← 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. And we're going to continue in this series called In Christ I Can. And congratulations for those of you who have stuck it out maybe the whole year with us. We have been on this series coming up to an entire year. And listen, we could go a lifetime and never exhaust it of what belongs to us in Christ. So we invite you, go back and watch any episodes you may have missed. And throughout this series we've been announcing to you something that some resources that we're making available to you. Cause we want you to get them in your hands. This is something that you can get completely free by going to our website@jesusthehealer.org and you can go to the bookstore page and you can download what we have, a sampling or just a short list of the in him scriptures. And the reason we want you to do this is we want you to feed on these, meditate on them, speak them to yourself, find out who you are in him and who he is in you. Because really this is going to bring you into the highest order of faith. And so this is a smaller, a smaller listing of that, but we have a complete listing that you can also download. It looks like this in Him. You can download it. And we printed this one out. There's 120 pages in the complete listing. And the reason there's so many is a friend of this ministry. What he did, he, he researched 229 different Bible translations. He pulled the best of those translations and he compiled them for us. And then he said you can offer it to the viewers for free. So we appreciate him doing that. And so take advantage of that. But don't just download it to your device or simply print it out. Feed on it, meditate on it, make it part of Your devotional time, it will be a blessing to you because in this series In Christ, I can. There is so much that belongs to us. All that is in Christ belongs to us. So know this. Everything God planned for your life, everything God authored for your life, every provision, every resource that you would ever need in this life, God put it all in the treasure box called Christ. And then he put Christ in us and says, now just draw out of that wealth that's in you, in Him. And he's in you. You're in Him. And that means your resources, your supply, the help you need, the wisdom you need, everything you need is already given to you. It's about us discovering that and knowing how to cooperate with it and receive of it. Amen. And we've been using our golden text for this series is Colossians, chapter 2, verse 9, 9, 10. And it's the living Bible translation. It reads, for in Christ there is all of God in a human body. How many of you know that Jesus took on a human body to show you how he would move in the earth? That he wasn't just God moving in the earth. He was confined to a human body, just like us. And he had to be anointed because he had stripped himself of his mighty glory and virtue before he came to this earth. He did not come even though he was God. He did not move in the earth as God. He moved as a man anointed by the Spirit of God. And I want you to know you have been anointed. There is anointing that abides within you. And Jesus was the example of what the new creation in Christ life could produce. And so he lived this life as a human, as a man, anointed by the Spirit of God to show then you can produce the same thing that his life produced. So it says, for in Christ there is all of God in a human body, verse 10. So you have everything. When you have Christ, I don't care what you're going to face. You already have the answer for it. I don't care what need arises. The supply, the resources are already belonging to you. It's just us learning how to draw on it and acknowledge that all that we ever need is in us and draw on that talk about our supply. Talk about, in Christ is all the resources I need. In Christ is all the provision I need. In Christ is all the wisdom I need. So I'm going to spend that today. So again, verse 10 says this. So you have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled with God through your Union with Christ. Now listen. He says, you are filled with God through your union with Christ. So what has he withheld of himself from you? Nothing. Nothing. It's not about getting God to sin more. It's about you discovering the more that's already in you. And too many times people say, I just want more of Him. I just want more of Him. I want more of Him. What we really need to be saying is I need to discover that the more that he's already made mine. Because it's not about getting more of him, it's about acknowledging more the him that is in us, the greater one that's in us, and putting him to work through us. So it says, you are filled with God through your union with Christ. And he is the highest ruler and authority over every other power. I like what the King James translation says of verse 10. It says, you are complete in Him. Look at this. You are complete in Him. Everything that God authored for your life, he already completed. Now it's just waiting for your faith to show up and lay hold of it. Amen. Amen. In Christ belongs to you. Every answer, every resource, every provision, all the wisdom, all the revelation you need. Everything belongs to you in Christ. Now what we have to do is recognize that the faith of God that resides within every child of God also there's components to our faith. If I could say it this way. Faith receives, faith believes. But faith also knows how to hold fast and not let anything that it's received from God be stolen from it. God said to me years ago