A coach's role is to help clients see clearly during dark times, looking to the Lord for revelation and clear sight. Webster defines revelation as: "An act of revealing or communicating divine truth." Dynamic coaching relationships are formed when both the coach and the person being coached agree to look for and anticipate God's revelation. It's vital that both identify the coaching process can be the catalyst to what God wants to do.
Mark 8:22-25 records the healing of a blind man that gives us some interesting insight to the process of revelation. The passage reads:
They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?"
He looked up and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around." Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.
Notice how "some people" brought this man to Jesus. These helpers not only physically brought him but also "begged" that Jesus heal him. Sometimes that's the role of the coach to exercise faith by simply bringing those who are faced with temporary blindness to Jesus and ask that He do what man cannot.
Then we see that Jesus was considerate and took the man away from the crowds outside the village and away from the familiar. There he used methods that the man understood (spit and touch). After the first touch, only partial sight was restored so Jesus touched him again and he "saw everything clearly."
This passage is a good reminder that the clarity Jesus provides is often a progression rather than a one-time "ah-ha." It begins with a little insight at first and then as we're continuing to look for it, a full revelation.
Perhaps you or someone you know is navigating some blinding moments in ministry or life calling. This coaching worksheet [click here] provides some coaching questions to spark the process of gaining greater clarity.
An excerpt from the article written by Ron Walsh of A Purpose-filled Life - Meet Ron at Purposefilledlife.com | Used with Permission
They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?"
He looked up and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around." Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.
Notice how "some people" brought this man to Jesus. These helpers not only physically brought him but also "begged" that Jesus heal him. Sometimes that's the role of the coach to exercise faith by simply bringing those who are faced with temporary blindness to Jesus and ask that He do what man cannot.
Then we see that Jesus was considerate and took the man away from the crowds outside the village and away from the familiar. There he used methods that the man understood (spit and touch). After the first touch, only partial sight was restored so Jesus touched him again and he "saw everything clearly."
This passage is a good reminder that the clarity Jesus provides is often a progression rather than a one-time "ah-ha." It begins with a little insight at first and then as we're continuing to look for it, a full revelation.
Perhaps you or someone you know is navigating some blinding moments in ministry or life calling. This coaching worksheet [click here] provides some coaching questions to spark the process of gaining greater clarity.
An excerpt from the article written by Ron Walsh of A Purpose-filled Life - Meet Ron at Purposefilledlife.com | Used with Permission
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