Podcast Summary: Miracle Service | Nancy Dufresne | DM Miracle Crusade | Phoenix, AZ | Tuesday PM

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Date: March 11, 2020
Host: Nancy Dufresne (with contributions from other ministers and congregation members)

Episode Overview

This episode centers on a Miracle Service led by Nancy Dufresne, focusing on the operation of spiritual gifts, especially healing and miracles, as outlined in 1 Corinthians 12. The service emphasizes the Holy Spirit’s gifts and endowments, practical faith, yielding to God’s plan, and recognizing the importance of both individual obedience and collective expectation in receiving and ministering healing. Interwoven throughout are testimonies, instructive teachings, practical ministry moments, and exhortations about living fully in alignment with God’s plan for one’s life.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Gifts and Endowments of the Holy Spirit

• Manifestations of the Spirit (00:10): Nancy opens by discussing the nine manifestations ("gifts") of the Spirit, highlighting specifically the working of miracles and gifts of healing.

• Multiple Gifts for Healing: "There's a gift for every sickness that deals with every sickness... there are particular gifts that God has given to us in this ministry that we get results in." (00:53)

• Difference Between Word of Knowledge & Endowment (03:40):

  • The evening’s ministry isn’t by word of knowledge but by specific endowments Nancy recognizes as being given to her—particularly for heart conditions and issues involving metal in the body.

• Faith Still Required (06:08): "Even though ministering by an endowment, faith still needs to be operating... come up here ready to release your faith." – Nancy Dufresne

Healing Ministry & Testimonies

• Heart Conditions (06:27):
  • Nancy ministers to several individuals with heart conditions (including high blood pressure) and encourages the congregation to extend their faith and support.

Notable Testimony: Metal Implants Healed (09:02 – 12:21)

• Anecdote from Kentucky: Nancy recounts a story of a man with metal throughout his body who experienced dramatic healing. "How many of you know God has spare body parts? Why? Because he knows that people will break things and mishandle things or something will happen. And every good manufacturer has spare parts with their product." (08:30)

• Live Testimony:

  • A woman with screws in her ankle receives prayer, moves her foot without pain for the first time in a long time, and runs up and down the aisle:
    • “Is there not really any pain just now? Would there have been pain? Yeah. Is there pain now? No. No.” (09:55)
    • “It feels good. It feels good. Feels great. It feels great.” (12:12)

• Cloth Ministry (07:05, 12:43): Prayers are released over cloths to be sent to absent loved ones needing healing, echoing biblical patterns of prayer cloths transmitting anointing.

Progressive Healing & Maintaining Faith

• On Instant vs. Progressive Healing (24:40):

  • "I can't promise anyone instant healing, but I can promise everyone healing. It is not your job to have an instant manifestation. It's your job to believe.”
  • Recounts a woman whose eyesight changed after a year of speaking faith, emphasizing perseverance.

• Teaching on the Healing Anointing (25:41 – 29:30):

  • Stories from Kenneth E. Hagin (Dad Hagin) are shared to illustrate the difference between feeling and believing:

    • “When you sense that anointing leave your hand and go into their body, then you know they're healed… The anointing going in equals healing.”

    • "You're healed because the anointing went in. Well, do you have scripture for that? Isaiah. The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." (28:38)

    • Notable Quote: "We don't check our bodies to see if they're healed. Let me tell you why. The healing doesn't originate with your body. The healing originates with God and his power and the Word." (28:57)

Exhortations for Obedience to God’s Plan

• The Importance of God’s Plan (31:24 – 35:45):

  • The theme of obedience—valuing God's plan above relationships, comfort, or tradition—is repeated.
  • Illustrative story: a woman who compromised God’s plan for family unity and suffered as a result (43:35).

