Guest: Ps David Balestri | Kingdom Legacy Series | 19th April 2026

you know, there was obviously still food left on the edges of your land and also in the middle because to capture everything, you know, you'd have to go over again. And the principle was this, that harvesting your land, you you weren't allowed to harvest a 100% of it. What remained on the edges and in the middle was actually supposed to be for the stranger, for the poor, for the for the for the visitor. It was it was supposed to it was this principle that said it's it was supposed to model a principle that said, God says, I've blessed you, and the blessing is for you, but it's not just for you. Do you get that? I've blessed you, and the blessing is for you, but it is not just for you. [01:22:09] (50 seconds)  #GleaningGrace

I mean, that's legacy. That that is that is a revelation of legacy. That is what we're being invited into. That the legacy of love, the legacy of faith, the legacy of the body of Christ being raised up, being made glorious in the city. You and I, we are custodians of this moment of legacy. That's before us, what will we do with it? Amen? [01:42:03] (30 seconds)  #CustodiansOfLegacy

So when we're invited into these moments of legacy, what we're what you're being invited into is a revelation of not just not just there is a moment of offering, and and that's a beautiful moment, but you're actually being invited to experience something of what it means to live kingdom in your day to day beyond after this legacy campaign as it were. The the, you know, the third was it the the first week in May when you once that's beyond, it's not like, oh, we turn legacy off now. [01:17:29] (32 seconds)  #LegacyBeyondOffering

I love that. I I I get so much it's so much bigger than us. The blessing of the Lord, if we can be faithful stewards of it, our lives can become large fields of blessing because we understand that that blessing is not just for me and my moment, but is for generations that come after me. Natural and spiritual, not just natural children, spiritual children. Like, when a church steps into legacy, it it's powerful because it builds dimensions into this city. Let's give this example. It builds capacity for the body of Christ in this city that you and I will never see, not not with our own physical eyes. We will see in the cloud of witness, but we will never see. This is a really powerful revelation, and I'm my exhortation this morning is be careful not to make this just about an offering. The the offering is a tangible engagement and is an important part because it's like a it's a tangible step, but there's something much bigger that you're being invited into here. [01:35:55] (77 seconds)  #GenerationalStewardship

And sometimes people say to me, man, what did you do? Like, what was the secret? And I just said, you know, I'm not quite sure. You know you know, it's like, oh, well, I don't know. And I feel like we did a couple of things right. One of the things that Nikki and I, my wife and I did consistently was we lived an a poured out life for the Lord at home, in our workplaces, like in our career choices. We just laid it into every aspect of our lives. We weren't one thing on Sunday and something else on Monday. We weren't just one thing in our devotion to prayer and then another thing in our devotion to generosity. Like, we just like, we were just poured out, not perfectly, not not you know, there were some moments. You know, we had some hard moments, some interesting moments in our own faith walk and all the rest. But over the arc of, you know, the thirty something years that we were believers, we just were able to model a poured out life. And now I see my children carry that same life. Legacy is built in rhythms, not just in information or an event. It's built in the rhythms that you build into your life, into your faith. [01:27:34] (82 seconds)  #RhythmsOfLegacy

deal with the boss or or I'm turning up to the business. And and and many times, like, leg it doesn't I'm not feeling all that legacy, you know, on a Monday morning. I'm just feeling it's Groundhog Day again. Right? It's the the mundane life expressions. But here's the interesting thing. Legacy is not an event, and it's not a feeling. To live a revelation of legacy is to enter into a rhythm of revelation, where my life becomes a testimony of what it means to not consume everything, all the energy for myself, but actually live in a way that is expressive, is generous. [01:20:23] (55 seconds)  #LiveGenerouslyDaily

