Nancy Dufresne

How To Keep Your Healing

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 HOW TO KEEP YOUR HEALING
by Nancy Dufresne

Healing belongs to every child of God, and it is your right to live in

health every day of your life just because you belong to the family of
God. Jesus paid the price for you to be healed, and it brings Him glory
when we live the life of health He purchased for us.
God’s Word shows us several methods whereby His children may
be healed, for He wants His children to be able to receive healing no
matter what their level of spiritual development. Every believer can
“hook on” to one of the different methods of divine healing.
In this teaching, however, we wanted to focus on how to keep
your healing once you have received it.
No matter what method was used whereby you received your
healing, whether through the laying on of hands, the prayer of
agreement, the prayer of faith, a healing cloth, etc., the enemy will
try to steal your healing from you. But the Word of God instructs us
what to do so that we hold fast to the healing we have received.

Hold Fast

Many believers falsely think that once they receive their healing
there is nothing left to do, but the Bible warns us, “...HOLD FAST
that which is good” (1 Thes. 5:21) and “...HOLD that fast which thou
hast...” (Rev. 3:11). These instructions let us know that something is
going to try to rob from us what we have received from God, or else
we wouldn’t need to “hold fast.” There is an enemy arrayed against
us who wants to steal our healing from us. In James 4:7, we are
instructed, “...Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Many times,
believers aren’t missing it in their believing, but they are missing it in
the area of resisting the devil as they should.
Remember this – we are not the sick trying to get healed; we
are the healed, and the devil wants to make us sick! As we obey
the instructions of the Word, the enemy will be unsuccessful in his
efforts against us. Satan has been defeated, but we must enforce his
defeat. Many think, “Well, if he’s defeated, then how come I must
hold fast to my healing?” The devil has been eternally defeated, but
he has yet to be imprisoned; therefore, we must fight the good fight
of faith (1 Tim. 6:12).
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 What does it mean to fight the good fight of faith? The “good
fight of faith” is a fight of words. It means to continually say what
God’s Word says about your healing, regardless of what thoughts
the enemy may tell your mind, and regardless of what symptoms
you may feel in your body. No matter what you feel, you are to still
believe that Jesus purchased your healing; therefore, you are healed
NOW, and you continue to say that, no matter what the opposition.
I’m reminded of a testimony that wonderfully illustrates the
fight of faith. Years ago, a woman had hands laid on her by a leading
healing minister, and she instantly received her sight. She went her
way rejoicing, but after several days she began losing her sight again.
She fought the fight of faith by holding to what the Word said. She
continued to thank God and praise Him because He had healed
her. Over the next few days, she found herself totally blind, but she
continued to thank the Lord for having healed her. Three weeks later,
as she was praising the Lord, her sight instantly returned. That’s what
it means to “hold fast.”
The enemy brought that blindness back on her to see if she would
accept it, but she wouldn’t take it! She never let her confession of
healing change, and the devil had to flee. Be it a long time or be it a
short time, we are to hold to our confession that we are healed NOW
and not waver in the face of contradictory circumstances.
We’re not trying to get healed – we are healed NOW! “Now” is
the word that always accompanies faith. “Now” is the word that is
used to hammer the nail in the board. Without the word “now,” you’ll
just be hitting the board all around the nail, but “now” deals it a
square blow and drives the nail home. Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “NOW
faith is....” If it isn’t “now,” it isn’t faith! So many believers lose their
healing on a counter-attack, but if we will “hold fast” by keeping our
confession in line with God’s Word, praising Him that we ARE healed,
and resting on His Word, victory is sure.
“...This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”
(1 John 5:4). Your victory is waiting for your faith. Sickness, disease,
and failure belong to the world, but we are not of this world, and by
holding fast to God’s Word, our faith overcomes what is in this world.

