830 | In Christ I Can, Part 70

Thank you to Kenneth Copen Ministries for sewing the airtime for this broadcast. 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 present, not trying 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. I'm receiving it right now. I'm going to top of my head. It's the souls of my feet. The souls of my feet. Welcome. We're so glad you're joining us today for Jesus the healer. And we so love getting to bring the Word to you and we so value that you are hungry for the Word. I love something that Brother Norville has used to say to us. He said, "It's only the portions of the Word that you honor that you'll receive of." So we choose to honor all of the Word because we want to be part takers of all that the Word has made ours. We honor Jesus as a healer. Therefore we can receive of healing flow. We honor Jesus as the provider and all the price he paid for us to have every single need met because we want to see all of our needs met. So there are so many benefits in this salvation package, our redemption package that belongs to us. And we've been teaching really on this redemption package because what is it? It's who we are in Christ and who Christ is in us. We've had well over 60 episodes that we've spent in this series and we just love that we get to minister along this line because the more we minister on it, the more it comes out and the more we see of what belongs to us. And can I say this when we find out who we are in Christ and what belongs to us, who he is in us and who we are in him, we come into the highest order of faith. And people struggle with their faith. They're invited to know what belongs to them because they're in Christ and who Christ is in them and how he will flow and manifest in them. When we know who we are in Christ, we're done struggling with the struggles that we used to put up with because revelation knowledge brings you into a place of skill and mastery. And so we are just spending this time together, many episodes studying together. Why? It's really a form of meditating on it, hearing it over and over. And in all of the teachings that I do, I am purpose and very repetitive because that's one way of getting it in us to say it over and over and over. Because if we are in the flow of wrong thinking about something, it's normally not just saying it one time the right way that will undo all the wrong thinking. But the more we hear the right, the more we speak what is right, then that just dismantles any wrong thinking. And how many of you know? God can only flow through right thinking. God cannot work through wrong thinking. Why is that? Because there's no wrong thinking in him and that's not his flow. The devil is counting on wrong thinking to do his work. That wrong thinking that people hold to in their life becomes an open door for the devil to work. So if I could say this in these teachings, we're endeavoring to dismantle wrong thinking, run out wrong thinking, establish the thoughts of the word. It's not just what I say that matters, it's what the word says that matters. And so we are finding out who God has made us to be because we're in Christ and Christ is in us, amen? Acts chapter 17 and verse 28 is one we've been referring to in previous episodes. And it says this, "For in him we live and move and have our being." Notice this, "None of the movement of our life is to be separate from him." He wants to be involved in a part of every movement of our life, but not only does he want to be part of it, he wants to direct it. Why? So that we are moving accurately. We're not living this life, making wasted steps or missed steps. If we will follow how he's leading, he will always lead us into success. In him we live, in him we move, in him we have our being. And can I say this, in him is not just for emergency moments, for Christ's moments, it's for daily life. And we need to start, we need to make certain that we carry in our thought life and even in our words today Christ is in me. And he's manifesting, he's working through me and I'm yielding to him. Well how do we yield to him as Christ in us? How do we yield to him? We'll, babe. We just do what he tells us to do. And as we respond to him through our obedience, then he can perform through us all that God wants to manifest through us, to make us channels. And know this, that Jesus made this statement. He said, "My Father in me, He does the works." Well the same Father that was in Jesus is in us. And he's waiting for us to respond to who he is so that he can perform through us, amen? Now I want to read 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 9. 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 9 and this is the amplified classic translation. Just the first phrase of this verse says this, "For we are fellow workmen." Look at this joint promoters, labors together with and labors together for God. Look at that labors together. Notice this, it's not us doing all the work, it's not him doing all the work, it's him working through us. So we have a part to play, God has a part to play. And can I tell you this, he's got the hard part. He gave us the easy part. What's the easy part? He brings our faith and we obey what he tells us to do. And when we do that, he performs and manifests through us. But I want you to see this, that we are labors together, this phrase together. Then 2 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 1. And this is the amplified classic translation. 