Make Room For Your Miracle, Part 2 | Morgan Dufresne | High Springs, Florida | JTH Crusades 2026 | Thursday AM

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Make Room For Your Miracle, Part 2"

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Episode: Make Room For Your Miracle, Part 2 | Morgan Dufresne | High Springs, Florida | JTH Crusades 2026 | Thursday AM
Date: March 13, 2026

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Overview

This episode, recorded live at the JTH Crusades in High Springs, FL, continues the powerful message of making room for miracles in your life. The focus is on practical faith, the necessity of preparation (spiritually and practically), and the sustaining nature of miracles through ongoing honor for God and His Word. Through scriptural examples, personal testimonies, and moments of ministry, the speakers emphasize that miracles are not only available but require our deliberate action and willingness to let go of pride, unbelief, and distractions.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Receiving and Honoring the Word

• Opening Worship & Adoration: The episode begins with hosts offering worship to Jesus, emphasizing the importance of receiving the Word with reverence and expecting His miracle-working power.
  • "How we receive the word is how we receive you. So we receive the word with honor, with reverence, with obedience." — Pastor Nancy [00:38]

2. Immediate Ministry: Healing and Testimony

• Words of Knowledge & Prayer for Healing: Pastor Nancy senses back problems and invites those affected to receive healing.

  • Laying on of hands and declarations of wholeness follow, with emphasis on bold, present-tense faith.
  • "Not for you to give it, but we've come to take it. Say, I've come to take it." — Pastor Debbie [02:44]

• Testimony through Song:

  • Miss Destiny leads the congregation in affirming their healing actively:
    • "Let’s make it present tense. Something is happening. Something is happening. I know he touched me." — Miss Destiny [05:27]

• Word of Knowledge for Right Foot:

  • Ministry focuses on healing of right foot injuries, reaffirming the presence of angels and healing anointing.
    • "Healed and whole in Jesus name. Whole feet. Whole feet." — Pastor Debbie [06:47]

3. Condemnation vs. Grace: Receiving Forgiveness

• Testimony of Overcoming Condemnation:
  • An unidentified male shares a story highlighting how Jesus meets us in our failures and restores us, inviting those battling condemnation to receive a fresh touch.
  • "Jesus wants you to know that he makes everything new. He makes everything right. He doesn’t want you suffering like that. He’s paid the price." — Unidentified Male [10:57]

4. Impartation and Serving

• Impartation of Grace to Serve:

  • Pastor Nancy shares how God told her to minister a specific grace for service to "Drew", commending his purity of heart.
  • "It won’t be you, but it’s another level in him...your heart is so right. It’s always been so pure." — Pastor Nancy [13:37]

• Reflection on Tangible Presence:

  • Appreciation for God’s tangible presence in the service and the importance of not taking for granted the opportunity to cooperate with the Spirit.
    • "The Spirit of the Lord comes and dwells among us in a more tangible way." — Pastor Nancy [15:53]

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Main Teaching: "Make Room For Your Miracle"

5. The Shunammite Woman: Keeping the Room for the Miracle

• Key Passage: 2 Kings 4

  • Pastor Debbie revisits the story of the Shunammite woman, emphasizing that she physically and spiritually maintained space for miracles, not only when in need but continually through honor and preparedness.
  • "She had kept that room. She kept the room. She kept the honor. She kept a place for the power." — Pastor Debbie [21:45]

• Generational Perspective:

  • Warning that subsequent generations (who benefit from previous faith) often fill the "miracle room" with other interests, losing capacity for future miracles.

6. Miracle Room: More Than Occasional Accommodation

• Living Beyond "3% Faith":
  • The challenge of giving God only a small fraction of your life (e.g., just Sunday and Tuesday service time) and expecting miracle-level results.
    • "They're willing to give 3%, but the rest is carnal. What I want to do, how I want to think, where I want to go." — Pastor Debbie [18:54]

7. Scripture Insights: Mark 9 & Bartimaeus (Mark 10)

• Dealing With Unbelief:

  • Pastor Debbie highlights the father of the demon-possessed boy (Mark 9), modeling humility by asking Jesus for help with his unbelief, showing that humility enlarges our capacity for miracles.
  • "Help me make more room for my miracle. Help me." — Pastor Debbie [27:28]

• Dismissing Pride:

  • Citing Naaman (2 Kings 5) and Bartimaeus, she warns: pride restricts room for miracles, while humility and action open the way.
    • "You cannot have pride and make room for miracles." — Pastor Debbie [31:22]

• Bartimaeus: Action Makes Room

  • Blind Bartimaeus did not merely call out; he cast aside his beggar’s garment—an act demonstrating irrevocable faith and readiness, even before seeing results.
    • "He couldn’t carry his coat and his miracle at the same time." — Pastor Debbie [43:57]

