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If you sit there and wait any amount of time any amount of time your mind will begin to talk you out of it.

How to Break Free from Being Frozen

Walk and talk with John Enslow

Well, hey there. I wanna go over something that actually was in one of my books, His Will Alone. The chapter was called “Strike While The Iron Is Hot.” And basically, the premise was that if the Spirit of God is moving, and He is talking to you and telling you to do something, it is super important to strike while the iron is hot. Literally, when He’s telling you to do it…Do it! So as I’ve thought through that and I’ve looked at that, I’ve also seen that’s what happens. When you get, either the Spirit is moving on you to tell you to do something, your spirits moving to tell you to do something, your intuition is telling you to do something and if you sit there and wait any amount of time any amount of time your mind will begin to talk you out of it. 

“Oh, you shouldn’t do that, Oh that’s dangerous. Oh, you can’t can’t sustain that, Oh that’s too expensive or whatever. Our intuition, our spirit and the Holy Spirit all working conjunction to direct us, to guide our path and to Shepherd us. And when we hesitate, when we hesitate and we second-guess, our mind will take it and spin it off into weird areas. And then all of a sudden we’re stymied, we’re frozen, we’re inactive, we’re unproductive and this is literally how this happens. 

I know personally, my tendency is to freeze. So you can…you know…fight, flight, freeze or fawn. My typical is freeze. So when something is happening that is scary, out of control… whatever. My response is to freeze it. It’s almost like mentally I’m trying to bury it. It doesn’t work. That’s never worked and I have found myself frozen in a number of things. 

I was being coached the other day and out of that coaching session we discovered that there would be power in writing down the things. Now, the best is to hit it while the iron is hot. Literally strike when it’s being brought up, when you’re feeling like you should be doing it, that’s the best. But if you happen to get into a frozen state or whatever or your brain has clicked in, you didn’t give it the immediacy that it needed. Your brain is taken over and convinced you that whatever you’re thinking is off. What I have done is, I literally write down those items. I literally will write down… so whatever it is, item one and then this is another area I’m frozen, item two. And then underneath it I write down, like a journal. I write down why I’m frozen. I dig into my guts and I say, “What is making me freeze on this? I’m afraid of being rejected. I’m afraid of failing in this opportunity. Whatever it is. It doesn’t matter what it is. Write it down. Write it out. And what I discover is when I will do this, I will literally write the item that I’m frozen in. Write the reason it takes the power away from it. It literally takes the spooky weird out of it because when the man takes over something that you’re a little iffy on and you don’t know if you can do it or if you should do it or whatever and the mind takes over it becomes almost like a ghost. It becomes like a ghost in your mind and it tells you that it’s spooky it’s the worst possible thing and it becomes like a ghost or a haint or whatever and it haunts you. 

So when you write it down, when you write the reason down, what I have found is that you pull the sheet off of the ghost. And you can look at it and you can say, “Oh OK! Well, that’s why I’m hesitating here. That’s why I’m frozen here and that’s not true. And then you can act on it. 

So I’ve written several things down and I get the exhilaration of doing the checkmark off, right on it. I take a marker and I put a big huge black check on it and that means I have completed this task. I have gone the distance. I have broken through the frozen state I was in and I have accomplished what I wanted to do. This is super powerful. This is a tremendous way of getting out of that frozen, that inert state where you’re literally incapable of moving. The mind has grown out the situation and made it seem something that it isn’t and then you fear it and you get all worked up about it and you don’t do anything forward moving. You’re frozen! You’re stayed.  You’re literally completely stymied and can’t do anything. 

So I just give this to you as something that’s worked for me on the frozen state. I number one…My goal is always to act on my intuition. If my intuition is telling me to do something. I’m wanting to do it and I do it now. If I jump, if I literally move right then, I find tremendous success. But if I don’t, if I let mine take over, I have found that literally writing it out, writing down, writing out what the reason is, it’s tremendously helpful. I pass that on to you. I hope it really helped you. I hope it helps you and your frozen state. That it gives you the motivation, that gives you the impetus to move forward and to continue on with whatever the spirit, whatever your spirit or whatever your intuition is telling you to do and jump and move. 

So I bless you. I am excited about this and I would love to… if you have any interest to walk this out with me and talk with me about it. I would love to hear from you and maybe we could set up a discovery call with coaching we can find out what it is and what is happening, and then we can get you from where you are to where you wanna be. So I bless you, I thank you and I appreciate you listening. Have a great day. 

Learn a simple but powerful method to break free from frozen hesitation, reclaim your momentum, and move boldly toward the life you’re called to live.

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If your flame, if your passion has been compromised in someway, you have to go back and you have to fan those flames to get that passion back up.

Restoring Self-Confidence by Rediscovering Your Why

Walk and talk with John Enslow

Well hey there, I am continuing to think about and muse and to process self-confidence. And I’ve realize something very, very amazing about it and the connection to it.  That your self-confidence can be compromised … and I know I’ve said this in the last podcast, but when your confidence is been compromised because of life shifts and life situations and all of a sudden you have negative things happening and coming at you. And all of a sudden, the things that fueled you, the burn that fueled you all of a sudden is compromised. And then you don’t have that reason, the reason behind what you’re committed to and what you have determined to do. When you no longer have that reason because of negative situations. It’s almost impossible to continue on and get those tasks done. Those things that you’ve committed to once the reason has been removed, the power to do it, the motivation to do it, the fuel behind and the passion behind the tasks and the commitments. You’re literally doing it with just raw grit. And we have to do that occasionally things have to get done. 

