Legacy Givers in a Self-Centered Word | Allen & Stacy Jo

Kingdom legacy, Christian generosity, biblical stewardship, and generational giving take center stage in this Season 6 finale of Faithfully Invested with Allen & Stacy Jo.

This episode goes beyond money and asks a deeper question: What will continue because you lived?

Allen and Stacy Jo close out the season by talking about the kind of generosity that outlives you. Not a plaque. Not a donor wall. Not a bigger name for yourself. But a Kingdom legacy built through obedience, surrender, and faithfulness over time.

If your generosity ends with you, your vision is too small.

Using Proverbs 13:22 and 1 Timothy 6:17–19, they unpack what it means to think in generations instead of transactions and why true legacy is more than assets. It is values. It is discipleship. It is stewardship. It is the kind of faith your children and grandchildren can witness and carry forward.

In this episode, they discuss:

•  Why legacy does not happen by accident 
•  Why delayed gratification is necessary for generational impact 
•  Why surrender is at the center of Kingdom legacy 
•  Why postponement quietly kills legacy thinking 
•  Why children learn stewardship more from observation than instruction 
•  Why inheritance is about more than money 
•  How to begin building something that reflects eternity 

Scripture referenced:
Proverbs 13:22
1 Timothy 6:17–19
Isaiah 55:8–9

This week’s challenge:
Have a conversation with your spouse about generational giving.
Review your estate plan or start one.
Talk to your children about why you give.
Ask the Lord this question:
If my life ended today, what would continue?

When you stay faithfully invested, God brings the increase.

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Transcript

Allen & Stacy Jo Thorne (00:00.472)
Hey, welcome back to Faithfully Invested where we dig into biblical truth about leadership, marriage and mission. I'm Allen And I'm Stacy Jo And today we're wrapping up season six with a conversation that we've been building towards all season. That's right. We've talked about stewardship and just to dismiss, it might be a little misconception, especially for new listeners, that the title is

faithfully invested. And if you just came in in season six, you've heard us talk about nothing but a biblical perspective on finances. Well, we don't just talk about finance. We don't just talk about money. We're faithfully invested as all, like we said, marriage, leadership, mission. so, but.

We have this season talked about finances a lot. A lot. And so we talked about stewardship, generosity, and about the heart behind how we trust what God entrusts to us, how we handle what God entrusts to us and how we trust Him to handle it.

and show us how to handle it. Show us how to handle it. Today's today like Stacy says we're going to be wrapping up this season. So this is the season six finale and we've been leading up to this.

Topic today, we're going a little bit bigger. We are going bigger. But just to reiterate, we don't just talk about money. Bigger and broader. Broader. Broader. Because today we're talking about legacy. And of course, we're not talking about legacy in the way the world defines it. You we're not talking about a plaque on the building or, you know, an honor on a donor wall or something like that. We're talking about the kind of generosity that outlives you, the kind that

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that echoes through people you'll never meet. Right, so right out of the gate today, the truth is, and we focus on the truth, that is the capital T truth, God's Word. We like to, as our pastor says, and as is the...

the mantra of Revive Church, that's our church right here in Stewart, Florida. We like to bring the Word and the Spirit together so that we may have an encounter with our Creator, our God. So the truth that we're gonna be addressing today, we're gonna throw it right on the table. If your generosity ends with you,

then your vision is too small. That's right. Now, before you all get all up in a bunch here, let me clarify that. We want to clarify this as an invitation, not condemnation. Because when we start thinking in generations instead of transactions, it changes the way you see everything. Yeah. And we want to think generationally, not transactionally. Right.

And you know, it's no big secret that our current world society is relentlessly self-focused. You know, build your brand and manage your life well and upgrade whenever you can and optimize whatever you can and protect yourself and then repeat it all again. You know, it's... sell, sell. Right. Buy, Whoa! Yeah. Go. whoa, stop. Right. Do it. Yeah. Lady.

Anyway, oh yeah.

