← 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 it is such a delight to continue teaching on the series that we've been on. We've been teaching on in Christ. I can and we invite you, get hold of your Bible, get something to take notes on and follow along with us. Because we're believing God for answers for your life. And we're discovering who we are in Christ and what belongs to us because we're in Christ and what God wants to do through us and can do through us as we live, mindful of who we are in Christ. You know, to live in the. When we use this phrase, living in the presence of God. And really we're never out of his presence because he indwells us. But what that phrase is referring to is us acknowledging that we are living in the presence of God, that we turn our attention his direction. Listen, it matters what we're acknowledging in this life because what we're acknowledging is what's gaining movement in our life. We can look at our life and say, what does. What's moving in my life? What? Well, that's what I'm acknowledging. If we acknowledge the wrong thing, the wrong thing flows. If we acknowledge the right thing, the right thing flows. You know, it talks about in Romans, chapter four, one of the things in referring to Abraham and of course, he is our Father in the faith. And God taught Abraham faith. And one of the things that we see about Abraham's faith, God told him that he was going to bear a son. And of course he was past the age of having children, him and his wife both. And it said this that Abraham considered not his own body now dead, yet he yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. So he did not put his attention on, he did not acknowledge and he did not put his well, he just didn't consider what his body told him. His body told him, you can't be a. You can't father a child. Sarah's body said, you can't have a child. But look, Abraham, it said faith. The faith of Abraham, he considered not his own body. Neither did he consider someone else's body the deadness of Sarah's womb. What's that mean? He wasn't acknowledging what couldn't happen. He was acknowledging what God said. Our life is a picture of what we're acknowledging. If we are considering symptoms, opposition, circumstances that are trying to trouble our life, they will persist because if they get our attention, they get permission to stay. But if we will put our attention on God's word, then that which is trying to trouble us will get, if we could say this, swallowed up by what God says. What our attention is on is what's going to gain movement in our life. So know this. That we are to acknowledge that we are one with the Father, that the Father, that we, we are in Christ, Christ is in us. And we are the. We are the temple of the Holy Ghost. We are the dwelling place of God. When we acknowledge that everything else that tries to oppose and tries to trouble our life, it doesn't necessarily always go away. But if it doesn't get our attention, it doesn't trouble us. And if it won't trouble us, it won't stay. Because where it can't gain attention, it can't gain movement. And so many times people are saying, I don't know why, symptoms are lingering, I don't know why they're staying. Many times we have to say this. What are you considering? Is your attention on it? If our attention is on the wrong thing, the wrong thing will continue to stay. I remember that some, one particular minister, they were a time of financial need in their ministry. I mean, we always need finances to carry out what God says. But they had fallen behind financially. And one of the leading staff members came to the man who was head of the ministry and said, we don't have enough money. And I love what this minister said to him. He said, you words are tripping you up. What's that mean when you say we don't have enough, that's why we don't have enough. When we consider the wrong thing, the wrong thing is gains movement. But when we consider the right thing, it's the right thing that gains movement. When we consider we are one with the Father and we keep our awareness acknowledging him, our awareness on him, and we are turning our attention his direction, then the One who occupies us, the One who fills us, will also be the one flowing through us. What determines how great God flows through us? Basically how much we acknowledge him on the inside. You know, if someone were to drop by your home and visit and you say, come on in, you're so welcome in my home. And you seat them on, you know, on a couch or a chair nearby. But then you go off and you just carry on your daily duties as normal. You go, you know, work in the yard or you clean the kitchen, you go cook a meal. You just clean the house and you don't even acknowledge that one who came as a guest in your home. Don't you know that they would know I'm not, I'm not really given a place here. And they would probably leave pretty soon. Well, God doesn't leave us nor forsake us, but when we don't acknowledge him, we're not giving him place to manifest. So this is this, this is how Jesus got such results, is he lived so aware during his earthly ministry that him and the Father were one, that the miracles were an outflow of their union. Miracles were an outflow of his fellowship with His Father. I want you to know that our fellowship with God is what waters every single arena of our life. That our fellowship with God is to be tended to. And when our fellowsh with God is strong, when our fellowship with God is given its proper place in our daily life, it's going to determine the outflow of every single thing in our life. It's going to determine the outcome of even opposition that comes against us. You know, the devil is going to oppose, but just because he