Q&A #1: Victory & Habits | LIVE w/Nancy Dufresne

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hello everyone i want to welcome you to live with pastor nancy and i'm so glad you could join me again uh it would be a blessing to me if you could notify me that you're um that you're on right now so if you can kind of message me right now let me know that you're getting this signal i'm up in colorado and i've been up here for a while now and i actually plan on staying until about mid-november and so um i'm glad to get to be with you from this location and i'm glad you could join me i'm sitting um as before i'm sitting in my cabin i have uh we have a ranch a home on the ranch and my son stephen built me this one room cabin it seems to be the best place for me to go uh to get a good signal and to have proper lighting so that at least we you don't i don't get in the dark here so um we're just glad that you're joining and i see so many different ones of you logging on right now different congregation members and uh oh there's miss leslie i'm so glad to see you love i'm glad uh that i can uh come to you this way it's been a long time since i've gotten to see you and of course pastor ruby there's my there's my traveling buddy pastor ruby and i'm glad that you're on and uh so i'm just appreciative that i get to be with you during this time and i see uh brother robert watching from canada i'm so glad in josie one of our bio she's been one of our bible school students i'm glad you're there and then staff members i see brianna and um so uh pastor jeannette burleigh how good to see you and there's my friend debbie beachy she's always so faithful and then miss heaven she's part of the um the bible school family there and so we're glad that you've joined us and so many different ones of you and so i'm just thrilled to be with you tonight and uh we have a little bit unique setting for tonight usually i do a bit of it of an instruction and uh always glad to do that but my son grant suggested he said mom would you be open to taking questions and i said sure i would be and so so many of you have responded by sending questions to us i'll get to a few of them tonight and i don't know how far i'll get because sometimes i get on one question and i seem to get kind of preachy about it and i stay kind along on it so i'm not going to commit myself to how many questions i'll get answered tonight that you have notified me with but possibly we could pause maybe do something like once a month on these because i i do these uh live facebook feeds with you every week and so maybe i could take once a month and possibly answer questions something like that we'll see and uh so i'm just glad that you've joined us tonight before we go any further i want to let you know that i do not personally have a personal facebook page now the ministry has one uh defrayne ministries has one and uh so we will post things on there but i do not have a personal facebook page and so i want to i'm stating that because from what i understand there are there have been some fake facebook pages for me out there and it looks like it comes from our ministry i mean they whoever is creating these they they go to our website and they pull current photos and uh they post it and they've created a page uh that's supposedly mine and then they get on there and they ask you for money so know this that the ministry will never ask you or i would never ask for any kind of offerings to come through facebook page so you know then that somebody is trying to take advantage and so we want you to be aware of that you know so many of the younger people that are they're just really slick on facebook they recognize when they see a fake page but uh some people are not on it as much and so you know sometimes because we wouldn't think of doing that we kind of our minds don't go that direction but there are people out there that do that and they will prophesy supposedly give you words from the lord uh from me and of course that's not me and so they they say things to kind of try to draw you into believing that it's that it's me and representing the ministry and it's not so i want to make you aware of that and so please disregard uh any fake any facebook page that you might see that's of me because it's certainly not me and of course they're doing it to try to get funds and so just be aware again that this ministry would never solicit any kind of offerings or anything through social media facebook pages and things like that so please be aware and don't don't respond and don't become if i could say this a follower of a page like that so just want to let you know that so praise the lord um i i see that there's all kinds of people are posting things of all kinds of things that they've seen on those facebook pages of trying to raise money for different things so know that that is not our ministry and so i want to let you know that um to kind of dive right into some of the questions that we've received i i want to read a few of them to you and then like i said i'll answer them and i'll try to move along with it because i can if there's a particular question that seems to hit a hit a sweet spot i i don't want to become too preachy on it but um the first one that i want to read to you is this they're asking what were the greatest challenges and victories you experienced as a young minister just beginning and then they go on and say what choices or habits did you put in place early in ministry that have allowed you to be in the middle of the plan of god for your life and calling and now at this moment so let me address the first part