8. Practical Application: Preparedness Over Panic

• Analogy—Preparing the House:
  • Pastor Debbie likens making spiritual room for miracles to keeping your home ready for guests, rather than scrambling last minute.
  • "We are having to make room for our guest. But we all love that feeling when you go, just come on over. Why? Because we’ve been preparing." — Pastor Debbie [40:01]
• Daily Preparation:
  • Encouragement to meditate on God’s Word regularly, so when challenges come, you are ready, not caught off-guard.
  • "Before we need a miracle, say before. How much better is it when a need shows up and we’ve already been feeding, we’ve already been preparing..." — Pastor Debbie [40:27]

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• "If you still care about what people think about you, how people are going to judge you...Pride is judging. Pride is ruling your actions. You cannot have pride and make room for miracles." — Pastor Debbie [30:51]
• "Calling made room for the word. But acting made room for the miracle." — Pastor Debbie [44:18]
• "He made room in the temple, didn’t he, for miracles. And it didn’t look like this. It wasn’t this sweet...Repentance makes room for reward." — Pastor Debbie [47:57]
• Song/Prophetic Poem:
  • "Make room in your thought life. Make room in your day. Make room in your conversation. Make room to obey. Make room for God’s power and delight in his word. For then you will see his greatness. Then you will see what you’ve heard..." — Pastor Debbie [48:44]
• "You are making room every day for what you want...If we want something bad enough, we will go to God and be unrelenting until we get it. We will make room for what we...You are making room every day for what you want." — Pastor Debbie [52:13]

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Important Timestamps

• [00:10–03:40] — Opening worship, word of knowledge, healing prayers for back issues.
• [06:12–07:08] — Word of knowledge and healing for right foot.
• [09:22–11:40] — Testimony about overcoming condemnation and invitation for those struggling.
• [17:01–24:40] — Teaching on the Shunammite woman and "keeping the room" for God’s power.
• [25:48–34:28] — Mark 9: humility, unbelief, and the necessity to make spiritual room.
• [34:28–44:08] — Blind Bartimaeus: Action as proof of faith, “casting off the coat.”
• [40:01–44:08] — Analogy of house preparation, everyday readiness for miracles.
• [48:44–52:00] — Prophetic exhortation/song about making space in every area of life.
• [52:13–End] — Final thoughts: making room for what you truly want, childlike persistence in God’s presence.

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Tone and Atmosphere

The message is dynamic, faith-filled, direct, and full of practical illustrations. The speakers blend teaching and ministry with vivid, relatable analogies and gentle humor. Above all, they foster an atmosphere of honor, expectation, and empowerment—encouraging listeners that miracles are both possible and part of the believer’s daily walk when we make deliberate spiritual room.

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Closing Exhortation

“If we want something bad enough, we will go to God and be unrelenting until we get it. We will make room for what we really want.” — Pastor Debbie [52:13]

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For Further Reflection

• What “rooms” in your spiritual house need clearing for God’s power to move?
• Are you daily preparing long before the crisis comes?
• What acts of faith or humility might God be prompting you to do to make space for the miraculous in your life?

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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.

[Pastor Nancy]

You're so wonderful. You're so wonderful and so merciful. Oh, your mercies were new when we woke up this morning. Your mercies were new and afresh. And we take them. We receive of those mercies. Your goodness and your mercy are right here with us. With us this morning. We glorify you. We glorify you. We glorify you. We honor the word this morning. Jesus, you were the word made flesh. So how we receive the word is how we receive you. So we receive the word with honor, with reverence, with obedience. This morning. And we glorify you, Jesus. We glorify you. Savior, we glorify you. I love you, Jesus. Father, I love you. I love you more than anything. I love you more than anything. Holy Ghost, you're a wonderful helper. Thank you for being our help this morning. Hallelujah. Is there anyone in here and you have back problems? It seems like on the right side you came in and you've got back issues. Is there anyone in here and you say, that's me or down the spine, come up here. I just saw it.

[Pastor Debbie]

Problems with the back. Seem like it was on the right

[Pastor Nancy]

side of the spine or on the spine. But if it's anywhere close, I would come down here. Father, we thank you for your healing power, your miracle working power present this morning. Hallelujah. We've come to take our miracle.

[Pastor Debbie]

Not for you to give it, but we've come to take it. Say, I've come to take it. We're not waiting on him to give a miracle. We have come today to take what already belongs to us.

[Pastor Nancy]

Hallelujah, Father, I thank you.

[Pastor Debbie]

His hands are laid on them.

[Pastor Nancy]

That healing, miracle working power is going

[Pastor Debbie]

in to their bones, into their back. That power going up and down their spine. And they shall. They shall. They shall be whole in Jesus name.

