← 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. You may notice that the set looks a little bit different. I'm back in California for these episodes that I'm filming. And we have so enjoyed our. Our time in Texas, but we go back and forth, and so we're just glad to be able to be bringing this word to you. And listen, we're still on that wonderful subject that God's had us on called In Christ. I can, and I don't know, I think we're around 160 episodes or somewhere around in there. I'm not quite sure. But just know there's a lot of them. And we invite you always go back and watch any episodes you may have missed. And you know, you know, it's so important that we not just hear once, because did you know that full faith doesn't come with one hearing, but we have to hear things repeatedly. And especially if we're dealing with a way of thinking that we've carried our entire life. And we're seeing that God is showing us something different out of the Word that is a higher way, his way of thinking. And it takes a little bit of time sometimes for us to automatically go to his way of thinking instead of back to our old way of thinking. And so we need to meditate on that Word so that it doesn't just become something that lands in the mind of man, but in our spirits. And it's meditation that takes the word of God and writes it on our heart. And, you know, the Word tells us, guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the issues of life. And so life flows from the spirit of man. So we need to be giving our spirit food for our spirit food for our faith. And that's the word of God. So we encourage you don't just listen once. But if something of that, what we minister in these broadcasts speaks to you in a specific way, go back and listen to that episode, or at least a portion of that episode, over and over and over. Because that's one way that we meditate on the Word. And listen by meditating on the Word, it drives and establishes that truth in our spirits. And how many of you know you can't spend what you don't own? We have to take time to establish God's Word in our Spirit. And it becomes part of our foundation so that whenever we go to release our faith, that it works for us. Because that Word is a living thing in us. And it's not just something that our mind appreciates, but it's something that has been made resident in our heart. And so it's a privilege to bring these truths of who we are in Christ and what belongs to us because we're in Christ. Now listen, when you know something is your inheritance in Christ, that means he's already paid for it. Do you know that you don't have to ask God to give it to you. It belongs to you. It's part of your inheritance. You don't have to pray and fast for it, but just by faith you can recognize, Father, I see in your Word what belongs to me. Because I belong to Christ. And so I receive it, I take it, I employ it. And it's in the doing that what belongs to us in Christ will begin to flow. It's not just to see, oh, I, you know, I'm praying for God to give that to me. No, if it's your inheritance in Christ, you don't have to coerce him into anything about giving it to you. So this is why we've been taking so long teaching on this series. Because we want you to know what belongs to you in Christ. Well, if we could say it this way, every good thing that belongs to you in Christ, it's waiting for you to just take it. Because how many of you know healing is good, prosperity is good, having all your needs met, it's good. Peace, joy, love, all these fruits of the Spirit, they belong to us because we belong to Christ. And so all these good things flow and we don't have to pray to earn them. We don't have to pray to, if I could say this, talk God into giving it to us. And we certainly don't have to coerce him into us. It's our inheritance in Christ. We also want to see this. Is that because so much belongs to us. In Christ, the devil is constantly trying to draw people away from this understanding. He wants to darken these truths of who we are in Christ to us. Because he knows that once we find out who we are in Christ, the struggle is over. We're not trying to gain victory. We realize that victory is already made ours in Christ, no matter what the opposition, no matter what arena of life may be under attack. You know, when the enemy attacks a certain arena of our life, we don't have to gain victory. We just have to employ the victory Jesus already made ours. So this is part of learning who we are in Christ and learning what already belongs to us. Now know this, we don't have victory or we don't have our inheritance because we're good. We have an inheritance from God because He's good. And so know this, we everything that belongs to us in our inheritance, we don't have to be good enough to earn it. Healing is not earned. It's something that's our inheritance. And because he is good, he helps us to live the good life. And in that good life, there's nothing that interferes the flow of God's inheritance from reaching our life. And so just know this, he is good all the time. And because he is so good, his mercy is good. For the Lord is good and his mercy endures forever. And we can partake of all that he's made ours. And the devil will always want you to think, well, you have to read your Bible enough. Well, you have to pray enough or you have to confess enough, or you have to do enough good works. Well, our inheritance belongs to us because he's good. Now we read our Bible because, number one, that's how we become a partaker of what belongs to us in Christ. We, number one, have to find out what belongs to us in Christ. And as we feed on the Word, we, what he has already made ours becomes more and more clear to us. And so it's not our reading of the Bible that earns it. It's our reading of the Bible that helps us to recognize what he's already made ours. And the devil wants to turn this thing, our devotional life, into something trying to earn something from God. But our inheritance has already been made ours. And as we feed on the Word, it strengthens