Taking God’s Medicine

Many Christians have lost their healing due to a lack of knowledge

regarding God’s Word on the subject of healing. The devil takes
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advantage of their lack of knowledge and is able to hold them in a
place of defeat, but the Word tells us what to do so that we don’t
lose our healing. Proverbs 4:20-22 tells us, “My son, attend to my
words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from
thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life
unto those that find them, and health (medicine) to all their flesh.”
God’s Word is health (Hebrew: ”medicine”) to all our flesh. To
those who are well, the Word is health – it keeps them well; but to
those who are sick, the Word is the medicine that makes them well. As
one minister rightly stated, “Many make the mistake of substituting
their belief in healing for the actual taking of God’s medicine.” You
may believe that a prescription the doctor gives you will help your
condition, but if you never take that medicine, it won’t do you a bit
of good. Likewise, you may believe in God’s ability to heal you, but if
you never take the medicine of His Word, you won’t benefit as you
could.
For medicine to work, it must be taken over and over again. If
a person quits taking their medicine, they will again become sick.
Even so, if we quit taking the medicine of the Word, we can lose our
health. In other words, keep taking your medicine – the medicine of
the Word – and don’t ever stop! Medicine must be taken as directed
for it to be effective. God’s Word is no different. In verses 20-22 we
are given the instructions on how to take God’s medicine.
1) Verse 20 tells us to “attend” to God’s Word. That
means to put it first and to put your attention on
God’s Word. When symptoms or attacks come, they
come to get your attention off the Word, but keep
your attention on what God says instead of what you
may be seeing or feeling. Putting our attention on
God’s Word is our first instruction. Feed on scriptures
regarding healing (see the healing scriptures listed at
the end of this booklet) and hold your attention on
them, no matter what may be coming against you.
Meditate on God’s Word until it totally saturates
your thoughts, your words, and your actions. How
do we attend to God’s Word? Steps 2-4 tell us how.
2) We’re told to, “...incline thine ear unto my sayings.”
To “incline” means to turn your ear in a particular
direction. There are so many sounds that can be
heard: sounds of fear, sounds of doubt and unbelief,

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 sounds of pain, and the list goes on. But keep the
ear of your heart turned toward what God’s Word
says. Hear what Heaven is saying. Heaven has
sounds of its own that will change a man’s life. Hear
those! Keep your ears turned toward the sounds of
the Word, the sounds of faith, and the sounds of
a positive confession of God’s Word. Listen to what
God says in His Word. He tells you that Jesus took
your infirmities and bore your sicknesses (Matthew
8:17), so listen to what God says has been done
regarding sickness and disease.
3) Then we’re told to, “Let them (God’s words) not
depart from thine eyes....” The eyes of your heart
are going to be focused on something, so you might
as well focus on the place where help comes from –
God’s Word. How tempting it is to focus our gaze
on our bodies, on symptoms and pains that may try
to fix themselves to us, but help doesn’t flow from
your body – don’t focus there. Help comes from the
Lord – stay focused on His Word. Keep the eyes of
your heart riveted on what God’s Word says.
Someone may ask, “Isn’t it difficult to keep your eyes
off of your body when you’re in pain?”
The way to keep your focus off your body and what it
may be feeling is to meditate on and fill up with the
healing Word. Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of
Christ dwell in you richly....” Keep God’s Word in your
mouth and His praises on your lips and you will see
yourself rise above that which tries to come against
you.
4) The last instruction given in Proverbs 4:20-22 is,
“...keep them (God’s words) in the midst of thine
heart.” Your heart is a storage place – store up God’s
Word there, and then you’ll have a rich supply of
heavenly food for your life. The faith that God has
put in every believer is in the heart, in the spirit of
man. When you continue to feed and meditate on
God’s Word, then the faith in your heart is fed and
nourished. We’re told in Matthew 12:34, “...for out
of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”

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 When you keep God’s Word in your heart, also keep God’s Word in
your mouth. Everyone always speaks what they believe; by keeping
your heart filled with God’s Word, then you can also keep your mouth
filled with right words. Make your mouth do its work. Fill your mouth
with the Word that’s in your heart. Boldly proclaim every day that
you are healed.
Faith comes by hearing, but it doesn’t operate by hearing. It
operates and is released by speaking and acting on God’s Word.

