Leadership is responsibility.

“Be careful about the way you live and about what you teach. Keep on doing this, and you will save not only yourself, but the people who hear you.”
1 Timothy 4:16(CEV)

If you cannot lead yourself well, you cannot be a good leader of others, because leadership begins with you.

The Lord Jesus also used this principle when He said in John 17:19, “And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” The Bible in Basic English puts it this way, “And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.”

This means that if you are a leader, you cannot lead people beyond your own experience. You can't take them where you have never been yourself. A minister of the gospel asked a question one time, he asked, “how can a bound preacher produce a loose church?” In other words, if the preacher is bound, the church cannot experience true liberty.

Leadership is influence, and everyone has a certain level of influence over others. There is someone whose life you are influencing, it could be a member of your family, it could be your friend, it could be your wife or your children, it could be your employees, it could be your cell members or your church members if you are a Pastor. Those who you are influencing can only become like you. It is a spiritual principle which you must be conscious of. You pass onto them your strengths and your weaknesses. It matters who your leader is.

Therefore if you are a leader reading this, know that you are a custodian  of the future. So if you have any weakness in your life don't hide it, deal with it so that it does not repeat itself in the next generation.

INSTRUCTION
Today I encourage you to pray for your Pastors and those who are in leadership over you;  pray for the supply of God's spirit towards them, also pray that they would carry out their responsibility of leadership to the end without reproach.

For further study read: 
Colossians 4:17, Acts 20:28, 1 Timothy 6:11-14,
1 Corinthians 4:1-2, 2 Timothy 4:5.

DOING THE WORD
Instead of criticizing your leaders, pray for them. And as a leader deal with your weaknesses.