our spirit so that we can lay hold of with firm faith, with firm grip of faith on what he's already made ours. And we won't be shaken off of it, and we won't be swayed from it by the opposition. So just know this Our inheritance is not based on our goodness, it's based on his goodness. But because we are made in his image and his life is in us and his nature is in us, that we can live the standard of his goodness. And I want you to see something that we appreciate that when revelation comes to us by the Holy Ghost, and how many of you know that we need the help of the Holy Ghost to turn words on a page. The words of God's words in the Bible, those written words, to turn them from words into revelation to us. The Holy Spirit is the one who takes God's Word and makes it a living thing as we feed on it. And he's the one that is the ever present teacher that is showing us the deep inner meanings of God's Word. And if people just read the Bible as a history book and they take merely an intellectual approach, they're not going to really be able to understand what the life in that Word it takes. The Word being revealed to us by the Holy Ghost. It's not just a mental knowledge, but it is revelation knowledge. And it's the Holy Spirit who takes God's Word and makes it a revelation not to the mind, but to the Spirit of man. And so when it's made, it dawns on our Spirit, then also our mind begins, it begins to unfold to us in our understanding. So thank God that the Holy Spirit takes the Word of God and makes it a revelation. Listen, to go further than where we're at today in our spiritual life and just in our daily life, in our walk with God, we must have further revelation to go further. It's revelation that causes us to really enjoy the fullness of what God has made ours. It's revelation that causes us to move into the next place we need to be. It's revelation that takes us from where we're at today and advances us into what? To the more that God has. For us to bear greater fruit than we're currently producing requires further revelation. And so when we see the light of God's Word, we need to walk in the light of it. You know something that one minister would often say that is so good? He said it's dangerous to come up to light and not walk in it. What's he talking about? He was talking about that when the Word is taught you and you see what the Word says, then God expects us to walk in the light of that. Now isn't that being a good parent? I mean, when you're raising your children, your children know what you expect of them, then don't you know that it's fair that the parent say, I expect that of you because I've taught you what I expect. I expect you to come up to the standard of what I've taught you. Well, so does God. When he reveals some things to us in His Word, he expects us to walk in the light of that. And if we'll walk in the light of that, then when the devil opposes us, the light of God's Word we're walking in is what will put us on the other side of that opposition. So when we receive light from the Word of God, the devil's going to challenge that. And he wants us to lay down the truth that we're hearing and not being a doer of the Word. But that's why Jesus said, it's the doer that's blessed, not just the hearer, but it begins with the hearing. But hearing the Word of God is to move us into the doing of God's Word. And once we've heard it, the devil knows that we've heard it and he wants to rob it from us. But just know this. The way we keep the Word from being robbed from us is that we immediately put it to use. How many of you know if you're holding something in your hand, you don't lose it. If you're using a tool, you're not losing it. It's the same thing with the revelation of God's Word. When you gain light of the Word and you immediately become a doer, then the devil cannot come and steal that from you. You won't lose that truth, that revelation out of your heart, because you're employing it so immediately. When you see the light of God's Word, put it into action. And when it dawns on your spirit, that's when it becomes a living thing to you. And as we said, it's the Holy Spirit that takes the truth of God's Word and makes it a revelation. Do you know the things that God has revealed to me? Things that are a revelation to me? I can't make it a revelation to you. Only the Holy Spirit can make it a revelation to you. Meaning it dawns on your Spirit, All I can do is teach you the revelation that God's given me. But He. He's the one that takes the teaching of those truths and makes them a revelation. So to go further, if we recognize. I've realized that when I've come up against something and I'm not succeeding as I ought, I'm not seeing the victory that's already mine. In the face of that, I know it's not more, necessarily more victory I need. It's more revelation that I need that will get me past that opposition. So if you say, Pastor Nancy, I'm doing all I know to do and it's not working, then all. It's very simple. You just need further revelation. The victory is already yours. It's not more victory that you need. Victory's already been made yours. And all we need to do is have it further revealed to us the inheritance that is ours in Christ and how to cooperate with that inheritance. So to go further in our personal spiritual growth. Because, listen, God does not want us to remain in the same place spiritually that we were last year, six months ago, or even last month. There should be continual, ongoing spiritual growth and development because if we don't, we'll remain babies. We'll remain unable to really lay hold of things with our own faith because we'll be dependent on someone else. You know, when you get born again, that every single one of us at the new birth were born spiritual babies. But it is up to us to make sure that we're growing and developing out of babyhood stage into young, if I could say this, more of a youth stage spiritually, then into adulthood, maturity. And we just advance. Just like a child when it's born, it's born a baby, it becomes a