Your
Mentor & the Holy Spirit
You must come to
understand that the Holy Spirit has his own place in your life irrespective of the
mentor he has placed over your life. You must be careful not to replace Him
with your mentor. Everything that your mentor will ever teach you will be from
him, and anything you learn from your mentor, which does not relate to your
personal dealings with the Holy Spirit through the word of God, must not be
accepted by you.
John 16:13
Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:
and he will shew you things to come.
The investment of the
Holy Spirit and your mentor in your life is co – teamwork. The Holy Spirit will
need your mentor to relate with you on some issues while your mentor will also
need the Holy Spirit to relate with you on some certain issues. Both the Holy
Spirit and your Mentor must work hand in hand to bring to the place of maturity
as a son that is ready to fulfill destiny.
The Holy Spirit and
your Mentor has one tool they use in building, teaching, guiding, rebuking,
correcting, and instructing you with; that tool is the word of the Father that
contains the detail plans, and specification of His Purpose for your existence
on earth.
Galatians 4:1
Now
I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a
servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the
time appointed of the father.
The
tutors and governors are the mentors and Father in the Lord
Learning to know when
to turn to the Holy Spirit and when to turn to your mentor is a great deal you
must learn. Less I forget, it is not everything that you open up to your
mentor. If you must open up to your mentor, it must be base on instruction from
the Holy Spirit. This is not lack of trust towards him but it does imply that
there are principles that must be obeyed. For the fact that your mentor is
loyal to you and interested in your constant growth does not mean you have to
break this principle. In God’s kingdom, we follow instructions.
There are issues that
the Lord will not reveal to your mentor no matter his or her maturity. The Lord
will only reveal some details about your life, vision and mission to him base
on what he must do in your life. He will only be permitted to know things
according to the assignment the Lord has assigned for him to carry out in your
life. Nothing outside his assignment must be made known to him. He or she (mentor) must be matured and sensitive
enough to refer you to the people that carry the Grace that can solve some
issues in your life that He or she does not carry or posses. You must come to
understand that your mentor does not in any way own you. He or she is only a
caretaker and he must be able to allow you to fulfill the area of God’s plan in
your life. He or she (mentor) must
come to understand that they do not know it all and they must strive to be
constantly sensitive to God’s operation in your life in order for them, to move
according to the pace of God’s operation in your life.
The disadvantage of
them not moving, and relating with you according to the paces of God’s
operation in your life is this; there will be misunderstandings between them
and you. You will be trying to take steps and experience the current revelations given to you in the
closet (personal relationship with the
Holy Spirit/word) while they will be viewing and expecting you to function
according to the previous revelation
you have received. Even you too must learn to do the same; you have to be
constantly improving, and learning the current move of God’s operation in their
lives, this will help you not to have misunderstandings with them due to your
inconsistency to the move of God in their lives.
You must also come to
understand that they do not own you anything. Every training and discipline you
are enjoying from them is a platform of Grace to you. For the fact that they
are your mentor does not mean they must have all the answers to your questions or
problem. You are not here to be a liability to them. This is the reason why you
have the Holy Spirit in and with you. Your mentors are not your bank (where they
must
pay for everything you need). Any help from them to you must be instruction
based (Holy Spirit) because they must
also give you room to be responsible, and accountable to the Holy Spirit. Some
times, there must watch you use you faith without their effort. There must some
time watch you suffer in some situation in order for you to be stretched into
more maturity.
As for provision, you
must learn to know the needs in your life that your mentor can handle. You must
learn to also know the provision that the Holy Spirit has been placed to
provide for your life. In this place come the importance of you knowing the
calling and vision of God in the life of your mentor’s life. The more you
understand His or her calling in God, the better you will understand the
provisions the Lord has made available in him or her for your life. Likewise
also, the more you understand whom God is and what he wants to do in your life,
the better you will understand the provision God has provided for you.
The fact that the Lord
has given you a mentor does not mean you will stop looking unto Jesus the
Author, and the finisher of your faith. You are not expected to trust your
mentor more than the Holy Spirit Himself. Your mentor is just a channel made
available for you to be able to learn and grow faster. Your mentor does not
have any prove or authority to Lord over your life but He has the right to
discipline you but you must understand that all must be word base.
