Signs of Good Spiritual Leadership
Are you seeking spiritual leadership or are you a leader?
What makes a good leader vs a bad leader? Do you really know? How do you know?
If you’re seeking good spiritual leadership, it is imperative that you are clear on who you will have in your ear.
If you are a leader, encourage your community, speak with confirmation, and come from a place or love.
Today, Jada is sharing the 5 ways to know if you are under good spiritual leadership and what good leadership should be, do and look like. The goal of this episode is to help you make an enlightened decision about your future and the leadership you desire to follow.
5 Signs of Good Spiritual Leadership
- You will hear leadership speak often of attending training, conferences, events, meeting people and or learning new skill sets often
- You will hear a progression in revelation or insight
- Good leadership shows evident individual growth or transformation
- Good leaders have good relationships
- Good spiritual leadership has a successor
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Jada Cofield has an accumulation of teachings, observations, and studies from her twenty-five years as an ordained minister, a sister, a friend, a daughter, and a woman coupled with her travels and living throughout the world.
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Hello and greetings, and thank you for tuning in to a new
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Speaker:podcast for the unique, the peculiar and the chosen, who
Speaker:want to live right and at the end of the day, be in right
Speaker:standing with themselves with life and with others. I'm your
Speaker:host, JT Cofield, and in today's episode, I want to talk to you
Speaker:about good spiritual leadership. But before we get started, let
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Speaker:The goal of this episode is to help you make an enlightened
Speaker:decision about your future and the leadership you desire to
Speaker:follow. It is imperative that you are clear who you will have
Speaker:in your ear for the next several years. I also want to give
Speaker:leaders encouragement and confirmation to the way forward.
Speaker:The signs and points I'm going to share are an accumulation of
Speaker:different types of leaders. I've been under who were good and bad
Speaker:for over 20 years in the church and business around the world.
Speaker:And as well as my experience leading and the results of those
Speaker:patterns I've seen in different leadership abilities. Instead of
Speaker:taking the bad and making it worse, I've learned from others
Speaker:bad and good, and applied it to myself to become a
Speaker:transformational leader. And I encourage you to do the same. I
Speaker:also want to point out, there is a difference in poor spiritual
Speaker:leadership versus bad. I've seen poor leadership. But that does
Speaker:not mean it's bad. Poor leadership has the power to
Speaker:improve and should. If the poor leadership does not improve, it
Speaker:then enters into the bad. A good name is better than a precious
Speaker:perfu and the day of one's death better than the day of one's
Speaker:birth. So what makes a good leader versus a bad? Do we
Speaker:really know? How do we know? Today I want to share five
Speaker:signs, you may be under good spiritual leadership, and what
Speaker:good leadership should be do and look like. Here's the thought. I
Speaker:do think a person can be born a leader. I believe one can have
Speaker:tendencies and propensities, along with a generational
Speaker:aptitude that shows leadership and innately draws people to
Speaker:follow them or their example. Why I believe that is because I
Speaker:believe Jesus was born a leader. He was then grew and grew to
Speaker:excel in his leadership. We also know we are born to love, we
Speaker:have to be taught to hate. Leadership is love. Leadership
Speaker:ranks high as the most popular training yet fails the most in
Speaker:its results, conversion rate and measurable success data. People
Speaker:do not think they need leadership training. I find it
Speaker:interesting how many spiritual leaders insist on training their
Speaker:leaders, but have never set to be trained themselves. first
Speaker:sign of good leadership, you will hear them speak often of
Speaker:attending training, conferences, events, meeting people and or
Speaker:learning new skill sets. Often, I try to attend at least one to
Speaker:two events or conferences globally. And annually just to
Speaker:plug in, see what the new trends are and what is transformational
Speaker:in leadership. Just like the normal workforce, you have to go
Speaker:to recertification training or take some type of advanced
Speaker:placement courses to keep your job. I remember speaking at a
Speaker:particular leadership conference for ministry, and I heard people
Speaker:around me criticize and say, what's the point of that
Speaker:conference? They never even bothered to look at the
Speaker:different tracks offered or even asked me what the basis was for
Speaker:the conference or my specific topic. I would be speaking on,
Speaker:instead, be criticized. Now mind you, these same leaders have
Speaker:asked to speak at this event would have said yes
Speaker:And these same leaders are still stuck in their leadership today,
Speaker:they have missed several opportunities because instead of
Speaker:seeking God about something different, they criticize
Speaker:criticism. An underestimation of a person or event will keep you
Speaker:stuck when you should be catapulted forward. When you
Speaker:look at the dynamics of a catapult, it means acceleration
Speaker:and steps, skipped. leaders who criticize and underestimate, do
Speaker:not get to pass go, cannot collect $200 they are really
Speaker:forced to go to jail in prison of stagnation. They then have to
Speaker:walk out a season or process God intended for them to skip over.
