Thursday AM | Joel & Amy Siegel | Paducah, KY | Miracle Crusade 2021

Summary

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Dufresne Ministries Podcast

Episode: Thursday AM | Joel & Amy Siegel | Paducah, KY | Miracle Crusade 2021
Date: May 26, 2021
Guest Minister(s): Pastor Joel Siegel (primary), Amy Siegel (occasional comments)
Host/Facilitator: Nancy Dufresne
Location: Paducah, KY

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Episode Overview

This episode focuses on the dynamic relationship between prayer, spiritual power, and cooperation with God. Pastor Joel Siegel brings a biblically rooted, engaging teaching that explores how believers' prayers serve as a conduit for God's power and miracles in the earth—particularly in the context of local church gatherings and miracle crusades. The session moves from in-depth scriptural exposition to vivid practical applications and closes with ministry demonstrations and impartations of blessing.

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Main Themes and Purpose

• Understanding prayer as more than a request—it's a means of generating spiritual power.
• The necessity of active cooperation between God and His people for His will to manifest.
• Scriptural exploration of "spiritual supply" and how revival, miracles, and healings flow.
• Encouragement to contend for and expect supernatural manifestations in the current generation.
• Practical demonstration through ministry and impartation to attendees.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Prayer as the Generator of Spiritual Supply and Power

• Scripture Basis: Philippians 1:19, 2 Corinthians 1:10-11, James 5:16, Acts 1–5
• Point: Prayer is not merely making requests but is the means by which spiritual supply is generated and made available for God to act.
• Quote:

  "There's a cooperation by which prayer generates or helps to facilitate the power of God... If you understood that your prayers were accomplishing something more than just begging God to do something for you, you’d take your place."
  — Joel Siegel (03:16)

Salvation as an All-Inclusive Word

• Salvation includes deliverance, healing, provision, and protection.
• C.I. Scofield called “salvation” the “great all-inclusive word of the New Testament.”

Cooperation Is Key

• God’s will is accomplished through the cooperation of His people, not random sovereign intervention.
• Example: Jesus’ miracles always included human involvement (“fill the pots,” “set them down,” “take your rod, part the waters”).
• Quote:

  "What God does in the earth is a cooperation between Him and His body."
  — Joel Siegel (10:43)

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2. Revival, Moves of God, and the Pattern of the Book of Acts

• Observations from Acts:

  • The early church prayed continually (Acts 1:14, 2:42).
  • The “place of prayer became the place of power” (17:00).
  • Miracles were direct results of prepared spiritual environments ("the place was shaken where they were assembled," Acts 4:31).

• Analogy:

  • Like wiring a building for electricity: you don’t beg for power, you prepare the structure to receive it; then, power flows when switches are flipped.
  • Miswiring leads to “fire”—the wrong kind (22:44).

• Quotes:

  "Power flows where places have been prepared for power."
  — Joel Siegel (17:26)
  "If Christians had any idea how much their part affected the plan of God, they’d come to church different, you wouldn’t just focus on that you showed up, but how you show up."
  — Joel Siegel (24:43)

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3. Every Generation’s Right to the Miraculous

• Contending for the Book of Acts Experience:

  • The book of Acts is described as a "blueprint" not just a history book.
  • Every generation has the right to expect and demand the same degree of spiritual manifestations.
  • Referencing John G. Lake's angelic encounter and Kenneth Hagin’s prophecies as encouragements.

• Quote:

  "Every generation has the right to see what other generations have seen. If you see it in the Word, we can claim it for our generation."
  — Amy Siegel (55:35)

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4. Practical Application: How to Pray and Cooperate

• Remind yourself and God of His greatness and past faithfulness when you pray.

• Bring the Word into prayer—combine scripture and your petition.

• Pray for boldness, healing, signs and wonders, and the move of God, not just for personal comfort or compliance.

• Unity matters: "They lifted up their voice to God with one accord" (Acts 4:24).

• Quote:

  "The energy generating act of prayer brings strong degrees of power to the forefront."
  — Joel Siegel (7:29)

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5. Demonstration of the Spirit in Ministry Time (Impartation and Blessings)

• Prayer moves into action as Joel and Amy Siegel bless and impart to those who've traveled from afar, emphasizing receptivity, joy, and cooperation.

• Collective declarations:

  • “It’s so easy for me to receive!”
  • “If you’d laugh more, you’d receive more.”
  • “Now’s a good time to start it.”
    (75:20–77:00)

• Joy, laughter, and receptivity highlighted as keys to receiving from God.

• Practical joking and warmth: “Did you and your sister sign a no laughing clause?” (75:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Human Participation:

  "Name me a miracle that occurred in the Bible that man had nothing to do with."
  — Joel Siegel (10:43)

• On the Body and the Head:

  "Has your body ever told your head, 'We got to go to the bathroom,' and your head didn't want to get out of bed?... If the head wants to do something, the body needs to cooperate."
  — Joel Siegel (13:05)

• On Prayer and Power:

  "The place of prayer became the place of power."
  — Joel Siegel (17:20)

• On the Book of Acts as Blueprint:

  "The book of Acts is not a closed history book... No, it is a blueprint. It is our pattern for today. It's all for today."
  — Joel Siegel (48:55)

• On Expecting the Supernatural:

  "If you see it in the Word, we can claim it for our generation."
  — Amy Siegel (55:35)

• On Contending for Revival:

  "Contend for these things in the book of Acts... Teach the people to pray for these."
  — Amy Siegel (55:50, referencing John Lake’s angelic visitation)

• On the Distribution of Supply:

  "When you go into a place to minister, you like it when it’s kind of spiritually sticky... You’re not just walking on carpet, but walking on some power."
  — Joel Siegel (38:10)

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |:-------------:|:-----------------------------------------------| | 00:09–05:00 | Foundations: Salvation, Prayer, and 'Spiritual Supply'—definitions and scriptural case studies | | 05:00–13:00 | The necessity of human cooperation in Bible miracles | | 13:00–17:00 | The Body and Head analogy; moving from passivity to participation | | 17:00–23:00 | Acts 1–4: Pattern of power following prepared prayer | | 24:00–28:00 | Practical analogy: “Wiring” for power; unity as a requirement | | 31:00–37:00 | Healing of the man at the temple: Power, timing, and prayer | | 41:00–45:00 | Unified, bold prayer in the face of opposition (“They lifted up their voice with one accord...”) | | 51:00–56:00 | Many signs and wonders; contending for modern-day Book of Acts demonstrations | | 56:00–60:00 | Prophetic encouragement (Kenneth Hagin quote) and practical longing for more supernatural demonstrations | | 60:00–65:00 | Corporate prayer and declarations; impartation begins | | 69:00–88:00 | Ministry time: impartations, humor, and emphasis on joyful receptivity |

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Tone and Language

• Warm, Encouraging, and Playful: Joel’s style is down-to-earth, often humorous, and rich in relatable analogies (“Did you sign a no laughing clause?” “Donut or no donut, we alright this morning.”)
• Biblically Rooted: Frequent direct quotations and scriptural references, often reading or paraphrasing the text.
• Participatory and Demonstrative: Calls for audience participation, group declarations, and altar ministry.