Meditate on the Word

In Joshua 1:8, God told Joshua, “This book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt MEDITATE therein day and
night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written
therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou
shalt have good success.”
Meditating on God’s Word is one of the key ingredients that will
enable you to live in the victory heaven has provided for you. The
greatest spiritual growth and development takes place in the life of
the believer who takes time to daily meditate on God’s Word.
To meditate means “to mutter to yourself, to think deeply into.”
When you meditate on God’s Word, you are to take a scripture that
speaks to your need and speak it over and over again to yourself,
allowing the Holy Spirit to open it up to you.
Memorization of scriptures is good and fine, but the word
“memorize” isn’t in the Bible, for that is just an action of the mind.
Meditating on God’s Word is an action involving your spirit.
Someone may say, “I don’t know how to meditate.” Well, you
know what worry is, don’t you? Worry is just meditation in a negative
direction – meditating on the wrong thing. But we are to meditate on
God’s Word.
When you meditate on God’s Word, it puts you in that verse, and
it puts that verse in you. That’s when the Word becomes real to you;
it becomes alive. Meditating on God’s Word helps you to “own” it,
and you know that you can’t spend something you don’t own. Many
people have learned to confess God’s Word, but sometimes with
little results, because they haven’t taken the time to meditate on it
first and to make it real to their own hearts.

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 In one of my husband’s church services, a man came forward
to have my husband lay hands on a prayer cloth that he wanted to
send to his mother who had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
(Acts 19:11 & 12 tell us how hands can be laid on a cloth to transmit
healing power into it, so that it may be laid on the body of a sick one.)
After my husband laid hands on the cloth, the man sent it to his
mother for her to lay it on her body. After his mother received it,
she didn’t immediately lay it on her body. First, she took the time to
meditate on God’s Word regarding healing and on the passage found
in Acts 19:11 & 12. Over and over again she spoke those verses. She
repeatedly claimed that when she laid the cloth on her that healing
power would go into her body and heal her. For one week she did
this. She was releasing her faith and creating an expectancy in God’s
power. Finally, she laid it on her body, and when she did, she felt
what she described as electricity flow from that cloth and into her
body. What was it? It was healing power. By taking time to meditate
on God’s Word, her faith grew strong, so when she released her faith
in God’s power, it flowed into her body and healed her.
Take time each day to meditate on God’s Word. It will cause your
faith to flourish.

Three Ways Sickness Enters a Believer

In a healing service that we were conducting, the Spirit of God

spoke to me and gave me three ways sickness enters a believer.
1) Sickness enters when someone loses their peace.
How can a believer lose their peace? Fear, doubt,
and worry will rob us of peace. Fear and doubt
produce an offspring called worry. How do you know
if you’re worrying? If you’re thinking about it. Worry
opens the door to sickness. By taking thoughts of
worry and meditating on them, believers open the
door to sickness.
Instead of worrying, what do we do? I Peter 5:7 tells
us, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth
for you.” The Amplified Classic Bible instructs us
in Philippians 4:6, “Do not fret or have any anxiety
about anything, but in every circumstance and in
everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests),