[Pastor Nancy]

Healed in Jesus name.

[Pastor Debbie]

Whole.

[Pastor Nancy]

There it goes. In Jesus name. Whole in Jesus name.

[Pastor Debbie]

Whole.

[Pastor Nancy]

There it is. In Jesus name. I thank you, Father. Hallelujah. Thank you. Whole in Jesus name. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father. Ah, thank you, Jesus.

[Pastor Debbie]

Oh.

[Pastor Nancy]

Oh, thank you, Father. Whole in Jesus name. Thank you, Father.

[Pastor Debbie]

That anointing going into that cloth when it's laid on that back.

[Pastor Nancy]

Every bone, every vertebrae coming into alignment, the spine corrected. We thank you, Father.

[Pastor Debbie]

That back hole.

[Pastor Nancy]

In Jesus name, whole. There it goes. Jesus name, whole

[Pastor Debbie]

Jesus.

[Pastor Nancy]

Thank you, jesus. Jesus.

[Miss Destiny]

Me.

[Pastor Nancy]

Whole in Jesus name.

[Miss Destiny]

I lift my hands right now and Say that he touched me. He touched me. Let's make a present tense. Something is happening. Something is happening. I know he touch me.

[Pastor Nancy]

Is there someone in here? They may be watching.

[Pastor Debbie]

And you. There's something wrong with the right foot.

[Pastor Nancy]

I heard the right foot injured. Something's going on, or maybe there's a difficulty. Is there anyone in here? And you say, it's my right foot right here.

[Pastor Debbie]

Anyone else?

[Pastor Nancy]

You say my right foot.

[Pastor Debbie]

Sister, there was an angel working on you right here in the pink.

[Pastor Nancy]

You're gonna get an overhaul. Thank you, Father. Come on up here. Father.

[Pastor Debbie]

We thank you for whole feet. Whole feet. Whole feet. Healed and whole. Healed. And who healed and whole in Jesus name. Whole feet. Whole feet.

[Pastor Nancy]

Hallelujah.

[Pastor Debbie]

Thank you, Lord.

[Pastor Nancy]

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Hallelujah. Let's sing that again.

[Miss Destiny]

He touched me. Touch me. For a joy that does my soul I like to say something is happening Something is happening right now, right now I know he touched me and made me Touch me Touch me. Something is happening and now I know each touch me and.

[Pastor Nancy]

Pastor Debbie, is there something you got on your heart? Whether it's healing, there's something to minister to the people. He just said, call Pastor Debbie.

[Pastor Debbie]

I'm not gonna lay hands on you, sister. Pastor, come up here because there's something for the people.

[Miss Destiny]

Jesus,

[Unidentified Male Speaker]

you know, when we began to sing this song, I began to remember a testimony that our pastor gave us. He was backslidden, and before he became a pastor, he was backslidden and. And he had reenlisted into the Navy, and he was under so much condemnation. He was a baby Christian. And he said that he had this dream. And in this dream, it was an inspection, and in the Navy, you had to have your whites, and you had to have everything pressed and everything. And in the dream, in the inspection, he looked and everybody was dressed, but he wasn't. Everything was dirty. It wasn't ironed. And he just knew, you know, you're. You're. I'm in trouble. And so he just closed his eyes because they come to you one, you know, and when the. Whoever it was, when it got to him, he opened up his eyes and it was Jesus. And he fell in his arms, and Jesus was there. And he said after he fell into his arms, he. He stood back straight, and he was just like everyone else. This. And when we began to sing this song, I thought about how people carry condemnation. And Jesus was right there. And even though he had failed and he was running from God, running from the call of God, there was that Condemnation. And when he needed him the most, Jesus was there and he made everything right. If there's anybody in here, and you are. You're. You're bombarded with condemnation, just come up here. Jesus wants you to know that he makes everything new. He makes everything right. He doesn't want you suffering like that. He's paid the price. Amen.

[Miss Destiny]

Something is happening and now I know he touched me and makes me whole.

[Pastor Nancy]

Hallelujah. Let's sing that one more time.

[Miss Destiny]

He touched me oh, he touched me can you receive it with your hands up? And now I know he touched me and made me touch. He touched me and made me whole he touched me and made me whole.

[Pastor Nancy]

Drew, can you come up here? I have thought about you all week. I saw your face. And the spirit of God said to

[Pastor Debbie]

minister to you if you would allow

[Pastor Nancy]

that the grace that God has been so good to give me to serve Pastor Nancy, that I can share some of that, impart that to serve him,

[Pastor Debbie]

and it'll help you to go further.