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Closing

The episode bids listeners to move from passive attendance to active participation, both in personal prayer and corporate gatherings, emphasizing that every believer has a vital role in manifesting the miraculous. Both Joel and Amy Siegel urge attendees (and listeners) to “contend for these things” seen in the book of Acts, making it personal and present.

Final Declaration:

"When I pray, great power is made available." (87:56)

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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.

[Dr. Dufresne]

We've been thrilled to be here, excited to be here today. This is the day that. This is the day that everything I had meant to say all week comes out. But where are we? A miracle crusade. So that's what we're believing for. Or how about this, what's right for today? We could go with that as an alternative. Praise the Lord. I would like you please, to turn. Just to review the scriptures we've looked at. Philippians Chapter one is where we'll start. I believe there's. I believe we've given enough scripture throughout this week to establish a truth in this area of prayer, that there's a cooperation between our prayers and what God's able to do here on the earth. We've really looked at just one of so many different areas. You know, the subject of prayer has a lot of different areas to it. You understand that what we were just doing is prayer. As a matter of fact, one of the main words in the New Testament, translated prayer. And has the idea of worship. Yeah, yeah. And worship, of course, can happen with music, without music, whatever, but we don't want to dismiss that and say, okay, let's stop that and get to prayer. No, this is what we started. That's what we started with. And so there's so many different facets, so many different areas of truth in the subject of prayer. We. We're focusing on one that we were just particularly led to. And in the 19th verse, Paul says this. I know that this shall turn to my salvation, or that word salvation, you know, means deliverance. Right. And as much as it means deliverance, it means healing. I said, and as much as it means healing, it means provision. And as much as it means provision, it means protection. I'm not making this stuff up, really. There's a. There's a popular Bible. When I first got saved, my first Bible was what they called a Scofield Bible. And C.I. scofield was a Civil War era theologian and really didn't believe in things like healing and prosperity that we would say, that we see today. But he said this about that word translated salvation. He said, it's the great all inclusive word of the New Testament. Carries the idea, this is. This is. I'm quoting you right from his notes in his Bible carries the idea of preservation, safety, deliverance. And I like what he said. All inclusive. It's the great redemptive word. It's just a word that sums up all that's included in our redemption. So when Paul says, this turns to our salvation. In fact, other translations even say, I know that this shall turn to my deliverance. And how many know that situations requiring healing can turn. Situations requiring provision can turn. Things. Things can turn. And, and they'll. He said, I know that this shall turn to my salvation. Deliverance, preservation, healing, prosperity through your prayer and the resulting supply of the spirit, or I like to say it this way, the resulting spiritual supply, or the spiritual supply created by prayer. The spiritual supply created by prayer. I said to you, there's a cooperation by which prayer generates or helps to facilitate the power of God. This is important to understand because if you understood that your prayers were accomplishing something more than just begging God to do something for your for you, you understand, I believe people would take their place. Now, the other next scripture I'd like you to go to is back a few chapters to Second Corinthians, chapter one. Glory to God. Yeah, yeah. And you might say, well, you preach these. Don't. Don't you have anything else? Friends, if this meeting went 15 weeks or 20 weeks, I wouldn't get through the little that I know in this subject, no joke, no exaggeration, and I'm pretty well certain I don't know it all. Pretty well. Pretty well established. And now you know this wonderful verse in verse 10, Paul's again talking about where he situation he was in. And he said, who delivered us from so great a death? And does deliver, does save, does heal, does provide, in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. You also helping together by prayer for us. That, and I like this next phrase, and it requires just a touch of explanation that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf. That word gift is a reference to some supernatural endowment or supply. Amen. It's the same word used when speaking of the gifts of the spirit. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. Through the help given by your prayer, supernatural happenings, giftings, graces come to the forefront. Amen. How did Paul get all this deliverance? Well, God delivered us. We know that he'll deliver us now, and we trust that he'll yet deliver us. But. But it's not just through. It's not just through some sovereign workings up in heaven, he said, it's also through by the help or the amplified says, the cooperation. By the cooperation of your prayers for us, some supernatural things come to pass. Now you say, I don't know That I can go along with that. Well, study it out for yourselves, huh? Study it out in the Greek. What I'm telling you is just right there. The Greek is like people have said, it's Greek to me, but the words don't change, you know, just the. You can go. And now you can just go press on it in your computer and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. And then over To James chapter 5 was the third area or the third portion of Scripture we looked at. Thank you, Master. Yes, Amen. Thank you, Father. James, chapter five. Again, we understand this, friends. We see from these past two passages that we looked at that it seems like there's going to be times in either your life or the life of somebody else or concerning the things of God that there are situations that are bigger than one person can handle. Things that you need to get out of that by yourself, you. You can't get out of them. Or things that we need to get into that by ourselves without help, without prayer being made, will not get into those things. And actually that particularly when it comes to advancing the era that we're in, moving forward. And as that great Ezekiel 47 passage, you might be familiar with where it talks about waters that were ankle deep. How many know what I'm talking about? I don't want to turn there. And then waters that are knee deep, and then waters that are waist deep, and then waters to swim in. Well, see, that lets us know that the move of God and the workings of God are not static or constant, but they're variable based on certain conditions. Amen. And you cannot find a, what we would call a major revival or a major move of God that was not preceded by much prayer. And we don't just want a lot of prayer going on in general. We want a lot of the right kind, the most effective kind. And that's what we're talking about. So here in James, you're familiar, of course, with the 16th verse which says, confess your faults one to another, pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much the effectual fervent prayer. And we said that word, those two words, effectual, fervent, are the Greek word energeo. We get our word energy. It's a reference to the energy and power of God. The energy of God. And when it says avails much, that is actually means a strong degree of power. So you can say this, you could read this verse this way and not. And actually bring more Clarity to it by saying the energy generating act of prayer brings strong degrees of power to the forefront. That's the thought I'm trying to get over to us. And that's why I'm teaching it several times, because I want it built into our consciousness that for God to do all he wants to do. Now listen, I'm not saying this. I'm not saying that every. That God requires, he can't do anything without our help. We understand that's not necessarily the case. But nor is it the case what most of the body of Christ believes that, hey, listen, God's God. If he wants to do something, he's going to do it. That is what is mostly believed. And it was what was believed by me because it's what was taught to me. And how many would say it's what was believed by you? Or maybe some still is believed by you. But no, listen, if God could do. The Bible says God's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. That's his will. That's what he wants. Why doesn't it happen? Because it's not all up to him. What God does in the earth is a cooperation between him and his body.

[Nancy Dufresne]

That's right.