of it what were the greatest challenges and victories you experienced as a young minister just beginning well i can say this that in fact i was discussing it with a pastor friend of mine today that the more the more uh we renew our minds the easier life gets so the greatest challenges i had were really earlier on in ministry to the effect of i was young in ministry i was um so much was new to me you you know that when i married my husband i was 22 years old and i had never even heard of fivefold ministry and so i had only been saved and filled with the holy ghost a couple of years and so i was a a was young young young spiritually and so when you get born again you're you be you're a spiritual babe and so you have to develop and mature and the way you do that is through the word and feeding on the word renewing the mind and being a doer of that word so it won't do any good to read the bible and not do it so being a doer of the word will tend to that spiritual maturity intend to the renewing of the mind when your mind is not renewed if i could say it this way to quote my husband the devil will beat your brains out meaning ye will so dominate you mentally he will harass you mentally and it can become a torment to you and so the greatest challenges really happened for me as i was in those younger earlier years of ministry to where i was just learning and becoming skillful on my own in the sense now my husband had been in the ministry when i married him for almost 20 years at that time so he had such a head start on me there was a 20-year age difference between us and um so of course he had already developed some spiritual skills but his skills were not my skills it's not enough to be married to someone spiritual uh thank god for that but their spirituality is not your spirituality and i did not want to become someone who just lived under the umbrella of someone else's faith i wanted my own faith and so uh i wanted to i wanted to have my own fellowship with the lord i wasn't just i wasn't just looking to lean on someone else if you just look to lean on someone else in your spiritual life life will become very difficult for you the real victory is um the real victory is when you know how to believe god for yourself and then as a husband and wife team the two of you move together the greatest the way to have a great marriage is both of you be renewing your minds and renewing the mind as i said earlier involves being a doer of the word and so there were challenges and there were tests and trials that came to me when i i was young in ministry when i was a young believer and i did not know what in the world these things were you know i'm not one that my natural temperament is i'm not a worrier you know there are some people that they have a bend and just naturally in their own human temperament toward uh worrying that wasn't me but when there became attacks on the mind i started experiencing things that really i had never experienced before and my husband would make this statement he would say well honey you're just being attacked because of the anointing on this ministry and on your life and i said well yes i know that but that's not the steps to take i need to learn steps to take to get past this and so this is what i had to do was renew my own mind now i heard on a a i was listening to a sermon recently of brother hagin's and i had never heard him say this before uh but he made a statement he said you can't live off of another man's revelation every every revelation has to become yours another man's revelation will basically do you no good until it becomes your revelation now that is so important it's not enough that your pastor knows faith it's not enough that your pastor knows healing now it's an example to you but you have to get revelation in your own heart it has to dawn on your own spirit and so the greatest challenges to me were as i said when i was young in ministry and i was still um i was still if i could say this gaining some very foundational truths that i was laying in my own life and so i look back now and uh the things that i struggled with years and years ago are certainly something that i find myself just stepping over easily and that comes because of continuing to renew your mind so if we fail to renew our minds or if we neglect to renew our minds we're setting ourselves up for unnecessary hardships you know um if you were to have a car that had a huge engine on it that it could really i mean if you put that foot feet down and it would just accelerate and really take on a uh maybe you're going up a mountain or a steep hill or something and with a big engine that is no struggle for that car but if you're on a bicycle you're going to have to put forth a lot of struggle to get to the top of that hill renewing the mind if i could say this it it so fortifies you spiritually and it it is um it's the power to your faith i mean it helps you to just soar over things that used to be a struggle for you and so i i encourage you if you want to have a life that is really free from drama free from great struggles renew your mind with the word of god be a doer of the word and dad hagin used to say this to us that every challenge and every difficulty in life when something arises ask yourself the question what does the word say about this make sure that your thoughts go to the word instead of to your emotions so much of the time people will run to other people that when they are faced with a test or challenge they start looking outwardly they start looking around around them for someone to prop them up someone to give them their help learn to turn