I remember that when the sheep were out in the field, and there was a big snow and I knew that they need to get into the barn and I was in the house nice and warm but I knew the snow was there and they were outside. It didn’t matter it just didn’t matter if I didn’t wanna do it. I had to do it, raw grit, I had to do it. Now the motivation was as I didn’t want them to hurt themselves. I was a shepherd. I was loving them and I didn’t want them to hurt. So I did have a reason, but I had to go with raw grit to get out there and to do it. But when your reason has been removed because of life situations, negative happenings, I t’s super difficult to keep going. It’s super difficult to stay motivated and to stay on task and to get that accomplished. And what that does is it cut at and chips at your confidence level.  

So the pairing of the reason and having that reason compromised because of fear, because of insecurity, because of attack, because of any of that stuff, your left faltering and flailing around trying to get something done and it’s just very difficult. The confidence level isn’t there. So you have to know, OK, what is the burn? What is the reason I’m doing this? Why am I doing this? And if your flame, if your passion has been compromised in someway, you have to go back and you have to fan those flames to get that passion back up. And our reason has to be deeply personal. If it’s not individual and personal and it’s just vague and it’s just generic that doesn’t work. It just doesn’t work. It has to be deeply personal. It has to be connected to your heart. The reason behind what you’re committed to in order to build confidence it has to be personal, it has to be very unique and individual. Not that nobody else has that exact motivation. It’s just MY motivation. It needs to be my motivation. I need the motivation. I need the passion. I need the fuel. I need what it takes to go forward.  

So if you’re finding that self-confidence is failing, and your commitments are not being accomplished that you’re not being able to perform your tasks and complete your commitments reflect on maybe it’s about your burn. Maybe it’s about the fuel, maybe it’s about the fire that is ignited to accomplish those tasks.  In coaching I know that I have to know who am I coaching? Why am I coaching them? What is behind it? What am I looking to accomplish? Who is that person that I’m wanting to coach? And if I don’t have all that laid out and structured in my psyche, in my heart, in my thinking, the burn to build it to develop the coaching business falters because there’s not something that’s structurally holding it up and motivating you to go through the monotonous and the mundane and the daily grind of it.  

So if you’re having a hard time if you’re having a difficult time with keeping your commitments to yourself, look at your reason, look at your motivation. Look at what is behind it and why you’re doing it. And then once you can grab hold and you can embrace that, the natural progression of that is to actually accomplish the task. It will happen when you have that in place. When you have your reason in place, then you could do the how’s. You can do…how I’m gonna do this, how am I gonna line this up? That’s easy! Once you have the burn, that’s the motivation, that’s the proportion that’s gonna send you fourth and then you can do slight navigation to get you to the goal, to get you to the completion of the task, to accomplish what you’re looking for and gain that self-confidence. But if you’re frozen, if you’re stuck, if you’re not moving and motivated because of having your reason faltering, it’s difficult to steer a boat that’s completely dead in the water. 

So I hope this helped you. I know it’s helping me. It’s pretty incredible what I’m learning about self-confidence and the motivation and dealing with the visualization and that you have to have a fuel behind it all and the fruit of it. It’s all very encouraging and charging. If you would like to talk any further about your personal self-confidence, your personal reason and you want to talk that out and you wanna you want to develop that and you want to solidify the reasoning. I’m available for coaching. I’m available to coach you through finding your Divine Design. Finding your destiny. Finding your reason behind why you’re doing what you’re doing and what you’re looking to accomplish and how you get from where you are to where you wanna go. So thank you for listening and I hope this was helpful to you and I will see you next time. 

When life’s challenges chip away at your motivation, it’s easy to lose your fire. But you can reignite it. Reconnect with your deeply personal why, refuel your passion, and restore the confidence you need to pursue your goals with purpose.

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If I make a promise to myself, if I commit to something myself, I get self-confidence by keeping that promise, by keeping those words.

Self-confidence is Keeping Promises to Yourself

Walk and talk with John Enslow

Hey there, I just wanna talk about something real quick. I wanna talk about self-confidence, what self-confidence is. Self-confidence is having confidence that you can keep the promises you make to yourself. So that’s a beautiful thing. If I make a promise to myself, if I commit to something myself, I get self-confidence by keeping that promise, by keeping those words and that’s beautiful. So self-confidence is confidence in self; what I commit to do. So if I commit to do something, if I say I’m gonna do this…this is what I’m gonna do, and I don’t do it. I am chipping away, just chiseling away at my confidence level. And our psyche and our soul knows that were not keeping the promises that we make to our self.  But when I make a commitment and I make a proclamation, and I make an affirmation of myself, I’m not lying to myself, I’m doing it with complete intention to complete to fulfill what I’m committing to. 

