Podcast Summary

Dufresne Ministries Podcast

Episode: "Women & The Last Day Revival" | Nancy Dufresne | Campmeeting 2022 | Monday PM | Murrieta, CA

Date: June 14, 2022
Host/Speaker: Pastor Nancy Dufresne

Episode Overview

Pastor Nancy Dufresne delivers a unique and stirring sermon emphasizing the role of women in the impending Last Day Revival, underscoring scriptural truths concerning the body of Christ, obedience to one’s spiritual call, and the dangers of operating in only a measure of what God has called each individual—especially women—to fulfill. The episode urges both women and men to recognize, value, and step into their God-ordained roles for the health of themselves and the church, providing practical wisdom and prophetic warnings.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Discerning the Lord’s Body and Spiritual Weakness

• Scriptural Focus: 1 Corinthians 11:27-30
  • Not discerning the Lord’s body causes many to be “weak, sickly, and sleep [die] prematurely.”
  • Two applications:
    1. Not discerning Christ’s physical body—failing to take up one’s rights over sin and sickness.
    2. Not discerning the spiritual body—the church—by not recognizing or occupying one’s God-given place.
  • Quote:
    • “Knowing our place in the body and taking that place on purpose... that's our safe place.” (07:50)
    • “Just discerning our part doesn't mean we're functioning in our part.” (14:58)

2. Women’s Pivotal Role in the Last Day Revival

• Historical and Prophetic Perspective:
  • References to Dad Hagin and Oral Roberts foreseeing the essential rise of women in every revival.
    • “God raises up women in every revival because it's a sign to the world that God uses women.” (19:10)
    • “God is going to use women in a leading way in this last day revival.” (19:50)
  • The message is not exclusive to women; it is crucial for men to grasp, support, and help foster the intended place God has for women.
• Emphasis to Men:
  • Men should learn to support and encourage the women in their lives for the sake of God’s purposes.

3. Fullness vs. Measure in Obedience

• Warning to Women (and All Believers):
  • “It is dangerous to walk in a measure of your call and not in the fullness of it. A measure is not enough when He offers us fullness.” (24:34)
  • Continual progress toward fullness is expected; stagnation can open the door to spiritual and even physical difficulties.
• Parallels to Physical Growth:
  • Just as natural maturity involves increasing responsibility, so does spiritual maturity.

4. The Minister’s Home: Order, Priority, and Partnership

• Call to prioritize family order:
  • First ministry for women, including those in fivefold offices, is as a wife and mother.
    • “Your first and foremost call is to be a help meet to your husband. First and foremost.” (50:45)
    • “No matter what fivefold office you may be called to, you never graduate out of being the help meet to your husband.” (51:13)
• Testimonies and Personal Stories:
  • Nancy shares anecdotes of her own marriage, family roles, and the importance of never delegating one’s irreplaceable spiritual and practical supply to their spouse or children.

5. Prayer: The Wife’s Unique Role

• Spiritual Dynamics of Prayer in Marriage:
  • “You are anointed as a wife to pray for your husband in a way no one else can, because no one else is one with him.” (58:30)
  • The spiritual unity and responsibility between spouses cannot be substituted or shifted to church prayer groups.
  • “When the wife prays, the husband is safeguarded in a way that the prayer team won't be able to get results in.” (61:10)
• Common Pitfalls:
  • Comparing personal spirituality with a spouse is inappropriate—roles and assignments differ by divine design.

6. Developing the Gifts & Avoiding Imbalance

• Dangers of Neglecting Preaching/Teaching:
  • “If ladies, if you’re called to a fivefold ministry and you don’t develop your teaching and preaching, there’s two-thirds of the works of Jesus you're neglecting.” (1:20:25)
  • Reliance only on the gifts of the Spirit without development of teaching/preaching leads to imbalance and can open the door to deception.
    • Notable metaphor: “Operating in the gifts…is giving someone a fish. But teaching and preaching is giving them a fishing pole.” (1:23:15)
    • Reference to Dad Hagin’s warnings from the healing revival era.