Allen & Stacy Jo Thorne (03:52.811)
That's not what we're talking about. No, but none of that's inherently evil. It's not. It's not the it's not inherently evil. Enjoying life, blessing your family, you know, building wealth. These are all good things. Like like Honey Bunny said, it's not inherently evil. But the question isn't whether these things are wrong. The question is whether these things are the ceiling. Is that all there is? Yeah. And what a great question, because if

All of our stewardship circles back to us. If every dollar, every decision, every plan ends with our own comfort, then we're building something temporary. Something that is gonna die when we do.

And I don't know about you, but I want something that goes deeper than that. Right. And that's what we're talking about today. We're talking about legacy. most often the truth that most people, the truth,

Allen & Stacy Jo Thorne (05:00.737)
But

Most people don't set out to be self centered. Um, I w I was very self centered for very, uh, a lot of years. remember my, my old buddy, Noel, he's like, you know, we're selfish people, right? And I'm like, what? I didn't even know, but in hindsight, you know, uh, but I didn't set out. Like that's what I'm saying. I didn't set out to be self centered. Uh, I wasn't waking up and I would, I would say I was going so far as to say nobody wakes up saying, Hey, today I want to live a small,

self-absorbed life. That's the life for me. That's not how it happened. It's a slow fading drift. the current flows ceaselessly toward consumption. Ceaselessly. Get the bigger house.

Better experiences, man. How about that big car? Yeah. How about, how about that? That's cyber truck. You need a cyber truck. I don't want a cyber. I don't need a cyber truck, but anyway, Hey, how about early retirement? How about better experiences? How about more security? Come on over here and get more stuff. You deserve it.

What a maniacal deception. Yeah. All that shiny lies junk. Right. And.

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Although every one of those things sounds reasonable in isolation, right? You know, when you zoom out for a wider perspective for the bigger picture, if you will, and you hold it up against eternity, it's a vastly small ceiling, a vastly, vastly small ceiling and don't don't low ceiling. Maybe we should write. Right. Maybe I should say a low ceiling. And like like we said before, I mean, the big car, the big house.

there's nothing wrong with that. But if that's the end of it, if that's the ceiling, then wow, we're really missing out on the, like you said, the bigger picture, the wider perspective. But I think the deeper issue is that most believers actually, we want to leave a legacy. They feel it. They feel like they want to leave a legacy. There's something in our spirit that says, I want my life to matter beyond the years that I live on this earth.

But the challenge is, is that we never slowed down enough to define what that looks like. That's so true. And that's the thing. Legacy doesn't happen by accident. You don't just stumble into generational impact. You have to be intentional about it. You know, maybe although your great, you know, your grandparents thought about it. And so now you're living in it or your parents thought about it. Now you're living in it. But the thing about it is, is they have

had to think about it. You know, we build businesses and we build ministries with intentional strategy. We structure organizations with purpose. But how many of us steward our resources with eternity in mind? That's a great question, but I mean, we spent years not. Stewarding our resources with eternity in mind.

years, you know, paycheck to paycheck and, you know, just and we've been looking ahead and we've we've improved taken the spirits.

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guidance under advisement, but if we're honest and we are, we still got room for improvement. There's still room for improvement here. There's always room for improvement as we grow and expand. And yeah, so as leaders, we understand intentionality in many areas. We plan, we execute, we measure. And if we're wise, we even calculate for rest.

That's a good one. But when we choose legacy, when it comes to legacy, spiritual legacy, generational legacy, we we often. Man, I hope that works out. Yeah.

We often hope that it works out. We hope and, and unfortunately, you know, hope, hope's good. even as I was going to say, there's nothing wrong with wrong with hope and there's nothing wrong with trusting him, right? You know, to do it, but we can, we can hope for it, but hope's not very intentional, you know, even

even as it's necessary. And again, nothing wrong with hope, it's necessary, but it's not a strategy. Right. Not a strategy. So as always, we want to take it to the word. And today, and we've we've taken it to Proverbs a lot this season. Proverbs talks a lot about finances. Proverbs talks a lot. That's wisdom. That's the actual the there's there's

Hebrew poetry, there's the prophetic books, there's the gospel accounts, and then there's the, what Proverbs is noted as is the wisdom literature, because Solomon is noted as the wisest man to ever walk the planet. And in Proverbs chapter 13, verse 22, Solomon writes that a good person leaves an inheritance to his children's children. Now don't miss that friend.