So when I’m doing my visualization. I get vision of what I want. Number 2 is that I’ve decided what I’m committed to 100%. That I will achieve this and there is no “I can’t.” It’s I will do this, this is what I’m doing. and I have to have the absolute reason why I’m doing it. If I don’t have a purpose  I don’t have a reason behind what I’m committing to, it’s not gonna get done. 

Our visualization have to be connected to, not only purpose, not only vision, but our commitment and our reason. Our reason for why we’re doing it. What is our reason? What is the burn? What is the fuel behind it? For instance, if you were saying, “I will lose the hundred pounds that I have, that I need to lose to be healthy. And then if you connect it with, because I wanna walk my daughter down the aisle and I don’t want to be gone. I wanna see her and I want to give her away and I want to dance with her at her wedding. Those are purposes and reasons and things that fuel us to continue to go on and to match our commitment. Our 100% commitment. And then you have to visit it often. You have to literally visit it saying, these are the reason, this is my vision, this is what I’m committed to 100%. These are the reasons I’m doing it and what I will do. It’s empowering. What I will do! 

So self-confidence isn’t going off the rails and detaching ourselves from the will of God and the purposes of God. I gained the vision, I gained the commitment that I’m doing from the Lord and how I’m gonna proceed to go forward. But where I get the self-confidence is, that I meet His will, His purpose, His plans and then I fulfill those and keep those promises that I made to myself. And the fruit that is amazing because all it does is open up your confidence level, your joy, your life and you say, “I’m gonna get this done, I’m gonna achieve this!” And then the fruit of it having it done feels so good. It’s just stacking the proof that you are a promise keeper to yourself.  That you are committed 100% to what you commit to. This makes us an amazing power source, and an amazing person and it builds our self-confidence. It makes us feel confident. And we can walk in this world, and we can be confident because we keep promise to our self. 

So I hope that helped you and I hope you will build your self-confidence. That you will keep the promises that you made to yourself and that you will go the distance and fulfill your purpose, your divine purpose in this world in this life. 

True self-confidence isn’t about external validation—it’s about keeping the promises you make to yourself. In this episode, we explore how commitment, purpose, and aligned action build unshakable confidence, empowering you to step into your fullest potential.

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Sometimes we’re lead through circumstances into greatness, into our greatness, into revelation of His life, of His purposes…

Circumstances Leading Us to Destiny

Walk and talk with John Enslow

Sometimes we’re lead through circumstances into greatness, into our greatness, into revelation of His life, of His purposes…

Well hey there, I just wanna share something with you that really touched my heart a whole lot. Sometimes we lead through circumstances into greatness. So what do I mean by that? Sometimes circumstances and life obstacles appear like something that’s preventing us from accessing our destiny, our life, our goals, our dreams, but what I’m finding is that sometimes it’s not about that. Sometimes the obstacles literally are leading us to greatness. They’re creating a pathway in the right direction. And that is so hopeful because sometimes we feel like we are not going in the right direction and that there’s constantly blockades popping up, but I’m wondering if those block aids may just be the very thing that brings us to the correct location.  

I wrote about this and I booked The Sovereign Touch. That is a clear message of sovereignty. That you’re believing that God is over our obstacles, that our obstacles can be the way to our greatness, to our destiny, and that frustrating situations may not be as negative as they may feel in the moment. Having God be over our life and holding us dearly, we may be just getting just to the right place. And that has so much hope, that has so much life in it, that has so much power because we realize that man can make his plans but God directs the path.  

And I could have tons of plans in my life about where I’m going, what’s gonna happen, and how it’s gonna look, how I’m gonna perform and they may feel all short, but I know that there is a greater source, the Lord Jesus is over our story and able to use even our obstacles to create the way so that we can get to our destiny. 

And when we’re looking for divine purpose, when we’re searching for our divine purpose, sometimes we can get frustrated because the purpose that we’re setting forth that we’re setting out to accomplish may look like it’s being sidelined or obstructed or negative detours out of our plans. But then there’s the Great Author that lays it all out, that plans it all out, that is not diminished or discouraged by those very circumstances that we were considered negative. 

So I’ll say it again: sometimes we lead through circumstances into greatness, into our greatness, into revelation of His life, of His purposes. I’m so grateful we have a God that sees the grand scheme of things and that we are not limited by our small vision. That our micro myopic vision is not a hindrance to the grand scheme that the Author, the Lord Jesus is writing into our life.  

So I hope that brings you some hope today. And as I stated my book The Sovereign Touch talks extensively about this. Not only about the dynamics behind this and in this, but also I go through giving examples of what that looks like. What does it look like to have the obstacle be the way? What does it look like to have God be so over and above our story, that detours and distractions can lead us to the exact place that we need to be in. 

So I’ll put a link so you can check it out and read that book if you like to. It is it is really powerful. I’ve been very touched by the message and I love sharing that message because knowing that our God is over, even our difficulties, even our struggles and can use all things for His great purpose is just amazing. The book is essentially saying, the greatest crisis of man can bring in the greatest glory of God. That’s huge! That’s beautiful! That’s beyond our thinking, beyond our vision, beyond everything and it takes true faith to walk that path. So I hope you will get that book The Sovereign Touch. It’s available at Amazon.  I appreciate y’all listening and God bless. Love you!

