Mentors,
Mentees, and Apologies
We
have to come to an understanding here. No matter how anointed your mentor is,
he or she can be offended. You can and you will offend them knowingly or
unknowingly. These is necessary because you are human and on the other hand,
they too will offend you either they like it or yes. You must learn to always
see beyond the offences and learn what God wants you to learn from them. Be
sensitive to know what you should have done that you refused to do before the
offence came. The offenses should help you understand your mentor or mentee and
mind you, it’s not about who is right or wrong, it is about the wisdom you need
to learn.
Mentee
Who is a Mentee?
A
mentee is a believer that has a mentor that trains and disciplines him or her
to a self-development stage in his or her God or defined destiny through the
experiences, and Grace upon their lives. They are believers that do not respect
and acknowledge the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of their mentor’s life
alone but they are humans that also respect and value the lives of their
mentors wife, husband and children. They have equal respect for their families.
They are humans that do not only receive gifts from their mentors or their
mentor’s family alone, they are individual that learns to invest in the lives
of the mentor, their mentors wife, husband or children.
Mentees are not perfect
in life but they are quickening spirit being that constantly learn to be the
best God has created them to be to their generations. They are the fruits of
the ministry and without you having mentees; the survival of assignment is risk.
The strength of the assignment of God in your life is not known within your
presence. It revealed in your absent through what your mentee can do and
accomplish. They are individuals you must invest your best into them. They are
people you must pour out your experience, strength, weakness for them as a
platform for them to learn. They are people that will ride on your knowledge,
understanding and wisdom in discovering God’s plan and purpose for their lives.
They are good listeners and they have lots of questions in the mind. So you
must be ready to answer lots of questions. Be ready to come down to the level
of their understanding in explaining matters that deals with their questions,
their assignment, and revelations. If you are a mentee to some one, these are
the things that are expected of you. These are the attitudes that comes with
you been a mentee to some one the Lord has placed over your life. Having a
mentor is like you having a Moses over your life. The duty of a mentor is more
like the duty of Moses in the lives of the Israelites.
The Journey in Follower-ship
Stage
1 – Gil-gal
2 Kings 2:1
And
it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind,
that Elijah went with Elisha from GIL-GAL
Gil-gal is a round about
location. It is a place for breaking forth. This is the place of your
Weaknesses, and Faults experience change. This is the spot of your Ignorance
been swallowed by the knowledge of Christ. This is the place where your Bad
Mannerism, Bad Character, and Negative Thoughts gets renew into the nature of
God. It is a place of your polluted Blood linage been cleans by the word of
God. This is the place of your Nakedness and Shame gets clothed by the Glory of
God. This is the Carnal Stage, and the
place of Transition or Shift. This is the place where your walk with
God begins. This is the place where the LORD picks you up for a journey into
destiny. This is the place of you forget who you are and moving into who God is
making you to become. This is the place of putting off the carnal nature and
putting on the nature of the plan of God for your life.
Stage
2 – Bethel
2 Kings 2:2
And
Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry Here, I pray thee; for THE LORD HATH SENT ME TO
BETHEL. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I
will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
This is the next stage
in the journey of following your mentor. In this place is where your mentor
will usher you into the House of God (a
personal relationship with God). This House of God is not all about the
physical building of the church; it is the place where you learn to relate with
God personally. In this place, your mentor will teach you the Truth on how to
study your Bible personally. Here is the process of you learning how to relate
with the Holy Spirit. Here is the place where you will begin to relate with God
base on His word you are discovering through the Holy Spirit. Here is the
process of you walking with the God by obeying His instructions. Here is the
place where you learn to fellowship and relate with the Father in Spirit and in
Truth. This is the House of God and the
place of Translation or Change. This Translation or change is
a journey from ignorance into the knowledge of God’s plan.
Stage
3 - Jericho
2
Kings 2:4
And Elijah said unto
him, Elisha, tarry Here, I pray thee; FOR THE LORD HATH SENT ME TO JERICHO. And
he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So
they came to Jericho.
Jericho is about
warfare. In this place is where your Mentors or your Father in the Lord must contend with
the immaturity in order to birth into you the maturity of Christ. This is the
place where your mentor will tolerate you, endure every insult, and pain you
will cause him. He will endure all these from you with the intention to see you
grow into what God has shown Him or her about you. This is the place for
Discipline, Building of Character, renewing your mind with God’s word,
improving your manner of approach, and adjusting the Way You Treat the people
around you. This place is where your total being will be transform in such a
way that will fit into His plans for your life. This is the place of Transformation or Renovation (returning you
back to His original plan).
Stage 4 - Jordan
2 Kings 2:6
And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I
pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
This spot is for God
Encounter. This is the place of where experience an Encounter with His Word,
Plan and personality of Christ. This is the place where God Cloth you with His
nature, and Glorification with His strength. This is the place of you putting
on the Strength of God. It is the place where the lessons you have learnt from
your Father in the Lord or in your Mentors life will becomes a lifestyle in
you. It’s a place for enthronement. This
is the place of Transfiguration.
