Healing Service | Richard Roberts | Holy Ghost Meetings 2023 – Detailed Podcast Summary

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Date: January 13, 2023
Speaker: Richard Roberts (Guest Minister)
Host: Dufresne Ministries
Setting: Sunday AM service, Holy Ghost Meetings 2023

Episode Overview

This episode features Richard Roberts, renowned healing evangelist and son of Oral Roberts, leading a healing service at Dufresne Ministries. The overarching theme is faith for supernatural healing and financial breakthrough, emphasizing the importance of receiving God’s blessings to become a blessing to others. Richard delivers an extemporaneous message, shares testimonies of miraculous healings, offers teaching on biblical prosperity and healing, and ministers to the congregation through prophetic words, words of knowledge, and a corporate time of prayer for healing and freedom.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Being Led by the Spirit, Not the Plan

• Richard starts by acknowledging his own plans for the service were set aside to follow the moving of the Holy Ghost (00:00–01:00).
• “Aren’t we supposed to be instant in and out of season?” (00:23)
• He emphasizes living in the present, letting go of the past, and pressing toward the high calling in Christ (00:28).

2. Year of Breakthrough and Blessing: “2023 is the Year for Me”

• Richard shares a prophetic word received by Lindsay Roberts: “2023 is the year for me.” Initially sounding self-serving, it shifts to recognizing you must be blessed to be a blessing (02:05).
• “The sick cannot help the sick. The poor cannot help the poor.” (02:34)
• Discusses biblical and modern applications of wealth transfer as God's way to resource His people for end-time harvest (02:56–04:40).

3. Miracles, Healing, and the Move of God

• Recounts miraculous stories:
  • Abraham’s wealth through Pharaoh, Isaac with Abimelech, Jacob with Laban, Joseph’s rise in Egypt, the Israelites’ exodus (03:10–04:30).
  • End-time wealth transfer is prophesied and believed to be imminent (04:35).
• Richard marvels at the immediate sense of God’s presence at Dufresne Ministries, wishing all churches in America could experience such (05:00).

4. Reflections on Ministry Relationships

• Shares the history of his relationship with Pastor Nancy Dufresne and Ed Dufresne, including television ministry and Fresh Oil Fellowship connections (06:00–08:00).

5. Teaching: The Principle of Loosing and Binding, Healing as the Dinner Bell

• Shares a revelation: Typically, believers “bind Satan and loose the power of God,” but the Lord instructed him to “loose the person from sickness and bind healing to them” (12:35).
• Vivid account of angels carrying ‘healing’ to people during a Creflo Dollar service, confirmed by multiple witnesses (14:00).
• Notes a shift in anointing recently during a service at Andrew Wommack’s “Healing is Now” conference (15:30).
• Affirms healing as a vital, present-day aspect of Jesus’ ministry: “Teach, preach, and heal—that’s the full gospel.” (21:35)
• “If you don’t have the confirmation miraculous, you’re not doing what Jesus said.” (23:00)

6. Supernatural Healing Testimonies and Words of Knowledge

• Shares profound testimonies, e.g.,
  • A child’s webbed fingers healed during a live broadcast (16:29)
  • Vietnam veteran’s 40-year numbness healed (17:30)
  • Woman in Ghana with only one breast received creative miracle (20:05)
• “A miracle settles the issue. And that’s what people are looking for.” (21:00)
• Healing is for every area: physical, emotional, financial, relational (26:30).
• Stresses the biblical word “prosper” as wholeness and thriving in every part of life (27:30).
• On unforgiveness: “Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” (66:10; Lindsay Roberts quote)

7. Words of Knowledge with Corporate Healing Prayer

• Direct words of knowledge for:
  • Stomach/intestinal conditions (nervous stomach, dysentery, stomach cancer) (43:20)
  • Migraine headaches (personal testimony about Lindsay’s healing from migraines) (44:00)
  • Hearing loss & eardrum healing (46:00)
  • Lung and breathing problems, including COPD, asthma (47:30)
  • Skeletal and joint injuries, sciatica, shoulder/knee/back/ankle pain (48:30)
  • Cancer, tumors, pre-cancerous skin spots (49:40)
  • Eyesight: cataracts, blurred vision, glaucoma (47:06, 50:00)
• Repeated instruction to “loose” people from sickness and “bind” healing to them, with congregation laying on of hands (46:59).
• Encourages active participation: “When you pray, believe.” (56:30)

