Love & The Operations Of The Holy Spirit | Wendy Preston | Prayer Conference 2026 | Thursday AM

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Dufresne Ministries Podcast

Episode: Love & The Operations Of The Holy Spirit | Wendy Preston | Prayer Conference 2026 | Thursday AM

Date: April 23, 2026
Host: Nancy Dufresne
Guest: Sister Wendy Preston

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Episode Overview

In this rich session from the 2026 Prayer Conference, guest minister Sister Wendy Preston teaches on "Love & The Operations Of The Holy Spirit." The message focuses on the centrality of God’s love as the starting point for prayer, spiritual operations, and the proper use of spiritual gifts. Wendy intertwines practical ministry wisdom with personal stories, urging listeners to walk in love, recognize their unique callings, and yield to the Holy Spirit for the benefit of others. The episode is marked by prophetic encouragement, personal testimony, and vivid illustrations, making the subject of spiritual operations accessible and deeply motivating.

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Key Sections & Insights

1. God’s Authored Plan and the Importance of His Ability ([00:00]–[08:14])

• Host Nancy Dufresne opens by emphasizing that God has authored a great and impossible plan for each individual—impossible in the natural, but fully possible with His ability.
• Key point: "Never diminish or minimize the plan he has for you, because to minimize the plan is to minimize him. And he's the greater one in us." – Nancy Dufresne ([02:32])
• Nancy introduces Ms. Sarah and her family, highlighting the value of support systems and unique callings.

2. Setting the Theme: Love as the Foundation of Prayer ([08:14]–[13:00])

• Wendy Preston expresses her intention to teach about love as the core of effective prayer and spiritual operations.
• Main text: Ephesians 3:20-21 (Amplified) — God’s power is "superabundantly more than we dare ask or think… according to the power at work within us."
• She shares from John G. Lake’s vision, prophesying a new manifestation of the Holy Spirit characterized by "sweetness, love, and tenderness, beyond anything your soul or mine ever saw." ([11:23])
  • "The very lightning of God will flash through men's souls." – Quoting John G. Lake ([12:03])

3. Stepping Into the Flow of Love ([13:00]–[20:07])

• Wendy teaches that all prayer and spiritual activity must flow from love, not obligation or mere discipline.
• Practical suggestion: Before prayer, “step into love” intentionally—like entering another room—making love your supply source.
  • "Just step into love. I used to practice taking steps, literally and say, I'm stepping into… I'm stepping into love. Not that I was out of love, but I wanted to experience for myself." ([14:57])
• She recounts a dramatic childhood healing that rooted her in God’s love and challenged her to believe for lifelong health.

4. Chosen and Appointed: Our Unique Calling ([20:07]–[23:54])

• Referencing John 15:16, Wendy discusses feeling chosen by God and the responsibility of bearing “prayer fruit.”
• Key Quote: "In the choosing means that we have to serve appropriately what he chose us for." ([21:21])
• She notes that God often answers our prayers for direction by connecting us to people—a sometimes uncomfortable but necessary process.

5. Building Ourselves Up—Life Together ([23:54]–[30:21])

• Jude 20 – Praying in the Holy Ghost builds us up and connects us to the supply of the Spirit and the Body.
• Wendy acknowledges some seek solo spirituality, but emphasizes the need for community and the importance of being placed and remaining where God assigns.

6. Love Governs Spiritual Operations: Mistakes & Lessons ([30:21]–[43:26])

• Wendy offers candid examples of her early mistakes in spiritual gifts: e.g., receiving a vision about a stranger and reacting carnally; oversharing a revelation and experiencing God’s silence afterward.
  • "I slapped him. I mean, I'm talking about a complete stranger…and I said, don’t you know you’re going to die? And he went, lady, you’re nuts. And I had to say, you’re right." ([28:34])
• She stresses the need to serve gifts with dignity and discretion, never publicizing others' confidences.
• God’s love should always "host, cherish, take care of the treasures that are within us."
• Story of a Bible school student wrongly redirected by someone else’s "word," illustrating the dangers of misapplied gifts ([33:45]).

7. Bearing Others’ Burdens Rightly ([43:26]–[54:51])

• Spiritual sensitivity can make us feel others’ burdens—sometimes even as children—so we must learn to identify if a feeling is ours or a call to pray for someone else.
• Key practical point: Don’t assume strange burdens are personal; sometimes, they are assignments to pray.
• Humorous and vulnerable anecdotes (e.g., pajamas in Walmart, knocking over toilet paper) illustrate the importance of yielding to God’s prompting over personal plans ([43:49]–[47:20]).
• When walking in love, believers can "take hold of the power of God and make a demand on it" for those in need ([51:23]). Story of a woman delivered from addiction by the power of God.

8. Serving Gifts Appropriately & Helping Others Flourish ([54:51]–[65:40])

• Not every manifestation of "power" is from the Holy Spirit; real operations are gracious, honoring, and consider the recipient.
• "We need to serve up the gifts of the spirit the way that God requests of us at the moment… meeting people where they’re at." ([54:51])
• Using Ezekiel’s river vision, Wendy likens flowing in God’s love and Spirit to swimming freely, with God revealing supernatural fruit that could not be produced naturally ([59:13]–[62:20]).

9. Prophetic Encouragement and Activation ([65:40]–[75:27])

• Wendy shares a personal word from God: "You have never failed in my eyes, only through your own. Because you’ve used the measuring line of the world. In Christ you are measured by the cost of my blood."
• Exhortation to walk in forgiveness, boldness, and the freedom Jesus provided.
  • "If I can just get over that… No, just accept that you’re forgiven, that you’re healed, that you’re restored, that you have, that God has a plan. He’s waiting for you just to get up and use it." ([65:36])
• There’s a "quickening" and "activation" in the room for dormant gifts and dreams; those who felt stuck or as failures are encouraged to accept the truth of their freedom in Christ.

10. Corporate Infilling, Ministry, and Further Prophecy ([77:03]–[93:09])

• The service moves into a time of prayer for fresh infilling with the Holy Spirit, laying on of hands, and ministry across the congregation.
• "Let’s live topped up… We should live topped up." ([77:27])
• Nancy Dufresne leads declarations affirming that the blood of Jesus makes it as though we’ve never missed it, releasing listeners to walk boldly in their calling ([83:31]).
• Sister Wendy brings a prophetic word: "Things will grow and change very, very quickly… In not many days from now, what was and that appeared that would never change is now completely different… So believe in my word and trust me for miracles and supernatural happenings." ([86:58])
  • "Put your head under the water and swim with me." ([87:08])
• Nancy re-emphasizes that corporate gatherings, community, and the moving of the Spirit are essential, especially as the last days approach.

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Notable Quotes & Highlights

• Wendy Preston:

  • “Everything has a place, and so you have to go there. And then you operate from there because that’s your supply… You just step into love. You just take a step. And I used to practice taking steps, literally and say, ‘I’m stepping into… I’m stepping into love.’” ([15:08])
  • “God’s power is to be handled, distributed and supervised by the love of God. Always submit what you’re doing to the love of God.” ([34:33])
  • "If you can’t keep a secret, learn to keep secrets… We can help people just by keeping a confidence." ([35:59])
  • "It’s okay to learn. It’s okay to grow. But find your safe place where others, you know, allow you to grow and develop." ([36:09])
  • “If you walk in love, you can make a demand on the power of God because it’s always available.” ([51:12])
  • “Don’t take somebody’s dream because it doesn’t match yours. Don’t you judge where somebody else is at just because of what you think they should be doing…” ([54:34])
  • “Wherever you go, with what you carry, there’s going to be life. Wherever you go, you produce light… If you walk in love.” ([61:01])
  • “You have never failed in my eyes, only through your own. Because you’ve used the measuring line of the world. In Christ you are measured by the cost of my blood.” ([65:14], Prophetic word)
  • "Act like you’re gifted. Act like you’re blessed. Act like you have a call on your life… because you’re an exception." ([71:00])
  • "It’s time to put your head under the water and swim with me." ([87:08])

