Managing What God Entrusted to You | Allen & Stacy Jo

What's the furthest ahead you've ever planned? Five years? Ten? In this episode, Allen and Stacy Jo Thorne challenge Kingdom-minded leaders to think 100 — even 200 — years ahead. Because if God's plan is eternal, our legacy thinking should be too.

This is not a retirement episode. Generational impact is a right now conversation for every believer who leads a business, a team, a family, or a community.

What we cover in this episode:

Drawing from Psalm 145:4 — "One generation shall commend God's work to another" — Allen and Stacy Jo unpack what it truly means to build something that outlasts you. The answer isn't found in what you build. It's found in who you build into.

They walk through the 3 most common versions of the generational legacy struggle: leaders so consumed with building the thing that people keep getting shuffled; leaders who invest in people but lack clear, defined non-negotiables to pass on; and leaders who've been hurt in the process of investing and have quietly pulled back from the vulnerability of discipleship.

For each struggle, there's a biblical and practical response — rooted in the examples of David's passionate proclamation in the Psalms, Paul's intentional investment in Timothy, and Jesus' unflinching faithfulness to 12 very imperfect disciples.

Practical steps covered:

1. Define your vision — Write down what God has proven faithful in. Identify the Kingdom principles that must make it to the next generation through you.
2. Name your Timothy — Someone younger in faith and leadership is already watching you from a distance, hoping to be invited in. Who are they?
3. Live an out-loud faith — Your team, your children, and your community need to see your faith, not just hear about it.

The episode closes with a powerful reminder: you cannot pass on what you do not have. Legacy is not manufactured near the end of life — it is the overflow of decades of daily, faithful, mostly hidden obedience.

Your one takeaway this week: Identify one person — one Timothy — and take one move toward them. One conversation. One coffee. One invitation to do life together. That's how generational legacy is built: one intentional relationship at a time.

📖 Key Scriptures: Psalm 145:4–13, Proverbs 13:22, John 10:10, 2 Timothy, Hebrews 10:39, John 14 (Holy Spirit of Truth)

🎙️ Mentioned in this episode: Shaun & Teresa Blakeney, Anchor Church Boynton Beach | Rachel Wortman

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Hey Allen I have a question for you. Already? you know. My dear, have not yet welcomed our loyal listeners. I know, I know. But anyway, so what is the longest that you have ever thought ahead? Like what is the your personal record planning? Ahead? Yeah, that's a great question.

Honestly, at 56, I spent most of my life just skating around day by day. But over the last 15 years or so, which is a much more realistic gauge on who I am currently, praise the Lord, I'd say at the most five or 10 years. Why do you ask?

Well, because today we are asking people to think 100 years ahead, maybe even 200 years ahead. Well, I'd say that escalated quickly. I'm stuck on ten at the most. don't you think that's quite a daunting task?

of ourselves and our listeners? Well, not really. If we are considering that the long view plan is God's and not our own. Our finite minds can barely comprehend 10 years sometimes, but His plan is so much greater. And so when we see it that way, the way that God sees it, that's where He's taking us today.

I just want to know, are you ready? I thought I was doing good at 10 years. Really? And if I'm honest, it's like seven. I guess if you know, I am as ready as I'm going to be. Are you ready? Are you ready? Well, welcome to Faithfully Invested I'm Stacy Jo and I'm Allen and we're in week seven kingdom legacy. Here we are in episode four and today we're

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talking about what might be the biggest mindset stretch of the season. We're talking about generational impact or thinking beyond your lifetime. We got to consider more than what you're building, but who? It's about more than what we're building, but who are we building into? What are we gonna produce in the people and the families and the communities long after we're...

skipping joyfully in the by and by long after we're gone, who have we poured into and how is our how is our legacy? How are we remembered? And how is our how is now? There it is. How are we remembered? Yeah. You know, hold on, friends, before before you brush this off as only being for those people with grandchildren or big family empires.

