← 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 you're joining us today for Jesus the healer and my, my, my. It is such a delight to continue along the topic that we've been on in this series. We're teaching on in Christ. I can. Because everything that God planned for us, he put in Christ. Christ is the treasure box of heaven. And then he put us in Christ. Christ in us. So what do we know? That provision is not our problem anymore, for we have full supply in Christ. And so as we recognize and discover what all belongs to us because we belong to Christ, the end of struggle is really what we're going to partake of in our life. No more struggle. It ends when we see how rich we have been made in him. But we also have been looking for the past several episodes at something because we want to see this, that what happened at Calvary, it was not just a place of suffering and shame, as the traditional church world will look at it, but it was a place of greater meaning. And that greater meaning is it wasn't where something ended, it was where something began. The new life for us in Christ began at the price that Jesus paid for us. Listen, because we're in Christ, we have to go to the Word and find out what we look like now because we're in Christ, and what our life should look like because we are now one in Christ. I want us to go look at Galatians chapter 2 in verse 20 again. We've been looking at it in previous episodes, but let's go back to it today. Galatians 2:20. Paul is writing and he said, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh. Or while I'm in this world, I live by the faith of the Son of God. Who loved me and gave himself for me. But look at that first phrase. I am crucified with Christ. This is what happened at Calvary is part of the foundation of our redemption. We have to understand that when Christ was crucified, he wasn't just crucified for us. He was crucified as us, meaning he took our place in the punishment and the penalty of death that belonged to us. And when he was crucified, we. We are authorized to say, the old man. What I used to be outside of Christ, that was, I was crucified with him. And that's what Paul was referring to when he said I was crucified with Christ. So what? What? When he says I was crucified, what's he referring to? He's talking about the old man, the old life. This, this, the. The life that did not have the nature of God in it, but had the wrong nature in it. Listen, when Adam and Eve sinned, they lost the nature of God. They lost out on the presence of God. They no longer were like God, but because they cooperated with sin. Then they came into a sin nature. The nature of the enemy came in. And because of that, every man born in the earth was born with that sin nature. But that's the old man. And so whenever we received Jesus, the old man with that sin nature in it passes away. It was crucified, died with Christ. And that's what we have to realize when we receive Christ. We are free from the nature of the old man. And now we have a new nature. And this is critical for us to understand and to repeat. It's foundational to really our faith working fully as it ought. We have to realize that we're not struggling with the past. We're not struggling with things that held us in bondage or things that were a place of struggle for us. That's to be old, and that's the. Of the old man. And was crucified with Christ. So Paul said, I was crucified with Christ. But not only were we crucified with Christ, we were buried with him, we were raised with him, we were seated with him. So everything Jesus did, he did for us. And so we're to see our old, that old, that previous life under the old man has passed away. We're not to be troubled by it. We're not to allow the devil, who is the accuser of the brethren, to. To bring that back before us and try to bring condemnation on us because of the previous life and because of what. What we did, what we. What we partook of when we were before we belonged to Christ. And so we have to say, as Paul said, I was crucified with Christ. And you say, I don't quite understand how all that works. Well, I just know this. It satisfied the claims of justice, that heaven is fully satisfied that Jesus took our place in the, in the death that belonged to us. So we are free from the power of the enemy. We are, we have been crucified with Christ, but we've been raised to a new life. When Jesus was raised from the dead, we were raised with him into a new life. So the cross wasn't just what Jesus endured, but by our identification with him and by our faith, it became our cross too. It wasn't just his, it was ours. And we're to consider it as that was my dying place of the old man. The old man will not push me around. The old nature will not push me around anymore because I'm a new creature in Christ. And now I'm living under the flow and under the conditions of the new man who is full of Christ. Our old man was nailed there. So that means that all the weakness, all the faults, all the failings, all the sin nature of the old man has been crucified and is not going to be living with us anymore. So we can say this. When Christ died, I died. That old man died. But when he was raised to a new life and I received Jesus Christ, that's when that new life came into role and into place in my life. So when Jesus conquered Satan, he didn't just conquer Satan for us, he conquered Satan with us. Because we were in that, that all conquering victory. His victory is our victory. So when Jesus defeated Satan, it was as though we did because we were crucified, buried in and raised with him as well. Now the cross doesn't just get us into