Your Mentor & His
Faults
Praise
the Lord!
I know this spot in the
journey of faith is the aspect that really took me time to learn as a mentee.
For the fact that the Lord has made them like coverings over your life, calling
and ministry, you must learn to know that they are also humans like you, and I.
If you are expecting your mentor to be an angel that has no mistakes then you
will never grow in Faith. Read this, without the faults or mistakes in the
lives of your mentors, you have no license to learn from them. We are all
looking unto Jesus the Author and the Finisher of our faith. Just as you are in
the growing process in your journey of Faith with God, so are they too in their
own journey of Faith. They are not super hero; they are men that are operating
through Grace. We are all walking towards perfection, and you must learn that
He or She is also a student learning to be more matured.
Genesis 2:15
And
the LORD God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and
to keep it.
From the scriptures
above, you must come to the knowledge that ministry and the journey of Faith is
all about dressing and keeping. The faults and imperfections you see your mentor
are victories they have gain in their journey of faith. To every generation a
higher assignment is given and a higher demand for perfection is given.
Therefore, the imperfections you are seeing are their own victories. They are
imperfect to you because God has kept in you a higher demand for perfection,
God created you to be better in those areas of their weaknesses, and our
heavenly Father is expecting you to dress their faults, and keep it for your
own mentee or the next generation. In other words, God is expecting you to hand
over to them (next generation) a better gospel than the gospel you met on
ground.
It is not given to you
judge them, and gossip about them. They are only accountable to God and if the
Holy Spirit is asking you to correct them then you must receive specific
instruction on how to do that. It is not a platform for you to insult them, and
disrespect them. In fact, their fault holds the details of the future battles
you will soon confront. Their faults are the details that should channel you to
question the Holy Spirit in other for you to learn how to overcome in your
coming days. Their faults carries the map that will lead you into the specific
assignment God is calling you to do according to the same area of assignment
God has placed in the life of your mentor. Their faults are your own
preparation ground for you to develop, improve, and grow in wisdom.
If you see that your
mentor is bad in certain area, it means God has wants to learn from that area
in other for you to be good. If you see that your mentor good in certain area,
it means God has brought you to learn from him to be better than Him. If you
see that your mentor is better in certain area, it means God want you to learn
from him in order for you, to have an excellent spirit. Why these entire
pattern works is; the best way to learn how to do something dwells in you,
but some times you knowing how not to go about it. If you can observe to know why they fail in
those areas then, you will learn what you must do and what to avoid. Seeing
them not perfect does not implies that they are not fulfilled in their
assignment in their God, it does implies that their assignments in God was
strong enough to birth into you a reason to run the race of your own assignment
in your own God.
The major reason why I
love my mentors and Father in the Lord is this; any time I discovery their
fault, it leads me into discovering my own self better and it makes me see my
assignment clearer. It helps me to identify the battles that lie ahead of me.
It helps me to know how to prepare my self in advance. I have had several
misunderstandings with my Father in the Lord. I had misunderstanding with him
for like three times and The Lord helped me to reconcile with him during those
times. Whenever I see one fault in him, it hurts me; I get angry till the Lord
opened my eyes to see that, I was the problem. I was not ready to learn and
improve myself from the wisdom in the mistakes of my mentor. Since then, every
fault I saw in him became the platform for me to discover myself better. I
began to use them to view the clarity of my assignment. The third time, I
experience understanding with my mentor and the Lord help me to reconcile back
to Him, my eyes of understanding were opened and it became done on me that this
is the will of God. If you have argued or left your mentor or your Father in
the Lord in misunderstandings, look out for ways to settle your differences
with them. There are experiences you will never be able to learn from any other
person expect their live. Experience has taught me a hard lesson and I do not
want you to be a victim of this reality. Some things are better caught than
taught!
On the other hand,
mentors must always remember where the Lord picked them from and how far the
Lord has brought them in the area of their weaknesses. They must be ready to
co-operate with the operations of God in the lives of their mentee. They must
understand that their strength in the midst of the weaknesses of their mentee
holds big inspiration to the lives of their mentee. Mentoring and mentee is
teamwork. There is some thing the Lord wants to do in your life through your
mentees and there is some thing the Lord will do in the lives of your mentees
through you. You need them and they need you.
Be Inspired!
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