Stick around for a bit and check it out because this conversation is for every kingdom minded leader, regardless of your age or stage. And the question of generational impact is not a retirement topic. I think that gets confused sometimes. This is not a retirement topic. It's a right now topic. So let's go. All right, so as we get started here, I wanna...

and jump in with something that I think most of us instinctively know, but we rarely stop to actively consider. Do you know that the decisions that we're making right now the decisions that we're making today, this week, this year that they will echo into decades what we do today will affect our tomorrows. Decades that we

we possibly won't see. Yeah. And yeah, so we got to we got to be mindful of of what we do and who we pour into and how we pour into people. We got to be mindful of the way we lead the values that we model and the people that we invest our time in. And we got to be intentional with.

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our faith. And our faith, as we walk it out, it's not about us. It's about who He is in us. So how do we walk out our faith? And sometimes I fail miserably it does. How do we walk out the faith in front of our family, in front of our team? Do they see Jesus or do they see frustration? It's all...

one or the other is rippling through time and we can't fully track or measure that. it's important on the depth of our faith is important in everyday life.

and how we allow others to see us and how He is shining through us. He says, let your light shine before men. And really, we're just, we have to be transparent there because the light's not ours, the light is His. He's the capital L light. And the more transparent we are, the more His light will shine through us.

that's a serious and a thrilling thought all in one because it's serious because it means neutral is not an option. No. And everything we do is either building or eroding something.

in the people watching us. But it's thrilling because it means that even the small stuff counts, even the quiet, consistent, nobody is clapping moments are producing something real in the people around us.

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And it's those moments behind the scenes that really define who we are. We're behind closed doors and when nobody's watching, that's who we really are. moving forward into this episode, in season six, we talked about...

tithing and generosity. And we wrapped it all up in an episode about legacy giving. I'm sure it was quite a popular episode. We had a gentleman today down in Boynton Beach, the one and only Shaun Blakeney talking about, you know, legacy giving as well. he did a fantastic job. He's yeah. If you guys are in Boynton Beach, Florida, check out Anchor Church. Love the Blakeney, Shaun and Teresa Blakeney, Austin Blakeney.

But what Shaun was talking about earlier today and what we were talking about in episode six is the idea of stewarding our financial resources with eternity in mind. The season six episode was, it was a powerful episode and we hope that we planted a few seeds. But today here in season seven, we're taking those seeds and we're asking.

What does generational impact look like across every dimension of kingdom life? Kingdom life. Not just your giving and your leadership and not just your marriage and your faith and not just your character and your discipleship journey. The current question is, what does it all produce in the generations who come after you? What does the whole ball of wax?

And is the question that we have to consider or reconsider because most of us were shaped by people who probably never thought of themselves as making their marks or leaving a legacy. They were just living faithfully by showing up and loving God and loving people and doing the next right thing. And yet the impact of their faithfulness on us is immeasurable. You know, we

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are who we are because of people who were simply committed to being who God called them to be. Yeah. Yeah, that's absolutely, that's so right. And that sort of influencer may or may not have been a parent. Might not be a parent. Maybe a parent, but they could have been anyone who led with intentionality to model the right narrow path for us.

And that is the heart of Psalm 145 verse 4. David writes, One generation shall commend God's work to another. He's not saying perform or impress another, but commend. He's saying,

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to another. And that command means to exclaim about them, to say, look what God's done. Pass them on and tell them, behold what God did to this submitted and surrendered life. Or better yet, to give Yahweh full accommodation as He deserves by saying, hey, look at what God did and how faithful He has been.

That's the key right there is being able to see and proclaim to the ones that we're leading and mentoring and the ones that will come after us in generations, look what God has done, how faithful He's been. And then live and lead in that way that shows

Everyone that we can say it but we actions always speak louder than words I heard that so many times when I was a kid from a dear mother so as as we proclaim that What he's done and how faithful he's been that we got a live and lead in that and in show how

we follow Him. And that's our generational assignment. So I wanted to dig into this a bit because as Psalm 145, the Psalms are so rich and I don't just want to go with we, don't just want to go with 145 for, that's the anchor verse here, but as we dig into Psalm 145 a bit,

In a world that's just full of busyness and idolatrous distractions, when is the last time that you thank the Lord just for who He is?

