HOW DOES GOD SEARCH AND LEAD HIS PEOPLE TODAY?

HOW DOES GOD SEARCH AND LEAD HIS PEOPLE TODAY?
Psalms 139:23-24
(23) Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
(24) And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

In this wonderful passage, the Psalmist calls on God to search him and to lead him (among other things). This is a prayer asking for Divine oversight. As Christians, we can, we should pray the same prayer. But, if God answers this prayer, how does He do it today?

The easy, and accurate, partial answer is to say that God oversees our lives by searching and leading us with His Holy Spirit, and His word. If Christians would spend more time in private time with God, in serious surrender time to God, then there would be more searching and leading by the Holy Spirit and the Scriptures. But God has added another dimension, by which He searches and leads the Church today. He has given us the office of OVERSEERS (translated, "bishop") in the New Testament.
1 Timothy 3:1
(1) This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desires a good work.

The dignity and gravity that attends this office of oversight is demonstrated in the fact that Jesus is referred to as the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls.
1 Peter 2:25
(25) For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Does The Leadership In Your Church Meet These Criteria?
God tells us that church elders, those who are mature leaders in the church, are the same as bishops, and have the responsibility to feed and take oversight of the flock of God. These men are ruled by the fruit of the Holy Spirit and are endued with the power of the Holy Spirit and endowed with gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 20:28-29
(28) Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
(29) For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

1 Timothy 3:2-7
(2) A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
(3) Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
(4) One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
(5) (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
(6) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
(7) Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Titus 1:5-9
(5) For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou should set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
(6) If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
(7) For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
(8) But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
(9) Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

1 Peter 5:1-3
(1) The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
(2) Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
(3) Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.