← 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. And we're in the series called In Christ I Can. And on the previous episode, we were talking about something. We were quoting Galatians chapter three. Now, before actually, I quote that, I want to go back to our golden text that we've been referring to during this series, and it's Colossians 2, 9. And this is the living Bible translation. It says, for in Christ, there is all of God in a human body. So you have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled with God through your union with. With Christ. Look at that. We have everything. Do you know that we have wholeness, we have prosperity, we have victory, we have the wisdom of God, we have soundness. What about this? We have a sound mind. That's our inheritance in Christ. All these blessings that God has put in Christ, that He put Christ in us and us in Christ. And that's because he intended that we draw on the greater one within us as we live each day of our life, that we not just be living and trying to fulfill the plan of God apart from him, but dependent upon the greater one that's on the inside of us. Well, we started on the previous episode and we were looking at Galatians chapter 3 in verse 13. And the reason I want to look at this is since in Christ, wholeness belongs to us, provision belongs to us, supply belongs to us, victory belongs to us. Why is it that so many Christians are struggling with something less than the high flow of health, less than abundance? Why is that? Well, we're going to be taking some time and talking about that because we know this, in Christ, God's best belongs to us. And so Galatians 3, 13 tells us Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. Well, what is the Curse of the law? Well, under the old covenant that is spelled out, the curse of the law was separation from God or spiritual death. Number two, it was sickness. And disease was under the curse of the law. Also poverty and lack under the curse of the law. Well, we're redeemed from that. We're brought into union with the Father. We're brought into divine healing and divine health. We're brought into provision and prosperity. That's what belongs to us in Christ. So Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. How did he do it? Galatians says he was made a curse for us. He took our place in the curse. The penalty and the punishment that belonged to us, it fell upon him. He became, or he was made a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. And this is why he did it. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. So we are redeemed from the curse of the law. No Christian is under the curse or under a curse. Now, the unsaved world, they're still under the curse. Why? Is it because they haven't received Jesus as their savior, but when they receive Jesus, they receive freedom from the curse of the law. That's why the unsaved world has sickness, disease, poverty, all kinds of hardship, crisis, tragedy, tests and trials is because they're under the curse. But Christians aren't under the curse. We're redeemed. So why is it that Christians are facing some of the same difficulties that the unsaved world is experiencing? Well, it's a different reason for us. And Paul tells us what that is. In Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 27, he says this. Neither give place to the devil. Look at that. We're redeemed from the curse of the law. But that. But we can still disobey God. Or we can open the door to the devil through disobedience to the Word and by stepping out of the plan of God. There are things that we can do that open the door to the devil. Listen, the devil's just looking for an opportunity to gain entrance into our life. And we might look at our life and say, wait a minute, I've given place to him. But notice, the devil can't take a place. We have to give him a place. But if we gave him a place, we can take back the place we gave him. And I don't care how long we have given him a place in our life. If it's been a year, 10 years, 30 years. I don't care how long that we have opened the door to him and left it open to him. We can close that door because we have been given authority over him and that authority still belongs to us. So we're warned by Paul, don't give place to the devil. Why? Because that can open the door to have some of the same things that the world's experiencing. They're under a curse, but we're not. But we open the door to the enemy to attack us. And we don't want to live mindless about that. We want to understand, Listen, if there's an open door somewhere, I want to close it. Do you know that the Holy Ghost will help us to recognize where we have missed God or where we have failed to do the Word or where we have veered from the plan of God. He will show us. What we don't want to do is let the devil try to define where we missed it. Because the Devil, he's always trying to bring condemnation on us. And he will try to push you down. But when the Holy Ghost enlightens us, then we receive correction from the Lord. And the Word tells us whom the Lord loves. He corrects, thank God for a flow of the correction of God, because it's a flow of the love of God. And so we want to make sure we're not giving place to the enemy. We don't want to have the door open to the devil. He can't kick it open. He can't make it open. But if we're negligent, if we're not watchful, sometimes we can just open the door to the devil through not being watchful. But I want to look at something in First Corinthians, chapter 11. This is the passage we were talking about in the previous episode, and it's talking about communion. That Jesus body was broken so that ours could be whole. Jesus blood was shed so that we could be cleansed and freed and we could be brought into oneness with the Father. His blood purchased everything and activated the new covenant in our