• Nancy Dufresne:

  • “Never diminish or minimize the plan he has for you, because to minimize the plan is to minimize him.” ([02:32])
  • "Sermons—when the Word is delivered, we’re different. We’re not—oh, thank you, that was good. No, I’m different. I’m changed." ([84:21])
  • “For the things of the spirit, you have to be around them to sharpen. Iron sharpens iron, meaning you have to be around that which needs to be sharpened.” ([91:35])

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Timestamps for Key Moments

• God’s Plan and Ability – [00:00]–[08:14]
• Ephesians 3:20 | Stepping into Love – [10:19]–[15:00]
• Practical Steps into the Love Flow – [15:00]–[20:07]
• Finding Your Place & Prayer Community – [20:07]–[23:54]
• Learning by Mistake: Spiritual Gifts and Love – [30:21]–[34:33]
• Praying for Others’ Needs/Burdens – [43:26]–[54:51]
• Ezekiel’s Vision: Flourishing by the Spirit – [59:13]–[62:20]
• Prophetic Word: Freedom, Forgiveness, Activation – [65:14]–[75:27]
• Corporate Infilling and Impartation – [77:03]–[93:09]

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Main Takeaways

• Love is the starting point for all spiritual operation; nothing fruitful happens in prayer or ministry without it.
• Spiritual gifts must be served with honor, discretion, and a keen sense of responsibility, always considering the wellbeing and readiness of others.
• God uses people to place, refine, and connect us; isolation cuts off both receiving and giving supply in the Body of Christ.
• Mistakes are part of growth—find safe places and mentors who nurture your gifts.
• All believers can make a demand on God’s power when operating in love.
• You are not a failure—God’s estimation is based on Christ’s finished work, not your past.
• There is a call to walk in continual infilling, be “topped up” in the Spirit, and embrace your part with boldness and freedom.
• Community, assembling with believers, and being around spiritual operations are crucial, especially as the Lord’s return approaches.

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Closing Encouragement

This session is an invitation to step out of self-condemnation and into the river of God’s love, yielding to the Holy Spirit, letting Him move through you for the benefit of others, and being unafraid to grow, make mistakes, and serve in your unique way. As you do, you become a source of life and healing, both for yourself and those God brings into your path.

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Transcript

[Nancy Dufresne]

Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Praise the Lord. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. We praise you. We praise you. We praise you. Long before you were ever born, God authored a plan for your life. And when he authored that plan, he dreamed something for you. And he authored the plan so great because he intended to fulfill that plan through us. So just know this. When he authored that plan, he didn't just have us in mind, he had himself in mind to be the ability, to be the help, to be the source of that plan. And it's our great privilege to learn, to respond, to allow him to work through us. And that's why in the natural, the plan that he's put in your heart is filled with impossibilities when you look at it naturally, because he built his ability into the plan so that he could. It's just as great as he is because it's completely possible with him, but completely impossible apart from Him. So today we are in these meetings. We're learning, as we learned last night, his ability. He's able, and it requires his ability because he dreamed a plan for you based on his ability, not based on our ability. Amen. So we're learning. Don't leave him out. Because there's no way to arrive at fulfillment without him working, him manifesting through us. Never diminish or minimize the plan he has for you, because to minimize the plan is to minimize him. And he's the greater one in us. Amen. Hallelujah. Weren't you blessed so much last night with Wendy Preston? Teaching, ministering, and the thing I so love about Sister Wendy, I mean, I've gone online and watched some of the things. There's not a lot of things that have been posted of services that she's conducted because they're posted in other places. But it's so doable. If you don't make it doable for me, you've not helped me. And that's what I so appreciate about Sister Wendy, is she shows you the greatness of God, but the doability, I don't know if that's a word, but you got it. Do ability, doing with his ability. Right? And so I'm just so grateful she's taken the time to come. And I'm so grateful God brought our paths together. I am so, so grateful. And Ms. Sarah, come up here. Ms. Sarah, we can't leave you sitting there. Come up here. No, come up here because I tell you what? When I get around Ms. Sarah, this woman is full of capabilities. I like capable people. And I tell you what, this woman helps this woman, allows her. Frees her up so she can be her. And it matters that you have people that are with you. So I'm grateful Ms. Sarah came. I love you, Ms. Sarah. And she's a mother of a multitude. Wait, come here. Come here. You're not done. Okay, so she's got five children. Four girls, one boy and her husband. Well, tell a little bit, because I'm going to have you tell their names. I make her tell their children's names because they have. One of their names is Welsh, but another name is a flower. So they all have a flower in their name, plus a Welsh meaning. Tell a little bit about you and your husband. And her husband was born in Wales, but they have been over in the States. They were living in Colorado, and they're back in the uk. And anyway, we'll not go beyond that. But you've got to. That's why the children have one Welsh name because of the dad, and I have them in my home because I want to talk like them.

[Ms. Sarah]

Well, I don't sound like my mum, though. I have a different kind of accent. So. But anyway. Well, because we've moved back and forth quite a lot. I was born in New Jersey, so. But we don't talk about that. But, yeah, so I wasn't quite the English rose, because when I started saying, like, I want to banana, she's like, we need to move. Okay, well, we did. So. But, yeah, I've been married for nearly 19 years to Gareth, and we have five children who are Poppy. Rhiannon. So Rhiannon.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Slow.

[Ms. Sarah]

Go slow.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Poppy.

[Ms. Sarah]

Poppy. Rihanna. Poppy is charming. She's very lovely. And then I have Evangeline. Oh, well, when we. When we get to her, I'll let you know that one. I'll let you know that one when we get there. Okay, so then it's Evangeline. Lily Bet.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Say that again.

[Ms. Sarah]

Evangeline. Lily Bet.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Lily.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Lily Bet. Okay, but tell them what Lily bet is.

[Ms. Sarah]

Well, Lily bet is Elizabeth, but in Welsh you'd say Welsh. It's Lilibet. Is a name in its own right, as opposed to being a nickname for Elizabeth.

[Nancy Dufresne]

I love Lily. Okay, go.

[Ms. Sarah]

And then I have Florence Beatrice Fleur, but Fleur is spelled the Welsh way, so it's F, F, L, U, R. So that's the flower part, but it's also the Welsh name. And then there's Alice Rose, but it's Ariane 1. But she doesn't do that because that's too Welsh. And then it's George Ernest Rees. But Rhys is spelt the Welsh way. He doesn't have a flower because we thought that might be a little bit. But it's my great grandfather's. My grandfather's. And then my mum's maiden name was Rhys, but she didn't spell it the Welsh way. So it's R H Y S because of the Rhys. But Welsh people are very proud to be Welsh. So, I mean, he wanted George to be like Llewellyn. And I was like, yeah, no, that's because here it sounds like Lou Ellen. And I thought, I'm not having my son as a female country singer, so that's not going to work. So we stuck with George we thought was a bit, you know, more manly for him. But yeah, that's.

[Nancy Dufresne]

And you got to imitate George.

[Ms. Sarah]

Oh, well, he sounds a little bit posh. He's four.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Yeah.

[Ms. Sarah]

And we're for malo, so he's a little bit posh. He says it like that. But we'll get that out when he comes here. We'll work on that. Because Morelo.

[Nancy Dufresne]

So she imitates how all of her children speak a little differently. And that's why they're in my home. One reason to elevate my speech. But aren't those lovely names? And I mean, like, they thought about them. Like, I don't know that I've ever thought that much before I named my children. But you thought about them and. Yeah, because you live with it, so you might as well think about it.

[Ms. Sarah]

I say them a lot.

