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my bus energy, you hi. This is Jolyn Victoria thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend? We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. Oh God bless you always our joy to to come into your home. We love you, and we know, God has great things in store for each one of you if you're ever in our area, hope you'll stop by and be a part of Lakewood. I say it often often the Are the finest people in all of Houston right here at Lakewood, so come on out? Whenever you can I like to start with something funny I heard about this hill, Billy family that had never left their small town. Never Television, never listened to the radio,

One day they decided to take a vacation to New York City, the first The father took his son to see a fake. Skyscraper they were so impressed. They were especially intrigued by the elevator. They didn't. What it was they saw this very old woman, walk up and punch the button. All of a sudden. The walls opened up. She into this small room in the walls, clothes backer. They said they are contemplating what they just see about. That time the walls open back up and out

a beautiful twenty four year old woman, almost in disbelief, the son said dad what just happened. The dad said, I don't know son but go get your mother all right, hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. This is my bible. I am what it says. I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do today. I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same in Jesus's name, God bless you. I wanted talk to you today about investing in people. When we hear the word, invest, we often think of invest in the stock market in sitting in real estate investing retirement and that's good but all of those investments will eventually fade away. The only investments that are going to last is our envoy.

Men's in other people we are all leaving a legacy. Or intentional or unintentional. When is unintentional, we just live life and wait to see what's gonna happen, but it's intentional, we're stately. Looking for ways that we can invest in somebody else, new hope the famous football coach said when I die my account punishments will eventually be forgotten. What I've invested in my players will contain to live on, the best legacy is not what we leave for people, it's. What we leave in people, we all have things that we ve learned skill. Talents lightly sperience is wisdom, You have a wealth of knowledge that God is interested you with you, supposed to keep that to your sale. You should be passing them on to somebody else.

We have a responsibility to transfer what we know today. Generation you taken time to invest in your children. Are you mentoring, someone you training that coworker teaching them the skills. You'd learned Are you sharing your wisdom, your expire, into inside with a name. A friend a year. Person, so they don't make the same mistakes that you made. God specks us to impart to others fringe. You and I have an opportunity to leave a mark that can be raised Yes, eventually we're all going to die, but when you invest in somebody else, you will continue to live on your life, I can have influence for generations to come. If you will take time to invest in people, you remember the story. Jesus told about the talents to them and took their talents and went out more The plan d, the master, was very pleased but

third man buried his talent in the ground. You could say he took his talent to the grave he didn't share it with any one. He didn't multiply. He just live to himself Lou. Nineteen, twenty two, the Mastro calls him and unfair faithful servant and when we're not taken time to share what we know: we're, not mentoring, training teaching developing modeling than we are being faithful with what God has given us The next generation should not have start over. They should have to relearn what what? already learned you should be pouring everything you know into your children in a young person into that coworker. That's under you at the office, Well, you say Joel, I'm busy that takes a at a time I'm trying to reach my own goals No, when you help others accomplish their dreams, God what pew. Accomplish your dreams, he'll more

to play your time. You'll multiplied. Your talents he'll make sure that you rise higher now discovered you never stand taller than when you reach down and help somebody else succeed, when you add value to others, you adding value to yourself. Don't go to your grave with your talent buried, find somebody to share it with. After all? of us got to where we are by ourselves from the moment we were born, somebody was investing in ass. Somebody, we're sharing their gift, the doktor, the delivered you, the the nurse wrapped you up the mud, that loved you, the Sundays your teacher, the train, you the coat that torture, neighbour, that befriended you the ball. They gave you a good break, none of it. Got to where we are on our own. Somebody took time to train us

somebody sacrificed, so we could succeed. Now our job is to reach back and help. One else succeed that all the people that have invested in me MA Father was very disciplined in he had Very strong work, ethic heat, me by example. The import a being diligent and give every job, my very best my grandmother, she was so full of joy. I never saw her up said she could instantly, had a song appraise coming up out of her heart She is a big part of who I today. She's one of the main reasons why I smile practically all the time can still remember my basketball coat in seventh grade. I was smallest player on the team, one day I was in the hallway school with all my friends, and he called me over the big Tough guy never showed much emotion

