READ: 1 Kings 3:4-15
So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit of leadership, and lay your hand on him. Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence. Give him some of your authority so the whole Israelite community will obey him.” :- Numbers 27:18-20 (NIV)
When God appeared to Solomon, he wanted to go deeper into his calling of being a king and a leader. He wanted wisdom and understanding and knowledge so that he would be the best leader possible.
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
1 Kings 3:5-9
Many people in leadership positions are terrible leaders. The evidence of their fatally deficient leadership is the state of the nations that they lead. Most people in these leadership positions accomplish nothing and rather give speeches and excuses for their failings.
The ruins, the poverty, the joblessness, the corruption, the crime, the confusion, the despair, the deception and the outrageous daylight robbery by leaders are all evidence that they are incapable of doing the job.
It is important to desire to go deeper as a leader. It is important to pray like Solomon prayed otherwise your opportunity to lead will be littered with misadventures and self-inflicted calamities of leadership.
If you were put in charge of a huge ship that had one thousand containers on board and asked to steer it from a port in West Africa to Singapore I do not think you would know how to do it. Leadership is like that. Many leaders are like newly appointed captains of a ship who do not know how to turn on the engine or switch on the lights of a ship.
There is an anointing for leadership! There is a spirit of leadership. You can acquire that spirit of leadership. You can go deeper. Arise and press into the leadership anointing by studying and reading all that you can until the spirit of leadership is upon you.