← 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 to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. Thank you for taking the time to join us. And know this, that anytime we sow towards the Word, my goodness, it takes our lives and it sets it on course. And I don't know about you, I'm always wanting to make sure I'm fine tuning the steps in my life because I want to fulfill the plan of God. And I know you want to, too, because really, as Brother Copeland says often, he says, the will of God is our wealthy place. And he's not just talking about a financial wealth. He's talking about it enriches every single arena of our life. Remember what Jesus said. He said, my meat, or the thing that sustains me, the thing that nourishes my life, my meat, is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work. And I want you to know the will of God is that he brought us into oneness with Christ, that Jesus is in us, we are in Him. We are one with the Father. The Father is one with us, and our life is to reflect that. And there is to be such an abundant production of good fruit in our life because of who we are one with. You know, we are one with the Father. The Father is always doing something to bless people. I mean, God has never been inactive toward humanity. So that means that he's in us to perform through us. And that performance is going to show up as fruit. It's going to show up as good works. And one day we'll stand before God and we'll answer to him, whether or not we were cooperating with him in this flow of good works, because he's in us, we should be producing more than our life ever, ever produced us apart from Him. And not only that, the works that belong to us, they're eternal works, meaning this after we've long left this earth, the works that what we do for Jesus, it lasts forever. And so we are to be bearing fruit from our through our life because we are one with the Father. Amen. First of all, before we go any further, I want us to go back to our golden text, which we find in Colossians and chap. In verse nine. And I'm going to read out of the living Bible translation if I could so Colossians chapter 2, verse 9, the living Bible, it says this. For in Christ there is all of God in a human body. So know this, when Jesus took on flesh, he. He became man. And God filled this man with himself. And verse 10 says this. So you have everything when you have Christ. And you are filled with God through your union with Christ. He is the highest ruler with authority over every other power. So know this, every other power is a far lesser power. The power of lack, the power of sickness, disease, the power of failure, the power of fear. All of those are a far lesser power. And there is a greater power that is resident in us. So we are never to be ruled, dominant or pushed around by these lower flows because we have everything when we have Christ, then I want you to see something. I want us to go to Philippians chapter one, and I'm going to look at verse 11, Philippians chapter one and verse 11, Paul is writing and he says this being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ under the glory and praise of God. Look at this. Filled with the fruits of righteousness. What's he talking about? He's really just talking about our life should be full of good works because we're right with God, because we have access to the presence of God. Remember what we're told in Hebrews chapter 4, verse 16. Come boldly to the throne of grace, that you may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need. What do we see? That the throne is a place of obtaining. And we're told to come boldly there. How can we come boldly there? Because we are righteous. We've been made right with God. We have been made right with the throne. We're children of the throne. We belong to the throne. And the flow of the throne is to find its manifestation and demonstration through our lives. And so because we have access to the throne, we are to take advantage of that place for the benefit of humanity. We're to take advantage of that place. Yes, it's to benefit our own life, but it's to Go out and be a blessing to others who don't know what we've been taught, that they don't recognize what's in them. But know this. Jesus said, my Father in Me, he does the works. So he was saying that he was indwelt by His Father. Well, you're indwelt by the Father too. Jesus said, believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? So notice he made much of his oneness with the Father, but you're one with the Father. And that's why the miracles and the manifestations that came through Jesus earthly ministry are also to flow through us. And this is what Paul said in Philippians chapter 1, verse 11. He said, Being filled with the fruits of righteousness because we're right with God, there should be works, There should be the fruit of that rightness. And that's going to manifest as healings, miracles, wisdom of God. And know this. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, God will not condone us being less than full of good works he expects us to produce. And know this. I've said it in the previous episode, but it's this is that we're not saved by works, but once we're saved, works are everything. We're saved by Jesus works. But once we're saved, then we are to have our own works that flow from our oneness with the Father. I want you to go with me to Ephesians 2:10, and I want us to dive a little bit further this direction. Ephesians 2:10. The King James translation says, for we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Now I want to read it out of the Amplified Classic translation. It reads, for we are God's own handiwork. What's this mean? That God took us in his own hand. We are his handiwork, and we are of his workmanship. What? What did he work in us? The next phrase tells us we were recreated. Christ Jesus. Why did he do that? Then the next phrase