Question about Spiritual Mentoring

[spiritfilledwoman]

The Lord has been stirring my heart lately about spiritual mentoring. My husband and I have mentored a couple that we met years ago, but the time for that has tapered off in the last year. I feel like I'm at a spiritual crossroads to some extent where I need to step it up a little, if you know what I mean. One of those ways would be to connect with a mentor.

What are your thoughts on spiritual mentoring? Do any of you have a mentor? If so, what are the pros and cons of your relationship? Also, how did you meet your mentor? I don't sense that there is anyone in my church that I need to hook up with, so it will be interesting to see how this turns out!

Thanks for your input.

 

[Optimax]

I believe that a mentor is a great help. In the event the Lord runs one accross your path you would be blessed.

 

[RevJdK]

I believe mentoring is imperitive to our spiritual growth.
I was in full time ministry, even ministering over 3 continents when the Lord placed me under the spiritual authority of a great man of God.
The Bible tells us there is nothing new under the sun..so everything we will ever get must be passed to us..both curses and annointings. Submission to that authority that Christ has placed you under develops you, because you cant be a effective mother for the kingdom until you have first been an effective daughter. Elisha washed the hands of the Prophet Elijah, and recieved a double portion. I served the man of God and submitted to his teaching AND correction for 7 years...God has just recently in the past 8 months released me and the man of God sent me off with his blessing. I believe this is the way of the Lord.....for us to have a spiritual "mother", "father" or "mentor", and have them impart unto us what they have gleaned from their "mentor".
Kenneth Copeland is a prime example of this...He was definately annointed before he met Oral Roberts...but his humble submission to Brother Roberts brought forth an impartation....and look where he is at today.
Just pray that God shows you who it is to be.
God bless,
RevJ

 

[irenemcg]

Surely mentoring is part of our call to go and make disciples.

 

[tturt]

I don't think it's necessary for someone in your church to be your mentor nor necessarily that who you mentor be from your church.

Some people say a particular minister that has a book ministry was their mentor. They knew that was the way it was suppose to be because whatever, the Lord was stirring in them so answered by what they were reading.

My pastor is my spiritual mentor. But with the communication the way it is today, your spiritual mentor could be across the country or from another country.

 

[DIVA_for_Christ]

Having a spiritual mentor is a blessing. God blessed me with my mentor in January of 06. I was at a conference called Seeking God for Seven Days and that's where I met my mentor. There was a spiritual connection before I even met him. I was drawn to him for some reason, noticing him and I knew when he walked into the room. It was really weird for me because I couldn't understand what was catching my attention towards him. Anyways, after one of the services, he ended up speaking a prophetic word into me and the same thing he said, was preached about at the next service. Then any other time he had a word for me, I knew it before hand and it never failed he spoke a word from the Lord, then the preacher would say the same thing. God has used this man of God to teach me about my prophetic gifts, calling, who I am in Christ Jesus, he rebukes and corrects me, trains me in the spirit, etc.

I have reached realms and dimensions in God that I never even knew existed, nor would I have ever thought I would be operating in.

If it's time for you to have a mentor, God will manifest it and make it happen. When the student is ready, the teacher will show up.

God Bless!

 

[spiritfilledwoman]

Those of you who have had mentors seem to have been extremely blessed from the experience. That's awesome! I guess the whole thing is a little strange to me as I'm used to doing the mentoring, not being mentored. You are right Diva, God will bring the right person at the right time. I am still praying about the whole matter, that God will give me clarity about the issue as a whole and speak to the right person.

 

[DIVA_for_Christ]

Those of you who have had mentors seem to have been extremely blessed from the experience. That's awesome! I guess the whole thing is a little strange to me as I'm used to doing the mentoring, not being mentored. You are right Diva, God will bring the right person at the right time. I am still praying about the whole matter, that God will give me clarity about the issue as a whole and speak to the right person.

Going from being a mentor to being mentored is a blessing. That means Gods is preparing you for higher levels in Him. God is all about order and He puts people in our lives who have a higher spiritual ranking to safely escort by covering, teaching and leading us into our next level(s). People who do not understand and do not operatin in submission to leadership, will have problems with this.

I pray that God will blow your mind in ways that you would of never thought of!

 

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[DefendingWordOfFaith]

The Lord has been stirring my heart lately about spiritual mentoring. My husband and I have mentored a couple that we met years ago, but the time for that has tapered off in the last year. I feel like I'm at a spiritual crossroads to some extent where I need to step it up a little, if you know what I mean. One of those ways would be to connect with a mentor.

What are your thoughts on spiritual mentoring? Do any of you have a mentor? If so, what are the pros and cons of your relationship? Also, how did you meet your mentor? I don't sense that there is anyone in my church that I need to hook up with, so it will be interesting to see how this turns out!