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 with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants
known to God.”
Worry not only opens the door to sickness, but it
also closes the door to the power of God. God wants
to help us, but if we worry, we’ve closed the door to
His power and it can’t reach our need.
Instead of worrying about any situation, find out
what God’s Word has to say about it, and then talk
to Him about the situation and cast your cares on
Him, trusting Him to take care of it. But if your faith
is to work for you, you must refuse to worry. If you’re
thinking about it, you’re worrying! Don’t touch that
situation in your thought life. Refuse to worry about
it, but continue to release your faith, thanking Him
that He is working on your situation.
You can’t resist troubling thoughts with thoughts –
you resist them with words. So, when the thoughts
to worry come, you resist them by speaking what
the Word says about your situation.
As you feed diligently on God’s Word and act on
it, you’ll feed your faith, overcome fear, and starve
doubt out of your life.
In Mark 5:34, Jesus tells the woman who had been
healed of the issue of blood when she touched His
garment, “…go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.”
He was telling her how to keep the enemy from
stealing her healing - “go in peace.” To live whole,
you must guard your peace. If you allow fear, doubt,
or worry to steal your peace, you can open the door
to sickness and disease.
2) The second way sickness enters is for us to veer
from the plan of God for our lives. Few believers
realize that by taking steps outside of God’s will,
they take steps away from health. A long, healthy
life is connected to God’s plan for our lives. When
we get out of God’s will, we open the door to the
enemy, because we get into disobedience and onto
the devil’s territory, then he has a right to attack us,
and he can attack us with sickness and disease.

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 Take time to feed on God’s Word and to fellowship
with God in prayer to know His plan, then follow His
plan for your life.
3) The third way that sickness enters is through lack of
gratitude. Praise is an act of faith. As we praise, we
are releasing our faith, and God’s power meets faith.
As we continually keep God’s praises in our mouth,
we create the kind of atmosphere around our lives
where His power can flow freely.
Deuteronomy 28:47 & 48 warns, “Because thou ser-
vedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies….”
Rejoicing and praising God will cause to come into
manifestation all that God has blessed us with, but
it will also keep the door closed to the enemy so
that he can’t get in.
As we praise God, we hold ourselves in the spirit and
keep our mouths connected to our hearts, instead
of being mindful of symptoms or opposition that
may try to steal our attention.
Praise is the voice of faith, so keep praising and stay
in faith.

Free From Fear

Another strategy the devil uses to try to bring sickness back on

people is to get them in fear – fear of being sick or fear of sickness
coming back on them. But no fear is from God. God’s Word tells us,
“For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love,
and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7). Fear is a spirit and must be resisted.
As it is resisted, we can be assured that it will flee from us, for God’s
Word tells us so.
Yes, fear comes knocking on everyone’s door, but we must refuse
to let it in. No matter what fear suggests to your mind, answer it! An-
swer that suggestion with what God’s Word says. Refuse to believe
what fear suggests. Refuse to turn that thought over in your mind. It
doesn’t matter if you literally feel its presence – speak to it, tell it to
go, and it will flee!
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 When fear shows up, do three things:
1) answer that fear with what God’s Word says.
2) tell the spirit of fear to leave.
3) praise God, for that holds your faith and attention on God
and off the threats of the enemy.

Speak in Tongues Daily

Take time to speak in tongues daily. Jude 20 tells us, “But ye,
beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in
the Holy Ghost (praying in other tongues).” As you pray in tongues,
your spirit man is edified and built up on your foundation of faith
in God’s Word. Then you will be able to dominate the mental and
physical arenas, keeping your mind and body under the dominion of
your spirit.
When you pray in tongues, quiet the mind by putting your mind
in neutral, focusing on the Lord and on your spirit; pay attention to
what’s going on in your spirit.
Don’t neglect the place this divine privilege of speaking in tongues
plays in your life of faith.

Where To Go After You’re Healed

It’s important to note from God’s Word a very vital point. When
the New Testament records the healings of individuals, many times
it also shows what they did after they were healed. The lame man at
the gate Beautiful went into the temple with Peter and John after he
was raised up (Acts 3:8). The lame man Jesus healed, who had been
lying by the pool of Bethesda, was found later that day by Jesus in
the temple (John 5:14). The ten lepers Jesus healed were told to go
and show themselves to the priest (Luke 17:14). Many more healings
that occurred under Jesus’ earthly ministry took place in the temple
or in some location where He was teaching God’s Word.
What am I trying to show you from these passages? It matters
where you go after you are healed. It matters that you give attention
to developing your spiritual life and your walk with the Lord. Many
people come to church to get in a healing line so hands can be laid
on them, but then they don’t become faithful to church attendance
after they’re healed. Very often, those people will lose their healing,

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for they never develop spiritually, and the devil takes advantage of
their lack of faith and Bible knowledge and puts sickness back on
them.