when I was facing a test, he said, if you're going to believe everything the devil tells you, he will steal from you. Everything I've ever blessed you with. Know this. The Bible tells us that we have to hold fast. Well, that lets us know there's an enemy out trying to trying to steal from us. Because in John, chapter 10, verse 10, Jesus made the statement, he said, the thief comes but for to steal, to kill and to destroy. But I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. Look at a few of these words in here. In John 10:10, Jesus said, the thief comes but for to steal, kill and destroy. He doesn't come but for anything else. That's it. That's the only thing. And he wants to steal the word from you. Because when he steals the word from you, he steals faith out of you. So he comes to steal, to kill and to destroy. He doesn't just come to make life weaker, he wants to progress. Notice that steal the Word first And then kill and then destroy. Notice the progression of this. That he wants to steal from us and he wants to kill. And he wants to completely destroy any legacy of faith that we had. Now. Then Jesus said, but I'm come. I am come. So notice it's not enough that the devil came. Jesus came. So we should not just be occupied with the devil coming against our life. We need to recognize Jesus has come. Amen. He says, I am come. Look at this. That they might have life. I like this phrase. I am come. That they might have. Look at this. Not that they might have not, but they. But they might have. And so notice this. God wants you having. It doesn't offend God when you have. It doesn't offend God when you have the desires of your heart met. It doesn't offend God when you have the home of your desire, when you have the job of your desire, it doesn't nothing of your having offends God. Because he came that you might have. Amen. Not that you might have barely enough, but that you might have what? That you might have life. And look at this. And that they might have it more abundantly. So he's talking about a measure of having an abundant measure of having an abundant life. Amen. And so just know this, your faith, what belongs to you in Christ, is not just having needs met, but it's having nothing stolen from you. And we have to learn how to hold fast so that nothing that God's ever blessed us with is stolen from us. Amen. So we were ministering in the previous episode and we were talking that faith has several actions. First of all, faith listens. You know, our spiritual father said to us one time, he said, you know, most people don't listen. Well, he said that after about 70 years of ministry. So he's got. He's got a. He had a record to work off of. And I decided I'm not going to be one of those lumped in that I won't listen, that I'm going to listen to God. I'm going to listen to the Word, I'm going to listen to the Holy Ghost. I'm going to listen to my pastor. I'm going to listen to those who know God better than me. I'm going to listen to those divine connections that God has put in my life, those precious people that God has put in my life to help me to know him better. And just know this. God will lead you to those who will lead you to Him. And if they just lead you to themselves, they're leading you to the wrong place. The people that God sends in your life will lead you to him, not to them. And so God will lead us to all these precious supplies in our life. But we still have to listen every day of our life. Choose. I'm going to be a listener today. I'm not going to be a know it all. I'm not going to act like I already know. So I don't listen. I was. I love the testimony and I'm not going to tell the names of the ministers, but let me just say this. Everyone in the Christian world would know the names of these ministers. They were generals in the body of Christ. And one day, these two men of God, they were meeting to have lunch together. One of them came and brought his administrator to lunch. The other general came and brought his financial man to lunch. Well, the first minister came with his administrator and they arrived early at the lunch, at the lunch location. So they were sitting and waiting for the other minister to show up. When the other minister showed up, the second minister, when he arrived, introduced, you know, himself to the administrator of the other minister. And then he introduced his financial man to, you know, to the others that were present there at the table. And the first minister that arrived looked at the second one and pointed right at that financial man and says, don't you know this man's going to hurt you? I mean, he had never met him. First time he ever saw him. He did not know him. He did not know it by any kind of natural knowledge. He knew it by the spirit. And this second minister turned immediately to that financial man and said, you're fired. What was that? This man had been in the ministry for 60 years, but yet when he heard God in the mouth of another man, he listened. He didn't. He just turned. Now, you know this. It must have borne witness with his, it bore witness with him or he would not have acted on that. But what I saw, he was a man who listened. No matter how long he had walked with God, he was a leader in the body of Christ, one of the most widely recognized men in the earth. And yet when he heard the answer of God in the mouth of another man of God, he listened. Don't be a know it all. Be someone who listens. Because if you're going to, if you're going to be one who matures in Christ, you have to listen to someone who knows God better