← 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. The soles of my feet. Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. And we invite you get a Bible or something to take notes on as well and follow along with us and take notes on anything that God would say to you because we're expecting that you're going to receive answers for your life. We're in a series called In Christ, I can and I want you to know. Everything of God's best belongs to us because we're in Christ. And God intends that we live this life drawing on the greater One, who's on the inside of us, because he has authored a great plan for our life. But he didn't intend for us to try to fulfill that apart from Him. But he filled up with Himself because He intends to fulfill that plan through us. But we have to have a part in that. And that part is our faith and our obedience to God. Well, in Christ, you know, that provision belongs to us. In Christ, the wisdom of God belongs to us. In Christ, peace belongs to us. In Christ, wholeness belongs to us. And if we need healing, healing belongs to us. Well, God has provided these things for us so that we can enjoy his best. But you know, we won't float into God's best. We have to become a partaker of all that he's made ours in Christ. And in that partaking of what he's made ours, we also have to make certain that we're not opening the door to the enemy in any way. Because what does John 10:10 say? Jesus was speaking, and he said the thief comes not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy. But I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. So what is the devil looking to do? He's looking to steal the word out of you. He's looking to steal God's best out of your life. He's looking to do damage and do lasting harm to us. But the devil can't do anything he wants to us anytime he wants because we're redeemed from him. We have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness, translated into the kingdom of his dear son. And we belong to God and we are in oneness with the Father. We're in union with him. But the devil is always looking for us to not be watchful, not let down our guard, because we're warned that we are to be watchful. Because the devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Notice it doesn't say that he walks about devouring. He walks about seeking whom he may devour. Because he can't devour just anyone. He's looking for someone who's not being watchful. He's looking for someone who has let their guard down. He's looking for someone who has veered off of God's word because God's word is our shield. God's word protects us. God's word keeps us safe as we're doers of that word. And so our safety is in being a doer of the word. And so we want to make sure that we're not giving the devil an opportunity to rob from us. Well, In Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 27, Paul warns us. He says, neither give place to the devil. Listen, we're redeemed from the curse of the law absolutely. There is no curse on the life of the believer. But we can certainly give place to the devil. We can open the door to him, but we're warned. Don't do that. But know this. The devil can't just take a place in us. But we have to give him a place. But if we've given him a place, we can take back the place we gave him. In the previous episodes, we were talking about some of the ways that we can open the door to the devil and not enjoy the best that God has made ours. Well, the Word tells us this. That whom the Lord loves, he corrects. So, like you, I want to receive the correction of God because it's a flow of the love of God. And when I make corrections, I stay in a place of safety. And if we see that something needs to be corrected, something in our course needs to be adjusted, we want to make that correction because that is our safe place, is to make sure we're in line with the word of God. For time's sake, we certainly can't go back and repeat the things that we've discussed in the previous episodes. But I want to just keep going and address some of the things that are causes or ways that we open the door to the enemy. Well, like I said in Christ, God's best belongs to us. Let's not lay down any of God's best. Let's not open the door to the devil. I want us to see something that we can find in Proverbs 5, 8, the Amplified classic. And just the last phrase of that verse says this. Avoid the very scenes of temptation. Do you know that if we go to wrong places, wrong things can happen to us? And people will say, well, I don't know why this happened to me or that happened to me. Make sure you're in the right place, because you're not going to receive God's best being where you ought not to be. Can I tell you another thing that opens the door to the enemy is being in wrong fellowship in the wrong place. We're going to find wrong fellowship. And fellowship is so important to our lives because those that we surround ourselves with, those that we allow to speak into our life, they're imparting something to us, whether it's good or whether it's bad. So make certain that you are surrounding yourself with those who are imparting something good, something of God's best into your life. Don't be around those who take something out of you, who take faith out of you. Guard your fellowship. It's so important for us to enjoy who we are in Christ and partake of those privileges that we guard our fellowship. We love all people, but that doesn't mean we fellowship with all people and let them speak into our lives and speak into our ears, things that are going to take us off course. Well, that means we're going to have to guard the places we go to. You know, when God deals with us about not going to a certain location, he's trying to protect us. And if we continue to go to where we shouldn't be, then we are