Welcome everyone joining us today. My name is Daniel and I have been in the financial services industry as an entrepreneur for eight years
For many years. I had two big desires
I wanted to be a business owner to create a massive company and the second was I wanted to be in ministry
These two desires were always in my heart
But I thought the plan was for me to build a big company and then work in the nonprofit field
Yet as I wanted to do more in church, I started to develop this deep need and understanding of reform need in our culture
I would constantly ask myself how this would all come together
For many years these two desires confused me until one day God brought clarity to the situation
One morning a year ago. I was sitting at a coffee shop
That day had been
Especially ordinary. I was tired working on my training from for my financial broker team when God did something
Extraordinary he gave me a vision and it was only the second time in my life. I've had a vision like this
It was as if God had plugged in a USB port into my brain and he laid out for me something
That was very unique
Exciting but a little disturbing at the same time and as a vision of the future and what God wanted to do
So, let me explain and let's get into it. So God told me to write down the phrase the Joseph initiative
He then told me to read the story of Joseph in the Bible for those that aren't familiar
Let me explain a little bit of how that story goes
So Joseph was the favored son of Jacob the grandson of the patriarch Abraham
Because of the favoritism of Jacob towards his son his brothers conspired to sell Jacob as a slave into Egypt
Joseph found himself as a slave in the land of Egypt for many years
Due to his hard work though. He found himself becoming the right-hand person to the captain the guard of Pharaoh
Through a lie. However, Joseph was accused of things. He didn't do and found himself in prison
It seemed as if kind of from the outside God had abandoned Joseph
But what was actually happening was God was positioning Joseph
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
He told Pharaoh
basically that there would be seven amazing years of prosperity and
Seven years a great famine. That was the dream that Pharaoh had
Pharaoh knowing that Joseph had properly interpreted the dream put Joseph in charge of creating a massive
Investment movement of saving crops to prepare for the hard times that were coming
So what ended up happening was the Egyptians were positioned to basically
Be uniquely strategized to be ready for this downturn
They stockpiled uncountable amounts of crops
Preparing for these bad years as
Everyone else in the local region carried on as normal year after year
They did this during the prosperous years believing and trusting in this dream
Finally the bad years came and when they did the Egyptians were the only place where there was food
whole countries tribes and peoples came to Egypt
Because they were starving and the word spread and more and more people came
Far and wide they came to survive starvation
So massive amounts of money was starting to be given to the Egyptians as they became really the exclusive nation for food
After several years of this famine though, people became more and more desperate as the famine continued soon
There was no more money for people to pay for their food. And so what did they do?
They started to look at other options other valuable options to pay for their food
The Bible says crops
Livestock land all of that was given to the Egyptians
so they took all of that wealth, but the famine continued and
Eventually by the end people were literally selling themselves as slaves to survive what was coming
So what Joseph did for Egypt was more than just bring about salvation from famine
He created a complete and total transfer of wealth of the localized region
Now Egypt had become a true superpower through this event
So now let me get back to my vision
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
Meaning create a total transfer of cultural reform. So let me explain
Outside of the Holy Spirit, I believe the greatest mover and shaker of culture is money
Whether you love it or you hate it our world moves directly or indirectly through
through and buy money.
I will take it a step further.
Those that have the money are the decision makers
of where our culture goes today.
From social media, to going to buy groceries,
to buying something off of Amazon,
we consume over 90% of our stuff
through large companies that control a huge stake
in the wealth of our country.
This is kind of how the world works.
The problem though, is that most of these big companies
don't have the same beliefs or morals as us,
which is why we see a lot of these companies
pushing political, religious,
and ideological views on us, the consumers.
This sped up even further when COVID happened.
We saw this escalate.
People began to be shadow banned, removed on social media,
schools started to push parents out of the classroom,
and we had politicians that got nastier and nastier
in the way they conducted themselves.
There's been an outright crusade of many groups
to take down any form of Christian beliefs
or basic moral fabrics of our country.
I'm sure you can relate, you see it every day.
So what's the answer?
The answer is to beat them at their own game.
How?
Well, money, but we have a trump card,
money with the Holy Spirit.
Just like Joseph had Holy Spirit knowledge,
money and the Holy Spirit together
is the way to take down the giants of our culture.
Just like Joseph, we're called to change culture.
I believe that God wants to flip the script
over the next few years.
So here's the mission, the mission of the Joseph Initiative
to create the largest transfer of wealth in American history
into believers' hands to be utilized for cultural reform
within the arenas of influence.
And these are the arenas, family, religion,
education, media, entertainment,
business, government, and healthcare.
Those are the arenas.
This is what God wants to do.
He wants to raise up a movement of entrepreneurs
that's large enough to take down the monopolies of our time.
He wants teachers that are going to reform
the education field.
He wants to have God-fearing politicians
that transform politics.
He wants to have ethical farmers that stop the sickness,
influencers and entertainers that bring morals
back to our screens,
and pastors that aren't afraid of their congregations.
Here are the building blocks for each Christian to do this,
and everyone has a man to block.
This is how we accomplish it.
Number one, we have to have a kingdom understanding
of wealth.
Number two, we have to find our calling
and our life purpose.
Number three, we have to become very successful.
Number four, we need to invest and create more wealth.
And then lastly, and most importantly,
use money to influence and impact the arenas of influence.
Welcome to the Joseph Initiative.
So to start, the first place starts
with a biblical understanding of money.
So next time we get together,
that's what we're gonna be going over,
is how to understand God's view of money.