toward your spirit and that's what i've endeavored to do is i first turn toward my spirit and say what does the holy ghost within me have to say about this and i follow his counsel now you cannot believe god with your mind there is no faith in your mind your the faith of god is in your spirit but your mind either agrees with the faith that's in your spirit or it argues with the faith that's in your spirit so by renewing your mind you bring your mind into agreement with the faith that's in your spirit but if you don't renew your mind what happens the faith that's in your spirit wants to do what god is saying wants to do what god is directing but then the fa the the mind the unrenewed mind will argue with that and push that back down and it will keep the faith that's in your heart from being operative and so renewing the mind is the greatest thing to having a sweet life you know my husband and i here i go i'm i i'm still on one question right i i knew i would do this um years ago my husband and i were watching a um a minister that was being interviewed and he was a well-known minister has a large voice in the body of christ and an interviewer asked this minister and said um have you and your wife had to work had difficulties in your marriage over the years and this minister said well my wife and i have had to work on our marriage well my husband and i both were watching this interview and i turned to my husband and i said you know something i don't remember us working on our marriage i remember me working on me now there's the key to a sweet marriage quit trying to work on each other and work on you well how are you going to work on you renew your mind if a wife is renewing her mind a husband is renewing his mind and you bring that renewed mind to the marriage guess what the result is a sweet life well if you renew your mind then you don't have to work on yourself as an employee you don't have to work on yourself as a mother because the renewed mind will cause you to think right as an employee it'll cause you to think right as a congregation member it will cause you to think right as a spouse it will cause you to think right in every single arena you don't have to work on the mother thing you don't have to work on the wife thing you don't have to work on the employee thing on the daughter thing on the parent thing work on one thing renewing your mind and the renewed mind when you allow the word to dominate every action then it turns you into the best mother the best wife the best employee the most faithful congregation member that's the fruit of a renewed mind so i would say this work on yourself have you ever learned this had you know this that you're not anointed to fix someone else you're only anointed to fix you now you're anointed to be a blessing to someone else but you're not anointed to fix someone else because everyone has to do the work themselves of taking the word and renewing their minds so the greatest challenges and that i experienced uh as a young minister in the beginning was just going through the process of renewing my mind and it's a lifelong process i certainly don't mean to imply that my mind is fully renewed it's something that has to be an ongoing thing but i will say this since i've learned if i could say this to give peace its place peace means i refuse to worry i refuse to fear i refuse drama circumstances have certainly circumstances will always continue around our lives things tests and trials are going to show up circumstances are going to show up but the renewed mind holds you constant as you are a doer of the word and put the word first in your thoughts in the way you speak in the way you respond and the way you uh release your faith of what you're believing for if you put the word first it keeps you constant and the m that's where victory is in constancy um you can't you can't be a stopper and a starter with your faith you have to be constant don't just start releasing your faith and then stop and start and stop you know i walk in love today but man i'm i'm walking by my flesh tomorrow and man i'm just i'm just giving somebody the whammy no you've got to be constant that's what the renewed mind does it holds you the same so where when people meet you they know what version of you they're going to get that when you come to church when you come to work they're not seeing a different version the renewed mind makes you the best version of yourself and so i just say this renew your mind because what that does it turns difficult things easy you know i made this statement before and i certainly don't mean to cause people to stumble over this statement or think wrongly about this statement the greatest tragedy of my life was when my husband went home to be with the lord but that was not the greatest difficulty in my life and the reason i say that was because at the time he went home to be with the lord i had been practicing a life of peace i've been practicing walking in the spirit i had been renewing my mind so i knew what the next steps were because the word i was allowing the word to direct me so it made that season easy in the sense of i was not i wasn't fearful i wasn't afraid i wasn't worried and that was due to the word so the greatest difficulties in my life as i said was when i was young and i didn't know how to yield to peace i didn't know how to keep the door shut to fear i didn't know how to discipline the thought life your greatest defense against the enemy is a renewed mind and a submitted body you understand that your greatest defense against the enemy is a renewed mind and a submitted body because when your