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This is Solomon said, children's children, that's generational language. That's, that's not I did well when I was alive, and I spent it wisely. That's more like

My spirit guided obedience echoes through generations. I like that. And that's what we're talking about here. Yeah, I like that. And what's powerful about that is the word inheritance doesn't just mean money. Right. In the Hebrew mindset, inheritance includes values, identity, spiritual direction and blessing. And it's the fullness of your character that you pass on. Right.

The character, yeah. The character we pass on. And to that I would quote the great theologian Arthur Fonzarelli when he said, exactamundo! Exactamundo. Yeah, so. yes. Anyway, hey, ain't nothing wrong I never knew he was a theologian, though. No, neither did he. But...

Anyway, nothing wrong with a little happy days, a little pop culture. Yeah. But anyway, I digress, we digress. We're we're going to keep it in the word. We're going to move into First Timothy. Anything. mean, I mean, the guy wrote two thirds of the of the New Testament in anything that Paul writes, we should absolutely take under advisement because that dude.

But he radically transformed and encounter with Christ a few times. He was so guided by the Spirit. He didn't go into areas where the Spirit said, don't go. Don't take the gospel in there. Don't go there. You want to go over here? That was Paul. But anyway, as he writes to Timothy, he wrote two letters to Timothy and his first letter to Timothy in chapter six,

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verses 17 through 19, Timothy or Paul gives Timothy a charge to, for wealthy believers. And he says, tell those who are rich in this present world to not be arrogant, but put their hope and don't be arrogant. And he said, don't put your hope in your wealth, which is so uncertain. And isn't that, I mean, this was

millennia ago, and it's still wealth is still uncertain. It'd be here today and gone tomorrow. Paul says, tell them, Tim, he says, Tim, tell them to put their hope in God, which

I know God richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment and that too still holds very true today. As we trust in Him, He richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. And then He says, command them to do good. It's a little harsh, but I'd have to dig into that word command. But command them to do good, to be rich.

in good deeds and to be generous and willing to share. In this way, they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age. Paul's talking about legacy as he's leaving a legacy, as he's mentoring Timothy and he's teaching Timothy to tell these people of the age how to leave a proper legacy. I have a very deep theological question for you.

I'm curious. Do you think Timothy ever called Paul dude? Maybe. Maybe not. I don't know. It's not documented. It's not documented. I'd have to look up and see what the Greek term for dude is and then I'll get back to you on that. Anyway. It's called relatability, babe. Anyhow, you know...

Allen & Stacy Jo Thorne (15:04.833)
But I like what you said though, a firm foundation for the coming age, mean, that's what he commanded them to do. And...

You know, the eternity language, Paul is saying your generosity today is constructing something that will stand in the age to come. It's not just about now, but it's about forever. Forever. Yeah. but in here's where the challenge hits. Most of us are, we're decent at accumulation. All right. We can, we can, we can build a pile.

but we need help with activation. right. So let me elaborate on that. We can build and protect wealth. We can structure and diversify it, but are we activating it for the kingdom? Are we deploying it with eternity in mind? Or are we just stockpiling funds? Yeah, that's a really great question.

You know, that leads me to this challenging question that I think every listener, including us as we listen to one another, needs we are definitely talking to ourselves. But here's the question that you can ask yourselves. You know, when your children and grandchildren look back at your life.

Will they see consumption or will they see conviction? You know, will they say they lived well? Or will they say they lived for something bigger than themselves? You know, will men and women that we'll never encounter benefit from who we were in Christ? I mean, that's the bigger question. That's heavy,

Allen & Stacy Jo Thorne (17:07.437)
And by that, mean, that's a great question to ponder with the Lord. It's just a great question because we can leave a massive financial inheritance if we're fortunate.

blessed. Let's say blessed. If we're blessed. Okay, I can definitely go with well, we can be blessed without anyhow, you know, but we can y'all get it right. So my point is we can leave a big financial inheritance and still leave a spiritual deficit. He can pass on assets, but we can still pass on zero examples of generous stewardship.