behalf. So when we receive communion with, we're acknowledging and we're reminding ourselves, wait a minute. We don't have to put up with sickness and disease in our body because his body was broken so ours could be whole. We don't have to put up with condemnation and guilt and shame and sin of the past because his blood has cleansed us. That's why we receive communion, to remind ourselves of the great price that Jesus paid for us and the great freedom he purchased for us. But we see this. I want us to look in verse, actually the end of verse 29 of First Corinthians, chapter 11. The last phrase says this not discerning the Lord's body for this cause. What cause? For not the cause of not discerning the Lord's body. Many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep. So when it says among you, he's talking about Christians, he's not talking about the unsaved world. He's saying there are many Christians that are weak, there are many Christians that are sickly, there are many Christians that are dying prematurely. Well, that doesn't need to be the cause. That doesn't need to be the case. But Paul is using this word for this cause. So he's letting us know that there's causes of why the enemy can even if I could say this can gain entrance against us, it's not because we're under a curse, but it's because we've opened the door to him somewhere. We gave God place to him. Well, we were looking at one of the primary causes and Paul lists in this passage the primary cause of why many Christians are weak, sickly and many die prematurely. It's because they're not discerning the Lord's body. And as we previously stated, that's a twofold application. Number one, the physical body. They're not discerning that Jesus took that his physical body was broken so that ours could be whole. If we don't discern that, then the devil will dupe us and he will hold sickness and disease on us by us not realizing that Jesus already paid the price for us to be free. But then there's the spiritual application that now just Jesus body, the body of Christ, the whole body of Christ, everyone that's a child of God is part of the body of Christ. And if we don't discern our part in the body of Christ for this cause, many are weak, sickly and many die prematurely. Listen, I pastored for 25 years and I've seen that not that there are some who don't, who don't seek to bring unity and blessing to the body. And when they cause difficulties in Jesus body, in a local church, in the body of Christ for this cause. That's why some many are weak, sickly and die prematurely. It is dangerous to do anything but blessed the body of Christ. We don't ever want to cause division, cause strife, cause injury to the body of Christ. Because Paul singles this out as a primary cause of why many Christians are suffering what about this just failing to bring our supply to the body of Christ. I was talking about in the previous episode how God showed me that I wasn't. There was an area that I wasn't bringing sufficient supply in. And it would have cost me my life if I didn't make that correction. Why? Because the body of Christ needs your supply. The body of Christ needs my supply. It's not appropriate for us to not bring our supply to the body that he has fit us into. The Bible says that God has set us in the body, in the body of Christ as it pleased him. If he set us in a certain position, we need to be pleased to fulfill, function there and bring a supply. You know, in 25 years of pastoring I taught our congregation, God has blessed you and he wants you to bring. To bless the body of Christ with your. With your. The graces upon your life, the abilities that God's given you, that this is a family and we're all to do our part in the family. Just think of a natural family that in a home and there's parents and there's children that those children all have a part to bring. Parents all have a part to bring. And it's never appropriate for someone who's part of the family not to bring their part because then others have to pick up and do the part that's being undone by a family member. And that's not appropriate. And it's not okay in a family. Well, even so, in the body of Christ, God's not okay if we don't bring our supply to the body of Christ. Listen, we're in Christ and Christ is in us. But we have a responsibility and a privilege to, to bring a supply to the body of Christ so that we can enjoy wholeness, so we can enjoy the blessings of God unhindered in our life. And so it matters to God that we're bringing our supply. That means you need to be part of a local church. I'm so grateful that people can watch this broadcast, but that's not part. That's not being part of the body of Christ. Whenever you watch someone on television or watch someone online or you listen to. To a recording or, you know, you listen on CD to some sermon, that's great. But that's a supplement to being the main diet of sitting under a pastor and being part of a local church. The Word tells us In Hebrews, chapter 10, verse 25, it says, Forsake not the assembling of ourselves together, which is that. And the Amplified says, which is the habit of some people, well, that's a bad habit. And we don't want to forsake the assembling of ourselves together. Because if we're not part of a local body of Christ, part of a local church, then how are we bringing blessing to the body of Christ as fully as we ought? You know, we might be witness. People will say, well, I witness to people on the job, yes, but that's not the body of Christ. The body of Christ gathers in the local church. We should all be bringing a supply to the body of Christ. And we can watch a church online. But you know what? We still need to be functioning in a local body. We need to bring our supply to a local church. And God will direct you to a pastor. God will direct you to a local church to be a part of. Because he expects us to