Podcast Summary: "Eviction Through Aggression"

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Episode: Eviction Through Aggression | Stephen Dufresne | High Springs, Florida | JTH Crusades 2025 | Monday AM
Date: May 6, 2025
Speaker: Stephen Dufresne
Location: High Springs, Florida

Episode Overview

This engaging episode features Stephen Dufresne delivering a direct and practical message about pursuing healing and miracles through a determined and aggressive attitude of faith. Speaking at the opening Monday morning of the JTH Crusades 2025, Stephen challenges listeners to leave the meeting with tangible results—healing, revelation, and miracles—by adopting a spiritually aggressive stance, evicting sickness and every “tenant” from their lives that does not belong. His tone is bold, humorous, at times provocative, but always pastoral, urging attendees and listeners to shift from passivity to robust faith.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Expectation and Determination for Miracles

• Stephen sets the atmosphere: Expect the unprecedented from God—not just what has been seen, but miracles never witnessed before.
  • “Are we gonna believe for things that we've never seen before? … I'm leaving this meeting with something.” (01:20)
• He insists that everyone should aim to leave with something valuable. There's a sense of "you get out what you put in."

2. Healing Is Not a Feeling—It's a Faith Stance

• Faith vs. Feelings:
  • “Healing is not a feeling. And if you are relying on a feeling before you believe you're healed, I'm sorry.” (07:14)
• Many miss out simply because they wait for a physical feeling to confirm healing, but faith requires believing before feeling.

3. Aggression as a Spiritual Requirement

• The central metaphor:
  • “Eviction Through Aggression”—sickness is like a squatter that must be forcefully expelled, not politely asked to leave.
  • “You gotta come in hot and heavy, on the verge of cussing… you gotta meet it head in head here… We Got to be aggressive.” (12:14)
• Aggression is not anger toward people, but a hostile, vigorous resistance to what doesn’t belong in your life—sickness, defeat, etc.

4. Jesus as Model of Righteous Aggression

• Retells the story of Jesus making a whip and driving out the money changers (John 2:14):
  • “It takes a hot minute to make a whip. So what is he doing? He's getting more ticked off the more that he's building this whip. … that's called some aggression.” (15:14)
• Application: Sometimes faith requires making a mess and being forceful with things that don’t belong.

5. Illustrative Stories—Rats in the Attic

• Stephen uses stories of removing rats from his house:
  • “I'm the type of person, I know the consequences if I let this go on… I started banging. Them rats. ... I gotta make a statement. I gotta let the rest of them know this ain't your house. You've been evicted.” (22:00)
• Point: If you don’t deal aggressively with intrusions—sickness, sin, trouble—they multiply.

6. Scriptural Grounding: Evicting Evil Spirits

• Mark 9:14-29—Jesus casting out a spirit from a boy:
  • Sickness identified as an evil spirit—“Cancer is an evil spirit. Down syndrome is an evil spirit. Anything in your body that is a sickness, it's an evil spirit.” (29:50)
• Spiritual authority is needed to “grab and evict through aggression.”

7. Rebellion as an Act of Faith

• “An act of rebellion against sickness is an act of faith.” (41:34)
• Sickness is a ruler that tries to limit and enslave; rebellion (faith) is necessary to break its rule.

8. Taking Physical Steps—Action Required

• “You gotta try to get up. They're waiting for hot oil over their head to throw them out of the chair. Get up, you're already broke. What you got to lose? Throw yourself on the floor… It takes you forcefully doing what you could never do.” (36:28)
• Faith requires action even when you don’t “feel” able or healed.

9. Maintaining the Property of Healing

• “Healing is a property or place that must be occupied by the believer.” (38:45)
• Like maintaining a home, continual vigilance and active maintenance are needed—otherwise, “things move in because you ain’t there to take care of it.”

10. Overcoming Physical Senses

• “Physical senses always hold fast to the confession of their pain and symptoms. Faith people can never let our senses tell us how we feel.…” (50:50)
• Emphasizes standing by the word and the act of prayer—don’t return to the altar for what you’ve already received by faith.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Bold Faith and Aggression:
  • “You gotta come in hot and heavy, on the verge of cussing. … you gotta meet it head in head here.” (12:14 – Stephen Dufresne)
  • “You gotta have some aggression to make a statement that you ain't welcome here.” (24:40 – regarding rats/sickness)
  • “An act of rebellion against sickness is an act of faith. It must be rebelled against, because if it's not, then it's accepted.” (41:34)
• Practical Takeaways:
  • “Healing is a property that must be occupied by the believer.” (38:45)
  • “Don't hope that sickness goes away. You grab it by the neck…” (33:44)
• Humor & Relatability:
  • “[Jesus] leaves and goes and builds a whip from cord that probably take a hot minute.” (15:41)
  • “You women are wild, man. … Just wild animals. Aggression.” (13:14)
• Declaration for Listeners:
  • “This week, I'm leaving completely healed. Whether or not I feel like it. … In Jesus name.” (56:40)

Key Timestamps

• 00:08 — Setting Expectations for Miracles
• 07:14 — Healing is Not a Feeling
• 12:14 — Faith Requires Aggression, Not Politeness
• 15:14 — Jesus’ Aggression in the Temple
• 22:00 — Rats in the Attic—Aggressive Eviction Illustration
• 29:50 — Identifying Sickness as a Spirit (Mark 9)
• 33:44 — Taking Authority: “Grab it by the neck”
• 36:28 — Faith = Action Even Without Results
• 38:45 — Healing as Property to Be Maintained
• 41:34 — “An Act of Rebellion Against Sickness is Faith”
• 50:50 — Don’t Be Ruled by Physical Senses
• 56:40 — Final Declaration: “Leaving completely healed…”

Final Encouragements

• Receive the word, let the message of healing take root, and don’t wait for confirmation in the physical before believing you’re healed.
• Take a rebellious, aggressive stance toward anything that doesn’t belong in your life—especially sickness.
• Be ready to do something you couldn’t do, declaring, “I am leaving here with something—healing, revelation, a miracle—no matter how I feel.”

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