← 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 you're joining us today for Jesus the Healer. And it is our complete honor to continue along the line of a series that we've been teaching on for about a year now called In Christ I Can. And how many of you know, the plan of God is so great for your life that it takes God to bring it to pass. And so as we learn to yield to him and cooperate with him, then he can manifest through us and fulfill through us the greatness of his plan. And I want you to know, when he's able to get his way, it gives us the best life. And because we are in Christ and Christ is in us, we have been made so rich. I love what one minister said years ago I heard him talking about, and he's in a foreign country, different than America, and his ministry is so large and has had such an impact in his nation. And there was some group that had that would study different ministers and study their worth. And they had kind of done a financial portfolio on this minister to see what he was worth and what his ministry was worth. And they publicized that amount that they had arrived at. Whether it was correct or not, who knows? But they were telling him, and they were publicizing that he was worth a certain amount of money. And I love his response because it was millions and millions of dollars that they said he was worth. And when they told him about it, he said, you insult me to reduce my wealth down to a certain currency amount. And he said, my we is all the riches in Christ. And so if we're not careful, we will dumb down what belongs to us, just in natural terms. Because when we have everything, we have Christ, and when we have Christ, we have everything, because everything we need is in him, and he's in us, and we are in Him. And it was all God's plan. And that's the wonderful thing of it. Yes, it's for our great benefit. But we didn't even have to come up with it and ask God to do it for us. He did it for us. He loved us before we loved Him. And in his great love for us, he brought us into union with Himself through Jesus, His Son. And know this. This is the greatest thing that belongs to us, that we are one with the Father. And that's what God longed for. He longed to have a family. And Jesus. Jesus made it very clear throughout his earthly ministry he said, my Father in me, He. He does the works. So he always pointed. It was. It was His Father in Him that caused him to walk in the success and the miracles and the power that flowed through his life. But he said this. He said, do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? And he said, in the works that I do, it is. It is the Father in Me doing them. And so know this.
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Jesus, drew on his oneness with the Father. His union with the Father was the fountain for every good thing that was worked through his ministry. Well, you're in that same union. You are one with the Father. And the Father wants to produce through you, flow through you, manifest through you. Because all things belong to you, because you belong to Him. And so what this. The devil would love to keep this truth hidden, but it's too late. We're finding out what the Word says because we are learning who we are in Christ. And not only that, who he is in us. And the way that we are able to be. The channels that he longs to manifest through is by us responding to him, us being obedient to Him. That when we acknowledge him, when we respond to him, and when we're obedient to him, then he can flow through us and manifest through us. Because we are one with Him. We also have the very faith of God in our spirit. God did not even tell us to go out and conjure up our own faith. He gave us the measure of his own faith. We have God's own faith on the inside of us. And it's up to us to use that faith and draw on that faith to move with Him. Listen, you can only. We can only move with God by faith. And so it takes his faith to move with Him. Human faith can't move and keep pace with God, but divine faith can. The faith of God can move with God and keep pace. And that's the faith that's on the inside of Us. One of the things, one of the characteristics that is so, or we could say qualities that belongs to this faith that's in us, this God kind of faith, is that we know how to hold fast. This is what we've been ministering on in the past few episodes and that is holding fast to that which belongs to us in Christ. What God has made ours in Christ, it is our present possession, but it's up to us to partake of it. And know this, that the devil is always busy trying to steal from us everything God has ever blessed us with. So how do we keep what God's blessed us with from being stolen? We hold fast. That means we hold hard to it. And sometimes people will get this idea that if God gave it to me, I'll never lose it. Well, it's, you have to remember there's a thief out there. And In John, chapter 10, verse 10, Jesus exposed him. He said, the thief cometh not but for to steal, to kill and to destroy. So see the progression of that. To steal the word and then kill and then destroy. To make it as though that there was never any flow of victory about it wanting to destroy it all. Well, we stop him and he is not going to steal from us. He's not going to kill and he's not going to destroy. And so we are going to move forward in the plan of God and move with what belongs to us in Christ. And Jesus said, but I have come that you might have life. And I love this next. I love this phrase, I have come that you might have because in Christ we have all. And he came so that we could have what could we have life and life more abundantly in a fullest measure. And so this is what belongs to us in Christ. But we also see we have an enemy. So we are warned to hold fast to that which we have, not because God will take it, but because the devil is seeking to devour it from us. I was listening to someone, I