Podcast Summary: Healing Service | Nancy Dufresne | JTH Crusades 2024 | Paducah, KY | Tuesday PM

Date: May 9, 2024
Host: Nancy Dufresne, Dufresne Ministries
Event: JTH Crusades 2024, Paducah, KY (Tuesday PM)

Overview

This episode features Pastor Nancy Dufresne leading a dynamic healing service in Paducah, KY, as part of the JTH Crusades. The service is marked by a strong emphasis on the believer’s participation in divine move, unity in the Body of Christ, spiritual discernment in receiving ministry, the power of generosity and honor, and corporate healing and deliverance. The atmosphere is worshipful, with extended periods of music, prophetic flow, personal ministry, and testimonies of deliverance—especially around emotional and physical healing.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Role of Participation in the Service

• Three Parts in Every Service: God, Preacher, Congregation (00:26)

  • Nancy opens by stressing, “In every service, there's three parts. There's God's part, the preacher's part, and the congregation's part. Most don't know that there's three parts, but you have a part. You have a part in what God can do in a service.”
  • Participants are encouraged not just to be present but to “do their part,” emphasizing active spiritual engagement, not passive attendance.

• Warning Against Casualness

  • The congregation is cautioned not to take for granted the presence of God, warning against becoming “too casual toward an atmosphere where God is in manifestation and mishandle it, mistreat it, devalue it.” (01:43)

2. Spiritual Discernment in Receiving Ministry

• Guarding Against Unsound Influences Online (05:18)

  • Nancy warns, “Don't get on the Internet and click on everything that says about somebody going to heaven or hell; don't, please…”
  • She emphasizes sticking with ministries and voices God has assigned to you to avoid spiritual confusion and being led astray.
  • “Let me give you a good, sound instruction. Know who God has authored to speak into your life and stay in that feeding vein.” (05:18)

• The Danger of Multiple Voices (08:28)

  • Nancy discusses the confusion that can occur from “clicking on multiple voices”: “You will confuse your spirit, you will confuse your faith, you will confuse your system of believing by clicking on multiple voices.”
  • She instructs pastors not to open the pulpit to everyone but to those in the God-given “flow.”

3. Honor, Generosity, and the Memorial Principle

• Cornelius as a Pattern (Acts 10) (13:40)

  • Nancy reads Acts 10, highlighting Cornelius as “a devout man and one that feared God with all his house; which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.”
  • She notes that Cornelius’ honor and generosity became “a memorial before God”—“This man's giving inserted itself in God's view. A monument came up. What built the monument? His generosity.” (14:04–14:20)
  • She emphasizes: “If we live honorably and generously, we can always be a door God can come through.” (18:41)

• Personal Reflection

  • “Aren't you glad...you have a part in the service? It's not just up to what happens up front. You have a part.” (01:43)

4. Unity and Diversity in the Move of God

• Space for Every Part in Revival (20:45)
  • “In this last days' revivals...there will be streams of ministry flowing together. Now, God loves unity...never be afraid of someone else upstaging you. Always make room for someone else's part.”
  • Nancy encourages ministers to celebrate and integrate others’ gifts, saying, “In everyone bringing their part, your part is enhanced.” (20:45)

5. Flowing with the Holy Spirit

• Allowing Multiple Expressions

  • 1 Corinthians 14:26 is quoted to highlight the importance of each bringing their unique contribution for the edification of all.
  • “When we come together, when we come full, God has options of what he can draw on. And he won't draw on emptiness, but he'll draw on fullness.” (22:42)

• Worship and Prophetic Song (~24:00–27:30)

  • Worship time transitions into a prophetic musical flow, emphasizing the King's eternal glory and God's healing power present in the service.

6. Manifestations of Healing and Deliverance

• Words of Knowledge and Corporate Healings

  • Nancy calls out specific healings as led:
    • Right hip and back issues (31:18)
    • Ligaments and tendons (31:42)
    • Throat conditions (32:19)
    • Collarbone and shoulders (33:45)
    • Ear openings (34:32)
    • Lower back (36:17)
  • Core instruction: “Now healed...It’s already done. So don’t hear these things and say, ‘Oh Lord, that’s me—do something for me.’ No. Say, now healed.” (32:41, 32:48)

• Highlight: Healing Flow Song (27:52)

  • Ms. Cindy leads a prophetic song: “There’s a healing river flowing now. There’s a healing river in this house. There’s a healing flow straight from the throne. There is healing for a home. Don’t be denied...but believe that you receive a healing.” (27:52–29:21)