bring our supply to where he tells us and leads us to be a part of. Amen. And so for this cause, that's why Paul says this. For this cause, not discerning the Lord's body, people not discerning their part in the body of Christ, people not bringing their supply to the body of Christ for this cause, many are sick, many are weak, sickly among you, and many sleep or many die prematurely. So again, Paul says there's causes why somebody is not living as fully blessed as what belongs to them in Christ, because we're sometimes needing to make some corrections. That's just one cause. But there are so many other things that could really be a way that the devil is able to gain entrance into our life. I want to list. There was an occasion years ago in our church. My husband was holding a miracle crusade one night. And when he was done preaching and ministering to the people, he turned to me and he said, you have something by the spirit of God. Well, I didn't know I had it, but I trusted his leading. And so I got up and I just took the microphone. And when I took the microphone, God spoke to me. And he said, there's three primary ways that believers open the door to sickness and disease. Now see, we're redeemed from the curse of the law. And in Christ, wholeness belongs to us. But remember what Paul said in Ephesians 4, verse 27, neither give place to the devil. So God listed for us that night three primary ways that people will open the door to sickness and disease on their life. And number one, that he said, he said, when they lose their peace or when they step outside of peace, well, how do we lose our peace? By yielding to worry, yielding to fear, yielding to doubt. I want you to know that really worry is the offspring of fear. It's a flow of fear. If we accept fear, or we cooperate with fear, or we act in line with fear, we just stepped outside of peace. And when we step outside of peace, then we're not living under the blessing of God as God intended. In Christ, peace belongs to us. You remember the woman with the issue of blood? She came to Jesus, she touched the hem of his garment, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. Jesus recognized that power flowed out of him, and he stopped that whole scene. And he said, who touched me? Of course, the disciples said, well, there's a multitude thronging you, and you say, who touched me? Now it sounded like a general question, but to the woman who received the power, it sounded very specific to her. No one else stepped up who had touched him, but she stepped up and she told him all the truth. So she told him the history. She told him what she had received of him. And then after he heard her testimony, he turned to her. And this is what the King James said. He said, go in peace and be whole of thy plague. But the Amplified says that he said, go into peace and be continually healed of your disease. What's that mean? He was telling her that if she was going to stay in a flow of healing, she was going to have to stay in a flow of peace. I want you to know, in Christ, healing belongs to us. In Christ, peace belongs to us. But if we step out of peace, if we yield to a flow different than peace, for this cause, many were weak, sickly, and many can die prematurely. When they step outside of peace and they yield to fear, then the devil will try to put sickness and disease on them. So what do we do? We are doers of the Word and we guard our peace. Because in Christ, peace belongs to us and we don't let the devil steal our peace. I have to wonder about this woman who was healed of this issue of blood. Is that what opened the door to that to begin with? Because Jesus was encouraging her on the way out. Not just encouraging her, but instructing her, go into peace and be continually healed. Meaning her healing was connected to her peace. And did she? Did she leave peace? Did she open the door to this by getting into worry, by getting into fear? You know, if we worry about our bodies, if we get into fear over our bodies, that. That will open the door to the devil. And we don't want to give place to him because wholeness belongs to us in Christ. But if we've opened the door through fear, do we see that that can happen? That's what exactly happened with Job. He was afraid that his family would live in a way that wouldn't be honoring to God. And every day he offered up sacrifice because he was afraid of losing his family. And that's exactly what happened. He wasn't offering that sacrifice to God in faith. He was offering it in fear. Do you know that people can quote scripture in fear and not in faith? They can. They can pray in fear and not in faith. We don't want to do anything with fear because that is the flow of the enemy. And when we yield to fear, we gave place to the enemy. But if we gave place to him, we can take back the place we gave to him. We can close the door to that fear. So know this, that there is a cause of why some have not been enjoying God's best. And it's if they step outside of peace. You know, in 2011, the spirit of God said to me one day, he said, all I want you doing is practicing peace. I didn't realize that he was really giving my. Giving me my prescription for my victory in the future because I did exactly what he said. Practicing peace. How did I practice peace? Any thought that did not lead me to peace, I cast it down. Any thought that would trouble me or take my peace or lead me out of joy, I cast that thought down. I refused to accept it. And so for two years, I guarded my thought life. I had always guarded it before, but I paid strict attention. And I found myself in such a place of peace that I didn't even know it really existed. To that degree, the greater degree of peace, my peace grew. And after two years later, that's when my children came to the house and said, mom, Dad's plane went down today, and I had already established the flow