starts something doesn't mean he has to finish it. And we are to by faith, we are to lay hold of the victory result. Just because we're mindful that we are one with our Father and victory belongs to us because we are in Him. He is in us. I remember years ago I was going through a test. My goodness, this would have been, I want to say, 35 years ago. And I had been in this season of testing for a while. And I told God, I said, I'm doing everything I know to do and it just doesn't seem like I'm making progress. And God spoke to me and he said, I have already seen the end of this test and I want you to know you win. Well, isn't that what the Word tells us? That this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. So Jesus has won every single test for us. No matter when it shows up, no matter how long that test seems to last, that victory is what he won for us. And we have to know this. Any time a test shows up, victory is the outcome of this victory for us. And so God said to me, he said, I've already seen the end of this test, and you win. Well, how can he say that? The Word says this. God knows the end from the beginning. Well, what does that mean? I remember listening to one minister that was telling that they were invited to the home of someone who was an actor in Hollywood. And they went over to that actor's home, and there was a glass wall in his. In one of his rooms, and he had index cards that were taped all over that glass wall. And the minister asked that actor, he said, what is that wall? And the actor said, well, I'm writing a movie. I'm writing the. You know, the script, a movie script. And the minister said, I wouldn't even know where to start to take on a task like that. And the actor said, it's very simple. You start with the end. You always decide what is the end of your movie going to be. And then you build the movie backwards. That everything, every action or every scene, every word that is written in this script is going to point you toward that end. I want you to know Jesus has already written the ending. When he spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly. Jesus won the victory over the enemy, then handed that victory to us, crediting us as though we were the ones that had won it. He won it in our behalf. And I want you to know that the ending of every test that you'll ever face, Jesus already authored the victory for you. So when it says in the scriptures that God knows the end from the beginning, that before anything ever begins, he's already authored the ending as victory. God's not the author of every test, but he is the author of every victory. And so we are authorized to say that no matter what test comes against us, no matter what circumstances, no matter what opposition we face, that we know what the ending is. And by faith, we receive the victory for that test. We know this, that God does not sit in time. He sits in eternity. There's no. There's no clock in eternity. It is void of time. That's why God can sit from his realm. He can look down and see the past. He can look down. He can see the present. He can look and he can see the future. Because none of that is hid from eternity. Because only our realm here we work by the clock. But the. But eternity doesn't operate that way. God can see the past, the present, the future. And what he does is he has already because he. Because of the past, of what Jesus did, defeating the devil. That victory is applied to our present, it's applied to our future. And no matter what you see in front of you, you are to, by the eyes of faith, look and see a victory and end result on this. Listen. Jesus never faced any opposition, wondering what the outcome would be. He knew he was one with the Father. He knew that victory was his because of his union with the Father. And I want you to know you have the exact same standing with the Father that Jesus had while he was in. In his earthly ministry. We are one with him. And this was the doing of Calvary. This is our redemption, that we are one with the Father. He hears you, just as he heard Jesus pray when Jesus was on the earth. That Jesus said, the same works that I do shall you do also? Why is that? Because we share the same, the same sonship. Jesus was the Son of God, we're the sons of God. And everything that Jesus could do, we could do. The new creature in Christ can do the exact same thing that Jesus did. In Jesus, earthly life was an example of what the new creature in Christ should be living. And so every word that Jesus took or spoke and every action that Jesus took, it worked because he was operating in that ongoing understanding. I'm one with the Father. He operated and moved from a place of fellowship. Can I say this? There's a passage, I don't have it in front of me, but he's talking about how at the judgment that there will be those who will say, didn't we cast out devils in your name? Didn't. Weren't the sick healed? And you know the lame made to walk? And Jesus said, I never knew you depart from me, you workers of iniquity. So notice this. What was it? I never knew you, you did it based on principles of faith, but not from a place of fellowship with God. They were not in union with the Father. And I want you to know that our union with the Father, our place of fellowship, is the fountain that waters every single thing that we're to do. And that's exactly how Jesus produced the fruit that he did. It was his oneness with the Father. We can only produce what Jesus produced from that same position that Jesus operated in. And we have that same position. We have been raised and seated with Christ. We are made one with the Father because we are new creatures in Christ. We are brought into union with the Father. We are one with him. And