Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

~ Hebrews 13:17

The text grants spiritual covering a threefold anatomy:

a man that wields a rulership over your soul,

The Spirit is saved but if the soul will be i) conformed and ii) kept in the body, a man must be positioned above a man in the realms of the spirit. Spiritual covering is therefore a spiritual office that answers every extra natural venture within the sphere of a person of interest. In that protocol, there is a bond provision between the manifestation in their heaven and the authority of the man that they are answerable to. Now that spirits answer to dominions before exerting upon the heart, what a glorious wisdom!

a conscious submission to a man's spiritual government,

Spiritual covering is a revelation and an elevation, it is not a coercion nor an incarceration. 'Submit, for they watch over your souls'. Judge, I beseech thee that if a physician cannot heal themselves, how much less can a soul bearer preserve their own souls? More than one person is needed to conduct a soul to its destiny in God, in which case one must be greater because without contradiction, a lesser should always be blessed by a greater, (Hebrews 7:7). I counsel you, have a greater, and accept the invitation to be the lesser.

an accountability framework,

A man that watches over souls must have one that watches over his own. For resonance sake, the generation has rebuffed the doctrine of spiritual covering because it has uncovered carnal rituals in the character of the aforementioned. This is easily solved: a man that is no longer holy has lost the accountability structure that legitimizes his oversight. Well, you are supposed to watch over my soul yet sinful eyes are blind! Friend, let them no longer threaten you with curses; submissions are not irrevocable: in fact they end when holiness dissipates. Only when you are accountable can you count me in.