[Dr. Dufresne]

It is. It is. It is. Name me a miracle that occurred in the Bible that man had nothing to do with. Come on. Well, Jesus turned the water into wine. No, he did not. Jesus did not turn that water into wine. He wasn't. He wasn't hauling them pots around. Was Jesus hauling them pots around? Huh? Was Jesus. Was Jesus carrying out? No, no, he took. He told. It wasn't me. He told the servants. He told the servants. The servants. How many servants of God here we got? He told the servants, fill them up. Draw it out. Fill them up. Draw it out. Yeah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Amen. Amen.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Well, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Well, Jesus multiplied the loaves. No, Jesus did not multiply the loaves of. He wasn't out there with a big bread knife. He wasn't out there with a fish filet thing. Huh? What did he do? He told his disciples. Set him down and he blessed it. He gave thanks. I'm not saying he didn't have a part. He did have a part. He gave thanks, started to pass it out. And as they broke off and gave thanks and passed it down, outside of creation, you'll find very few miracles that God did. Well, God split the Red Sea. No, he did not. Read the Bible. Read the Bible. Huh? Moses. Moses, I know you're looking at me like, oh, My God. I thought they were into false doctrine. Finally, on the last day, it comes out. I won't get you into any ditch I can't pull you out of. Trust me. But no, no, no. What happened at the Red Sea? Moses. Moses sees. Moses sees the water in front of him, looks back and sees the army. He's like, oh, snap. Oh, my God. God, God, do something. You gots to do something. And God said, pastor Nancy ministered some of this the other night. And God said, why are you fussing at me? That's right. Take your rod, step out, part the waters. Hallelujah. That's what he said. Stop crying. So what God does in the earth, even today, even in our time, it's a cooperation. It's a cooperation. You know, Jesus is the head of the church. We are what? The body. That's right. Now, has your body ever told your head, we got to go to the bathroom and your head didn't want to get out of bed? Huh? There had to be a cooperation, right? Or did your head ever direct your body to do something? Did your head ever say, we got to run now? And your body said, mm, mm, mm, mm. No going to do it. Not going to do it. Right. Your head ever told your body to do something? And your body said, no, no, we ain't doing that. We ain't doing that, huh? Sure. Well, we. We are the body of Christ. We are the body of the anointed. Come on. That's right. We. We are the body of Christ. Amen. If the head wants to do something, the body needs to cooperate. So God's not willing that any should perish, is he? But are people saved just because he wants them to be? No, no. There's that little thing in between called. Go into all the world. Preach the gospel to every creature. He that believes. Hello. No, his body has to be on board. His body has to do the part that the body does. The head will do the part that the head wants. Come on, now. And if there's a cooperation, you understand that the gates of hell shall not prevail. Amen. I mean, I just gotta say. Don't. Donut or no donut. We all right. This morning. You know what I'm saying? If there's a cooperation between the head and the head and the body, that's when the gates of hell. Yeah. Shall not prevail. No way. No way. Not even close. Amen. But the body has to learn to cooperate. Amen. And that's why we get into the ditch kind of on either side. We get into the ditch and I think the last time things got big in the area of grace got over to the ditch. If we don't have anything to do, it's all done. Well, there's a part of a truth there taken to the extreme. Redemption's all done. You know what I'm saying? That is the finished work and you can't add to it. Amen. But then you get over here on the other side. It's all us, baby. So we don't do it. Nothing going to happen if we don't do it. It's a cooperation. It's a cooperation. We're not begging God to do something in our day. We're not saying, oh, God, send some power. Oh, God, send some power. Oh, God, send some power. You shall receive power. You shall receive power.

[Nancy Dufresne]

That's right.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Amen. Praise God, there's power. Amen. So that's why all this teaching is just to get us to align ourselves with what God already wants to do, cooperating with him. And I believe we're doing it. And I'm telling you as we do, those waters rise higher and higher and higher and higher. Amen. And whereas we saw one thing happen, or two things happen, come to church this morning. I know it's the last day, I understand. But whereas we saw just one or two things happen, the testimony line will be out the door and we won't be able to get to them all. Wish you believe me this morning. Wish you believe me. You're looking like, this is such a shame. Am I preaching bad news? Is this bad news or is this. Okay, okay, this is all right. So anyhow, prayer, the power, the energy generating act of prayer, brings to the forefront strong degrees of power. Amen. Now we see this in the book of Acts. And by the way, I want to make sure I invite my wife to jump in anytime you want to jump in. Make me look over there. If she wants to jump in, I want her to jump in. Hallelujah. Now, in Acts chapter one, I just quoted that verse. Jesus said, you'll receive power after that. The Holy Spirit's come upon you. You'll be witnesses to me. And we find them in Acts chapter one. Taking time every day to pray. Are you there? So we find them taking time to get together. Verse 14. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary and mother of Jesus and his brethren. That's Acts 1:14. So they continued in prayer. Jesus said, I'm going away, you guys don't Go anywhere until you get some power in your lives. And so what they did until that time, they stayed and prayed. And they're praying now. They're praying as effectively as they could in Acts, chapter one. They're praying as effectively as they could under those circumstances. And what do we see? Acts chapter two. There they are gathered together in that place. Huh? There they are, still gathered together in one accord. And the place of prayer became the place of power. I said the place of prayer became the place of power. My wife was talking yesterday about a landing spot was. Was created. There's a big target. There's a big target that you could see from heaven. Come on, now. I'm kind of stretching things a little bit, but you know what I mean? There was a big target for the power of God. Amen. You know, power flows where places have been prepared for power. They didn't just put up walls in this building and switches and say, now, come on, everybody, let's pray that God would send the power. Is that what happened? Come on. They just. We got walls, we got switches. Now God send the power. And they even put up lights, put bulbs in the lights. God send the power. Oh, he's. He's busy with some other things right now. But. But surely soon, soon the power will come. No, that's not what happened, is it, now? So they had another prayer meeting, and they said, we need harder prayer. We need travail. We need to travail for this power. And then as they were travailing over the lights, Pastor Chris got up and said, thus says the Lord, we're on the verge of lights. We're on the edge of lights. I mean, anytime now, we just. We could just sense that power's coming, and we're. We're just about there, which is the same as not being there, which, as long as you're just not exactly there, the enemy's okay with you going through all these motions. No, that's not what happened. That's not what happened. We didn't have a prayer and a prophet. And those things, don't get me wrong, I'm not mocking them. Prayer's right. Prophecies can be right, and a lot of them are not. But, you know, they can be right. But what did they do? They chose a different tack. They chose the tack of sure thing. We're going to put wires. We're going to get the electric company involved here. We're going to get an electrician. We're going to wire this thing to where we never did have to even Beg God to send it. They wired it, flipped the switch. So what did they do? They prepared a place for that power. And when they prepared that place, the power worked, the lights worked. When the lights came on, everybody didn't say, oh, my God. We never. It worked.

[Congregation Member]

It worked.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yet there was a cooperation, huh? Yeah. Now, I know you do a lot of design colors, work with things now in your building. What if you went in and said, I don't like red going to red wires, black wires, it's too matchy matchy, you know what I mean? I like variety. I like a splash, right?

[Congregation Member]

No, no, no, no.