giving the devil an opportunity to hinder and affect our life in a wrong way. And there's just a blessing to be around the right place. You know, the thing that with my husband and I, we have the two sons, and what we did, we kept them around the local church because that's the place where they're going to be around people who honor what they honor, love what we love. We love God, we love the word of God. And we kept our children around that. And we paid attention. We paid attention who our children were with. We Paid attention who we led in our home and, and we were careful. If they weren't going to add to the home, we didn't bring them into the home. We were very careful about who we let close to our lives. We love all people, but we know not everyone is to be the right fellowship for us. So we have to guard that if we want to experience God's best. Because if we allow wrong things in, wrong people in wrong fellowship, wrong locations, in that it will affect how we receive of what God has for us. Another thing that we need to make sure that we have in place in our life is listening. That we listen to God, that we listen to those that God puts in our life. Men of faith, people who have a strong faith are people who listen to someone who knows God better than them. If we are somebody who you can't tell, you know, you can't tell them anything. If somebody tries to correct and they get, they get offended, they put up a wall, they're going to have unnecessary difficulties that they face in life. But if we'll listen to those who know God better than us and we allow them to be a corrective voice in our life, then it's going to spare us a lot of hardship and a lot of difficulty. How many times that I have learned so much of what, what is right to do and what is safe just by listening to someone. You know, we always want to be teachable because when we're teachable, God can bring us further and he can bring us into more. But if we think that we already know it and we won't listen to people, we're going to have some great difficulties in life. And people of faith are those who will listen. If we look at, I want us to look at Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 7. And this is the amplified classic translation. It reads this way, prompted by faith. Noah being warned by God concerning events of which as yet there was no visible sign, he took heed. What's that mean? He listened. And diligently and reverently constructed and prepared an ark for the deliverance of his family. Notice this. When God warned him and gave him direction about his future, he listened to him. And because he listened and he prepared a place that kept him and his family safe when everyone else faced ruin, he listened. And so because he listened, God was able to deliver him. God was able to keep him safe. If we'll listen to the Word, if we'll listen to those that God has put in our lives to instruct and teach us, we then God is Able to keep us safe and through just being teachable, listening to someone. It matters that we listen to someone who knows God better than us. Another thing that would get in the way of us experiencing God's best in our life, because in Christ, God's best belongs to our life, is this thing of not putting away sin. Listen, if you're born again, sin has no more dominion over you. Sin can't push you around. The devil cannot make you sin. Because Jesus defeated the devil. And he also told us in Romans. It talks about In Romans, chapter 8, that sin shall not lord it over you. Sin has no more dominion over you. That when the temptation to sin comes, you can say, I'm not doing that anymore. That's not me anymore in Christ. I am not that anymore. And I will not participate in that. And I won't go to that place and I won't do that.
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Because sin cannot force you into something that is against who you are in Christ. And so we are authorized to set aside sin so that we don't continue in a lifestyle that would be damaging. When I look at the passage, I'm reminded of the man at the pool of Bethesda. And you'll remember that there were five porches full of sick people that were around this pool of Bethesda. And God had put in place that there would be an angel that would come at an undetermined time. And that angel would deposit a measure of healing power into that water. And they would see the stirring of the water. They knew that there was being deposited by an angel, a measure of healing power. And the first one in received healing well. Was God trying to leave out the others? No, he was trying to provoked faith in the people. That the people would say, if God will heal them and that power will work to raise them up, God will heal me. He was trying to provoke faith in those who saw it. But what happened? Many times they just wanted to be the first one in. And then if they weren't, they just laid there waiting for the next time for the angel to come. But Jesus walked up to that location and there was a lame man there. And he had been there for a long time in lame. And Jesus said to him, wilt thou be made whole? Do you want to be whole? Will you receive healing? And the man said immediately, he said, well, when the water is stirred, he said, someone gets in in front of me. There's no one that puts me in first. Someone else always gets in front of me first. And Jesus just said to him, take up your Bed and walk. And he did that. And the man was made whole. So he walked away from that scene completely whole. Later in that day, Jesus was in the synagogue. And you know who he found in the synagogue? That man who was raised up from his crippled bed. And so Jesus found him later in the synagogue and he said something more to him. He said, go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come on. You notice