mind is renewed as you're renewing your mind with the word of god you are keeping the door closed to the enemy the enemy's going to show up but the renewed mind keeps him on the porch keeps him on the outside it doesn't let him in and so the greatest challenges was when i was young and i did not have uh foundational revelations laid in me i tell you what your spiritual foundation is so so important and uh by renewing the mind you're taking time to lay the foundation of the word in your life and that foundation is what upholds and supports the life you're building and so make sure you're you're giving the word the first place now how did i renew my mind i fed on the word but i will say this i i took uh when i'm getting getting dressed in the mornings i key i'll i'll put on the preaching materials and another thing is about renewing my mind is i know who god has given to speak into my life and those are the people that i feed on the most and those are the ones that if i could say this that their ministry uh it lands in me in such a way that it accelerates my spiritual progress as i listen to them and feed on them i don't just randomly listen to people on youtube i don't just randomly i don't pick up random books and read them i know who god has put in my life to feed my life and so i feed on their materials i read their books and dad hagan of course was our spiritual father and so thankful for his book so thankful that we have record of his um of we we have videos of his services and people will say well you know he's gone home to be with the lord yes and so has paul so is matthew mark luke john and we're still feeding on those materials so just because someone is in heaven now doesn't mean uh that their revelations are not pertinent and so that's a huge key to accelerate the renewing of the mind is don't just feed on random thing on random uh topics don't just feed uh in random directions know who it is that god has assigned to your life and so you you should be listening to your pastor you should be listening to their materials and then if there's other ones that god has really put in your life feed on them and by knowing if i could say this i know where my watering hole is then that way i'm always refreshed and so here we go we just got to one question that you asked what were the greatest challenges uh and then it said what were the greatest ex victories you experienced as a young minister just beginning well the the victories just came as i just stayed i just stayed in the way of the word when things were uh opposing when things were when things were testing and tempting i just endeavored to just keep doing the word day after day after day after day because sometimes victories don't show up overnight they show up through a lifestyle of doing the word and so just being a loving the word honoring the word doing the word and not being someone who feeds um feeds drama that's all i can say i don't appreciate drama i don't i don't want i don't want to make something bigger and explosive just for effect i don't run to people and try to make things look big and large um i want a life that's even that's peaceful and when circumstances that try to oppose come up come they just bounce off the the word that is anchored in me the word anchors your life and keeps you from drifting into doubt into fear and so i don't appreciate drama i value a life of peace i valued raising my children in a home a piece my husband and i did not have drama in our marriage we did not we did not converse with each other in a way that was inappropriate we didn't holler we didn't scream at each other we didn't try to manipulate and belittle one another we treated each other the way that we wanted our life to look and so i just um that's really you know if i could say this victories were not these one time things that happened to me victory is a life that i'm pleased to live and um that i'm pleased with the direction of my life i'm pleased with how my children live and the directions of their lives and the the things i get to do in the body of christ these to me are the the ongoing victory of life not just moments of victory but just a life that that you're that you're fulfilled with and and you're pleased with so that was a very long answer what like a 20-minute answer to one question so you can see how i don't know how many questions we'll get to um what choices and this is the second part of this question what choices or habits did you put in place early in ministry that have allowed you to be in the middle of the plan of god for your life and calling now and at this end at this moment as well i have to say this my choices my habits are mental habits are some of the biggest habits to form right mental habits and that is that you don't allow your mind to just go off without restraint you don't allow your mind to imagine the worst you don't allow fear thoughts you don't allow thoughts of resentment you don't allow thoughts of offense and those are the habits that i would say are so important are your mental habits you know you might have a habit of reading your bible which is re is a great habit read you might have let's say you have a habit that from 7 to 7 30 every morning you read your bible that's a great habit but can i tell you this without strong right mental habits the other habits are not as effective as they could be the greatest i'm just saying the greatest habits are mental habits and that's what i have especially tried to focus on is to keep my mind in the right flow i just i endeavor to discipline my thought life i'm not gonna sit any and turn over in my mind over