Discover the power of divine redirection! Life’s circumstances aren’t roadblocks—they’re possibly the very path to your destiny. Step into hope, embrace the journey, and see how the challenges you face may be leading you exactly where you need to be.

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When you journal you’re able to bring your thoughts to a central location, where you can look at them. And there is a power in writing them down. There’s a power in journaling.

Purpose Through Journaling in 2025

Walk and talk with John Enslow

When you journal you’re able to bring your thoughts to a central location, where you can look at them. And there is a power in writing them down. There’s a power in journaling.  

I heard someone talking the other day how, as it is with complex math problems, that we write them down. That we write them down, we figure them out and we get the answer. The same thing happens with our minds and our thoughts. Often we try to leave. We just try to think, think, think  things through and it gets all jumbled. It gets off into the chaos of the mind and we don’t make definitive answers and solutions towards our life. 

But what I have discovered is journaling is absolutely like writing down the math problem. When you journal you’re able to bring your thoughts and your ideas and your fears and your hopes and your dreams. You can bring them all to a central location where you can look at them and there is a power in writing them down. There’s a power in journaling. And I’m just… as we enter this new year, I’m just saying let’s journal. Let’s find the power of journaling so that we can work out the complex math problems of our own life and that we can discover our destiny and our purpose by journalling it out. Discovering it. Laying out the vision. I was talking about. The visualization. You lay them out, you write them out. 

Write those out. Let let yourself see them in front of you. It has power. It has incredible power. The world being as chaotic as it is and as confusing as it is, with social media, with the mainstream media, with all the voices talking to us, and with our own chatter with our own chatter and the enemies chatter in our life. To journal it out, lays it out, and we can sift out the chaff and get the wheat, the grain, the perfect seeds that we want to grow and we want to live. 

So I’m challenging you. If this has been a struggle for you, just set yourself down and write. Write out just your thoughts. Just lay them out. Another really good thing that I have discovered is the five minute journal there’s a book version as well as an app version and that combines your thoughts with your gratitude and your direction for each day. It takes five minutes to do. It’s a great start to journaling. 

Some people are natural journaler. Some people write and write and write and just get so much joy out of it. If that’s not you, try the five minute journal. It’s an amazing app. It’s amazing book. And you literally have day by day, you have a morning and an evening, you spent five minutes twice a day and you write out what you’re grateful for you. Write out your positive affirmations and you can journal through your thoughts. And then from that point, I hope that you will launch into a greater habit of journaling and allowing the Lord to enter in that time and enter into those pages and those words and revealed to you His revelation for you and His destiny and His purpose for your life. 

So I love you. I appreciate you and I hope that you will embrace the journaling of 2025 and see what the Lord will do. 

Explore how journaling can help you gain clarity, discover your purpose, and rewrite your life story. Uncover how this simple habit can bring focus and spiritual insight into your daily life.

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If you don’t like your story, we all have the ability and the capability to write ourselves into a new one.  

Change Your Story if You Don’t Like It

Walk and talk with John Enslow

Well, hey there. So we’re coming into a season of new beginnings,  a new year and 2025 is just around the corner, and I’m excited to see what the Lord has in mind for this new year. But as I was thinking about the new year, I was thinking about this reality. If you don’t like your story, we all have the ability and the capability to write our self a new one. It’s all about visualization, it’s all about having vision, it’s all about connecting with our purpose and our destiny. But so many people say, I can’t stand the position I’m in. I can’t stand the place I’m in, I can’t stand my current story. Well we have the ability, we have the choice and we have the right to write ourselves into another story. We can literally do that. 

I was coaching someone the other day and they were really discussing the power of visualization in their life and how when they are running and they’re exercising that they spend the time to really visualize what they want in life. Some may think that that new age or whatever but it is not new age, it’s actually very biblical. It’s without vision, people parish, and if you are not literally setting your mind towards the story that you want, towards the life that you want, towards the destiny that God is set for you and that you believe that He is written for you… it’s all within His will, but when you connect with His will you have to visualize it, you have to visualize, you have to feel it. What would it feel like if I was in that position, what would it feel like if I was in that story, what would it feel like if I was connected just like that to my choices, my reality, my chosen story. 

First and foremost we have to visualize, we have to visualize our story, we have to visualize where we are, and then, after that point comes the planning. Without the vision perish. If you don’t have a vision of where you’re going, what you want for this year, this year coming up, you don’t have the vision of what it looks like, what it feels like, what it brings you, what it affords for you to give to others then you will get exactly that…the story that’s current. So first and foremost, we visualize, first and foremost we get a vision of what the destiny is that we want and that we need and that we desire to live and then we start the planning out, we lay it out. We lay out the plan, we lay out the steps to accomplish that. But visualization is first and foremost and always will be.  

So where do you get the vision? You pray about it ,you ask the Lord for it, you ask the Lord what is this year going to look like for me? What is it that You want to accomplish in this life, this year for me, for You and for the world? What is it? And then you have to you have to put yourself in that situation. 