[Nancy Dufresne]

You say them a lot? Yeah. Five children. Isn't that like heroic? Hallelujah. So I'm so glad Ms. Sarah is here. Come on, Ms. Wendy. Give her a great big God bless you as she comes.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Praise the Lord. You never know who's watching, so be careful what you say. I could comment right there. Praise the Lord. Everybody, can we pray together before we. Father, thank you for the opportunity to be with precious people. And Father, people that you've chosen for this time that we live in, to work together and to be together. And Father, we honor. We honor the Jesus in each other that we don't carry. And, Father, we thank you today for this time. I ask that you'd help me. And we thank you for utterance and the Holy Ghost and that we would do all that you'd ask of us in Jesus name. Bless every dear heart here, Father. And I thank you for them mightily in the name of Jesus. Amen. You can take a seat. Sit down. Whatever you say. Be seated. Stand up. Praise the Lord. If I take my glasses on and off, it's the most interesting thing. I actually don't need them anymore. It seems like I'm not using this much. But you can sleep in my services because I actually can't see you. I notice I put them on when I look at you. And I thought maybe that's a subconscious kind of thing to just. I can't see your faces. So it helps me. I don't know. But anyway, I'll start with them and we'll see where we go. Praise the Lord. So as I was thinking about today, I wanted to go the love route with prayer. I thought that was suitable for my time with you, to conclude it there and to help with receiving. But I also wanted to go into something. If you want a title for today, what was it?

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

You can make up your own.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

That's the joy of it, really. Whatever helps you remember. I do have a funny sense of humor. Anyway, let's just begin, shall we? Because His Word is more important than anything. So we're going to start with a text that we used yesterday. Because there's nothing wrong with it, right? And it's a good launching pad for where we're to go. So really, our text Yesterday was Ephesians 3 and the 20th, verse 20 and 21 in the Amplified. And we'll use that as a springboard. And so it reads now to him who is able to carry out his purpose and to superabundantly more than all we do. Superabundantly more than we dare ask or think infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, our hopes and dreams, according to the power that is at work within us. And to him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Praise the Lord. And then I wanted to read to you again, because I so like it. About the last days and the kind of manifestation of the Holy Spirit in the earth that he's preparing us for. You know, we're glorious ones. And we're not to be mean and ugly, ideally, you know what I'm saying? And so it's not the best way. And I'll show some of my mistakes with you today in that, you know, I know I'm forgiven. But they might help in learning. Praise the Lord. But John G. Lake had a vision. And I hold this dear, particularly in prayer. He said this. I can see that there's coming from heaven. A new manifestation of the Holy Spirit. In power. And that new manifestations will be in a sweetness that doesn't. Don't worry about that, men. We're not looking anything. Do you know what I mean? That's funny here, but we're talking about the delivery and the serving of the power of God. I kind of want to go that route today. Hallelujah. The manifestation of the Holy Spirit in power. And the manifestations will be in sweetness, in love and tenderness, beyond anything your soul or mine ever saw. So it's not human, right? The very lightning of God will flash through men's souls. So we looked yesterday at the ingredients of how Paul prayed and made note of the ingredients that were to help us to live in the place called Abel. And so for time's sake, we're just going to look at one of those ingredients today and we'll work from there. So if we have a look at verse 19, because we could read the whole chapter and it would be all right. But verse 19 speaks of a personal love of Christ. And so let's have a look at this. That you may come to know practically through personal experience, the love of Christ, which far surpasses knowledge that you may be filled up throughout your being to all the fullness of God, so that you may have the richest experience of God's presence in your life, completely filled and flooded with God himself. So just like everything else in God, prayer should flow from love, you know, not through gritted teeth, but through a flow. And so you fit into love before you pray, right? If you want to make a cup of coffee, you usually go to the kitchen, unless you keep your kitchen, coffee thing somewhere else. But everything has a place, and so you have to go there. And then you operate from there because that's your supply. Like electricity is to heat your water for your coffee. But you go there and you just step into it. You just step into love. You just take a step. You step into it like stepping into another room. Even though you're filled with the love of God. You have to purpose to step into a flow of life. You have to step. Take a step. And I used to practice taking steps, literally and say, I'm stepping into. I'm stepping into love. Not that I was out of love, but I wanted to experience for myself. I didn't want to hear it from somebody else. I didn't want. I didn't want to. I just didn't want somebody else's. I wanted to know him for me. Praise the Lord. And I've been a bit determined that way. Because unlike Sarah I didn't have five children and going back a generation, I'm an only child. So for me, I always thought I'd do it myself because I've always been by myself. And we traveled a lot with my parents growing up. So it's like, no, I'll just go to God. I'll just go to God. And, you know, I don't know if you ever hear this in your church. Probably not, but people say, you know, I'm going to stay home from church today because I want to hear from God. Anybody ever hear that? I just. I just need to take some time out to. To hear God. I don't know if that happens here, but it happens in England and it's like, anyway, I. I just don't. I don't understand that any. Anyway, move on. So Matthew the 22nd chapter and verse 37, 39 says, and Jesus said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul. And here's the tricky bit. With all your mind, right? We have to do that. So we even have to put our soul and our mind in line with. With stepping into love. And so he says this. This is the first and the greatest commandment. Wow. The second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. That is unselfishly seeking the best or higher good for others. Wow. What an honor. We have to serve the Master to other people. And I say thank you to everybody here and to Pastor Nancy, because that's been displayed over and over and every moment of every day, and I'm thankful. Thank you. Does it cost something to love others? Absolutely. Absolutely. But it's where the power is. And you have to come back to love. It's where our faith operates from. Faith does not operate without love. It is the base. It is him. It is he himself. It's his faith based on Him. He doesn't produce love. He is love. And so everything is given comes from his own supply of who he is. He is God. He is a God of love. And he chose that it would be distributed to all those that would accept the Lord Jesus Christ, My goodness. It's our source of life. So if we don't know the love of God, and you know to know it, it's not going anywhere. But you have to step in. You make a choice to step in and say, my goodness, he chose me. I've done this because I'll just mention this. At five years old, I had a condition that was life threatening. And so this particular night, my family, which my parents were told 50, 50, you know, if I would make it. And the glory of God came into where I was. And I remember it like yesterday, you know, spiritual things don't fade. And I can remember as a little girl putting my hand up in front of my face and looking and watching a mist and my hand disappearing in the mist. Now, I don't want to be dramatic about it. It's not dramatic. It's the power of God. Just doing something, doing what he does, demonstrating his love to a little girl. And from that time, I firmly believe I was healed, obviously. But I actually believed that I would never have that again. As a child. Don't dismiss your children from knowing the things of the spirit. And so.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

So,

[Sister Wendy Preston]

yeah, so that carried me. And it made me to know I never have to be sick. This is my thought as a child. I never, never have to. Never read the Bible, obviously, at 5, didn't know things, but I never have to be sick again. You know, until I went to church and I learned differently. But some churches, clearly not this one. But yeah. So anyway, let's move on. So John 15:16. God tells us that we're chosen. He says, you've not chosen me, but I've chosen you. How special to feel chosen. It's a lovely feeling to feel chosen. Think of it. You know, think about it. We go and we choose. Cause we don't choose anyone. We choose what we like. Right? Or whatever your purchase is. We choose what we like. But God in his purchase, chose you. Hallelujah. So in the choosing means that we have to serve appropriately what he chose us for. So I've chosen you, and I've appointed you and placed and purposely planted you so that you would go and bear fruit. What kind of fruit? We're talking about prayer. This is prayer fruit. And keep on bearing that your fruit will remain and be lasting. So that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, oh, my goodness. As my representative, he may give it to you simple, right? And so, you know, when we ask God questions, he connects you. Here's what I've learned. Because being I would say I was. Sarah would say different, perhaps because daughters do. But I would say I was more of a loner. Would you say that? No. Okay. Though I love people in bets. I love people. I like all your bets.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

I love.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

I love people. I love people. But I so enjoy just going for a walk on my own. You know what I mean? I don't need a hoard of everything. It's nice, but I don't need it. Because I never had it. That's what that's about. I think I trust I'm walking in love. All right. Praise the Lord. So in learning to walk the walk and finding your place in the body of Christ and operating in the Holy Spirit, if you start asking, Lord, what do you want me to do? Where do you want me to go? What's my part in the body of Christ? The way he answers that question is to connect you to someone. And it's annoying because.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