7. Testimony and Ministry for Emotional Healing & Suicide

• Testimony of Deliverance from Suicide (37:12–44:39)

  • Pastor Michael Anderson shares a moving personal testimony about suicide and ministering to someone in his congregation.
  • Quote: “Those thoughts are lies from the pit of hell. What is the enemy trying to keep you from? ... He’s just tormenting. They are lies from hell. And there is help for you. God has a plan for your life.” (40:03)

• Breaking the Spirit of Heaviness

  • Anderson and Nancy together break the spirit of suicide and depression through corporate prayer, referencing Isaiah 61:3 (“the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness”).
  • Nancy adds, “Dr. Sumrall...said every person will be tempted with the thought of suicide, he said, because Jesus was...That was a spirit of suicide. ... So don’t follow the feeling.” (40:45)

• Invitation for Ministry

  • Attendees and online listeners struggling with torment or depression invited for specific prayer and deliverance: “If you're struggling with those thoughts here tonight...come forward and let's pray and believe God to break that power off of you.” (42:31–43:03)

8. Laying on of Hands for Healing

• Personal Ministry to Those Unable to Attend Thursday (49:05–52:12)
  • Nancy ministers individually, calling out needs—heart, stomach, knees, dental, etc.—laying hands and speaking healing.
  • Instruction to recipients: “Just focus on receiving that. ... Sometimes when people are speaking in tongues, it goes right back out of them because he gives out instead of receiving in.” (50:56–51:07)

9. Declarations of Faith

• Corporate Confession (52:25)
  • Nancy leads everyone: “Say this: Now healed, now free, now victorious, now peaceful, now joyful.” (52:25–52:37)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On our role:

  “You have a part in what God can do in a service...If we're only minimal in our measure of what we're hooked into, then that affects how far the whole goes.” – Nancy Dufresne (01:43)

• On guarding your spirit:

  “Don’t let the Internet pastor you.” – Nancy Dufresne (08:16)

• On ministry unity:

  “Never be afraid of someone else upstaging you. Always make room for someone else's part. ... In everyone bringing their part, your part is enhanced.” – Nancy Dufresne (20:45)

• On the move of God:

  “Your actions carry something with us...don’t be mindless.” – Nancy Dufresne (07:53)

• On receiving healing:

  “Now healed. ... Don’t let the natural change what you say, let what you say change the natural.” – Nancy Dufresne (34:53/35:03)

• On deliverance from suicide/depression:

  “Those thoughts are lies from the pit of hell. ... There is help for you. God has a plan for your life.” – Pastor Michael Anderson (40:03)
  “Every person will be tempted with the thought of suicide ... Jesus was.” – Nancy Dufresne quoting Dr. Sumrall (40:45)

• Declaration:

  “Now healed, now free, now victorious, now peaceful, now joyful.” – Congregational affirmation led by Nancy Dufresne (52:25)

Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:26 – The Three Parts in Every Service
• 05:18 – Discernment in Ministry Influences/Guarding Your Heart
• 08:28 – Dangers of Multiple Voices and Staying in Your Flow
• 13:40 – Cornelius' Honor and Generosity (Acts 10)
• 18:41 – Living as a Door for God through Honor and Generosity
• 20:45 – Unity and Allowing Others’ Parts in Ministry
• 24:00–27:30 – Prophetic Song and Worship
• 27:52 – "Healing River" Prophetic Song by Ms. Cindy
• 31:18 – Specific Words of Knowledge for Healing
• 32:41 – Principle: “Now healed” (Faith Declarations)
• 37:12 – Suicide/Depression Testimony and Ministry (Pastor Michael Anderson)
• 43:03 – Ministry to Those with Depression/Suicidal Thoughts
• 49:05 – Laying on of Hands for Healing
• 52:25 – Corporate Declarations of Healing and Freedom

Final Reflections

This healing service emphasizes the importance of unity, discernment in spiritual voices, participating actively in the move of God, and the power of worship, generosity, honor, and faith declarations for healing and deliverance.

The ministry times are marked by a tangible sense of the Holy Spirit’s presence and compassion, particularly for those battling physical and emotional bondage. By merging teaching, worship, prophetic flow, and personal ministry, the service models the multifaceted nature of New Testament gatherings.

For more information, testimonies, or to connect, visit dufresneministries.org.