So if you’re struggling right now and you’re saying I don’t like my story. I hate the story that I’m in and I want a new story then all you have to do is connect and put yourself in another one and that is beautiful. I love you appreciate you and happy new year.

As we approach 2025, it’s the perfect time to reflect and reset. Embrace the power of getting a vision and the faith to rewrite the story of your life. Whether you’re feeling stuck or longing for change, discover how aligning with God’s vision and taking actionable steps can lead you into a future filled with purpose and possibility. Reclaim your narrative and step boldly into the year ahead!

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What I found is that when we have a calling, it obviously comes from God, and when we choose it, when we agree to it, and we engage in it, and we connect with our experience, energy, and zeal, and life. 

Making A Living vs Living Your Calling

Walk and talk with John Enslow

Well, hey there! So I know it’s been a while since I’ve done my last video and I’m sorry for the delay, but I’ve been just thinking about something, a reality that I’ve experienced and that I’ve witnessed. There’s a huge difference between making a living and having a calling. One deals with compliance because you have to do it; the other is chosen, and it makes us committed. So, how have I seen this? Well, when I was shepherding sheep and goats, I was doing it for a man, but I wasn’t a hireling. They were his sheep, but I was committed to them as if they were my own. I felt like that season in my life was a calling. It was what I was supposed to do. It was what gave me energy. I was fueled and energized by the activity, even though it was mundane and sometimes filthy. I chose to do it. I was called to do it, and I enjoyed doing it. I actually painted a painting that kind of reflects that time for me and the difference between sheep and goats. And I t’s interesting, making a living versus your calling. In the picture that you see right now, you see the pride, the arrogance, the strength of this beautiful billy goat, and then you see the sheep below, humble, meeked, and simple. 

So what I have found is that when we have a call, when we choose our calling, obviously our colleague comes from God, and when we choose it, when we agree to it and we engage in it and we connect with it, we experience many things. One is energy, zeal, and life to accomplish the task at hand. Absolutely beautiful! It’s engaging in your purpose and that’s beautiful. It gives us a sense of satisfaction. It gives us a sense of fulfillment because we’re engaging in what our purpose is. Now, I’m not saying that we don’t have to make a living, and there are seasons that we have to do things to get us to our calling. And that’s fine. That’s wonderful. That’s a commitment and a purpose. That you’re setting yourself up to engage your calling, but when we live the hourly life, we’re just trading our hours for dollars and there’s no passion behind it and there’s no purpose behind it, we can feel exhausted. We can feel used and we can feel like we’re spinning our wheels and getting nowhere. It’s exhausting. It is exhausting. I have so much more energy when I enter my calling to accomplish the task than I do just white-knuckling it and making money. 

Back to the shepherding. When I shepherded those sheep and goats, I was called to do it, and I literally had the ability to wake up in the middle of the night and go deal with the birthing of a lamb or a kid. I had the ability to fight the weather. I had the ability to muck out stalls. I had passion behind it because I had a calling to do it and I had a commitment behind it. There’s such a huge difference between being a hireling and being a shepherd and the magic happens when we connect our making a living with our calling. That’s beautiful! That’s teaming with life. That’s our heart and our passion, and it gives us the most satisfaction and fulfillment. It brings joy to our heart. 

So I encourage you to seek the Lord, find your calling, and work to enter your calling. And sometimes you have to do that free of charge because that’s the way it works. But as we prayerfully work our calling and we work our life and we engage with the task that we’re supposed to do, that we were purposed to do, we come away from fulfilling our destiny and truly a purposeful life. 

So I pray that that’s what you find. I pray that you engage your calling, and that you seek to enter that calling. Whether it makes you a lot of money or not, get into that calling and you develop it, and allow God to supply your needs based on your calling. Because He’s called you to do it, He will provide for you in it. So I love y’all, I appreciate you, and God bless you. I hope you’re calling is revealed and engaged and thrives in this world. 

Hey, I didn’t want to say one thing. If you’re seeking out and you’re having a hard time finding your calling, living out your calling, sometimes coaching helps in developing that and making that reality. I know personally coaching has helping me to find my calling and to connect with my calling and my purpose. I was coached through that process and through that situation, and it was absolutely life-giving because I was able to work it out, lay it out, discover even realities that I didn’t understand about my calling, and then I was held accountable for different landmarks along the way to help me achieve my goals and live my calling. So, if you happen to be struggling with your calling, with the difference between living your calling and making a living, and you want some help…reach out! Let’s do a discovery call, let’s see if we can get you from where you are to where you want to be through a coaching dynamic and paradigm. 

We don’t have to do this alone. There are resources out there. There are people out there, and there are coaches and mentors that can help us to establish and create the existence that we really wanna live. So I hope you’ll reach out to me, and we can help you get from where you are to where you wanna go

Explore the profound difference between making a living and living your calling. Discover how aligning with your God-given purpose brings energy, fulfillment, and joy. 

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Life and labels can pigeonhole us and it’s way too, way too easy for us to take on a category as an identity. Christ has a thought, and a dream of who we are, and when we allow ourselves to be labeled, it prevent us from being able to experience and express our identity in Him.

