Podcast Summary: The Intensity Of Your Desire

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Episode: The Intensity Of Your Desire | Carolyn Savelle | Ladies Conference 2025 | Wednesday AM
Date: September 16, 2025
Speaker: Carolyn Savelle
Host: Dufresne Ministries

Main Theme / Purpose

Carolyn Savelle delivers an energizing talk encouraging believers to experience answered prayer and provision through increasing the intensity of their desire—to move beyond casual faith to a focused, purposeful, and determined expectancy. Drawing from both scripture and vivid personal testimonies, Savelle urges listeners to recognize their spiritual heritage and the lavish abundance God desires to pour out on their lives, ministries, and families.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Power of Intensity in Desire and Faith

• Opening Challenge: Carolyn states that since discovering this principle in 1999, “…every prayer I’ve prayed has been answered” (01:05).
• Defining Intensity:
  • “Your faith will produce, proportionately speaking, no greater than the intensity of your desire.” (03:20)
  • Intensity described as: “consecrated or concentrated in an extreme degree… on purpose, eager, in pursuit, engrossed, absorbed, fixed, focused, attentive, intentional, deliberate, and willful.” (05:10)
• Application:
  • Casual, occasional prayers lack power. Faith must be fueled by passionate desire and refusal to settle for less than God’s promise: “You have to get fed up.” (07:59)
  • “When you get to the place in your prayer life where you become intense, zealous, determined to get the victory—then it will not be denied you.” (06:02)

2. Urgency in the End Times

• Time is Short:
  • Carolyn references the biblical symbolism of the generation born in 1948 and compares the current age to “the sand in the hourglass running out faster than ever.” (09:00)
• Now Faith:
  • Faith is not future or passive—it’s immediate: “Faith is now. God wants us to have our needs met now. He wants your healing to come to you now.” (16:12)

3. Scriptural Examples of Intense Desire

• Bartimaeus (Mark 10): Persistent, loud cries for healing despite opposition—“They told me, Carolyn, you become fanatical about this… No, I’m going to shout even the louder. Faith is now.” (15:45)
• No More Delays:
  • “When you cease to struggle… it will come to you immediately. The delays are gone.” (17:50)

4. Practical Testimonies

• Answered Prayers through Intensity:
  • St. John Suits:
    • Carolyn desired a St. John suit, received one from her husband, was then blessed with 12 more unexpectedly, gave some away, and was subsequently gifted 22 more (29:10–32:40).

      “Guess how many she brought me? 22… I’m not exaggerating.”

    • Principle: Blessing flows through intense desire and a heart willing to share.
  • Healing of Jerry Savelle:
    • After a stroke, Jerry was non-communicative and unable to walk, but daughter Rachel’s steadfast, insistent therapy and intense family faith led to Jerry’s sudden complete healing—he spoke and moved freely:

      “From the time from walking from that museum back to the house, he was completely and totally healed and made whole.” (41:29)

5. God’s Desire to Lavish Blessings

• Scriptural Foundation:
  • Ephesians 2:10—God has prepared good works and “the good life” in advance for believers (24:25).
  • “God wants to produce abundance in your life… to lavish you with blessings… very abundant, more than what is needed, and to pour out as wastefully.” (21:15)
• Overcoming Limitation Mentality:
  • “People are the ones who care and put limitations on you. God does not put limitations on you.” (24:45)

6. No Limits: Imagination, Heritage, and Access

• Imagination as a Gift:
  • Do not allow the enemy to suppress your creative dreams; “Imagination is a gift from God… God put the desire on the inside of you and your imagination is there by Him.” (60:28; 69:23)
• Lavish Provision for Families:
  • Story of building a 1,200 sq ft playhouse for her grandchildren, pressing through doubt and opposition to “pour out as of wastefully extravagant” (56:25)
• Analogy of Spiritual Access:
  • Just as her own children have keys and combinations to her home and safe, “God’s given us all of the access to the treasuries of heaven… the gate opener, garage opener, the combination to the safe.” (77:00)
  • “It would look awfully strange if my children were shaking the gate saying, mama, let me in… I gave you the gate opener.” (78:58)

7. The Heritage of God’s Family and Receiving Your Inheritance

• Born Again Into a Family of Unlimited Resources:
  • “You were born into the family of God. So your struggle of receiving should be over.” (64:07)
• Levels of Revelation:
  • Her grandchildren’s varying understanding of their trust funds mirrors how believers operate at different revelation levels:

    “The more knowledge you have of God and His Word, the greater level you’re going to walk in the receiving ability of what God has laid up and prepared for you.” (72:25)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Your faith will produce, proportionately speaking, no greater than the intensity of your desire.” — Carolyn Savelle, (03:20)

• “I’m here to tell you, I’m here to announce to you, your prayers can come to pass within days, within moments.” — (13:40)

• “God wants to lavish you with his blessings… There is no limit with God. We limit God. God does not have limitations. We’re the ones who limit God.” — (21:45, 49:30)

• “Imagination is a gift from God. God gave you your imagination and it is a gift from God. So don’t you dare let the devil…steal that…” — (69:23)

• “If you need a new van for your ministry, believing for land, buildings, equipment, whatever it is—just get so focused, so fixed, so willful, so determined… within moments that thing’s going to be manifest in your life.” — (84:13)

• On her father’s miraculous protection in WWII:

  “Ain’t no harm gonna come to that boy… Every person in my daddy’s platoon was killed but my daddy.” (82:50)

• Access Analogy:

  “God’s given us all of the access to the treasuries of heaven… What a God we serve.” (77:00)

Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:00–07:59 – Introduction, hug moment, the “key” to answered prayers
• 08:00–10:05 – Defining intensity and application (“get fed up”)
• 13:40–17:50 – Immediate results promised by passionate focus
• 15:45–16:12 – Bartimaeus story: overcoming opposition with louder faith
• 21:15–24:45 – God’s “lavish” abundance, overcoming limitations
• 29:10–32:40 – Testimony: St. John suits, chain reaction of blessing
• 41:29–45:00 – Jerry Savelle’s miraculous healing after stroke
• 56:25–59:40 – Building the grandchildren’s 1,200 sq ft playhouse
• 69:23–71:00 – Imagination as a God-given tool
• 77:00–78:58 – Spiritual access analogy: “the gate opener”
• 82:50–84:13 – World War II protection & heritage story
• 84:13–end – Final exhortation: move into intense desire and receive your inheritance

Conclusion

Carolyn Savelle passionately calls for a deep, unwavering intensity in spiritual desire—one that refuses to accept less than God’s full, lavish promise. Through a blend of scripture, practical illustration, and personal testimony, she urges listeners to fully access their inheritance in Christ, reject small thinking, and boldly believe for God’s best—now.

Takeaway:
Dream big, desire with intensity, recognize your spiritual access, and expect to be lavishly blessed to fulfill your calling and enjoy “the good life” God prearranged just for you.