and over what somebody did to me what somebody said to me what somebody thinks about me i don't go there and you've heard me i i'm i'm i'm the founding member of i don't give a rip club and uh i'm not for me personally there are some people who are so um they're very mindful of pleasing someone else well i want to please others but i want to please god first and foremost so i'm just not as mindful of pleasing others as i am a pleasing god and that's where if you say i'm a pleaser then turn that toward pleasing god and make sure he's pleased because when p when he's pleased then people's lives will that you're around you'll be blessing their lives and so the habits and the choices are really the daily mental habit of not allowing my mind to go wrong directions you know you've heard me say this and two years before my husband went home to be with the lord god spoke and said to me all i want you doing is practicing peace well i knew what he meant by that i knew that he was telling me during that season be especially mindful pay attention to every thought if a thought troubles your life cast it down if the thought makes you fearful cast it down if a thought breeds offense resentment ill will towards someone cast it down i and i had always endeavored to do that but i made that a huge focus in priority what ended up happening was i ended up living in the spirit what i ended up doing was living at a place of peace that anything that was not peace i rejected it it is a full-time job to pay attention to your thought life and so i rejected every single thought that would disturb peace and i'm talking about not just thoughts about other people what about thoughts about yourself thoughts accusing well i'm not this i failed at this and you know i'm not good enough at this i'm talking about getting away from focusing on the flesh because focusing on the flesh robs you at peace if you sit and talk and think about what you're not what happens is you start turning in on yourself and accusing yourself and you become you become really uh an advocate in with the accuser of the brethren you begin joining that side and you start accusing yourself and the devil would love to turn you in against yourself that's part of practicing peace is rejecting those thoughts you know people so many struggle with the poor self-image well uh guess what you are getting the privilege of developing this wonderful habit of disciplining your thought life to where you only allow thoughts of peace you don't allow thoughts against yourself now listen to me and get this straight and that is if you miss god if you sin if you do wrong absolutely repent and know that he washes you of the blood and forgives you be sincere be genuine in your repentance but i will say this is that once you have repented of that move ahead go on don't let the devil hold you back in the same consciousness all of this is the price of practicing peace and part of the peace flow and so the the greatest habits that i have been focusing on is and i have really for years and that is guarding my thought life because without a right thought life your faith will be injured and so the spirit of god said to me two years before my husband went home to be with the lord all i want you doing is practicing peace and so as i did that whenever i received the report that my husband had died i already knew what peace felt like i knew how to stay in the flow of peace and so i was able to successfully reject every single thought that was not a peaceful thought and you can imagine that when you hear um it's with such force when you hear your husband has just died when you can imagine all the thoughts that can come with great force against your mind at that time and they were successfully rejected because i had been practicing and focusing so the greatest habits are not just outward natural habits the greatest habits are the habits of the thought life and so i'm going to close with that i could sit really and talk to you for a very long time about these things because it just seems to me that god has me to focus on this so much because every single one of us have to become skillful at dealing with our thought lives and so i just um i just delight in taking this time to talk to you about some of the things that um i i focused on because these things have really given me a life of heaven on earth and just know this you can have heaven on earth no matter who enters your life and no matter who leaves your life and uh so to have heaven on earth deal with you deal with you based on the word focus on who you are in christ what you've been made to be in christ don't focus on the fleshy natural side if you'll focus on who you are in christ then who you are in christ will lead and uh dominate you and the things of your natural that you want to see and prove will be dealt with and so renew your mind discipline the thought life and hold to thoughts of hold the thoughts of the word hold the thoughts of peace and live the very best life and so we've got i've got paid a few pages of questions but there again i didn't get off the first one i knew that would happen but i just love talking to you about these things because they're so personal to each and every one of us so i thank you for taking the time to join us we want to remind you that our midweek service is going to start it's at 6 30 pacific time so you are so welcome to join if you can but until then i will see you next time next week and i love you i appreciate you so much thank you for joining me i love you and i'll see you soon god bless you
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