Speaker:Now, if your leadership is missing things, so are you as a
Speaker:body, I tend to choose conferences or events out of my
Speaker:state and culture, and even denomination, me plugging into
Speaker:what who I already know, is just me going to an event. You cannot
Speaker:learn from what and who you already know. Good leadership
Speaker:knows how to explore new avenues, and meet new people.
Speaker:Bad leaders have horrific. And I do mean horrific social skills
Speaker:and can only function on the sheep shed, or farm. Good
Speaker:leadership personally stays plugged into the source. Jesus
Speaker:broke away to pray. He left the group, the familiar, good
Speaker:leadership makes it a point to stretch themselves. They are
Speaker:fishers of men, a good leader learns to figure out life and
Speaker:the people in it. Jesus walked through the earth or in other
Speaker:words traveled about I met my mentor at an event I saw an
Speaker:event bright about Christian business and leadership. A few
Speaker:years back, when I first returned to America, the reason
Speaker:I attended is because I know as statistics have shown that the
Speaker:world we live in actually changes dramatically, every four
Speaker:years, and the church every 30. What I knew when I left was not
Speaker:what was happening when I returned, I was plugging in on
Speaker:that panel was my now mentor. That would have never happened.
Speaker:If when I looked at the email said, I don't know these people.
Speaker:But I didn't know the topic did it matter who was teaching it?
Speaker:If I got there and saw it was not for me, I do know how to
Speaker:walk out. I also didn't under estimate my mentor. He and his
Speaker:wife are multimillionaires in transforming the globe, and a
Speaker:man and woman of color. But you would never know that by judging
Speaker:his outward appearance. He was the most unassuming of all the
Speaker:speakers. He's not popular, but very well known. He's not on
Speaker:social media, yet he has developed one of the world's
Speaker:most dynamic digital platforms used around the world. And I
Speaker:could go on and on. But I could have brushed him off because I
Speaker:had never heard of him or seen him publicly. But why do that?
Speaker:people heard about the Messiah coming, but took years for that
Speaker:revealing or even people to lay eyes upon him. And some never
Speaker:did. I heard my mentors heart and spirit. It wasn't until
Speaker:years later I even learned and then learning about who he truly
Speaker:is and what he has. What I shared with you about him was
Speaker:not disclose while he was on the panel. While on the panel. He
Speaker:talked about the kingdom of God, what it looks like and what it
Speaker:should mean to you. As a business professional and
Speaker:leader. I have learned that hearing a person's heart and
Speaker:spirit is not really what people want. They want false facade,
Speaker:fake power, and phony show me Show me outwardly. And this is
Speaker:the basis most people use to connect with another and even
Speaker:the church. When people judge or underestimate people in things.
