S3 Ep. 6: Legacy Living — Stewarding Today with Tomorrow in Mind

Legacy isn’t just what you leave behind—it’s what you’re living right now.
In this episode, Allen and Stacy Jo Thorne explore how to move beyond survival mode and start building a spiritual heritage that outlasts you.

They dig into 2 Timothy 4:7 — “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”—and share practical steps for living intentionally, faithfully, and generationally.

💭 In This Episode

• How to shift from survival to legacy living
• Why spiritual heritage > material inheritance
• Lessons from Solomon’s wisdom and Joshua’s stones
• Building vision in a microwave culture
• Letting the Holy Spirit shape daily choices
• Choosing consistency over perfection
• Living generationally: making decisions that ripple forward

📖 Scripture References

2 Timothy 4:7 | Proverbs 13:22 | Deuteronomy 6:6-7 | Psalm 78:4 | Joshua 4 | Galatians 6:9 | Proverbs 22:6

🪴 Reflection Questions

1️⃣ What will my children or community say about my life?
 2️⃣ Where can I build spiritual heritage before material inheritance?
3️⃣ How can I invite the Holy Spirit into today’s decisions?
4️⃣ What consistent choices will matter in ten years?

🙌 Weekly Challenge

• Define your legacy.
• Pray for your children and generations to come.
• Choose integrity in one “small” moment this week.
• Remember: Someone’s blessing is on the other side of your obedience.

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Keywords: Christian legacy, faith and family, biblical stewardship, spiritual heritage, generational impact, 2 Timothy 4:7, Proverbs 13:22, Joshua 4, Galatians 6:9, Christian leadership, faith-driven entrepreneurs, legacy mindset, Holy Spirit guidance, consistent faith, Kingdom living