toddler, it becomes, you know, a child. It becomes. It goes to that childhood stage. It goes through the youth years, young adult, and then full adult years into maturity. It's a process. That's what I'm trying to say to you. Our spiritual growth, our spiritual development is a process. And in that process, we see greater and greater revelation and greater and greater light of the Word. But if we stop being a doer of the light that we have gained our maturity and our development process stops right there. So to advance, we not only need more revelation, we need to do the revelation we already have. And then as we keep feeding on the Word, the Holy Ghost will show us more and more light. I've seen this when struggling with something because I've struggled at times of opposition. I've struggled with certain tests and trials that had arisen in the past. But when struggling with something, it's not that we just need to try harder, but it's that we need further revelation. We don't know some things we need to know. I remember that in the year 2018, I was getting ready to go to St. Petersburg, Russia, and preach there for a week. And about Two weeks before I left on that trip, the Word of the Lord came to me. And he said, when you get there, I'm going to speak to you. And he said, it's going to give you some answers you've been needing. And so when I got over there, he spoke to me and he spoke the revelation, what I call the price of the double portion anointing. And we were able to put that in a book form, but really he gave it to me because he wanted me to feed it to others. But it answered things for me also. And so God was letting me know there are some things to advance that you're going to need. We need revelation of the Word of God because as we gain revelation, then we can keep progressing in our spiritual growth and development. And then what happens? We start enjoying more and more of the inheritance that has been ours all along. Listen, it's not revelation that earns our inheritance. The inheritance that belongs to us is already complete. But it's revelation that helps us to partake of it and enjoy it more and more and more so that life becomes different and it becomes more like what God authored for us. Amen. I just know this, that the devil is constantly trying to cloak from us, from our understanding the revelation of who we are in Christ because he knows that if we ever find out who we are in Christ, that we become the master in our daily life that Jesus made us to be. Listen, Jesus defeated Satan. He spoiled him. He took the power of Satan away from him to harm and hurt us. But if we don't have revelation that he has already been defeated, we will live as though we're still bound. And I love something that brother Hagin said, Kenneth E. Hagin, who was a spiritual father to my husband and I for decades, he made the statement, he said, any Christian who is in bondage to anything is not held in bondage to the devil. Because Jesus already defeated the devil. He already spoiled principalities and powers. He said, he is in bondage to an unrenewed mind. What's that mean? He lacks revelation of the Word. He doesn't really have full understanding of what Jesus has already made his. Now you say, well, if Jesus spoiled principalities and powers, he defeated the devil, how come there's so much opposition from the devil? It's because. Because Satan has not yet been imprisoned. So he goes around seeking to devour those who are ignorant of his defeat. But as we gain understanding of how far reaching the defeat of the devil is and how far reaching the victory that Jesus won for us, is then we start living as rich as he made us to be. There was. There's a family that's been in our church for, oh, my goodness, I would say almost 30 years. And we have. Now, there was the grandmother, then mother, and then now grandchildren, all in that family line. That's all part of our congregation. And the grandmother who started with us years ago, she lived out her life, and she was getting ready to go to heaven. And she had a very interesting thing that happened. She had the experience of dying, and she saw Jesus. Jesus spoke to her and he said, it's not quite time for you to come. And he said, I want you to go back to earth and I want you to pray. And he gave her three things that he wanted her to pray for. So she came back and she lived for a short time after that, and then she went on to heaven. But Jesus spoke to her and he said, there's three things that I want you to pray for. He said, number one, I want you to pray for the revelations that belong to this era to be received. Now, notice God's not withholding anything. He's already given us everything we need. And in this revelation, in this era. What is this era? Well, we're in the last days, and we are. There's the greatest revival that this world has ever seen that's just on the horizon. And in fact, we're in the early stages of it. But we're going to see the greatest harvest reap. It's the father's harvest. It's what he's been waiting for, that the husbandman has been patient, waiting for his harvest. And so that harvest is going to come to pass. And it is coming to pass as we speak. But there's more of that harvest to be reaped. And that's why Jesus gave us the Great Commission, because it is to go and reap the final harvest before Jesus comes back. And so Jesus said to this woman who went to heaven, he said this, I want you to pray for the revelations that belong to this era to be received. So basically, there are some things we have to understand about this era so that we are fruitful and we're producing what we need to produce and laboring with God in the correct way. And so he said, pray for those revelations to be received. Listen, we don't have to pray for God to give them. God has already given light and revelation, but it's about receiving the light that he has given. Then the second thing he said, pray for the congregation to be in unity. And that is something that we need for every congregation. Because how many of you know a church