[Pastor Nancy]

It'll help you to see things more clear. And it won't be you, but it's another level in him. And for you to even discern in following him, how to keep pace and anticipate and be a blessing because your heart is so right. It's always been so pure. And I was singing, I thought, boy,

[Pastor Debbie]

you never gave anybody a lick of

[Pastor Nancy]

problems like some of us. And because you're so pure in heart and you're just here to serve and to be honorable. Father, I thank you for that grace. I thank you for that impartation to cause him to rise, to rise up, rise above, to keep him, to guide him. I thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. And in the years to come, you'll look back and say, my goodness, that was not that. That wasn't me. There's no way in my natural I could have done that. I could have seen that. I could have known that because it was him. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. Praise you, Father. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you for faithfulness and his abounding in the blessing. Abounding. Touching everything. He puts his hand to him and his family. Abounding in the blessing. We thank you, Father. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Just lift your hands and give him glory. We give you glory. We give you glory. We give you glory. Hallelujah. We give you glory. We give you glory. We give you praise and we give you glory. Amen. Hallelujah.

[Miss Destiny]

Glory.

[Pastor Nancy]

Praise the Lord. He is so good. Amen. He is so good to us. So good to us. His goodness is tangible in here this morning. You can sense it. We just worship you, Father. We just worship you. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you, Father. Ah, thank you, Father. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Well, you may be seated. This morning. I'm grateful the don't ever take it for granted, although it's ours to participate in, but that the Spirit of the Lord comes and dwells among us in a more tangible way and that we earn a place that we can cooperate with that and have knowledge of how to flow with that. Thank you, music team. Thank you, Ms. Leanne and brother David for helping.

[Pastor Debbie]

Can we. Before we move forward. Can, can we do. I'm going to do kind of what my husband did. Can we go back to Second Kings chapter four for a second? Because I want to close out. We got a chapter open and I didn't finish out some things we've been talking about. Make room for your miracle or making room for your miracle. And this was not the original passage that the Spirit of God spoke to

[Pastor Nancy]

me the first time that I had

[Pastor Debbie]

started meditating on this, just this revelation coming up. This was something he gave me the. The night before I ministered on Tuesday. It was a com, as my husband says, almost a side quest. This was not the intended destination. We took a detour in the road, the road trip. But I want to close out and get off this, this detour. Second Kings, chapter four. We had read that the Shunammite woman, she had quite literally made room for her miracle. And we know this, that her son, she. She has a son. She wouldn't let the Word of God. He represented the Word of God. Elisha represented the Word of God to her. So we don't want to say, well, I don't have a prophet. No, we've got pastors, we've got opportunities to sit under the Word. It's when we sit under the Word and the anointing. So that's what he represents to us. So don't get tripped up on, you know, well, she got to have a prophet stay in her house. Even better. Now we've been given all the five fold ministry offices and we've been given a home and a place to feed on the Word and to have the Word ministered to us. And so we're, we're. What I pointed out was we're not letting any moment, any opportunity to make room for the Word, to make room, make room for the Power of God that's present every week in our local church, that's present every week in every service. And we're not to let that pass by without making room in here. Not being a casual attender, not just kind of being flippant and certainly not getting offended and closing off that room that was once made. How many of you know there is room at times that was once made and all. We see more of that than we do oftentimes. People. You'd be amazed how quickly you can get somebody who doesn't believe anything to believe. But it's those who've been in the church, those who've been around a while, those who think they have an opinion, those who've watched things come and go, and now all of a sudden, the room that was once open is now closed. Or they get casual and want to live carnal. And they're, hey, I'm here, I'm present. I'm always, I'm always around. But outside, you know, outside of the local church, there's all this carnality, you know, perversion, all kinds of things. But because they think they make room on Sunday and Tuesday, I'm good. I love something. Pastor. Pastor Grant points out, what does he say? 3%, I think 3%. Sundays and Tuesdays are, he said, not even sleeping time. It's only 3% of your week. So they're willing to give 3%, but the rest is carnal. What I want to do, how I want to think, where I want to go. So the room is quite small. It matters for what you receive, how large you, you, you, you enlarge your capacity and how much you enlarge your room for God to be able to fill it. Amen. So she did not let her miracle pass her by. Her miracle looked like a man. And it turns out that the child, the miracle child she received ends up dying. And this is what I love. And I probably should have kept going and gotten here because she takes her baby, she takes her son. I want you to see this. And the same place she got her miracle, she was able to go right back and lay her dead child in that same room. She did not get her miracle. She did not make room for her miracle. And then once she had it, once she got comfortable, right? Once she realized, oh, I've, I've, I've got, you know, I got what I came for, or getting used to the routine, she had kept that room. We don't even know the last time Elisha had even passed by there, do we? We don't but she had kept the room, you see that she kept the room. She kept the room. She kept the honor. She kept a place for the power. And when the miracle child, she didn't, as my husband said, she didn't want pity, she didn't want to complain. She didn't gripe against God that now look at what has happened to what she you've given me. She kept that room open and she took her dead son and laid him on that bed where that miracle man used to lay and said, I'll be back. All is well, it's all good. Everything is just fine. She didn't run in a panic to the man of God. She told everybody, you just tell them all, it's all, it's all good. Everything, all is well with us.

