SPIRITUAL LEADERS: How to know if you are one or if you have one

As we approach the end of an age and the birthing of a new age, the body of Christ must understand spiritual leadership.

Spiritual leadership is different than any other type of leadership. Spiritual leadership requires spiritual insight beyond the natural, beyond our natural learning, leanings or our natural experiences. It requires being led into the spirit realm, in Jesus name, to see what he sees about a situation, that can't be seen on the surface.

We are not called to direct people with our flesh into their flesh, with what we feel or see in the natural, leading with our feelings, leading from our natural perspectives. We are called to get God's perspective in prayer on what's going on in the natural AND the spirit, and share and lead people into what God sees from His perspective, that is not readily seen on the surface.

If what is seen in the natural is all there is, you DON'T need spiritual leadership, because the natural is all there is. All you need is someone educated and trained in the natural affairs of this life, that's going in the way you want to go. You don't need a spiritual leader to point you or direct you into a way that you are already seeing, going or thinking.

You need spiritual leadership when the natural is not all there is to this life....that can see in the spirit, what you don't see in the natural, and tell you how to avoid what you don't know is ahead of you, but that may be coming fast at you.

You need spiritual leadership that can be additional eyes that see in the wilderness, dark times of your life, what you can't see until it's revealed by a spiritual leader and pointed out.

A Spiritual Leader or a Cheerleader 

If your spiritual leader is not revealing spiritual perspectives that are beneath the surface, that's behind what's going on in the natural, that you can't readily see, you don't have a spiritual leader, you have a cheerleader.

If your spiritual leadership is leading you to think and see about situations that which you already plainly think or see about those situations, again, you don't have a spiritual leader, you have a cheerleader.

If your spiritual leader never challenges you to see anything more than what you already see, your spiritual leader is probably following you......looking to find out what you are feeling and thinking about a situation and saying it a little better than you could, giving them the illusion that they're leading you and giving you the illusion that you're following them.

Is Your spirit being fed to lead you

If your spiritual leader always affirms how you feel about a person or situation and never gives you a word or wisdom that challenges those feelings to consider another perspective, your spirit is not being fed to lead you.

The way you know you have a spiritual leader, is that what you've seen, they've seen also, but their determinations are NOT based on what you've both seen on the surface, but on what God has revealed out of what can't be seen on the surface.

John 8 The Woman Caught in Adultery brought to Jesus 

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach them.

The scribes and the Pharisees *brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court, they *said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.

Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?” They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him.

But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground. But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again

He stooped down and wrote on the ground. When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court.

Straightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.” ]
John 8:1‭-‬11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.8.1-11.NASB1995