He look me in the eyes, and he said Joe it's the size of the person that matters is the size of their heart, and to tell you. You have a big heart. You gonna do great this shit when he said that it was like. I turned into Michael Jordan that did more for my confidence more for myself esteem. Then he could ever imagine What was he doing? Invest in me. You could see all the people that it made me into who I am today The land would be a hundred yards long parents, grandparents, coaches Sunday, school teacher, and uncles relative even mob. The Paul. He has taught me by example. What not to wear, how not to place more holes invested in me, ruin my mother not only loved and cared for us. Children Every day before we left for school, she was

Father. Thank you that my children have your favor wherever they go. To expect gods, favor from my mother, You know what I'm doing today tell another people to believe for gods favour, I'm not take the gift that she gave me and bury it I'm going to pass it on to my children. My friends, my colleagues, my associates MA There was constantly telling me how great he thought I was and how I could do Anything he took down to MR me, He was busy, but he gave May his attention, as a little boy he's too to the hospital to visit people that were sick. He would always take me with him. He had happened join hands with the family. When we pray ass, a teenager I would come down to the church during the summer and in meetings with with at at the office half the time I didn't what was going on

on the way home. He had always explain it. George. This is what we are doing. This is the reason we were doing. He didn't have to He had a lot going on, but here stood this principle that he had a responsibility to pass on everything he possibly could is kind of fun. My father knew nothing about mechanics and how things are that wasn't one of its strengths. In one day, our back door knob the whole it messed up, and so on went to the hardware store and bought a new one. As twelve years old, and I was there trying to help and get a new one. My father worked in worked and he couldn't get the old one off and he had the hammer and he was beating that door knob and we ended up using kitchen utensils, knives, forks spatulas. Finally, after about two hours, daddy got that new door knob that whole unit on he was. Proud he's a job, I told you ve just stick with it. You'll get. It done,

it to slam it and to shut it, to show me how it worked and when he did that door knob hit the wood frame, it chipped, the trim bounced back open. He had The whole thing on totally backwards. But what I appreciated about my father is: he did his best to teach me everything. He knew and even sometimes things he didn't know ITALY, Tellin, my children, you're not only getting everything I have not only we're thing I know, but you get everything Grandaddy imported into me. Everything grandmother gave me they put it in, and I'm going to do my best to pour it into you. Think about how high our children would go. If we, We all live like this. This, is the way it's supposed to be. Every generation should build on the next, children should have the same struggles that I have seen. Good with their starting at a higher level, there's more wisdom, more death, more sperience in our family line. They should

how what I know and run with The only way this is gonna happen is. If we are to time to invest. We have to and for what we know into them. Really. I believe this The best in here a tense. We can leave them leaving something for them, Leaving something India. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for leaving resources, but that's not All I'm gonna leave em all sure I'll teach them thing. I know about life about me. Story about marriage, business economics anything on normal poured into their my prayer. My declaration for all of our children is that they are going to start where we finish, and God They take them places we've. Never even dreamed of our children are going to be mighty in the land, but so often today, instead of investing in our children,

giving them the attention they need. We give them activities we're running them here and there taken them to this activity in gotta. Get back to this special function and then to this other activity. So, like we're running a bus service, and we sit back and watch the employees sports and watch them do ballet, watch them in the school and that's fine Play the lot of sports, but if we are not careful, we substitute activity for attention Stan your children need you more than they need another activity Please tell us by the age of five. Our children have already developed their sense of reasoning. By the age of twelve nanny. Percent of who they are. They believe has all they ve been established. Don't let the television, the baby sitter for your children, don't allow sports ballet in band to take the time.

From you spending with them, and you imparting into them? Why you say you are really wanted to hear about my dreams today, not somebody else's know. Your dreams are connected to other people. If you will help someone else rise, higher God will help you to rise high, take time to invest in other share, which you now even in simple things, I think how in Victoria's family they ve had special recipe, that's been the family line for four or five generations is called senator rustles, sweet potatoes there, the best sweet potatoes in the world. They ve gotta asked of cinnamon and sugar and nuts. We don't like the sweet, potatoes we just like the cross, but what happened? Is generations back? Somebody came up with that great recipe. They quota for this, my special dish, I'm just gonna, keep it to myself No, they were living with this mindset. I've got up.