Transcript

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Are you ready to build a life, business and legacy that truly lasts? Welcome to Faithfully Invested with Allen and Stacy Jo Thorne, where Faith meets real talk. Biblical wisdom meets everyday life and leadership meets laughter. Together we will uncover God's blueprint for leadership, marriage, and mission, helping faith-driven leaders invest in what matters most. Each episode, we explore biblical wisdom, have real conversations, and of course, have some fun along the way because let's be real. Walking in faith is an adventure. It sure is. So pull up a seat, grab your coffee or your sweet tea, and join us as we steward our callings with intention, because when we invest in his kingdom, he brings the increase. Hey, welcome back to Faithfully Invested. We are so glad that you're here with us today. Every week we sit down and open up conversations about faith, family, leadership, and legacy, because those are the areas where God shapes who we are and how we live. Yes, and if you've been listening to us for a while, you know, we like to mix in real talk some laughter and but always God's word. So if you're new here, welcome. We are Allen and Stacy Jo. I'm Stacy Jo, right. And we are husband. Thanks for clarifying that, Babe You're welcome. And we are a husband and wife team who have walked through plenty of valleys and mountaintops. Right, babe? Oh yeah. And we've learned that the way to steward our lives, the way we steward our lives, matters not just for us, but for our generations to come. That's what this episode's all about today is legacy living. Yeah. How do we leave a legacy? What does that mean to steward today? With tomorrow in mind, how do we shift from just living today to leaving a spiritual heritage? So often it's con that leave a legacy. People confuse that when they, they think finance is first. Right? But today we're, we're really focusing on a spiritual legacy. Yeah. And our anchor verse for today is 2 Timothy 4:7, and that's where Paul declares, I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Mm. And that is the heartbeat of legacy. Not just making it through life, not just white knuckling it. Yeah. The whole way. But finishing well and leaving something that is lasting behind for generations to come. For your children, for your children's children and your children's, children's children. Right on. I heard a song like that before. Yeah, I'm sure. But uh. Most of, most of us spend, uh, more time planning for our vacations than we do planning for our legacy. And there's, that's true. There's probably something a little challenging with that. Uh, we, we may want to do some self-examination, but, uh, uh, if you had a, uh, if you, if we ever had a vision for the future, uh, we seem to have lost it somewhere along the mundane, daily minutiae. Yeah. I mean, it's. Really easy to lose the vision that the Lord planted in our hearts, and because we live in such a right now culture. Yeah. Everything is about instant gratification. Yeah. You know, immediate results, quick wins. You know how to make the, you know, we're not talking about money today, but how to make the money quick. Right. Easy to forget that the choices that we make today will ripple into tomorrow. Right. Whether they're good or whether they're bad. And not just for our tomorrow, but again for the generations after us. Yeah. That reminds me of as you're going through that, the, the quick this, the quick that, yeah. This, that and the other as a is a microwave. We're a microwave generation. Yeah. Oh yeah. We want everything now. Mm-hmm. Uh, and, and yesterday and, uh, it's, uh, mm-hmm. I think we have the internet to, to maybe not blame for that, but it certainly played a factor. And, you know, if, if, uh, quite honestly, if. If, uh, I don't get answers in three seconds, I get a little testy. And that's, uh, that's, uh, yeah. You're getting better with that. I am getting better with that. But you are getting better with that. That's the internet. You know, it gives us, uh, it, it is, uh, John Eldridge calls us disciples of the internet and we really, it, it's important to recognize that and, uh, and move forward. Yeah. And, and make corrections as needed. But, uh, I'd say more so than the. Well, I mean, obviously the internet, but AI now, I mean, with ai no, it's, it's the internet. I know it's still the internet, but like getting more nichey. Yeah. AI has really, yeah. What it does now is incredible. And how it can give you, you know, everything you need right now. Yeah, yeah. It's, it's important not to be too reliant on that. Correct. Uh, we have to, we have to remember that, you know, life is about. Is about one, first and foremost is about God and it's about us. Mm-hmm. And it's not always about having all the answers right now. Right. You know, if we, if, if we didn't have to look for the answers, if we didn't have to pray for the answers, then there would be no teachable moments. So we didn't go through the challenges. There wouldn't be teachable moments, so don't let, don't let the internet or the And we're not demonizing the internet. No, no, no. Not at all. Or ai Yeah. I mean, we're using the internet right now. Right. But, uh, for sure, uh, it's, it's, it's a gift, but we don't wanna abuse that guest. Right. And we're, we're not demonizing AI either. Yeah. Uh, there, there's a, a time and a place for everything Solomon wrote. Uh, but, um, anyway, uh, moving