From Labels to Identity in Christ

Walk and talk with John Enslow

Well hey there! So I’ve learned something as I’ve passed through this earth and traveled all over the place and just made some discoveries. One of the discoveries I made was that life and labels pigeonhole us and that it’s way too, way too easy for us to take on a category as our identity. And that is tragic. It’s devastating because normally these categories, these labels, these even roles go counter to our actual identity in Christ. Christ has a thought, and a dream of who we are, and when we allow ourselves to be labeled, it prevent us from being able to experience and express our identity in Him.

so let me give you some examples. So say all your life you have been called stupid. You take that on as your identity. You hold that as truth and you become stupid. Christ didn’t make you stupid. You may not be an engineer. You may not be mathematical, but you have a beautifully set intelligence for your world, for your path, for your journey and your destiny. If I receive the destiny of the label, it could prevent me from actually living out my God-given identity. And that’s tragic. How about worthless. You’re worthless! That’s not what Christ says at all about me. He doesn’t say that I’m worthless at all. My worth and value is huge and ginormous. Just look at the price that He paid for my life. His own son, a spotless lamb was given, not because I’m worthless but because I have great value. A lot of these labels pigeonhole us and attempt to convince us that what we are being labeled how we are being labeled is the truth. It’s just not.

As humans we like to kind of hold others in, even ourselves, in to a category, into a label, into a role because it is easier. If I label you a certain way, it’s easier to control you, to second-guess you, to predict exactly what you’re gonna do. And if I receive a label then guess what I’m gonna do exactly what I’m being pigeonheld to.  In our world right now we have so many different labels, so many different categories, so many different identities, and their limiting. They’re not freeing, they’re not secure, they’re not growth, they’re confining. They just literally confine us to a limited and abbreviated existence and usually the existence is not what we’re supposed to be, who we’re supposed to be, and how we’re supposed to experience this world.

Think about the kid when he was growing up. They called him a faggot. If I limit myself to that label, I’m controlled by that. Why do we have to have specific labels? It’s not truth. Bastard there’s another one. You’re called bastard by a sibling or by others and you literally feel abandoned. You feel like a fatherless child. It’s not true. It’s just not true. I have a father and I have a dad and I’m not a bastard. Even I f I didn’t have the situation where I have a father and mother and they’re married… I’m not a bastard. That’s an Identity, that’s a role, that’s a label control and if I believe it, then I will limit myself in my existence.

So as I walk through this world I don’t want to adhere my existence and my identity to anyone given label… no label actually. I don’t wanna confine my life. I don’t want myself by someone’s opinion of me or someone’s judgment of me. If I had believed a lot of the labeling that I had as I was growing up, I would’ve been crushed. I would’ve not been able to write. I was told by children in school and teachers that I essentially was stupid and it was devastating to me. I had a hard time reading aloud and I had a hard time reading. I took that on. I took that on as an identity, that I was stupid. Those words may not have even been used against me, but they were implied, and I took them on truth.  And for years and years and years I just maintained a thought. I must be stupid because I can’t read as fast as others. While I had comprehension, I wasn’t a speed reader and a lot of children were able to read a lot faster. So I took on that and then years and years of someone pouring life into me, telling me that that wasn’t the truth, believing in my intellect, believing in my intelligence believing in my ability to communicate changed my world. Now I’m an author. I’ve got multiple books written and I have discovered that I am anything but stupid.  So I’m glad I no longer take that role as my identity.

So I challenged you to look into your life and see what roles, what labels, what categories have been, assigned to you that you’ve taken on, that you’ve received as your truth, as your identity, and then reflect that against what God says about you. Listen to Him, let Him speak to you. Let Him tell you who you are according to how He’s made you. I believe it’s gonna change your world. It’s gonna change everything about you.

You’re not required to take on the identities, the roles, the labels that someone put upon you. Those that somebody casts on you. We’re not required to do that and I don’t have to label myself. Sometimes we feel safer if we can label our self. “Oh well, I am just…whatever!” I’m no label! What I am is John Enslow. That’s what I am and I have an identity based on Christ’s idea of me and what He has for me and that’s my identity. That’s who I am. That’s my label. My label is not confined to anything, but what Christ says about me. I challenge you to go with that, to go with the identity that Christ has for you what He says about you, what He desires for you. It’s life-changing and it’s wondrous.  So I love you. I appreciate you. Thank you for listening and I look forward to sharing some more real soon.

Unveil the truth of who you are beyond the labels and roles the world has placed on you. In this journey of self-discovery, we’ll explore how to shed limiting identities and embrace your true self as defined by Christ. Break free from the confines of societal expectations and step into the fullness of your God-given identity.

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Christ didn’t just come for one part of me, He came for me as a whole. He loves my body, He loves my soul, and He loves my spirit.