No, no, no disrespect.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Is pastor nancy smiling? I can't see.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Okay.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

No, because you want to go and hear it from God for yourself. Is that right? You think if I could just hear that from God for myself. I don't need people. I don't need anyone, you know, because we've all had stuff, right? I don't need the stuff. I just need to hear from God. And then God puts people in your life.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

And that's how it's revealed to you, is the sound of a voice, you know, directing you to a local church and the anointing attaching to you to an anointing that's actually in your heart, but you may not know it yet. Is that right? So that's how he works with us. And so Jude, the 20th verse in the book of Jude, tells us how to build ourselves up in these operations and how to stay right. But God will tell you where you fit, because we have to fit, because every joint supplies. We're still talking about prayer because there's people in the room that are asking questions. And there are people in the room that think you failed. And you haven't, because you're looking. You're looking for an answer. Perhaps you've missed the answer, because maybe God has already brought you a church, a person, or a supply chain, but you've not recognized that you've been like me. Just tell me, Lord, because that's what I was used to. We have to get rid of our used to sometimes. And so in the verses in Jude, it says, but you, beloved, build yourself up founded on your most holy faith. Make progress. We're meant to make progress in the Spirit. Rise like an edifice, higher and higher, praying in the Holy Ghost. Praise the Lord. In other words, you could say, rise higher and higher in love, because the Holy Ghost always leads you to the Word. Praise the Lord. Oh, here's my title. I put it in the middle of a passage. That's clever. So I wanted to speak about love and the operations of the Holy Spirit. Because I don't know what it's like where you come from, but I just see so much that think, you know what, there's a really powerful person and people are going and seeing all this. I don't know it's necessarily the Holy Spirit, but it's power of a kind. But then they're not very nice people. Is that all right to say that? And I think the way we serve people with the gift that he's given us should be gracious, should be honoring, and it should be gifted. Like you'd serve a great wonderful meal. Because we're vessels, containers of glory. And it should be in thinking of how will this person be able to receive. That's. That's what I think. I know that because I've learned the hard way, which I'll speak about to you, and then you can pray for me, then you'll be more urged to do so. But when the Spirit of God began to reveal some of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in my life, you know, he just kind of does it right. And I would see this particular gentleman every day standing on a street corner. And he was kind of a lonely looking individual. But this particular day, as I'm walking toward him, I have a vision. And what I'm about to say is, you know, if you have a particular problem in your life and it happens to be this one, I'm not pointing anyone out between you and God. I'm just talking about this particular gentleman. But anyway, so he had a cigarette, always had a cigarette going. And when one out there was another one lit, and that's up to him. But I had a vision like a television screen. And as I walked toward him, I saw him looking really pale and gray in my vision. And then I saw a coffin at his feet. So not having the knowledge, come on now, I went up to him, I slapped him.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

I mean, I'm talking about a complete

[Sister Wendy Preston]

stranger, just somebody in the village where I lived. And I hit him across the face. And I said, don't you know you're going to die? And he went, lady, you're nuts. And I had to say, you're right. I had to say I'm sorry. Because I didn't know the difference between operating and praying. And I hadn't learned how to keep things to myself. I hadn't learned that because, you know, in the early days when I was, you know, learning to pray, all I needed knew to do was to get up early, you know, and just sit there like a lemon. And assuming God's Going to show up because, you know, I'm giving you my time. I knew nothing. And so I began to say good morning and things like that to God, you know, doing basics. And then one day he spoke to me about something. And do you know what I did? I'm ashamed to tell you. I went and called a friend and I told the friend what I'd received in prayer. I never heard from God again for six months because he was training me to keep the things of the spirit pure and not mix it with anything else, but keep it maybe for an appointed time. Maybe I was to go to that man. Maybe somebody else was to go. I'd have thought so. Probably it's less dangerous. But, you know, we've got to learn how to.

[Nancy Dufresne]

To.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

To operate out of the spirit of love. The rich treasures that we contain. Praise God. If it were not for the people and one particular person I know probably watching this morning, someone. Well, I can say who it is, can I? But Mrs. Harrison has been, I can't tell you, a wonderful friend and helper in my life. I can honestly stand here today. And I told her this morning, you know, if it weren't for her, and I know many of us here refer to her as mom, friend, different relationships, but if it weren't for her, I said to her this morning she loved me when I didn't even know she was doing it, how precious that is and how we can do that for one another. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. So love and the operations of the Holy Spirit, we need to serve them through us with as much dignity and gifting. And you could say, well, what about, you know, certain people like Smith Wigglesworth, who went about hitting them? I don't know, you know, if you're led to do that. I wasn't led to hit that man. I operated in the flesh, you know, it's a flesh movement. Was my heart, right? Yeah. I didn't want him to die, you know, but actually, it's funny because I never saw him again on the street corner. But anyway, he probably moved to another village to get. To get away from me. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. But, you know, when you're learning to grow or even if you're very proficient in the gifts of the spirit, we still have to watch ourselves. We can't go around saying God said like that. We can't go around as if the gifts of the spirit, you know, I'm gifted or I operate in this, and, you know, and so, you know, you can't go by that you know, I was teaching in a particular Bible school some time ago now and in this Bible school there was a visiting minister, prophet, he said he was, I don't know, but anyway, he said he was and he had the student stand and he picked out a particular student and he said, where are you from? So anyway, so the gentleman said, I'm from Ireland. He said to him, you need to get back to Ireland. So the young man packed his bags, left the next day, he's a Bible school in England, left the next day, went back to Ireland. That Bible school was a two year course and they were first year students. If God has put you somewhere, you do the whole thing. You do the whole thing. Leaving is not a question. God knows when something begins and he knows when it ends.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