Down everything good are possibly can so one day that mother taught her daughter the recipe and that daughter taught her daughter. Eventually, got down to Georgie, my mother in law. Taught her daughter Victoria. Now We thanks giving Victoria and our daughter are indeed kitchen, making senator rustles sweet potatoes. Let me ask you Are you transferring you wisdom? experiences your short cuts Europe copies down to them generation so they can start ahead of you. Do skills and gifts that you just. Keep it to yourself. You cannot taking that for granted. Go pass them down Just the other day I was talking to our sun Jonathan he's fourteen about how to prepare a message in how to study and how to communicate I thought I ve been doing this for ten years. I want to make sure he at least knows what I know you well Joel. I don't have any special Fourteen. I don't know that much sure you do. You

about life, you know what works and what does it You know the mistakes made in and what you learned from it. You have experience. You have skills many times what we take for granted is a big deal to someone else remember is older. Lady that used to come to lake would now she's since gone to be with the Lord. She wasn't very wealthy. She didn't have a quote expertise, not People would consider her to be very successful, but she was an expert in one thing, This lady knew how to pray tee to come to the services early sitting. Her chair and pray. Eight or nine years old, and when she would see me walking through the auditorium, she would call me over and say Joe come over and let me pray for you. I'd sit there. Three or four minutes, and she would pray God. Blessings. Gods, favour gods, wisdom, gods, victory in my life, Lady, not only taught me how to pray.

But she model for me the importance of reaching out to others and speaking faith into their lives. Didn't have to call me over in I never wanted to go it embarrassing me. I wanted to be out playing with my friends. I tried avoid them. Invariably, she would seek me out come over. Just give me five minutes. At war, over toward or like I was so excited. The I was thinking. Why did I come this way not again but all that time even subconsciously. I was taking it in. It was being ingrained in me, reach out to other speak fate into their lie, cheat I'm afraid, fancy prayers, he never private anything. Super spiritual, Jesus God, give Joel wisdom help him. Fill his destiny for his lie. What's my point, she had a gift she had,

scale. No, she wasn't a computer experts. She wasn't master mechanics. You want a medical doctor She was a prayer warrior Not all know if that lady had children of her own, but I know this today. She is living alone, inside of me return. I get up and speak faith in the people. A part of her is alive, She put something in me. She didn't have to he could upright at home she pray silently, but she time to invest in others, What do you have that you could be passing all maybe a great gift, maybe skilled in the art. Music can education in sales. Pass it on to somebody else. Maybe you gift is what you consider to be something more people like this lady, you ve got a gift of kindness. An excellent mother you're, a skilled cook, you, sport when it comes to fixing things,

still those qualities in those around you take time, share what you know within the grocery store a while back, and I noticed how they now have something called seed. Lis fruit, you can. Orange without any seeds, we our home many times seed list, watermelon, it's not natural it's been organically altered and its eyes to eat you'll. You have to worry about the seed point to worry about swallow and anything. But the fact is: without the seeds, the fruit cannot reproduced Once you eat, it is gone. The life is over You know how a normal orange, if you ate it, you could take the seeds and plant them in the ground and a certain. At a time. You'd have dozens and dozens more oranges. It would continue to live on continued to perpetuate, It's the way, God designed the problem with many people. Today is like this organically

altered fruit is they are living seed list lives? Yes, look successful. Yes, there, accomplishing their dreams, but there sharing what they know with anyone else. They're just living to themselves. We your time is over, because, haven't shown any these seeds. They will continue to live on they may leave a mark, but it will be quickly forgotten. As reading about a young boy. Was growing up in Ghana, West Africa, he was extremely poor and ass eighteen years old he decided to leave home, determine to find some way to help better his people seven years later he returned back to his village. The people were so excited they saw him coming down. The road ran out to meet him They were sure that he'd brought well riches, in abundance. They said to him, show us what you brought, Without saying a word here: into his pocket and pulled out three, Annie, seeds,

looked at him computer, they said. Is this You brought us you ve been gone seven years. This is it He planted those seeds in the ground, not long after that. Gonna had its first cocoa plants, they multiplied and multiply today. Many years later, cocoa is one of the major products in Ghana, young man left a mark that cannot be raised. Have they do it by planting three? both sides fringe you and I have the same opportunity. When you live your life, Things. Seeds in others in part, what you know your skills, your wisdom, love your kindness, your encouragement? Then that seed takes root. It'll grow that person. We'll touch another person and that person, other on at all. Before long, your life? be influencing thousands of people even long after you ve gone what happened before