Healing is Holistic for Harmony – Recovery is for the Whole

Walk and talk with John Enslow

I just think many times we miss out on the completeness of what Christ paid for. Christ didn’t just come for one part of me, He came for me as a whole. He loves my body, He loves my soul, and He loves my spirit, and he wants the entirety of our being to be redeemed, attended to, ministered to and loved

Well hey there, so I have something that’s coming up over, and over, and over right now and I’m really trying to focus on it and I wanted to bring it to you today and just share with you when I’m discover. Often when we’re dealing with shame or sin or recovery I find that we try to triage or categorize in order to segregate and isolate the issue. So often in our trauma what we’ll do is, we’ll focus…hyper focus, on one particular area and will try to drill down on that. And what I’m finding is that is ineffective. Again as I’ve stated before, it’s fear based, it’s not faith based. And here’s another thing it’s not, it’s not love. When we have trauma we need love. We are needing love. And when we’re isolating, segregating, categorizing and containing our trauma and our trauma response, we’re losing the effect of any kind of healing.

So why is this? What I’ve discovered is that we are holistic. We are constantly looking for homeostasis and for harmony. And when we triage and we set aside a response that we’re having trauma, be it porn, be it alcoholism, be it food, be it sex…be whatever it is. Whatever we’re doing to contain that pain and that trauma we’re isolating ourselves from our own healing and from the Lord’s hand.

Love is the source of all healing. Love is where we gain healing and love is ultimately what heals us. So what is this look like? When you’re looking to gain homeostasis, when you’re trying to get harmony, you can’t focus on say the soul without dealing with the body, you can’t deal with the body without dealing with the spirit. You have to holistically deal with it.

In my own recovery, I have found that it is found in the multifaceted nature of myself; of my heart, of my body, of my spirit. You can’t just look at one aspect of your life and think that that’s gonna solve it all, because I’m not segregated in my being.  I’ve heard it described as a pie. And even though you have multiple slices out of the pie inside of the pie is all one. It’s just like the Holy Spirit, God (the Father) and Jesus. There are segregation in the Trinity. Segregation of activity, of function, of personality, but we only have one God. It’s one God and I only have one person. I am one person. And as I’ve sought recovery and I’ve sought growth and I’ve sought freedom. I realize that to gain harmony, to gain balance, I can’t focus singly on one aspect. I need both to deal with my body, I need to deal with my soul, and I need to deal with my spirit.

And often is Christians focus on some kind of spiritual aspect and we neglect and we forgo our body. Or we believe that it’s just psychobabble to deal with the soul. It’s just an incorrect way of looking at things and it’s an incorrect way of functioning, because I am a whole person. I am a body, I am a soul, and I am a spirit and I can’t focus on just one. I can’t neglect my body and think that my spirit and my soul gonna thrive. Now the order of progression: the spirit is on the top. The next is the soul and the bottom is the body. In preeminence the spirit is always gonna be the highest. It’s gonna be the most valuable but then is the soul. It’s my communion place. It’s my union place with Christ and with the Holy Spirit and then my body is directly underneath. But I can’t just focus on one aspect.

Often we find …I just had a chiropractic appointment and my chiropractor talked about this very thing. You can come to me and you can say I’m looking to deal with supplements and I have something wrong with my stomach and I can’t deal with this. But if you look at that and you say, “OK, let me just deal with this supplement that you’re missing and everything will go away.” Well that’s not how our bodies work, that’s how our being works. Yes, I’m gonna focus on bringing the healing of my body through proper nutrition, through supplements, through exercise, but there may be something from my soul that’s affecting my body. We’re tiered. We have multiple levels of us and all of them have to be dealt with, all of them have to be sought after from the Holy Spirit. What’s going on here? Why do I have this physical malady? What is behind it? What’s behind it and why am I suffering from this?

So I think that this is a huge key because we can become so legalistic and dogmatic about one aspect and forgo and neglect the others. It just doesn’t work. It can’t work. It’s not supposed to work. Just like we were creating in God image; there’s a Father in Heaven, He had a Son that brought wholeness and healing to us all and He left His Holy Spirit here to walk us through this process of living life and experiencing Him. I can’t focus on one aspect, He is all those things and same with me. I can’t just focus on one aspect. I can’t just focus on the sick area my soul. I can’t just focus on this one area of my body. I have to incorporate all of myself because I am, holistically, I am a complete being with multi facets and all of them in order to get balanced, in order to get homeostasis, I have to attend all of them. They’re all connected. They’re all linked. If there’s a problem in one area, then there’s probably gonna be a problem in the other areas. If I’m soul sick, my body is gonna keep that score and it’s gonna reflect that sickness. And my spirit is also going to lack, is going to falter because I’m not building it up. I’m not attending it.

You can’t be completely focused on the body. I know people who are focused solely on the body. Building the body up with supplements, eating correctly, doing exercise, working out, building muscle but soul is vanquished…it’s hungry. And then I know other people who have dealt with their soul and they were constantly looking for how they can heal in their soul and that their soul is sick, that they have OCD or they have some kind of neurosis. Well, I can’t just look at that one thing. I can focus on it…absolutely. I can focus on where is the trauma? Where is the source of the pain? Where is the source of the disconnect? Both my body and my spirit have to be involved and have to be engaged, because I heal as a total package, I don’t heal as a slice.

So as you’re dealing with shame, often that soul sickness of shame manifest in the body and all of a sudden your spirit man is weak. Your spirit man is not being attended to. And you’re fixated on the trauma, on the shame and the end result is you go nowhere? You have to be willing participate, you have to be willing to work holistically on the person to bring any real change and any real healing.