8. Live Testimonies of Instant Healings (50:55–70:58)

• Back-to-back testimonies from congregation members verify a wide range of instant healings following prayer and the laying on of hands:
  • Shoulder mobility restored after years of pain ([50:55])
  • Knee pain resolved, people able to squat, walk, or run pain-free ([51:13], [52:01])
  • Hearing restored, migraines gone, chronic back pain alleviated
  • Asthma/lung issues resolved, full breaths taken for first time since birth ([55:19])
  • Restoration after injuries and surgeries, stiffness and swelling disappeared
  • Emotional healing: delivered from unforgiveness, anxiety, and spiritual oppression ([56:42], [65:57])
  • “I got loosed from Satan’s grip.” ([56:42])
  • “Since you’re here, you might as well get it all.” ([56:01])

9. The Power of Testimony and Faith in Action

• Encourages those who received healing to share openly and sets a communal expectation for miracles to be both realized and shared.
• “Many people describe… a heat. It’s gone?” ([54:48])

10. Closing: Release of New Parts, Final Exhortations, and Special Music

• Calls for those needing “new parts” (hearts, organs, even hair!) to receive by faith ([62:57])
• Song: “God Will Turn It For Your Good”—an encouragement that God uses even what was meant for evil to accomplish His purpose ([75:08–77:30])
• Final prayer for those with unforgiveness, releasing the past and embracing a new season ([66:16])

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Blessing and Purpose:
  “How can I be a blessing unless I have the blessing? God said to Abraham, ‘I will bless you and make you a blessing.’” —Richard Roberts ([02:15])

• On Letting Go of the Past:
  “The only thing you can do with the past is give it to God. And if you can, make it right with the person and move forward.” —Richard Roberts ([00:31])

• On Healing & Authority:
  “You loose the person from the sickness and disease, and you bind that healing to them… you got it backwards.” —(12:50)

• On Faith:
  “When you pray, believe. Say it with me: When I pray, I believe.” ([56:30])

• On Forgiveness:
  “Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. It won’t have any effect on them, but it’ll kill you.” —Lindsay Roberts, quoted by Richard ([66:10])

• On the Miraculous:
  “A miracle settles the issue. And that’s what people are looking for. They’re looking for the miraculous… but we have a miracle worker.” ([21:00])

• Testimonies:
  “Shoulder was injured during exercise… now I can lift my hands, pain’s gone.” —Testifier ([51:02])
  “I was just healed from neck pain, back pain, and a lot of just stiffness.” —Testifier ([55:10])

• On Prosperity:
  “Prosperity is a successful journey on the road of life… and it includes every area: spiritual, physical, financial, emotional.” ([27:30])

• On New Season:
  “2023 is the year for me.” —Chant and call-and-response throughout ([04:35], [46:59])

Important Timestamps & Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:09 | Opening prayer, setting aside agenda for God’s move | | 02:05 | “2023 is the year for me” — theme introduction | | 12:35 | Revelation on binding/loosing for healing | | 16:29 | Miraculous healing of webbed fingers via TV broadcast | | 20:05 | Ghana, creative miracle testimony | | 23:00 | “Teaching, preaching, and healing” — the fullness of Jesus’ ministry | | 43:20 | Beginning of words of knowledge for healing | | 46:00 | Healing of eardrums and hearing | | 47:30 | Healing of lungs/breathing problems | | 48:30 | Ministering healing for bones, joints, sciatic pain | | 50:55 | Start of live healing testimonies from attendees | | 56:42 | Testimonies of freedom from spiritual oppression & unforgiveness | | 62:57 | Corporate faith for “new parts” (hearts, lungs, etc.) | | 66:16 | Prayer and activation for healing from unforgiveness | | 75:08 | Special song: “God Will Turn It For Your Good” |

The Tone

Richard Roberts’ delivery is faith-filled, humorous at times, personable, and flows with the spontaneity of a Spirit-led healing service. The environment is participatory and expectant, with an emphasis on practical application, activating faith, and celebrating God’s goodness.

Conclusion

This healing service is marked by fervent teaching, prophetic insight, and the tangible manifestation of healing miracles. Richard Roberts points repeatedly to Jesus as the healer and encourages believers to take hold of their healing, live free from the past, and actively participate in God’s end-time move—where miracles, signs, and wonders follow faith. The testimonies reinforce the message: healing is for today, and everyone is invited to receive.