our redemption has made the same place of union ours. Thank God that we are redeemed not just out of something, but into something, into union and fellowship with God. Many believers think of and pray and see themselves as in a separated place from the Father, trying to reach something, trying to get something, trying to coerce God into something. And they end up begging and they end up pleading, trying to get something from God, when their union has made all that available to them. That's why it's so important that we find out what belongs to us, because we're in Christ. What is in our inheritance? Everything. Everything we need to fulfill the plan of God has been supplied with Christ. Every thing, every answer you need, every help you need, God put in Christ. He already supplied his plan for your life, and he put that supply in Christ. Then he put that Christ. He put Christ in you and and us in Christ. And so know this, that everything God planned for your life, he has already provided for your life. And this is the difficulty, though, when believers struggle. They're trying to do something apart from him instead of in total dependence and reliance upon Him. But we are to come boldly to the throne of grace, and we lay hold by faith of everything that belongs to us because we're in Christ. Listen, boldness is not arrogance. The Word tells us, come boldly to the throne of grace that you may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need. Boldness is not arrogance. It's the result of knowing our union with the Father. We know we're one with him. And because of that, we can be bold in the face of opposition because we know it's him working for us. Him working in us and him working through us. Jesus prayed and got the results he got because he lived continually aware of His Father. He lived continually aware that him and His Father was one. And it was the both of them working as one. Not two separate entities working, but working as one together. And I want you to know we are filled with God. The greater One is on the inside of us. And it's not us trying to get him to work. It's us allowing the one we're in union with to flow through us unhindered. In John, chapter 5, in verse 19, Jesus made this statement. He said, verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what he seeth the Father do. For what things soever, he doeth these also the Son likewise. For the Father loves The Son and shows him all things that he doeth. Look at this. His position of union with His Father, put Him in a place of seeing and put him in a place of hearing. And so when we hear from God and we see what he. What he would show us, then we know what he will do through us. And so we have to. We have to nurture that fellowship, pay attention to that fellowship with God, water our fellowship with God. And it's not just during devotional time, but it's to be all through our day. Can I say this? That when we start our mornings with God, we turn toward him. We worship him, we acknowledge him, we respond to him, feed on the Word, spend time praying. Whatever our devotional life consists of, it's not so that we can leave the awareness of him in that place of devotion, but it's so that it will set our day that we leave that place of our devotional time and we just stay in that same flow all throughout the day. That's exactly the way Jesus lived. He would go spend time in the presence of God and then he would carry that same awareness, that same presence. He didn't leave it behind in a. In the location, but he carried that presence with him everywhere he went. And then that's why Jesus could say, my Father in Me, he does the works. If we're struggling, we think we're the ones having to do it. If we're in fear, we think that we're the ones having to fulfill it. But I want you to know he's the one that works through us. Jesus didn't struggle to make things happen. He simply yielded to the Father that was within him, allowing the life of God to flow through his words, to flow through his actions. And I want you to know you had that exact same life on the inside of you when you were born again. You got a new nature. You have the nature of God on the inside of you. It's a life nature. It's eternal life that now dwells on the inside of you since you're born again. And we allow that life to flow and it produces. It produces life everywhere it flows. And so that's exactly the way Jesus lived. Prayer is not persuading God in, as though he's reluctant to act. We're not. We're not trying to coerce him and talk him into doing something, but we're yielding to and participating with the indwelling God who is ready to act and manifest. And can I say this? We're not asking God to move. He never stopped Moving, it's us who stopped yielding to his movement or us who stopped responding to his movement. But as we keep just responding to him, yielding to him, obeying him, then the movement of God begins to manifest in our life. When we respond in faith to the Father who's within us, that's when his ability and power meets our faith. I want you to know the moment faith is released, God's power always begins moving. Now this is where many people miss it. They think that if it, if something, an answer doesn't manifest instantly, that they think that it, that the supernatural isn't working. Listen, don't limit God to the instantaneous. Because the supernatural is still working. At the moment you release your faith, power always begins flowing in behalf of that need. Because the power of God always meets faith. There's no such thing as faith flowing in power, not meeting that faith. When we respond in faith to the Father within us, his ability and power will always meet our faith. When we understand this, we