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 1. It says this, "Laboring together as God's fellow workers." And him then we beg of you not to receive the grace of God in vain, that merciful kindness by which God exerts His holy influence on souls and turns them to Christ, keeping and strengthening them do not receive it to no purpose. Meaning allow the grace of God to work through you. The grace of God is in you, the grace of God is God's ability. But how many of you know God's grace has to meet our faith. And so when we exercise our faith, then God's ability, God's grace goes into action. But I want you to see the first two words again of this verse, "Laboring together." What's this mean? We're not to labor apart from Him. We're to labor together with Him. And He does the hard part. We do the easy part of obeying and believing Him. Then I want you to listen to this. Ephesians chapter 2 verses 5 and 6. And this is the King James translation. Ephesians 2 verses 5 through 6 reads this, "Even when we were dead, slain by our own shortcomings and trespasses." Actually, this is the amplified classic, but listen to how it reads, "Even when we were dead, slain by our own shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together." Look at this. Together we see this word. He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ. He gave us the very life of Christ Himself. The same new life with which God quickened Jesus for it is by grace, His favor and mercy, which you did not deserve. Notice this. You can't earn this. This is not something that you perform so that you can have it. This is out of His favor, His mercy, which you did not deserve, that you are saved, delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation. Now look at verse 6. And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together, giving us joint seating with Him in the heavenly sphere. By verse 6. you of our being in Christ Jesus, the Messiah, the anointed one. In those two verses, we see the Word together, stated three times. What does this mean? We are not to ever try to conduct this life in Christ apart from who He made us to be. It's all about together. Then I want you to see 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 10. Speaking of Christ, it says, "Who died for us so that whether we are still alive or are dead at Christ appearing, we might live together with Him and share His life." Then 1 John chapter 1 and verse 6, and this is the amplified classic translation. It says, "So if we say we are partakers together and enjoy fellowship with Him when we live and move and are walking about in darkness, we are both speaking falsely and do not live and practice the truth which the gospel presents." But notice this, partakers together enjoying fellowship with Him. That's what God intended our togetherness to be, that we are together with Him in fellowship and because of that togetherness and fellowship, we go out and move among us. We move among others as one that's together with Him. You remember what Jesus stated in His earthly ministry? He said, "I only say what I hear my Father say. I only do what I see my Father do." So when Jesus was out ministering, healing, miracles, preaching revelations, that the people had never heard before, things had never seen before, Jesus only did that because He already heard it. He already saw it in His time of fellowship with God. What does that mean? He was together in fellowship with Him first and then He was able to walk out and let and move together with God in performing miracles, performing of healings, preaching and delivering revelations. It came from the togetherness in fellowship first. So who we are in Christ will be most evident in our life when our fellowship with God is thriving because our togetherness is number one for fellowship and number two to produce the fruit of our togetherness with Him. So we cannot effectively produce in this life all God has for us apart from our togetherness in fellowship with Him. But I've read all these verses to show you this word together, together, together. I was so blessed by a young man who's part of our ministry. He was giving his testimony in one of the services and he talked about how right before he turned 30 years old, he said, "I went to bed one night and I was perfectly happy. Everything was in place in his life." But he said, "I woke up in the middle of the night and I had every feeling of depression." And even such to the point where he sensed the feeling of feeling suicidal. He said, "I hadn't done anything that would provoke that. Nothing had happened in his life that would have warranted that." Well, what is that? Well, the devil can try to produce feelings to try to get you to accept it because you feel it. That's why we don't walk by what we feel. We don't walk by what we see because the the devil can generate all kinds of things and feelings around us. But when we sense those types of feelings, those don't belong to us, those belong to the devil. And the word tells us this over in Psalm 23 verse 5, "God prepares a table before us. Look at this in the presence of our enemies." When the enemy is present, know this. You're going to sense his torment. The devil is a tormented being and every evil spirit is a tormented being. And when they, if I could say this, when they manifest, they come into a room, you will sense torment, but it's theirs. Leave it with them just because you can sense it doesn't mean it's yours. And so what is ours? God tells us in that verse, Psalm 23 verse 5, "He said that I prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies." So he's saying, "The enemy is present, but so what? A table of God's redemption, salvation, the table of God's Word, the table of your benefits, package in Christ." That's all presence spread out before you. Don't get occupied with the enemy that's present when there's provision from heaven