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Faith Outlasts Finances: A Family's True Wealth
Death has a way of clarifying what truly matters. After the passing of Darcie's 95-year-old grandmother, we're sharing revelations about the profound difference between inheritance and legacy.
When people who knew Grandma Floy from churches she and Grandpa pastored 20+ years ago showed up at her funeral, it highlighted something remarkable. Financial inheritance eventually runs out, but spiritual legacy endures for generations. The joy and faith she consistently demonstrated—regardless of circumstances—created ripples we're still feeling today.
While cleaning out Grandma's house, we discovered treasures far more valuable than any material possessions: sermon tapes from Grandpa's ministry, prayer journals filled with names of strangers Grandma had befriended and prayed for, and Bible notes revealing spiritual insights. These artifacts connected us to our spiritual heritage in ways that strengthened our own faith journey and understanding of the gifts we've received.
The beauty of legacy is that each of us gets to choose what we leave behind, regardless of what was passed to us. Jesus came specifically to transform family legacies. Through our daily decisions—how we handle struggles, celebrate victories, and demonstrate faith—we're creating the story our children and grandchildren will remember. When they face their own challenges, will they remember how we trusted God through difficult seasons?
What legacy will your life create when you're gone? Will your great-grandchildren know you prayed? Will they have stories of God's faithfulness passed down through generations? Share your thoughts with us on the Restored Podcast Facebook page or email therestoredcast@gmail.com—we'd love to hear how you're building your spiritual legacy.
you are listening to the restored podcast with frank and darcy montgomery. Restored Podcast with Frank and Darcy Montgomery. Welcome back to the Restored Podcast. My name is Frank and I am with my beautiful wife, Darcy. Hello, We've had a little bit of delay getting this episode out, but we've been going through a little bit of a situation at home, Beginning a couple weeks ago Darcy's grandma we were getting Grandma Floyd ready to move into an assisted living facility, packing up her house that she had lived in for 30 plus years. During that process of getting her ready to move, she had a major stroke and later passed away because of that stroke. So we had her funeral yesterday and it wasn't sad.
Speaker 2:No, it was beautiful. Honestly, it was beautiful and kind of, you know, joyful.
Speaker 1:Well, she had lived on the earth for 95 years. Right During that 95 years, her and Grandpa had pastored churches. For over 40 years they had pastored churches in three different states.
Speaker 2:Right and people were still commenting on posts of her obituary from Utah and Colorado. That knew them back then.
Speaker 1:Well, even at her funeral yesterday, I was surprised that there were probably at least 10 people and it's been 20 plus years since they've pastored a church, absolutely but at the last church that they pastored here in town, there were 10 people at her funeral that attended Gospel Temple Right, and to me that spoke a lot, being just the impact that her and grandpa made in those lives for them, 10 years later, to come to a funeral yeah, 20 years later, 10 years after grandpa passed away, and it just it spoke a lot to me. But she lived her life on earth full, her and grandpa and they made a big impact she understood the assignment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she understood the assignment. She understood what christians were on earth for, and that was to love one another and to spread the love of Jesus.
Speaker 2:And reach the lost.
Speaker 1:And reach the lost. And that's exactly what she did. And you know, just thinking about and I never really thought about this until yesterday at the funeral, until somebody brought it up, but it's true, brought it up, but it's true I never saw grandma not smiling and not full of joy.
Speaker 2:Right. She always had a smile and a word of encouragement is what I remember.
Speaker 1:She could have been going through it, but you would never know, because she was joyful and she had a smile and whatever she was going through, she took it to the Lord. She took it to the Lord and she gave it to him, and it wasn't going to affect how she felt, how she walked, how she acted.
Speaker 2:Nothing was going to steal her joy.
Speaker 1:And that speaks a lot. And that speaks a lot. And that really hit me yesterday in the funeral when thinking about that and I started trying to think. And I mean I spent quite a bit of time over at their house whenever you and I first got together and Grandpa still had his tax business and I would go work for him and help him. So I mean I spent quite a bit of time over there and I I never, I never would see her, you know, not be smiling, not be full of joy, and so during this process and it got me to thinking and I know you as well about what we leave behind to our children, to our future generations.
Speaker 1:Whenever we leave this world, so many times and I do it myself we think about the financial aspect of it, we think about the inheritance. What inheritance am I getting from my parents? What are you going to leave me behind? And that's well and good. The Bible says that a wise man will leave an inheritance to his children and his children's children, and I want to be a wise man one day and I'm working towards that. But more so than any financial gift that we can leave our children, more so than anything about that, is legacy.
Speaker 2:Right. And here's a definition of legacy. Legacy refers to the spiritual, moral and cultural inheritance passed down from one generation to another. It encompasses the teachings, values and faith that an individual leaves behind influencing future generations. Legacy is not limited to material possessions, but includes definition. Legacy is far more important than any inheritance.
Speaker 1:Now, if you've generated generational type wealth to where you can leave that wealth to your kids and they can't spend it all and they'll leave it to their, that's well and great, but even more so than that is that legacy of faith that we can leave to our children and our children's children and our children's children's children, and so on. You can just keep going, whereas the money might run out, but that legacy of faith will never run out, and the Bible teaches us that if you train up your child in the way of the Lord, they will not depart from it, and so teaching that legacy and raising our children to love God and to love people is more important than any inheritance that we can leave behind.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:And I'm thankful for the legacy that my parents left behind for me. They taught me hard work, they taught me that God can and will do anything, that nothing is too big for God, and they taught me that if you are faithful to God, God will be faithful to you Right. And I'm just so thankful for that legacy because that legacy has picked me up and carried me at times and I'm thankful that you come from that same legacy. I mean, we talked about Grandma Floyd and Grandpa how they pastored churches for 40 plus years. You have that lineage of your grandpa being an ordained pastor and I think something that's really cool when we were cleaning out our house, you coming across all those audio cassette tapes of Grandpa's preaching and different evangelists and missionaries that would come to his church and speak, and for you to have those tapes. Now you knew Grandpa was a pastor.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You had even went to his church.
