Spirit of Leadership

THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP have been removed from our initial assignment of having dominion over all things in the earth. I want to reemphasize that we haven’t lost our inher ent leadership spirit. We have lost our connection with the Spirit of the Creator, through whom we have an awareness of our intrinsic value and our leadership spirit, as well as the power to put it into effect. Again, we can think of the Spirit of the Creator as our original “default” mode. If we lose our original mind-set, then we will believe what ever is put on our hard drive instead of the truth about who we really are. To use another analogy, the leadership spirit has been obscured by the smoke of our social and cultural context, and we have become victims of the hazy opinions of “experts” who actually know very little about our true selves. We were not created to be enslaved to other people’s opinions, to our own passions, or to nature (creation). Yet man has become just like the animals because he now lives by instinct rather than discernment. This is why humanity as a whole has never regained its leadership awareness. Certain people—we saw examples of them in chapter two—capture glimpses of its truths and princi ples and apply them for effective leadership, but the full spirit of leadership is still not a reality in most people’s lives. In essence, the royal prince is the leadership spirit trapped in the culture and customs of a world that hides and suppresses his true spirit of leadership. He is simply a royal slave who was designed to rule but has been trapped in subjugation—a leader trapped in a follower.

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