you took time to invest in others, you will continue to live on. My grandmother is living on today through me that coach, Both faith in me he's living on through me I'm asking you to not less a seed. Less life that orange without seeds. It may taste good for a moment, while at last once she's gone. It's it's over. The pleasure is far too temporary The same way in life when we leave without mentoring, training, teaching modeling, we may have some success but is very short compared. What God had in store when you reach out and touch others, and they touch more people. All that's accumulated to Europe can one day look up and you're gonna say you left a mark that

cannot be raised. You sold so many seeds that three generations later for generations, five generations people are still being influenced by your lie in every One of us should have a project somewhere that ve taken under our we would, encouraging them we're teaching them our scales, we're giving them our advice should start our own children. Or another young person, a coworker at the office they could easily make it to the next level. They just me a little mentoring, a little training take time to invest. I've heard It said there is no greater occupation, then, in helping someone else succeed ten, thirty, two, a baby. Was born to an unwed mother, Six weeks later he was adopt. By this loving couple. The You find this did mother suddenly died for the next ten years, the little boy with his father travel the country

searching for work for the father the little we told how growin up his fate The thing to do would go out to eat and what the other families sitting together in joy in each other. He began fascinated with restaurants, and you begin to study the menus and how everything worked at the age of fifteen The owner of a local restaurant gave a job. This may took him under his wing and he began to teach him everything he knew about the restaurant business eighteen. The young man got drafted after serving country. For four years he came back home. once again. That gentleman gave him a job this time, he put him in charge of four of his restaurants. They continue to flourish. In nineteen, sixty nine that gentleman sold his business and this young man decided to take. It everything. He had learned and start his own restaurant. He called it will these old fashioned hamburgers

Today there are over six thousand windows and the owner. The late Dave Thomas deal one of the most beloved and endeared people. All of America Miss You're Thomas gave millions and millions to charities. Started numerous foundations to help adoption agencies. Children learn scales, mental Programmes on and all they ve done this made a huge difference with his lie. It would have never happened loving couple had not adopted him and if that risk grant owner had not taken De Minister him train him to teach him his skill to show him his shortcuts to impart into a young man, They didn't leave something for David Thomas. They left something in David, Thomas by investing in this young man, they left the mark. That will not be rice. Look around.

Is there someone in your life you could easily take under your wing, you could mentor, then you could them your skills. You could speak faith into them. There is no greater giving then the giving of yourself wait to give money. That's important, but when you give yourself your time Your energy you advise, that is the ultimate gift now, learn this the greater the giving the greater the living you will never be more fulfilled. Then, when you are making a difference in somebody else's lie. I have a good friend that was raised in a very dysfunctional home. Father, was never around her mother Plenty of problems on her own the age of sixteen. She was basically raising her younger brother. The mother was not responsible and never at home This young lady, which is crying out for help on the inside one day, when the school mention that

owned a small store, and maybe he would give her a job to wit and applied This may not only gave her a job, but he begin to watch after her likes. You his very own daughter, he make sure she would change. All in our car at the right time- make sure she was doing ok in school, make sure she could balance the cheque book, He didn't realize it, but he was the father figure that she had so long for years later, when the young lady went to get married, the father still not around you, who she chose to give her away at the wedding. The man the small store he took time to make a difference this shared what he knew he didn't take for granted simple things like no one to change the oil in a car, and today been a bidding. Calls this young lady is healthy and home. Her friendship, We're encouragement has made my life better, that and invested in her chin?

vested in me and I'm investing in others he made a mark that cannot be raised, A challenge to you today don't live a seed. Lis lie town to share with you know meant or someone teaching scales, invest in others, we're all leaving a legacy. Let's make sure It's an intentional legacy. Remember we! get to where we are on our own. Somebody invested in us now, make it a goal to invest in someone else who can leave a mark that cannot be erased and if you will hey it's time to invest in people mental teaching, training modeling. Then those seeds that you so we'll be to plug back. Did you, God?

make sure you rise higher he'll. Make sure you accomplish your dream. You overcome obstacles, I believe and declare you will live that life, a victory that he has in store amen. Do you receive it today? We never like to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you play with me? just say. Lord Jesus repentant Meseems come into my heart. Make you my lord and safe friend, If you play that simple prayer, we believe you got born again thanks. For listening to the jewellers. Dean podcast help us Continue to share the message of hope with those all over the world is a joke. Steam, dot, com, slash, give hope to give a gift. Today, thanks so much for listening to today's message. I hope your subscribe so you can receive the latest podcast to keep the inspired all through. The wind will play in volume,

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