It is that stage in our spiritual growth and development where we are already walking as good disciples with the Lord and we are ready to progress to a place where we are equipped and empowered. Mentoring is a time of honing our gifts, talents and abilities, to prepare us for a work of service unto the Lord. It is that area of our life where we are now truly the chosen, we have made a choice to begin to extend and advance the Kingdom of God by the work of service in our lives.

Mentoring can be done by a pastor, but normally needs to be done by someone in leadership who is like a life coach already. You can only teach what you know. You can only take me where you have been, but in the end we all bear fruit after like kind.

When God sent me to Calvary Pentecostal to sit under the ministry of Ruth Heflin it wasn’t to prepare me to live a successful Christian life but rather to prepare me for a work of service unto the Lord to understand my prophetic gift, my missionary call to the nations. What does the life of an itinerant minister look like? In all likelihood I would not have been able to learn practically from someone who had never experienced or had a working knowledge of it, how to impart and cultivate that in my life.

Mentoring is like coaching the individual in their gift, calling, career, life, wealth, or destiny.
According to Mr. Webster and his dictionary, a coach is:

1. One who instructs in the fundamentals.
2. Directs team strategy
3. Tutors…primes with facts…
4. Trains for the Race.

That’s right, “trains for the race.” A coach trains his students or “mentees” to run the race.

Isaiah 30:20,21 “Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’ ”

Its not about the right or the left, but about the voice behind you. Experiences of self or others God puts in my life can help me look at the voice of experience:
Moses/Joshua – Elijah/Elisha – Jesus and His disciples Luke 9 & 10
Winston Churchill said, “The further back you look, the further ahead you can see.”