. I said to them, of course, not in their hearing. But he's talking to them from his car. Windows are. Windows are up. But he's saying, it doesn't work by hitting it. It works by speaking to it. I want you to know hitting it with worry does not activate it. Hitting it by with frustration, hitting it with begging, begging God. That's not what activates it. God's telling us it's words that activate what belongs to you in Christ. Say what's yours in Christ, speak what's yours in Christ. And that will activate it. Because God has been on this technology long before a man ever put it in a vehicle. And it's the technology of faith. It's heaven's technology. So Jesus was telling us this. He said in John, chapter 17, verse 8. Again, he said, for I have given unto them the words. Now look at this. That salesman was telling my preacher friend, he said, if you will say this, that you will get a certain feature, the car will activate if you'll say this. And told him what words? He couldn't just say anything he wanted. You know, with the phone, you have to say Siri. Or if you're dealing with some device that's connected to Google, you have to hey, Google. Or hey, Siri. You can't just say, hey, Bob. You can't just say, hey, Jane. You can't just say any word. You have to say the word it's activated by. I want you to know miracles are activated. Healing is activated. Prosperity is activated by what God says. And in Christ, all of those features are built into this vehicle of victory that is ours. But we have to. To say something. It's not enough to say, I know healing belongs to me in Christ and just leave it at that and expect to show it. Then you better say something. And have you ever noticed this? Whether it's an appliance or whether it's your car, you have to get in and you still have to turn the key or you still have to push a button or swipe a screen or say something to get a certain feature going. And just because you activated it yesterday, when you get in the car, it doesn't just automatically activate. You have to activate it every time you want it. Well, that's where a lot of Christians miss it. They think, well, if I need healing. Why doesn't it just show up? Because every time you want it to flow, you have to activate it. That is God putting you in command of all of these things that he's made ours in Christ. And so we never get tired of activating it. Every single day of my life, I turn on the hairdryer. You know, after I wash my hair, I turn on the hairdryer. And I've never once gone up to that hair dryer, picked it up and said, you know, I've been turning you on for years. Don't you know that I want you to? Come on. Why do I have to turn you on every day? I never get frustrated with the hair dryer for not being on because I know the only way it's going to be activated is for me to flip the switch. And everything that's ours in Christ, it just doesn't automatically work just because we faced a need. We have to activate, activate it. We have to speak words. My dad never went out to the field to harvest a crop if he knew he didn't plant a seed. In that field. You have to plant the seed of the Word by speaking it. And then don't wonder if we don't plant that seed, why we're not getting a harvest. Because we have to plant the seed first, and we have to water that seed that it will keep growing. I remember that my husband, he always loved anything to do with ranching or farming or something. Now, he was born in a city, but he always wanted. There's a little bit of him that was either cowboy or a farmer or rancher or something. He always liked that lifestyle. And so my dad, I mean, he was a farmer from birth. He was born into a farming family. And that's all he did, you know, throughout his life was he was a farmer. And he was known as a good farmer. And he had some beautiful cotton crops. And it's amazing how when you. When you own land, how a crop can look beautiful to you, you know, and daddy had great harvest, especially when all the elements were in his favor, when, you know, the weather and all of that was functioning in a really favorable way, he could get some beautiful crops. But I remember that when we would go down to visit my parents and my dad every day, every single day, he went to his farms every single day. And his farms were scattered throughout the county. They weren't just all in one parcel, because really, to get farmland, you normally don't get all of your land in one location. It says it becomes available to you Through a county or a region, you just start buying up as much as you can. And so you'll find farms scattered. Our farms were scattered throughout the county. So he would have to drive to this farm, then that farm and that farm, and every single day he would go check on his farms. And it wasn't many times, just once a day. He would go multiple times a day. So we'd be there visiting, and he'd say, anybody want to go with me? Look at the farms? And, you know, everybody who wanted to go, we'd all pile in the pickup. And my husband loved to go because he felt closer to being a farmer himself when he was sitting with a farmer in the pickup. And so they would go out there. And I remember one day I was sitting in the pickup with them, and my husband made this statement, him being a preacher, you know, he turned to my dad and said, kenneth, isn't it something? You sow a seed and you get a harvest? And my dad looked at him, says, I don't know who told you that, but he said, that's not quite the way it works. He said, you do have to plant a seed. But he. He said, look at the crop over here. He said, look at that field my neighbor owns that. Daddy didn't own that one, and the neighbor owned it. He says, look at his field. He said he planted a seed, but he's got nothing but weeds. He's got Johnson grass growing in his. In his field. He said, look at all the weeds that have choked out his seed. He said, it's not just about planting a seed. It's how you treat that seed once it's planted. So know this. It's not just about saying anything, Just saying the word and then saying anything you want after you planted the seed of the word. You can't plant the seed of the word then plant the seed of weeds by talking doubt and unbelief and talking the wrong thing. You can only water the seed with the word. So you plant the seed of the word by saying it. But you water that seed of the word with continuing to speak the Word. You can't speak doubt and unbelief and water the word and get the right harvest. So my dad said this. It's not just about planting the seed. It's about how you take care