heaven, but it also obtained victory for us over all the power of the enemy. We have to understand this as ones that are now in Christ. It didn't just get us a pardon, but it got us a place. It got us a position. Raised and seated with Christ in heavenly places, over all the power, the enemy. The cross looked like a place of defeat, but it was really a place of triumph for us. And the enemy thought by taking Jesus out, by getting those, the people that rose up against him that day, the devil of course enraged them, caused them to respond to him. And they thought, the devil thought that by getting them to crucify Christ that he had now defeated the Son of God. But it was really his own defeat he was securing that day when he had Jesus crucified. So Calvary was really God's divine way of entering hell and defeating Satan on his own territory and parading his defeat through the. Through the portals or through the regions of hell. And we see this. It wasn't Satan's victory. The cross wasn't Satan's victory. It was his humiliation. And the Word tells us in First Corinthians. Corinthians chapter 2, verse 8, it says, but none of the princes of the world knew this. What's that mean? Those demon powers did not know that God's plan was to get his son in hell. They thought that they had won because they had gotten him hell in hell. But that was really God's plan. They were carrying out God's plan without recognizing it. So it said here in First Corinthians 2. Eight, that none of the princes of this world knew that. For if they would have known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. So it wasn't just man crucifying him. It was Satan who enraged men to respond to him. And Satan thought he won, but he really. He ended up at the place of undoing. So Satan held this world in bondage through fear of death. But know this. The tool of death was what heaven used to defeat the devil. He used the tool of Jesus dying at Calvary. And that became the tool that. That he dismantled death. And so when Jesus died on the cross, Satan's defeat was sealed. And so we can know this because he died on the cross. We were. We were crucified with him. That seals Satan's defeat in our life. And this is what we have to. We have to know that we have to confess that we have to hold to that in the face of adversity. Listen, Romans, chapter 8 and verse 1 tells us this. There is therefore now no condemnation to them. Look at this. Which are in Christ Jesus. You're in Christ. He's in us, we're in Him. So what's this mean? Condemnation is never to lord it over us again. But how many of you know that's one of the primary devices that the devil launches against God's people or any human, is that he speaks. Condemn them with their past, with their faults, their failures, their weaknesses, their sins. But because we're crucified with Christ that was dismantled in our life, that the devil never can bring up our past and spend it against us. Why? Because the blood of Jesus cleansed us and made it as though it had never come to pass. When Jesus died at Calvary, the debt was canceled and the case is closed. And the devil is counting on us not finding that out. He wants us to think that we still have to struggle in the face of opposition and be troubled by the. By the accusations of our past that he tries to bring against us. Listen, the devil has not yet been been imprisoned, so he continues to try to make false threats that only work when we're ignorant of his defeat. Listen, if we don't realize that Jesus defeated Satan, that Jesus dismantled everything that the devil had formed against us, that we'll fall prey to his accusations. But when we know that Jesus died at Calvary, yes, to pay the price for our sin, but also to bring us into a place of absolute victory over the enemy. Revelations chapter 12 and verse 11 says this. It says, and they overcame him, the enemy, the accuser of the brethren, by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. The blood of Jesus was Satan's defeat and it was our victory. And to benefit from that, we have to add our testimony to the truth of the power of the blood, defeating the enemy and giving us total victory. So whenever the devil launches something against us, we say, satan, we know you've already been defeated because Jesus blood has already dealt with that. Jesus blood has already been spilled and has already cleansed us from that. And so we, when we add our testimony to that, then the devil knows that he cannot work the flow of ignorance against us. Because when we find out who we are in Christ, we're running out ignorance, out of our life. And the devil is counting on us being ignorant of the plan of redemption. He does not want us to know that Jesus spoiled principalities and powers and made us show them openly. He wants them. He wants us to think that he still has dominion over us. But it tells us in the Word that that sin has no more dominion over us. Why we are not subject to the. To the lordship of sin anymore, that Jesus is now the Lord and sin has been dismantled from being able to rule and reign over us. But if people don't know that, they won't take their stand against it. When. When the devil tries to deceive people into yielding to sin and yielding to something that Jesus has freed them from. But it's when we identify with what Jesus did for us, that's when the victory shows up in our life. We have been made victorious. But we have to understand, wait a minute. I am not who the devil says I am. I am who the Word says I am. And the Word says that the old man, with all of its addictions, failures, sins and bondages, was crucified with Christ. And I have been raised to a new life. And in this new life, that the life of God is the. Is the. The ongoing ability that is flowing through me. And I'm now living based on the new life and not based on who I used to be. I want us to look at verse Romans, chapter 6 and verse 11 again it says this. Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. What's this mean? It doesn't matter if we feel alive unto God or not. It says, reckon yourselves to to be dead. Consider this to be true, that I'm dead to sin, but I'm alive unto God. Well, what's that mean? That we are to quit responding to the sin that used to push us around because it no longer is lord over us. So we're not responding anymore to sin. We're not responding anymore to death, to the flow of the enemy. We're not responding to any bondage anymore. Now we're responding, responding to, say, the life of God is in me. And that's what I'm going to respond to. That's what I'm going to flow with. And know this, that Jesus made you master over anything that the devil would try to bring against you. Because sin shall not lord it over you anymore. The enemy is silenced when we confess who we are in Christ. The enemy is put to naught when we enforce the victory that Jesus won for us. We have to let Satan know. No, you can't use my past against me because I was crucified with Christ. That old man you're talking about lives no longer. Therefore he has no leg to stand on in the courtroom of heaven. And so we don't yield to those accusations any longer. Some are praying for God to deliver them. But what they need to do is just to discover and to establish these truths in their own spirit. That I have been crucified with Christ, buried, raised and seated with Him. And now I'm ruling and reigning not on my ability, but on what Christ did for me. When we look in Luke chapter eight, I want you to turn with me, if you would. Look at Luke 8:14. Jesus had come out of the wilderness of temptation. He comes out of that season and goes into his hometown of Nazareth. He's going to preach there and he's going to minister there. And Jesus gets up and he declares what the anointing upon him is. For so again, let's look at, look at Luke 4:18, if you'll go ahead and put that up on the screen for me. Because we want to see something. Because Jesus is giving a job description of what the anointing is for. He said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because. Look at this. He has anointed me, number one, to preach the gospel to the poor. So notice this. Look what the poor need. They need the gospel. Well, the word gospel means good news. How many of you know people who are, who have been subject to poverty that it's good news when they hear you've been made free from the power of poverty? When was that done? At Calvary. Jesus defeated. He. He took the price and paid the penalty of sin, which freed us also from that penalty of poverty. So it says here that Jesus, he declared that he was anointed to preach the gospel to the poor. Notice what the poor need. It didn't say he was going to hand out money to the poor. He was going to give them the good news. You're not poor anymore because I was made poor. That you might be made rich. So we're to spend him who's on the inside of us now. It doesn't mean you can't bless the poor. It doesn't mean that you don't give money to the poor and you don't be generous to people who are in need. But what he's letting us know, you can give money to the poor and it won't change anything long term. You can meet their immediate needs by being generous with them. But then tell them that which is going to change their situation. That is the gospel. You've got to get the word in people so that they quit living held by that, that flow of poverty that Jesus has redeemed them from. So here we see this again. Jesus was announcing the job description of that anointing. He said, God has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He sent me to heal the brokenhearted. What's this mean? We have no business living brokenhearted when he has been sent to heal the brokenhearted. The next thing he said, to preach deliverance to the captives. Notice the wording here. Preach deliverance to the captives. What to preach means to proclaim. So he's saying, I'm anointed to proclaim to the captive, you've already been delivered. Because I am the price. I am the one that's the Savior. I'm the one that bear, that will bear the price of sin. So he's to proclaim that you are. You are no longer to be living in bondage to anything. So I want you to know he said to preach deliverance to the captives. He didn't say to pray for deliverance to the captives. Now, don't misunderstand me. It's fine to pray for someone who's struggling with something, but what. What are we praying for them to. To receive? We want them to see that they no longer have to be in bondage to anything to pray or preach deliverance to the captives. When we're preaching something to people, they're hearing something. The Bible said this multiple times about Jesus earthly ministry. It says that the people came to hear and be healed. So notice when Jesus would proclaim to them about the healing, anointing that was upon him to minister to the people, they would receive their healing. So people who are in deliverance, who are in bondage or something, it's not so much that they need to get free. They need to hear that Jesus has already made them free. And that's what Jesus said. I'm anointed to proclaim to those that are held in captivity, you're already free. So this is what you need to. This is what you need to grasp in your own life. And you need to establish this truth in your spirit. That