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Speaker 1:Bring a friend. Tell your friends. Let's do it. Welcome to the You Can Mentor podcast. It's your boy, Zach Garza, your favorite mentor.
Speaker 1:I hope. I don't I don't know if that's true, but I hope I'm your favorite mentor. If that, it's okay. Everything's cool with this. But Or
Speaker 2:should I be top 10? At least top 10.
Speaker 1:Can I be your favorite one over six foot seven? Can I be your favorite tall mentor? Can I can I do that?
Speaker 2:Your favorite one that has a podcast.
Speaker 1:Can I be your favorite youth mentoring podcast that's faith based focused on kids from hard places? Can I?
Speaker 2:The number one the number one. Chris, the mentoring podcast led by a six foot eight guy.
Speaker 1:We actually are the number one faith based youth mentoring from Kids From Hard Places podcast. So don't know if there's a second one, but we are that. And so I'm Zach. I'm here with Stephen Murray, the Murdaugh. Murdaugh, say hi.
Speaker 1:Hello. We're doing this thing. I'm trying to have more consistent guests, so we can talk about mentoring and just get other people's takes besides mine. I feel like we're, like, 280 episodes in. I feel like people need to hear a different voice.
Speaker 1:And so, we're here today to talk about blessing your mentee, Murdogh. Tell us tell us about this. Tell us why you chose to talk about this today.
Speaker 2:I I've Zach always asked me to come up with something to talk about, and the main thing I go to is whatever I'm reading at that moment. And so a lot of people that write books have good things to say, whether you're Zachary Garza and you write a book every three months or if you're an old dead guy. I don't actually know if this guy's dead, so I need to look that up. The the cover of this book looks like he's dead. This this is a book called The Blessing.
Speaker 2:Gary Smalley, John Trent, PhD. Smart smart guy.
Speaker 1:Steven, know this guy was on my podcast last year. Right?
Speaker 2:Wait. Are you serious?
Speaker 1:Yeah. She was on my podcast.
Speaker 2:You might have recommended the book, and I'd, like, picked it up and read it.
Speaker 1:Oh, gosh. Well, John Trent, I don't know the episode number, but he killed it. Put it in the show notes. It will it there's 80% chance it'll be in the show notes. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1:I'm not real good with that. But we are going to talk today about blessing your mentees. And why I gave Steven the okay to to talk about this is because, yes, we have talked about this before, but I just don't know if you can overemphasize the power of a blessing. And I was talking to someone the other day, maybe I was listening to, like, a sermon or something, but God never stops blessing us. Like, he is consistently looking for ways to bless us.
Speaker 1:And I don't know about you, but that is just out of this world to me. Like, that that doesn't make sense because me as a, you know, as a as a man who is sinful, sometimes I look out for myself first. I'm not always, you know, super fast to give a blessing. Sometimes I'm mad at someone. They don't act how I think that they should act, so I withhold that.
Speaker 1:But that's not how God is. God is consistently looking for ways to give us his blessing, which is just a really, really, really big deal. And so I think if we, as mentors, are going to try to be like Jesus, try to be a good father, then it's very important for us to give words of encouragement, to to give a specific kind of blessing to our mentees. So Yeah. That's my take on it.
Speaker 1:But Yeah. What do you think, Murdaugh?
Speaker 2:Yeah. I I'll I'll start with a story. There was a kid at Antioch, our church here in Dallas. He was constantly finding is this is like one of those homeschool kids. So homeschool kids are built different.
Speaker 2:And this this kid, he would find ways to serve. He was on every single serve team. So whether he was holding the door open in the morning, he was running the lights for the, you know, the worship production team. He was doing cameras and stuff. And at this point, this is, like, eight years ago, so I was, like, showing him how to do some of these things.
Speaker 2:And I would teach him once, and he just picked it up. It's just, like, just one of those people. And I sat him down at the end of the service one day, and I was like, Jude, do you realize the gift that you are to God's house and how much you please him by the way you live your life as a 10 year old? Like, what you're doing right now, like, it is significant for this body, but it's it's important to Jesus. And I just wanna encourage you.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's a simple word, but just mainly encouraging people who serve. Fast forward to a month ago, Jude's mom reached out to me. He's graduating high school, and she she just told me that Jude has they they since moved. He has not stopped, you know, finding ways to serve not only at church, but at in his community. He's kind of in this Eagle Scout program right now, and he was thinking of, you know, what what project to to do.