tells us that we were born anew, that we may do those good works. So he's showing us that once we're recreated in Christ Jesus, once we come into this new life in Christ, we are to produce good works, and it's God's power doing it through us, that our life is to reflect that he is the one working in us and through us. Now He. It goes on again and it reads in the Amplified Classic translation, we were born anew, that we may do those good works which God predestined planned beforehand for us taking paths which he prepared ahead of time. Listen, in the paths that he prepared for us that he pre planned that there are certain works that are to flow out of our life and we will have to give an account. Are we producing those works that he planned for us to fulfill in this earth? Listen, it can really. People don't really realize many times that because we are one with Christ, it's not only a privilege, it's a responsibility that we carry. That there are to be a measure of works that is abundant in its measure and it's to bring glory and honor and praise to God. Now, now let's talk about, just for a moment, how should our life bear fruit that we are one with the Father? Well, we could say this. Our prayer life should show that, shouldn't it? That in our prayer life we should be taking others who don't know, that maybe they haven't been taught what we've been taught and we're employing our faith in their behalf that we're bearing fruit through our prayer life. We are taking them to the throne with us. Why? Because we have been made one with a throne that we can come boldly to the throne of grace. I so appreciate there. In Ephesians, excuse me, Hebrews 4:16, it says, come boldly to the throne of grace that you may obtain. The throne is a place of obtaining. And we are to never go through life not having our needs met when we have access to the place of obtaining. So he says, come boldly to the throne of grace. But notice he never tells us when to leave, that we can come and stay as long as we will come as often as we like. But we are to obtain. Well, what's that? What's that to be for? Yes, for our own lives, but for the benefit of others. So we are to bear fruit that when we come into the presence of God, we can bring the needs of others. We can bring others with us. I remember one testimony I so appreciate. Brother Hagin. For years he had what was called prayer and healing school there at his Bible school. And one of the. One of the instructors there was telling me years ago about something that had happened. There was a woman that was given up to die and the doctors had no further help for her. And she picked up and moved to attend the healing school there at Brother Hagin's Bible school. And one of the ministers there was talking to her after one of the classes. And she gave the testimony of why she was there. And she had been raised in a denominational church that she had never been taught about healing. So it was really a new message for her to sit in there and hear about the healing, that God was a healer. And so after class one day, one of the instructors sat down with her. And as she told her testimony, they recognized that she really didn't know how much to receive of that healing power. And so I so love what this one minister said to her. Said, you know, said, I know how to access the presence of God. I know how to get in the presence of God, and I know this. I don't have the answers for you, but I know how to take you to the place where the answers are. And said, let's go into his presence together because we can come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy. And how many of you know that healing is a flow of the mercy of God? And so this minister said to this woman, said, will you do what I. And she said, I will do that. And she said that. She just began right there, just worshiping God, praising God, thanking God for his presence, thanking God that they had access to his presence. And they just sat and worshiped God, worshiped God together. And this minister just. If I could say this, you know what I mean? When they got in the presence of God, listen, God's always present, but it's about us acknowledging that presence. It's about us yielding to that place and responding to the one who's always present in us. And so when they took time to worship, what happened is the anointing came into manifestation. And how many of you know, it's the anointing that destroys the yoke. And so this minister just sat and worshiped God with this woman, and they worshiped God together. It was a flow of worship that this woman who needed healing had never really tasted of. She had never seen that demonstrated. She had never partaken in that kind of flow of worship. But she just hooked on to this precious minister who was leading her in this time of worship. And they sat and they worshiped together. And in worshiping together, they did that for a period of time. And after that period of time, as I said, they really. They really stepped into a flow of the anointing, and that anointing came into manifestation. And after a period of time of worshiping God together, this minister looked to this woman and said, tell me, what was that like for you? And she said, all I know is all the pain is gone. What did she do? She was able, because she knew her out of her fellowship with the Father she knew how to bring others into that place of fellowship. Her walk with God bore fruit in this other woman's life. I want you to know through your prayer life you should be bearing fruit for the benefit of others because you have access to the Father. That's part of the privilege of us being one with the Father, that it's not only our life that receives, but we bring others into the flow of that receiving. And we will. It's kind of hard if I say it this way. It sounds a little harsh, but it's true. We will give an account for did we do that? But we will give an account. But I