[Miss Destiny]

Us.

[Pastor Debbie]

Did it matter in those years of her son growing, what she did with holding that place for her miracle power? It absolutely mattered. It matters how you not just treat when you have a time in a time of need, but how you treat the place of your receiving of miracle through the years as time goes on. How are you treating that room? Are you filling it up with other things? Because clearly that bed was still there, that room was still available. She didn't fill up the miracle room with something else just because she became satisfied, because she got satisfied. I'll fill up the space with something else. I'll make a playroom for my miracle son. I'll make. What happens? People get their miracle and then all of a sudden their miracle, whether it's financial, whether it's. It's physical, all of a sudden they don't have time anymore. Other things fill. And I'm talking even to. This is what happens oftentimes with the next generation that comes along, right? Because mom and dad believe for everything, laid hold of everything. And then the next generation comes along and fills the miracle room space with opinions, with thoughts, with activities. Why? Because everything has gone well for you up until this point, right? Everything was well because your parents faith got you to this place. So they take that miracle room that was made. And now, well, I have, you know, I've got my own thoughts. I've got my own. I've seen the way things could be better, could be done, you know, Anyway,

[Pastor Nancy]

Praise the Lord.

[Pastor Debbie]

Go with me if you would, to mark chapter 10. This was my original place.

[Pastor Nancy]

Mark chapter 10.

[Pastor Debbie]

We're talking about making room for your miracles. Make room for your miracle. You know, the spirit of God will show you where to make room for the word. Make room in your thought life. Make room in action. This is what I want to look at here. Because this is what. This is what in Mark chapter 10. This is what blind Bartimaeus. He did.

[Pastor Nancy]

Did I tell you? Mark chapter 10. I'm sorry. I have mark chapter 10 here for something, and it's not for that. That's okay. I'm not in a hurry.

[Pastor Debbie]

I won't keep you long. I never do. Well, go. Go with me then. Go to Mark chapter nine. We'll start there. Because this scripture was reference

[Pastor Nancy]

Mark chapter nine.

[Pastor Debbie]

We. We talked about.

[Pastor Nancy]

I don't remember if it was Pastor Nancy or my husband talked about in Mark chapter nine.

[Pastor Debbie]

And the Father, the demonic, the boy with the demon possessed. He's foaming at the mouth, he's gnashing at the teeth. He's pining, says he pineth away. Verse 18. And he tells Jesus, tells the disciples, o faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me. And they brought him. And when he saw him, straightway the spirit tear him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming. Asked Father, how long? He how long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said of a child, and ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us and help us. And Jesus said unto him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Then straightway, the father of the child cried out and said with tears, lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. And this is what I love that this father did. He didn't try to act more spiritual. He said, I know I've got to make a little more room, right? Help me. He's saying to Jesus, help me make more room for my miracle. Help me. We don't want to fall into this mindset that because we've already seen some things, we've already experienced some things that we've already got full capacity. Every time we face something, many times, we can go back to the drawing board. We can go back to asking and discerning and saying, father, I can see, I've been on this road believing for this for a long time. And if I've been on this road to Mississippi and it's not quite arrived me yet, maybe I can say what this man did and say, help my unbelief. Where, where is that? Because there's this space that my faith should be in is filled up a little bit with something that shouldn't be there. Does that make sense? I know I've been there before. I can feel I'm. We say we're not firing on all cylinders. You feel like you pick up a little momentum and then you kind of slow down. It's not on God. That's on the inside. There's not enough room yet for what I'm reaching for. Right? Greater reach is going to call for greater room. Greater miracles will call for greater room. Greater finances will call for a greater room. And this is what he's saying, help my unbelief. Meaning if there's any space within me that's taken up with unbelief. He didn't say I was in unbelief. He just said, if there's any room in me that's being taken up by unbelief, help me with that. Help me with that. That in and of itself is faith, right? It's humility. Did you know there's times even in receiving that you may not understand fully? You may not comp your mind like she said, I think it was last night. Your heart can believe for things that your mind can't even wrap around. But if you'll stay humble and just even acknowledge that, say, my goodness, that's beyond my thinking. Not, oh, I. I've been envisioning that for years. There are things that I'm going, God, you are put. Placing that within me that is not of me because I could not have ever seen that even three years ago. That's from you. That prompting is from you. Now my job is to make space, make room for that miracle within my belief. Believing. Help me, my unbelief. Let me be large enough and have room enough on the inside to continually to receive of that vision, receive of what you're showing me, receive of what you put inside my heart. But sometimes it even takes humility. And this is what he did in front of everybody. He said, help my unbelief. No shame. Why? Because when you really want a miracle, you don't really care what anyone else thinks around you. You don't care if you still care about what people think about you, how people are going to judge you. What if you fall when you take off running? What if you still think about that? Pride is judging. Pride is ruling your actions. You cannot have. You cannot have pride and make room for miracles. I really don't care if I'm the only one responding in the room. Doesn't matter to me. Because you aren't believing. You're not in Large, you're not building my room for me. I am, I am. And when I start being able to walk in the things that God has authored for my life, as by his grace he begins to expand and he begins to show me things and reveal things in his word, I'm just going to keep responding all the more. Amen. So we have to watch. Am I embarrassed? Am I self conscious? Especially as ministers, I have to be the dignified one in the room. I don't know whoever wrote that or who said that or if I can find it anywhere in here.