[Dr. Dufresne]

See, the place was no longer prepared for power. It was prepared for fire. Not the right kind of fire. Just got to cooperate. Put the red wire with the red wire. Use your design skills on something else, you know what I mean? But red wire, red wire, black wire, black wire, just going to work so much better. And if you co op, really, if you cooperate, you can, you can get the lights on every time. Almost every time, right? No surprise. Very good. It's the same thing with, with our prayer life. We, if we will cooperate, if we will co op, if the body of Christ would take their place in prayer. Hello. Cooperate with God as his body here on earth, as those who have authority on earth. And if we will cooperate with God in prayer, his power can be brought to the forefront every time. Now, what we don't direct is what God, you know, we understand that he has things he wants to accomplish in each time we would gather, right? And we don't always, we're not trying to direct him and be God, you understand, we're trying to cooperate. But his plan, his plan for every service can come to pass. You might say, well, doesn't it always. No, it doesn't always. Sometimes 30% of it does, sometimes 50% of it does, sometimes 2% of it does. And there are components that affect that. That's the truth. You have different parts to a service. You have God's part. We're not, we're not having to pray and say, God, do your part. God, do your part. God, I'm asking you, do your part. I'm interceding, do your part. No, you don't got to pray for that. You don't have to pray for the sending end. Then there's the preacher's part. Paul, We've already seen a couple scriptures where Paul talked about, need you all to help us, need your help. So there's a supply of prayer that's going to, maybe we'll get to talk about that. We'll see. That would affect the minister. And then there's the congregation's part. You know, God can be ready for his part. The preacher can be ready for his part or her part. And do you know that the congregation can decide. We ain't going there today. We don't feel like receiving today. And you get enough in the congregation. They just pulled their wire out. They pulled their wire out. Well, y' all let the power flow without me, huh? The wires have to be where the wires have to be. If Christians had any idea what their responsibilities, how much their part affected the plan of God, they. Oh, you come to church different, you wouldn't just focus on the fact that you showed up, but you'd give thought to how you show up, how you show up. And have you made preparation for the service instead of just saying, I hope the preacher prepared. I understand that we're preaching to the choir here this morning, and the fact that you came ready, I get that. So I'm not preaching to you. I'm preaching to the ones who are watching on livestream. I'm preaching to the ones who might see it later. Not you, not you. Because nobody here at this church would not bring their supply. I understand that. Come on, you're helping us. No, it takes everybody in cooperation. Glory to God. So I said. I said, if we do that, then the place of prayer becomes the place of power. That's exactly what happened in acts. Chapter. Acts, chapter one. You saw him in prayer. Acts, chapter two. When the day of pentecost had fully come, suddenly there was a sound from heaven like a mighty rushing wind. Filled all the house where they were sitting. Fire sat upon each one of them. The fire of God, not the fire that comes from. From arcing your. Your wire. Fire sat on each one of them. Amen. They were all filled with the holy spirit. Began to speak with tongues. Place of power. Place of power. Now, did. Did. Did that place of power create? Did that help them at all? That power that came? Yeah, you know it did. Yeah, you know it did. If you look at the last verse in acts, chapter two, Verse 47, or verse 46, actually, they continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house. Did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Now, where does it say they continued in prayer? Uh. Oh. Oh, oh, what verse? Yeah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

42.

[Dr. Dufresne]

40. Thank you. Thank you. I knew it was there. I just didn't have it marked. They continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship. In breaking of bread and in what continued in prayer, continued making power available, continued the energy generating act. And then. Here we go. Chapter three, verse one. Now, Peter and John went together into the temple at the hour of what? Huh? Huh? They're still at it. They're still at it at the hour of prayer being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily every day at the gate of the temple. So this guy had been there every day really for decades at the hour of prayer. But now Since Acts chapter 2, these prayer meetings are taken on somewhat of a different flavor, huh? Because instead of getting the play school generators come on now, now they got the real thing now. They're not playing with toys anymore. The Spirit came upon them. They've been filled with the Holy Spirit. They are speaking with other tongues and they're using big boy toys now. Come on now. Not little Tonka tractors. They got the real thing and they're together and they laid this man there every day. And now these guys are coming to prayer meeting. Had been to it yesterday, had been to it day before. And seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them alms. He was there begging for money every day. He, Peter and John knew this guy, totally knew this. Who seen this guy all kinds of times was no big deal. They saw him maybe once in a while they gave him something and maybe, probably most of the time, they ignored him. He's there daily, daily. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John said, look on us. This hadn't happened before. And he gave heed to him, expecting to receive something of them. Well, he was going to receive something, but not like he thought. Then Peter said, silver and gold have I none. I gave it all to you yesterday. But such as I have give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, lifted him up. Immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. Leaping up, stood, walked and entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God. What's this? What's this? Power was made available. Now Peter and John listen. Every day, Peter and John going in maybe with some, you know, maybe a different group, maybe a different grouping of them. But this day it was Peter and John. They go past him all the time. They probably knew. They probably knew his name. I don't know what his name was. Biff maybe. They say, hey, Biff, Was that from Back to the Future? Was that who Biff was?

[Congregation Member]

Yeah, man, hey, Biff.

[Dr. Dufresne]

And they may throw him something or may not and may talk to him. And. And this time they're walk. They're walking by me, just walking by, and there's Biff. And they go to say, hey, Nick. Something hit them in their spirit. What was that? Power had been brought to the forefront. Listen now, hallelujah. They're walking along. And all of a sudden, something alerted them. Not in their mind, in their spirit. Listen, they walked by him every day. This had to be something different happening. They didn't just decide, you know what? Let's not just give Biff a quarter. Let's. Let's. Let's get him healed. We've let him sit there for so long. No, come on now. You know, it said of brother Smith Wigglesworth, and don't you love his all that he left us in the way of testimonies and just a wild dude sometimes. But it said that when the spirit would kind of come on him and hit him, he'd go, ha. Can you sense the anointing in that? You know what I mean? And I bet you Peter. It had to be Peter, probably more than John, because, you know, Peter was. Peter had that Smith Wigglesworth flow to him. Peter's walking along.

[Congregation Member]

Oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

And he looks at John. John's like, huh, huh. That's the anointing. And we think it happens completely randomly, just totally random, but it's not. It's not. This guy was over 40 years old. Been there for decades. At what point did it become God's will for this man to be healed? At what point did God no longer want him to be a cripple? God never wanted him to be that way. God never wanted that. It was always God's will to heal. But there needed to be a cooperation in prayer. Power had to be made available. I don't know at what point it was. There's also. There's God's part, there's man's part. There's also the receiving end. We talk a lot about that. That's called faith, right? Amen. But anyhow, this day. This day, power. Power was. The anointing was there. Now, Peter and John could have done what I've probably done a time or two and say, oh, I don't know what that was. Well, that must just be to bless me, that anointing, you know, when God anoints you out in public, it's probably not for you. When the anointing comes upon you, huh? Get a clue, look around, ask the Lord, what is it? Who is it for? And they didn't ask the guy, do you have any needs we can pray with you about? Isn't that interesting? You know, they didn't say, you know, you got anything going on in your life we can pray about? Like, just overlooking the obvious. It couldn't be. It couldn't be healing. I mean, that's big. That's big. I mean, you were. Wasn't this guy born this way?

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Yes.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yeah, from his mother's womb. Oh, you were born this way. So that, you know, that's not in play here. That can't be. That. Are you having any emotional issues, things we can agree with you about? No. They're walking along and they sense that. They sense that. Oh, oh, give me your hand. Give me your hand. Come on. Be healed in Jesus name. Holly. There was power there for that. Is it a coincidence or is it perhaps important that they were there at the place of prayer? The place of prayer became the place of power they had. They go there every day.

