The King of kings Mentors kings in the Throne Room

     

        For the last few years I’ve kept my eyes open to identify the people that God has put in my life as mentors. I’ve had a few good mentors in the past and I’ve been blessed to have them in my life but God has put in my life a hunger that usually surpasses what a mentor can give me. I’ve sat under good teaching but it’s never been enough to satisfy my hunger. Since I became a Christian I went from going to church only on Sundays to going to church also on Wednesdays for Bible studies and prayer. After that I started to read my Bible more and get the sermon on CD after the service. When I got my first job I started to buy and devour Christian books. I would buy anything that looked good even if later I found out that some things were not correct. I remember that during elementary and high school I never finished reading a book. I would read one page then skip like 20 pages to read one page and tell my dad that I read the whole book. The first book I bought when I became a Christian was called “Possessing the Gates of the enemy” by Cindy Jacobs. I remember that I read that book cover to cover. My whole life I had thought that I didn’t like to read but it was just that I didn’t want to read things I didn’t enjoy reading. The next book I read was “Uncovering the Darkness of This Present Age “ by Hector Torres. Then I went from that to getting CD sets and training manuals for the pastors that were part of the ministry my church was part of. I really enjoyed reading these manuals and listening to the CD sets. My pastor also lent me his CD’s and books. I was devouring a lot of really good things. Soon I found out that I had read and listened to almost all the material that ministry had. After that I had a job where we were allowed to listen to music all day. I had my IPod with me all the time listening to my audio Bible and more CD sets. After that I had another Job where we were only two people, my boss in the office and me driving an order picker forklift in the warehouse. I was there for two year. It was an amazing time of prayer and listening to really good teachings on the gifts of the Spirit, spiritual warfare and revival. God used a lot of that to strengthen me in hard seasons and help me fight “hard” spiritual battles. My expectation to hear His voice grew a lot and my understanding of the ways the Spirit of God works grew and I also learned about some spiritual dynamics during spiritual warfare times. I found out that I was being mentored by people I had never met before. I would find out who the best were at something I wanted to learn, read their material and listen to their messages. I still had in my heart a desire to have a very close mentor in my life. I always had my pastor there for me. Two pastors in my life that were such a blessing to me. The first one is a prayer warrior and the second one is such a loving person filled with compassion and understanding. Through my second pastor God healed some wounds in my heart and affirmed me in His love. I remember the second time I went to that church. The pastor gave me a hug and a kiss in my cheek. I felt the love of God come over me. Some fears and rejection were being broken. I have received prophetic words before from people and felt God minister to my heart in a powerful way but I’ve also seen that loving somebody can bring healing. There is no greater word than the word love. God is love and when we love people we are prophesying over them. During this time I decided to go to Bible College where everything I had learned in the past has been challenged. One class that rocked my world was “History and Philosophy of Church Music.” I learned to pay attention to why I believed what I believed about worship and the way we “do church.” I learned to appreciate other churches and denominations. I considered why people worship the way they worship and what they value. This made me more loving and tolerant. I thought that many churches were just religious because “it wasn’t all about the Holy Spirit” but I found out that I was religious because I idolized the way I had always worshiped and done church. I was idolizing a form and image of worship that I had built in my heart. I even got to appreciate a cappella singing and I noticed that being quiet in God’s presence and singing softly without music was the way I connected with God the most. Through my other classes I began to learn to really pay attention to what I heard and read. I’ve had to structure again a lot of things in my theology. One thing I learned was that it is possible to move in the supernatural and still be theologically sound and not be weird. We don’t have to have one at the expense of the other. One person that models this is Curry Blake from John G. Lake Ministries. A lot of his teachings destroy wrong ideas about revival and bring things back to the simplicity of devotion to Christ. It helped me understand that in some Christian circles revival is a religion even though the people who follow it think that they are all about the Holy Spirit and that they are not like “other dead religious people.” God has blessed me with some friends I can learn from and sharpen each other in our faith. I haven’t found too many people to mentor me in the development of my gifts but there are people of character in my life that can speak into my life. I believe that God wants me to have Him as my number one mentor in my life and then other people around me. I used to get frustrated because I didn’t find people to mentor me but God keeps saying that I need to be alone with Him in His presence. I believe in being mentored by people and that will never change but the Bible says that we are kings and I believe that for kings the best mentoring can only happen in the throne room learning from the King of kings.