These processes are lay
down principle of God’s kingdom for the past, present and future generation.
For you to become all that the Lord has planned for you, you must be made, you
must be taught and you must be led. You need to follow if you must lead
according to the plan of God for your life.
Now, let us look into a
major issue, it is not easy to follow if you are not in search for some thing.
What you are looking for is what will help you to be humble and obedient to the
instructions of the Lord through your mentor. Your search must be specific and
detailed.
2 Kings 2:9
And
it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, ASK
WHAT I SHALL DO FOR THEE, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I
pray thee, let A DOUBLE PORTION OF THY SPIRIT BE UPON ME.
What
do you really want? If you can hold on to the Holy Spirit
to enlighten you on this, you will enjoy your growth in Christ. In this, lies
your ability to wait and walk through every misunderstanding and pain that may
arise in the process of you been mentored. If you don’t know what you are
waiting for, patience becomes an unbearable burden. The knowledge and
understanding of what you stand to gain or achieve in the live of your mentor,
creates the power of patience in you.
Most times, people lose
out on what God really want them to gain in the lives of their mentors because
they are so focused on the wrong things. Identifying with the glory of your
mentor is not the major issue. Fighting to be recognized with him in public is
not the deal here. Your mentor allowing you to preach so soon is not the deal.
The deal is what has the Lord kept in his life for your life? When He is no
longer around you, what will be the one thing you have received from that will
keep you going in ministry?
It is not yet okay for
your Father in the Lord to locate you or you finding the right Mentors you need.
You must come to the point where you must understand what God has really kept
in their lives for you. This key will release the power of impartation into
your life. This key will preserve your life from wasting Time and Effort.
Mind you, your real strength
is not determined with what you do in the presence of your mentor. Your
greatest strength is determined by what you can do in the absent of your
mentor. It’s about what you can achieve and conquer without his help or
presence.
Receiving the Double Portion
These have nothing to
do with the glory, and the respect people give to your mentor or father in the
Lord. It is all about you inheriting double Responsibility, double Accountability,
and double Struggles from the lives of your mentors and father in the Lord in order to
be able to continue from where their assignment stops. You must be able to
inherit the batten of assignment because you have no business mentoring the
next generation if you don’t have an inheritance to pass across to your
mentees.
There is some thing the
Holy Spirit has taught me. Jesus did not start any thing new when He came to do
His own part of assignment. He continued from where the prophets and King David
stopped. Even the Faith the Apostle possessed were delivered to them. Your
ministry will always be a continuation of where some one else stopped His own
assignment. The difference between your assignments with that of your mentor
will be the issue of the pattern and specification of what God wants to achieve
through you. You are unique in the area of your assignment or ministry. Jesus
had disciples but all of His disciples did not run their assignment in the same
way or pattern. They had one Voice, the same Father and baptized into one
Spirit but their administration were different. It is an error to copy the
dressing pattern of your mentor or copy the pattern of how He ministers. Allow
the Holy Spirit to inspire you into the pattern that fits the assignment of God
in your life.
The best gifts to
receive from your Mentors or your Father in the Lord are the problems, questions, and struggles
they could not solve, answer, and conquer. This is what it means to continue from where they stopped.
In these, lies the reason why God brought them into your life. The highest peak
of their strength is your own starting point of things to do and their
weaknesses are pointers to your assignments. Without these, you will never know
and recognize the specifications of your assignment.
2 Kings 2:10
And
he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: NEVERTHELESS, IF THOU SEE ME WHEN I AM
TAKEN FROM THEE, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
Elijah told Elisha that
if you “SEE ME” when am taking from you what you are searching for will be your
own. The “ME” here is not the physical structure of Elijah; it is the reality
of the assignment, purpose and vision God in the life of Elijah. That was the
real Him. Elijah knew that Elisha will not be able to continue from where he is
stopping if he has no idea with His own purpose, and divine assignment.
What
do you see? Been able to discover the spiritual
identity of your mentor and father in the Lord is what will determine what you
will be able to benefit from their lives. You must be able to know their
calling, the gifts of the spirit they possess, and the fruits of the spirit
they have. In the spiritual identity of your mentor or father in the Lord lies
your ability of discovering yourself in God. If you can know what God used your
Mentor or Father in the Lord to do in your life, you will be able to discover what
God is going to use you to do the lives of the people in your generation.
The Vision of your
Mentors and your Father in the Lord must birth the Vision of your Divine
Assignment or Purpose into your life. You are not expected to learn everything
in the lives of your Mentors or Father in the Lord. You are expected by God to
learn, whatsoever that relates to your area of Purpose, Potential or Assignment
according to the plan of God for your life.
2 Kings 2:11
And
it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there
appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder;
and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
This is the Separating
Moment. Either you like IT or YES, it is of the Lord to choose the
Event and Situation that will separate you, and your Father in the Lord or your
Mentors. In this place is where God will choose to allow you to function under
your own Personal Revelation in Him. God alone controls this; He knows the
Time, and Locations to use for this purpose. There are two ways to this; some
people will be planned by God to function with
their mentor full time while others will be allowed by God to have their own
platform of ministry that is still an extension of the Grace of God upon the
lives of their mentor or father in the Lord. This place is where God decide on
the set of people He will set under you for mentoring or fathering.
