Role of the Spiritual Father
Today’s Focus: Connecting the Fathers with the Sons
Scripture: Hebrews 13:17
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
This is a unique process and one myself has experienced and when God pairs you up like He did in the early church, maturation will happen because that spiritual father is responsible for the son that the Lord has given him. Now the man who is the spiritual father has to have heard from the Father to accept the son. Why is this the case? Because God knows who is supposed to be paired with whom it bring to reality what their destiny is. The spiritual father must be a man of consistency and have incredible patience.
Think about the patience you must have with your own children in their rearing and then now think about the patience you may have to have with an adult who is immature in mindset and stuck in their ways. The spiritual father is not a mentor who will only impart information but will mentor you and demonstrate the ways and the nature of the Father. Can you imagine if Jesus just told us and never showed us, what type of church would we have today? Scary isn’t even with what we have today and Jesus showed us how to do this.
The spiritual father is not an advisor whom you can just pick what advice you like and what best fits you. His advice is truth and must be received in the light of the gift of God. THE SPIRITUAL FATHER IS NOT A LIFE COACH! I capitalized this because we see the t.v. preachers and evangelists talking about being “life-coaches” THAT IS NOT WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO BE OR HAVE. Life coaches cheer you, encourage you but will they discipline you? I think not! The spiritual father will encourage you with prophetic words of great substance.
He will be a father to you and he has many responsibilities and goals for you. God has commissioned and given Him the grace to bring you to maturity but He will be held accountable for how he matures you. But do not think that you will not be responsible for how you respond and the things that you do, knowing they are right or wrong.
Hebrews 13:17: Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves, FOR THEY WATCH OVER YOUR SOULS, AS THEY MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT, THAT THEY MAY DO IT WITH JOY AND NOT WITH GRIEF: FOR THAT US UNPROFITABLE FOR YOU.
He is to see that you grow and mature in your sonship to a mature son of God putting away all childish things. We have too many childish things going on in the Body of Christ and that tells us that we have many instructors in Christ but not many fathers who bring discipline and the ways and nature of the Father.
Now how does a son come to know who their spiritual father is? God will lead them to them and over time the Lord will reveal and show His nature and ways through him and the Lord will reveal that fact he is the one I have selected for you to bring you into maturity. This is not a forced relationship, this relationship only happens when the Holy Spirit reveals it to both parties and the sons desire to be fathered is mature and the two parties agree to this relationship.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