this. He was telling him that you are now healed, you are now whole. Don't go and practice a lifestyle of sin, because if you do, that opens the door to the devil and he'll steal from you the blessing you've received. I know this, that the devil is looking to steal from us everything that God has blessed us with. It's up to us to stay on the territory of obedience so that the devil can't steal it from us. And when, you know there are times that we may miss God, we may do it wrong, say it wrong, but if we'll repent, we get back onto safe territory. I tell you, repentance is rewarded by God. That the Word tells us in First John 1:9 that if we confess our sin, and he's talking to Christians there, if we confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What's that mean? He puts it back as though we never missed it. So there may be times that we miss it. And we know that we can always receive forgiveness and cleansing for that. But if someone is knowingly going to just keep persisting in a lifestyle of sin, then the devil's going to take advantage of them. And although God's best belongs to them in Christ they will be hindered from receiving it because sin will rob from them. So I say this always. We are to judge ourselves, to make sure that we're living in line with the Word so that the devil has no open access to steal God's best from us. The Word tells us that if we won't judge ourselves, that we'll have to be judged. Well, I'm going to correct myself. What's that mean? When we have opportunity to correct ourselves, let's correct ourself so that the enemy doesn't have access to us. Another thing that will keep us from enjoying our benefits and blessings in Christ is to fail to renew our minds. Listen, we need to renew our minds with the Word of God. Romans chapter 12 in verse 2 says this. Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove or discern what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Listen. To know the will of God for our life, we have to renew our minds. What does it mean to renew our minds? It means to take on God's way of thinking. When we feed on the Word of God and we see what God is saying to us through His Word, we're to come into agreement with that. If he calls something wrong, we call it wrong. If he commands us to do something, we delight to obey Him. And when we come in line with God's way of thinking, even if it comes, even if it goes against the way you were raised or the way you thought, a renewed mind means, I see that this is the way God thinks about it. So I'm going to lay down the way I think about it and I'm going to pick up God's way of thinking. That's part of the process of renewing the mind. We choose to agree with God and not just hold to the way we always thought. If we will come into God's way of thinking, we will always experience God's best. We'll always be able to keep the door closed to the enemy. But when people don't come into agreement with how God thinks and they argue against the Word of God, argue against the will of God, and then it becomes a difficulty and a hardship in their own life. So we're to find out what God's Word says, agree with it, and then act on it in our daily life. Can I tell you this? Renewing of the mind doesn't just happen just because we know what God says. Renewing of the mind doesn't happen just because we mentally agree with God. Renewing of the mind happens when we're doing the Word and every single day when God is showing us something in His Word and we say, I'm going to live by that, and I'm going to put that in my daily lifestyle. That's the renewing of the mind when it shows up in our daily lifestyle and in our actions. Hosea, chapter four and verse six says this. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Notice he didn't say the Devil's people. He said, my people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. That if we'll feed on the Word and renew our minds with the Word of God, we will run ignorance out. The Devil is counting on our ignorance to work his plan. And so when we bring our thinking into line with what God says, if God says it's that way, that's the way it is. And we agree with that from the inside out. We hold to the way God says it, because God is always right. And so, as we renew our minds, can I tell you what happens? We come into a flow of greater peace. That life becomes a greater, greater joy, a greater peace. Because the devil is always trying to come against the mind with troubling thoughts. But as we bring our thinking in agreement with God's thinking, we recognize when the enemy is bringing thoughts that are. That are counter to what God says. And we resist those and we protect our mind. Because I tell you what, we never can get away with our mind. So we, or we never can get away from it. And so we might as well have a mind we can live with instead of a mind, a troubled mind that we can't live with. Do you know that in Christ a sound mind belongs to you? So how do we have a sound mind? We feed the word of God into our spirits and into our thoughts, and we agree with God's word. The Bible says that when we come into agreement with God's word, when we take on God's way of thinking, that that's when our lives are transformed. Have you ever seen a believer that they got saved? They can point back to the day they received Jesus, but they never developed, they never spiritually grew up, they never fed on the Word, and they never changed the way they thought. And because they never changed the way they thought, their life still looked like it did before they were saved. Although they're on their way to heaven. You know, that's exactly what happened to the Hebrews. God delivered them out of Egypt, but what happened? He brought them out with all the prosperity they needed. He brought them out with the wealth, the silver and gold of Egypt. And he brought them out where there was not one feeble one among them. But they never ended up arriving in the promised land. The reason was they never changed the way they thought. They always had and held to the slave mentality. They complained, they murmured against God, they murmured against their leadership. Complaining is a sign of the lack of faith. I would say this. Run all complaint out of your life, because faith has no complaint in its mouth. And it was because they did not come into agreement with God's way of thinking. They didn't believe what he said. When God told them, I have given you a land. It flows with milk and honey, they spoke against the land, they complained against the land, they complained against their journey to the land. They continually complained.