Absolutely. And, unfortunately that's a tragedy. Yeah. That's a tragedy that happens more often than we, than we would care to admit. So I just, I just have to, go to Dean Wormer on that. Mr. Blutowski, zero point zero. No good. So anyway, I'll leave it there. So some people get this and people not, you know,

It actually has nothing to do with this conversation. And again, I digress. Yes. So, you know, back to legacy. What about.

legacy thinking is so challenging because I think there are real barriers that must be called out. And the first one is delayed gratification. Legacy requires you to invest in outcomes that you may never personally see, that I may never personally see, that Allen may never personally see. And everything in our culture pushes against that. You know, we live in this instant world, know, instant upgrades and instant answers, instant food.

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you know, instant coffee. Yuck. Don't do that. She's sorry. Instant comparisons. mean, legacy says I'm going to pour into something that won't fully bloom in my lifetime. And that that takes a deeper kind of faith. Absolutely. It requires a deeper faith because you're planting seeds.

Allen & Stacy Jo Thorne (19:30.487)
We're planting seeds that you'll never sit under the shade of. Yeah. Right. Now you're watering ground is someone else will hopefully harvest well and cultivate continually, but it's, it's just, it's our, our part is to build it and leave it.

And, and hopefully, and this is the point, it's not just about the finances. Will our generosity, will how we stewarded, will how we operated under and in the Lord's authority, all that we had, how we lived our lives with the Lord and for the Lord, will all that pass? And that's our point today.

And honestly, a profound Spirit-led push like that over a lifetime requires humility, and that only comes from the Holy Spirit. So will that transfer over generations? The humility, the Spirit-led...

Humility, you know, that's what we're talking about. Living a life for Christ, following Christ, denying ourselves, picking up our cross, following Him daily. All that, as those words have come off the page and landed on the tablets of our heart, will they see that? Will we be remembered for that? That's a legacy. And that brings us to, you know, the second barrier.

which is surrender, because legacy requires us to release control. You we've talked a lot at this season about control and holding on, and it means understanding that the resources, the finances, the influence and opportunity are not ultimately mine. And we've talked a lot about that in this season too, you know, they're His. But we are God's chosen stewards.

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but we are not the owners. That's it. And that kind of recognition, it confronts something very deep in all of us. There's a part of us that wants to see the return. We want to see the fruit. We want the satisfaction of watching it happen.

We the gratification. Yeah, we like the gratification. It's a human condition. It's not a bad thing. It's a human condition. Sometimes with legacy giving, we don't get all that. We don't get to watch it happen. Our part is to build so that others may receive. Children's children. And we're operating from faith.

consciously, intentionally building that for generations to come where we're operating on faith, which if we recall what faith is, it's confidence of what we hope for and assurance of what we don't see. That's right. Will they, as we steward it well, will they steward it well?

And then there's the third barrier, which I think is probably the sneakiest one of them all. Better, sneaky. Very, very sneaky. And that's postponement. You know, the voice that says, you know, I'll focus on legacy later. Once I'm more secure.

once I've built enough, you know, once the kids are grown, once things settle down a little bit, but things never really settle down. And then later has a way of turning into never. So the ruthless truth that you said earlier comes back around that if your generosity ends with you, your vision's just too small. Right. If all of your stewardship

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was about your lifetime, your thinking in decades, but God thinks in generations. Yeah, he does. He's a generational God. Well, you know, he's been here for generations. been here for generations. Generations, even before generations. Right. Way back in the day, like when the Spirit was hovering over the water, he was here way before that. Right. Right. So anyway. and like we say often,

and His ways are always higher and greater than our own. And that's just a paraphrase of Isaiah's prophecy. The Lord says that as high as the heavens are above the earth, so are my thoughts higher than your thoughts, and my ways than your ways. But taking it back to Paul, I always appreciate all of what Paul says, because if it's... Because that's just...