[Congregation Member]

Huh?

[Dr. Dufresne]

They'd been continuing in prayer. You see them continuing in prayer and you see things happening. Well, listen, we want things happening. We do. We want things happening. But when things start happening, God's not the only one who tries to start working. The enemy will get in there. And that's what happened. He actually, the enemy used this account of this man's healing to stir up all kinds of stuff. And they found fault at it. And they're trying to, you know, they're trying to threaten Peter and John and they're saying, y' all stop speaking in the name of Jesus. And they're like, oh, yes, sir. No, they said, you know, they're like, with all due respect, sir, if I'm going to have to choose between obeying you and obeying God, I am going to obey God. They actually said it quite respectfully and. But they threatened, they threatened them seriously, let him go. And so they finally let Peter and John go after calling them in and threatening them. And in verse 23 of Acts, chapter 4, I'm talking this week here about the power generating, the energy generating act of prayer that brings strong degrees of power to the forefront. Oh, man. To where it makes things easily accessible. We want that. We want that kind of power in every service. Now, it might just be God's plan for that service to be a teaching service, but regardless, we want that kind of power available. When you go into a place, you know, to minister, you like it when it's kind of spiritually sticky. You know what I mean by that? You feel like. You feel. You feel like you're just not walking on carpet, but you're walking on some power. You feel like. You feel like things are sticky and, and it's just. The utterance is there. And you. You start ministering beyond yourself. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Revelation flows. And you. And you say things in your mind's thinking, why'd you say that? And somebody comes up afterwards and says, oh, my God, what you said, what you said, what you said. And you don't want to tell them it was an accident. I didn't mean to say it. I didn't know I said it. I'll tell you, if you minister in the anointing, it just helps you stay out of pride because you know, oh, my God, you have no idea how little of me this was. So they go and verse 23 said, when they, when they released, being let go, they went to their own company. This is Acts 4:23. And they reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. And when they heard that, when they heard all these threats, and they said, guys, we're not allowed to meet anymore. We're. Come on, we're shut down. We're. We're not allowed to meet no more. And they're going to do this to us, and they're going to do that to us, and we're not allowed to heal people. No, they said, no more that, no more practicing medicine without a license. You know, you can't do it. We can't do it. They said, we're shut down. When they heard that, they. I like this. They lifted up their. Doesn't say their voices. Huh? Didn't say their voices. What does it say? They all who were there, they lifted up their collective voice to God. Now, how do you do that? How does everybody. They lift up their voice. If everybody's cooperating with the same spirit, if everybody's yielding to the unction of the same spirit. You're one. You're one. They lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, now, I don't know if they all lifted up their voice like we do. Maybe prayed in English, some maybe prayed in other tongues. And this is just the essence of what was recorded. I don't know. But they said, lord, you are God, and you made heaven, and you made the earth, and you made the sea, and you made everything. You know, when you're facing a threat, part one of your prayer, amen, needs to really. They're praying to God, but they're really reminding themselves who I'M talking to and how big he is and how great he is and just start going through all, you did this for me. You did this in the earth, but then you did this for me and you did this for me. There was a certain thing a couple years ago. We had followed God into this purchase, and it just looked afterward like we made the biggest financial mistake the world. Now the good thing is we're on the other side of that now. But during this time, it was a time of extreme testing. And I sometimes start with my prayers and say now, Lord, thank you for adding to us this thing that you told us to get, that we followed you into and obeyed you and stepped out in faith and did just.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Just.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Just kind of setting the stage. And then we thank. Thank you that this thing is supplied regardless of what it looks like and what. What the bank wants to do and this and that. No, thank you. Thank you. Start out your prayers that way. So they started talking about how big God is. Lord, you're God. You're God. You're God. You created all this. You. You created the ground I'm walking on. And then they went off on to say, who by the mouth of your servant David has said, why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ. What are they doing? They're quoting scripture. They're bringing the word to prayer. I said, they're bringing the word to prayer. Then verse 27, they said, for of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together for to do whatever your hand and counsel determined before to be done. So now then, verse 29. And now. Now. Now we get to the issue. Now, Lord, behold their threatenings and grant to your servants. I love it. They didn't say grant to our. To your servants to help us comply in this hour of great persecution. And. Hello. Come on now. Grant to your servants that with all boldness they may speak your word by stretching forth your hand to heal. That's interesting. You don't speak by healing. Or do you? You can speak by speaking. You can speak by demonstrating. You can speak. In other words, display a message, Communicate. Yeah, you can, honey. Praise God. You're preaching. Good. Come on. That signs and wonders may be done in the name of Jesus. Grant to your servants with all boldness we may speak your word, stretching forth your hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done in the name of Jesus. That's their prayer. And when they had prayed. Remember what we're talking about. The place of prayer becomes the place of power. When they had prayed, the place of was shaken. Where they were watching online.

[Congregation Member]

Huh? Huh?

[Dr. Dufresne]

Get your wallet out. Come on, help me. No, I'm just joking. What does it say? The place where they were assembled together, preaching good. That place. That place. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. And they spoke the word of God with boldness. Now, friends, we get excited if a person shakes. This didn't say a person shook. Now, I've had power come on me before, and I won't apologize for what I do. That's right. But nor can I control all the time. Just exactly. If you yield to that power, there's some kind of demonstration. There's some kind of, you know, you might say, well, not, not me. Well, let's line you up. Let's line everybody up by the closest electrical outlet, huh? And instead of giving you a plug with rubber on it, we're just going to give you a fork and knife. And let's see, let's see, you can. Let's see just how dignified you are. We might not all react the same way, but we'll all respond. And, and when God's power is flowing and there's no response, what do we know? They folk ain't. They're just not connecting to it. They're keeping themselves disconnected from the power. So a person didn't just. Just person didn't just shake.

[Congregation Member]

The building.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Shook. I've been in a lot of prayer meetings over the years. I've not seen this yet. Amen. You know what that means? I'm not done yet. There's nothing in the Bible that we don't have a right to. Huh? Why would a building shake? When people prayed, Their prayer created a spiritual supply. I said their prayer created a spiritual supply. Power was made available. Power was made available. And you might say, well, we've done that and the building hadn't shook. Well, I'm not saying it's not always supposed to shake, you understand? It's probably better if it didn't. But we do want a comparable degree of power or higher. Or higher. When you see stuff in the Bible, friends, make a demand on it. Make a demand on it. Say if it was for them and you, you understand, God didn't put everything in the Bible that happened in the days of Jesus. It didn't all get in there. What did get in there, these things are written that you might believe. The things that are in there are the things that are supposed to produce faith in us for that which is similar. Glory to God. Glory to God. Man. The word is good, isn't it? So. And so we. You know, we won't really actually. Well, maybe. Maybe you can, but you can. You can go in just to chapter five. And what happened? What was the result of their prayer? Verse 12 says, by the hands of the apostles, many signs and many, many, many signs and wonders were wrought among the people. Y', all, this is just a pattern. The book of Acts is not a closed history book of something that happened in the early church just to be venerated and admired and never happen again. No, it is a blueprint. It is our pattern for today. It's all for today. I said it's all for today. It's all for right now. It's all for right now. Now, in any of these. In any of these prayers, did you see anybody begging God? Huh? No. That last one we looked at is like, God, you. So. You're so much bigger than these big mouths. You're so much bigger than their threatenings. You're so much greater. And so, Lord, we just gonna. We're just gonna expect you to do all that you've done and greater. Stretch forth your hand. Stretch forth your hand. Thank you. That we boldly speak your word. We just flat speak it boldly like we know it, like Jesus did. Like we know what we're talking about. We speak it boldly. And it's followed by healings. Outstanding healings, Extraordinary. Thank you. Notable miracles, signs and wonders. And that's what we have. And that's what they had, y'. All. Ten verses later, we see it. Many signs and wonders. Many signs and wonders. Many. You know, when I say something several times, just jump on and do it with me. Many signs and wonders. Many signs and wonders. Say it with me. Come on, now. Many signs and wonders. Many signs. Many signs and wonders. What belongs to our era? Many. What belongs to these kinds of meetings? Many signs and wonders. What belongs in your church? Many signs and wonders.