want you to know it'll be a joyful time of counting when we say yes. I used my faith and I used my prayer life to fruit in the. In someone else's life because I knew how to partake of fellowship with my Father. Listen, you know this, that all the miracles, all the healings that worked, that were worked through Jesus earthly ministry, that was an outflow of his fellowship with His Father. They were partaking of miracles because Jesus knew His Father. And I want you to know that your fellowship with God can bring miracles into the lives of others. And that's one of the things that God expects of us, that we are to be filled with the fruits of righteousness. And our prayer life should demonstrate that because we know how to access the Father and listen, we're learning more and more what it means to be one with the Father and that he's in us and we're in him and what that's going to manifest and what that's going to look like in our lives. So we are to bear fruit in so many ways because of our oneness with the Father. What about this? In what you're called to do, you know that every single child of God has a call on their life. And that doesn't mean a call for a pulpit ministry, but you're born for something. God has a plan for your life. And God expects that in that plan that you bear much fruit for Him. As I said, Jesus said, my meat, the thing that nourishes my life, the thing that sustains me, is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work. Well, Jesus finished what he was born for. But because he showed us how he did that, he did that from his place, the place of unbroken fellowship with His Father. And I want you to know there's a call on your life. There's a plan that God authored for your life. And as we read in Ephesians 2, verse 10, that we were born anew, that we may do those good works which God predestined and planned beforehand, taking paths which he prepared ahead of time. The Ephesians. That passage in Ephesians also goes on to say that we may walk in them. What? In those paths that are full of good works. Then it says this, living the good life which he prearranged and made ready for us to live. Do you know that the good life that he prearranged for you is a life that's full of good works? It's not just you benefiting in your own life, but it's you producing through your own life because you're allowing him to perform through you. And so that's the way to really live the good life. God did not author the hard life, he authored the good life. But contained in the good life is a path that's full of good works for us to fulfill. And we're going to have to give an account for that one day if we did that or not. What about this ministering to others? Well, let me go back to. Let me go back and let's not jump off that previous one too quick. God has a plan for your life. He authored that plan for you with him in mind, not just with you in mind, but he intends to fulfill that plan through you. And so no matter where you're at, no matter what occupation that God leads you into, that you are to fulfill the plan of God, the call of God, therefore. And in that there's going to be a flow and a manifestation of him manifesting through you. And it's going to affect not just your life, but others. And you know, it does matter what kind of testimony you are to your co workers, it does matter that in the profession that you're occupying, what kind of testimony you're bringing, and they God wants to be seen through your good works. And just know this, in the good works that you're to fulfill, part of that is the plan of God for your life. That doesn't just affect you, but it affects so many others also. We are one with the Father. And one thing that the Father did for us, he set us in the body as it pleased Him. Now notice this. You are a member of the body of Christ. If you're born again, you're a member of the body of Christ. And every member is to be a functioning member, not a disabled member. We are all to be functioning. And I've said this before, but it's so important for you to realize every Christian has two ministries, one in the local church and one outside the local church. What does that mean? That means outside the local church, out among the lost, we're to tell people about Jesus. That's something that we're all to do. But inside the body of Christ, what is our ministry? It's to serve and bring our supply to the body of Christ. And the way that's done is through being part of a local church. Every single one of us are to bear much fruit because of our oneness with the Father. And that fruit is to show up in the local church that we're serving somewhere and in some role in our local church. You know, people say, well, you know, I can love Jesus and not go to church. Well, you might love him and not go to church, but you can't, you can't bear fruit apart from being obedient to your role in the local church. And it is a matter of life and death that we bring our supply to the local church. Why is that? You'll remember in First Corinthians, chapter 11, Paul was talking about, he said, for this cause, for not discerning the Lord's body, many are weak, sickly, and many die prematurely. What's he talking about? He's talking about that we need to discern not only that Jesus bore our sickness and disease, but discern that we have a part in the body of Christ. And in our part in the body of Christ, we're to bear much fruit in that position. What's that mean? We need to be setting our hand to something. First of all, you've heard me preach much on the local church. It is so, so important because God has set you in the body as it pleased him. And we need to be pleased to be occupying our place, that he set us and to be functioning there. And that's going to. That's going to come to pass by serving in Sunwave in some capacity in a local church. God will lead you to a local church. He will lead you to a pastor to have oversight of your