was talking to someone who had had some really dramatic near death experiences and they were in a coma condition. And while they were in that coma they said, I saw the protection of God around us, talking about around believers, and said, and evil spirits were waiting right outside that that line of protection. And Sid, the devil was waiting for to to infiltrate that line of protection. And I asked them what is it that gave the devil access to infiltrate that line of protection? And they said, us not being watchful, that if we are negligent and not vigilant, well see, that's what the Word says to us, be vigilant, be watchful. For the devil walketh about seeking whom he may devour. There is a hedge of protection around us, but if we're not watchful that the devil's always looking to gain entrance. And so how. One way that we're watchful. We hold fast to that which we have. Why? Is it because once we receive it from God, the devil's trying to take it from us. He will try to take it from us through deceptive ways. He's a deceiver. And he will try to. He'll suggest wrong things. He'll get us. He'll try to get us to believe wrong, speak wrong, think wrong. And he's always got a plan to steal from us. But Jesus has already made a way for us not to be stolen from. Amen. That we hold fast to that which we have. I want us to look again. We've looked at it previously. But let's look again at Hebrews, chapter three, verse five. And this is the King James translation. It says this. Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after. But Christ as a son over his own house. Whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence. Look at this. If we hold fast the confidence. What is confidence? Well, that's an outflow of faith. That when you are confident, it's a confidence that comes from faith. So if we hold fast the confidence. Look at this. And the rejoicing. So we hold fast our confidence. We hold fast our rejoicing. So how are we to hold fast? What helps us to hold fast? Be rejoicing. Thanking God that I'm already provided for. Thanking God he's already met every need that I'll ever encounter in this life. Thanking God for everything he's already blessed us with. Because rejoicing keeps it from being stolen. Why? Because it's one way of being watchful over what God has blessed us with. And so it says that we are to hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope. Look at this. Firm unto the end. So? So that means there's no stopping point. We go to the end. We're always holding to our faith. Amen. Then I want us to see Hebrews 10:23. We see some like instructions. It says, let us hold fast the profession of our faith. Look at this. Without wavering, meaning one day we're not saying one thing, and one day a separate thing. We're always holding fast to what we say to what we believe in, we're not letting circumstances sway us from speaking right, thinking right, believing right, and acting in line with the Word. It says, for he is faithful that promised. So notice this. If we're wavering, we're not holding fast. But when we are holding. When we are. When we are not wavering, we are holding fast. Strong faith is not only interested in receiving from God, but strong faith is refusing to be stolen from. Amen. We don't lose anything that God has made ours, that he paid the price for. And what we receive from God, it still has to be upheld. And how is that? With our faith, we continue. Amen. First, Thessalonians in chapter 5, verse 21 says this. Prove all things hold fast that which is good. So hold fast means to hold hard to it. Don't let it go. To hold fast includes daily releasing our faith for something. Amen. What enables us to hold fast is our ongoing feeding on the Word and confessing it. We need to stay full. It's easier to hold fast when you're full, but if you get empty, it's easy to be moved. You know, there at my house, in fact, just today, I was moving some flower pots around, and I was moving the empty ones. Why? Because they're easier to move when something. When you have a larger flower pot and it's full of dirt and it's full of flowers, it's not easily moved. I want you to know the same thing. When you're full, you're not easily moved. But if we're less than empty, if we're less than full, rather, and we're on empty, then we're easily moved. So it matters that we have an ongoing flow inflow of the Word, because it keeps us full of the Word. Amen. Then Revelation, chapter 2 and verse 25, it says this. But that which you have already, hold fast till I come. Well, I want you to know, in Christ, we already have healing. In Christ, we already have supply, we already have provision, we already have victory. We already have the nine fruits of the Spirit. It doesn't say, hold fast to what's manifested. It says, hold fast to what you have. We have things, even if they haven't yet manifested. Amen. You may say, well, Pastor Nancy, I have symptoms in my body. Well, I want you to know you already have healing. If you'll hold fast that I have healing, then the symptoms will change, the symptoms will leave. It says, hold fast to that which thou hast, not just hold fast to what's manifested. Because there are things that belong to us that have not yet manifested. It's waiting for our faith. So there are things that our faith calls for. And although it belongs to us in Christ, it's our present possession. As we hold fast, we become partakers of what we possess in Christ. All things are ours, so we hold fast to all of it. Amen. We aren't the sick trying to get healed. We are the healed. And sickness tries to rob us of our health. But we're holding fast that we are the healed no matter what is coming against, no matter what our body would say. And we aren't the broke trying to become prosperous. We aren't the broke trying to be rich. But we are the prosperous because of who's in us. It's not money that makes us prosperous. It's who's in us, who's