Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

Every year I do a Live & Learn message where I recap the things God has been teaching me. Here are are a few of the lessons I'm learning this year:

1) Who you know is more important than what you know
2) You can't plan Pentecost
3) Normality is overrated
4) Don't let what's wrong with you keep you from worshipping what's right with God
5) I'd rather have 1 God idea than 1,000 good ideas
6) So Far So God
7) The Holy Spirit will complicate your life in ways it should be complicated
8) Sometimes it takes a shipwreck to get you where God wants you to go
9) God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go
10) Enjoy the Journey

Here are some "honorable mention" lessons:

Don't make your theology conform to your reality. Make your reality conform to your theology.
Easy answers produce shallow convictions
No doesn't always mean no
The reward for good work is more work
There are ways of doing church that no one has thought of yet
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers
Be the best cupbearer you can be
The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most
Take fun seriously
Either you will worship God with a capital "G" or you'll gods with a small "g"
The good news ought to make the news
The more influence you exert the larger the target on your back
Dream God-sized Dreams
The Holy Spirit Hovers Over Chaos
The imagination is the limit