PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The greatest price of leadership is personal development. The leadership that refuses to pay
the price of personal growth will soon forfeit his or her leadership role. Personal development is the primary growth. This price of leadership cannot be paid in once and for all. Never, it must be paid progressively and gradually. As matter of fact, it is a long life process.

The day your personal development stops, that day your leadership stops.

However, to some leaders, this price of personal development is too much for them to pay, the more reasons they are losing their leadership. This personal development or lack of it will show In every area of your life. Your home, leadership, relationship, ministry and future will be affected positively or negatively by your personal growth.
Biblical Foundations

1. That I may know Him. Eph.3:10
2. Forgetting those things that are behind. Eph.3:12-15
3. Apostle Paul always prayed for his under leader to be filled with all the fullness of God. Eph.1:17
4. Paul charged Timothy, to stir up the gift of God in him. 2tim.1:6.

Defining Personal Development
For better understanding of his this subject, the following meanings will help.

1. Character building, working on your weak areas.
2. Self Improvement.
3. Reaching forth beyond yourself.
4. Removing the lid or the ceiling that stops you.
   5)Attaining God's fullness.
5. Moving from grass to grace, to glory, glory.
6. Complete change
7. Moving from survival to stability, to success, to significance.