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Our next generations need to catch that. They need to catch that sort of gratitude for His presence over His provision, for His face over His hand. Don't you think that we should be, one, be thankful just for who He is. You know, the abundant life in John 10:10 is Jesus.

It's not what Jesus can give us. It's not all the things. He is the abundant life. going back to Psalms in 145, David recognized that in 145 he proclaims, Men shall speak all the power of your awesome acts. And I...

David says, I will tell of your greatness. They shall eagerly utter the memory of your abundant goodness and will shout joyfully of your righteousness, your righteousness, Yahweh. The Lord is gracious and merciful, says David. He's slow to anger and great in loving kindness. The Lord is good to all. And His mercies are over all His works. All your works.

That's us. That's humanity. your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord, and your godly one shall bless you. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. That's 145 6 through 10, and verse 13. David, believe this.

and he proclaimed it passionately. You can hear his passion in the written word. He believed it because he lived it. He experienced God firsthand move and work in his life. And he refused to stay silent about who God is. He refused to stay silent about who the almighty Yahweh is to him.

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so much so that we are still talking about David's proclamation several millennia later and being fully inspired.

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by how David saw Yahweh. Who are you, passionately declaring His loving kindness today? How inspired are you by what, maybe not by what He did with and for and through David, but how inspired are you by what He has done through you? Will His move in your life echo?

through generations and millennia to come, will they be talking about your experience with your creator? So good. So thought provoking. And as always, you know, the challenge is real. We live in an incredibly short term world. know, everything around us is optimized today. The algorithm.

reward what rewards what's trending and the market responds to the quarters numbers and you know, we can go on and on social media measures impact in real time by likes and shares and followers and but the pressure of that short-term thinking Can seep into our leadership whether we intend for it to or not. Yeah

Short term. Eldridge refers to that as refers to all of us, including himself as disciples of the Internet on everything in three seconds or less. Right. And so we've been conditioned. That's how we've been programmed. But since the invention of the microwave. Yeah. Right. Yeah. There was a starting point there. Right. But, you know, the Lord has a better plan. Yeah. And I. All that aside, that was for free.

You're welcome. And but I want to name something specific here, because I think I think it's a version of this challenge that that hits Kingdom leaders the hardest. And it's it's not just that our culture is short term and we got the whole squirrel.

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mentality going on. It's, it's that even and this doesn't, it's not just our our worldly culture, but even in the ministry and kingdom work, we can become so focused on the measurables and the immediate impact that we want it all right now. And we get so focused on that.

the short-term stuff that we under invest in the long-term things. you know, the long-term stuff, know, the things that don't show up for like 20 years or more in the life of someone who you were faithful with. Yeah. Someone you invested in. Someone that you were faithfully invested in. you sowed.

that isn't going to grow for 50 years. There's not going to produce fruit for 50 years. And you might not be here to see it. You might not be. And that's OK. Right. Because, that's I. You know, check it out. I'm staying on the fairway here. Go on. Yeah. You know, practically speaking, though, most leaders I know.

are great at building organizations and systems and they're brilliant at building a brand for a platform or a ministry. And they've got building the what down pat. Yeah, strategy. the generational, right, the strategy and the what. But the generational challenge is primarily about, isn't primarily about what you build, it is about who you build into.

And those two are completely different skill sets that require two completely different kinds of investment.

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The who is so important. The is always the who is the most important. That's it. It's people. love. And you told me this about our your your friend, our Rachel Wortmann, she says that's when she hears the heartbeat of God, she hears people, people.

