Podcast Summary

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Episode: Prosperity Angels | Nancy Dufresne | Paducah, Kentucky | JTH Crusades 2025 | Thursday PM
Date: June 4, 2025
Speaker: Pastor Nancy Dufresne

Main Theme & Purpose

This episode, delivered by Pastor Nancy Dufresne, centers on the spiritual principles of sowing and reaping, faith-activated provision, and the ministry of angels in the area of financial and material prosperity. With a focus on encouraging generosity and expectancy, Pastor Nancy shares teachings, testimonies, and practical steps for believers to engage both their faith and angels for a bountiful harvest, underlining God’s desire for His people to prosper, be a blessing, and fully represent His goodness.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sowing and Reaping as an Unchanging Spiritual Law

• [00:45] Nancy emphasizes the law of sowing and reaping:

  "And it's a law, it's a spiritual law. And meaning this, a law is not affected by emotions... circumstances."

• Unlike man-made laws, spiritual laws do not change and can always be relied on.
• It’s not enough to sow in faith—believers must also reap in faith.
• The Holy Spirit knows the timing of the harvest ("due season") even when we do not.

2. Listening to the Holy Spirit for Harvest Timing

• [03:00] Nancy relays a story of a minister being told by God to wait for the “full corn in the ear,” not just the “blade”.
  • "God does not want you to settle for the blade when he has the full corn in the ear in mind for you."
• Patience and sensitivity to God prevent believers from settling for less than God’s best.

3. Practical Steps on Reaping (from Kenneth E. Hagin)

• [05:20] Four steps to reaping:
  1. Claim how much you need.
  2. Tell the devil to take his hands off it.
  3. Send angels to cause it to come.
  4. Praise God until it is received.

  "There are harvesting angels... they're in that realm and their vision is perfect." - Nancy ([05:58])

4. Skillful Harvesting and Mindset

• [07:14] Skill at receiving is as important as skill at giving.
  • Nancy:

    "Those of my children who are skillful at sowing, but not skillful at harvesting are breaking my law."

• False humility or a poor self-image that resists receiving is “breaking the law” of sowing and reaping.
• Memorable quote:

  "God doesn't turn you into a workhorse ... and say, ‘can’t have anything good...’" ([08:01])

5. Desire and Expanding Capacity

• [11:35] Lack of desire is a hindrance to harvest:

  “You know why people don’t harvest? They don’t desire enough. And it ends up robbing their life and robbing them from being a blessing.”

• Reference to Mark 11:24: "What things soever you desire..."

6. Blessed to be a Blessing

• [09:16] The story of a pastor’s wife challenging her husband to think beyond personal needs:

  "How many people can you bless, you just sitting with only enough to live on?"

• Abrahamic blessing is about BECOMING a blessing, not just receiving one.

7. Prosperity is for All Cultures

• [12:00] Prosperity is not limited by region, culture, or nation:

  "You can’t change a nation and you can’t have the impact and influence when you yourself are living beneath."

• Testimony of David Oyedepo as an example.

8. The Ministry of Angels in Provision

• [16:10] Specific instruction from God:

  "If you'll talk more about those angels that paid off your church building... they'll do more of it."

  • Angels are activated by the “faith command” and permission given through faith-filled speech.

• [39:10] Testimony: Ed Dufresne's angelic visitation to "straighten out your finances":

  Two angels said, “We’re waiting on the faith command.”
  Ed responded: “My God supplies all my need... go and cause the money to come.”
  Result: Full provision secured for the church’s building.

• [41:51] Lesson: God wants to use people (not just "birds") but is not limited by people’s reluctance.

  “Don’t let the bird of the public take pure blessing. God will use somebody else, saved or unsaved; it doesn't matter to Him.”

9. Don't Settle for Relief: Aim for Victory

• [47:47]

  “Never settle for relief. The Holy Ghost will let you know what’s relief and what’s victory.”

10. Celebration and Testimony Fuel Further Blessing

• [18:54] Celebrate every advancement:

  “Celebrate every advancement, every landmark... Make a big deal.”

• [27:55] Rehearsing testimonies brings repeat miracles:

  "What you rehearse, God repeats."

• Use testimonies to stir faith for new miracles in every arena of life.

11. Receiving With Boldness and Joy

• [60:04] The importance of not feeling guilty for receiving abundance; God's desire is to provide extravagantly for His children.