that's present in front of you. Partake of that. So just because the devil shows up doesn't mean he deserves your attention. You must recognize anytime you sense something that is different from God, don't accept it. Don't call it your own. It doesn't matter that you feel it. You know, I'm sitting right here in a studio and we have thankfully we have the air conditioner going. It keeps the room cool. I can sense that air. I can feel the benefits of that air, but I don't because I feel it think, well, I must be an air conditioner. No, I'm not an air conditioner. I just sense what's moving in the room. Well, even so, if you can sense depression, it's not yours. Just because you sense it, that means that that devil's trying to get you to call it yours, but it's his. You leave it with that devil. Well, this is what happened to that young man. I've had experiences like this. Others that hear this testimony, you may say, I remember sensing something come in the room and it felt so true. It felt like it was me, but it's not. I don't care how real it seems. If it didn't come from Christ, it's not the real you. And you don't have to accept it. But this young man, he said, right before he turned 30, he woke up in the middle of the night and he could sense all the feelings of depression. Even to the point to where it was hopelessness. You know, that's really when someone is suicidal, there's no sense of hope. They feel hopeless. Well, at those times that you feel something, you have to know something. And when you feel the wrong thing, you have to speak the right thing. Don't ever adopt with your words the wrong things you may feel because you have to recognize I'm only sensing that because the devil is present. Well, it doesn't mean your faith isn't working. It doesn't mean the word isn't working just because you sense it. Psalm 23 verse five warns us. It says, God's prepared a table before us. Look, in the presence of our enemies, that doesn't mean your faith isn't working. It doesn't mean you disobey God. It doesn't mean you done something wrong just because you sense the the an evil presence. The devil comes and tries to so seed in us. He tries to suggest a thought, tries to imitate a feeling so that we can think it's ours when it's not ours. Anything that doesn't come from God, don't call it yours. Never agree to anything except what comes from God. So this young man, he sensed that depression and he said, but I got up. I came to work like I should. He says, I carried out my duties, but he said that was ever with me. I could feel that sense of depression. I think it's something you need to understand that he noted it happened right before he turned 30. If you look at the life of Jesus, the anointing for his earthly ministry came up on him when he was 30 and he moved into at the age of 30 what he was born to do. For 30 years, he was a carpenter. He was preparing for three years of earthly ministry. So it came at the time he was 30 that he was transitioning into what he was born to do. So notice this, for almost 30 years, he did what he was not born to do. But God was using that time of preparation to train him for three years of earthly ministry. Now we see a pattern there that many times you can recognize that at around the age of 30, the devil will oppose because you too, because Jesus is our example, you too will begin to move into things that you were born for many times around the age of 30. It's not coincidence. I've seen it time and time again is a pastor that around that season of life, the devil tries to create a disturbance because he wants you to miss the clarity God wants to give you about the season that you're getting ready to come into. And so it's not a coincidence that these young men said it happened around the time he was 30. It just means the devil's trying to, if I could say this, cast a shadow. He's trying to draw the curtain so you don't see the next thing God has for you so that you get occupied with the opposition instead of occupied with the plan of God. So this young man, he just took the word and he stood on it, he spoke the word, but the feelings didn't change. The feelings didn't leave. And I love something that God said to him, I'm going to go. I was talking about it in a previous episode, but God said a couple of things to him during that season. He said, shut up and show up. What's that mean? You know, when you're attacked and you're under depression or oppression, sometimes people want to quit functioning in their daily life. They will want to just stay at home, draw the curtain, stay in their bedroom, and not even be able to really fully function on the job or miss work altogether, and absolutely quit functioning. And if they're not careful what those do, their mouth will become filled with what they're feeling instead of what they're believing. And so God was telling this young man, shut up and show up. What did he mean by shut up? Don't say what you feel. Why? Because if you talk about the enemy and what he's trying to produce in your life, you'll open the door for that to stay. So he was saying, shut your mouth to what the body feels. Shut your mouth to what you sense. Just keep speaking the word of God, but shut your mouth to what your feelings and the natural is showing you. And then he said, shut up and show up. What's that mean? Don't quit making movement. Live life as usual. Do not interrupt the plan of God to stop for opposition. You know, I just love something that Catherine Coleman, she had a healing ministry. She was on the forefront in the, oh, around 1960s, 1970s. And she had a very prominent healing ministry. And I love something that she would say. And she would talk about any