Truth, know, Paul, yeah. And at minimum, it- Well, Paul's one of your favorite, I mean, he's your- Well, he's- One of your favorite. When men like Kimo Bethea get emotional when they think about who Paul was, you know, that's a dude. Those dudes. That dude. anyway, but-

How many times have I digressed in this episode? Many. But you know, it's okay. Anyway, so the is that we dig Paul, I dig Paul, and hey, Kima digs Paul, But again, Paul and 1st Timothy 6, 17, and 19, and we mentioned this earlier.

Paul says that because it doesn't, we wanna share this because it doesn't come from guilt or condemnation. Again, Paul wrote in Romans, there's no condemnation for those who are found in Christ Jesus. Who loves us? But it's...

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It's from the heart, Paul's heart experienced the Lord's absolute faithfulness. And he proclaims, as for the rich in this present age, he tells Timothy again, as for the rich in this present age, charge them.

not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God. Set your hope on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

They are to do good. He does what he tells to them. They tell them they are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share. This is storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future so that they might take hold of that which is truly life. life. Truly life. He said, this matters, tell them to do this. I remember when I was learning

how to be a dad, I would just encourage the kids to, you know, would you just focus on what really matters? And they probably thought in their heads, you too.

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Anyway, it wasn't always good. He doesn't say you're terrible for being wealthy. He never he never condemned the wealthy. He says, don't be arrogant. He says, don't anchor your hope in something that's as uncertain as finances. Even back then, finances were uncertain here today, gone tomorrow. But God, same.

yesterday, today and tomorrow. Instead, Paul says be rich in a different way. Be rich in good deeds, be generous and be willing to share. Yeah, that phrase willing to share.

It is really, it comes back again to posture. You it's about having open hands instead of the clenched fists. And that's really, I think that's really where legacy begins. You know, not with a dollar amount, but with posture. Absolutely.

That is something so that verse or that not verse, but that phrase that saying is so nice. You know, we got to say it twice. Legacy always begins with our heart posture. Quite honestly, you know, if we haven't we in order in order to have a heart posture, we got to let the spirit work into we got we have to yield to the spirit. So if we haven't let our heart posture be a

adjusted through our faith journey with the Father, with Jesus and the Holy Spirit, then our worldly flesh has most likely got the upper hand over the Spirit, over our Spirit, not the capital S Spirit. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. So if...

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The flesh has an upper hand over the spirit. If we're not following the Holy Spirit of truth, then we stall out of good intentions. You know what they say about good intentions. We'll leave it there. But we must, as Paul says in Romans, be transformed.

by the renewing of our minds so that we can test and approve what God's good, pleasing, and perfect will is. And that, my friends, is the work of the Holy Spirit. So he's, has he placed, I'd ask you this, has he placed a generous legacy, logistics upon your heart?

Generous legacy, logistics. Are you interested in that? Have you asked the Spirit for that? Let Him guide you. Are you letting Him guide you? So that's what the word says. Let the Spirit guide you. We have to yield to the Spirit.

So, you know, the question could be, how do we actually do this? How do we become legacy givers in a world that's pulling us towards self? the number one, I would say the number one thing to do is define your legacy. You have to ask yourself, what do I want to outlive me or or and be specific? Because is it just assets? Is it a bank account that passes to the next

Generation or is it something deeper, you generosity faith courage Kingdom impact a culture of giving and here's the thing if you don't define your legacy intentionally The culture will define it for you. It has no problem doing that It will define it for you and the cultures default legacy is consumption It's it

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If we don't, if we're not intentionally where we want to put it, it'll put it somewhere for us. will. was anywhere. Yeah. There's another digress.

That was a shortcut. think we could dig into that deeply. We could, but and maybe we will in another episode. Hey, there's another episode for another time. Who knows? Second, here as we're starting to wind down here, we want to align our resources with eternity. And this is where it gets somewhat practical. Look at your giving, look at your investments, look at how you spend your time and ask, am I building for what matter?

