Podcast Episode Summary

Dufresne Ministries Podcast

Episode: Bring The Word To Prayer | Amy Siegel | Mississauga, Canada | JTH Crusades 2024 | Wednesday AM
Date: August 28, 2024
Guest Speaker: Amy Siegel

Overview

This episode, featuring Amy Siegel, is a powerful teaching and practical session on the necessity of integrating God's Word into our prayer life. Amy emphasizes that the effectiveness and fruitfulness of prayer are directly linked to knowing and employing the Word of God, which is His revealed will. Through personal testimony, Scriptural exposition, and practical analogies, she equips listeners to “bring the Word to prayer” for greater results in their spiritual lives and collective ministry impact.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Ministry of Helps & Introduction (00:08–02:30)

• Community in Ministry: Amy acknowledges the importance of everyone bringing their part, especially the music ministry, to accomplish God’s service.
• Team Teaching Format: She describes how she and her husband often co-minister on prayer, emphasizing the dynamic, Spirit-led, and collaborative approach that's both practiced in their home church and modeled in these crusades.

2. The Call to Proficiency in Prayer (03:30–07:30)

• Personal Anecdote: Amy recounts how God told her, “Become proficient in prayer,” which she initially thought was encouraging but later realized was a challenge—a loving rebuke given her years in ministry.
• Self-assessment: She reflects on how longevity in the Christian faith doesn’t automatically equate to accuracy in prayer. “I was not being as accurate as I could be. I was not accomplishing or becoming as fruitful as I needed to be” (06:29–07:10).

3. The Scriptural Foundation for Prayer (07:32–14:00)

• 1 John 5:14–15: Amy unpacks these verses as the biblical basis that confidence in prayer comes from praying according to God’s will—His Word.

  • “This means we can have confidence… when we pray His will, it will be heard and it will be accomplished" (10:03).

• Key Principle:

  • “Bringing the Word with you to prayer? Why? Because His Word is His will. His word is His will” (10:30).

4. The Word as Platform and Arsenal (11:30–19:50)

• Analogy—The Diving Platform:
  • “The Word of God is your platform in prayer. The more you understand this book, the more you have it planted…the farther you can go in prayer, the more can be accomplished” (12:30).
• Continuous Growth: Even seasoned believers must keep increasing their “platform” by feeding on the Word, so that their arsenal in prayer grows.
• Isaiah 55: God’s ways and thoughts are higher, but we are invited into that higher realm by filling ourselves with His Word.

5. How the Word Works in Prayer (19:58–29:56)

• Analogy—Rain, Seed, and Soil:
  • The Word is like seed that must land in the soil of our heart and is watered by the Spirit; it must be spoken from us (Isaiah 51:16).
  • “His Word, His will has to be planted in your heart, and then it has to come up out of your mouth… That’s how things are accomplished in your life and throughout the earth” (25:30).
• Analogy—Jigsaw Puzzle:
  • The Word forms the framework; praying in tongues adds the pieces with the Spirit’s guidance (22:50).
• Scripture Must Be Uttered: If the Word worked only by being written once, everything would be accomplished already—it must be spoken by believers continually (27:15).

6. Practicalities: Bringing the Word into Prayer (29:56–43:30)

• Pray the Word for Life’s Situations: Whether it’s for nations, pastors, or family, knowing the Word on the subject gives more “currency” in the spirit realm.
  • “The Word of God is the currency of heaven. It’s the currency of the spirit realm… You need the Word” (35:11).
• Example—Paul’s Prayer in 2 Thessalonians 3:
  • Pray that “the Word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified” (36:10–37:50).
  • Take Pauline prayers and insert the church, ministers, or circumstances by name.
• Resource Mention: Pastor Nancy Dufresne’s compiled scriptures/booklets on prayer are recommended for those wanting ready access to scriptural prayers (39:30).

