← 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 to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. Thank you for taking the time to join us. And we know this, that anytime we take time to sow the Word into our spirits, it will. It will bear a great harvest for us, and it will yield a great harvest for us. And I want you to know that not only is the Word food for our spirit, but it's also food for our mind, for our thought life. And as we take on the thoughts of God, we come into a higher flow than we've ever lived before. And so this is what we're talking about in these series, is in Christ I can. And we're taking on the thoughts of who we are in Christ, who He is in us, what he is in us, what he can do through us. And there's so much to explore. So thank you for taking the time to be with us. I'm going to start today with our golden text that we've looked at in this series, and it's Colossians, chapter two. And look at verse nine. This is the living Bible translation. And it reads, for in Christ, there is all of God in a human body. How many of you know Jesus took on a human body? He laid aside his glory and virtue to be born as a human. Yes, he was God in the flesh, but he took on flesh, and that's the important thing. And so for in Christ, it says, there is all of God in a human body. Look at this phrase. So you have everything when you have Christ. Well, I want you to know if you're born again, you have Christ. You are the temple of the Holy Ghost. The greater one dwells on the inside of you. And we are the residency of heaven, it says, so you have everything when you have Christ. And you are filled with God through your union with Christ. He is the highest ruler and authority over every other power. Look at this. That we are in union with Christ. We're one with Him. So everything that's available to him is available to us on basis of our union, not on basis of anything we have accomplished or deserved. We have on the when it says that when we have Christ, we have everything. What God planned for your life, he put in Christ and then put Christ in you. Because he never expected for you to fulfill the plan of God apart from Him. He never. And he never expected you to do it by your own ability, your own power and might. But he filled you with him and he gave you that plan because he intended to fulfill the plan through you. Now it's up to us to learn how to yield to him and respond to him so that he can manifest through us. But not only did he fill us with Himself. In filling us with Himself, you know what he also gave us? He gave to us the measure of faith. Well, if I could say this, what is the measure of faith? The Word of God is the measure of faith. That anything the Word says that we can have it and we can believe it and we can receive it. And so when we came into this new life in Christ, when we were born again, we did not have to come up with our own faith. I mean, he gave us the measure of his own faith. Now what did God's faith do? It created the universe. It's still moving. God is still moving and operating by faith that his existence, it is a faith flow of his existence. And we have God's own faith. He didn't say, hey, get you some faith. No, he gave us his. So what's that mean? Our faith will produce just for us, just like God's faith produces for Him. Now I want you to know that this is the way to live in Christ is by faith. Is that we are faith people of a faith God. And God moves by faith. God operates by faith. And he brought us into that same great flow. And faith can have things that anything outside of faith cannot have. So God blessed us when he brought us into the faith flow that we live by faith. We don't live by feelings. We don't live by things we see. We don't live by things we that we can touch or smell. We live by the faith of God Himself. And you need to recognize when the devil says you don't have enough faith for this, say I've got the faith of God on the inside of me. And just like God's faith produces for him, my Faith produces for me. And that's what you have to to realize and recognize and speak. Now, Hebrews chapter 11 in verse 33. Now listen, all of chapter 11 is just loaded with instruction to us and revealing of what God, the faith of God will do through us. But I want to look. For time's sake, let's just look at verse 33 of Hebrews 11. It says, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought or worked, righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of the fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens and women received their dead, raised to life again. This is just a sampling of what has been accomplished through faith through the pioneers or our forefathers of faith. What's this? Show us that every bit of this that was listed was impossible to man. But faith brings us into the impossible. It brings us into a limitless life. It breaks the limits off our life. It breaks the boundaries off of our life. It takes the ceiling off of us so that we can continue to advance with no limitations on us. There are no limits to faith. And I want you to know this is part of what belongs to us in Christ. Faith is the only way to enter the impossible. If we're not going to move by faith, we have to leave the impossible alone. We have to leave it to somebody else. But that doesn't describe us. We have the faith of God and we can enter the impossible. The impossible is off limits to the man who is just going to live naturally. If he's going to live just carnally, then the. Then the impossible is off limits to him. The natural man