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Is that you think it? it? Is that think it? that Is that Is that that that way think it? Is that think Is that

not to say that I live a generous life, but am I am I living a generous life from the heart? Am I a cheer? What the word calls a cheerful giver? Am I showing them that? Am I showing? Are we showing the kids our kids that that wealth? It's a tool, not a God, right? Are we doing that? So I like I like to take a pause for the cause just for a moment here because

Our kids learn stewardship far more from observation than they do from instruction. They. I just want to back up for a second. Kids learn. Anything.

far more from observation than they do from instruction. I know we're talking about stewardship, but I think that's just a point that needs to be made. Yeah, they're watching. They're watching and there's much more caught than taught. 100%. Yeah, I love that. That's a simple sentence. Much more caught than taught. So true. They see where the money goes. They feel your attitude about giving. Right. All right.

can teach them about generosity all day long. This is what the Word says. And hopefully you're not taking it that way. This is what the Word says. you know, please catch this, is that we don't share anything here that we haven't experienced. So we've said it time and time again. We're honored to share our experience with you. What has worked, what hasn't worked.

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will and where there's room for improvement, is everywhere. But back to the kids, you can teach them or even just people that were mentoring. And I've said this before, guys that asked me about financial stewardship and they're like, I don't have enough. I was like, you want more money, bro? Give some of it away. know, and that's, you know, and that's, you want more time, give some

love it away. You want more? Yeah. Honor the Lord with your finances, your time, your talents, and He will honor you. And that's the truth. But again, you can teach the kids about generosity, but if they don't see it in how you live, then that empty knowledge, it fades away pretty quickly. It does. Knowledge does not transform. It may teach for a moment, but if it's not followed up by action...

Forget about it Right. I mean our kids don't need a lecture on generosity they need a front-row seat to watching us live it out in action and That kind of brings around our third point Build generosity into your state plan not just into your lifestyle. This might mean setting up a charitable trust. It might mean setting up a

a DAF, a Designated Advised Fund. It might mean designating kingdom initiatives in your will. It might mean having a conversation with your financial planner about how giving fits into your long-term picture. But it also means something simpler than that. It means talking to your children about why you give.

telling them your why, not just that you give, but the heart behind it as well, because it's the heart behind it that's convincing part of it. It convicts with love and theological joy.

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The why changes everything. The why communicates clearly. It gets to it. And that leads us to number four, which is think generational discipleship, not just generational dollars. Think generational discipleship, not just generational daughters. Generational dollars. And inheritance.

of faith is much more powerful than an inheritance of finances. Faith over finances. if you, when we put faith over finances, then, you know, we're faithfully invested.

Remember, Proverbs tells us, Solomon tells us in Proverbs that a good person leaves an inheritance for his children's children. What if that inheritance included a family culture of generosity? What if your grandchildren grow up saying, in our family, we give, in our family, we build for the kingdom. That's who we are. That's legacy. It's not a trust fund. It's a way of life.

through generations and it's transferable. Dollars will get spent, identity gets passed down and ripples through generations. I love that. Dollars get spent, but identity gets passed down. That's it. And I want to add something here that I think is important. know, legacy isn't only about what happens after you die. It's about what continues because you lived. No.

What systems that you you build that are still going strong and what ministries did you fund that are still operating because of your generosity? What leaders do you mentor who are now mentoring others? Beyond the financial aspect, but the faith aspect and what generosity did you model that your kids are now modeling for their kids? Those ripple effects are real and they start now.

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Not just some day. Some day may never come if you wait. Right and we we still partner with

an organization, I won't mention it on here, they minister to people in very remote places in the world where missionaries can't go, won't go, and they carry the name of Christ out there. And that's also a...

generational.

That's also generation. That's that's the word you even as it's the key word of this episode. Anyway, sometimes daddy's brain don't work well. Most of the time it does, though. Anyway, that's that's a legacy. We'll never know until we're on that side of heaven. You know how many people because of just simple donations, because of obedience, because he had

the Lord hasn't said to stop. Yeah, he said to go and as long as that light's green, we keep going. But how many people has just dollars, how many people have gotten the...