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And because they continually complained, they never arrived at God's best I don't want to have all that Christ belong, all in Christ that belongs to me and me not enjoy it. Well, it's the renewed mind that's going to enjoy fully what God has provided for us in Christ. So if we're going to experience God's best as one in Christ, we must renew our minds with the Word of God. And this is our lifelong profession. I love something that our spiritual father would often say when he was preaching. He said, the mind doesn't stay renewed any more than the hair stays combed. Just like every day you get up and you put your hair back in place. Every day we have to make sure that we're thinking in line with the Word of God, paying attention to our thoughts, thought, life. Because the devil is. That's his place of entrance. He's always trying to gain entrance into our life through wrong thinking. Can I tell you this? That right thinking opens the door to God, wrong thinking opens the door to the devil. But if we will put a renewed mind in place, if we'll take on the thoughts of God, it's so easy to keep the door closed to the devil when we think right. But if we're going to think wrong and think differently than the Word, then it's going to give him an entrance and a place, a place of entrance into our life. So we, we are keeping our lives safe when we renew our minds with the Word of God. I tell you, this is, as I said, this is our lifelong profession. I would say that there's two things that every believer must do to experience all that belongs to them in Christ. Number one, develop our spirit. And number two, renew our minds with the Word of God. Amen. It's such an honor and it's such a privilege to have a mind that comes into agreement with God. But we won't float into that. We have to feed our, feed ourselves on the Word of God. Because I would say this, the Word of God is food for our spirit. But it's not only food for our spirit, it's food for our mind. Our spirits need God's Word, but our mind needs God's Word. And if we're going to live as rich as we are in Christ, we're going to have to make sure we're thinking in line with the Word of God. Because how we think is how we believe. And how we believe is how we speak. And how we speak is what's going to manifest in our life, whether it's good or bad. So we want to make sure we're taking on the thoughts of God. God said, my thoughts are higher than your thoughts. My ways are higher than your ways. He's not trying to belittle us and say, look how low your thinking and your ways are. No, he invites us, come up to my thoughts. My thoughts are higher. And you don't have to stay in a lower flow. My ways are higher. You don't have to stay in lower ways. And in Christ, his thoughts and his ways belong to us. And so, as we renew our minds with the word of God, we come into God's way of thinking. Listen, God offers us his thoughts. Let's take them. Amen. Well, before we. Before we end today's episode, I want to take a moment, just pray for you. I'm so grateful that you're watching, but I want to just pray for you, for the blessing of God that will manifest in your life, and that God would help us to see more clearly how to cooperate with him more fully. So, Father, I thank you for my brother and sister in Christ. And I thank you that the blessings of God belong to them. And I release my faith with them for all their needs to be supplied. I thank you, Father, that you supply all our need according to your riches in glory by Christ Jesus. And I say, Satan, you take your hands off my brother and sister in Christ. We're not your property. And we refuse to allow you to rule and reign over us because we have been redeemed from the kingdom of darkness. We have been transferred, translated out of that kingdom. And we belong to God's kingdom now. And so we receive of God's best in our life. And everybody said, amen. Well, we're able to come to you for one reason, and that is because of the generosity of Kenneth Copeland and. And Kenneth Copeland Ministries. He has made the choice and made the decision that all the programmers that are on this network are gifted the airtime because Kenneth Copeland Ministry Partners, they pay for all this airtime. And so if you're not a partner already with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, I ask you to go to their website@kcm.org and you can sign up to become a partner there today. 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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Jesus Called Healing the Children's Bread Nancy Dufresne's book Daily Healing Bread From God's Teaching Table contains daily portions of healing bread for you to feast on and meditate on in your thought life throughout the day. Order this book now@DefrainMinistries.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, Marietta, 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 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.