than you. And do you know that God will keep us tender and sensitive by putting our answer in someone else's mouth? So that he teaches us to learn to honor one another, yield to one another. And I want you to know the answer for your life is going to be found first and foremost in the mouth of your pastor. But what if people think, well, I know as much as my pastor, you're not as anointed as your pastor to be pastor. The pastor over your life is more anointed to be pastor than any. Over you, over you than any other man. That's why you go to the local church where God assigns you and where God leads you, because he has anointed them in a particular way to speak into your life. So you never go to church with the idea of I know as much as they do you. You might even be older than your pastor. That means nothing to God because your pastor is pastoring you not because of age, but because of the anointing and the grace upon him to walk in that office. So never get this idea that you are equal or higher. We need to always be someone who listens. Faith is teachable. Faith, faith, person is teachable. That's what I mean by you listen. And this is what we see in a person who's going to have a robust faith. They are teachable. They listen. They're not, if I could say this, prideful to where they won't listen to someone else because it's pride that won't listen, but it's humility that will listen. It's humility that's teachable. Amen. So these are components to faith. And we're going to have to recognize that these components must be in place if we're going to have the faith that walks in who we are in Christ. Someone who is not teachable, someone who won't listen to others, will never fully enjoy all that belongs to them in Christ because they have to be someone that can be easily led. Now know this. The Word tells us, resist the devil and he will flee from you. And people will say that I resist you, devil, and you flee from me. But you got to back up. There's a phrase in front of that. It said, submit yourselves to God, then resist the devil and he'll flee. What's that mean? What's it mean to submit to God? Listen to him, be teachable, pay attention to what he's saying to you. Because if God is telling us to do something and we're not obeying him, we, we can resist the devil all day long. It's not going to work. Our authority only works when we're submitted to God. If we're in rebellion to what God's told us to do. If we're in rebellion to the plan of God going a different direction than what he's told us to do, and then we try to resist from that place of disobedience, our authority won't work to obey God. We have to submit to Him. Now you say, well, I'll submit to God. Then you have to submit to those God puts in your life. This word submission is a word of safety. It's not a word of lordship. It's a word. It's a word that means safety. And so when you're submitted to someone, it means you're easy to be led. You're willing to listen, and easy, easily led by those who know. And that doesn't mean you just listen to everybody. It means you listen to those who know God better than you. Amen. And recognize somebody knows God better than you. I know there are many who know God better than me. And my. My wisdom is to find them and listen to them. That's your wisdom? Find those who know God better than you. Find those. Recognize those that God has put in your life, and then listen. My husband used to say this. Find the pastor that God told you to be under, and then sit down and shut up. What's that mean? Well, that was my husband's way of saying it, you know, but he's saying, don't do all the talking. Don't be someone who wants to say what you know. You want to hear what they know. Be a listener, be teachable. Because when you're teachable, you avoid a lot of difficulties in your life. But if we think we know it all, then we end up having to learn the hard way. And God doesn't want us learning the hard way. How many of you know that? God teaches us not through hardship. God's way of teaching us is through His Word. But if people are bullheaded, if they don't listen, they end up having to learn the hard way. Now, we learn something when we go the hard route. But God doesn't want us going the hard route. That's true. His Word says, the way of the transgressor is hard. Jesus said, come unto me all ye that labor are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Learn of me. I'm meek, I'm lowly in heart. And he says this. My yoke is easy and my burden is light. His yoke is not hard. And if it's hard, if life is hard, we have veered from being under his yoke, we have transgressed from his way. The way of the transgressor is hard. So if life is hard, find out where am I transgressing the plan? Where am I transgressing faith? Where am I transgressing being a listener? Amen. And so the more we listen and the more tender hearted we are, then the more God can bring us into the understanding of all that he's already made ours. And then in Christ, we end up partaking more and more and more. And I've seen this. I've gotten to. I've had the privilege and the honor of being around a lot of generals in the body of Christ. And I want you to know they are the most teachable people I've ever gotten to be around. Because the more they. The more they see of light, the more they see that there is to know of light. And so they're ever teachable and ever hungry. That is such an attribute of faith. A characteristic of faith is that you're teachable, you're willing to be led, you're soft hearted, you're tender hearted, not hard