with us, and who we belong to. And because of that, we call the money. All the money must come. All the resources must come. All the supply must come. Come. It is not money that makes us rich. It's who's in us. Amen. So we are to hold fast that we are the healed. Hold fast that we are the prosperous. Hold fast that we already have every answer because the greater one is on the inside of us. But as we've said before, the enemy will launch a counterattack to try to come and take back from us what God's blessed us with. But we just hold our ground. One soldier tells of a time during World War II. He said, Our men took a particular island 12 times. Why did they have to take it 12 times? Because they lost it. 11. They took the ground and then the enemy launched a counterattack and they were driven back. And then they lost it. So they lost that ground. They took it again. The enemy launched a counterattack and they took it back. And so this went back and forth. And they said, the 12th time we took it, we held it. Well, I want you to know, it doesn't matter how many times Satan has stolen something from you, that victory still belongs to you. Don't let any counterattack cause you to let go of what belongs to you. And I want to say this to you, no matter where you missed it, no matter how you could have done better, should have done better, would have done better, all those wouldas. You know that we all fall into everything that belonged to you in Christ still belongs to you in Christ. That never weakens, that never leaves your life. So don't let the devil say, well, you know you've missed God, so you have to accept a measure of defeat. I want you to know everything that has ever belong to you because you belong to Christ is still yours. I don't care if you turned your back on it and walked away from it for 10 years, it still belongs to you. You get back right into right fellowship with the Father and everything that is yours in Christ is still yours. And you can lay back hold of that increase that belongs to you. Amen. I remember the testimony of there was one and I believe this was in World War II. But there was this large country and they were right next up to a very small country. And for years that large country had launched some attacks on this smaller country. But if I could say this, they were kind of half hearted, they weren't giving it an all out effort and they just kind of kept this smaller country, if I could say, harassed. And so finally one day in the course of their activity against each other, that bigger country decided we're tired of just kind of giving this our half attention. We're going to go in and we're going to deal with that small country. We're taking over their land, we're taking over the people, we're taking it. And so the smaller country got word that they were going to be faced with a major attack from this neighboring large country. And so the general of this smaller country got all the soldiers together, began to tell them the plan and they began training like never before. They started laying up all of their weaponry, they started getting all their ships in line and getting all of their, you know, their artillery, their, their tanks and everything, getting them all ready. And this general had so spoken to these, to these soldiers and encourage them in their victory that I love what this one soldier said. After, after months and months of training they got word that this larger country had, that the day of attack had arrived. And so they said we're going to be attacked today boys. And I love what this private, this is new entry into the, into their military said. He said General, he said there's so many of them and our country is so little, where are we going to bury all of them? He had so renewed his mind that I don't care how big this enemy nation is, they're not getting our land and there are so many of them, we're just going to have a problem burying all of them. Well, I want you to know we don't have to fight the devil. Jesus already fought and destroyed him, defeated him. But we have to have the mentality that we're not trying to win this thing. It's already won. And we're holding fast to that which we have. Amen. During. During 1947-1958 here in the United States, there was a healing revival on. And there was one evangelist that was. There were several evangelists at the forefront of this. And one of those was Oral Roberts. And there was a woman who. She came into his healing line one night, and she was born blind. And here she was in her mid-50s. So for over 50 years, she had been blind. She had never for one day saw. And so she got in the. In the healing line of Oral Roberts, and she was instantly healed. And she saw for the first time in over 50 years. And so everyone was rejoicing with her. The family was rejoicing with her. But after a short time, she said that her sight would go off for a few moments, and then it come back on. And then it would go off and come back on. And every time she would lose her sight throughout the day, it would stay gone longer and longer. And the family members around her said, oh, we're just so. They said to her, we're so afraid you're just going to lose your healing. Well, that's not what to say to someone who is facing opposition. What they should have said is, we're standing with you. We're standing with you. That will not be stolen from you. We resist the devil with you, and we encourage you in your stand of faith. Well, they didn't know how to hold, and the family didn't know how to hold fast. And within three weeks, she had lost her healing. Then people will say, well, see, that healing stuff doesn't work. No, it's the healing stuff. It worked. But what they were ignorant of was that there's a counterattack, that the enemy is. He comes as a thief to try to steal, kill and destroy. And so they doubted God instead of doubting the enemy. Then there was another woman. She was in those same