Podcast Summary: "A Testimony Of The Anointing"

Host/Speaker: Nancy Dufresne (Dufresne Ministries)
Event: High Springs, Florida | JTH Crusades 2025 | Thursday PM
Date: May 12, 2025
Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast

Episode Overview

This episode features Pastor Nancy Dufresne sharing a deeply personal and faith-stirring testimony of the "healing anointing" that has marked the Dufresne family and ministry. Speaking at the JTH Crusades, Nancy explores the spiritual significance of testimonies, the power and operation of the healing anointing, and recounts the miraculous journey of her late husband, Dr. Ed Dufresne. Listeners are encouraged to recognize and honor God's movements in their own lives as she powerfully teaches on making room for the supernatural in everyday faith.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Value of Testimonies

• Nancy opens by emphasizing the Biblical and spiritual importance of sharing testimonies, drawing from Paul's encounter before King Agrippa and the woman with the issue of blood.

  • “In your testimony, people need to hear it... Men are hungry to know that God will move in their life.” (02:26)

• She encourages listeners not to diminish their own testimonies, whether dramatic or stable, noting the power of a testimony is in God's sustaining work, not in its sensationalism.

  • “Don’t want some radical far-fetched testimony at the rate of diminishing. Maybe you’ve just been kept your whole life… that’s the one to be preferred.” (05:33)

Jesus and the Anointing: Luke 4

• Nancy examines Luke 4:16-19, highlighting Jesus’ “job description” for the anointing:

  • Preaching the gospel to the poor
  • Healing the brokenhearted
  • Proclaiming deliverance to captives
  • Recovering of sight
  • Setting free those oppressed

• She stresses that right habits create a spiritual standard, just as Jesus’ habit was to go to the synagogue.

  • “If Jesus needed to go to church, you need to go to church. Period.” (08:26)

• The anointing, not just benevolence or programs, is the answer to true transformation.

  • "The gospel is the cure for lack. Money’s not the cure for lack." (09:03)

Resistance to the Anointing

• Nancy relates how Jesus’ declaration of the anointing was met with hostility in Nazareth, illustrating how the enemy fights revelations about the anointing.
  • “No one was thrilled when they heard him say this. In fact, they got so angry, they went to take him out…What was it that Jesus was proclaiming? What the anointing upon him would accomplish.” (11:15)
• “One moment of contact with the anointing undoes things he’s tried to yoke people up with for years and decades and even through whole family lines… until somebody stops it." (13:12)

Dr. Ed Dufresne’s Testimony: From Bondage to Anointing

• Nancy tells about Ed Dufresne’s upbringing in a family marked by mental illness and alcoholism, his unsuccessful search for help from his Catholic priest, and his pivotal salvation experience. (17:00-20:00)

• The turning point:

  • He hears God’s audible voice while sitting in a bar: “You’re going to go all over the world and preach the gospel.” (20:38)

• Early ministry faithfulness:

  • Starts in the church cleaning toilets, then promoted to greeter and deacon.
  • Supernatural vision: sees Jesus on the cross with all sickness and disease placed upon Him. (23:00)

• Sacrificial obedience:

  • Sells his home to attend a conference where he meets his spiritual fathers (John Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin).
  • Receives the healing anointing in a dramatic encounter at a convention: “A light flashed through the lobby…and Ed fell out…Jesus walked in and put a healing anointing in his hand." (35:00)

Miraculous Healings & the Spread of the Anointing

• Lays hands on a woman with cancer; her tumor disappears instantly: “That cancer popped like you popped a balloon…it instantly disappeared.” (36:00)
• Healing flows within his own family and ministry connections, signifying the importance of right associations.
  • “It does matter who you’re associated with. I said, it does matter.” (41:44)

The Role of Angels in Healing

• Shares supernatural experiences of angels assisting in Ed’s and her own healing ministries:
  • “I have just dispatched 100 angels to assist you in the healing ministry…Jesus is the healer, but they cooperate with healing power.” (43:06)
  • Gives examples: angels adjusting spines, spectacular creative miracles in services. (44:00-46:00)

Impartation and the Operation of the Healing Anointing

• Nancy teaches how healing anointing is imparted by the laying on of hands, urging faith and expectancy rather than striving.
  • “I’m not praying for the sick tonight. I’m laying hands on and imparting healing anointing. This is another method." (47:10)
  • “When that anointing goes in... you are authorized to call yourself healed.” (49:35)
  • Emphasizes not to seek feelings or outward manifestations but to simply receive by faith: “You’re not healed because you fall. You’re healed because you receive by faith.” (55:02)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Testimony's Power:
  "The Word of God is a record of God moving in the lives of men. And we have that because that's what we're hungry for, right?" — Nancy Dufresne (03:10)
• On Faith’s Practicality:
  "Faith will do whatever it takes. If you love God, you lay down your pride, you lay down…because that stuff will just hold you back anyway." — Nancy Dufresne quoting Ed Dufresne (24:09)
• On Releasing The Anointing:
  “The anointing going in equals healing. That’s what the renewed mind knows.” (50:00)
• On Association’s Influence:
  “It does matter who you’re connected to…because those 50 [angels]…were dispatched to work with those men who have healing anointings on their life that were associated with your husband.” (42:40)

Important Timestamps

• The Value of Testimonies — 02:00 – 07:00
• Jesus' Job Description & Spiritual Habits — 08:00 – 13:10
• Ed Dufresne’s Early Life & Salvation — 17:00 – 21:00
• Encounter with the Healing Anointing — 34:00 – 38:00
• Miracles and Angelic Assistance — 43:00 – 48:00
• The Anointing & Receiving Healing — 47:00 – 55:00
• Instruction for Healing Line/Receiving — 55:00 – 65:00
• Impartation & Prayer for Congregation — 75:00 – 78:00

Final Thoughts and Encouragements

• Nancy closes by reminding the congregation to “keep stirred” what has been imparted, and publicly appreciates the pastors, ministry of helps, church staff, and the family’s partners in ministry.
  • “What you do is different than what you do, but what you do is not less… Thank you for bringing your faith.” (82:38)
• She charges listeners to “go home and keep it stirred. Don’t let it go dormant. Amen. What you received in these services, keep it stirred up.” (78:00)
• She highlights that the same anointing is available to anyone who honors and receives it by faith.

Summary

This episode is a heartfelt, transparent, and faith-charged look into the reality of the anointing—from its scriptural foundation to its manifestation in Ed and Nancy Dufresne’s lives and ministry. Listeners are called to recognize God’s supernatural movement not only in dramatic moments but in daily faithfulness, to honor the associations God places in their lives, and to boldly expect the supernatural—in healing, in provision, and in destiny. It is an episode brimming with hope, practical faith, and spiritual instruction for anyone hungry for more of God’s miraculous power at work.

For more information or to share your testimony, visit dufresneministries.org.