Yeah. People. And when I'm challenged with people, I remember what Rachel said. Yeah. And she when I heard her do it, she tapped on the mic. People, people, people. Yeah. Yeah, that was. And that's, you know.

were his most prized creations, but his most, and I include myself in that, that were his greatest challenge. Sometimes I just wonder, it's like, man, come on, man. He's out there going, dude, come on, But anyway, that's just me today. organizations can dissolve. We're not,

We get so focused on the finite, we forget about the infinite. that's what the Lord has to say there. That's what His concern is, is the infinite. Platforms can disappear overnight. Financial wealth can be gone in a generation or sooner. Or less. That's right. Yeah, a generation or less. But we got to remember what the wisest man on

of all time, King Solomon said in Proverbs 13-22, he says, good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children, and we mistake that for financial. We hear inheritance and we think, oh, we got to leave money for our kids. But that inheritance is not primarily financial. That inheritance that truly transfers across generations is the life.

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the capital L-I-F-E that lives in people. So our question here is, are you speaking life into your people? Are you speaking life into your team? Are you speaking life into your husband, your wife? Are you speaking life into your kids? Are you speaking life into your people?

because authentic, faith-filled, capital L life enhances and permeates their faith and their character and it commands growth in how they lead, how they love, how they give, and how they serve because of what they caught from you. And we said this several times before, know, as leaders, we mentor and we teach, but we can say it all day long.

But as people are watching us and there's so much more that's caught than taught. More often than not. And here's the part I think it's missed most often. You cannot pass on what you do not have. You can't give your children or your team or the next generation a rich faith inheritance if your own faith is running on empty.

You can't model a generous kingdom living if you have not genuinely internalized what we walk through in our generosity season. The generational challenges ultimately, it's ultimately a personal holiness challenge. What or like I said, more so who is in you is what gets transferred. So I ask you friends, what's in your spirit?

And that's the crux of it right there. That's the brass tacks. Legacy's not always about strategy. It's an overflow. It's not something that we manufacture. We're not gonna, at the end of our life, we're just looking at what we wanna leave behind, what we can do.

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When all along it's about what he can do. It's about what he wants to do through us. It's about what our purpose is, because we were all created on purpose for his purpose. So our...

Our legacy is not about us just building up something near the end of our life thinking, you what do I want to leave behind? It's not about just being good people. Our legacy is produced over decades of the faithfulness, faithfulness in the small stuff, faithfulness in the mostly hidden things. It's produced through daily word-bound faith decisions that define who you are and how you

live. And that is both a challenge and an invitation. That's the challenge and the invitation of this episode. And so, friends, do you know that who you are is defined by whose you are? Do you know that you've been bought with a price? The precious blood of Jesus, He has paid for you in full. Do your dailies.

How you conduct your life daily. Do your dailies reflect the image of the Son of God, Jesus Christ?

That's good. So we're gonna, now he's good. The only reason it's good is because he's good. this is true. as we keep moving, we're gonna get practical with how the struggle looks. And we think...

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We think there's a few different versions of how the struggle looks and we want to call them out and see if you recognize any of these versions of the struggle concerning legacy here. Do you recognize any of these in yourself? Yeah, the first version is that you're so consumed with building the thing.

that you don't have much time left over for investing in people. Your team gets your competence and your family gets what's left at the end of the day or at end of the week. And the people who most need your time, your wisdom, your intentional investment, who could actually carry your hard-fought efforts into the next generation, keep getting shuffled on down the line by the urgent demands of running the thing.

I'm guilty of this. And you tell yourself you will be more intentional about people when things slow down. And things just never slow down. Do you notice that? Things just never slow down. So they just keep getting shuffled and shuffled and shuffled. And you keep completing the things. All the things. All the things. So we ask her,

We ask ourselves, are we doing good things or are doing God things? We've said this so many times before and what you're saying, it hits hard because it's a daily tension. It's a daily tension in any builder's life. The noise of the building, the noise always seems louder than the people that we should be building into.