Speaker 2:And he said to his mom, he said, you know, I wonder what that guy is up to who was in the booth at Antioch who spoke that word over me that, has kind of helped me lean into who God's made me to be. And she just she just called me to encourage me. She said, you know, I don't think you realize how much you blessed my son by vocalizing, you know, his heart for the Lord and the way that he serves and calling something that was in him out so that he recognized and made the made the connection. And, I mean, I was in tears on this phone call, and it it just remind me how much we are built for blessing. We are built for it not only to receive it, but to give it.
Speaker 2:And, you know, God says to Abraham, I'm gonna bless you so that you'll be a blessing to all nations. Like, in in its at some level, I I wanna tap into that beyond any role that I play, beyond any, you know, position that I have, that I am I am blessed to be a blessing. And usually that I mean, this this book has really given me language for what does it look like to really live a life that blesses those that you're in relationship with, whether it's my mentee, whether it's my mother, whether it's my spouse, whether it's my kids, that that's really something that I wanna lean into. And some something that, you know, John Trent mentions is the opposite is a curse. And, clearly, that there is someone in the world that is seeking to steal, kill, and destroy.
Speaker 2:And the the word image for curse that is brought up in the book as well as just in the language of of what it really means, it means to, like, to dam up like a river where you would just cut off life that is flowing and you would prevent whatever life is coming from. It's it's like cutting off a blessing. And, I mean, I was just in Seattle this last weekend, and you're, like, seeing all of these rivers. And everywhere there's a waterfall, everywhere water is flowing, it's green. It is lush.
Speaker 2:It is there's life there. And to imagine, you know, any place that is damned off, you're preventing so much life, like, from from occurring. And so, really, to bless someone is is not it's it doesn't require much from you. Like, really, to curse requires something from you is where it's like, I've I've gotta intentionally destroy, steal, kill, like, I'm purposed toward death. But then the other side is that, you know, a lot of kids are growing up not not necessarily, like, with people that are opposed to them, but they're growing up with people that are not for them, are not committed to them, are not speaking blessing, are not committed to their flourishing.
Speaker 2:And so at at some level, it's it's like what Jesus says, like, be hot or cold. Don't be lukewarm because a lot of kids are growing up just with an absence of anything, and that's leading to a lot of self conscious issues and lack of identity. And people are just growing up in no man's land rather than not receiving a blessing and not receiving a curse, but inadvertently not receiving life. So that's that's just been blowing my mind just reading this book and kind of helping me reorient my life toward man. I wanna be a man of blessing, that blessing flows into my life and it flows out of my life.
Speaker 1:And just like I think one thing that's so important to consistently remember is that for some of these kids, they have never been blessed. Like, they might not have one person speaking life into their into their life. And no one's calling out the good. No one's finding the gold. And just how it really can be, like, transformative when people bless you, when people say words of encouragement.
Speaker 1:I mean, man, I'm thinking back to my life, and I'm just, man, who who was really there encouraging me? Like, who was there telling me what I was doing good? Who was there, you know, who was trying to cultivate me and mold me and call out my gifts and things like that? And I didn't really have a ton of people, but the couple people that did, those are the people that I still talk about today. Those are the people who got me to where I I am today.
Speaker 1:And I think in this, it's so easy as a mentor, as a teacher, as a coach, as anyone who works with kids to focus in on behavior. Right? Oh, this kid does a, b, and c. They're not a good kid. I need to fixate on their behavior.
Speaker 1:I need to make sure that they don't do that. Whereas giving a blessing focuses more in on identity. It focuses more in on who they are and who God has called them to be and who God has, you know, who who God has made them to be. And you said it earlier, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about five things that happen when you give a blessing. And the first one is it releases identity.
Speaker 1:Mhmm. And, you know, if you look at Matthew three, whenever Jesus gets baptized, right, he hadn't done anything yet that had shown people that he was the son of God. But he gets baptized. God from the heavens says, this is my beloved son with whom I'm well pleased. And if Jesus needed that to to get him going, then how much more do we need that?
Speaker 1:Right? And if we need that as adults who are, we hope, mature, who have healed up, how much more do our kids who have experienced hard hard things need that? And so I believe that when God the father spoke that over Jesus, it released his identity. It gave him that affirmation. And the second thing is exactly like what you said.
Speaker 1:It takes the curses and the insecurities, and it just destroys it. Yeah. Words words spoken over a person can shape how they see themselves for for years, and you giving a blessing can rewire how a child sees themselves and how they see this world. And, man, that's a that's a really, really, really big deal. So
Speaker 2:Yeah. I I remember I hated this guy. He was in Katie's life group in college. And Katie, you know, I was pursuing her. I she'd shot me down four times.