Speaker 2:I've been baptized by him. I was baptized by him and dedicated by him. But now to go back and to be able to listen to those sermons, listen to what God? Now I make a difference that I understand them Right Because you listened to him.
Speaker 1:I mean, you went to his church growing up but at that age you weren't really paying attention and you couldn't really comprehend what was being taught. But now to go back and for you to be able to listen to your grandpa teach and preach- Not only that, I have his Bible and his sermon notes and all of that is treasured.
Speaker 2:I mean, people in the family wanted to get rid of all that and throw it away and that broke my heart because it's treasure and it is invaluable information and stuff in that notes that are in those Bibles, to where God was revealing things to Grandpa whenever he was studying and even just in his quiet time.
Speaker 1:But I mean also back when your mammy passed away a few years ago, which she's your other grandmother. When she passed away, you got some of her old prayer journals. Grandmother, when she passed away, you got some of her old prayer journals and you know, we we would often poke fun of, and it just amused us made light of the fact that wherever she would go, she would make friends.
Speaker 1:Whether it was the uh person checking her out at the grocery store, or was her waiter or waitress at the restaurant, she would become best friends with them.
Speaker 2:She would.
Speaker 1:But then later, after she passed away and you got those prayer journals, you you saw a little bit more of yourself, and I've always compared you to Mammy. Your physical attributes and some of your mannerisms are just like her. But through that you found another part waiters, and those waitresses and those people at the grocery store at the gas station that she was making friends with.
Speaker 2:They would open up to her.
Speaker 1:And they might be going through a hard season in their life and they would share that with her. Well then she would go home and she would take it to God and it would be in those prayer journals. And just to see when that realization, when it sunk in with you because you possess a lot of those same spiritual gifts of discernment, of prophetic nature and an assessor and people tend to come to you the same way they did Mammy and just when that realization, when I saw that hit you, that Mammy was that a way too, because you've often struggled with those gifts because it is a heavy burden to bear. But that realization that came to you whenever you realized that Mammy was the same way, I think it just strengthened that within you. And that's what legacy does.
Speaker 1:And when you come from a long line of legacy of a strong Christian faith, it's harder to break away from that faith Right, christian faith. It's harder to break away from that faith. But also it's everybody's decision. I can choose today the legacy that I want to leave behind for Hayden. I can choose today if it's going to be a legacy of faith or if it's going to be a legacy of addiction or a legacy of negativity or a legacy of divorce. Whatever that might be, we have the power to choose what legacy we leave behind.
Speaker 2:And that includes, you know, if you're left a legacy that has any of those things, you don't have to stay in that.
Speaker 1:Right. Jesus came and died on the cross to change family legacies.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And I think it's just so important. We strive so much for the financial side and the physical side whenever we think about what we're going to leave behind to our loved ones after we're gone. And the legacy side of that is just so important because it can impact generations that you will never meet. But by you instilling that and leaving a legacy of Right loving me, when you leave behind that legacy of faith, it is so much more powerful and so much more I'm looking for the word it'll mean more to your lineage than any dollar amount would mean to them. And I just this is kind of a short episode today, but I just wanted to talk about that legacy and encourage others and I know that I've been encouraged to be more diligent and to focus more on the legacy that I'm leaving behind to our future generations and just know that whatever you're going through today, god will see you through, and how you handle that today is building your legacy.
Speaker 1:I can't remember who said it Building your legacy. I can't remember who said it. I think it might have been Gary Vaynerchuk that quoted it. Something along the lines of each day is a new day to create your legacy, yep, or a rough season. They can look back and remember. Mom and Dad did this and God took care of them.
Speaker 2:And that's the thing you have to leave that example. Sharing your testimony with your kids is very important. When God does something, you need to share that and show that, especially to your kids, and let them see that to build their faith 100%.
Speaker 1:I mean the Bible tells us to you know, raise our children and teach them the teachings of Christ.
Speaker 2:And praying with your kids is so important. You know I would pray over Hayden all the time. You would pray over Hayden all the time you would pray over him. You and I have shared our struggles. I mean, he's seen them, but some of them and he's seen change. He'll say Dad's better, Mom, you're doing better, You're on fire for God.
Speaker 1:And it's that legacy there that's more important than anything financially that we could leave him. And I just again it's a real quick episode today, but we just wanted to get on and share that about legacy and what's been on our hearts and just to strive harder each day to leave a legacy of faith to where there's no doubt in our future generations of our bloodline, that Frank and Darcy, whatever they call us, I have a feeling I'll be called Pops.
Speaker 2:You're already called that.
Speaker 1:Because that's what Hayden calls me now, but Pops and Granny Darcy.
Speaker 2:No, thank you.
Speaker 1:Whatever you're called, but I hope that they can look back and you know, our great-grandchildren or our grandchildren will look back and say I know, Granny Darcy.
Speaker 2:Would you stop calling me that.
Speaker 1:Prayed like this and I know that God took care of them and that, to me, is far greater, yeah, and that to me is far greater, far more important than any financial inheritance we can leave behind our kids. And so this has been the Restored Podcast. If you have any questions or you want to share your testimony with us, you can find us at the Restored Podcast Facebook page or you can email us at therestoredcast at gmailcom. We look forward to hearing from you and until next time, my name is Frank. For my beautiful wife, darcy, this has been the Restored Podcast, thank you.