It's not a question.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Now I know that there may be exceptions and things happen in life, but you know, if God put you there, he'll pay for it all the way through. He wouldn't put you somewhere and not provide. Praise the Lord. And so we need to be very mindful of that. And so that word of knowledge interrupted a man's life and it put him behind six months because now, although maybe he was meant to go back to Ireland in the future, the timing was off. He didn't know it wasn't the student's fault, he didn't know. So he operated on somebody else's possible gift. And so there he is at home now, now trying to get his life back together, to get the money back together, to be able to come back again. And he had to start back from the beginning. So you know, as Christians, not even as ministers, the gifts of God will operate through the body. They're not just for ministers, for everybody. So we need to host, cherish, take care of the treasures that are within us. I said that I think to you yesterday. Praise the Lord. So God's power is to be handled, distributed and supervised by the love of God. Always submit what you're doing to the love of God. Praise the Lord. So God was teaching me not to go around hitting people, teaching me not to share secrets. If you can't keep a secret, learn to keep secrets. Learn to keep secrets and secrets about others. People come to you, it's because they came to you, because they saw you as a trusted provision to hold and take care of something for them. Nothing worse than speaking of somebody else's business. It's not appropriate. It's not appropriate and you know it's not going to help you. And so we should be thankful that somebody saw something in us, that they felt they could trust us. Wow, what an honor. That somebody felt they could share their heart, that they could share, take confidence in us as a believer, of course, as a minister, it should be that way. But held that we can hold them. Everybody goes through things from one time and another. Things come and go. But, you know, we can help people just by keeping a confidence. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. So everything is based from God's love in us. It's where we operate from, it's where we look, we live from. Because God's love is just like breathing. You don't think twice about breathing so you can become more, you know, you don't have to be. I'm not talking about silly love. Do you know what I mean? I love you. And then next minute, you know, it's not really displayed. It's actually just a sentence we use, like a greeting. And so really and truly operating in the Holy Ghost does not call for selfishness. Ooh, is everybody all right? You understand? I speak to myself as well. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to the room, and I'm in it. So it doesn't call for selfishness. It's a complete surrender to the love of God. A complete surrender to a supply from God. Hallelujah. When I first moved, well, many years ago, God told us to move to America. And an opportunity came up in Vancouver, Canada. And I thought, that's close enough. Let's go. And so I completely missed it. Obviously it's not America, is it? But I thought, you know what? It's close enough. Let's just get there. So then I. So obviously I had to say, God, I'm sorry it took a period of time to get where we were supposed to be. It's just the way it is. But it'll get you there. Praise the Lord. Why did I tell you that? I don't know what had to do with anything. Operations of the Holy Ghost. So even in times of trying to do the right thing, sometimes we miss it. And I want to say this to us. It's okay. It's okay to learn. It's okay to grow. But find your safe place where others, you know, allow you to grow and develop. I was so fortunate in that when the things of the Spirit began to work for me, I was in a particular church, and a lady in that church, she just had like, a little disciple group. She invited me to come along, part of the church under the pastor. And I went and she suddenly said, didn't know me. She said, you know, will I'll be praying. And then she said, wendy, when it gets to you, you'll probably have a word. I thought, I don't know what she's talking about. Anyway, went round the room like it did and she was teaching and demonstrating. And then when it came to me, I said, I'm sorry, I don't know what to say. Thank you for having me. I mean, I didn't know what she was looking for, but the minute it bypassed me, the spirit of God rose up in me. I said, I got something, I have something. She said, great. But you know what that was? It was an environment to let me miss the moment but allow me to share. So you see, timing in the things of God are important. We treat. We just don't. We just don't. We're dealing with people's lives and allowing God to meet people through the vehicle of love. And I want to touch on this too, because I want to speak about children a little bit because it happened to me. But I used to love to visit my grandparents home. I was thrilled about it until I got there. Now I'm only young, I don't know, it's probably happening from the age of 12 or something up until about 15. Every time we would go and visit them, I was so excited to see them. But the minute I touched their gate, the minute I walked up the path to their home to greet them, had this awful feeling in my tummy. And I used to think, what's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? See the things of the spirit, the enemy will use them to think there's something wrong with you. When God's calling you to pray for somebody else, you can go to a grocery store and rub past them. It's got all kinds of things going on and that stuff will try to come on you. Or if you're sensitive in the heart, you can experience it. And you have to say, that's not me, that is not mine. Get back to where you are, go back. And you have to watch for that all the time because you can take ownership for other people's problems. Not consciously, but you have to identify. And God was training me about praying. My grandparents were not born again, but praying for that there was a spirit of prayer. It's a horrible feeling, everybody, isn't it? If you ever had that, just that burden, that feeling. And you know, even if you get it, it's like you can't take a day off from faith, you know, you can't Hang it on a hook and say, you know, I'm not going out today. I'm going to stay in my Jim jams all day and I'm just going to not open the mail. I'm not going to open the door. Still have letterboxes, you know what I mean? Somehow there's always something that tries to get to you. You cannot take a day off from your faith. I used to try. I used to make Thursdays my day off from faith. I mean, not even think about. I love God, of course. Always love him. But I'm not doing anything for you today, Lord, I don't want any burdens just because you think I'm not doing anything. I don't want to think about anyone else in the world today. I want to just veg. But we don't always identify these feelings. And I'm telling you right now, there are people that think, some people that are called of God, that have a gift of God to carry other people in prayer. And they think there's something wrong with them because they don't know how to operate in it. I come across it all the time. Will you pray for me? I'd be free.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Free from what?

[Sister Wendy Preston]

God. You know. But they don't identify. I say, where is it that you're hurting? It's my head. Where is it coming from? Down here. But you see, every part of your body will connect with the area where there's something going on. Alarm bells in your body. System goes off, alarm, alarm, alarm. And we assume it's us. We always think everything is us. We always think everything is about us. But there's a large world out there. And so praying for others, it isn't a nice feeling. But think of it this way. It's the hand of God reaching another. And think of it this way, that you know what? It's an honor to pray for somebody else that he trusts you. Praise God. But I'm telling you, it can happen with children. We need to teach our children spiritual things. It happened to me as a child and I didn't even recognize what it was. Hallelujah. So we have to watch for the spirit of God on the inside of us. What's he saying? What is actually. What's actually going on? What is it about my part in loving each other and walking in love that I need to give today? You know, what is it that needs to be displayed? What is it? And maybe you don't have the answer. But you can pray for a laborer or somebody else to have the accuracy of that answer. Praise God. Like with the man, you know, I should have prayed for somebody he could relate to. Clearly, I was not the one. So the thing is, we need to know that the love of God is moving in your life all the time and where you go as a believer. He goes. He goes. So you could be just doing something, what we would call to be every day, and I don't know, suddenly you could experience the presence of God. Something could happen. Don't fluff it off like, oh, you know what, Lord, I've got this, this and this to do. When I've done that, I'll get home and I'll talk to you about that. We have to be responsive even in the times when it doesn't seem to be convenient. Hallelujah. So another funny story comes to mind. Do you want to hear it? All right. Okay. So that happened to me. I knew that I should have stayed home with God. And, you know, if you work in Walmart, forgive me. I don't want to label anyone, but I was wearing my pajama bottoms. I'm just saying that because I hear you wear pajamas to warm up. People tell me. I've not seen it yet, but I've heard some people wear pajamas after 8 o' clock or something to warm up. I don't know what time it is. Does it happen for real? Oh, okay. I'll be watching for it. So anyway, so I'm in. Yeah, I thought I need to pop to the shop. And so I have my pajama bottom. It's just too much information. Okay. And because I'm a doggy walker, I have my Wellington boots on. Tucked them in, my Wellington boots, and I put on a long wax coat. Nobody could see them. Ran to the shop. I shouldn't have been going because I felt the need to stay home. I thought, oh, no, I'll quickly do this round to the shop. I'm in there, I'm looking bedraggled, I've got my pajamas on, nobody can see. But then I see my husband's boss in the shop. I thought, oh, my goodness, if he sees me, it's not good. It isn't good. So I tried to dodge the aisles, and in my dodging, I released the car, took a step back, and I knocked down a whole display of toilet rolls. You know how they have them all piled up? Have you done that? So in my haste of trying to do right, I did wrong and I drew attention to myself. You see, when you miss it like that, you don't necessarily draw attention to yourself from others, but you draw attention to yourself in you. Does that make sense? And it makes you feel, I can't believe I did that. I can't believe I did it. And then you want to sort of, I can't believe I did it. And have a whole morning saying those kind of words. That's wasting time. It's time wasting, thinking, talking about what you shouldn't have done. Doesn't matter what you shouldn't have done, just don't do it again. I haven't, you'll be glad to know. But it's like I cringe when I think about the toilet rolls. And of course all the staff are looking like, what was that? You know. And anyway, don't walk backwards when you go to the grocery store. You don't know what you might bump into. But Jesus just can't help himself in that he loves people and that he provided the church to be the ones to dispense his knowledge, his kindness, his love, the fruits of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit, to, to the world as a demonstration of who he is. To display what? The goodness of God. The goodness of God. Hallelujah. And so one more story. Do something else. So we had for a period of time, I suppose you could call it a healing home. It wasn't because I'm not a doctor, you know, but we had people basically. So the medical profession said, I'm sorry, it's over for you. Or maybe people with addictions that I can't help them anymore. And so I can't say I did it by choice. It was kind of forced upon us. But anyway, I said, I don't mind having these people. And we had a couple at a time, two or three at a time. So we had people with different sorts of issues at the same time. Coming with a special diet sheet so that you can forget that we all eat the same thing here. I can't cook in two different things, you know, it is what it is. You come here if you think you're going to die anyway, you've got nothing to lose by eating my food. So anyway, we were like the last stop help with what was available. So. Yeah, but this particular person, young lady, she, bless her, had an issue with drugs and alcohol and I knew nothing about it and how to help her, nothing really. She just lived with us and in her need. Her pattern was to come into my room at 3 o' clock every morning and say, help me. You know, it's so dark. Yeah, it's three o' clock in the morning. You know, So I said, all right, go and put the kettle on, you know, go down, have a cup of tea. I'm not saying I was right, but I didn't know any different. And talk to her and go back to bed. Go back to bed. It was three o' clock in the morning every. Every night. Every night. And what she used to do, part of the reason she couldn't get free is that she would escape my house, go to the local Anglican church, go in the cupboard, because often the churches are left open and take the communion wine. So we're trying to keep it from her. And she's in the Anglican church drinking from the communion. I thought that was funny. You don't think that's funny? Anyway, I thought it was kind of funny myself, but anyway, I didn't know that was happening at the time. But then I do what I do when I get the dog out, walk across the fields and I say, God, where is the anointing that breaks the yoke? Because I can't do it any other way. Where is it? And there's something about that. When you walk in love with God, there's a commanding, not commanding in a commanding of God, but taking a hold in prayer of what has been provided. There's a strength that comes from love that you can actually take a hold of the power of God and make a demand on it. You don't have to wait for that to happen. I mean, we could have still had her with us today if I hadn't done that. So this particular night, after making a demand, she came in, three o' clock in the morning. Oh, here we go. Oh, Hendy, you know, And I just sat there, I thought, I'm not doing this tonight. And the anointing fell on her on the doorway and she crumbled. I said, so I put the kettle on then. And we went through the usual process, put the kettle on, but she was completely delivered. Now, I'm saying that not to say anything but to say this, that if you walk in love, you can make a demand on the power of God because it's always available. But if you're not walking in love, you're really inviting other kinds of spiritual situations. I was ministering in a church not long ago and it was a lovely, happy church, loud, but they were ones that really relied on the demonstration. And the Lord said, I wanted to minister quietly. What does that mean? So I just came normally then and gave the word, few words of knowledge about some healings in the room. And then the pastor got Up. And he said, okay, let's have now. Let's have church, everybody. I thought, what? Because what I had served was not the way he wanted it. And so all of a sudden, this woman behind me starts screaming in my ear, there's an angel. Well, I didn't think it was an angel. And then it's like, okay, great, let's get them all whooped up.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Let's go.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