back to our mm-hmm. Topic, uh, the word, uh, speaking, um, Solomon. Yeah. Uh, in, in Proverbs, he, he wrote in, uh, chapter 13:22, A good man leaves an inheritance. Uh, to his children's children. Mm-hmm. And as wise as Solomon was, um, he may have been considering wealth as a part of that inheritance, uh, but we, uh, we could speculate that he was talking more about legacy. Especially in the Yahweh culture of Solomon's Day, uh, Solomon and, and other religious and political authorities, they, they would've considered sowing into their offspring, sowing into their communities, and sowing into their spiritual family, sowing into their family spiritually. Uh, and I'd say Solomon did fairly well at that. Uh, even as fallible as he was. And, and, and he was, uh, because, you know, he was human. Uh, but he was known as, uh, even as fallible as he was. He's wisdom's goat man. He is, he's right. He's the greatest of all, all time, uh, as well as you know. And he was also attributed to building Jerusalem's first temple. Yeah. I'd say that's a pretty good legacy. Solomon asked for wisdom. He did. He could have had anything. And uh, and he asked for wisdom. Yeah. And the Lord gave him wisdom. And so that kind of would go back to, you know, seek first the kingdom of God and then all else would be given to you. Right. You know, and he got a little abusive along the way, but you know, but the legacy that he was able to leave because he asked for wisdom. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, asking the right questions is important point. Mm-hmm. Right, and, and here's the truth. You know, if we don't steward our days with intention. Um, we will just drift into survival mode. And I speak firsthand because I have drifted into survival modes. I have white knuckled it through the days, through the nights, through the weeks. I would even venture to say through years. Yeah. And not recently, not basically definitely three years. Yeah. But we live. Paycheck to paycheck. And I'm not talking financial, I'm talking emotionally and spiritually, right? But legacy living requires vision. Right? And it requires us to think beyond ourselves. You know, ask the Lord, what do you have for me? Yeah. Receive what he has for you. Receive that vision. He puts those, those dreams and visions in your heart. He does. Um, but he also establishes the, the plan, the steps for those. Absolutely. Absolutely. And you know, I can remember a season, a long season, um, when I was just so focused on building a business. You know, I, I've said before, I was, I've been an entrepreneur since I was 10 years old, I think. Right? Um, but in the most recent season. Building business and being so focused on that, that I almost lost sight of building a spiritual heritage, right? Um, even though my planner was full, my heart was not right. My heart was empty, and I realized that if I wasn't careful, at some point I was gonna leave behind profits, which isn't a bad thing. But I wasn't gonna leave behind prayers. Yeah. And I was gonna leave behind strategy for the businesses, but I wasn't going to leave spiritual seeds and that was not a place I wanted to be. Right. I want my generations to come to know that everything, even in business, comes from prayer. Yeah, absolutely. The seeds that we sow into others and into our community and. Into, you know, our, our church. Right. And you've learned in between 2019 and which is when mm-hmm. You, uh, you started Freedom Support Solutions. Yeah. Uh, to. To now, the, and, and you've come to the point where you're leaving the spiritual legacy, where you're teach, you're leading by example, uh, of how to lead, leave a spiritual legacy. It was tough the first few years, but what you've built from, from an idea that the Lord gave you mm-hmm. Uh, it, it was hard. Yeah. It was, it was, uh, there, you put in unfathomable hours. Uh uh. Missed a few marks and that, but what, what's so what? To your credit, it was challenging back th it was challenging through the journey, but to your credit, you've learned, you've picked up the teachable moments all along the journey. Yeah. To, to be here now. Not, and not saying, well, look what I've done right. You know, look, look what, but more So look what the Lord has done. It's all him. And look what the Lord has done and, and not, and not to be satisfied with what's been built to this date. But to start from here, this is the benchmark to move forward from here. And the question now is, Lord, where do you want to take this? Right. Where do you want to? So it's not a, it was tough through it. But the, but the value has been in the teachable moments. Yeah. And you've done a fantastic job there. Aw, thanks babe. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. And, uh, I can somewhat relate to that. Mm-hmm. It's, uh, I mean through between work and, and ministry and, and writing for both. Mm. Uh, and not to mention require travel. I missed out on substantial amount of family time. Uh, and I came into the kids' life late as it was, and, and when they needed a dad, uh, who modeled Faith, I, I got, I'll just admit it. Uh, or back in 2011. Oh. The early years. Yeah, the early years. Uh, I missed the mark severely, severely back then I thought just being a good provider was all that was required. Mm-hmm. And I was way off there. And fortunately, uh, you know, we've had time to, uh, and we've had plenty of opportunities to grow together as a family through the years. And, and we've had time to, uh, and I've had time to, and we've had time to improve on our legacy score. Oh yeah. Yeah. Praise the Lord. Thank the Lord. Yeah. And, and, and, uh, and we've, and like I just mentioned with you, we, we both have, we've improved our legacy score. We've, we've learned along the way, we've captured the teachable moments and, and. And that prepares us for the challenges that are ahead. Uh, so I guess we're doing all right there. Yeah. Uh, so I would, I would just thank the Holy Spirit for that because he's, he's the, the spirit of truth that brings us all the truth, is what the word says. And it was, it was his truth and, and his conviction over the years that have, that have helped teach us along the way, uh, and continues right now to say, Hey. You know, you ain't there, you know, there's still room for improvement. And the cool thing is that we're all interested in finding, still finding those teachable moments along the way.'cause it, it just, it just keeps getting better. And I love what our, our, our brother and sister, uh, Dick and Brenda Smith says, the best is yet to come. Absolutely. And you know, I think we all have moments where. Where we just come to the realization that we're not stewarding today with tomorrow in mind. Yeah. Um, that we're just trying to get through the day, like I said before, white knuckling it. Yeah. And I did that, you know, I did that for a long time. That's tough stuff. Um, yeah. Doing it, I don't wanna say a long time. I did that for a while. Um, just thinking that it was in, you know, surviving in my own strength. Yeah. You know, but survival mode is not where it's at. You learn and you learn that it wasn't right. So, and, and you've greatly improved on that. Yeah. And recognize that there's still room for improvement. That's the key recognizing. And one of the keys, there are many keys. Mm-hmm. But one of the keys is recognizing that we have not arrived, we have not, there's still room for improvement. Where does our improvement come from? Whose ways are higher and greater? Yahweh's, um, anyway, have it Yahweh. You wanna go Yahweh? Yeah. Have it Yahweh. But, um, so, uh, survival isn't, uh, the same as legacy. No. And I think we've, we've nailed that down. Legacy asked. What am I building for the next generation? Mm-hmm. That's, that's somewhat self-explanatory. And when I think of legacy, I, I love the book of Joshua. Yeah. Jo Joshua is a warrior. It reminds me of, uh, Joshua and the 12 Stones and, um. Never through Joshua's life, uh, was he, did he ever just consider survival? Joshua was a warrior. Yeah. Through and through. And that's what defines his legacy. He's known as the Lord's Warrior, and we, we have a over on our wall somewhere, as for me and my house. We will serve the Lord. That's Joshua. Yeah. You know, but, and Joshua four, um, tells the story of, of how Joshua led God's people across the Jordan mm-hmm. On dry land. And, and along the way, they pulled 12 stones from the Jordan and Joshua said. So he led them and, and they took the 12 stones and they set'em up on Gilgal as a memorial site to share with future generations. And uh, and he said when they ask, when your children ask, tell your children how God dried up the waters of the Jordan and allowed you to cross on dry ground mm-hmm. By this. All the earth will know that the hand of the Lord is mighty. So, uh, so that you may revere the Lord your God. Forever. Forever. Forever. Yeah. And that's what I'm talking about. That's legacy right there. That's about a solid of an example of God-centered legacy as, as I could, uh, come up with, with the exception of Jesus. Of course, you know, I say that Jesus left a pretty good legacy as well, you think? Yeah. Yeah, I would say so babe. Yeah, absolutely. Of all time, right? Definitely. Yeah. Um, you know, likewise, you know, Psalm 78:4 says, we will not hide them. From their children, we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord. His power and the wonders he had done has done legacy means our children and even their children. Yeah. That they will know the stories of God's faithfulness because we live them out loud. Yeah. And I mean, they see. God's faithfulness in our lives. Yeah. They see that and the declaration or you know, that's a declaration, what you said as for me in my house. Yeah. We will serve the Lord. Yeah. That's a declaration that, that we, um, have had hanging on our wall for years. Yeah. And through the trials. Through the trials. Yeah. Yeah. And we have started to, we see the fruit of that in our children. Yeah. We can see the generation. Uh, coming after us that loves the Lord that it sees and recognizes his faithfulness. Um, and who really want to steward well, what God has given them. Right, right. It's all coming back around. Yeah. Just like he said it would Exactly. Just like he said it would. So the scripture raise up a child in the way they should go and they shall never depart from it. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's true. We were concerned, and I will get a little, uh, kind of super personal, uh, we were concerned, uh, uh, our, because our, our kids mm-hmm. Uh, went through some stuff. Mm-hmm. And, uh, it was tough early in their life and, and they. Kind of went their own ways. Mm-hmm. And we were pretty concerned about that. I, I, I, they came into my, uh, I came into their lives very late. Yeah. And, uh, so we were concerned about their, their spiritual wellbeing. And, and the Lord said that he's got'em all. Yeah. And they're all coming back. And lo and behold, 2025, they're all coming back. Um, in Jesus name. In Jesus name. That's right. So when he says it. He says it. That's right. And that's all that needs to, and we hold onto it and we hold onto that in his timing. Mm-hmm. And it's, uh, that's the good stuff right there, man. That's right. So legacy requires discipline. Mm. Oh, you, yes, it does. You must have discipline. Wax on, wax off every, every time. Right, right. You got it. You got it. Because every time I, I, uh, not every time, but whenever I, uh, hear the word discipline, I, I think of me Gie and Daniel saying, oh, Daniel son, you rock a discipline. And he did at the time. But anyway, but I remember Kar, oh, Allen saw the original. You were rocket discipline. But, uh, um. But anyway, uh, laughter. Hey, it's part of it. We warn you. You told you legacy requires discipline. We didn't tell you there'd be pop culture as well, but you know, well, you know, I'm a bit full of it. You are. Uh, but anyway, legacy does require discipline. When our, when our flesh wants comfort, uh, it requires faith. When the world screams fear. Yeah. And, and it does, faith overcomes fear and faith and fear can't coexist. Mm-hmm. So, uh, and it require, uh, legacy requires humility when we'd rather build our own name than building God's kingdom. Yeah. Uh, we all have a, we all have a decision to make. Are we gonna live by the flesh or are we gonna walk into spirit? Uh, one leaves. While the other, other one leaves a legacy. Mm-hmm. For generations and generations and generations to know and more so believe that our creator, father God, has created us all on purpose for his purpose. And when we decide to pursue his higher and greater plan, all is well on the legacy front. Amen. Amen. Amen. So how you might ask, how do we begin living with legacy in mind? So of course we have some practical truths that we've learned along the way. And the first one is define what legacy means for you. So again, legacy isn't just financial, it's spiritual, it's emotional, it's relational. And so ask, what do I want my children or my community to say about my life? I'm gonna ask you, Allen, what, what do you want your children or community to say about your life? You know, before I get into me, um, we're, we're 11 days, uh, as we record this we're 11 days, uh, after the, the Charlie Kirk assassination. Mm-hmm. And, uh, mm-hmm. Two months before. Uh, Charlie was murdered. He was asked, what do you, what do you want to be remembered for? And he's, he is like, if I die, and, uh, I mean,'cause he didn't know. No one knew this was coming, right? Uh, and guy said, yeah, uh, if everything, if if it goes down, you know, what do you want to be remembered for? And he says, I want to be remembered for, for my courage, for my faith. Mm. Uh, and not to, not to carbon copy. Uh, Charlie, uh, who was, and we've had some great evangelists in our time. I think of, uh, Ryan, uh, Ryer. Bonky I think of, and I, I hope I didn't butcher his name there, but, uh. Reverend Bonky and, uh, Billy Graham, obviously, obviously, but Wow. Uh, in this, in this generation of, of, of, how about that? Charlie Kirkman? Mm-hmm. He was something very special. Yeah. And, uh, anyway, to be, but back to your question, uh, rest in peace. Charlie and I, I cannot wait to see. The, uh, evolution, uh, if I use that term Yeah. Of turning point USA, uh, yeah. It's on. Yeah, it is. Uh, watch what the Lord does now. Uh, he will use what the enemy means for evil and he will turn it around and he will use it for good. And that's exactly what we've seen, and I believe that's exactly what we're going to see because yes, there is a legacy there. There is a massive legacy and it, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but you what? I, I don't want a carbon copy, uh, Charlie, but I was, uh, you know, I, those of you who know me and or may, we've talked about it, you know, I've, I came out, I, I come from a recovery background. The first, uh, half of my life was very tainted. Uh, with drugs and alcohol and, uh, lousy behavior and, and woundedness mm-hmm. Is where it all was rooted in. But, but I don't, I don't want to be remembered for that guy. And, you know, there's some people that haven't seen me since then and those, and that's the guy they'll remember, but I, that's what I don't want to be remembered for, you know, is it, was that good time? Uh, and we had some good times, but man, we certainly did not honor the Lord. But what I, what I do want to be remembered for is the, the transformation that the Lord started in me in 2009 and, uh, and, and who, he's the sanctification process along the way, the transformation along the way, I want to be remembered for, uh. For loving Jesus as, as best as I could when I learned how to do so. When? When, yeah, when, I mean, he rocked me. I mean, that he pulled me out of a bar. Mm. And, uh, and set me in his house the very next morning. And it's, I, I could go on and on, but I want to be, uh, I wanna be remembered for. Uh, who God created me to be. Mm. Uh, and I want to be remembered for the, the, the new man. Yeah. Uh, the word says, uh, upon our, our confession of Christ is Lord. The, the, the old is gone and the new has come. And I, I've mentioned this before on our podcast, is, uh, something that Graham Cook says, uh, that Graham cook's one of our favorite English