PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

LECTURE BY: REV. PASTOR ALO OLATOKUNBOH (LECTURER MEBICS INTERNATIONAL.)

@

MESSIAH BIBLE COLLEGE & SEMINARY INTERNATIONAL

ON

15TH SEPTEMBER, 2011

KEY POINTS:

→ THE SEED FACTOR IN MAN→ THE PROCESS OF GROWING THE SEED→ REASONS FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT → PROCESS OF BECOMING RELEVANT → IMPORTANT POINTS TO NOTE→ SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

THE SEED FACTOR IN MAN

• IN EVERY MAN CREATED BY GOD, THERE IS A SEED (Gen. 1: 11) AND THE SEED COULD BE

ANY OF THESE:

AN UNDEVELOPED CAPACITY THE POTENTIAL IN YOU A MASTERPIECE THAT IS BEING PREPARED A KING WORKING AS A SLAVE

THE PROCESS OF GROWING THE SEED

• FOR A SEED TO GROW WHAT DO YOU DO TO IT?

SOW THE SEED – HOW?

BY DISCOVERING THE SEED, TRAINING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SEED, WORKING TO DEVELOP THE SEED, BE COMMITTED TO IT

REASONS FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Why should I develop myself?

“…IF YOU ARE RELEVANT, YOU WILL BE RECOGNISED” – 2/7/11 (Alo)

“IF YOU ARE RELEVANT, PEOPLE WILL SEEK YOU FOR COUNSEL” – 19/12/10 (Alo)

“IF YOU ARE RELEVANT, YOU BECOME A FORCE TO RECKON WITH” – 19/12/10 (Alo)

PROCESS OF BECOMING RELEVANT

You need INSIGHT to SEE the deep things that you carry inside of you

You need STRENGTH to SEEK and find what you need/have to achieve

You need SPIRITUAL POWER to SECURE your achievement

PROCESS OF BECOMING RELEVANT (Cont’d)

The process is like this:

Discover the SEED, then seek relevant INFORMATION, REVELATION and RELATION to DEVELOP and SECURE it, you can then use it on/for others – this is the essence of relevance

PROCESS OF BECOMING RELEVANT (Cont’d)

“When you relate with people, you get INFORMATION, but when you relate with God, you get REVELATION”

Both are required for your Personal Development

IMPORTANT POINTS TO NOTE

• In order to keep on being Relevant, you must not neglect your Personal Development

• If you want to keep on Leading, you have to keep on Learning, Paul told Timothy that he should “Commit to reading…” – I Timothy 4: 13

• You must not die with your music (sound that is pleasing to the ear) still in you

IMPORTANT POINTS TO NOTE

• Do not copy another person – “when you live as a copy cat you die as second best”

• Create your personal image, work on it and people will respect you for it.

• God created you as a different species, do not re-create yourself in another person’s image, you are the image of God – Gen.1: 26 – 28

SUMMARY

• AFTER GOING THROUGH THIS JOURNEY TOGETHER, I BELIEVE WE ALL AGREE THAT PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IS STRATEGIC TO ACHIEVING SUCCESS AND MANIFESTATION IN LIFE

CONCLUSION

THANK YOU AND

GOD BLESS