And the whole church went completely nuts. And familiar spirits are operating. I went to the car, and when I got to my car, those that we had the Word of Knowledge for said, thank you for helping. Thank you for helping. I said, you know, it would have been nice if you said that in front of the pastor. It would have been nice just to have known that actually I had some effect with you. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. And so love made a way, and it did its job. But we have to serve up the gifts of the spirit the way that God requests of us at the moment. At the moment. Because they're different for different needs, different people, different ways of healing. We know there's so many different ways of healing in the Word. And, you know, it's meeting people where they're at with God. Hallelujah. We're meant to all go together and not race ahead and leave them behind. We're meant to go together. We all go. We all go together. The whole body goes together. The stronger ones help the weaker ones. Right? And the weaker ones are happy to go with the stronger ones. Praise the Lord. I'll just finish that story I never finished. But that lady was delivered from her drug and alcohol issue, and her dream was to always have, like, a cottage industry. She was artsy, make things, sell it, you know, and she did it. She did it. You say, well, that's nothing great. It was to her. It was to her. Everybody has a dream. Don't take somebody's dream because it doesn't match yours. Don't you judge where somebody else is at just because of what you think they should be doing or what you're doing in your heart. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. So let me use this illustration then, with Ezekiel. I like Ezekiel. And the river of Life, the river. The river that he got to have swimming lessons in, because that's what we're going to do today. Swim a bit. So Ezekiel had a vision, but he cooperated with it. He cooperated with what he saw. So we know about the river of Life, and we know the prophetic side of all that that means. But I wanted to bring A particular point in it, he was permitted to see some things by the power of God and by the love of God, by the flow of God. He had access to visions. But because he yielded and he cooperated with the power of God, he got to see something that he never would have seen in the natural. And I'm saying that to you because there's many people in the room that you've seen or desired things in the natural, but maybe you haven't seen things of the Spirit in some way or form. Praise the Lord. So in Ezekiel, he has this swimming lesson. He sees the river, the waters rising, and we know they go to ankle deep and then knee deep, and they rise to the point then that he's swimming in the river of life. He's swimming in a river of life. Do you know you can do that? You can swim in the love of God, you can swim in the joy of the Lord. You can swim in peace. You can just be you, right? Just be happy in your skin and just be you in God. Hallelujah. And that's what he was doing. Happy, swimming in the river. And then God does something extraordinary. And in verse 6, God speaks to him, and he says, son of man, have you seen this, Ezekiel, swimming in the river, Right? Have you seen this? And then he told him to go back. Go back to the bank of the river. Go back to where you were. Get out of the water and go on the bank. Wendy, paraphrasing. Go back to the bank and tell me what you see. Tell me what you see. So when he returned onto the bank of the river, he saw something. So he obeyed. In the vision, he obeyed. God asked him to go back to the bank. He did it. And then he sat and he goes, oh, I can see very many trees, very many trees. Those trees were not there before, right? Are you with me? What he saw was through the eyes, the thoughts and the ways of God. He saw something that God allowed him to see. But they could not be produced by man. It could not be produced by the natural. If he planted those trees himself in a dry land, he'd still be trying to cultivate it, trying to make it work. But God showed him something supernatural. His flourishing trees. And then the Lord said, wherever the river goes, there'll be life.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Wherever you go, with what you carry,

[Sister Wendy Preston]

there's going to be life. Wherever you go, you produce light. You are light to a hurting world.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

So wherever you go, you're producing through you life.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

If you walk in love, I know there's another side to that. Story. But I like the suddenlies. I like that God opens our eyes. I like that he shows us things how they really are. The spirit world is a real world.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

And to show him flourishing trees full of fruit that were not there before.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

I don't know if you're with me or not. It's amazing, everybody. That means you can see yourself completely healed for the rest of your life, right? Because the woman with the issue bloke was just told, go and live in peace. That was her answer.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Never to have that again. Never to have that again.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

It wasn't meant to be that we dip in and out of things. It was meant to be that we

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

could be like a flourishing tree ourselves and be producing prayer fruit, helping others to see themselves as God sees them. Hallelujah. Operating in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank God for what you carry. Thank God for what you have.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

And if you don't know, you can ask him. If you don't know your part in the body, you can ask. And whatever he tells you, accept it, because he's not going to change his mind. You can't be like anybody else. You might pick up some characteristics if you're around certain people, but the essence of it is you can't be like anyone else. I believe today there's a quickening of maybe some things that you've laid down even, or some things that you've wondered, maybe that I don't have, that after all, that God is going to give you an opportunity to begin to practice and begin to flow in some things in the Spirit. Hallelujah. The right way, of course, the honorable way, and put people across your path.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

That we may all live in the fullness of God and taking others with us. That we could all live in the fullness. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. I believe it over this room, at this side of the room, there's just a quickening. There's something in this side of the room, an activation, activating. Activating things that have been sleeping in your life. Seems like. Seems like they've been dormant. They haven't. They haven't. Just the voices of this earth have weighed down your confidence. But we learned yesterday from Pastor Noel last night that the presence of God should always be more important. He himself should be more important than sickness to you. He should be more important to anything to you. So if you begin starting that, you'll see a flourishing in that which has seemed dormant. A quickening, an acceleration, a movement. And get over yourself. Because you haven't failed God. The devil has told you or tried to point a finger that you have failed. No, no, you haven't failed. Not in him. And if you've asked God to forgive you, whatever it was, it's gone. You know, he removed it from the furthest point for us into a place called the Sea of Forgetfulness.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

How nice.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

How nice. It's impossible for God to remember it, but because we don't feel forgiven, we keep harbouring on about it, you know, keeping on about it, going on and on and on. If I can just get over that, if I can just get help for that. No, just accept that you're forgiven, that