[Miss Destiny]

Right?

[Pastor Debbie]

Dignity. If you think of trying to be dignified and represent God, when it says he sits up in the heavens and laughs, I don't think it's a slight chuckle. You know what I mean. When you see his works and all the things that he's done and what he's moved on men to do and how his power begins to flow and what people. I mean, he, he had. We won't have time to go there, but he has the Naaman. And he says, now go wash in the dirty river. That's not dignified. And because of pride, he almost didn't do it. He almost. Pride was what held him out, not his position. Well, I'm the king. No, it's not your position that you're struggling with. It's your pride. It's your pride. He, he had to set aside the room he made for his position, his dignified position. He said, I've got to now thank God his helper. I've got to. Why don't you just make room for your miracle and go wash? Let's sweep that pride out and just go get in the river. Do you or do you not want to be made whole? You think Jesus cared when he spit, right? My gosh. We tell kids, don't spit and by all means don't spit and make mud with it and play with your spit, right? Don't play with your food, don't play with your spit. Don't play pick your nose. Don't you know, the list goes on. And because Jesus being so humble, he did not care what anyone else thought. And he said, if this is what my father says do, I don't care what anyone thinks of me because this man, I'm making room for this man's miracle. Amen. So we have to ask ourselves, is there pride taking up space? What we might look like, what it might appear to be? That's what I love when my husband starts talking about, so what? What do you have to lose you're already struggling with that ailment. You've already been behind financially. So what? So what? Amen. Amen. So healing, we see this in this. Healing does not share space without non belief. Healing does not share the space without non belief. You make room for one or the other. Which one is it? Amen. Go with me, if you would, actually.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Yeah.

[Pastor Debbie]

Did I tell you, Mark? Okay, so where is blind Bartimaeus at? Where did he go? Thank you.

[Miss Destiny]

You.

[Pastor Debbie]

Thank you. I've got so many marks and notes and things that I didn't. It's all. I'm jumping around. I love getting in these, like my husband said. I wish we did have more. More examples, more stories. But once you start reading one and you get to another, you go, my gosh, that is so good. Everything just comes alive. Look at verse 46. And they came to Jericho. And as he went out of Jericho with his disciples, a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And many charged him that he should hold his peace. And he cried the more a great deal, thou, son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying, come unto him, be of good comfort, rise. He calleth thee. And he, casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus. And Jesus answered and said unto him, what will thou that I should do unto thee? And the blind man said unto him, lord, that I might receive my sight. And Jesus said unto him, go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus. This was the original text that just kept turning over and over in my spirit when God said, make room for your miracle. Blind Bartimaeus, without any teaching, without any instruction, without any direction, without watching, he had never seen. Listen. He'd never seen a miracle. He is not going based off of anything he has seen. No one told him. They just told him to get up. But nobody told him to take off the garment. Where did he get the idea to take off the beggar's garment? Where did that come from? How did he know to take off the beggar's garment? Because he certainly never seen anyone do it. And everyone else is telling him to be quiet. So no one's around him going, hey, if I were you to take this step of faith, he, the master is calling you. Take off that garment. That would Be an excellent way, an excellent act of faith. Faith without works is dead. He did not have someone standing over him, teaching him and counseling him and encouraging him what to do. He had the wherewithal, he had the faith to continually calling out. But faith is not just a call. This is sometimes where we stop. We just talk and speak and confess and confess and confess and confess. We don't make room with words, we make room with action. It started with calling. It started with Jesus, thou son of David. That was the start. And what I believe, what happened when he had the faith and the boldness and the listen, the humility, right, to talk over everyone else, when he had the humility to keep crying out all the more, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. When he began calling, I believe this, that because Jesus carried the presence of God and was in proximity, I believe that the Holy Ghost prompted him take off that garment. The first place we start is we hear the word. The second place is as we listen, as we confess. Listen, pay attention. How, God, what do I need to do to make room now for this miracle? It's not words that make the room. She didn't go, oh yeah, let's invite Elisha to the house. And just at her words, she had to make the room, she had to take action, get everyone involved, pick the drapes, pick the lamp, go make the bed, pick the fine linens, maybe even have somebody make them, custom make everything for that room. The faith was demonstrated in the action, not in the confession. We make room when she calls for a healing line and says, come up. What are we doing when we're wanting people to make an action? We're making room for the miracle. If I want a guest to come over and this is a key, this is something I want us, and it takes it a little bit of a step further if I want to invite someone to my house. How many of you we've had those times and we say, oh, why don't you just come over for dinner? You know, doors are always open, even here. You know, people can show up. This is Southern thing, you just kind of show up and everyone's. There's always food, there's always, you're always force fed something. I know it's the same in the Hispanic culture, Mexican culture, and that's why we love it. There's always something to eat, always. And if not, Ms. Rachelle will make it. You know, somebody will make something. But isn't it nice when you say, oh, come on over, and the house is already in order Right. And there's not the 30 minute scramble in the car, you know, and you're yelling all the way home and you're giving instruction, I need this done. I need this done. I need this one, you know, and then you come in and they're playing in the bathroom. I told you to wipe down that sink. I told you to go sweep that floor. I told you to go.