kind of opposition. She would say, this train is moving too fast for me to stop and throw rocks at barking dogs. What's that mean? Just keep moving and you'll pass by them. They're the enemies trying to throw all kinds of opposition, trying to throw all kinds of feelings, all kinds of threats. Just keep moving and keep moving right on past those threats. Well, do we have scripture for that? Well, the word says to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing shall but any means hurt you when you tread on those serpents and scorpions. The word tread on means this. The dictionary definition is step over and keep going. Too many times the enemy attacks and people pause and they give their whole attention to what's coming against them. Don't do that. Keep moving. Keep living your life. Don't stop and give that opposition your attention. Like I said, I love that when Katherine Coleman, this train's moving too fast for me to stop it and throw rocks at barking dogs. Just keep blazing right on past them and that's what God said to this young man, shut up and show up. That means don't stop your progress. Keep doing the right thing every day. And this young man did that. He said some days it was not so easy to get up and just get dressed and keep functioning as usual. But what does the devil realize when you function as you ought to function? He realizes he can't find a place in you. Then Jesus said something else to this young man. He said this. He said, let's do this together. I love that phrase. Do you know you are in Christ and He raised us up, seated us, look at this together with Him? Why? Because He doesn't want us to live and function any part of this life except in a way of being together. He doesn't want us to try to own our own overcome something. He doesn't want us to try to accomplish something apart from Him or get victory over this test apart from Him. Do it together. I remember something that God said to me years ago, I had just come through a season of opposition. I had gotten on the other side of this test and I was driving down the road in my car and up out of my spirit came these words and they came up with such clarity. I just spoke them out loud without really running it through my mind and God said this to me. He said, just because you can still see the Egyptians doesn't mean you're back in Egypt. What was he saying? Remember when God delivered his people out of Egypt and they came to the point of the Red Sea and while they were there, that mad enemy army came after them and Moses stopped to pray and God said, why are you praying to me? Stretch forth your rod. And when he stretched forth his rod, it was a right thing to pray, but at the wrong time. When it's time to act, it's not time to pray. When you need to use your authority, that's not the time to have a prayer meeting. That's the time to exercise the authority you've been given and that's what God was correcting Moses on. This is in the time to pray, stretch forth your rod. And when he did, the Red Sea parted. Now know this, just because the Egyptians could be seen in their rear view, that didn't mean they were back in Egypt. They were still delivered. They were still free. I want you to know just because symptoms try to return because old feelings try to return. Depression tries to return. You're still free. And this is what God was showing this young man. Why? Because you're still free regardless of what you see or feel. When God said to me, just because you can see the Egyptians doesn't mean you're back in Egypt. He was letting me know that attack is going to try to show back up. But don't believe that you're back in that place of attack. You can, if you'll think right and speak right, that thing will not find a place to land in you. And I want you to know that in Christ is total freedom from any opposition that comes. Never believe anything more than you believe what God says. Don't believe a test. Don't believe opposition. More than you believe what God says. And when God spoke to this young man and said, let's do this together. What was he doing? He was saying, your tension is on the test. Let your tension be on the one you're together with. I'm moving with you together in this life. You've been raised and seated with me. Remember what? Acts 17, verse 28, "In him we live and move and have our being." What's this mean? We're together with him. Whenever opposition comes, that's your cue to turn full attention to the one you're together with. Because then you will exit the test when the right thing gets your tension. And you close the door on the thing that's opposing you. Amen? You're together with Christ. We live as one together every single day because God never intends for you to live this life apart from him. But recognize in your thought life, in your words, and in your actions, you're not in this alone. You're together with divine help. Amen? Well, we're going to keep going this direction and you don't want to miss it. But until next time, remember this, Jesus is the healer. God bless you. To watch or listen to today's message and other messages, by Nancy DeFran, visit DeFran ministry's.org. In this book, I have a supply by Nancy DeFran. You will learn how rich and unending your supply is from God and how to make it a reality in your everyday life. Order this book now at DeFran ministry's.org. If you need prayer, please call our prayer line. We have trained ministers on staff who are ready to agree with you for your miracle. We invite you to join us at World Harvest Church, home of DeFran ministries in Marietta, California, located at 2 3 109 Palomar Street, Marietta, California. 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