The business always has another urgent need. The ministry always has another pressing demand. And in the minutiae, we lose track of what really matters in the relational work of discipleship and mentorship. And meanwhile, the ones who matter, the people, they wait like fruit, potentially dying on the vine. Something to think about, something to be aware of.

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and how we're leading. Are we leading from a kingdom perspective with intentionality? Are we putting people first? Yeah. Man, we don't want our team dying on the vine. That's right. And the second version of the struggle is that you're investing in your people, you're mentoring and you're discipling, but what exactly are you passing on is substantial. but what you are

passing on is substantially vague. You know, you're generous with your time, but you got to decide what are your non-negotiables? What are your convictions and kingdom principles that must make it to the next generation? This has got to be a clear vision. So our teams and our families have a defined target to bullseye. Yeah, because without defining it,

and without being clear about it, we're just gonna be shooting all over the place. Smart goals are good, but we gotta, non-negotiables are, you know, I heard that the non-negotiable, those words I heard come out of my brother John Hayes, his mouth, what are your non-negotiables? And that's one of the things we talk about at Grit, man.

growth, resilience, integrity and truth. What are our non-negotiables? And we meet for workouts and we have conversations, biblical conversations, and there is such a wide variety of ages and maturity and just... And we get together, we do hard stuff, but John's talking about non-negotiables. So what's your non-negotiable?

and we should pursue Christ first and foremost. That's a non-negotiable. And as we care for His temple, we should, our non-negotiable is, and I heard, and I'm in the weeds, I'm off the fairway.

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You are off the fairway. I heard a non-negotiable is, you know, a pre decision. It comes back to a pre decision. And I heard this from Kyle Thompson on undaunted life is a non or non negotiables are pre decided. You know, I'm pre deciding that I'm going to work out five days this week. And that doesn't mean at at five o'clock when that alarm goes off, I'm I've pre decided that I'm going to get up and I'm going to go out in the garage and I'm going to do that workout.

It's not that, oh, I'm so tired, I'm not doing it. No, I've pre-decided, that's a non-negotiable, that I'm gonna go out there and do that because I care for the temple. So we gotta, we gotta, and that's- You have a clear vision. A clear vision. what you're going there's a clear vision, but you know, the minutia, the world can distract us from that. And that's where-

non-negotiables come in. This is non-negotiable. I'm gonna be in the Word. We're gonna work out. We're gonna pray together. We're going to do this. Are we passionately...

uncompromisingly setting our non-negotiables. And are we fulfilling that? Have we made a decision? And are we carrying, are we remaining true with that decision? Yeah, I mean, we have to cast vision and pray into it and motivate our advancement through the valleys. Right. But the thing is, most of us never were never taught that way. Right. I first I wasn't taught that way. I wasn't taught to

cast vision. anyway, so we were taught to work hard. Got that down. We were taught to be faithful. We were taught to love God. We were taught to love people. And there's nothing wrong with all that. That's all good stuff. But deliberate strategies to build kingdom inheritance requires the kind of intentionality that most of us haven't developed along the way.

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You know, at 56, I'm developing that very late in life, but the Lord says, hey man, we're doing all right. Don't worry about the time I got that handled. And that's why He sent the Holy Spirit. Enter the Holy Spirit. Don't you think that the Spirit of truth that He sent us?

who come to bring us all the truth. Don't you think that the Holy Spirit, that He ought to have a say in kingdom inheritance and what our role in God's kingdom inheritance is? I think so. Yes, I agree. And I just want to say it's never too late. It's never too late. It's never too late. I will attest to that. It's never too late. But the enemy will lie to us for as long as we allow and he'll say, well, you're a little too old for that. Well, you know. Right.

I got news for you. I got I got a couple words for you that we will write you to myself. And then there's the third vision of the struggle that I think is probably more common than we realize. And that is the leader who is genuinely tried to invest in people. And it did not go the way they hoped. know, something happened. They mentored someone who walked away or.