I love this because it’s the most loving thing I can do, is treat myself on every level: my body, my soul, and my spirit. Treat myself with love. All parts are welcome, all parts are attended to and the end result, when you bring your entire being forward to the Lord, He’s able to heal you, bring wholeness to you. I just think many times we miss out on the completeness of what Christ paid for. Christ didn’t just come for one part of me, He came for me as a whole. He loves my body, He loves my soul, and He loves my spirit, and he wants the entirety of our being to be redeemed, attended to, ministered to and loved.

Really when I focus on one aspect of my person, I’m missing bringing those other parts to Him for wholeness and healing. I have no interest in doing that. I have every interest to bring myself as a whole to Him for complete wholeness, complete healing, and complete redemption. Yes, it’s true that my body will go away and I will get a new body in eternity. But my body is here to carry my spirit and my soul, and let me interact with God‘s world. To see His beauty, to feel His creation, to smell His fragrance. I have all the senses that God created so that I can engage Him and engage my world. I have to address my body in my healing, and my soul. My soul is my choice, my decision, my free-will. It’s my emotions, I t’s my thoughts, it’s everything about me that makes me, me. I have to focus on the redemption of my soul. And my spirit, my renewed new man is beautiful. And I have to feed my spirit. I have to connect with the Holy Spirit with my spirit. And as I engage all of myself, all of my being in my relationship with God, seeking His holiness and healing over my entire being, that when I’m truly redeemed, I’m truly set free and I come into wholeness.

So I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for letting me express this and letting me share with you because I am excited. I’m excited about what this mean. What this actually means in the life of us all. It’s not new age to seek the body and soul and spirit as a total picture of my life. No, I’m not letting my body run the ship. I’m not letting my soul be the deciding factor of truth. No, my spirit is the one who’s communing but God’s interested in my body, He made it. God’s interested in my soul, He gave it to me. And as I engage Him and my world and my life with Him, I will see His glory. I will see Him and I will know Him in a deeper way. He wants to touch my body, He wants to touch my soul, and He wants to touch my spirit. He wants me to be completely touched and to experience complete wholeness with Him. So I love you, I appreciate you, thank you for listening and let’s see where this all goes.

Exploring the holistic nature of healing through Christ. Discover how addressing your body, soul, and spirit together leads to true harmony and redemption.

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Transform your life by embracing the power of your YES in boundaries rather than a fear-driving NO.

Maintaining Boundaries in Fear

Walk and talk with John Enslow

When we were managing our boundaries with “NO!,” with legalism, with laws, with policing … it’s fear based.

Hey in my last video I was talking about boundaries and I was talking about the power of our YES in boundaries. And today I’m thinking further about that and just looking at that and I’m saying, “Why, why is the power of yes the power of my boundaries and the power of my life and the power to overcome shame?” What I’ve realized is that, when we are managing our boundaries with no, with legalism, with laws, with policing … its fear and fear based is not faith-based and it is destructive, it is life sucking rather than life-giving. So what I’m seeing is that I have incredible power with my yes. I have incredible power to say yes and my no will follow absolutely follow, but it’s not based on fear. It’s not fear centric.

Fear literally crushes, fear isolates, fear diminishes life and light. And the difference between being fear based and faith-based is huge in the power of our choices and our boundaries. And so if you think about it if you’re walking through your world, and you’re looking constantly suspecting and looking and anticipating what dark thing could come around, what dark thing could happen, you’re not enjoying life, you’re not experiencing life, you’re not focused on Christ because you’re so afraid. Boundaries are not huge walls, built against the world to keep you safe and keep you from being hurt. It is literally boundaries are directing conduits so that you can experience life in faith and joy. That you can express and experience your world and have the adventure of life.

So I am discovering a whole bunch of stuff. I’m exploring boundaries in coaching and I am seeing power. I am seeing amazing power happen. I’m seeing amazing life transformation happening. Because one of the things that it’s doing is it’s opening your world and opening your heart so that you can experience an express what life is for you. What life is in God‘s will, and in God‘s choices, and based on your choice.

I know that a lot of people had their choices removed and taken from them as they fought in childhood and teenage years and even young adult years…even older years, we fought to maintain our choices. We fought to maintain our boundaries and they were violated. They were notified they were discounted and we were run over. And so all of a sudden you don’t have the power of your yes because you don’t feel like your yes or no, essentially your choice has no power and that’s just not true.

God gave you free-will. God gave you free-will to literally choose what your life is gonna look like. And you follow Christ in that and you follow the Lord and how He wants to and what He wants to do in your life and follow His will and follow His Spirit and then you engage in actual living…actual life. But it’s the power of Yes. It’s always been the power of Yes. Your yes is hugely powerful for your boundaries for your life experience and for your safety. I want to thank you for listening and I will be back real soon.

The transformative power of setting boundaries with a faith-based “yes” rather than a fear-driven “no.” Embracing positivity and free will, guided by God’s will, can lead to a more fulfilling and adventurous life, overcoming the isolating effects of fear-based boundaries.

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