Thanks for your input.

Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray.....

Then:

Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray Pray, Pray....

Then:


Be real, with those you mentor, with yourselves, but most of all with God.

Don't allow the enemy to give you the false illusion of being anything other than what you are, very frail, very weak, very, very dependant on the Holy Ghost to lead you and instruct YOU in the mentoring process.

You are certainly not above failures, so don't try to pretend that you are, or ever will be.

Don't let the person(s) you mentor place too high a level of confidence in YOU, because it will end up being spirituallu disatarous for both you, and the person(s) you mentor!

I personally know a Pastor, and her husband who started out right, mentoring their flock, people who had been deeply hurt by another Pastor, and her husband.

The motives of the Pastor who set out to mentor these People was right, in the beginnig, but she, and her husband begamn to exepct too high a standard of unattainable excellence from those they were mentoring, all the time pretending to be untouchable themselves, and NOW the church they had has closed it's doors, and every member has gone their own way and the Pastor, and her husband are all alone, with very few friends.

Being real is the first and most important, and Spiritually profitable characteristic of a good Spiritual mentor.

Then:

Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray....

 

[God_Owned]

Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray.....

Then:

Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray Pray, Pray....

Then:


Be real, with those you mentor, with yourselves, but most of all with God.

Don't allow the enemy to give you the false illusion of being anything other than what you are, very frail, very weak, very, very dependant on the Holy Ghost to lead you and instruct YOU in the mentoring process.

You are certainly not above failures, so don't try to pretend that you are, or ever will be.

Don't let the person(s) you mentor place too high a level of confidence in YOU, because it will end up being spirituallu disatarous for both you, and the person(s) you mentor!

I personally know a Pastor, and her husband who started out right, mentoring their flock, people who had been deeply hurt by another Pastor, and her husband.

The motives of the Pastor who set out to mentor these People was right, in the beginnig, but she, and her husband begamn to exepct too high a standard of unattainable excellence from those they were mentoring, all the time pretending to be untouchable themselves, and NOW the church they had has closed it's doors, and every member has gone their own way and the Pastor, and her husband are all alone, with very few friends.

Being real is the first and most important, and Spiritually profitable characteristic of a good Spiritual mentor.

Then:

Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray, Pray....

Your story puts me in remembrance of a girl I saw who came to a particular ministry for help. Her husband sent her from their home church to this other ministry to get the help he thought she needed. Her husband was into fasting, as much as five days at a time. His wife was a new Christian who had never really fasted. He husband was on her case for not being spiritual enough because she couldn't maintain a five day fast. The ministry who was supposed to help her didn't do what they should have done which was to call her husband and tell him to love her and not condemn her and to let God work on her heart as he saw fit. This poor girl left the ministry, who was supposed to help her, totally condemned and depressed. Her husband had unrealistic expectations of her and had done some serious damage to her view of God. I also found it odd that her husband didn't accompany her to the ministry he had sent her to get help.

 

[DefendingWordOfFaith]

Your story puts me in remembrance of a girl I saw who came to a particular ministry for help. Her husband sent her from their home church to this other ministry to get the help he thought she needed. Her husband was into fasting, as much as five days at a time. His wife was a new Christian who had never really fasted. He husband was on her case for not being spiritual enough because she couldn't maintain a five day fast. The ministry who was supposed to help her didn't do what they should have done which was to call her husband and tell him to love her and not condemn her and to let God work on her heart as he saw fit. This poor girl left the ministry, who was supposed to help her, totally condemned and depressed. Her husband had unrealistic expectations of her and had done some serious damage to her view of God. I also found it odd that her husband didn't accompany her to the ministry he had sent her to get help.

My wife and I HAD prayerfully considered going back to the church whgere the people I mentioned had been the Pastors.


Two weeks ago, I visited with her husband, while she was away on a ministry trip.

I had some specific questions I wanted to ask him, one of which was, if someone teaches something from the pulpit, and a congregation member feels uneasy about hwat has been taught, and that person prayerfully goes to the word, and finds the teaching is in error.

Is the person who taught the error obligated to correct his/or/her teaching.

I was actually putting him, and his wife on the spot by asking this question.


He responded, absolutely not, he said:


"We" are the Pastors, God has put us in charge of the congregation, as the overseers of the flockand we are ALWAYS right, no matter what!

Needless to say, I left immediately after he had given me this remarkably error filled response!


While there he had also told me some things about some problems he had recenlty been having with his wife, which he had absolutely no business sharing with me an extremely gross case of Tale-bearing and back biting!


These two people had operated under a wonderful, sincere loving compassionate annointing for a very long time.