Speaker 2:So I, you know, used to, you know, discouragement. I'm just kidding. But see, this guy this guy in her life he was a life group leader, and he he drew Katie this picture of a desert and this flower in the middle of the desert. And this flower was blooming, and it was colorful, and all this stuff. He just told Katie, he said, Katie, you are a flower in a desert, like, and, like, you will thrive in places that many people, like, will flounder, like, and and just speak spoke this word of flourishing over her.
Speaker 2:And that thing is still in our bathroom to this day. And and it, I I think it just speaks to the value that we can place on words and when you place images to reflect those words and how those things can define your life to say, yes, I am I am going to thrive in desert places. And, those things just stick with you forever. And now I got married to her, so I just wanna clarify, that sometimes those pictures can be used as, you know, a romantic gesture of trying to, like, win someone over. But but really, I don't think that was that guy's intention.
Speaker 2:He wanted to really encourage Katie in a season where she, you know, needed support, needed encouragement, needed somebody to see something in her that she couldn't see in herself. And those things just stick with me. Like, you know, say a picture is worth a thousand or what what is the saying? You you gotta help me, Zach.
Speaker 1:It's a picture is worth a thousand words. Right?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. And so if if we're able to articulate an encouragement, a blessing within something, an image, it just lasts with you so much more. Similar to how a a sermon will use illustrations to make a point that, like, they stay in your mind. And then anytime you run into this, like, when we're going on this hike in Seattle, it's like you're reminded anytime you're on a mountain of any other time, you were on a mountain.
Speaker 2:And your experiences that you had out encounters with God in the wilderness, things like that. So now anytime Katie sees a flower, she's reminded, I'm I'm a flower flourishing in in desert places. Like and those are the kind of things that, you know, as a mentor, you want to find the bid, the moment, the special word that's gonna connect, like, to your the child that you're investing in. Maybe finding something that's important to them and translating and transposing how that relates to their character, their identity, their value in the world. And you never know how much that's that's going to, you know, derive meaning and blessing in their life in the future.
Speaker 1:Man, so we talked about it releases identity, and then it takes out curses and insecurity. The third one is it it it transmits generational faith. Mhmm. And, man, just like for so many of us who come from backgrounds, maybe it's our family, you know, where people did not speak kind words over us or people just didn't say anything at all over us. Right?
Speaker 1:It is so important for us as mentors to to pay attention just like that guy paid attention to Katie and to call out the gold. And to if you see a kid and he acts in a certain way or, you know, maybe maybe he's kind or maybe he doesn't act that's selfless. It's so important for us to to hit time out. Like, hey, man. Whenever you did that, whenever you said that to that person, here's what I saw in you.
Speaker 1:I saw, and then you speak over them words of encouragement, a kind of a blessing. And I know for me, Steven, we've talked about him a lot, but my my mentor, Steve, I mean, the third thing that we talked about, it it transmits generational faith. I mean, I grew up and, you know, didn't have a dad around, and my generational lines, you know, kinda messed up. But because Steve gave me a blessing, because he spoke words of encouragement, because he chose to show up, because he said specific words over my life, God turned it from a generational curse into a generational kind of blessing. And you obviously know this.
Speaker 1:Anytime that you talked on the phone with him, he would say what? Man of God. Man of God. I have it tattooed on my chest. Man of god.
Speaker 1:I actually do. That's Steven's laughing because I just pulled down my shirt, and I tossed him to the tat. But
Speaker 2:Show us your other one. So I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:At first, I was like, man of God. Like, that is so corny. Like, that like, man of God. Man of God. Man I mean, he's called me man of God 10,000 times.
Speaker 2:He's also generous with the emojis too. The Oh, he's shield and the sword.
Speaker 1:Oh, man. He's all about those. But after a while, you know, I mean, he's been calling me man of god since 2009. And you guys know, you know, he has ALS over the last couple years. He just hasn't been able to really, you know, he hasn't been able to, you know, really talk a lot and things.
Speaker 1:But I miss him calling me a man of God. And I really do believe that there's days whenever I was not feeling like a man of God. I was not encouraged. I felt like giving up. I didn't wanna go be a good husband.
Speaker 1:I didn't wanna go be a good father. I didn't wanna see a mentor. Right? But I remember this man of God. And now when I look at myself in the mirror, I remember who I am.
Speaker 1:You know? I am I am not like my dad. I'm not like my, you know, uncles. I'm not a quitter. I'm not I am a man of God.
