My Top One Hundred
They say that life is divided into 3 phases. First is through age 40. In this time we learn, gain experience and grow. Second are the years 40 through age 60. This is the accumulation phase where we put all that experience to work and hit prime productivity. The last period is the years beyond 60. This represents the giving years where we get to give away everything we have learned and accumulated. Now that I have hit 51, I subscribe to the new data, which says that 40 is the new 20 therefore, fifty has to be the new 30… yes!
I would like to submit that life is lived best when we do not follow the norms and we begin to do all the above at the same time. Never stop growing, learning, producing, and giving everything you can, all at once. I think life is best lived! And it’s best lived on purpose. As I think about the future, I do not want to plan on quitting anything. Retiring sounds boring. Lucie thinks all my discussion of such things is a little overboard, she just shakes her head and tells me I make it too complicated. But I believe if you are living on purpose, then you must know what you are living for, and there is a lot to have a good time doing life. Sure there are tough times, but never let them cause you to quit living life with a zest. Below is my list of my top 100 things I’m goin’ for in life…(which I prefer over the top one hundred things to do before I die list..)
1. The greatest is to know God deeper and deeper and to walk with Him.
2. Bring transformation everywhere we can.
3. Complete my assignment on earth.
4. Love Lucie every day the rest of my life.
5. Be an in -touch dad to Jeff, Chris, Steph. and John through all the
phases of their life yet to come.
6. Never quit growing as a pastor…and love all the people at HWC.
7. Be a part of every revival on earth, and never miss a move of God.
8. Plant 1000 churches around the world with avg. attendance of five
hundred.
9. Train as many pastors as I can around the world so they can do better
than I have.
10. Write two books a year, primarily for my sons and spiritual sons so it
can pass on to the next generation.
11. Find ways to ensure the effect of our my ministry never stops.
12. Love as many people and get as many people to heaven as I can.
13. Help more orphans.
14. Expand All Nations School of Ministry to multiple locations all over the
world and train students for the 10-city mandate.
15. Help as many people as I can discover their gifting and get in the will of
God.
16. Never quit saying yes to God.
17. Never quit saying yes to people.
18. Preach in as many nations as I can.
19. Never become an antique.
20. Run some kind of a triathlon.
21. Keep getting better as a photographer.
22. Never quit growing in our giving.
23. Go to Israel with a HWC group.
24. Have a prayer cabin or maybe a prayer mountain for everyone.
25. Do a photographic book of Hong Kong to encourage the people of
Hong Kong into their destiny in God.
26. Do a companion photographic book for the Chinese.
27. Keep doing art for 10-city mandate.
28. Maybe have some art good enough to do a showing.
29. Take Lucie on a Mediterranean cruise.
30. Go to Formula 1 race in Monaco.
31. Make as many friends as I can in nations around the world.
32. Produce anointed worship cd’s with our worship team.
33. Go to Patmos and pray, hang out.
34. Do a photo safari across America.
35. Beat Jeff, Chris, and John at anything.
36. Win our yearly Monopoly game every year. No more letting others win.
37. Drive up Highway 1 in California in a convertible.
38. Never quit having new adventures in God.
39. Build our new sanctuary.
40. Have all property debt free.
41. Double leaders in our life groups every year.
42. Encourage our people to use the arts to reach people and show the
Glory of God.
43. Empower people to bring the transformation of the kingdom of God to
the 7 mountains of culture. (Whew! That’s a mouthful.)
44. Have teams going out all over the earth doing ‘the stuff’.
45. Stop suffering wherever we can.
46. Work with all our teams to see 100 people a week come to the
Lord at HWC.
47. Have the new churches do the same.
48. Laugh more and more and keep the serious me in check.
49. See as many things around the world I have never seen.
50. Go on another “Market tour” with Guine somewhere in the world!
That was the 2-hour outing that turned in the 12-hour national
tour of Thailand when we were jet lagged. Wow!
51. Go back and pet the Bengal tigers at the Buddhist temple with Guine.
Preferably in the afternoon when it is hot and they are sleepy and
won’t eat us.
52. Develop our publishing group to communicate the gospel through every
means possible.
53. Charter a boat and sail the British Virgin Islands.
54. Go meet Phil Pringle and C3 in Sydney, Aus., drop by Hillsong.
55. Spend a lot of time in the glory.
56. See the Terracotta Warriors.
57. Pray Jeff finds someone who will marry him.
58. See John graduate and get married some day.
59. Play with my grandchildren. (ya, like that is going to happen
anytime soon)
60. Keep developing my personal core values.
61. Make our International conference better every year to reach more
people from the nations.
62. HWC be a habitation for the glory of God, where people can come from
all over the world and be healed and empowered.
63. Believe for greater healing and miracle anointing in difficult cases.
64. Build a movement to reach, equip and train the remnant age (18-30)
across our city.
65. Live in the testimonies that witness about Jesus and His great works.
66. – 100. ????????????????????????
Ok, so my list is still a work in progress, just like me. Maybe you have some ideas that will help me finish my list. Please feel free to send me your thoughts. One thing is for sure…it does not take a long list to live our life with purpose. And it’s not about the pressure to find success through an endless litany of accomplishments. It is about about walking with the Lord and finding the fun and joy of an abundant overflowing life that He gives us… and living it to the full. I believe there is an elasticity with God and His promises. Just like a rubber band, the promises have elasticity to them. Many people only choose to believe for the minimum from Him while others want the maximum…the all things are possible to all people level of abundant life. So let His goodness over flow and live abundantly on purpose. Blessings. Let me hear from you.
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