2 King 2:12-13.
And
Elisha saw it, and he cried,
My father, My father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he
saw him no more: and he took hold of His own clothes, and rent them in two
pieces. He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back,
and stood by the bank of Jordan.
“And
Elisha saw it, and he cried,
My father, My father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof…”
Your eyes must be opened to see the identity and assignment behind the lives of
your mentors or father in the Lord. You must be able to know their divine
identity in other for you to know what is expected of you. Elisha called Him my
father, my father. The reason is because Elisha was in line with the calling
and assignment of Elijah. He saw that He is the next to wear the shoes Elijah
was leaving behind. He understood His divine assignment through the divine identity
of Elijah He sighted. For you to be able to know what lies ahead of you, you
must be able to understand the past, and the present situation in order for you
to know what is expected of you. You will never be able to partake or enjoy the
Grace you do not know or can not recognize.
And
he saw him no more: and he took hold of His own clothes, and rent them in two
pieces. He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him… You
will not be able to shift from who you are now into the next level without this
revelation. Stepping into the place of taking the batten from your mentors or
father in the Lord has to do with you tearing off the identity of who you use
to be in order to step into who you have become in Christ.
Through Revelation,
this is the place you tear off, your own personal decision; your Character,
Manner of Approach, and Ambitions. This is the place you put on the attitude,
manner of approach and decisions that falls in line with your new identity in
Christ. This is the place where your priorities fit into the assignment through
the revelation within your spirit man. This is the place of Son-ship. This is
the set
time according to the Book of
Galatians 4:2. In this place, you are no longer a slave any more. This is
the place everything that belongs to you and your Ministry in the lives of your
Mentors or your Father in the Lord crowns on you. It is the place of you
shifting from been a Liability to
been an Asset. This is the place of
Open Heaven in your Life.
2 King 2:15
And
when the sons of the prophets, which were to view at Jericho saw him, they
said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and
bowed themselves to the ground before him.
This is the Platform of
Ministry. This is the place where your voice becomes outstanding through the
approval of God’s grace upon your life. This is the place where you will start
enjoying and practice the entire covenant between you and your maker. This is
where you will start part taking the benefit of the covenants of God both the
ones in your life and that of your mentors or father in the Lords hand.
And
they came to meet him… I want you understand that you will
fail in ministry if you are the one introducing yourself to people. Don’t
fight, or gossip people in order to have access to the pulpit. Preaching or
handling the microphone before the people for ministration is the not the most
priority when it comes to ministry. The pulpit is the last thing on the list of
ministry. The major issue here is the Encounters you have experienced with God
and the understanding of your assignment in God. When it is time, the Lord that
has called you will announce you. Don’t ask people to invite for preaching;
don’t tell people how good you are in ministry. In the case of Elisha, it was the
people that came to him. It is the duty of the Holy Spirit to direct people to
you for ministration. Stay where God has placed you and stay within your own
Grace in God. Run your own race, in your own race track and within your own
timing or season. Don’t try to impress people or prove that you have arrived.
Don’t compare your calling with the people around you. Refuse to be
intimidated.
And bowed themselves to the ground
before him. Don’t fight for respect. There is a
measure of respect attached to the calling and Grace of God upon your life.
People will not respect you above the respect the Lord has given you. Respect
comes naturally when you stay your Grace and season. Stay put with God’s
instruction. Serve under your mentor and even if people are disrespect you,
don’t fight them. When it’s time, the Grace will speak for you. The same people
that bowed themselves to the ground before him were the same people that mocked
him in the previous verse. When people say you are wasting your time, hold on
to your mentor. Even when they tell you He or She is using you, Hold on to what
God has given you. Hold on to the revelation in your spirit man at all cost.
People
will insult you, friends will leave you, family members will think you are mad,
and some pastors will think you are proud but in all, stay put to what God has
given you. At a point if you are sensitive to the Holy Spirit, you will begin
to doubt yourself. You will begin to think either what they are telling you is
making sense. Hold on. When your season comes, those people will be the ones
telling people, He is called of God! They will begin to claiming relationship
with you. They will start telling people how they have your phone number in
their phone. The same people that mocked Elisha at first were the very people
that became the first partaker of the new Grace upon the life of Elisha. People
might say you are wrong or your calling is real, but hold on to what God has
revealed to you. I am a living testimony on these. I know how it hurts but hold
on. The Lord that helped me will give you the strength to stand the test of
time in Jesus Name.
Learn, serve, prepare and become who God wants you to be. It’s your time
and season. Yes, you can!
I commit you into the Holy of the living God to direct your step in the path of mentoring and mentee. May the Holy Spirit help you and inspire you to know what to do and say per time, per season in Jesus Name. May the Lord direct you to the mentor he has preserved for you in Jesus Name.
Be Inspired!
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