small testimony about mentorship

So I don't usually write on my faith, but I feel that it's a big part of my life that I'm going to put in my blog more. Any who, here's a testimony that I was supposed to give tonight, but wasn't able to give it for a variety of reasons. So I'll just post it here and whoever reads it will read it. I hope it's encouraging to you.

Hello ~ I want to give glory to God by sharing with you about how He has blessed me through mentors in my life. In my first and second year of, I have been very blessed by “structured relationships.” This is a friendship that involve meeting on a sort of regular basis with intentionality behind them. For example, mentors/disciplers, accountability partners and the like. These friendships have definitely been helpful in my growth. However, in this past year, I think God has really re shaped my view on mentorship and so that is what I would like to share today.


 So coming into my junior year of college, I thought that I was all set. I had a mentor, an accountability partner, a mentee, and other potential mentees.. However, by the mid quarter, my accountability partner didn’t want to meet regularly anymore, my mentee said she didn’t have time for me, none of the potential mentees worked out, and the relationship with my mentor was rocky and tense. And it really took a toll on me. And I think the fact that it was hard on me revealed this sin in my heart that I hold on too tightly to friendships and desiring control of them. I wanted to have security in who my close friends were and I think the way for me to have that was through structured relationships.

So slowly, I surrendered that up to God and prayed that He would open my heart to other ways that I could learn and be challenged other than structured relationships.

And God has been faithful in providing people to be there to challenge me when I need it. For example, I was discerning whether or not to get married (wow) and even though I was so sure I going to say yes, I decided to consult someone who went through that process as well. She shared about her discernment process and how God worked in that to grow her… and basically, I got wrecked. Her story made me realize of how little I thought about the decision and how desperately I needed to be close to God in order to make that decision. It placed me on the right path of seeking God more and I cannot be ever more grateful.

So although my structured relationships weren’t really working out, God has answered my prayers by sending people to mentor me, not in any of my own planing, but in His divine timing. I cannot tell you how many times God brought the right person at the right time to speak truth into my life. I want to say thank you for speaking into my life, whether you’ve been in my life for 2 years or 2 months. I have been learning that I have something to learn from everyone because everyone holds a bit of His wisdom. I want to affirm you by saying that God uses you to speak truth into other people's lives. I can attest to this and I know that the people around you can as well. I also want to encourage you if you don't currently have a mentor / discipler that it's okay not to because God can be speaking to you in different ways.

I really need to get some sleep so I will write to ya'll later.

bye bye until next time ^