nothing is empowered to hold me in bondage. Jesus has broken everything. Every bondage, every hindrance that would hold me back, that would hold me in less than what God has made mine. And so when people recognize what Jesus already did for them, they're not trying to get free, but they're establishing the truth in them. I am already free because of the price Jesus paid. So notice Jesus said that he was anointed to preach deliverance to the captives. Do you know that when the enemy tries to threaten you with some kind of old habit, old bondage, old addiction, you need to get up and preach to him and you need to start proclaiming, I am already free from this and I will not come under the power of this anymore. Faith is not asking God to do what he has already done, but it's recognizing what God, what Jesus has already done, and then thanking him for it. That's how we enforce that victory in our life, by exercising our victory or our authority over the devil. I want to say this to you. Begin to practice, if you're not already practice your authority and your victory every day. Practice it. What do you mean, Pastor Nancy, by practicing it? Well, anything that comes against your mind, against your life, against your body, against your Family against your resources, your finances, your business, anything that comes against it that God did not author practice resisting that. Don't lay down to it. Every time something threatens your freedom in Christ, you use your authority over it. You speak to it. You have to practice the exercise of your authority. And can I say this? This is not just something we do in a moment of crisis. It's the. The way we're to live every single day exercising our authority. I love something that Smith Wigglesworth, who was an English preacher, my goodness. He was a man that his life depicted a strong life of faith, many miracles and healings under his. Under his ministry. And he made this statement. He said, every day I exercise myself in faith and authority. What's this mean? He's. He's stating who he is in Christ. He's stating what's his, and he's resisting anything that God did not author for his life. I was. I was with somebody several years ago, someone that I knew that was. They were in the final days of their life. And even in the last months of their life, they were someone. They were born again. But they had never really been taught some of the truths that you're hearing me teach. They didn't know their place in Christ. They didn't know what belonged to them. So in their final months of life, they were really struggling with pains that they were facing and symptoms they were facing. And they would ask God, oh God, do something. Oh God, do something. And I asked God about that person and their situation. And I said, God, how could I have helped them? And he said this. He said, when people do not exercise and understand their authority, then at moments of crisis, when they try, they struggle with something that they've not been acquainted with. And he said, learn every day to establish and implement your authority in your daily life. God said something that was interesting to me years ago. He said, look at every day as it's a own individual container. And he said, every day you have to fill that container with faith, with acts of obedience. You have to. You have to fill it with its own flows of the word. In other words, he was saying, what you did yesterday will not take the place of what you're doing today. And this is where many people miss it. They don't make the life of faith the life of exercising their authority. They don't speak of who they are in Christ on a daily basis, but yet they try to do that in a time of crisis, and then it's not real to them. They don't have a foundation of that in their life. So what's that mean? Build the foundation in you today and every day remind yourself in Christ that I have been crucified with Christ and anything that would have troubled the old man and has no authority and no right to trouble me because now I've been raised to a new life. Know this, that Christ's death was not just for Him. It was as he was taking our place for us. And how many of you know Jesus didn't need to die to get victory over the devil. He had victory. He dealt with the devil in our behalf. So we have to see ourselves in that. He he was crucified and we were crucified with Him. He was buried, we were buried. He was raised. We were raised. He was seated. We're seated. He has authority. We have authority. That's what it means to see ourselves in Christ. That's what it means in Christ. I can because we identify with fully who he is and what he did in our behalf. And so these are things that we don't want to be foreign to us, but we need to easily grasp them in our spirit so that they're part of our foundation for our everyday victory. Amen. Well, we're going to share more along this line and until next time, we don't want you to miss next time. But 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. It belongs to us. God intends that every need we face be met with his power.
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Power.
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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. 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 revelation. 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.
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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. Jesus.
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Thank you Lord.
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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.