The Foundations of Discipleship
If you want to grow in your relationship with God it is good to have a mentor. But I don’t think that a personal mentor is absolutely necessary. Why? Jesus promised that we would be mentored by the Holy Ghost.
Earthly mentors do the fine tuning. If you do not have a submissive spirit and an ear to hear what the mentor is teaching you are wasting both of you time.
On that note, I regularly tell people that as Christians, we have a 4-point foundation we need to maintain to enable the Holy Ghost to mentor us. If we do not have these things working in our lives we are delaying the process.
- Go to church every week. Yeah, I know, we are the church. Thats a really cute way to say that you are above being taught by any preacher. But the fact remains, if you are not going to church every week the chances are you are living a compromised life. Those who commit to fellowship and sitting under the preaching of the Word grow in Christ. (period)
- Read your Bible. Wash your mind in the water of the Word.
- Pay your tithes. This breaks so many strongholds in a person’s life I am amazed that I ever questioned it. Though I never stopped paying my tithe while I was deciding if I needed to pay my tithe. The clincher? One day God told me to. btw, the tithe is the first 10%. Its not some of what’s left. Put God first.
- Pray in the Holy Ghost. If you are saved and not filled with the Holy Ghost put that at the beginning of you prayer list from now till you get filled. If you have received the baptism pray in tongues all the time. Like right now. Do it.
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