prophets. And, uh. Contemporary and he said, uh, the, the old guy, um, that old man, uh, God didn't wanna, God didn't wanna fix him up either. Right. That's why he killed him. That's why he crucified him with Christ. Mm-hmm. He wasn't interested in fixing up the old guy. He is interested in sanctifying by his spirit, the, the new man. So I wanna be remembered for the new man and, and all that God has done since he. He pulled me out of that bar since he, that's good. Put me on since he showed me the cracks and the foundation that I was living on and set me on a firm foundation and, uh, showed me how to build from his cornerstone. Yeah. That's good babe. There's a long answer. You're good for your long answers. You know, for me, I want to, I want to be known for loving people. Well, yeah. I want to be known for stewarding relationships. Well, and I haven't always been known for stewarding relationships well. Mm-hmm. But I want to be known now after, you know, since my transformation, I want to be known for stewarding relationships with honor and humility, like we talked about in the last episode. Right. Um. And helping people find freedom, you know, the transformation that they need to be able to walk free from the, the chains. Yeah. That bind them up. That's it. Whether it's, whether it's spiritual, emotional, financial, whatever it is. Absolutely. So that's what's legacy. I wanna leave. That's what Reviving Recovery is all about and is, is showing people that. So yeah. And I'm so grateful to be able to be doing that with you. Same. And I love what, when, when Pastor Todd commissioned us to, to do that, he's like, he's like, you're gonna do this. He looks at me, he is like, you're gonna do this, but you can't do it without her. Right? And I'm like, okay, cool. I know where she lives. Exactly. But, uh, so, so excellent stuff babe. Thanks for sharing that. It's so good. Um, so also, uh, as we move onto our, into our second point, we wanna, we want to build, uh, spiritual heritage before. Material inheritance. Mm-hmm. Spiritual heritage over material inheritance. Um, I love what Deuteronomy says in, in chapter six, uh, verses six and seven. Uh, it says, these commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts and press them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you, when you walk along the road, when you light out and when you get up before finances. Consider a faith legacy, consider eternity over modernity. Mm, that's good. Right on. I, I think about, you know, I, I wouldn't be where I am today. Right? If it wasn't for the spiritual guidance and the prayers more than anything. Right. Of my mom and my grandma. Truth. They built a spiritual heritage. Yeah. And I know that our kids are where they are today because of, of our prayers. Yeah. And I just wanna encourage you, pray for your children. That alone builds, will build a spiritual heritage. Yeah. Talk to them. I remember. I remember, I remember my grandma, you know, being in the car with my grandma and it didn't matter where we were going. We were doing Bible trivia. Right. You know, she was always quizzing me on the Bible. And it was so fun. She taught me all the songs and, and she read me the stories and my mom read the stories. Yeah. And I had, you know, my grandparents had bought me the, the bible story books. Yeah. And so, uh, that was my favorite thing to read as a little girl. Um, her have read to me where those bible story books, right. Pray for your children, read with your children. Right. Teach them the Bible stories. And I can't say I've been, I was excellent in my younger, younger parenting days of doing that with my children. Right. Um, they were always in church, but I didn't always take the time to build the spiritual heritage back then. Right. Yeah. What we've learned along the way has been extreme, exponentially transforming. Yes. Right. Um, the third truth would be to let the Holy Spirit shape your daily choices. So, you know, legacy isn't built in one big moment, right? Nothing happens like that. It's Nope, nothing good happens like that, right? Most of the time. But it's built in thousands of small. Moments. Uh, small moments. Yeah. Yeah. And inviting the Holy Spirit into those daily decisions, you know, asking him what to say, how to love, how to serve, right. How you do those things creates a ripple effect. It does. And you know, I know we're not necessarily talking about. Financial, but with the business, you know, we, I, I pray now into every decision that I make with the business because I know that if I make the wrong decision, yes, the Lord can use whatever the enemy means for evil and turn around and use it for good. But I have to consult with him as to what the decisions are because I've learned, I've learned the hard way. Yeah. That. My choices create that ripple effect. So I want my children to have the legacy of the businesses that have been built right, and making sure that I. Ask the Holy Spirit what those decisions are. Right? And not just about the business, but, but everything, uh, the, the, uh, you want them to see how you've built that business spiritually. And, and they're, they're very prayerful kids. And they're not kids. They're, they're adults. Adults, yeah. You know, late twenties something and, and early thirties somethings and they are, they're some praying. Ladies. Yeah. And you know, to know that when I'm not on, so we have staff meeting once a week, and to know that even when I'm