[Miss Destiny]

You.

[Pastor Debbie]

Why? Because we are having to make room for our guest. But we all love that feeling when you go, just come on over. Why? Because we've been preparing. Right? Now, listen, listen. This is the difference to feeding and meditating on the word and preparing ourselves before we need a miracle. Before we need a miracle, say before. How much better is it when a need shows up and we've already been feeding, we've already been preparing, we've already been meditating, we've already been rehearsing, we've already been muttering to ourselves, oh, my God is so good. He is increasing me more and more. Oh, my children, we are blessed coming in, we're blessed going out. My pastor, he preached such and such on Sunday. And I'm going to take that. And Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I'm just going to feed on that because I heard, I, I sense that prompting. I sense that what are we doing? We're preparing. I don't have a need at that moment. The pain didn't start then. But when the need comes, we are not in miracle panic. Making room mode. The room has been prepared. The room has been available. The room has been prepped and ready. How much we all know that feeling. How much, much easier is it when, in, when. When somebody, you know, young people, your, your parents are coming over or, you know, guests. And it's already done. It's already done. What about this? You already got food in the fridge. Isn't that nice to go home? And there's leftover. There's things already made and prepared that you enjoy. This is what it's like to daily, daily feast on the word of God. It is my daily bread. I can go. And I've already prepared that, that bread. It's been ready and waiting. And when the pain shows up or the need shows up or the emergency. Emergency shows up. We're not emergency. Making room mode. Preparing mode. It's already ready. And this is what she realized. She kept that room. It clearly she kept her faith stirred. So when the boy died, ah, I know exactly where to go. I've kept the room. Room open. I've kept the room available. And so we get into this emergency miracle mode. I gotta have pastor lay hands on me. I got. We're grasping. We're grasping. It's like yelling at the kids to get the house prepared because they're gonna be here in 30 minutes. We're not playing catch up. When the diagnosis comes of in a year, you're gonna, you know, it's not gonna look so good. That's okay. Room has already been made for my miracle, Pastor. The room has already been made. It's already been made. I've been feeding. This is what I've been meditating on. This is what I've been listening to. I know this is what Pastor Nancy said, that Christ is already in me. Everything is already mine. And I've listened to episodes one you know, through 250 already. And I have made room, not. Pastor, help me make a room. Help me prepare a room. That's all the time. Oftentimes what happens, we've got to go to Faith Friends to help us get that room ready. Because it wasn't. And sometimes you don't have enough time. It's not a bad confession, but we've seen it. There's not enough time. Blind Bartimaeus realized I can't receive healing and hang on to being a blind beggar at the same time. There's. Listen, there's not. He recognized. There was not room for both. There was not room for both. There's not room for both. He couldn't carry his coat and his miracle at the same time. He couldn't carry the coat and the miracle at the same time. What are we carrying all the. While trying to receive a miracle.

[Miss Destiny]

And.