Maybe they discipled a family member who made choices that broke their heart. We've had that experience. maybe they allowed a bad experience to bind them from ever being that vulnerable, vulnerably invested again. And we cannot let things like that deter us.

from what God has called us to. Can't let one bad game determine a season. That's right. Right. Right. I like that. I like that. know, Yeah, I mean, I love I love the points you're making there, babe. And I.

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We don't want to we don't want to minimize that sort of trial right, but this is what I know This is what we know. This is what we've learned through through trials through experience that Jesus invested three years of his life I invested three years of his life and into he invested his whole life his entire life in the Father's plan unwavering and but

From the point that he was baptized and the father told him how well pleased he was, that started his ministry. those next three years, he invested like no other in 12 people. One of them betrayed him. One of them denied him three times. And most of the rest of them, they scattered when things got tough. But did Jesus shrink back?

Did he did never know he did he never threw up his hands. He's like, that's it. I'm done. I don't know what that sounds like. And anyway, yeah, first century. But what he did is he finished the father's work. Yeah, he stayed faithful to the assignment. Several times he says, I do nothing that the father doesn't do.

I am here to do, He was here to fulfill the Father's plan and He finished it. He stayed faithful like no other. And the fruit of those 11 imperfect, inconsistent, sometimes cowardly disciples changed the entire world.

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Jesus' life.

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His life and his perseverance is our greatest example. And his life is our divine permission slip to keep investing, especially when it hurts, especially when it's tough, especially when you're like,

especially keep moving forward. Yeah, don't throw in the towel. Don't throw in the towel. But it's time to drop some practical solutions on you all because, you know, we hope to provide a decent grip of how it actually looks to build with a generational lens. So it's time to dump the abstract legacy thinking and engage in some real time progress that you can start this week.

So the first one is we gotta define our vision. We must know where are we going? Who's going with us? And most importantly, who, capital W, who's leading the way? Who is guiding us? Whose vision is it anyway? Quite honestly, if you're not allowing the Lord to be the lamp unto your feet, then we're not going too far.

If we're not allowing Him to be the light before us, the lamp unto our feet, then we're not going very far, let alone rippling through generations. So we're not just talking about assets and convictions and values. What are our kingdom principles? What are the kingdom principles that you have staked your life on? Did you know?

that you have the body, have a body of kingdom truth is built into you. My goodness, friends.

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For those of us who believe, we have the Holy Spirit and all the things God has taught us through Him. Jesus said in John's gospel that the Holy Spirit of truth will come and bring us all the truth. And that was to His first century disciples. Well, here we are in the 21st century and the Holy Spirit of truth.

who come to bring us all the truth. Jesus said, He will remind you of everything that I said and taught. What?

What has he taught you today? Did you receive it? What has he proven? What in you in your life in your experience, what has he proven faithful in? What do you know to be absolutely true because you've experienced him? Write it all down.

Write down those experiences. Why wouldn't we write them down? Name all of that in writing, because you cannot intentionally pass on what you haven't intentionally identified. Absolutely. I mean, if his vision isn't clear to us, then it won't be clear to anyone else. Right. So writing down experiential progress helps us helps us to clarify where he is guiding us.

So what are the things that absolutely have to make it to the next generation through you? What are the non-negotiables that have to make it to the next generation for the kingdom legacy? What are they? Just start that conversation with him and starting that conversation ignites something really powerful. It moves legacy from a vague aspiration or an intentional mission or

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It moves legacy from a vague aspiration to an intentional mission. And it gives your daily faithfulness a target. It does. We got to know what we're aiming at. We do. You know, we're just going to wander. Right. Anyway. So the next thing we got to do is we got to name our Timothys. Paul had Paul had he had a Timothy and second Timothy.

Which was not written by Timothy, it was written to Timothy. And you know, God's Word wasn't written to us, but it certainly was written for us. But Paul writes in 2 Timothy, he writes to a young man that he'd been discipling, stringently.