Speaker 1:And I live my life with an intentionality that my kids will be men of God too, that my daughter will marry a man of God, that the generational curse is done, and we, from here on out, are starting a generational kind of blessing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's because people have spoken words over me. It's because Steve, since 2009, has called me a man of God multiple times a week. And it's hard to forget my identity. It's hard to forget who I am when someone is consistently reminding you. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then the fourth thing that it does is it invites God's active presence. You know? It's like anytime Steve calls me a man of God, I remember God in my life. I remember how he's worked. I remember his kindness.
Speaker 1:I remember that he is for me, not against me. And how often in the Bible does it talk about remembering? Because we are so so often, I forget. I forget who I am. I forget God's kindness.
Speaker 1:I forget that he he's on my team, that he's on my side, that he loves me, that he pursues me. But whenever you speak words of life over someone, you remind them of your identity. You take out curses and insecurity. You speak words that are going to long last past you Yeah. And you invite in God's active Holy Spirit kind of presence.
Speaker 1:Yep. And so, man, it is it seems so simple, and it even seems kinda cheesy at times, but I'm just telling you that your words of blessing really can transform a kid's life. It can take it from a generational curse to a generational kind of blessing. And not only that, but you're teaching your mentee how to give a blessing. You're teaching them how to encourage other people.
Speaker 1:You're teaching them how to be a good husband one day, how to be a good father, how to be a good wife, how to be a good mother. Because you can't be what you can't see. And if no one encourages them, then how will they then encourage others?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So The the things that I wanna point out is is a blessing a blessing is not meant to create pressure. It's meant to clarify the person who is blessing you's commitment to you in the same way that any anything that God says, he will do. There is there is, you know, the the word does not return void. Like anything God says, he will see accomplished.
Speaker 2:And in the same way, when we bless people, we're not placing a burden on them. We are being wind in their sails, and we're saying, no. I'm communicating high value, but I'm also communicating, I'm committed to what I am saying over your life. And if a that's that's thieves commitment to you in calling you a man of God because he's he's not just saying that and then chilling and not contending for you in the secret place. Like, that his his mentorship was a consistent commitment to seeing you become the thing that he was speaking over your life.
Speaker 2:And at at some level, that puts that puts more of the, I I guess, the sobriety, the weight on the person who's blessing of, you know, do am I really going to match what I'm saying with the commitment to be consistent in seeing this accomplished? Like, John brings up in his book, he's like, you know, if you tell someone, hey, you're really good at piano. You're gonna be a pianist one day, but then you don't buy that kid a piano. You don't take him to lessons, and you don't go to his recitals. It's like, did you really bless that kid or did you just say something nice?
Speaker 2:And then the kids just kind of left, you know, wondering, am I enough? Do I have what it takes? Is anyone there for me? And everything you're talking about of God being the primary one who blesses, he is always there. He's always seeing accomplish the things that he speaks.
Speaker 2:And that's the way that we get to image him is speaking high value, but also showing high commitment. So
Speaker 1:And I think it's so important for us as mentors to see ourselves as obstacle removers. So it's like, what are the things that are getting in the way of our mentees becoming all that God has Yeah. For them to become. It's like, man, if a kid needs a piano, then let's go figure out a way to get him a piano. Let's use our network.
Speaker 1:Let's, you know, sign him up for different kinds of lessons. Let's help him get a job. So right? And so I think that that is what's that's a huge part of being a mentor is helping kids figure out not only what they're called to, not only where they're gifted, not only what gives them life, but how to live a life where they can actually do that. And then, man, just like kinda the fifth thing that I'll say about giving, you know, giving a word of encouragement, giving words of life, giving a spiritual kind of blessing is it gives a kid a place to belong.
Speaker 1:It gives them a safe place to grow. It gives them a safe place to become all that God has for them. Like, who doesn't need that? Right? It's a it's a place for us to impart spiritual gifts so that this kid can can get strengthened, so they can get encouraged.
Speaker 1:You know? To encourage is to open up someone's chest and to insert courage so that they can go do what God has called them to do. And so, I mean, you're talking about in that book by doctor John Trent called The Blessing, he talks about five things. He talk talks about a meaningful and a appropriate touch, a spoken message, attaching high value, creating a picture of a special future, and an active commitment. And if you wanna find out more about all those, check out our interview on the You Can Mentor podcast with doctor Trent.
Speaker 1:It really is super powerful. But what those things do is what we talked about today. You know? It releases identity. You know?