move from striving to resting. Now listen, that is so important that we're not striving, trying to get God to do something. But we're resting on the One who is moving and flowing through us as we acknowledge him and as we respond to him and obey Him. We aren't pleading with God, partners with God, that He said that he is working through us. And I want you to know that the Word calls us, that we are co laborers with God. He does the labor and we come and we co labor with his labor. So his labor manifests through us as we yield to him and acknowledge Him. Jesus knew that he was heard by God because He spoke from his union with the Father. I want you to know God hears you when you pray, when you pray in line with His Word. That is working in union with God. Now if we pray separate from His Word, if we're praying something different than what the Word says, then we're not operating in union with Him. But when we are in union with him, we're in union with His Word. We're praying in line with His Word. And Jesus only spoke in line with the Father's words. And we can have that same confidence that when we speak the Word, when we pray the Word, that we get the exact same results. Because we're releasing God's will into that situation. Do you know that? The Word of God, it's the will of God. When we pray the Word, we're releasing the will of God into that situation. And God's will will manifest in that place. When we Operate like this with God. Prayer isn't an effort, it's a joy. And I would say this, that if people say, pastor Nancy, I'm having a hard time, I struggle in my prayer life. Can I say this? I want to remind you, go back to the joy of fellowship with your father. You know, my husband and I met in 1984, and I remember the first phone we. The first conversation we ever had on the phone. When he called me, I asked, I said, what are you doing? And he said, well, I'm in. I'm out in California. I was in Oklahoma at the time, and. Or rather, I was in Texas at the time. I. I was raised in Oklahoma, but I was visiting my sister down in Texas. And he called and I said, what are you doing? He said, well, I'm out in California. I'm preaching at a convention. And I said, well, what sermon did you preach? He had told me he had preached the night before, and this was the title of his sermon. Faith is a Fellowship with God. I want you to know that that's exactly what faith is. It's. It's moving with God from that place of knowing Him. You're. You're well acquainted with the scripture that says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. When I was with a friend of mine recently, and he's quite a Greek scholar, and he made this statement, he said, Nancy, in that verse, that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. He said in the ancient Greek, the word Christ is not used in the ancient Greek. He said, it's a different word that's used. And that word that's used, the definition of it is this the One I know so well. So we could quote that verse this way. I can do all things through the One I know so well. What does that speak of? It speaks not only of union, but of fellowship. Do you know that you can be in a marriage with someone and not be enjoying the fellowship of that covenant? We have a covenant with God, but we want to enjoy our fellowship with God. We want to enjoy the union and the covenant that we're in. And I want you to know this, that of all the things that belong to us in our inheritance in Christ, the greatest thing that belongs to us is the joy of the fellowship with our Father. And when we are tending to that, recognizing and acknowledging him in our everyday life, and we keep our heart turned toward him, we keep our thoughts full of the One who is present on the inside of us, it elevates the flow of our everyday life. It brings Him. When we're aware of him, we're we're giving Him a place in us. We're giving him right to manifest. And can I say this? There is no struggle or separation in our union with God. He's we're not trying to reach him, but he is constantly revealing Himself to us. It's not about can I reach him, but am I paying attention to the One who is revealing Himself to Me and giving him place in My life. Because that's what redemption purchased for us, a oneness and a union with our Father. And we are to live every single day aware that our Father's in us. He's doing the work through us. And if I could if I could demonstrate it to you this way. If you think of a glove that's just laying on a table, but someone comes, they pick up that glove and they put their hand in that glove. All of a sudden that glove is taking on movement that it didn't have of itself. And that hand that's in that glove, if it's a skillful hand, it makes that glove look so good. I want you to know that in him we live and move and have our being is what Acts chapter 17, verse 28 says. What does that mean? That he is the movement in this life. That we are simply the glove in his hand. That his hand is making all these wonderful, marvelous movements and he makes us look good and we become co laborers simply because we're allowing him to labor through us and we're resting upon the One who's doing the labor and we're moving with him by faith. Well, we're going to continue along these lines next time and you don't want to miss it. 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. 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 Murrieta, 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.
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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 your Glory, scan the QR code on your screen. 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 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.