Isaiah 9:8 says: “The Lord sent a word to Jacob and it hath lighted upon Israel”.
Anyone without a father cannot go any further, and when God wants to bless you, He puts a person in your life. Somebody who knows something you need to know.
Someone knows something that can help you survive and even succeed in the middle of the most painful chapter of your life.
Jesus took a fisherman, and turned Peter into a master preacher. Ignorance is too costly, and only fools risk the consequences of ignorance.A Chinese proverb states that “A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books”. Mike Murdock sees mentors as the difference between poverty and prosperity, decrease and increase, loss and gain, pain and pleasure, deterioration and restoration.
Beloved, it is what you respect that will move towards you, and what you don’t respect will move away from you. Dictionary defines the word Mentor as “a wise and trusted counselor or teacher”.
Below are some of the reasons why you need a mentor:
1) A mentor gives you perspective: fear, excitement, wonder, anxiety, confusion etc. could easily overwhelmed us but a mentor is detached and can see things from a distance.
2) A Mentor gives you proficiency: A mentor fills the gaps of your ignorance, helps you avoid the pitfalls and warns you about dangers. Jesus took a fisherman, and turned Peter into a master preacher
3) A Mentor helps you to avoid the school of hard knocks: this is the most expensive type of school, in terms of time, money and emotional pains. A mentor gives you shortcut.
4) A Mentor gives you the wisdom of a lifetime: experience plus time equals wisdom in the hands of a mentor.
5) Your Mentor can upgrade your financial decisions.
6) A Mentor gives you patience: as you struggle through failure to achieve mastery, a mentor teaches patience.
7) A Mentor imparts expertise: no man is an island unto himself. “Thus saith the Lord, stand in the way, and walk there in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls, but they said; we will not walk therein-Jer. 6:16. Ignorance is too costly. Only fools risk the consequences of ignorance.
Beloved, you are only as powerful as your mentor, e.g. Jesus mentored His disciple and they did wonders as our Lord Jesus Christ-Greater work than this-John 1:50 says"Jesus answered and said
unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree,
believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these''.
Beloved,who is your mentor? Or nobody can mentor you because you have gotten it all. Moses mentored Joshua, Paul mentored Timothy, Elijah mentored Elisha, Mordecai mentored Esther, Mary Etha influenced Kathryn Kulman, Kathryn Kulman influenced Benny Hinn, Benny Hinn influenced Chris Oyakilome, Pastor E.W.Kenyon influenced Kenneth Haggin and Gloria Copeland and F.K.C. Price, Kenneth Haggin and Gloria Copeland influence David Oyedepo influenced Sam Adeyemi, Albert Aina etc.
Beloved, you won’t go too far doing it alone!
Have a glorious day