shouldn't even try to do the impossible because the natural man can't do it. It's only possible by faith in God. The impossible is our home ground as children of God. Because the impossible is the flow of God, that that is his home flow. And that's what he has made our flow as we follow him. Listen. The impossible is common ground for us. It's to be familiar territory. The impossible is reserved for faith. The only way to arrive at the impossible is with faith. The impossible is impossible. Apart from faith, the impossible is the lifestyle of people of faith who are. Look at this, using it. It's not enough to have faith, we have to use our faith. It's the doer of the word that's blessed, not just one who hears it. But we're doing it. We're moving. We're acting in faith. The Bible tells Us that Satan comes to steal, to kill and destroy. The primary thing that he's trying to steal from you is the word of God. Once you hear the word, the devil comes immediately to steal that word that's sown. Why does he do that? Because he knows if that if that word lands in your spirit, he knows what it will produce. So he tries to get that word from landing in you. So that you are robbed from the highest flow of what faith can produce through and in your life. I want you to know that faith is. It is how we move forward with God. It's how we receive from God. We must live out the will of God by faith. It can only be done by faith. Anything that is from God, it comes to us by faith. Have you ever noticed this, that when God tells you to do something, you have to step over your flesh to do it? Faith people refuse to be held back by their flesh, refuse to be held back by the mental reasoning, the mental arena, by reasonings and calculations of man. But we move forward with God by faith. Because anything that comes from God, anything that God commands us, it can't be carried any out any other way except by faith. Because everything God tells us to do is impossible. Listen, if you came up with it, it's possible. But if it comes from God, it's impossible for man apart from God. Because it's impossible that God tells us to do, faith can have it. Now listen to that. When God tells us to do something and it sounds impossible, faith can have that. Things that are possible don't call for faith. Your natural discipline can just carry out that which is possible. Your natural steps of obedience can just carry out that which is possible. But the plan of God for your life is utterly impossible for you without God. But when you move by faith now, that impossible plan becomes possible. Because faith made the impossible completely possible. Only God, only faith can unlock the impossibilities. Everything that you would plan for your life is completely possible. That's why if we're just going to live by the plan that we authored for our life, we're going to live cheated. It's going to cheat us out of the impossible flow. If you can think it up, it's possible. It's possible for you to do without God. If you can think it up, why does that. How do we know that? Because the Word tells us his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. So if we can think of it, God's not going to use it. Did you hear me? If we can think of it, God's not going to use it because his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. How many times have we faced a situation and we try to figure out the solution, we try to figure out how we can work it, we try to come up with the answer ourself. Well, that's a sure sign. God's not going to use it. Because if you can, if you can think it up, God's not going to use it because his thoughts are higher. They're not the same as our thoughts. They're higher than our thoughts. And we can come up to his thoughts by faith. God has a plan and everything that flows from his in him is impossible for man. But it's completely possible for faith. That's why we don't want to cheat our lives by staying with our plan. When we can, we can step into his plan and live the life of the impossible. Don't ever cheat your life by sticking with the low flow of your plan. Amen. If you arrive at the fulfillment of something you planned, how many times people arrive there and are brokenhearted, dissatisfied and disillusioned because their plan didn't carry what was what God would have made available to us in the greatness of his plan. The plan of God for your life, the will of God for your life is completely impossible to you except by faith. And it's that faith life that makes it such a joy. I want you to know that when my husband went home to be with the Lord, there were eight large projects that he had been working on. And he'd been trying for five years to complete them. And we had to finish out those projects. And by the help of God, within one year, every one of those projects were completed and paid for. And I became addicted to the flow of the impossible. I mean, I was almost a little bit, if I could say this, I was missing something when that last project was completed because I got so used to seeing God work for us, something we could have never done for ourselves. And it was completely God who did it. And when we add our faith to God's plan, it's totally within his ability, divine ability, to carry that plan out. We are to have what the Bible calls an ever increasing faith. We're to get so full of faith that our faith turns violent. Refusing to give up in life our always receiving. The Bible tells us that the kingdom of heaven suffereth or it allows and invites violence and the violent take it by force. What's he talking about? He's not talking about human violence. He's talking about the violence of faith. That faith refuses to back up. Faith refuses to come home without the prize in its hand. And I want you to know the kingdom of heaven invites that kind of violence of faith. When we're in faith, we're at rest because there's no fear, there's no anxiety when we're in the flow of faith, when we're at rest, we will provoke the supernatural acts of God. What's that mean? That whenever we start operating by faith, the power of God always meets that faith and supernatural acts are provoked when your faith is released. That the power of God runs to the faith of God's people when they release it. I want you to know that. Well, let's look at Psalm chapter 46. In verse 10, it says this. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us. Well, what's this phrase, Lord of hosts? It's talking about a host of angels, a host of an army of angels. That's why we can rest and be still, because we know this God is with us. God is working for us. And he has a whole. An entire host of an army of angels that is put at our disposal to carry out God's plan. I want you to know that faith can sleep in the middle of a storm. I mean, Jesus turned. Jesus had a pillow in the midst of that storm. And when he arose, he was in command of that storm. Remember, the disciples and him were in the boat and they woke him up and said, master, carest thou not that we perish? Well, I want you to know he didn't care in the sense of he wasn't perishing. And neither were they. But they started believing the storm. They started believing what they were feeling, and they started believing the wrong thing. And therefore they were saying the wrong thing, but he did not. Well, let me say it to you this way you'll remember it was Peter who came up to him and said, master, carest thou not that we perish? Well, who told them they were perishing? Well, the storm told them they were perishing. Well, who's the author of that storm? The devil. So they were believing what the devil was telling them. And then notice what Peter said, Carest thou not? What is this? These are words trying to make Jesus feel bad because he was not as fearful as they were. He was not responding like them, and so they accused him. Because you're not responding like us, you don't care. I want you to know it doesn't do people a favor when you respond like people who are responding that are in fear. We respond in faith. And because we respond in faith that peace has a faithful. That, excuse me, faith has a peaceful response, not a fearful response. And so when Peter went to wake Jesus up, he said, you don't even care that we're perishing. Why is it they didn't like it that he was not as agitated as they were? But faith is never fearful. Faith is never agitated. Faith is in command. And when Jesus woke up from that, listen, he was asleep in that storm by choice. He chose to sleep. And I guarantee you, if they hadn't have waked him up, he would have slept through the storm knowing that the storm could not take him down. One of my favorite stories, and I've shared it often on this broadcast, is something that Smith. Smith Wigglesworth said. Now, Smith Wigglesworth was an English preacher that was on the forefront in the first half of the 1900s. And one night he had fallen asleep, but he was awakened because he felt a tangible evil presence in the room. And when he woke up, he. He rolled over in his bed to see Satan sitting in manifested form on his bed. And I so love the response that Smith Wigglesworth gave. He said, oh, it's just you. And he rolled back over and went to sleep. He didn't get up and war against the devil. He didn't get up and fight the devil. He didn't even get. He didn't even resist the way most people think. A resist sounds like many times people think that if you're not, you know, screaming and hollering and sweating, that you're not resisting. And his resist was, oh, it's just you. What is that? He saw the devil as he was a defeated foe. He did not see him as something that could overcome him. And so I so love his response. Doesn't that sound like I'm not coming out of my place of rest just because you decided to show up and manifest yourself? He stayed in that position of rest because he knew something. When you know something, you don't struggle your way through a test. You rest your way through a test. And faith is what causes you to stay in that place of rest. So he turned to his disciples when they woke him up in the boat. And then he commanded. He spoke to the storm, not for him, but for them. And he spoke to the storm, and the winds and the seas obeyed him. Then he turned to the disciples. You know what he said to them? Where's your faith? In other words, why did you go back to find your response from the flesh when you should have been finding your response from faith? I remember some time years ago that I was overseas with my husband. This was in the mid-80s. And when I went overseas on that trip, there came such opposition against me. And I was only in my 20s, and I'd only been saved a couple of years at this time. And there was great opposition that came when we were on that, on that, on that, that traveling overseas. And I remember how troubled I was by that. And I was preaching a Sunday morning service while we were in that foreign nation. And right before I got up to preach, Jesus came walking up a side aisle of that church. And you say, did you see him? No, I knew it by the word of knowledge. That's how it will operate with me. You know, it operates differently with