You Need a Pastor

Some people may say, “Well, I don’t have to go to church to be

saved!”
No, you don’t, but you do have to go to church to grow up
spiritually and to develop spiritually, and you do have to go to church
to obey God’s Word, for Hebrews 10:25 tells us to not neglect to
assemble together. And you do have to go to church to be like Jesus,
for Luke 4:16 tells us that it was Jesus’ custom (or habit) to go to the
synagogue. If Jesus needed to go to church, then you need to go to
church!
Some wrongly claim, “Well, I can be as good of a Christian as
anybody else without going to church!”
No, you can’t. You’ll be spiritually weak without being in a church
where the Word of God is taught. Christians who are not faithful to
church attendance are not able to live a victorious Christian life to its
fullest.
Matthew 9:35 & 36 further confirm this: “And Jesus went about all
the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching
the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every
disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was
moved with compassion on them, because they FAINTED, and were
SCATTERED abroad, as sheep having NO SHEPHERD.”
Notice that the multitudes that were sick didn’t have a shepherd,
a pastor. They also fainted and were scattered because they didn’t
have a shepherd. People without a shepherd will faint spiritually; they
won’t finish the race – they’ll be passed out along the sidelines. They
will also be scattered. Their health will be scattered by sickness. Their
finances will be scattered by lack. Their families will be scattered by
strife and discord. The devil has an easy target on the sheep without
a shepherd, a pastor. No sheep is safe without a shepherd. Every
believer needs a shepherd!
To maintain your healing, make sure you have a shepherd. Just
attending church isn’t enough. You have to be submitted to a shepherd

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and be faithful to that church, being a doer of the Word that your
shepherd teaches. Not being faithful to attend a church and submit
to your pastor will open the door for sickness to return.
Every believer needs a pastor to teach them God’s Word and how
to live a victorious Christian life.

A Church That Preaches Healing

After you’re healed, it’s important that you not only have a
shepherd, but that you have a pastor who teaches on the subject of
divine healing. If your church doesn’t believe in divine healing, you
can lose your healing sitting in that church, for there’s no faith for
healing there. You need to be part of a local church where healing is
believed and taught.
How can a child learn to read if his school doesn’t teach him how
to read? He can’t! Likewise, how can believers live healed if they
attend a church that doesn’t teach healing? They can’t! The church
you attend is a matter of life or death.
Many Christians have died prematurely because they sat in a
church that didn’t preach divine healing. God has provided healing
for His children, for He doesn’t want any of His family to be sick.
God’s healing power is a demonstration of His love for you.
Every day of your life, read, study, and meditate on the subject of
divine healing and be a doer of the Word, and you will see that your
life will be lived in divine health.

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 Meditate on and confess these healing scriptures, and you will not
only live a life of health, but also effectively minister
healing to those in need around you.

HEALING SCRIPTURES

“...Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”

– Matthew 8:17

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we,
being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes
ye were healed.” – 1 Peter 2:24

“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us....” – Galatians 3:13

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death.” – Romans 8:2

“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their
destructions.” – Psalm 107:20

“Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from
the hand of the enemy;” – Psalm 107:2

“And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread,
and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the
number of thy days I will fulfill.” – Exodus 23:25 & 26

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“...and calleth those things which be not as though they were.”
– Romans 4:17

“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this moun-
tain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not
doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say
unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye
receive them, and ye shall have them.” – Mark 11:23 & 24

“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we
did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed.” – Isaiah 53:4 & 5

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