  "If you have a mentality of, I shouldn't... that's too much for me, you rob from Him being the provider that He longs to be in your life."

12. Expanding Your Vision

• [66:14] Testimony involving Dr. Bill Winston:

  “God makes stuff like this for me... and I want it, and I got it.”

  • Encourages listeners to get around abundance to stretch their vision.

• [68:18]

  “Get around it. Because that’s why you’re standing in this right now... it has to get in you.”

13. Faith Projects and Church Vision

• [19:14] Encourage continuous faith projects:

  "Pastors, always have a faith project in front of your congregation. You've got to keep their faith moving."

  • Supporting the vision of the church brings individual fulfillment.

14. Healing and Wholeness Paralleled with Provision

• [75:45]

  "Testimonies of provision mean your health has provision too."

  • The same spiritual principles apply to healing and finances.

15. Practical Encouragement: Employ Your Angels

• [60:58] Don’t leave your angels unemployed.

  “Why leave your angel unemployed? If you don’t want yours, I’ll take them!”

• [71:40] God as the “Husband of the widow”—expect personal, tangible goodness from God.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Skill at receiving is as important as skill at giving." – Nancy ([07:14])
• "God makes this stuff for me, and I want it, and I got it." – Dr. Bill Winston ([67:36])
• "What you rehearse, God repeats." – Nancy ([27:55])
• "Never settle for relief. The Holy Ghost will let you know what’s relief and what’s victory." – Nancy ([47:47])
• "If you don't want it for yourself, want it so you can be a blessing to someone else." – Nancy ([09:13])

Timestamps for Important Segments

| Time | Segment/Topic | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:45 | Sowing and reaping explained as a spiritual law | | 03:00 | “Don’t harvest the blade” story – waiting for full harvest | | 05:20 | Four steps to reaping–Steps from Kenneth E. Hagin | | 07:14 | Skillful harvesting and mindsets about receiving | | 09:16 | Being a blessing, not just receiving one | | 11:35 | Why people don’t harvest–the role of desire | | 16:10 | Angels’ ministry to provision: instructions and testimonies| | 27:55 | Rehearsing testimonies stirs further provision | | 39:10 | Angelic visitation for financial breakthrough testimony | | 41:51 | Don’t be limited by others’ giving–God’s abundant avenues | | 47:47 | Don’t settle for relief but pursue God’s victory | | 60:04 | Receiving abundance with right heart and bold faith | | 66:14 | Bill Winston and the “God made it for me” testimony | | 68:18 | Expanding vision by exposure to abundance (“get around it”)| | 71:40 | God as the Husband to the widow and tangible provision | | 75:45 | Parallels between provision and healing |

Tone and Style

Nancy Dufresne’s tone throughout is warm, motivating, and candid, often using humor and relatable anecdotes. She seeks to both challenge and empower her audience—never shaming, but always urging for more faith, greater expectation, and involvement with the supernatural aspects of Christian life (especially the role of angels and the necessity of ongoing testimony and celebration).

Summary Flow

• The episode begins with a strong theological foundation on the immutability of spiritual laws, particularly sowing and reaping.
• Nancy illustrates the necessity of combining faith with practical steps, recounting first- and second-hand testimonies of divine provision.
• She demystifies the activity of angels in modern believers’ lives, giving actionable steps and encouragement to “employ” angels in the harvest.
• The power of testimony, desire, and envisioning abundance is emphasized, with memorable stories from her own life and renowned ministers.
• Listeners are coached to boldly expect and receive God’s best—not just for themselves but to be empowered to bless others and advance local church visions.
• The latter part transitions into prayer for healing and reinvigorating commitments to God's plan, reinforcing that faith for provision and health functions on the same spiritual principle.

Concluding Encouragement

• Nancy’s core exhortation: "If God will do it for me, He’ll do it for you. Get it all!"
• When you rehearse what God has done—provision, healing, breakthrough—He will do it again.
• Don’t be passive or reluctant; activate both your faith and your angels, claim your harvest, and expand your capacity to receive so you can expand your capacity to bless.

This episode is an impactful call to confident, expectation-filled faith in both spiritual law and angelic cooperation for supernatural prosperity—personal and communal. A must-listen for anyone wanting to break past limitation and walk fully in God's provision and generosity.