Positioned For More: Legacy of Increase
Positioned For More! Legacy of Increase - Week #8 Sermon Notes Pastor Brad Myers
When our alignment meets God’s increase May 31, 2026
Series Review
- The God of Increase: Increase begins with who God is — He is the God who creates, blesses, multiplies, and expands His purpose.
- The Pattern of Increase: Jesus modeled increase in wisdom, stature, favor with God, and favor with people.
- The Capacity for Increase: God enlarges us internally so we can carry what He desires to release externally.
- The Nature of Increase: True increase is Christ being formed in us and the fruit of the Spirit being produced through us.
- The Environment of Increase: Godly environments cultivate healthy growth, faith, family, and spiritual formation.
- The Influence of Increase: What God forms inside of us was never meant to remain internal; it becomes visible through Christlike influence.
- The Power That Multiplies Increase: On Pentecost, we saw that divine increase becomes multiplication when God’s people are empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Wednesday Divine Habits Summary
- Prayer taught us to depend.
- God’s Word taught us to think rightly.
- Hunger taught us to desire more of God.
- Agreement taught us to walk together.
- Expectation taught us to anticipate God’s activity
- Availability taught us to offer ourselves for God’s purpose.
Over these eight weeks, we have learned that increase is not simply more possessions, more success, or more activity. Biblical increase is the expanding work of God in us, through us, and today, beyond us.
Today: The Legacy of Increase - When God’s Increase Outlives the Moment!
Now we ask: What will remain after this message series? What will be passed on? What will continue because we were faithful?
Inheritance vs. Legacy
Inheritance is what you leave the next generation.
Legacy is what you invest into multiple generations.
Inheritance is what you leave to someone.
Legacy is what you leave in someone.
Inheritance may change someone’s circumstances.
Legacy will transform someone’s character!
Inheritance is usually transferred at the end of life.
Legacy is built throughout life.
Inheritance can be spent.
Legacy can be multiplied!
Inheritance gives people something to hold; legacy gives people something to become.
The Legacy of Increase is not merely about what we leave behind — it is about what God has formed in us that continues to live, grow, and multiply through others.
1. Your Spiritual Legacy Begins When Increase Is No Longer Just About You!
Psalm 78 – Asaph
- Levite worship leader, musician, and prophetic psalmist
- Several psalms are attributed to him or his family line.
- Served as a chief worship leader under King David
- His descendants continued serving in worship for generations
- A worship leader calling God’s people to remember the works of the Lord and pass them on to the next generation.
Psalm 78: 1-8 (NIV)
Call to Listen, Remember, and Teach:
“My people, hear my teaching” — Serious summons to pay attention.
“We will not hide them from their descendants” — God’s works doesn’t remain private.
“We will tell the next generation” — Commitment to intentionally pass on faith.
“Then they would put their trust in God” — goal not just information, but formation.
“would not forget his deeds”— protect future generations from forgetfulness
A Spiritual Legacy is not only remembering what God has done; it is making sure the generations that follow knows why it matters.
Our lives become a legacy when we stop asking:“What is God doing for me?”
Begin asking: “What is God doing that must outlive me?”
Legacy is your spiritual increase with a future attached to it.
If your spiritual increase ends with you, you may have enjoyed it — but you have not faithfully carried it.
2. Legacy Requires Remembering What God Has Done
The danger of a divine increase is that people can enjoy the blessing and forget the God who gave it.
Deuteronomy 8:11 (NKJV)
- What one generation forgets, the next generation may never inherit.
- Legacy begins when testimony becomes intentional.
3. Legacy Is Built Through Faithful Transmission
Psalm 78 says, “telling to the generation to come…”
Legacy requires communication: We must speak what God has done.
- To our children, families, new believers, the church, the next generation.
2 Timothy 2:2 (NKJV)
God’s increase in your life becomes legacy when it moves from testimony to transmission.
4. Legacy Is Empowered by the Holy Spirit
The birth of the church at Pentecost was not just a moment of power — it was the beginning of a movement.
Acts 2:39 NKJV
The Holy Spirit empowers more than a service. He empowers a people to carry the Gospel into the future.
Pentecostal legacy is not a memory of what God did yesterday; it is Spirit-empowered faithfulness for what God wants to continue tomorrow.
- In all of us!
5. Legacy Turns Increase Into Multiplication
God spiritually increases us so others can be strengthened, reached, discipled, encouraged, and positioned.
2 Timothy 2:2 (NKJV)
Increase becomes legacy when the fruit remains.
6. Legacy Continues After the Moment Ends
Legacy was not built on the last 8 weeks of this series
It’s built moving forward!
Every prayer, every act of service, every surrendered yes, every Spirit-led step, every investment into someone else becomes part of what remains.
John 15:16 (NKJV)
Tomorrow’s legacy is formed by today’s faithfulness. We don’t stumble into legacy; we sow into it.
Closing Movement
- This series has not simply been about God giving us more.
- It has been about God making us ready for more.
- He’s been enlarging our capacity.
- Shaping our character.
- Cultivating our environment.
- Expanding our influence.
- Empowering us by His Spirit.
- Now God’s calling us to leave something that lasts.
We are not positioned for more so we can simply have more. We are positioned for more so we can carry more, release more, serve more, reach more, and leave more for those coming behind us.