It's really important here. Right? Legacy is as much about our children as it is about us. God reaches to Abraham, and he he he doesn't just say, I'm gonna bless you. It's like, hey. I'm gonna bring you into a generational story, and I'm going to start a a rhythm in your life that is gonna bless you. I will bless you. That that's that's emphatic there. But it it doesn't stop with I will bless you. It says, in you, all the families of the earth will be blessed. Now here's the thing. I think that legacy must touch the families of the earth, but I wanna just encourage us this morning, it must touch our family. Like, [01:24:09] (51 seconds)  #GenerationalBlessing

And and here's the challenge. As we walk through church life, we can come to moments like legacy, like this season, and we see the video, we see the cards on the seat, and we think, oh, this is about an offering. This is this is about an offering, but it's actually not. Really, if you what you're being invited into is a revelation of what it means to live a life poured out for God. Yeah. You know, Paul says in one of the epistles, he says he's exhorting the team around him, and he's saying, my life is being poured out as a drink offering. Like, [01:15:24] (41 seconds)  #LifeAsOffering

it it's hard for us because in what does that mean in Western culture, drink offering? But what it means is in God, we're we're invited to live in such a way that we steward a glory that is not ultimately for us. But the glory that we carry, the prosperity that we walk in, the gracings that we have, actually are about somebody else. I always say people say, oh, gee, I'd like to be a leader in the church or a leader in life. Well, that's that's amazing. So a leader is someone who is willing to have their life poured out for the blessings of another. That's what ultimately a leader is. Whenever [01:16:05] (46 seconds)  #LeadToServe

nevertheless, you get the opportunity to decide what will be what what will the people after you receive. You know, like, you know, even if even if I was brought into a negative legacy story, by the grace of God, I can change that in a generation. I can turn a negative dimension into a positive dimension. Now I I I I get I get I live in the same world that you live, and sometimes, week to week, it doesn't this this thought of legacy is not front of mind. What's front of what it doesn't feel like legacy. I it feels a lot like I'm dropping the kids at school. It feels like I'm turning up to the workplace and have to, you know, [01:19:36] (46 seconds)  #ChangeYourLegacy

You know. Over the last couple of days, a couple of times, I've mentioned this principle. It's an old testament principle, which is called the gleaning the gleaning principle. And how the gleaning worked in the Old Testament was if you owned a plot of land and you planted crops and then all of sudden, it was time to harvest those crops, there were rules about how you were able to harvest your land. Right? And so here was the rules. Some of the rules were this. You were not allowed so you would send workers to harvest the land. They were not allowed to harvest the very edges of your land, and they were not allowed to go over your land more than once. And so what would happen, of course, is if you did that, [01:21:18] (51 seconds)  #LeaveTheEdges

There's a story about Oxford University in England. And, you know, many of the buildings that were built in I mean, I'm from Australia. You 200 years old is an old building for us. You know? And then you go to Europe, and you just freak out. You know? You you come into a cathedral, and it's 1,700 years old. You know? And you just think, oh my gosh. You know? To Oxford University, many of the buildings were built around the fourteen hundreds. Fourteen hundreds. That's how long it's been there. It's crazy. Right? And so they have, of course, a a building heritage board, and the job of this building board is to try and retain the the heritage, the original state of these buildings. It's it takes millions and millions of dollars, and it's a big, big deal. Right? [01:37:39] (49 seconds)  #PreserveHeritage

I I I love that. I think, you know, if God is inviting us, Legacy Harmony Church, into a Legacy Revelation, then I wanna say to you, yes, it is for us, but it's actually for our children. But the blessing is for our children, but actually the lifestyle is for our families. You know, by the grace of God, I, you know, I have four adult children. Three of them are married. The fourth one's about to be married. He's he's worked out the ring. He called the camera crew. They've got it all booked, you know, the the the surprise reveal, all of that sort of stuff. But but I think one of the things we thank God for and and, you know, our children, by the grace of God, they're all, you know, doing really well. They're they love the Lord. They're they're in the church. All of those things. [01:26:48] (46 seconds)  #LegacyForChildren