not on staff meeting, which a lot of times I'm not, because Jocelyn runs the staff meetings now, but I know that they open up in prayer. Yeah's important. That's how staff meeting runs at Freedom Support Solutions. Yep. Um, the decisions are made with, with the Holy Spirit. That's it. That's it. Invite him into our dailies. That's it. That's it. So, uh, number four is choosing consistency over perfection. Mm. Uh, and perfection's got nothing to do with it. If, if that one, there's only one Perfect. One. And, uh, it's not me. It's not, uh, not even Stacy Jo. No. Uh, and it's not you friends. Uh, so, uh, perfection. If, if, if we were perfect, then we'd have no use for teachable moments. There'd be nothing to learn. There'd be no place to go. Uh, and, and no, we couldn't grow If everything was perfect and what fun would it be? If we were all perfect, that'd be pretty boring existence. So, but anyway, point consistency over perfection. Yeah. Uh, your kids, your coworkers, your friends, they don't want, they don't need Perfect. Right. What they need is you to be faithful. Mm-hmm. Uh, Galatians again, Paul's. Pistol to, uh, I love Paul's work. You know, I mean, there's a whole lot to love. Yeah. I mean, you wrote like two thirds of the, the New Testament. That's not, but, uh, Galatians six nine says, let us not grow weary of doing good for at the proper time. You'll reap a harvest if you don't give up. That's what I'm talking about. Don't give up. Don't ever give up. Yeah, don't ever give up. Don't ever. I, again, I'm going back to prayer. Don't ever give up the prayer prayers for your children. Yeah. Don't ever give them up. That's the reason I'm breathing right now, is I, I firmly, firmly believe the prayers of my mom. Mm. Uh. Yeah, for sure. Brought me through for sure. Yeah. And I was, I was a sub, I was substantially disobedient back in the day. But, uh, anyway, mom, mom always, always prayed, man. Yeah, she always prayed. Consistency is always key. Absolutely. In anything. So the next, the final one, number five, is think generationally. You know, going back to the decisions, you know, when, when making decisions ask, how will this impact not just me, but those who come after me? Right. And that mindset will shift us from a temporary survival mode Right. To eternal impact mode. Right. And it, it's incredible to think if, if you. You know, really sit with the Holy Spirit and talk to him. Mm-hmm. And ask him. It's amazing what he will give you and the downloads he will give you to create that eternal impact. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Um, that's awesome babe. Thanks for sharing that generationally. You know, I, I thought when you, when you were going into that think generation, I was like, man, we've been talking about that, this entire thing, but you really nailed it down there. Mm. Put a nice little bow on it. Big pink bow there. Oh, pink bow. Very nice pink bow. Can't miss it. Uh, so, so here's something that I've learned. The legacy doesn't start with someday. Mm-hmm. You know, if, if you're procrastinating, stop it. Legacy starts with today. Yes. Legacy starts today. Every prayer that you pray, every seed that you sow, every act of obedience, it all adds up. So start today. Keep moving today. Keep building today. Yeah. And we wanna encourage you. Don't underestimate the small moments. You know, like I said, reading a Bible story with your child, choosing integrity in the workplace. Mm. Uh, maybe forgiving when you'd rather hold a grudge. I mean, going back, we talked a lot about that in the last episode. Yeah. But that is legacy living. Absolutely. That is legacy living. And you will. You know, it's, it's said, you know, you'll reap what you sow. Yeah. And you want to sow those seeds. You want to pray those prayers and you want to act with obedience because you're, someone's blessing is on the other side of your obedience. That's good. I keep going back to that. Like I love that. That's so that's a good thing to keep going back to. Yeah. Say, what was that again? Someone's blessing. Is on the other side of your obedience. Ooh, I like it. I like it. That's legacy living y'all. That's good. That's a Blammo moment. Blammo. Blammo. Yeah. Thank you. Right. I love it when I get the bla os right. That was a pretty calm blammo, but still a blammo nonetheless. Right? So here's your call to action. Don't just choose for today. That's what we're talking about. Legacy starts today. But don't just focus on today. Decide for your family's tomorrows. Today, right? Allow the Holy Spirit to guide your decisions and ask him how to build your spiritual heritage that's gonna outlast you for generations. Yeah. And remember that legacy is not about your name being remembered, right? It's not about your name or my name, right? It is about Jesus being remembered through your life, through my life, through Allen's life. When we fight the good fight and we finish the race and we keep the faith, we get to pass the baton to the next generation with confidence, not hesitantly. Yeah. But with confidence, right. That they will carry it on. I think, uh, I think my, my buddy Brett and Dave would call that we would pass it to the next generation with God confidence. God confidence. Absolutely. Shout out to Brett Daveon, God confidence. Yes. Very cool. For sure. Um. Friends, thank you. Uh, thank you for joining us today on, on Faithfully Invested. 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