meetings, and she was well over 50 years years old. And she had been born blind also. But she had had some further teaching when Oral Roberts laid hands on her, that her eyesight came back. And after a short time, that blindness tried to come back on her. And she said, oh, no, you don't. And she began rejoicing and thanking God. Thank God I'm still healed. I hold fast that I am the healed. And after three, unlike the other woman who lost her sight in three weeks, after three weeks, her sight returned, and she never again had to deal with that. Why? Because she learned how to stand her ground in the face of a counterattack. Just Know this. A counter attack does not mean your faith isn't working. Just because there's a counterattack doesn't mean the word isn't working. It just means that that is the strategy and the device of the enemy, that he's going to work against all of us. And I would say this. If you ever have. If you ever get in a healing line or you go to your pastor or you have someone else to pray for you, let's say for healing, and you receive healing because of someone else's faith, you're going to have to make sure you're feeding your faith because there's coming a counterattack and you're the one who has to stand that ground against the counterattack. So don't be negligent to feed your faith even after you've received healing as a result of someone else's faith. Have your own faith. Know how to hold fast for yourself. How do you do it? Resist the devil. Amen. Tell him no and he will flee from you. Hold fast to everything that God has said to you before you're releasing your faith for something. Take time to find out what God says to you. Amen. What did God say to you? Because you can only hold fast by answering the devil with the word of God. Now you'll remember when Jesus was in the wilderness of temptation, his policy of dealing with the devil was. It is written. And he would tell God. He would tell the devil what God said. What am I telling you? Tell your need what God said. This is Jesus policy of dealing with the devil. And. And it is our policy of dealing with the devil. We tell him what God said. That's called holding fast to that which thou hast. Amen. And so you have to recognize that when the counterattack comes, you're going to have to have something in your mouth if you hope that the devil's just going to leave you alone. He's not. You're going to have to make sure that he is backed off of your situation, that you're not listening to him, because you're already listening to what God has said. And you're filling your attention and your mouth with what God has said about your need. I remember back in the early 2020 when the COVID That Covid situation showed up even before that Covid situation showed up just weeks before God told me to preach to our congregation. Tell your need what God says. And I want you to know that was our answer. Every time people face a difficulty in that. Tell your need what God says. Because that's exactly what Jesus did. In the wilderness of temptation, he always told the threat of the enemy what God said, Amen. And that makes all the difference. Well, we're able to come to you today for one reason. Brother Kenneth Copeland and Sister Gloria Copeland, they made a decision years ago that any programmer on the Victory channel would not have to pay for their airtime. The reason he had the faith to make that, to make that decision is he's been on television since the 1970s, and he knew how large the television expenses were, and he knew what it took many times that it puts much on their ministry to believe God for those. And he said, I want to help assist ministers that they don't have to face that pressure that we face. Well, because of his generosity, all this airtime that we're able to come to you is donated by the partners of Kenneth Copeland Ministries. And so it's such a gift that Brother Copeland has made to me and to all these programmers. And really, when he has sown this airtime to us, he's sowing it also to you, the viewers he sows into the home and the life of every single viewer with his generosity. And so we ask you that if you're not already a partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, if you would go to kcm.org and sign up to become a partner there, you're going to help keep our broadcasts and the other programmers that come on this channel keeping, keeping us coming into your home. Look at that. 24 hours a day you can turn on and hear the word. What a life support that is. What a rescue to those of us who honor God's word that you can always have faith coming in. Because the devil always wants fear coming in, but too late. We've already got faith coming into our lives and into our homes. So again, if you're not already a partner with Kennecopa Ministries, but you've received this ministry, it would be the honorable thing to become a partner because where you feed, you should sow into. And so you can again sign up by going to kcm.org and follow the prompts and become a partner today with Brother Copeland. And until next time, remember this Jesus. Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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book called the Healer Divine. This book is a study of the healings that happened under Jesus earthly ministry. We study them line by line, word by word. And when we skillful in understanding how Jesus ministered healing, then it helps us to be skillful in receiving healing, but also ministering healing. So we invite you to go to jesusthehealer.org and purchase your copy today. God bless you. 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.
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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. This is Nancy Dufresne and I want to extend an invitation to you to become a partner with Dufresne Ministries today. God bless you.
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