But as is so often the case, fame brought them down to a level of self worth, causing them to believe they were above all reproach!


I saw it over two years ago, but God would not release me, or my wife to leave the church until a year ago.


I watched as my friends, whom I had devoted myself to support in anyway I possibly could sunk lower and lower into a place of pride, and finally, to a place where nothing could ever effect them in a negative way.


What they referred to as 'Positive Confession' was actually arrogant personal curses and condemnation!


They cursed their own ministry, and the church they had started 4 years ago!


None of us are above reproach, we WILL fail, not once, not twice, but many times, daily, as we struggle to walk the walk of faith!


Paul said I have fought a good fight, he did not say, I am above reproach, and cannot be overcome by sin and failures.

Let us all be aware of our own weaknesses and place our complete confidence in Christ, who is our strength by which we have been made
overcomers!

 

[God_Owned]

My wife and I HAD prayerfully considered going back to the church whgere the people I mentioned had been the Pastors.


Two weeks ago, I visited with her husband, while she was away on a ministry trip.

I had some specific questions I wanted to ask him, one of which was, if someone teaches something from the pulpit, and a congregation member feels uneasy about hwat has been taught, and that person prayerfully goes to the word, and finds the teaching is in error.

Is the person who taught the error obligated to correct his/or/her teaching.

I was actually putting him, and his wife on the spot by asking this question.


He responded, absolutely not, he said:


"We" are the Pastors, God has put us in charge of the congregation, as the overseers of the flockand we are ALWAYS right, no matter what!

Needless to say, I left immediately after he had given me this remarkably error filled response!


While there he had also told me some things about some problems he had recenlty been having with his wife, which he had absolutely no business sharing with me an extremely gross case of Tale-bearing and back biting!


These two people had operated under a wonderful, sincere loving compassionate annointing for a very long time.


But as is so often the case, fame brought them down to a level of self worth, causing them to believe they were above all reproach!


I saw it over two years ago, but God would not release me, or my wife to leave the church until a year ago.


I watched as my friends, whom I had devoted myself to support in anyway I possibly could sunk lower and lower into a place of pride, and finally, to a place where nothing could ever effect them in a negative way.


What they referred to as 'Positive Confession' was actually arrogant personal curses and condemnation!


They cursed their own ministry, and the church they had started 4 years ago!


None of us are above reproach, we WILL fail, not once, not twice, but many times, daily, as we struggle to walk the walk of faith!


Paul said I have fought a good fight, he did not say, I am above reproach, and cannot be overcome by sin and failures.

Let us all be aware of our own weaknesses and place our complete confidence in Christ, who is our strength by which we have been made
overcomers!

My wife and I have consistently run into Pastors who don't seem answerable to the Word or don't necessarily even understand it. Many times think they aren't just working from their own intellect rather that the Holy Ghost.

I went into all of these situations with wide eyed innocence but ended up being clubbed like a baby seal.

I don't think my experiences were beneficial toward my maturation as a Christian. I've even had a very difficult time not resenting Pastors in general. This was not always the case, but now it’s a constant struggle to stay on top of the situation.

My most remarkable spiritual encounters have never been in Church. I've have gone to Churches for years, with virtually no result spiritually, physically or financially. The most encouraged I've ever been to turn away from God has come from going to Churches.

The best I've done spiritually with Pastors is to watch Jesse Duplantis, because his joy is infectious. The best we have ever done with pastors financially was watching Creflo dollar on TV and mailing our money to him. I respect these two immensely.

We have yet to find a live Church where we believe we are consistently hearing from God via the Pastor, feel welcome or fit in.

Lots of religious terms, cleshays and quips fill the preaching and teaching. There is also lots of telling people what they are doing wrong and very little on how to do it right. Some of the intellectualization is actually very interesting, considering it is a product of human reasoning, but not nearly enough from the Holy Ghost coming from the pulpits.

The thing I find really odd is how few pastors seem to like the smell of sheep on them. The way I see it the pastor has two huge responsibilities. The first is to herd their sheep to green pastures and lead them beside still waters, meaning teaching the Word the need via the power and peace of the Holy Ghost. The second is to tend their sheep, take care of their wounds, hurts, nurture them etc. I understand that OT sheep hearders individually named their sheep and knew their sheep on sight.

Oh well, I’ve gone on long enough.

It’s your turn now.

 

[DIVA_for_Christ]

Diva- I see your health is at 55%. You look 100% to me!

Thanks

 

[J4Jesus]

These two people had operated under a wonderful, sincere loving compassionate annointing for a very long time.


But as is so often the case, fame brought them down to a level of self worth, causing them to believe they were above all reproach!------------

They are well known??