Speaker:All it really tells me is what's in your heart and how you see
Speaker:things. People who underestimate people don't see God. For the
Speaker:pure at heart shall see God. A treasure has to be found and
Speaker:what great treasure we have an earthen vessels, we often
Speaker:overlook and underestimate. Good leaders. Learn, stretch and
Speaker:explore the second sign of good spiritual leadership. You will
Speaker:hear a progression in Revelation or insight. Good leadership
Speaker:spends time with the Father earnestly. A good leader knows
Speaker:how to progress and wants to
Speaker:They know how to seek the father and cry out until the Lord for
Speaker:an answer, new revelation and insight. They know the signs of
Speaker:burnout and know when and how to get the time they need. Their
Speaker:well is full and does not run dry. Their insight is
Speaker:progressive. The third sign of good leadership shows evident
Speaker:individual growth and transformation. like Christ who
Speaker:grew in stature. A revelation in itself has up to 1 million or
Speaker:more revelations. So just because something is shared with
Speaker:you from the Father, it does not mean you're supposed to share it
Speaker:to the world the next week, you haven't processed it all fool,
Speaker:Vince, all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back. A bad
Speaker:leader takes you through their deliverance, but a good one
Speaker:won't. One does not know when they are going to get delivered
Speaker:from a thing. Good leadership, understand this process and
Speaker:waits on God to reveal the victory and uses wisdom and what
Speaker:they share. This is why the Bible says confess one to
Speaker:another, not confessed tons to the ABA. I carranger. When a
Speaker:pastor says he or she is dealing with a thing right now, I
Speaker:promise you in six months here, she will still be dealing with
Speaker:deliverance and healing is a process. Let the revelation
Speaker:reveal itself. If you don't, you keep people in your cycle,
Speaker:unprocessed and not redeemed. I'm dealing with patients check
Speaker:their message four months from now, they still will be dealing
Speaker:with patients. I'm dealing with obeying the father, check it a
Speaker:year from now, same thing. I'm dealing with my waiting Hill,
Speaker:nine months down the line, you will hear it again. You hear my
Speaker:country coming out. Because now there is no regulation. Once you
Speaker:speak a trouble and struggle to the wrong people. A war can then
Speaker:take place for your freedom. The blessing to heal you is fighting
Speaker:with the curses distill you away from your victory. Once again
Speaker:the enemy and you giving him too much information. Oh, you have a
Speaker:problem with sugar? Well, let me tell you everywhere you turn
Speaker:from that point on sugar is there. Good leaders allow
Speaker:themselves the private process. Sometimes people talk to make
Speaker:people think they are really working on it or being
Speaker:transparent. That's all it is talk. I do not talk about and
Speaker:have not talked about anything that I'm currently having to get
Speaker:healed or delivered from, or the father is teaching me at the
Speaker:moment on this podcast. I have to let God work that victory out
Speaker:in me and then share when I am released and restored. What the
Speaker:father shares with me to share with you is different from what
Speaker:I'm going through. And it should be I share the gospel and the
Speaker:redeem me, I have to work out my own soul salvation, not through
Speaker:you and not the pulpit, the jaida This is the transparency
Speaker:move it keep it 100 tell your story seeds and keep it real
Speaker:baby. I'm not that interested in a person's transparency. I want
Speaker:the truth. The word transparency means to be easily perceived or
Speaker:open for one to detect optic to see the ability for light to
Speaker:pass through. So the object can be distinctively seen. When you
Speaker:decide to be transparent according to the definition, you
Speaker:then give me the right to determine your authenticity or
Speaker:truth. Not because you tell me Are you hearing me. There are
Speaker:people who are transparent and not delivered and not
Speaker:transformed. And I can see you because your transparency lets
Speaker:me see that. Transparency does not mean you're being real. The
Speaker:light will determine that say law.
Speaker:Transparency can deceive. That's why money has what's called a
Speaker:watermark and other markings that can only be detected when
Speaker:held up to the light or under a particular detecting light to
Speaker:reveal the authenticity, the truth. The light allows me to
Speaker:see if the transparency is authentic, not saying you are
Speaker:the light is the truth detector, not the transparency. Therefore,
Speaker:your transparency does not touch people. teach people, test
Speaker:people bring forth the truth and people and then transform
Speaker:people.
Speaker:I'm out. Jesus challenges were mainly addressed in the garden,
Speaker:not with the disciples, definitely not amongst the
Speaker:people. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and pray. Luke
Speaker:516, and mind you he had the burden of the cross is tire
Speaker:life. Think about it. Some people are using transparency as
Speaker:a way to be lazy and not go to the cross about the matter and
Speaker:be set free. It's an excuse to stay searching and comfortable.