of peace. But I knew this. If I'm going to step outside of peace and I'm going to yield to grief and sorrow and get under the spirit of that, I knew that the devil would have an opening into my life and into our ministry. And that's what he intended. He intended to shut down this ministry. He intended to dismantle our future. But because we had the help of the Holy Ghost, and by being a doer of the word, we protected our peace. And by protecting our peace, we protected our future. I want you to know that God intends for you to experience peace every day of your life. It belongs to you. It's part of Our inheritance in Christ. And people say, well, you know, when I, when I get into grief and sorrow over a loved one, that's, that's, that's lost or, you know, that's gone to heaven, or maybe. What about this? Just losing a home or maybe a marriage that fell apart or any other thing that could bring grief and sorrow. I want you to know we don't honor anyone we love by grieving for them. What is that? Jesus? It says in Isaiah that he redeemed us from grief and sorrow. He delivered us from it. It took the Godhead to deal with grief and sorrow because it is so destructive. How do, how did I honor my husband? Not by getting under a flow of the enemy. That would take something out of my life, the grieving and the sorrowfulness. That doesn't mean I didn't weep. I mean, but I didn't get into a flow or under a spirit of sorrow. I didn't let that rob from me my future. What did I do? I protected my peace. I refused to get out of the flow of peace, to go to the low flow of grief and sorrow. And I want you to know there's other situations and circumstances in life that can cause grief and sorrow, but we resist that because as we protect our peace, we. We are partaking of who we are in Christ. Because in Christ, our peace belongs to us. Another thing that God said to us that night when he spoke in that service and said there's three primary ways that believers open the door to the devil. Number one, through the loss of peace. Number two, he said, through veering from my plan for their life, God said to me years ago, he said, make my people to know that long life is connected to my plan. Sometimes people are just trying to. They're just living any old way they want and think that it's going to arrive them at the best. But I want you to know the plan of God, the blessing of God, is where your life is going to be enriched and that you're fulfilling what you're born for. So to veer from the plan of God is to veer from God's best. And so God said, make my people to know that long life is connected to my plan. So it matters that we stay with the plan of God, because really, that's where every single need of our life experiences. God's best. And so then God said to me that night, there were three things that opened the door to the enemy to sickness and disease upon us. Number one, the loss of peace. Number two, veering from the plan of God. But then the third one he said to me was this through the lack of gratitude. Listen to that. That one surprised me. I didn't really recognize how important that was to keeping the door to the enemy closed on our life. Is gratitude. What we're not grateful for, the enemy will steal from us. If we show lack of gratitude, the devil knows then we are easy prey that he can rob from us. There is a passage, a scripture in Deuteronomy, chapter 28:47 and verse 48 and the Amplified classic says this because you were not grateful for the abundance of blessings, therefore you shall serve your enemies. My goodness, when we're not grateful, the enemy is able to steal from us what we're not grateful for. I want you to know anything God's blessed you with, if you'll be grateful for it. Father, thank you for my home, thank you for my family, thank you for my marriage, thank you for my job. Thank you for my local church, thank you for my pastor. Thank you for the word of God. Thank you for the blessings of God. If we are grateful for these things and we hold the gratitude in our words and in our mouth, then the devil can't steal that from us. Because as a flow of gratitude is a flow of faith. And I want you to know, faith is grateful. Faith is always praising and thanking God for all that he's blessed us with. And when we're grateful for what God's blessed us with, we're safeguarding the blessings of God in our life. Amen. Well, those three things that God spoke to us that night, that is a cause of why many Christians are dealing with sickness and disease in their body is number one, through the loss of peace, number two, veering from the plan of God and number three, lack of gratitude. But can I say this? All three of those are so fixable, if we just correct our course and we become doers of the word, we can keep the door closed to the enemy and enjoy God's best in our life. Well, you don't want to miss 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 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. He has made his power ours. Order this book now@DefrainMinistries.org come join us for our annual Prayer Conference here at World Harvest church in Marietta, California from April 14th through the 16th, 2026. For more information and to register for in person attendance, please visit our website at defrain Ministries. 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 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.
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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. Thank you Lord. It's so easy to have your life changed today and that is that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. So right now pray it with me. Say Jesus, I receive you as the Lord and the Savior of my life. Thank you for giving me a brand new start and I'll live for you all the days of my life. Amen.
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