of that seed. He said, I have to keep pests off of it. He said, I have to keep any critters out of it. He said, the deer can come and eat up stuff. He said, I've got to fertilize it. And really, a lot of the work that my dad did was before he ever planted the seed, he would tend to the quality of the soil. You know, the Word says this. Jesus, talking about the four types of ground in Mark, chapter four. And he talked about that there was only one type of the four types of ground that produced any harvest. And the one type of ground that did produce harvest that was thirty, sixty, hundredfold. Well, can I tell you this? What's going to determine whether you get thirty, sixty, hundredfold? Depends on the quality of your dirt. Depends on the soil. Depends on how you treat that soil. What's the dirt? It's our hearts that we're sowing the word into. So somebody say, well, I want a hundredfold harvest. Well, then you have to be a hundredfold dirt. You can't have wrong things living in your dirt or your dirt void of something. You know, sometimes that if the soil was missing certain minerals, dad would mix in certain elements into that dirt to get the best harvest. So if we want to be hundredfold, receive a hundredfold harvest, we need to be hundredfold dirt. We can't let doubt, we can't let unbelief, we can't let unforgiveness in the soil of our heart because that's going to affect the quality and the measure of our harvest. And so my dad, if the soil wasn't good or if the soil was compromised, he didn't just keep throwing more seed in there. He had dressed the soil first. So know this, when we say all these things belong to us in Christ, we have to make sure that the place we're sowing the Word, which is the soil of our heart, that we are also tending to our heart to keep wrong things out. Because this is going to determine what can manifest of what belongs to us in Christ. So my dad was giving my husband a real lesson. He said, first of all, he said, I dress the soil before I ever start planting a seed. So don't try to sow the seed of the Word into a heart that's holding on to unforgiveness. You get that people want to sow. By his stripes, I'm healed. Yeah, but what's already living in your heart? What kind of things are you holding there? Get rid of anything that would hinder the growth of God's Word. And so it does matter how, what we're letting into the soil of our heart. And so my dad would address the soil before he planted the seed. He would make sure he bought quality seed. Because There were different qualities of seed. Then he would, after he planted it, he would keep watering it. He had to all the time make sure it had the proper moisture. So you can say once, by his stripes, I'm healed. But you got to keep watering that. How do you water it? Keep saying it, by his stripes, thank God, I'm healed. By his stripes, I'm healed. And you say, well, that just puts me in bondage where I have to say it over and over. No, that's not bondage. That's farming. That's how you sow the seed. That's how you get a harvest. And people, many times, they want to reap the harvest. But have you sown the seed? Have you watered it? Have you taken care of the soil? Have you kept the weeds out? Make sure that wrong things aren't trying to grow the seed of the word. Well, see, as a farmer, there is many layers that are connected to not just sowing a crop, but reaping the harvest on that crop. And so my dad got a real lesson when he just told. Excuse me, my husband got a real lesson from my dad when he said, isn't that something? Kid you. So as soon as you get a harvest day, he said, you've left out a lot of steps, Ed. You've left out a whole lot of steps. And so there's so many things that we have to pay attention to. But thank God we have the help of the Holy Ghost. And that's why it says in Joshua, chapter one, verse eight, this book of the law shall not depart out of our mouth, but we shall meditate in it day and night. So look at this so that we may observe. To do according to all that's written in it. See, we can't just do our favorite parts. We just can't pick what we like and pick and choose cherry pick, so to speak the Word we have to do according to all. My dad, in trying to get a harvest, he had to do all the steps that would lead to a full harvest. He couldn't just do the parts he liked. He had to do all the steps. And that's why it takes us giving full attention to the Word so we can learn what all. What all is our part. Well, it's. It's. It's receiving the Word, speaking the Word, watering the Word, keeping our heart free from anything that would compromise the Word that's in us. And not keeping fear out, not veer from the Word. So know this. Everything that belongs to us in Christ, it does belong to us. But to partake of it. We have to be good farmers. We have to be not good. Not just good at sowing the seed, but good at harvesting that seed. So thank God for the work of faith because it is an absolute joyous work because it will produce for us every single time. Amen. Well, these are some of the things we're going to continue teaching on and up episodes, but until then, we want you to go back and listen to any episodes you may have missed in this series because we believe it'll be a blessing to you. 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 In Nancy Dufresne's book Faith in the Power of God, she teaches how God wants us to know his power that is in our direction. Order this book now at defrainministries.org make plans to join us at World Harvest church in Marietta, California for our Holy Ghost Meetings 2026 from January 11th through the 15th. Services will be Sunday through Thursday at 10am and 7pm for more information and to register for in person attendance, please visit our website at defrain Ministries. 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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In this book by Nancy Dufresne, Living free from Worry, she teaches how to close the door to worry, fear and doubt. Order now at defrainministries.org.
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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 Marietta, California. Located at 23109 Palomar Street, Marietta, 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.
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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.
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But I believe you died so that.
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You 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.