His name was Timothy. It was. It Timothy. And you can feel the weight of the intentional investment in every written line. Paul wasn't he was he wasn't just writing theology. He was transferring a life. He was transforming a life. was he was.

helping Timothy, his spiritual formation. And every one of us has a Timothy in our business places, in our home, in our church. Timothy is a person who's younger in faith, a little younger in leadership, and they're watching you and they're hungry.

They're hungry for someone to invest in them. And when we say invest, we're here, Paul invested time. And energy. And energy and faith. He invested, I mean, my point here is time. When we hear the word invest, we think money, but.

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time investment is time investment is going to go so much further. And that's what Paul did with Timothy. He invested in Timothy so much so that here we are talking about it. Are you intentionally investing in someone like that? Who are you discipling?

If not, if you don't have a Timothy, isn't it time to be intentional? Intentionally, somebody's watching. Somebody's watching you that's behind you.

That's that's just waiting to for you to notice them and and mentor them and disciple them. And who's your Timothy? Yeah. And that's what I was going to say, because what I've seen is that the people who most need your investment rarely ask for it directly. They are watching from a distance, hoping that you will notice them, hoping that you'll invite them in, hoping that you'll say, come do life with us for a while.

Let us show you what we've learned. Let us walk with you. And they're not always the one on the upper echelon or what people would consider the upper echelon. And that invitation is one of the most powerful things a kingdom leader can offer. And it costs you nothing but time and intentionality. Time and intentionality. I I know time is valuable. Time is money.

Time investments ripple through generations. Right. Time and intentionality. Yeah, because there's, and I don't want to go.

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This generation's challenged, man. It's the most fatherless generation that we've seen, not just in America, but worldwide. And these young men need strong men to come beside them. And these young women need strong women to come beside them. we had an experience today with a young man and woman.

And one of the things she said to me as I was talking to her, she's like, it's hard out here. And it nearly broke my heart because she just needs someone to come alongside of her.

and mentor her. And speak life into her. speak life into her. The capital L life, that is the truth of Jesus Christ. yeah, and when she walked past, I was just like, my heart went out to her as she walked past, because you could see the torment on her, and she was definitely under oppression. And I'm like, I'm sitting there and I'm like, and the Spirit's like, go now. Yeah. And

And she received everything that the spirit gave me to say to her. And she's been dismissed and pushed to the side. And to no credit of my own.

No credit to me. I don't know what her story is. I don't know what her story is either. And I don't want to get, you know, divulged. But, you know, there was a lot of hurt there. Yeah. But what she's got going for is three months of recovery and a savior named Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. And I asked her and that's that's the question.

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Once she recognizes that she's a sinner in need of a savior and she recognizes that Jesus Christ is that savior, and there is no one who is too far gone when we understand that. But you can tell she's been the one that we talked about earlier that's been shuffled, been pushed off. She's been shuffled? Yeah. And she just, when this kid got talked to her and just...

proclaim the gospel over her and she knows Jesus and he's gonna show her out. And this kid, she needed a hug. She's like, I, and her buddy's over here and I'm so grateful for how the Lord worked.

She just needs she needs the love of the Savior. Yeah, and I'm not the Savior, but she just she needed a hug. And who am I to say no? You can't you can't No kid. You can't have a hug. That's awkward. She with the kid is. Yeah, and that's and that's what we're that's sort of intentionality and the prompt of the spirit to go. Yeah, it would have been really easy just to sit there, but.

Yeah, I remember I remember people who didn't just sit there and they came after and they came after me. Yeah, I think that goes really well into to the third.

You know live an out loud faith. Yeah Our faith has got to be an undeniable. It's got to be undeniably visible. Yeah, not so not Boisterous not you know, our actions should match our tone and our and our words Actually, our actions should speak louder than our words, but we got our faith has got to be visible. It's it's it's just simply this this powerful

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It's gotta be powerful, it's gotta be consistent. Our children, our team, the people in our community, they must see our faith. Anybody can have words. They must see our faith, not just hear about it. The people, they need to see how we respond when things go sideways.