soul. And not only are you to receive of that place, you're to bring a supply to that place. You're to have good works in that place. And in that place, you're to find out what is the vision that God gave my pastor. You're not in the local church, so your vision can come to pass. You're in the local church so you can help the vision that God gave that pastor to come to pass. And when you're being a part of Fulfilling the vision that God gave your pastor, then the vision that God has put out on the inside of you for your own life can come to pass. But I want you to know part of the good works that we're to fulfill as members of the body of Christ is we're helping our pastor's vision to come to pass. You know, because our pastor feeds us the word of God, our faith is being fed as we sit under our pastor. And you know, our pastor has a right to partake of our faith. That means that we're to bring our faith to the vision that God has given that pastor. That's part of the good fruit that we're to bear. That's part of being full of the fruits of righteousness. I remember years ago. I've told this before, but it's so important, it demonstrates something when I'm talking about the fruit we're to bear in the local church and in the body of Christ. When I was in my. When I was 31, or I was 30 actually when I started pastoring the church here in Southern California, I was pastoring full time. My husband was in the full time traveling ministry. I was raising our children. I was administrating our offices. My days were full with ministry, you know, and I had been pastoring a couple of years and I had a dream one night. And in the dream, I saw myself laying in a casket. And when I woke up from that dream, I knew God was showing me something. Don't think that God was sentencing me to a premature death. He was showing me the direction you're going will end you in a premature death if you don't make some changes. Well, I knew that God was showing me that dream. But when I woke up from that dream, I said, God, I'm not sure where I'm missing it. And he spoke to me and he said, yes, you're doing your pastoring, you're administrating, you're assisting your husband in his traveling ministry. But there is a facet in prayer for your husband that is being left undone. And he said, you're not bringing your supply. And because of that, you're in disobedience. And disobedience opens the door to the devil. Now notice this. My life was full of ministry. I wasn't kicking against the plan of God. I wasn't purposefully carrying out my own plan. Instead of going God's direction, I was just leaving something out. And I want you to know that it's dangerous for us to leave something out of the plan of God. Because Ephesians 2:10 says that we were born anew to do those good works which God planned beforehand for us. There are good works that God has planned for you to fulfill. Part of the good works I was to fulfill was a role in prayer for my husband. Not to say I didn't pray, but I didn't go far enough in that role now as his wife. And we have prayer teams. You know, we have people at the church. We have prayer groups that pray. I could not turn my prayer responsibilities over to the prayer team. You want to know why I'm talking about for my husband? Because I was one with my husband. That means that I hold a place, my voice held a place in his life and ministry that no prayer team would hold because they weren't one with him the way I was one with him. And I want you to know, when you're married, you are one with your spouse. And there is a role, good works that only you can bring in that supply of prayer that no one else. You can't delegate that to someone else to pray for your spouse the same way. Because when I took my place in prayer for my husband, my husband immediately said. He said, I can tell the difference in my ministry. I can tell the difference in the amount of healings that we're getting, the revelation that's flowing because there is a supply that you're to bring to your local church. Now, notice I was busy with ministry, but I was leaving certain things undone. And God was showing me, if you don't fulfill those, that you're going to be in disobedience. And disobedience opens the door for the devil. And he was showing me. That's why he showed me that I would be dying prematurely. I saw myself in that casket. He didn't want me to end up that way. And so that's why I say our obedience to bear the fruit that God has assigned to us, It's a matter of life and death. Because any disobedience opens the door for the devil. But obedience to the plan of God and obedience to the will of God gives us the best life. So we can't live mindless about, well, I'm born again and I attend church. That's not enough. God has assigned and he has planned and predestined that there are good works that you're to fulfill and carry out because you're one with him. And he will empower you. He will flow through you and manifest through you to fulfill those good works. Yes, it's him doing the work. But it's our faith, our obedience, our faith of obedience that he is going to manifest through. And so just know this. We are co laborers with God and He has brought us into oneness with him so we could be filled with fruits of righteousness or good works out of our own rightness with God. So know this that gives us the best life when we obey everything we're born for and all we're called to. And so God filled you with Himself because He wants to manifest through you and he wants to, if I could say this, lay up a good number of good works to your account and then he turns around and blesses us for being vessels that he can flow through. Well, we're going to continue along this line. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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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 revelation. 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.