different ones, but it operated as a word of knowledge with me. Sometimes my husband would literally see him, but me, I just knew by word of knowledge, and I knew where he was. And he walked up the, the aisle to the platform, came up several steps. And I'm thinking to myself, okay, devil, you've had it. Because Jesus showed up and he going to deal with you. Because there was such opposition coming against me on that trip. And when Jesus walked up that, those steps to the platform, he came up to me and he said this, he said, where is your faith? And so he let me know that the opposition wasn't my problem. Me not using my faith was the problem. Now, I thought I was using my faith, but how many of you know if I was troubled, that's a sign I wasn't using my faith. Faith is not troubled. I was struggling. I was trying to get on the other side of that test, so to speak, but I wasn't doing it with the word of God. If I would have been using my faith rightly, I would have been at rest. And this is why Jesus rebuked the disciples. They were fearful when they had seen demonstrations after demonstration of Jesus faith, of how to deal with opposition. And when he said to those disciples, where is your faith? That indicates to us that if they would have used their faith, that they would have been in command too. It wasn't just Jesus who was to be in command at that time, but he expected them to be in command of that storm. That if they would have used their faith, it would have obeyed them just like it obeyed him. But know this, when you're in faith, you're in, in command. If we're not using our faith, things are commanding us around, but when we're in faith, we're in command of situations and they don't have their intended effect on us. I want to look at Ephesians chapter 6 in verse 16. And this passage is referring to the armor of God. You're probably quite familiar with it, but in this passage, Jesus, or Paul rather in his writing, he says this above all, taking the shield of faith wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Listen, the shield of faith is the spirit of faith. And I want you to know we don't just have moments of faith, we have a lifestyle of faith. There's a spirit of faith about us and it's a faith that doesn't come and go, but it's the spirit, it's the flow of our daily life when we live under that spirit of faith. A shield of faith is not just something in your heart, it's something in your hand. What's this mean? It's something you're using every day. And so you can't just say, well, I've got the spirit of faith. It won't do you any good until you use the spirit of faith. You have to speak by faith. You have to speak the word of God. And when it talks about the shield of faith, it get. We sometimes people may have the understanding, well, there's a fiery dart launched this way and you put up the shield of faith that direction and then the devil attacks over here and you put up that shield of faith and then you're just going, and you're deflecting all these fiery darts that are, that are trying to strike your life. But I would dare to say this that the shield of faith doesn't just protect one aspect of our life. The shield of faith is an encompassing shield that the more we speak faith, the more we have faith words, the more we act in faith, the more we feed our faith, the stronger that shield of faith becomes around us. It's not just something that, that we go like this when moving it from place to place when the enemy attacks, but it's something that is an all encompassing shield around our lives. And so we are to recognize that we have the faith of God in us and it will produce for us and it will con, it will create a barrier that the enemy cannot penetrate through. And as we feed our faith, that shield becomes stronger and stronger and stronger and we become more skillful in the exercise of the faith of God that's on the inside of us. Well, while I'm ministering, I can Recognize that the power of God is flowing. I can recognize that God is wanting to move by his power to meet your need. And I want to speak specifically to those who are having physical conditions right now. Something in your body, symptoms, pain, some kind of, maybe a diagnosis that you've just gotten from the doctor. I want you to know that by faith you can draw on the healing power of God that is yours in Christ. It's not about God getting God to send healing to us. We have in Christ who is inside of us, who is the greater one in us. He is the healer. The healer is in us. We're not trying to get God to send something down, but we're acknowledging that the healing power of God is in us because the healer is in us. So I say, Satan, you take your hands off their body in Jesus name. You take your hand off their lives. You take your hand off their homes, off their families, off their businesses in Jesus name. And you do not touch and violate God's property. Because we are in Christ and Christ is in us. And we have the shield of faith around our entire being. And you cannot overcome that shield of faith because greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world. And you just say, right now, I take my answer. I thank God that I'm whole right now. I have every need supplied in my life. Because greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. Well, remember this until next time. Jesus is the healer. And we'll see you next time. God bless you.
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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. 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.