They need to see how we pray. They need to see how we give, how we treat people when it's inconvenient. And they need to see us open the word. And not just for sermon prep, but because...

We know that we're sinners in need of a savior. We need to get into the word because we genuinely need that. There's none of us that don't need the truth of his word. It is that kind.

That kind of living out loud faith, that kind of visibility is one of the most transferable things that we possess, and it's completely free. It costs nothing. It's just being who Christ called us to be. It's living out our Christ-like character as His Spirit has transformed us from the inside out. Yes. And, you know, remember Psalm 145, 4 says, One generation shall commend

God's work to another. The word commend means to entrust something valuable into someone else's care. It's an actively intentional passing on, not an accidental drip, but a purposeful pour. And that is the call on every kingdom leader who has been walking faithfully. We got to pour deliberately into people who come after you so that what God has done in you does not stop with you.

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Yeah, because of your and that will care. I just got to say that will carry on from generation to generation to generation to generation. Yeah. I mean, there's your 200 years and beyond.

But it takes intentionality. We must be intentional. We are not those who shrink back. It's written in Hebrews. Yeah.

I just got to say on that, if our kingdom influence ends with us and our vision's too small, God, he never intended.

for the fruit of our faithfulness to stop with this generation. He's always thinking further. He's always, we serve a God of multiplication. He's always considering multiplying. Not adding to, but multiplying.

And when we decide that we will align and abide our thinking, once we align with His truth and our thinking will abide with His truth, we can start asking, what we're building toward...

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what we're building toward that's gonna span across generations. And that's when our legacy stops being about us. It's not about me. And I tell you, I gotta remember that every day. so our legacy is once we understand his way.

then it stops being about us and starts being about His kingdom.

So here's your one takeaway this week. We encourage you to identify one person, one Timothy who needs your intentional investment. Not a group, not a program, but one person. And we want you to take one move towards them this week. Maybe it's a conversation or inviting them for coffee. Just one move in the right direction. That's generational legacies. It's not built on grand gestures.

but one intentional relationship at a time, conversation, one intentional conversation at a time, one act of faithful investment at a time, and the ripple of that investment will travel into decades and generations that we most likely will not see, but God will, and He will say what we all wanna hear.

Well done, my good and faithful servant. Well, on that note, let's go to prayer. If you could bow your heads, if you're driving. Unless you're driving. Keep your eyes open and on the road. But Father, thank you for expanding our thinking today. Thank you for breaking us out of the short-term, build-for-today mindset, and for giving us your long view.

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Thank you for revealing the people you have placed in our lives who need our intentional investment. Thank you for giving us the courage to pour into them generously with our time, wisdom, and our faith story, God. Holy Spirit, show us how to be people who commend your work to the next generation, not just with our words, but with the way we live every day.

May what you have done in us not stop with us. May it multiply far beyond what we could ever ask or imagine. In Jesus' amen.

Amen. Thank you. Friends, as we're wrapping up episode four here, episode five is coming your way. It's right around the corner and we're going into the marketplace. So what's does kingdom legacy

Look like in the workplace in your business. What does it look like Monday through Friday? Yeah, because your job isn't just your job. It's did you know that your job is a mission field? That's right And we're gonna talk about what it looks like to To lead there with kingdom intentionality. So that'll be coming out One week from today. Yes, so don't miss it

And I got to say, it's so timely because I just came back from the U.S. Christian Chamber of Commerce event, spiritual…

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world citizens, I had to stop and think about that, spiritual world citizens, SWC 2026, and 750 business and ministry owners who came were together, who are living that out. So I can't wait.

to talk about that next week. It's going to be incredible. So good. So until then, stay faithfully invested. Stay faithfully invested. when you do, God brings the increase. Yes, he does. God bless you. Have a great week.