[Congregation Member]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Dr. Dufresne]

It belongs to us. It belongs to us. Thank you, Father. Well, if God would see fit. God saw fit. God saw fit. He put it in here that we might believe. So we want to establish, and I think we have given you enough scripture to where we see that the place of prayer, so much more we could have talked about and, you know, at different opportunities, perhaps we will praise God. So many different aspects of this you know, but we see that cooperating with God in prayer creates a spiritual supply, allows those wires to be all connected in the right place. Come on, now. Glory to God allows power to flow. Brother Hagin made a statement. Could I read this to you? Just. I get stirred when I. When I read this. And he said this, he said, we need more of those kinds of services where God's power manifests while the preacher is preaching. And again, that can happen without you even knowing it happened in terms of what. What's being said and all that. But then he said. He said if. If today's Spirit filled, believers would start believing God for the move of his Spirit and pray in the Holy Ghost the way believers did in those days, talking about some. Some times he was in the same mighty power would be in, demonstrate, would be in manifestation today as it was then, that Holy Ghost power may fall like rain. It may move in like a cloud, or it may blow through like a wind and sweep everyone off the pews and onto the floor. Amen. I feel like what Brother Hagin said, he said it better maybe than I would. But isn't that the same thing we're saying? Yeah, there's nothing special about somebody else's day when great things happen. We talk about our heroes of faith. We should talk about our heroes of faith. We talk about Smith Wigglesworth and all the great things that happen. We talk about this revival and that revival and. And all the power that flowed. But we talk about it. And if you're not careful, you'll think, oh, well, that was just that. That was just, you know, that was special. Well, it is special in the sense that it's from God. We honor it, we appreciate it. But it's not exclusive. I said it's not exclusive. Praise God. I'm not doing without. I'm not okay with any other era being visited and we just go without. You might say, well, it might be the plan of God. I'm not okay with that. Sorry. Sorry. If it's. If that's the case, when I get to heaven, I'm going to say, listen, you put all this in your word. You put all this in your word and you said what was written in there was for us to believe. What gives? What right do you have? You might say you talk that way to God with fear and trembling. Yes. Listen, I'm just following Dr. Dufresne. He said the same thing. He said, if this is all there is when I get to heaven, I'm gonna say, that was the big pop that Was it? He called it the Big Pop, Man. We'll be forever feasting on his sayings and definition. The Big Pop. Come on. No, it's for now. It's for now. It's for today. God's just waiting on folk to cooperate. To cooperate.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Hallelujah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Glory, glory.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Dr. Dufresne used to tell us every generation has the right to see what other generations have seen. If you see it in the Word, we can claim it for our generation. Glory to God. Hallelujah. And isn't that what the angel told John Lake that we read yesterday? The angel said, contend for these things in the book of Acts that we see. Teach the people to pray for these. Hallelujah. Glory, Glory. We are to go after these things in prayer. Contend for these things. Hallelujah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Why?

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Because they're available for us if there's a landing spot. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Praise God. I want to read. I want to read something that also a prophecy that Brother Hagin said. It just fits so good and it'll inspire you. Thank you. This is. I actually have. I have it in. This is my book called the Office. It's a book on the ministry offices. I like it, but I just know I have. I printed it in here in chapter two. So read chapter two of the Office. Y' all excellent with this. This copy doesn't have chapter two in it.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Discounted today.

[Dr. Dufresne]

No. This is the last day. We are having a special. The special is if you buy anything off our table, you get any two things off of Pastor Nancy's table for free.

[Nancy Dufresne]

No, that's not our special.

[Dr. Dufresne]

That's what I came up with. This says this Brother Hagin was prophesying in 1983, and he said in this move, you're even in the edge of it right now. It'll not be something altogether new that you've never seen. It'll be a combination of everything you've seen put together, plus a little bit more. I'm interested in that. Plus a little bit more. Yeah. And a revival of the supernatural. Not only the supernatural in casting out devils. Not only the supernatural in healing the sick. Not only the supernatural and speaking with other tongues, but the supernatural in the seen realm. That's talking about demonstrations of spiritual power, physical manifestations, physical demonstrations, the fire appearing above the building and all the things we've sometimes heard about. Oh, and he goes on to say that men will see the glory of God, see the glory of God. A cloud will hang over certain congregations, even the church building, for days at a time. And everybody that passes by, sinner and saint alike, will say, well, what in the world is that? I've never seen anything like that. And there will be, in other places, fire of the Spirit that will actually become literal. Oh, yes, in the spirit realm, some of us have seen it. In the spirit realm, we've been conscious of the fire of God, but the fire will actually come into manifestation. And there'll be people, sinners as well, saints that will see fire all over the heads of the people. There'll be people driving down the street or down. Down the highway, and they'll see fire on top of the buildings. And they'll come and say, what does all this mean? The power of God in manifestation shall be seen in the gifts of the Spirit. The manifestations of his spirit. Into full potential shall come the ministry gifts. That's why that's in this book. The apostle and prophet, the evangelist and pastor and teacher too. They shall flow as one. That's what we're in. It's exciting. That's what we're in now. But all of those things, and this is another message, if you come to the next miracle crusade, I'll minister. But all these things need to be supplied in prayer. These talks about the manifestations, the demonstrations, the gifts, the ministry offices, they. They all supplied through prayer. Praise him. Glory to God. Father, thank you today. Oh, my goodness. We're grateful for you. We appreciate you. Pray with me, everybody. Say this after me. Father God.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Father God.

[Dr. Dufresne]

We're so grateful for all you've given us, for all you've released into our era.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

For all. All you've released into.

[Dr. Dufresne]

For all that belongs to our day.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

For all that belongs to our.

[Dr. Dufresne]

We see it.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

We see it.

[Dr. Dufresne]

We're excited about it.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

We're excited about it.

[Dr. Dufresne]

We're in awe of it.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

We're in awe of it.

[Dr. Dufresne]

And we choose to cooperate with it. And we choose to cooperate one way. One way that we cooperate, that we cooperate is through prayer.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Is through prayer.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Creating a spiritual supply.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Creating a spiritual supply.

