Podcast Summary: "What Do You Have To Lose?" | Stephen Dufresne | Campmeeting 2025 | Friday AM

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Date: June 14, 2025
Speaker: Stephen Dufresne
Host Location: Campmeeting 2025, Friday AM

Episode Overview

This energizing session, led by Stephen Dufresne, focuses on the theme of "What do you have to lose?"—a call to radical faith and action for those believing for healing. Dufresne digs into the biblical and practical principles behind receiving healing, urging listeners to move from passive hope to an active, expectant faith that is visibly demonstrated. Throughout the message, humor, personal anecdotes, and scriptural case studies combine to challenge and encourage believers to engage with God for tangible results in their physical bodies.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Atmosphere & Introducing the Theme

• Dufresne acknowledges it’s the last day of Campmeeting, encourages energy and anticipation, and launches into a spirit of worship with familiar songs about the blood of Jesus.
  “Are y’all awake today? I know it’s the last day and everyone’s tired, but just give me a little bit more.” (00:21)
• Emphasizes the expectation that everyone will leave "healed, whole, with revelation to stay healed." (03:25)

2. God’s Voice: “What Do You Have to Lose?”

• Stephen shares a personal story of the Lord prompting him with the question, “What do you have to lose?” while planning his message.
  • Explains his own unexpected journey of preaching about healing—often wishing to talk about prosperity instead, but the Lord repeatedly directs him to healing.
    “And this week he said these words to me, what do you have to lose? What do you have to lose?” (04:40)

3. Addressing Qualification for Healing Ministry

• Dufresne admits he’s never been personally afflicted with major sickness, questioning his qualification to preach on healing.
• Uses the analogy of professionals (surgeons, gynecologists) who skillfully treat conditions they haven’t experienced themselves.
  “How many brain surgeons have had their brain worked on, right? They probably haven't, but they’re still opening up people’s brains…” (05:50)

4. Biblical Case Studies: Taking Action for Healing

• Acts 14:8 – The Crippled Man at Lystra
  • Breaking down how Paul perceived the man’s faith “to be healed” because he physically responded, attempting to do what was previously impossible.
    “So when he saw it that he had the faith to be healed, he said with a loud voice, stand up straight to your feet. And he leaped up and walked.” (10:44)
  • Faith must be visible and active, not just internal.
• Luke 17:12 – The Ten Lepers
  • Emphasizes their perseverance in waiting for Jesus, acting in faith by obeying his instruction to show themselves to the priests, despite no immediate visible change.
    “They were standing there waiting for somebody to come around that corner named Jesus. This is called faith. What do they have to lose?” (16:32)
• Matthew 9:20 – Woman with the Issue of Blood
  • She acts despite her physical state, reaching out and changing history by touching Jesus’ garment against the odds. “That woman changed history forever. Because everyone else in the world knew if I could just touch…” (35:51)

5. Modern Obstacles: Passivity, Comfort, and Chronic Illness

• Honest discussion about modern attitudes toward sickness and healing lines—people often expect to be wheeled in/out with little personal action.
• Dufresne highlights statistics: nearly half of the U.S. population has a chronic illness; 43% face obesity; 1 in 5 adults has mental illness.
  “You can’t tell me that you don’t need Jesus in your life, you don’t need healing in your life…” (20:44)

6. Practical Demonstration: ‘Tutorial’ for Receiving Healing

• Stephen brings a wheelchair on stage and acts out two “healing line” scenarios:
  • What Not to Do: Passively receive prayer without physical effort.
  • What to Do: Actively expect healing, attempt to get up, and enlist help if needed.
    “I'm Stephen Dufresne, and this is a tutorial on how to receive your healing… do as I say and do as I do.” (28:10)
    “If that's the case, then I'm healed, sir. ...Help me walk down here. ...I'm healed by the power of God.” (30:05)
• Point: Corresponding action should follow the prayer of faith.

7. Faith Requires Corresponding Action

• Highlights a principle: “The feeling of pain must be ignored. Make your action correspond with your confession.” (33:20)
  “If you're confessing something and not doing it, you're not doing it.”
• Quotes and stories (Dad Hagin, T.L. Osborne) reinforcing how "dead faith" is belief without action, and results come with visible, physical effort—even amid pain.

8. Barriers to Healing: Comfort, Delay, and ‘Giving Up’

• Asks listeners to confront their hidden “timeline” for giving up when healing isn’t immediately visible.
• Counsel: Stick with standing on the Word, regardless of time or feelings. “Do you give up? You stick with it and you declare, at that moment, I was healed. That’s it.” (44:47)

9. Contemporary Challenge: Are We Satisfied With ‘Just Teaching’?

• Laments that though this generation has unprecedented access to revelation, teaching, and resources, "we’re sicker than we’ve ever been." "I’m not satisfied with what I’m seeing. I’m ready to see some things I have never seen before." (45:18)

10. Final Exhortation & Prayer

• Urges listeners: “There’s got to be some action. Even if you just go stand on the porch with pain in your body… the Word of God is saying you’re healed, no matter what it feels like, no matter what it looks like.” (46:00 onwards)
• Corporate prayer for all listening and present: Declares healing from head to toe, regardless of symptoms. “It doesn’t matter what it looks like, what you feel or don’t feel. What I’m telling you today is you are healed right now in Jesus name.” (46:50)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Faith and Action:
  “Faith for healing, if not accompanied with corresponding action, is dead faith.” (34:40)
• On Personal Responsibility:
  “Are you willing to do something different than you’ve done before? What do you got to lose to look like a fool?” (21:54)
• On Rebellion Against Sickness:
  “You have to rebel against sickness and disease. You’re too nice to sickness, you’re too nice to disease… What if you fall on the floor and break your hip? You’re already busted. Just get up and do something.” (27:34)
• On Modern Culture:
  “We have the most revelation of any generation before us. So it’s time for us to walk in that.” (45:57)
• On Refusing to Quit:
  “The feeling of impossibility must be ignored at all costs. Because that’s what faith does. It ignores what it’s seeing, it ignores what it feels.” (32:48)

Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |---------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:21 | Dufresne opens, sets energetic and expectant atmosphere | | 03:25 | Statement of faith: “You’re leaving here healed...” | | 04:40 | Theme introduction: “What do you have to lose?”—personal testimony on message preparation | | 10:44 | Teaching on Acts 14: “How do you see someone’s faith?” | | 16:32 | Luke 17 – Faith of lepers illustrated | | 28:10 | ‘Tutorial’ role-play: healing line demonstration—what not to do vs. what to do | | 32:48 | Principle: “The feeling of impossibility must be ignored at all costs.” | | 35:51 | T.L. Osborne testimony—effects of the woman with the issue of blood’s actions | | 44:47 | Challenging timeline for ‘giving up’ and standing on God’s Word | | 45:57 | Reflection: “We have the most revelation... and we’re sicker than ever.” | | 46:50 | Closing prayer of healing for all listeners and attendees |

Conclusion & Call to Receive

Stephen Dufresne finishes with a challenge: Healing requires action, not just belief or passively receiving prayer. He lays down a bold invitation—step out, do what you couldn’t do, don’t wait for a feeling, and “defy” sickness. Whether in the room or watching online, he insists that the moment of prayer is the moment of healing, regardless of visible changes. The message culminates with a declaration of healing for all and an altar invitation for anyone wanting immediate prayer.

For Listeners:

• Key Takeaway: Healing, according to Dufresne’s message, is accessed by visible, determined, and sometimes “foolish-looking” acts of faith—“what do you have to lose?” Step into action, and let your body and world see your faith at work.

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