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Every soldier of the cross should know how to use the Name of Jesus. Actually, it's a weapon. Let's go over to Acts 3 and see what happened to Peter and John one day as they approached the Temple.
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
(Acts 3:1-3)
The first miracle in this account is the fact that two preachers did something together!

Some of you may complain, "Brother Ed, we've heard this story before." You need to hear it again and again until you get it. Faith comes by hearing, and you don't get it by hearing it once; you get faith by hearing it over and over and over again. In fact, most of the Body doesn't understand faith yet.

It's as simple as Stephen with his sheriff's badge. Of course there's no authority in the piece of tin that a sheriff's badge is made out of, but it represents the authority that is behind it.

Stephen looked at his badge and said, "That means, don't touch my stuff." It should be that simple for you and me. Our badge is the Name of Jesus—the authority He gave us.

Dealing With the Devil
Are you fed up with lack? Are you fed up with sickness? Are you fed up with the devil stealing from you? Then do something about it. Say, "devil, take your hands off my stuff, in the Name of Jesus! Devil, don't touch my stuff!" Tell him your "stuff" is off limits, in the Name of Jesus.

Look what happened to Adam: He allowed that snake to get into his garden when he should have taken authority over it. Then he tried to blame his problems on the woman, yet Adam's the one who should have done something about the problem.

Peter did something about the lame man's problem: He exercised his authority over the situation! Notice the authority he used: "And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John..." (v. 4).

Expecting To Receive
Peter locked in. He fastened his eyes on the lame man. As you read the account, the lame man said he expected to receive. If you can get people into expecting to receive, something will happen!

This is what my wife Nancy does with her tent ministry: She gets the people into an attitude of expectancy.

Nancy advertises free toys, free food, and free clothes, and tells people to come on a certain date to pick it up. But the ticket that entitles them to the free gifts says they've got to come inside the tent first to hear the preaching. For half an hour Nancy gives them a simple Bible lesson on salvation.

They come expecting to get something, and this puts them into an expectant frame of mind. The do receive something in addition to the items: They receive Jesus!

That's what happened to the lame man: He was getting ready to receive, and Peter fastened his eyes on him. When you know who you are in Christ, you're not afraid of sickness or disease. You know who you are—a righteous person. A righteous man is a man who has been made to be in right standing with God. It's just like he never sinned.

Resisting the Devil
How many of you know what the blood of Jesus did for you? Then get off your own case. Some of you beat yourselves up. Some of you look in the mirror, and a voice comes to you—it's the devil—and says, "You're ugly. You're never going to make it. You're too thin. You're too fat. You're bald."

You ought to remind the devil about his past and tell him about his future! The Bible says to resist him and he'll flee from you. It's time for the Body of Christ to rise up and resist him in the Name of Jesus, refusing to accept his lies anymore.

"Brother Dufresne, I'm so far in debt, I'll never get out."

No, just say, "My God meets all of my needs according to His riches in glory, and I'm coming out of debt in the Name of Jesus."

But you say, "It doesn't look like it."

I said, make this confession: "I'm coming out of it."

How the Devil Tricks You
The devil beats more Christians with sin-consciousness than anything else. "You don't have any power," he accuses you after he steals it from you. Resist him! Tell him, "Devil, don't touch my stuff!"

Don't forget, I got this concept from a five-year-old boy, so there's hope for us adults. God used a donkey once to speak to Balaam (Numbers 22), and a minister friend of mine tells a story about a rooster that was used to warn a preacher.

My friend's grandfather was a preacher in the early days of Pentecost. Back then, if you even talked about tongues in some towns, they'd come after you to tar and feather you, beat you up, and leave you at to die!

A mob was coming to tar and feather this man one day. He was sitting on the back porch of a house, and a rooster came up on the porch and started talking to him in English. It said, "They're coming in the front door. Run!" That's right, they Holy Spirit came upon that rooster.

Think about it: If the Lord can use a rooster to prophesy, no telling what we could do if we'd just yield ourselves to God!

We need to get rid or our sense of sin-consciousness. And we need to quit living in the past. Too many Christians mumble, "Well, I'm just an old dirty sinner."

Looking at Us Through the Blood
But the blood of Jesus washed and cleansed us! That's the theme of the Gospel. Put yourself in remembrance of the blood covenant and what God cut for you and me. The Father looks at us through the blood of His Son!

It finally dawned on me during the last few years that I'll never be perfect. I've got flaws. I won't be perfect until I see Jesus.

I'm not teaching about being arrogant; I'm teaching about humbling yourself under the mighty hand of God so He can exalt you in due time.

If we could just get that knowledge of how our police officers and others in authority walk in their authority! What would happen to a police officer if he hesitated in the middle of a gun battle? He would die.

But that's the same thing Christians are doing every day! They hesitate. They say, "I'm just a dirty old sinner." Then the devil brings up what you did, and you say, "I talked bad last week, or I looked at someone they wrong way, or I shouldn't have been in that place."

Are you going to believe the devil, or are you going to believe your Lord who is in heaven? He said that every name that is named has to bow to that Name. He said, "Ask anything in my name, and I'll give it to you." Hallelujah!

Wake Up to The Final Hour
Quit being drunk on religion and wake up to this hour! These are the last days. But there are wars and rumors of war in the natural realm. But there's a war going on in the spiritual realm, and we're right on the threshold of blasting out of his world. We're coming up to the final events.

The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. Every time billions of dollars' worth of gold is discovered, rejoice, because it's coming into the kingdom of God. The Bible says so: "The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just" (Prov. 13:22).

"That doesn't mean money, Brother Dufresne."

Let me lay hands on your head and pray for you.

I'm expecting it. It makes me mad when the sinners and the devil-possessed people have all the good things in life and you go to church and see Christians who are just barely making it.

They pull up to church in an old, broken-down car when there's a bunch of sinners out there with brand-new cars. Those blessings are laid up for us, too.

We need to take authority over our circumstances and demand for those blessings to come into the kingdom of God in the Name of Jesus. Demand their release from Satan's hand.

Ed Dufresne Ministries
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Ed Dufresne
Web site: Ed Dufresne Ministries
 
Dr. Ed Dufresne was a bold and compassionate minister with over 49 years in the ministry. In 1971, God put a tangible healing anointing in Dr. Dufresne's right hand, and since then he had traveled over 11 million air miles carrying that healing anointing to this generation.
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