family, a local church, a local congregation is a family. Because just as your own natural family needs to be in unity so there's no strife in the home, a congregation, a local church, needs to be in unity so there's no strife in that church family. Why? Because that hinders the plan of God from moving forward. But then the third thing that Jesus said to her, he said, I want you to pray about. And this is how Jesus worded it to her. He said, I want you to pray for the congregation that they would get it. And she said, what do you mean that they would get it? He said, pastor Nancy has been teaching. She teaches who the. What belongs to the people because they're in Christ. He said, pray that they would get that revelation. Because what is it? Once we see who we are, what we have, and what belongs to us because we're in Christ, the devil is done pushing us around. The devil is done taking advantage of us. He's done using ignorance against us. It is the word of God that as we feed on it and as it's revealed to us, it runs ignorance out of our life. The devil doesn't. He doesn't want people to know that Jesus has spoiled him. He doesn't want people to know that Jesus utterly defeated him. So what is he doing? He is working off the ignorance of people. Now, we know this, that even in this world of technology, you have social media, you have computer technology, that there are people that will scam through technology. They're called scammers. What are they doing? They're hoping that someone that they're communicating with, whether through social media, on computer, through some app, they're hoping that they don't know what they're doing and they will scam them out of money. Well, what. How are. How is a scammer able to work? They work off the ignorance of those who don't know that process. Well, how many of you know the devil is scamming humanity? Jesus spoiled principalities and powers. He made a show of them openly. But most of humanity does not know that he's a defeated foe. They don't know that all they have to do is reveal, receive Jesus as their savior and they are delivered from the kingdom of darkness and then translated into the kingdom of God's dear son. So the devil is counting on our ignorance. And even those of us who are born again, the devil wants to continually keep us in the dark. He wants to keep us unclear, unsure and unknowing. About our inheritance in Christ. He wants us to think we have to earn this inheritance. He wants to. He wants us to think that it's something that if we try harder, get more. I want you to know that it's by the grace of God and our faith that in the grace of God, how many of you know grace is God's part, but faith is our part. And so we have to employ our faith and the grace of God, the mercy of God meets us. And not only that, it helps us to become a partaker of the inheritance that belongs to us in Christ. So just know this. When revelation comes and we act on that revelation we receive, that's the end of struggle. I can't tell you the number of times that I've been faced with something that I didn't know the answer for it, but I knew God did. And I would go to God and I'd say, what do you say about this? And when I did not know the solution, or I did not know the answer, or I did not know the next step, when I drew on the greater one, that was on the inside of me when I looked to him and acknowledged him from answers and help, and he would communicate to my heart, he would make it known to me what I was to do in that situation. How many of you know fear couldn't work anymore. The uncertainty couldn't work. I didn't try harder. All I did was employ what he told me to do. Every single one of you recognize that. There are times that you've recognized God's spoken to you about something, whether it's about your family, your business, your health, anything about your own personal life, he's spoken to you. And when you did it, you go, that was the answer I needed. What was that? That was revelation. And when revelation comes, that means the end of struggle. So we're so grateful that we're able to bring the understanding about who we are in Christ to you. Because as we gain greater and greater revelation about what belongs to us, who we are in Christ and what we can do because we're in Christ, that means life is peaceful. That means. It doesn't mean. It doesn't mean opposition stops, but it means that we know the answer in the face of opposition. And so we're going to keep ministering along these lines next time, and until next time, remember this. Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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To watch or listen to today's message and other messages by Nancy Dufresne, visit dufresneministries.org.
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The Timeless Truths in this book. Answer it. Reveal how to answer every opposition and the steps to take to exit times of testing. Order this book now@DefrainMinistries.org.
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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.
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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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Your glory is your power. 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 defrain Ministries for making this production possible. Nancy Dufresne is the President of World Harvest Bible Training center in Marietta, California. This is a Word and Spirit Bible school where you will receive impartations and revelations. So whether you're called to the five fold ministry or want to bring a greater supply to your local church, this could be the school for you. We're now accepting applications. Go to whbtc.org for more information. Shop Nancy Dufresne's books and other products as well as Jesus the Healer merchandise on our website@jesusthehealer.org or call us at 951-696-9258 to place your order today.
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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.