[Dr. Dufresne]

As we follow the Spirit.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

As we follow the Spirit.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Lord, we thank you for the fullness of this era.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Lord, we thank you for the fullness of this era.

[Dr. Dufresne]

All you desire to do.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

All you desire to do.

[Dr. Dufresne]

We say that all that should happen.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

We say that all that should happen shall happen. Shall happen.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Use us. Use us to cooperate.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

To cooperate.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Use those you've chosen and appointed.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

You've chosen and appointed.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Bring their ministries bring their ministries to the forefront, to the forefront as their supply comes to the forefront.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

As their supply Comes to the forefront.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Thank you for the apostle, thank you for the apostle, thank you for the.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Prophet, thank you for the prophet.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Those in leadership those in leadership in this era.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

In this era.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Thank you for the evangelists, thank you for the evangelists, for the pastors, for the pastors, for the teachers.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

For the teachers.

[Dr. Dufresne]

All flowing as one.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

All flowing is one.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Thank you for all your gifts and manifestations thank you for for all your gifts and manifestations, for stretching your hand to heal.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

For stretching your hand to heal.

[Dr. Dufresne]

For signs and wonders, for signs, many signs and wonders many signs and wonders done among the people.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Done among the people.

[Dr. Dufresne]

And thank you, father, most of all.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

And thank you, father, most of all.

[Dr. Dufresne]

For the many who will come for.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

The many who will come as a.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Result of what's seen and heard as a result of what's seen and heard into your kingdom.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Into your kingdom.

[Dr. Dufresne]

And we say ultimately and we say ultimately, come, lord Jesus.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Come, lord Jesus.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Come, lord Jesus.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Come, lord Jesus.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Come, lord Jesus.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Come, lord Jesus.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Now, father, we've prayed now, father, we've prayed along these lines. Along these lines, according to the word.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Of God according to the word of.

[Dr. Dufresne]

God and to the best of our.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Knowledge and to the best of our knowledge.

[Dr. Dufresne]

But we're we know there's more we.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Don'T know but that we know there's.

[Nancy Dufresne]

More that we don't know.

[Dr. Dufresne]

There's more that needs to be prayed.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

There'S more that needs to be prayed.

[Dr. Dufresne]

That's beyond our knowledge. That's beyond our but it's not beyond your knowledge.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

But it's not beyond your so holy.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Spirit, so holy spirit, as you're so faithful to do, as you're so faithful to do, help us.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Help us.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Give us the utterance give us the utterance to help us take our place in prayer. To help us take our place with maximum effectiveness.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

With maximum.

[Dr. Dufresne]

We yield to you now. We yield to you speaking out, your utterances, speaking out in other tongues. Yes, sir, we will do that. We will do that.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Thank you all for the outpouring. Thank you for the outpouring.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yes.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Thank you.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Spiritual.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Yeah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Live, live more. Full live more. Full live more. And rejoice more.

[Wife of Dr. Dufresne]

Supply.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Rejoice more. Isn't God good? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. If you're here today from California, if you came here from California and just had it on your heart to come, I want you to come forward. And God you've been so imparted to, I understand, but God has some extra for you to go home with. Amen. Now, anybody just from Your seat. You can get in on this, but this is okay. And if y' all don't want to come, that's fine. We don't. We don't have to do that either.

[Congregation Member]

But.

[Dr. Dufresne]

I just kept getting prompted on this, folk that you came here and made the trip and. Yeah, you can move that out of the way. Glory to God. Yeah. The Spirit's on us to do this, and so we just cooperate with him, right? Yeah. You looking good. Put your hands out like. Like this. Yeah.

[Congregation Member]

Oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

You might say, what's this for? Bless. Just blessing. Blessing. The Bible says they brought the little children to Jesus and he lay his hands on them and bless him. Bless them. We're bringing God's children. Put your hands out. Oh, be blessed, Be blessed. Say this with me. Say, it's so easy for me to receive. To receive. I'm just the biggest receiver I know. There you go. There you go. Oh, Now, try not to take too much. Leave some for somebody else. Okay. Hey. Hey. Y' all looking good. Oh, be blessed. If you'd laugh more, you'd receive more. If you'd laugh more, you'd receive more. Yeah. This man just cut in line. Oh, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy. Oh, my, my, my, my, my. Yeah, yeah, yeah. God's got more. Got much in store for all up here. All who would hear there's more for you. Cause there's more to do. Take it now, receive it now. I said God's got more, more for you. More than you thought that you could do. God's got more. So take it all.

[Congregation Member]

Hallelujah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

God's got more for you. God would like to use you Every day. Wherever you go, he wants to use you.

[Congregation Member]

If you'll just flow.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Smack her tummy. There you go. That was. Let us sit there for a second. Oh, God's got more great things for you.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, oh, oh, yeah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Great power can flow through you. Great power can flow through you. Just take it, Say it's mine. Say I'll do it. Say it's time, it's now, it's for me. I'll not fear. It's easy, easy, easy, High. Say I take it, I receive, I yield, I'm free.

[Congregation Member]

Glory, glory, glory, glory.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Glory.

[Congregation Member]

Glory. Glory, Glory, Glory, glory, glory.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Go.

[Congregation Member]

Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Did you and your sister sign a no laughing clause? Did you make a pact that you won't rejoice. If you just laugh more? You receive more, more if you rejoice.

[Congregation Member]

More, you'll receive more if you rejoice More, you'll receive more.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Now's a good time to start it.

[Congregation Member]

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Oh, yeah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Give me your hand. Give me your hand.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

I'll make my own song. Cause he done left me Demas have forsaken me The Bible said thank oh.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Oh my. Come here, come here, come here. There's. There's more for you. There's more you, More for you? More for you? Step into what you know and the moral show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's more for you, there's more. You don't have to be from California if you're in the front row and you wanted to come. Oh, there's more for you. There's more for you. There's more for you.

[Congregation Member]

Oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Come on, come on, come on.

[Congregation Member]

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Ha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Put your hands out. Put your hands out. Thank you.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

O Taking your place doing your part. Oh, no excuses, no excuses, no excuses. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Bring him down, bring him down. Yeah, Yeah. Oh. Carrier, carrier. A carrier. A carrier.

[Congregation Member]

Ha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

A carrier. Now, I'm not being disrespectful, but turn to the side a little bit.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, my, my, my, my, my.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yeah, yeah.

[Congregation Member]

Put your hands out.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Go back to what I said to you last time. Go back to what I said to you last time. Oh, come here, come here. Bring it back, bring it back. Get this off me. Help me.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Put your hands out, please.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Give me your hand.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Give me your hand.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, mama ma, ma, ma.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Lessen your head more out of your heart. Less in your head more out of your heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Congregation Member]

Hahaha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

If you're in a different second row, whatever, and you wanted to come, you can come. Come on, bring down, bring down.

[Congregation Member]

Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Be blessed.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Laugh more. Smile more. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Say I receive.

[Congregation Member]

I, I receive. I receive. Say I receive. I receive. Oh, I receive. Oh, I receive. Yeah, yeah. I receive. I receive.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Oh, I receive.

[Congregation Member]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh. Oh. Ha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yeah. Laugh, laugh. There you go. Oh.

