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Seeing Spiritual DNA in Transition
Episode #841
01/22/2023
Hosted by John Enslow and joined by special guest: Charles Carrin
Everybody has their own spiritual DNA that we have been given.
Charles:
Here we are again and I am excited to have a very special guest with me. This is Charles Carrin and John Enslow from Suches Georgia. Now you may not know where that is but it’s on the top of a mountain in north Georgia and a wonderful place to visit. There are still bears and deer, and actually wolves and foxes.
John:
Coyotes and foxes.
Charles:
At any rate, John has been in ministry for about 30 years. A wonderful friend and I want to introduce you to him and let him share some of the events in his life. John, start out and tell us how you came to know the Lord.
John:
I had a dark to light testimony, and the Lord basically imposed Himself on me and said, “You’re either going to live for me or I’m gonna take you out!”
Charles:
Oh wow!
John:
And I said, “Well that’s not much of a choice…” So I said yes and that day my wife changed. Everything didn’t proceed as a Christian, but from that moment on my life was different.
Charles:
Right
John:
And I got saved about a year later. And it was beautiful.
Charles:
Tell us a little bit about that.
John:
So I went to a crusade that was called the PowerTeam in Orlando.
Charles:
I remember that.
John:
And I went to them and was very dynamically impacted, that there were these muscle guys who typically would be machismo guys, who were very tender, and who were in touch with their heart, were in touch with their God, and we’re in touch with each other. And I was just dynamically impacted by that.
Charles:
Awesome.
John:
It drew me and I went the Lord basically said, “I want you to go. And I want you to publicly profess there. And I want you to bring as many people as you can and everybody you bring will get saved. Well I brought my parents. I brought childhood friends, I brought the comptroller for the country club I was working for, the general managers and serval waiters. I just brought a whole mess of people. A friend of mine said that it was kind of a woman at the well ministry, because I just said come and see.
Charles:
Amen
John:
They basically all got saved, and everyone of those those people are continuing on with the Lord right now.
Charles:
That’s awesome. And that was how many years ago?
John:
That was in 89.
Charles:
You do the math. At any rate it was a good long time and it’s a wonderful thing. John has continued in his area of ministry since that time. And you’ve done a lot of traveling. I know you were in St. Petersburg, Russia. I was in Russia but I never got to that part.
John:
It is absolutely beautiful.
Charles:
Tell us.
John:
So I mean, it feels like a Scandinavian country. The people that are walking on the street are dressed to the nines, the business people, and their beautiful Scandinavian looking beautiful faces. I was always taught when I was young that Russians are unattractive and rough.
Charles:
Rough
John:
And it was anything but true. They were absolutely…they look like they walked off the runway. They were beautiful people. We met a bunch of beautiful people there, they invited us into their home. They didn’t have anything but they did put a spread out for just beautiful.
Charles:
Right that is so wonderful. I was with Derek Prince in Russia. Different time but several times. And saw the Russian people there in Moscow and other parts of Asia…very beautiful, sensitive, loving people.
John:
Absolutely
Charles:
I’m so thrilled that I’ve got some memories of those kind of events. I may have told this to my audience previously. I was in Moscow with Derek Prince and he had an audience of about a thousand Russian pastors there. But even in the middle of his sermon, John, he stopped and seemed addled for a moment. Took authority over the spirit of epilepsy in the audience. Never left the platform. Took authority over the spirit of epilepsy, commanded it to go, and they were three epileptic seizures in the audience. Now I’ve told this before, but I am happy that I can repeat it. Derek was a man of authority and his materials are still available. His ministry is actually, and he’s been dead about 10 years now, his ministry is actually promoting his material even more widely that it was when he was alive. But if you’ve been out of the US and John has done a lot of travel in central and South America, as I have. And we’ve met these beautiful Christian people.
What do you think it’s going to be in your future of ministry at this point?
John:
I really want to work with men. I really want to work basically in the coaching model, but basically coaching is a new word for discipleship. And I really wanna work with men to allow them to emerge and connect with their spiritual DNA. Everybody has their own spiritual DNA that we have been given.
Charles:
Right!
John:
It’s inside us. It is a part of us because of our Creator and when we connect with our creator. We can access our destiny by connecting with that DNA and your DNA is totally different than my DNA.
Charles:
Right
John:
But when we connect with our Creator, then we were able to really access that destiny and access Him. So I really want to…so many things can prevent us from accessing it even though it’s there.
Charles:
Amen
John:
We have the problem of not being able to access it with wounds, childhood wounds and triggers, and past things, and it just gets buried.
Charles:
Right
John:
I really want to help with discipleship to bring them forward into their own. Not telling them, not fixing them, helping them get over those hurdles and connecting with their DNA.
Charles:
Amen, amen. Do you have final word to this audience.
John:
I don’t know. I’m really, really grateful for this man. This man has come into my life at a time that has been great transition. The Lord just dropped him into my life to really be a father and really support and bringing forward and I’m really grateful for you.
Charles:
Bless you.
John:
Because I’ve said it on a podcast that we do the Shulamite podcast. I’ve said that this man is lavish and that I’ve never met a man more lavish than him. He gives lavishly with his finances, with his spirit, with his love, everything that he does is lavish. I’m so grateful for you because you don’t withhold anything you give. You’re a giver and because you’re a giver literally the Holy Spirit pours into you and fills you so that it just spills forth.
Charles:
Amen.
John:
And it’s absolutely beautiful and so I’m very, very, very grateful that the Lord put you in my life and that He’s given you a great love for me and me for you and that the Spirit works between us. It’s beautiful.
Charles:
Amen
Well alright. Jesus said give and it will be given to you. And if you’re not receiving, it’s probably because you’re not giving. God is not going to impart to a miser. Do you hear me? He gives generously and expected that out of you.
And I want you to remember this book Hooray and Hallelujah. It is kind of my testimony, and actually it tells some of the things that John was explaining. I’ve had a devoted ministry for other pastors and men primarily for a number of years. God has brought them into my life in a very wonderful way. At any rate, God bless you will be back again soon, bye.
Seeing Spiritual DNA in Transition – Episode #841 – Shulamite Podcast
I really wanna work with men to allow them to emerge and connect with their unique spiritual DNA. It has been a huge transition.
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