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

you're healed, that you're restored, that you have. That God has a plan.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

He's waiting for you just to get up and use it. Praise the Lord. Acknowledge. Acknowledge. And he uses us all, of course, in different ways. You know, I'm not saying I'm not going to be like the man in the Bible school that tells you what to do, but I am saying there's a stirring because we're living in the last of the last days, right? So we find ourselves back where we started in God's desire that we're filled truly with the fullness of God. Oh, my. I want to read this to you. It's a word of the Lord that I had a little while ago now. But I feel it's pertinent. I felt to bring it for some of you in the room. It was for the body. And so the Lord said this. You have never failed in my eyes. Why don't you close your eyes? Just listen. He said, you've never failed in my eyes, only through your own. Because you've used the measuring line of the world in Christ. You are measured by the cost of my blood. It's time to advance and leave the old man, the unrenewed mind. Leave the unrenewed man. Excuse me. Behind. You know the principles of my blood and the cost of it. Nothing pleases the Father more than to see his children walking in truth. Hallelujah. Walking in all that I purchased for you. And he said this. Do me a favor. I love the way I could hear the tone when he said it. Do me a favor and walk in the light of your redemption. Do me a favor. He said it favors him for us to walk in the light of our redemption. And then he said this. It would so please our Father. And we heard that yesterday, Pastor Noel, about our Father. It would so please God. Hallelujah. He is so Rich in mercy. He is the one who has long patience for the precious fruit of the earth. But he's also looking for people who recognize the price paid. When we don't walk and live as forgiven people, or we nurture the negative in our life, we are not honoring the price paid. Is that all right to say it that way? I don't mean to sound harsh. I don't mean to sound mean, because we're all growing and learning. But everything is subject to the name of Jesus. Every knee has to bow. It is not an option. We're not giving the devil a choice. There is no choice. Praise the Lord. So he is looking for a people who recognize the price paid. The price the Father paid in sending me to the earth. Interesting. I found that interesting that he referred to the price his Father paid, not that he went through. Look at that. Praise the Lord. So what awaits the children of God who walk in the light of the price paid? A stronger awareness of my presence. And that's just the issue, isn't it? I mean, there are some people that are moved by the weather, you know, and I'm not being rude, but some people suffer with weather. I don't know what it is, but, you know, people are moved by different things. And so their awareness, our awareness, can change depending on who we're with, what we're doing, and because, oh, it just seems like God's so far away, you know, I feel like my prayers are hitting the ceiling. I don't know where any of this came from because there's no evidence of this ever. A stronger awareness of my presence will be known to those who walk in this newness of life. Cascading love.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

There we go.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

John G. Lake's prophecy. The sweetness, the compassion. Cascading love enveloped. The curse of this world is broken. And knowing you, and knowing that you are his prize. And he said it quite firmly. Act like it. Act like it. Act like it. Act like it. Act like you gifted. Act like you blessed. Act like you have a call on your life.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Act like it's people that have got somewhere to go. Act like you can do anything that's impossible with man. Act like it because you're an exception. Remember we said that last night? We're to be exceptional. It takes exception to respond to everything

[Sister Wendy Preston]

that God has placed on the inside of us. And so as you do, that which seems. Shut up. Will be opened unto you. And riches and glory and wealth for this time, this in turn will hasten my coming. Look at that. Us being obedient. To our part in the body hastens the coming of the Lord. Notice Jesus never said, you know, although he's waiting for the precious fruit of the earth, he's not waiting for a certain number. He said, will I find faith on the earth when I return?

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Will I find people that will act

[Sister Wendy Preston]

like what I did for them is a living reality?

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Will I find people moving in the spirit, full of the love of God, operating by the power of the Holy Spirit? Will I find these people? These are my people. These are my people. Right? Right. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. This is for everybody in the body of Christ, not just for us in this room. Everybody. Everybody carries a part of the nature. Well, we all carry the nature of God, but we all carry a supply that somebody else needs. Hallelujah. Praise God. And if we shut that up or

[Sister Wendy Preston]

act like an only child like me, not only am I hurting myself from allowing others to bless me, maybe I

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

can just help them too.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Praise the Lord. So that which has seemed shut up will be opened unto you. You'll be back in your river of life and riches and glory and wealth for this time. This in turn will hasten my coming. My church, walking in me and with me. Let's please the Father together. He mentions this together. Together. Let's delight his heart and remember, I didn't choose you. I didn't. You didn't choose me. I chose you. Oh. Let's respond. We respond to a yes, Father. We thank you. We say. We respond. We respond by saying yes to everything that is in us. Thank you, Father. That even in errors and mistakes paid for, paid for now, that I just don't. I don't want to pick anybody out, but if, you know there's somebody, if not more than one, I'm not going to ask anything of you. Just for you to acknowledge it in your heart that you have feel that you failed and that the conditions that surround you are irreversible. Would you all close your eyes? Now I have to look because I need to see. But nobody else is looking. Is there anybody that you feel like the things in your life can't change because they're either something someone's done to you or something you've done to them. I'm not asking you to get up. Just lift your hand. Okay. Okay. So if I were to tell you that's a lie, that that's an absolute lie, would you believe me today? I came here to tell you that's a lie, that you are forgiven people, that everything is subject to change by the Power of God. Will you accept? Will you accept that which Jesus paid for for you to walk in freedom? Concerning that situation, those of you that put your hand up before, put your hand up again. If can you accept. I'm looking for.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Accept. I'm looking for your yes. God is looking for your yes. That you can begin to see trees on the riverbank that were not there before that flourish for you, that are full of fruit for you.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

And what he'll do is he will accelerate you. He will accelerate it to the point where you won't even be able to remember it. It's like what sometimes we do revisit things or we just, you know, I've done that, tried to revisit. It's harder to go there. I don't even know why I even try, you know, but you try. I don't even remember that. I don't remember that. I don't remember that. I don't remember that. You know, there are no perfect people. I'm just saying that there are no perfect people. So it's not a condemnation thing. It's will you accept what's in the room today? Because that's what I came to say. You are free from that. It's over. Everybody stay together. It's over. Hallelujah. I don't look to my past to dictate to where I'm going. I don't even look to the moment to tell me where I'm going. Right? Right. Nothing tells us except the Word and the Spirit. Hallelujah. I believe we need to fill ourselves up. Could we stand to our feet? Hallelujah. And I just felt like we were to get filled in the Holy Ghost again and again. And of course we are in the services, but what's wrong with a top up?

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

You know, in my car when I need petrol, my husband always says, is it full?

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

I said, no, it's on.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

He's for enough.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Because I don't like to go and

[Sister Wendy Preston]

put petrol in my car. My mother in law told me ladies should not be pumping gas.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

I thought, I'll adopt that. I like that.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

And I know sometimes we have to do it, but anyway, anyway, anyway. We should live topped up. Let's live topped up.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Father, we thank you for the power of the Holy Spirit in the room

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

and online, wherever anyone is. Father, we thank you for a refreshing

[Sister Wendy Preston]

of the Lord that comes from the presence of God.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

We thank you, Father for this river of life that we get to do life in together. Hallelujah. Father, we say fill us afresh in the Holy Ghost in the room today. Fill us up, Lord, by yourself, Spirit. Hallelujah. That we can swim in the ways of God. Living in the fullness of God.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Living in the love of God.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Living in the peace of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Things, things. Listen to me. Things are going to be different because this fullness will move you with the flow of God. Up and out. Up and out. Up and out. Up and out. Up and out. In Jesus name. Oh, Father, thank you for a move, this move of the Spirit of God.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

We thank you, Father.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Come on.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Thank you, Lord.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Filled with the Holy Ghost. Speaking in other tongues Kept in the love of God. O gro ste ben samai meshta le geis de bacaloa Building up our most holy faith.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Yeah, lay hold of it.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Lay hold. Lay hold of the power of God. Lay hold of the flow of God. Lay hold. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. There we go. There we go. There we go. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Shelley, why don't you lay hands along this group? You get.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

You got something else, do it. You do it.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah. You want to do it on this side?