Speaker:There has to be an answer people. Admitting something,
Speaker:being honest about something or transparent is the first step
Speaker:out of money in order for one to be made free. Good leadership
Speaker:allows oneself to be process, a yielded vessel, okay, and the
Speaker:more I see the problem, let's work at fixing it. I trust you
Speaker:with me, and I trust the process. In order for picture to
Speaker:come to its full light, there has to be process in the
Speaker:darkness. Good leaders have a personal relationship with the
Speaker:Father for their own life, and not just an outward public
Speaker:persona. They purpose to live the life they preach, not for
Speaker:show, but because they believe in our true believers. Good
Speaker:leadership believes in the leadership of Jesus Christ. Good
Speaker:leaders truly love the Lord and their leadership is integrated
Speaker:into their being and not a separate performance. I believe
Speaker:when you have an outward anointing, and also live in
Speaker:right standing life before the Lord privately, your anointing
Speaker:is greater outwardly. The fourth good sign of good leadership is
Speaker:that they have good relationships. Unlike bad
Speaker:leaders who fall out with everyone all the time. Every 90
Speaker:days they will be preaching about their enemies and jealousy
Speaker:or backstabbers. They have had five different secretaries six
Speaker:armor bearers seven minstrel music and a 10 year span. That's
Speaker:also not normal. Good leaders have good relationships, and you
Speaker:can often see the genuine respect in their relationships
Speaker:with others. Good leadership is respected in a way that others
Speaker:often admire and desire. It's not a manipulated or forced
Speaker:respect. People love them honestly with a pure heart and
Speaker:admire the leadership of Christ. They exude. They have learned
Speaker:how to learn and work with others. Good leadership has very
Speaker:public healthy relationships. They don't have multiple falling
Speaker:outs. They don't have public favorites. Good leaders have a
Speaker:reputation of handling matters well, and people and just about
Speaker:everyone that same when possible. They know how to let
Speaker:people go properly, without making slack comments or into
Speaker:Windows to the congregation or online or cryptic text on social
Speaker:media. No subliminal messaging going on, or everyone trying to
Speaker:guess who they are talking about? who just left the
Speaker:ministry. Let's see who ain't here. Let's count. Good leaders
Speaker:are good losers. They know how to lose and keep playing. As
Speaker:much as leadership loves sports. I wonder do they learn from
Speaker:them? Some of the greatest winners are the worst losers.
Speaker:And some of the worst losers are the worst players. And some of
Speaker:the greatest winners are great and healthy losers. But the
Speaker:question comes down to which would you rather be no one likes
Speaker:to watch the antics of a sore loser. As a game has many of the
Speaker:same dynamics as Life and Leadership. You win some and you
Speaker:lose some. Our hope in Christ is our good outweighs our bad, good
Speaker:leadership loses some games and even people and at times their
Speaker:best players. However, they can regroup, rebuild and keep
Speaker:moving. They were not or may not have been responsible for the
Speaker:loss and can handle the deficit. Good leaders treat people right
Speaker:no matter what, as mentioned, in the Business Women's podcast.
Speaker:The fifth type of good spiritual leadership has a successor 65%
Speaker:of ministries don't have successors or even businesses
Speaker:and the number is even higher in churches or businesses of color.
Speaker:When I was growing up, my natural father would always say
Speaker:to be jayda. Come here, and let me show you how to do this. And
Speaker:to do that, just in case I'm not here, or when I'm gone. I can
Speaker:change a toilet if I need to. My father did not want any
Speaker:interruptions in the order of our home in his absence. He
Speaker:would choose me over my mother and two brothers. He saw how I
Speaker:executed his requests and made
Speaker:sure that what he said was done, good leadership has identified
Speaker:his or her successor, they usually have the same anointing
Speaker:and or greater and is being specifically groomed to carry
Speaker:the torch and has been identified, especially if your
Speaker:pastor or leader is 55 years and older. When I used to run track,
Speaker:and sometimes relays I practice, we had to practice passing the
Speaker:baton, we had to stand still and pump our arms. And the person
Speaker:behind us who was passing the baton would say, pass, and we
Speaker:had to practice putting out our hand and then placing the baton.
Speaker:So we would not fall to the ground, we would pump our arms
Speaker:like this, and the person would say, pass, and then we would
Speaker:turn just our hand so that we wouldn't waste time. And he
Speaker:would place the baton in our hand, looking backwards to catch
Speaker:the baton with precious seconds wasted, that you could not do
Speaker:when running. Any position I have, I tried to pick one person
Speaker:to invest into and tell them you are my next you are the one to
Speaker:take it from here, the truth of the ministry, your business or
Speaker:your family will be exposed and you will see it was about the
Speaker:person and never the people or the promise when they pass away
Speaker:if a successor is not chosen, this is wrong. This is out of
Speaker:order and a spirit of error. Someone recently gave me a
Speaker:proposition. But my prerequisite to learn was that I have to
Speaker:commit to teaching another a bonus point for good leaders.
Speaker:And this is my last that they put others and give others
Speaker:platform. They let others shine as they should they let them
Speaker:lead. Good leadership recognizes and brings the leadership of
Speaker:Christ out of others. I end with this. When the righteous are in
Speaker:authority, the people rejoice. But when the wicked man rules,
Speaker:the people groan.
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