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the name of Christ, how many people have, how many? that's when I cross those, when I cross those pearly gates and there they are, you know, I'm not sure how it looks, you I'm excited about that ministry because, you know, of, yeah. Wanted to throw that out there, hope it makes sense. So what are you investing in?

into what you don't know about. But here's another question. I sometimes get into weeds, it's a little late today, but we're still here, we're still faithfully invested with our time with each other. so again, winding down the question we wanna leave here as we wrap up this season.

And we encourage you to sit with the Holy Spirit with this It's a good one. And unless you're driving, write this down, if your life ended today, what would continue? How would you be remembered? Not what would be liquidated, not what would be divided up, but what would continue? What would go far beyond your...

flesh and blood on this planet. What would keep going because of how you live, because of who you are, because of what you built? Would your generosity echo? Would your children understand stewardship? And not just in theory, but in practice. Would your resources reflect eternity? Or...

Would your legacy mostly be about the things that you accumulated? Let this be a clarifying question. We believe it's a question that God's asking a lot of His people right now. So get with Him on that. As I sit with guys in our...

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in the Unbound ministry on Monday nights. Our second hour is Spirit-led journaling practices. We listen to what the Spirit says about the topics at hand, about the content for the week, and I tell the guys who are fairly new to...

journaling, it's not a real common practice around guys. And I say it might start with you, it might start with what you think, but it should never end. It should never end with what you think, it should end with what he's telling you, what his spontaneous creative voice is telling you on that.

As the Lord's asking us about that, we want to take that question to Him. We want to get with Him because He's the one with the higher and greater ways. If your life ended today, what would continue? That's such a great question. I'm going to be pondering on that one too, but...

You know, so this week, we really want you to take make to make one tangible move towards legacy. You know, have a conversation with your spouse about generational giving. Sit down together and talk about what you want your giving to look like. Not just this year, but in 10 years, in 20 years, in 50 years.

and review your estate plan. And if you don't have one, start one. I can't tell you how important that is to have an estate plan. And make sure that generosity has a seat at the table. Maybe talk to your children about, like we said, why you give, because the why is so important.

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Let them into that why. Let them see your heart for giving. And then design something. Anything, anything that outlives you because we're not called to build monuments to ourselves. We're called to build foundations for the coming age. You know, 1st Timothy says, generosity lays up treasure as a firm foundation for eternity. And that is bigger than retirement. That's bigger than reputation.

that's bigger than any number on a balance sheet. That is kingdom.

And again, you know, as we're finishing up the season, I would really love for you to pray over legacy, Allen, for our listeners. Yeah, absolutely, Lord. Let us pray. We thank you. We thank you that your ways are always higher and greater than our own, And as we...

As we bring these questions to you, as we bring our legacy to you, what's your word,

What are the seeds that you would have us plant?

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Would you show us how? Would you show us what your plan is? we have our plans, Lord. But would you show us what your plan is? Would you show us how to be wise? Lord, we ask you for discipline and wisdom.

to plan a legacy for generations to come.

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and we leave it with you. Show us the seeds to sow. Show us how to do God things instead of just good things, And lead us past ourselves, Lord. We ask that you would transform our hearts so that we might see with the eyes of our hearts how to leave a kingdom-focused legacy for our children's children.

We love you. And we thank you for loving us right where we are. We thank you for your truth. We thank you that you love us to move us past who we are today. We thank you that you love us enough to grow us to to encourage growth, to expand our territories, to expand our

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generosity to expand our love. How did we love, Lord? In the end, that's what truly matters. What did we believe and how did we love?

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Let us love and let us lead as you have loved and led us. We love because you loved us first. And thank you for leading us to love others well and to lead others well and to leave a kingdom legacy starting today. In the precious name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.

Amen, babe. right. True believers, if this season has stretched you good. That's that's the point. That's what it was supposed to do. Be stretched, stretch in that stretching comes growth. Yeah. And that stretching comes a deeper faith. Let him deepen your faith. Let him show you how.

to leave a kingdom legacy for your children's children. Yeah, growth always requires stretching. And we are so grateful that you walked through this season with us. We are praying blessings upon blessings over you. And remember that when you stay faithfully invested, God brings the God brings the increase. Yes. Every time. Every time. Right. Because He's a God of multiplication. He is.

God bless you and we'll see you next season.