[Congregation Member]

Hahah.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yeah. Yeah. Advancement through that. Advancement through that. Advancement through that. Oh. Oh. Blessed. Blessed, Blessed. Blessed. Hands out, please. Put your hands out. Thank you. Blessed. Blessed, Blessed. Blessed. Yeah.

[Congregation Member]

Ha ha ha ha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Oh, be blessed. Be blessed, be blessed. Come on now. Come on now. What do we teach you? What we teach you? We teach you to laugh. What do we teach you?

[Congregation Member]

Hope.

[Dr. Dufresne]

What did we teach you? What did we teach you?

[Congregation Member]

There you go. There you go.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Oh, Yeah.

[Congregation Member]

Oh. Oh.

[Dr. Dufresne]

That'll be. That'll be easy. That'll be easy. You know what? I don't know what I'm talking about. Do you? Okay, good, good.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, my mama.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yeah, Well, you need to be in more of these kind of meetings.

[Congregation Member]

Hahaha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yeah. Bless. Bless, Mr. Excellence. Blessed. Be. Blessed be. Blessed. Be blessed. Be blessed. Be blessed, sir. God's got good things for you. Be blessed. Be blessed. Be blessed. Be blessed, Be blessed. All right, all right, all right, all right. You can go. You can go to your seat. Thank you.

[Congregation Member]

Ha ha ha ha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Say it's easy for me to receive. Yeah, easy for me. Easy for me. Easy. Yeah.

[Congregation Member]

Ha ha ha. Ha. Ha ha ha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Say God loves me so much, I receive before I know what I'm doing. Hallelujah.

[Congregation Member]

Ha ha ha ha. Ha. Ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Be blessed. Be blessed. Be blessed. Be blessed. Come on. Bring. Bring her down. Guys. Pray. Were you in line? Come stand right where you are. Stand right. Hold on to that chair then. Yeah.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, my, my, my, my.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Ha. Blessed.

[Congregation Member]

Blessed.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Blessed. Blessed, Blessed. We're not trying to get something from God, are we? We're not trying to get him to give us something. Just receiving. Be blessed. Be blessed. With your cool shirt and your cool hair. You and I are both redheads. Be blessed.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, my, my, my, my.

[Dr. Dufresne]

Yeah. Blessed. Blessed. Put your hands out, sir. There you go. Oh, my, my, my. Be blessed. Praise God. See if there's anything left for the pastor of the church. Come here, New York. Take a step down, New York.

[Congregation Member]

Oh, that's what.

[Dr. Dufresne]

That's what you came for. That's what you came for. Hallelujah. Lift your hands up, everybody. Give God thanks. Oh, we thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. We'll take that pulpit back up here if y' all could. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Nancy Dufresne]

Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Raise up your hands and tell them thank you for what you've done received today. We're so grateful, Father. We're so grateful, Father. We're so, so. We're so, so grateful, Father. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We purpose to not just be hearers of what we've heard today, but moving in further into the doing of what we've heard today. Hallelujah. And we'll increase our doing. Will increase our doing. We thank you for it, Father. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How many of you are so glad you didn't miss the meetings in the morning? Yeah, so, so good. Hallelujah. Well, we want to go ahead and receive an offering this morning for the services. And you know, you know the routine, the envelope, The text to give the check. Thank you. Brother Joel keeps us on course here with all three. All three. And we haven't said this so far this week, but those who are watching by livestream get in on every flow. And this is one of the flows to get in on. If you've received something being blessed, you need to honor what you've received and. And be a part of it financially. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, we are over the budget, but we're believing for double, right? Double. Because just meeting the budget of the meeting for defrain ministries is equal to us staying home. Does that make sense? It didn't do anything more to send us further. So that's why we're believing. We believe for double because we could just sit at home and not have incurred the expense, you see. And so anytime you go to meetings, just meeting the expense of the budget is not adding anything to that ministry. It's just meeting that need. So that's why we believe for double. When you say, well, why do you think? Why do you need double? Because it helps us do more of what we're already doing. Amen. Hallelujah. And so we want to remind you, services tonight, tonight is double up. You say, well, I won't be there tonight. Then you can go ahead and do that this morning. And that means whatever you're going to give, you're going to double it and you're going to come on. Amen. Reminding you the doors are open an hour before, so come and be ready to receive where we'll minister to the sick. And anyone who comes in that needs healing hands laid on them will do that because health belongs to us. Amen. Hallelujah. And we remind you, anything you've received during these services, please fill out a testimony card, let us know about it. I mean, Jesus was so intent. Listen, the woman with the issue of blood would not have testified if Jesus had not stopped the whole process and didn't go any further until he heard. So you have to coerce many times people to testify. Don't be one of those. You have to coerce. Be ready to write it down because it matters to us. Because aren't we so glad that Jesus stopped and made that woman come forward? He called for her to come forward and she did. And how many countless multitudes have been healed because she told her story? Amen. It encouraged their faith. And so that's what you do when you give your testimony. There's a testimony card back at the book table. You can fill it out, you can leave it at the book table, or you can mail it in, or you can go to our website and fill out one if you would. Hallelujah. We want to remind you of the materials back there. Wonderful book by brother Joel Field. The supernatural results of a spirit filled life that we're to live this way. It's not about maintaining yesterday's infilling. It's every day, every day filling up. I know God said something to me years ago. He said, start every day in the spirit. That's what he's talking about. Start every day taking drinks, drinking in the spirit. It's not about just holding on to what you got in last night's service or the night before. But it's every day a fresh infilling. And then this one is so good. Helping people receive, healing. Yes. This means you. Because we're all commanded to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. And so we help people to know what to believe and how to receive. And so this is helping us to gain skill in our everyday being. A blessing of obedience to people. Amen. And then we also have out there peace, living free from worry. So, so important what you allow in your thought life. Amen. And then this one, responding to the Holy Spirit. So those materials are out there. Go get them. And you know, I know we're only in May, but I tell you, Christmas comes quick. This is time to get stalking stuffers. I'm telling you because I mean when you wake up next week, Christmas will be here. That's kind of how it moves, right? It seems to move quickly and then you're out running around, don't know what to get anybody. Well, we're giving you good options. Amen. Hallelujah. Are you ready to give this morning? Hold your offering up before the Lord. Father, we thank you for what we've received today. How precious to hear the things that we've heard. And we say that we're changed. And we say that we're greater doers of the word. And, Father, as we give this morning, we release our faith and we declare together that my God shall supply all my need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. And everybody said, amen. Ushers, go ahead. And as the offering bucket goes your way, say this with me. Say all the money that defrain Ministries needs, it'll come. All the money that my church needs, it'll come. All the money that I need, it'll come. All the money that my business needs, it'll come. You may say, well, I don't own a business. I'm employed somewhere. That is your business. It is your job to bring your full faith as though you were the owner at the time. Top of the. At the top of the list there that you bring your faith. Haven't you been blessed by Joel and Amy Seagull this week? Give them a great big God bless you. They have their. They have their own church there in Colorado, and then, of course, they travel, so we appreciate them adding us into their schedule. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Well, stand with me to your feet this morning and say when I pray, great power is made available and you can be dismissed. God bless you. We'll see you tonight. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit [e-mail] to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your testimony. Please become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.