7. Integration & Illustration (40:00–43:30)

• Peanut Butter & Chocolate Analogy:
  • “He’s put his word in my mouth to create something beautiful on earth as it is in heaven” (43:00).
  • Just as chocolate and peanut butter create something better together, so being full of both Word and Spirit creates powerful, effective prayer.

8. Additional Insights & Responses (43:33–44:53)

• Deficiency in the Body: Many believers pray only asking for what’s already provided in the Word, rather than praying Word-directed prayers.
  • “Some word would really help. And it would change your prayer” (44:00–44:40).

9. Corporate Prayer & Declarations (45:00–62:55)

• Practical Activation: Amy and her team lead the congregation in corporate prayer, modeling how to use the Word to pray for nations, hunger for God’s Word, open doors for the gospel, and laborers for the harvest.
  • “Thank you…that your word would speed ahead, that it would run rapidly, that it would be honored and glorified in this place and beyond” (45:00–46:13).
• Declarations Over the Body of Christ: Repeated affirmation of their willingness to be laborers, to speak God’s Word, to step out, and to rejoice.
• Call to the Listeners:
  • “If you can engage more, I want to invite you now to engage more…lift your voice up a little. To the ends of the earth…the Word through the European continent…” (48:35–51:40).

Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Receiving Correction from God:

  • “When he said, ‘become proficient in prayer,’...that was a rebuke. I was already…a Christian for, like, 30 years…He was telling me, you’re not good at this yet. Here’s the thing, guys. I’d been praying this whole time.” – Amy (04:15–06:29)

• The Word as Prayer Foundation:

  • “His Word is His will. So Jesus, teach us to pray. He said, ‘Pray, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’ You gotta know his will for the earth to pray and have him here.” – Amy (10:30–11:30)

• On Growth:

  • “My son is 27, and now his vocabulary is to the point where I’m like, son, you gotta dumb it down for your mom…Because he’s grown up, the platform of his vocabulary has increased…” – Amy (13:40)

• On Speaking the Word:

  • “If it was just up to God saying it one time, we would have wrapped this thing up a long time ago…It only works if it comes out.” – Amy (25:30–29:56)

• On the "Currency" of Heaven:

  • “The Word of God is the currency of heaven. It’s the currency of the spirit realm. Just like you need [money] here…in the spirit realm, you need the Word.” – Amy (35:11)

• On Encountering the Spirit & Word Together:

  • “He’s put his word in my mouth to create something beautiful on earth as it is in heaven.” – Amy (43:00)

Action Points & Takeaways

• Pursue Proficiency in prayer not by routine but by intentional growth in the Word.
• Pack Yourself Full of the Word: The Word must be in your heart to be effective in prayer.
• Pray the Word: Use Scripture as a framework, and let the Holy Spirit “fill in the pieces” as you pray (in English and in tongues).
• Speak it Out: The power is released when God’s Word is spoken by His people—out loud.
• Resource Recommendation: Leverage compiled prayer scriptures to strengthen and guide your prayer focus.
• Be a Laborer: Respond, “Here am I, send me,” embracing the role as God’s mouthpiece and co-laborer on the earth.

Timestamps for Important Segments

• Introduction & Ministry of Helps: 00:08–02:30
• Proficiency in Prayer: 03:30–07:30
• 1 John 5 & Will of God: 07:32–14:00
• Analogies (Diving, Vocabulary): 12:30–16:56
• Isaiah 55—God’s Higher Ways: 16:57–19:57
• How Word Works (Rain, Soil, Puzzles): 19:58–29:56
• Practical Application (Currency, Paul’s Prayer): 35:10–43:33
• Corporate Prayer Activation: 45:00–62:55

Conclusion

Amy Siegel’s message is an engaging invitation and challenge to believers: don’t settle for shallow, rote prayer. Instead, become “proficient” by planting and speaking God’s Word, being full of both Word and Spirit. Only then will our prayers be truly effective—accomplishing God’s will and ushering heaven’s realities into the earth.

“He’s put His word in my mouth to create something beautiful on earth as it is in heaven.”
— Amy Siegel (43:00)