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Pastor Nancy is okay. Leanne, you get this side.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Just get people going. Lay hold, lay hands, do whatever. Yeah. Go, go, go. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Hallelujah, Pastor Amy, you wanna go cut loose? Renee, cut loose. Brother Terry, cut loose. Come on, let's all do it. Let's be a blessing in the body of Christ. Come on, sir. Come on. Get everybody on this side. Come on. Go, go. Get people. Get people.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Come on.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Be felt, be filled, be filled, be filled. Hallelujah. Oh, come on, everybody. Hallelujah. Be filled. Be filled in the power of God. Be filled in the power of God. Be filled in the power of God. Be filled in the power of God. Be filled in the power of God. Be filled in the power of God. Be filled in the power of God. Be filled in the power of God. Be filled. Be filled. Be filled in the power of God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Come on, everybody. Yield. Yield to the power of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You want a little bit? You want a little bit?

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Thank you, Lord, for this precious lady in the power of God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Now pass it along, you.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Yeah, there you go. There you Go. There you go.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Pass it along the line.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, Lord.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How many of you say we got our thinking straightened out today? Yeah.

[Ms. Sarah]

Yeah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

How many of you know the devil can only work through wrong thinking? When we think that our miss is greater than the price that was paid, it holds us back. But that got corrected today. And we agree with the Word. We agree with the Word. I said we agree with the Word. And we're not falling prey to the accusations of the accuser, the brethren, anymore. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jesus blood puts it back as though we never missed it. That's all it does. That's exactly what it does. It puts it back as though we never missed it. So how bold would we be to live and move and speak if we knew we'd never missed it? Amen. Hallelujah. Just say this with me. The blood makes it as though I never missed it. So now I live as though I've never missed it. Because that's my place in Christ. In Christ. I have never missed it. In Christ. I have never missed it. Amen.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Not because of what I've done, but because of what he's done. Amen.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Now the devil can't work on that anymore. And when he tries to come say, no, no, no. You're talking to a dead man. You're talking to that. That old man's been crucified and buried. There's. There's no response out of him. No. No. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So many of you just got your. Got your. Your permission to walk free. To walk as free as you've been all along. But now you've gotten that permission because you agree with it. I agree with it. And the devil's always going to work to try to bring you out of a good agreement with the Word. Now know that. And so it's our privilege to not. Not leave our agreement with the Word. Amen. Hallelujah. Thank you, Sister Wendy. That was so rich, wasn't it rich? Yes, yes, yes. But I'm going. I'm going to say this. Sermons when. When the Word is delivered, we're different. When the Word is given, we're different. If it's accepted and believed and held to. We're different. We're not. Oh, thank you. That Was good. No, I'm different. I'm different. I'm changed. I'm changed. That's part of Romans 12:2. I'm transformed as I gain, as I take on God's way of thinking. I'm different because I'm transformed in a service. I'm transformed by the truth that we've heard. Amen.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Praise the Lord. Just lift up your hands. Well, there's something more. I don't know if somebody else has it or what. Do you have anything more, Sister Wendy? Something more.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Staying Grandma. Man was never designed to stand alone. That was not my plan ever for you to be alone. It's not my plan that you should be thinking of oneself. But in the bigger picture, you have a part. Igreba tamanshko di brosti mengro cast ek. And as you accept it, you'll see that things will grow and change very, very quickly. Very, very quickly. Things are changing. Niimasta bokosh eg restiki in the natural. You'll see it in imama ti grace de pasta lomon kasi. And in not many days from now, what was and that appeared that would never change is now completely different. So believe in my word and trust me for miracles and supernatural happenings. For for many of you in this room this week, they have already transpired. They have already taken place. Se breshti bansolo mon solace. So know this in my love. There's never any mistakes. So reach into the flow that's been given to you. And then you'll begin to know. You'll see things supernaturally. And your head would say, how could that be? So it's time to put your head under the water and swim with me.

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

Duck your head. In other words, duck your thinking under the flow.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Go under the water and you'll see, for that's where you live. With me, in me.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Praise the Lord. We receive that. I said, we receive that. We receive it with our spirits. We receive it with our spirits. You know, Smith Wigglesworth, it's recorded in one of the books that he made a statement. He said, once you've tasted a pentecost. And what's he mean? The move of the spirit. The flow of the spirit. He said nothing else satisfies. Because how many of you know when you taste of the flow and the move of the spirit, you're not setting aside the Word, because the Holy Spirit only works with the Word. But he said, once you've had that taste, nothing else satisfies. What's this mean pastors don't cheat your people by robbing them of encounters with the Holy Spirit because they need the moving of the Spirit in their for their everyday life. Amen. To receive miracles, to receive what they need from God for their lives, they're going to have to have encounters with the Holy Ghost in a congregational setting, in a corporate setting. And that's our place as ministers to facilitate that. Not tell the Holy Ghost how he's going to do it, but make this setting conducive to where he can do what he wants to do in a service. Because nothing else satisfies how many times in times that we've gone to services and you appreciate what was done in a measure. And the word that was pro. That was ministered, but you walked out feeling cheated because the Holy Spirit wasn't given place. And it says that he confirms the Word with what? With signs following. How dare us preach the Word then not give him the opportunity to confirm what we was just preached. We're not authorized to rob him of his confirmation time in a service. I'm not saying every service is going to look the same, but I'm saying however he wants to confirm it. Last night we saw some confirmation at the top of the service. Right? Manifestations and ways he moved. So because he's so diverse, we don't rut him and we don't get rutted. And that means we can't operate on autopilot. We have to operate in a service depending on him, not assuming we already know. Amen. Hallelujah. I'm going to ask Pastor Joel and Pepe Sims come up here because there is. There is an impartation for. For y', all for a further place in the flow of the Spirit. I'm going to ask Pastor Sister Wendy if you would come up and minister to them. Hallelujah. Further places of the Spirit.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

This is not reliant on where you are now and what you're doing. This is separate. This is about you. This is about what you were born for. And entering into another phase of your ministry. The equipping is there for the next phase. Funnily enough, even before you finish this one, you're going to step into another one. Because people need your help. Pastors need your help. Has to break. And Brother Hagin spoke about phases and seasons and sobreshte. So even though you're doing the will of God, whatever things look like for you, you have to enter into this other phase and that what's gone behind you will catch up to you. Let what you're doing catch up to where you're going. Don't stop at what you're doing now and watch what's happening, but move forward now because the way is made clear. And as you go forward, everything, everything will have to catch up with you. You're going to be moving speedily, so be ready. In Jesus name,

[Nancy Dufresne]

Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. So we take that for ourselves, especially ministers, especially ministers for your churches, for your congregation. Hallelujah. We have to go further to stop at what we have, have just been acquainted with. There's more he wants to introduce us to. Hallelujah. So we take it. Hallelujah. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you, Father. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Just lift up your hands and let's thank him again. Father, we're so grateful. We are so, so grateful. We are so, so grateful. Now, I've said, I said this the other night. Just know this. For the things of the spirit, you have to be around them to sharpen. Iron sharpens iron, meaning you have to be around that which needs to be sharpened. Amen. So don't treat lightly these times together. And so many of you take advantage. We have so many ministers that come really to one. We have five conferences a year. And you come time after time after time. And what is that? That's realizing we need, we need each other to go further together. And I so appreciate that. But there's just more. There's more, there's more, there's more. And we need to be sharpened as much as, as often by being together.

[Sister Wendy Preston]

Amen.

[Nancy Dufresne]

And even what's it say over in Hebrews 10:25, Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together. The amplified says, which is the habit of some people. And I would say, which is the bad habit of some people. And especially as you see the day approaching. So he says this gathering is going to be more critical and crucial as you see the time approaching. It is always been critical, but especially now. Amen. Hallelujah. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit [e-mail] to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.