Speaker 1:This is my beloved son with whom I'm well pleased. It takes out the curses and the insecurity. You know? It says in the Bible that life and death are found in the power of the tongue. It transmits generational faith.
Speaker 1:You know? It talks in the old, I think it's the book of Deuteronomy. Choose life that you and your offspring may live. If you look at the Bible, just there's so many stories of generational kind of blessings. You've got Abraham.
Speaker 1:You've got Jacob. You've got Moses. I mean, it it's a big deal to God, and it can last generations. The fourth thing is it invites God's active kind of presence. We remember who he is.
Speaker 1:He we remember his character. And then last, it gives them a spot to belong so that they can grow, so that they can feel a part, so that they can receive what they need to go do what God has called them to do. But I just can't emphasize enough, us as mentors, we have to use our voices to bless. We should consistently be encouraging them. We should be consistently finding good things.
Speaker 1:If the kid's doing 99, you know, 99 certain kind of things wrong and one thing right, let's fixate on the one thing right, and let's just bless, bless, bless. Let's encourage. Let's let's not stay silent. But would our mentees think of their mentors as the most encouraging person for them, not against them, that when they hang out, they are going to leave filled up. It's a big deal.
Speaker 1:Yep. Come on. So, Steven, tell me about someone who has given you a kind of blessing and what that has how that has impacted you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean, it it blesses me when I confess sin to you and you send me a voice memo telling me you believe in me, that God's not done with me, that, like, you you see the golden knee not just to sin in me and at some level yeah. Like, that that produces hope. I got I'm reminded of guys who would go to bat with me for me in prayer and share, like, what God was speaking over my life. And those are guys like John Crow.
Speaker 2:This guy would drive from Fort Worth to Dallas to disciple me, and I didn't even know he lived in Fort Worth. So it was like, even when I saw when I realized that, I was like, wow. This guy is driving an hour a week just to come sit with me and invest in my life. He is he's going out of his way. Any any person who goes out of their way to invest in you, they they impart something that can never be taken away from me because that that communicates I'm valuable.
Speaker 2:I'm I was worth that to him. And I yeah. I'm I'm like a I think of just just any the vocalization of those things, think, is the most important. These people who were you know, you you've gotta believe people care about you, but it's the people who communicate that care that really make an impact on your life and bless you. It's when it's when they give you gifts that are intentional versus, you know, the the throwaway stuff.
Speaker 2:It's like people I remember a cousin when we had Ben sent me this crochet kind of a blanket. And I was like, they devoted hours upon hours to give me this thing, and they knew how significant it was that we had had been. And they wrote this really special card, and it just melted me. Blessed me as a father. Blessed me as, you know, as we're entering into a new season of our marriage.
Speaker 2:Those are the things that, you know even if it's not all of those things, if you get one of those things right, it is gonna leave an impression on a child's life.
Speaker 1:So as we finish up, as mentors, let's speak life. Let's find the good things. Let's call it out. Let's don't forget to pray. Right?
Speaker 1:Like, we might be the only ones in the entire world lifting up our mentees in prayer. Let's affirm identity. Let's affirm purpose. Let's call that out. Let's mark special moments, you know, whether it's having a birthday or graduation or their first job or getting baptized or something special.
Speaker 1:When it's special to them, may it be special to us as well. You know? We can, show up to their events. We can write them notes. Right?
Speaker 1:Like, I was talking about this last week. I have a letter that a guy wrote me in eighth grade. I still have it, and I'm 43 years old. You know? Like, it's been a long time, but there's just something about notes.
Speaker 1:Mentors, let's just bless. Let's don't forget to call out the gold in our mentees. Let's don't forget to say words of life over them. Let's be so generous with our words, with our encouragements, with our joy, with our laughter. And may our mentees, when they hang out with us, would they experience the person of Jesus Christ?
Speaker 1:The hope that comes, the comfort that comes, the joy, the I love you, not what you do, but just you. Right? The unconditional love and acceptance and affirmation. Would they experience that when they hang out with us? So Come on.
Speaker 1:Anything else, Murderdog?
Speaker 2:No. That's it. Blessed to be a blessing.
Speaker 1:Blessed to be a blessing. Thank you so much for tuning in. You come into our podcast. Share this with your staff, volunteers, friends, cats. I've got some cats.
Speaker 1:Maybe they need to be a blessing in the neighborhood to the other cats. I don't know.
Speaker 2:They get a bad rap.
Speaker 1:They do. They do. Alright. Remember, You Mentor. See you.
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