hearted, not adamant and not unapproachable. But you're completely. You're so sensitive, you're soft, you're pliable. And you know it's a work to keep your spirit tender before God. Amen. To keep hardness from entering in. But it's so important if we're going to enjoy all that belongs to us in Christ, that we be soft hearted, that we be teachable. And people. You can't live your life guarded and think that you're going to really enjoy God's best because you'll end up guarding the people you need to be listening to. You'll guard against those people. And so when my spiritual father said most people don't listen, I thought, I'm not going to be in that category of the most. I refuse to be in that category. I choose to be a listener. Amen. Submit to God, resist the devil and then he'll flee. If you're resisting the devil and he's not fleeing in the sense of nothing's changing, things are not getting better. Go back and say, where have I missed listening? What has God been trying to teach me? What has God been trying to tell me? Bring myself into agreement with that. And then when I'm in obedience to what God is saying to me and how he's leading me, then when I resist the devil, it'll work. Because a submitted person can have authority and their authority will work. Amen and so it's so important that we realize that in the component of faith, a component of faith is that you listen, you're teachable. And then not only that, you're quick to believe. Listen, quick to believe. That means you're not skeptical when you hear the word preach. That if you hear and you recognize that's the word, that, that you quickly choose to believe it instead of, well, I'm going to go and I'm going to research it myself. Well, that's fine to research the word, but not because you're critical, but because you're hungry. To be accurate is completely right. You don't believe anything anybody says. It has to line up with the word. But when you hear the word, when you recognize, recognize it's the word, be quick to say that's the word. And I'm doing that. That's the word. And I'm acting on that. That's the word. And that's the way it's going to be in my life. Be quick to believe. Because believing is a choice. It's not a feeling. And so you believe by choice. I choose to believe that. Don't be hard to convince. Don't be hard to persuade. Faith is perfect, persuadable. When it hears the word. Amen. Amen. And so in the components of the components of faith, it's teachable, it's quick to believe. It chooses to be quick to believe and it receives. Amen. It receives that word into their heart. But not only that, faith releases. There's a release of that faith through what you say and, and through how you act. But not only that. Then there is the action that after your manifestation has come into place, you hold fast that it won't be stolen. But can I say this? Even when you take your stand of faith and your manifestation hasn't come, you still are holding fast in faith to the invisible, to the impossible. You still believe. And faith means this. You're going to go against what common sense will tell you. You're going to go against what the reasonings of the mind will tell you. Faith people will not let their mind cheat them out of what God says. Amen. Listen. Walk by what you see, walk by what you feel. Walk by by good sense, walk by common sense until what God says is different than that. For example, if you go to cross the street, you better not just rely on your faith, you better rely on what you see. Right? Right. Because in this world, you have to walk by good judgment. But if God says something, you need God to say. Something different to go past good judgment. Amen. For example, my husband and I, God spoke to us about selling our home. We put it on the market. It had not sold. But then we were out looking just for the second home. We were just making action, taking steps. And when we walked onto the property of a home that we were looking at, God said to my husband, buy this home. And my husband gave the right answer. He. He said to God, he said, I will when my other one sells. Meaning this. He did not want to be paying for two homes at once because we were already stretched with our faith in paying for that first home. And God said this. No, buy the second one now. Now, see, when God said, buy the second one now, meaning before the first one was sold, you don't do that unless God tells you to. But if God tells you to, you lay down what good judgment would say. You lay down common sense. You understand that faith, what God says, trumps every other thing that you know. Faith trumps your education. What God says trumps good sense. What God says trumps it all. And I want you to know, when you've heard from God, you're not on risky territory. You are on the same, safest territory. What would have been risky for us would not buy the home when God told us to. And because of that, our life, my life, stayed on course. And we stayed in the plan of God when we went against common sense. But listen, we didn't go against common sense until God said something. Because what God says is always higher than what you can figure out, what you can reason and what you can calculate. So it's fine to walk by good judgment until you hear God say something different. Amen. Well, there's so much to learn about this life of faith, but we're learning it because that's how we move with God. To receive all that he's made ours in Christ. Amen. 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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