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Welcome everyone joining us today. My name is Daniel and I have been in the financial services industry as an entrepreneur for eight years

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For many years. I had two big desires

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I wanted to be a business owner to create a massive company and the second was I wanted to be in ministry

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These two desires were always in my heart

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But I thought the plan was for me to build a big company and then work in the nonprofit field

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Yet as I wanted to do more in church, I started to develop this deep need and understanding of reform need in our culture

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I would constantly ask myself how this would all come together

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For many years these two desires confused me until one day God brought clarity to the situation

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One morning a year ago. I was sitting at a coffee shop

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That day had been

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Especially ordinary. I was tired working on my training from for my financial broker team when God did something

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Extraordinary he gave me a vision and it was only the second time in my life. I've had a vision like this

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It was as if God had plugged in a USB port into my brain and he laid out for me something

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That was very unique

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Exciting but a little disturbing at the same time and as a vision of the future and what God wanted to do

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So, let me explain and let's get into it. So God told me to write down the phrase the Joseph initiative

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He then told me to read the story of Joseph in the Bible for those that aren't familiar

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Let me explain a little bit of how that story goes

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So Joseph was the favored son of Jacob the grandson of the patriarch Abraham

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Because of the favoritism of Jacob towards his son his brothers conspired to sell Jacob as a slave into Egypt

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Joseph found himself as a slave in the land of Egypt for many years

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Due to his hard work though. He found himself becoming the right-hand person to the captain the guard of Pharaoh

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Through a lie. However, Joseph was accused of things. He didn't do and found himself in prison

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It seemed as if kind of from the outside God had abandoned Joseph

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But what was actually happening was God was positioning Joseph

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The crescendo of the story happened a little bit later when Joseph was taken out of prison to interpret Pharaoh's dream of the future

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He told Pharaoh

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basically that there would be seven amazing years of prosperity and

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Seven years a great famine. That was the dream that Pharaoh had

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Pharaoh knowing that Joseph had properly interpreted the dream put Joseph in charge of creating a massive

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Investment movement of saving crops to prepare for the hard times that were coming

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So what ended up happening was the Egyptians were positioned to basically

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Be uniquely strategized to be ready for this downturn

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They stockpiled uncountable amounts of crops

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Preparing for these bad years as

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Everyone else in the local region carried on as normal year after year

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They did this during the prosperous years believing and trusting in this dream

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Finally the bad years came and when they did the Egyptians were the only place where there was food

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whole countries tribes and peoples came to Egypt

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Because they were starving and the word spread and more and more people came

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Far and wide they came to survive starvation

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So massive amounts of money was starting to be given to the Egyptians as they became really the exclusive nation for food

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After several years of this famine though, people became more and more desperate as the famine continued soon

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There was no more money for people to pay for their food. And so what did they do?

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They started to look at other options other valuable options to pay for their food

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The Bible says crops

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Livestock land all of that was given to the Egyptians

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so they took all of that wealth, but the famine continued and

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Eventually by the end people were literally selling themselves as slaves to survive what was coming

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So what Joseph did for Egypt was more than just bring about salvation from famine

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He created a complete and total transfer of wealth of the localized region

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Now Egypt had become a true superpower through this event

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So now let me get back to my vision

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So God told me to write down the phrase the Joseph initiative and he told me to help the church do what the Egyptians did

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Meaning create a total transfer of cultural reform. So let me explain

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Outside of the Holy Spirit, I believe the greatest mover and shaker of culture is money

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Whether you love it or you hate it our world moves directly or indirectly through

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through and buy money.

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I will take it a step further.

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Those that have the money are the decision makers

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of where our culture goes today.

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From social media, to going to buy groceries,

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to buying something off of Amazon,

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we consume over 90% of our stuff

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through large companies that control a huge stake

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in the wealth of our country.

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This is kind of how the world works.

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The problem though, is that most of these big companies

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don't have the same beliefs or morals as us,

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which is why we see a lot of these companies

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pushing political, religious,

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and ideological views on us, the consumers.

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This sped up even further when COVID happened.

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We saw this escalate.

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People began to be shadow banned, removed on social media,

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schools started to push parents out of the classroom,

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and we had politicians that got nastier and nastier

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in the way they conducted themselves.

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There's been an outright crusade of many groups

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to take down any form of Christian beliefs

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or basic moral fabrics of our country.

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I'm sure you can relate, you see it every day.

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So what's the answer?

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The answer is to beat them at their own game.

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How?

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Well, money, but we have a trump card,

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money with the Holy Spirit.

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Just like Joseph had Holy Spirit knowledge,

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money and the Holy Spirit together

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is the way to take down the giants of our culture.

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Just like Joseph, we're called to change culture.

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I believe that God wants to flip the script

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over the next few years.

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So here's the mission, the mission of the Joseph Initiative

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to create the largest transfer of wealth in American history

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into believers' hands to be utilized for cultural reform

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within the arenas of influence.

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And these are the arenas, family, religion,

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education, media, entertainment,

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business, government, and healthcare.

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Those are the arenas.

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This is what God wants to do.

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He wants to raise up a movement of entrepreneurs

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that's large enough to take down the monopolies of our time.

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He wants teachers that are going to reform

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the education field.

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He wants to have God-fearing politicians

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that transform politics.

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He wants to have ethical farmers that stop the sickness,

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influencers and entertainers that bring morals

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back to our screens,

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and pastors that aren't afraid of their congregations.

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Here are the building blocks for each Christian to do this,

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and everyone has a man to block.

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This is how we accomplish it.

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Number one, we have to have a kingdom understanding

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of wealth.

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Number two, we have to find our calling

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and our life purpose.

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Number three, we have to become very successful.

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Number four, we need to invest and create more wealth.

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And then lastly, and most importantly,

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use money to influence and impact the arenas of influence.

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Welcome to the Joseph Initiative.

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So to start, the first place starts

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with a biblical understanding of money.

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So next time we get together,

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that's what we're gonna be going over,

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is how to understand God's view of money.