[Pastor Debbie]

And it's not a condemnation. It's not like I gotta figure this out now. We have a helper. We have a helper. Sometimes we know we're. We're just kind of neglecting making that action. But sometimes there's things we haven't seen yet, things we as we grow and progress. But I believe this. The Holy Ghost prompted him because he was in proximity of the Spirit of God on Jesus. And I believe the Holy Ghost heard that and was able to move in giving direction because he had never seen that before. You can't. We can't prove it, but you can't disprove it. But see, he was within proximity of the anointing. Amen. Calling made room for the word. But listen, acting made room for the miracle. Calling made room for the Word. When you confess, you're making room for the Word in your life. But acting made room for a miracle. Miracle power flows best when action is being made. And we see it all throughout the scripture. And it has to be right action because. Because really certain miracle power stopped flowing for Moses when he couldn't act on what God said by speaking. He only wanted to act with the rod, right? We saw that. So he could not carry his coat in miracle. At the same time, what are we carrying that is taking up space, holding us down, or keeping us in a place of pity, excuse, doubt and unbelief? You know, I was thinking about this. I started it, almost made me tear up. I said, jesus, Jesus, how? I asked him. I said, how blessed were you? Think about the Master. How blessed he was when Bartimaeus walked up to him with no coat. How blessed do you think the Savior was when this man walked? This man already took off his ailment. He already took it off. He already took off the element. Do you think that blessed him so much that blind Bartimaeus? Bartimaeus, I don't even like calling him blind. Man can see. It's like the woman without the issue of blood that blind. That Bartimaeus comes up and he already has taken the coat off. You know, Jesus turned around and said, this is it, boys. What can I do for you? Because not only will I take you from being blind, I'll take you from

[Pastor Nancy]

being a beggar,

[Pastor Debbie]

I'll take you from being blind. I'll heal you. But now that you're healed, you're not a beggar anymore. Such a symbol, such a symbol of what Jesus has done for us. Amen. Amen. Jesus, how about this? He made room in the temple, didn't he, for miracles. And it didn't look like this. It wasn't this sweet. We talked about that. I love this statement Pastor Nancy makes. Repentance makes room for reward, right? Repentance makes room. She always says, repentance brings reward. How about we could say it this way. Repentance makes room for reward. Amen. I'll close with this. I was in meditating on these things and just praying. This was a. I don't know how long ago this was. It was maybe a few days ago and a song just began to come up in my heart. And the Spirit of God said this. Make room in your thought life. Make room in your day. Make room in your conversation. Make room to obey. Make room for God's power and delight in his word. For then you will see his greatness. Then you will see what you've heard. Don't sit back and wait for God. He's Already made the way. But make room for your miracle because it's already been made yours today. God is waiting for your action. He's waiting on your faith. Respond to him in this hour. And you know your miracle is never late. It's already been prepared, ready and waiting for your call. So make room for your miracle and get ready to receive it all. Amen. We're making room for some things. And you can. You can have psalms. You can have. This just came out of a time of just meditating, praying in the spirit, worshiping God, and he'll talk to you. These are important times in what we're facing that there's so much going out there that's trying to fix and solve and. Or monetize sickness and disease, that we should be ahead, not behind. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. That's. That's where we'll close with that this morning. Can we say we're gonna make room for some things. Did you have something? Come on up, Miss Destiny. My kids, we get in the car, and they're like, miss Destiny had a song, and you didn't know that. And I was like, thanks, guys. You should have waved me down. Okay, okay, Good, good, good. So why don't we stand? And while Miss Destiny is singing, the presence of God is here. Just like with blind Bartimaeus. Turn to your spirit and look. Where can I make some room for some things? Where can some adjustments be made? Where am I holding on and trying to carry the coat? And I can't hold the miracle. I can't hold all three of my children, even when they were little at one time. My. The other morning. And I say this. The other morning, I was putting my makeup on before I was preaching Tuesday morning, and my sister and the kids had come over, and the littlest one, Edie, she's only two, she goes, oh, makeup. And she climbed. I'm sitting with my legs crossed on the couch and my two makeup bags right in front of me. And when I say, that girl made room, you know what I mean? She made room, got the mirror, got a brush, and helped herself to the makeup. And I know her dad's gonna hear this. You know, she didn't show up looking any which way. But I, of course, being the aunt, I will let you have whatever you want. But I laugh because I don't have big laugh. And my legs are folded and there's pillows and, you know, and she made room. Why? Because she wanted that makeup. And so I'm looking, holding the mirror. She's looking in the mirror together. We're both doing it at the same time, and everything is, oh, makeup. Oh, makeup. Why? Because if we want to make room for it. Do you hear? If we want something bad enough. If we want something bad enough, we will go to God and be unrelenting until we get it. We will make room for what we. You are making room every day for what you want. If you want to make room for social, you'll make room for social life. If you want to make room for offense, trust me, you will. You will get in it and you will make. You'll go, oh, offense. That feels good. We make room for what we really want. Amen. I want to be like that and push my way into the presence of God and said, I'm not leaving here and I'm making room. You're making room. What did Smith Wigglesworth say? If God, Holy Spirit doesn't move, I move him. What was he doing? He's making room. He created the room. He's not waiting on God to make the room. He's making it. Amen.

[Nancy Dufresne]

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