Mentoring

Choosing a mentor one needs to understand what mentoring is..
The word means Men touring, it means someone you can look up to as he walks you through your journey in life to that destination God wants you to be. You are allowed to have as many mentoring as possible based on the different aspect of life, spiritual, finance, fashion or life style, education, career wise, marriage or relationship,  family and so on. A mentor is someone who motivates you into acting out your God given purpose in life. Its not necessarily you meet your mentor one on one but you learn from his or her lifestyle. A mentor could be a role model, someone you admire the qualities and virtues in him.
Your mentor is someone that influences you, he/she will always lift up your spirit through words of encouragement. You don't have to imitate your mentor in what he does as many people make that mistake, your mentor must help you discover who you really are...

Choosing a mentor is based on your spiritual desire and not earthly quests. Study 1st and 2nd Timothy,  it will help you make a right choice of a mentor, Brother Paul was a mentor to the timid and shy Timothy. The first thing you want look at is, is your mentor a Christian? If yes that sets the pace for you, secondly is he or she career oriented, is he educated cause as you are educated and seeking for yourself to advance along the path of your chosen career, your mentor must be in the right position to help you shape those areas of your life. You also want to know if he or she can manage people, you don't want to entrust your spirit into the wrong hand, someone who doesn't have the attitude to relate with people. Your mentor must standout in the crowd, what makes him or her different from others, you must know his life stories,  how he or she has been able to make it through in life, remember he is leading you. You don't want somebody who is not financially stable to teach you prosperity.

Lastly, your mentor must be connected to your dream. Your mentor has a role to play in your dream and if your dream is from God, God will connect you to your mentor. In my case for example,  when I first moved to the united states, the first time I met my pastor, God spoke to my heart and said God told me He is connecting me to him, through him (my pastor) I will fulfill my dream. And truly when I started attending the church (RCCG jesus palace) I never knew he is the son-in-law of Daddy and mommy G.O and through him He connected me to other Pastors that contribute to my vision and dream. Your mentor must share your dream, so find someone who share your dream, someone who believes in you. May God help us all to choose the right mentors in Jesus name amen.

Jesus is our ultimate mentor because he is the express image of God and we should strive to have that mind of Christ. Nevertheless in this earthly journey which we are sojourners we need people that are more insightful and knowledgeable in the will of God to guide us not to go astray. We need people with better understanding and revelation of the will of God. That's why we have our pastors as spiritual fathers and also spiritual mothers...they mentor you. That's you can get to a christian bookshop and you want to pick a book by Bishop Oyedepo because you need insight on prosperity or a book by Dr Olukoya because you need insight on spiritual warfare or a book by kenneth hagin just because you need insight on holiness...these are people that serves as mentors and also as role models. But role models come in place especially if you have a gift and calling from God. You need a role model to help you put that in use.

Written by Bro Dapo