7. Valuing One’s Supply and Calling

• Dangers of Devaluing:
  • “To devalue what came from God is dangerous. To diminish and devalue what's in you is to diminish Him who works in you.” (1:33:10)
  • Shared personal dream: God showed Nancy a vision of premature death due to not bringing her full supply to her husband and ministry.
  • Encourages women not to compare with their husbands or question their own worth in the body.
• Encouragement for Reluctant Ministers:
  • If God has placed a call, He will promote and open doors; self-promotion and overstepping are cautioned against.
  • “Just be an example.” (47:30)

8. Agreement and Joy in the Call

• The Heart Behind Ministry Duty:
  • “Some are doing the actions of their call, but their hearts are not in full agreement. They are inwardly…doing it as a duty instead of out of a place of agreement.” (1:40:44)
  • Outward actions without inward agreement can still leave the door open to the devil.
• Example from Personal Experience:
  • Spent four years pastoring before fully agreeing inwardly; upon agreement, health and ministry alignment followed.

9. Obedience, Agreement, and Health

• Obedience to God’s fullness brings health, longevity, and blessing.
  • “Neglecting, making progress into the fullness of your call…is dangerous. Many are weak, many are sickly, and many die prematurely from it. Long life is connected to our obedience, and obedience is agreement.” (1:55:28)
  • Stories shared of Dad Hagin and Ed Dufresne—alignment and obedience brought deliverance and healing.
  • “If you’ll get your spirit in order, your body will start responding.” (2:00:04)

10. Divine Order in the Family and Ministry

• **Husbands as heads of families—not as dictators, but as those responsible before God.
• Divine order is non-negotiable even with fivefold ministry calling.
• Wives should receive spiritual input from their pastor/husband under anointing.

Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “God is going to use women in a leading way in this last day revival.” (Nancy Dufresne, 19:50)
• “It is dangerous to walk in a measure of your call and not in the fullness of it.” (24:34)
• “You are your husband’s secretary…What was I doing? I was his help—to help him fulfill what God said to him. That was first, even over pastoring, even over traveling.” (53:55)
• “You are anointed as a wife to pray for your husband in a way no one else can, because no one else is one with him.” (58:30)
• “If ladies, if you’re called to a fivefold ministry and you don’t develop your teaching and preaching, there’s two-thirds of the works of Jesus you're neglecting.” (1:20:25)
• “Neglecting…progress into the fullness of your call and what you’re born for is dangerous.” (1:55:28)
• “Practice agreeing with your call.” (1:52:48)

Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment / Key Topic | |------------|-------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00–07:50| Introduction; Reading from 1 Corinthians 11; Discerning the Lord’s body | | 19:10 | God’s use of women in revivals; Dad Hagin/Oral Roberts quotes | | 24:34 | Dangers of only fulfilling a measure; Fullness vs. measure | | 50:45–53:55| Women’s first call: Help meet; Order in marriage and ministry | | 58:30 | Unique anointing for wives to pray for husbands | | 1:20:25 | Importance of developing preaching/teaching alongside gifts | | 1:33:10 | Dangers of devaluing one's calling; personal vision testimony | | 1:40:44 | Heart agreement in ministry; inward agreement vital | | 1:55:28 | Direct warning: Weakness and premature death tied to lack of fullness | | 2:00:04 | Dad Hagin quote on spiritual and physical order |

Conclusion

Nancy Dufresne’s message uncompromisingly calls both women and men to recognize the urgent, scriptural necessity of stepping into their God-ordained place in this unique time for the church. Through scriptural teaching, practical illustrations, and prophetic warnings, she dismantles misconceptions about gender, ministry order, and spiritual responsibility, challenging every listener to pursue fullness and obedience for the sake of their health, longevity, and the effectiveness of the church in the last day move of God.