• Quote: "Don’t lay anything down of God’s plan to keep anybody else happy… the plan for my life didn’t leave the earth [when my husband died]." (47:00)

• Consequences of Following the Wrong Plan:

  • "Any part of the plan that you lay down to hold on to something you want, you lose. The plan is how you hold on to everything good." (46:40)

Steps to Discovering and Living in the Plan

Taught by Pastor Noel and others (53:52 – 67:28):

• Three Steps to Knowing God’s Plan (57:25):

  1. Reverence God daily (Worship leads to the spirit)
  2. Promptly obey God in all things, even little things
  3. Recognize (thank and worship for) all spiritual benefits received

• Spending time in the Spirit (63:22):

  • Praying in the spirit is presented as vital: “The change you sense you'll not get into automatically... praying in the spirit...is the primary thing to do.” (50:19)

  • Practical advice: Pray in the spirit regularly, not just privately but “in your car… under your breath… a flow of your everyday life.” (68:53)

The Coming Era of Greater Miracles

• Prophetic Word & Last Great Revival (35:56 – 39:17):

  • Nancy reads a prophecy from Kenneth E. Hagin’s “I Believe in Visions”:
    • "All the gifts of the Spirit will be in operation in the church in these last days. And the church will do greater things… It will have greater power, greater signs, greater wonders than were recorded in the Acts of the Apostles… we will now behold amazing miracles that have not been seen before." (36:17)

• Emphasis on Training and Preparation:

  • "He’s gathering his own together and preparing them for the time is short." (39:17)
  • "Take what you receive and become a student of it. Amen." (39:24)

Memorable Quotes & Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|---------|-------| | 00:53 | Nancy Dufresne | "There's a gift for every sickness that deals with every sickness." | | 06:08 | Nancy Dufresne | "Even though ministering by an endowment, faith still needs to be operating." | | 09:55 | Nancy Dufresne | "Is there pain now? No. No." (Woman healed from ankle pain) | | 12:12 | Congregant | "It feels good. Feels great!" (after running post-healing) | | 24:40 | Nancy Dufresne | "It's not your job to have an instant manifestation. It's your job to believe." | | 28:38 | Nancy Dufresne | "The anointing going in equals healing." | | 31:24 | Nancy Dufresne | "Your life has a plan authored by heaven attached to it. You were born for a purpose." | | 43:35 | Nancy Dufresne | "I'm not staying behind for you. Not staying behind." (on going with God’s plan) | | 50:19 | Nancy Dufresne | "The change you're sensing... you're going to have to do something to cooperate with that change. The first and primary thing to do is pray in the spirit." | | 68:53 | Nancy Dufresne | "Don’t limit [praying in tongues] to a private setting... it can be a flow of your everyday life." | | 36:17 | Nancy Dufresne (quoting Hagin) | "Greater power, greater signs, greater wonders than were recorded in the Acts of the Apostles… we will now behold amazing miracles that have not been seen before." |

Important Segments & Timestamps

• Theological Foundation of Healing and Miracles: 00:00 – 05:32
• Ministry to Heart Conditions and Metal in Body: 06:08 – 13:19
• Testimonies of Healing: 09:55 – 12:21
• Ministry to Arthritis and Eye Conditions: 16:36 – 20:36
• Teaching on Faith, Healing Process, and Testimony: 24:38 – 29:30
• Prophetic Encouragement and Living the Plan: 31:24 – 58:00
• Exhortation to Pray in the Spirit and Birth God’s Plan: 63:01 – 68:53

Closing Encouragement

• Stay Committed to God’s Plan:
  • "Your wholeness is in the plan. Your financial abundance is in the plan. Outside of the plan, there won’t be fullness. The fullness is in the plan." (44:00)
• Pray in the Spirit for Clarity:
  • “Take time to pray in the Spirit. ...the greatness of what He has for you is connected to it.” (68:53)
• Expectation of Greater Miracles:
  • “Don’t lay down the greatness of His plan for something that’s not great.” (67:33)

Summary

This Miracle Service episode is a passionate, faith-filled exploration of divine healing, the operation of spiritual gifts, and living out God’s unique plan for each believer. It features both instructional teaching and personal ministry, reinforced by stories and demonstration, all set within a prophetic expectation for the increase of miraculous works in the life of the Church. Attendees are urged to actively pursue and cooperate with heaven’s plan through worship, obedience, and persistent prayer—especially praying in tongues—to see the fullness of God’s blessings and purpose manifest in their lives.