Vision To Provision: Unlocking The Storehouse Strategy Part 1

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Hey there, and welcome to Faith in Finance, where

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your values and your financial vision come together.

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I'm your host, Geil Thompson, Registered Rep

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for Joseph Eden Capital, a sister firm of Joseph

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Wealth Management. Every week, I'll be walking

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with you through the tools, truths, and strategies

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that help you build wealth with purpose, clarity,

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and peace. Because your money isn't just about

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what you have. It's about what you're building.

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Let's get started. Each week, we break down how

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capital moves. how markets shift, and how you

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can position your resources with wisdom and strategy

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to build ownership, grow wealth, and establish

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a lasting legacy. Today, we are launching a two

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-part series with a very special guest. Whether

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you're just getting started or you've been on

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the wealth building path for a while, this is

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for you, especially if you've been asking God

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for clarity, courage, or even confirmation. Today,

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I'm joined by none other than Joseph Wealth Management's

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founder and visionary, Dr. Bill Winston. Dr.

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Bill Winston is a global faith leader, CEO, and

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senior pastor of Living Word Christian Center

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with campuses in Forest Park, Illinois and Tuskegee,

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Alabama. Dr. Winston oversees more than 20 companies

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and organizations, including owning two shopping

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malls, Forest Park Plaza and Washington Plaza.

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A restaurant, Harvest 365 Restaurant and Fresh

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Grill. Living Fresh Market, a 71 ,000 square

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foot supermarket. Royal Christian Bookstores

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and Cafes. Source Media Publishing, a publishing

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house. Joseph Wealth Management, a registered

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investment advisor. Joseph Eden Capital. Joseph

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Business Services. Eden Career Institute, a vocational

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and technical training education center, and

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the Joseph Business School, a nationally accredited

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faith -based entrepreneurship program founded

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in 1998. Dr. Winston demonstrates how kingdom

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principles can drive financial success, innovation,

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and community transformation. His leadership

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has created opportunities for entrepreneurs,

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job creation, and economic empowerment on a global

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scale. Dr. Winston, welcome to Faith and Finance.

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Well, I'm glad to be here. I'm glad you're here.

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So for many of our audience who do not know,

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I want you guys to know Dr. Winston is a visionary

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and founder of Joseph Wealth Management. He's

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the very reason ultimately that we're having

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this podcast here where we can educate you on

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financial matters that can help steward your

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wealth and take you to the next level. Dr. Winston,

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when I just read your bio, I noticed that you've

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gone through about four different transitions

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within your life from an Air Force pilot to an

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IBM executive, pastor of a major ministry, and

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then you own 20 plus companies. My goodness.

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When do you sleep? Well, I don't. No, I do sleep.

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But what you do is you have to put yourself in

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a place where the companies basically can be

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managed without you. If you're not there. and

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you have a company, you're going to have a lot

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of problems. Yeah. Because you've got to get

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the kind of people that can manage a company

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and do it the way you'd like it done with you

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not being there. So they have to have the vision,

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they have to have the right spirit, so forth

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and so on. Wow. And so because of that, we've

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been, you know, somewhat successful. Yes, and

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we have this here today. But can you take us

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back to your earlier years? For those of us who

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are watching right now, and they're maybe at

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that place where they're starting where you were,

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the Air Force pilot to the IBM executive. Can

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you talk about vision? Was God with you every

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step of the way? Did he show you the end from

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the beginning? No, I really didn't see the end.

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I was brought up in Tuskegee, Alabama. That's

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where the famous Tuskegee Airmen were. That is,

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the black airmen who were, as they said at that

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time, they didn't have what it takes to fly.

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But they went over and said... real records in

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terms of flying for the war. And a lot of those

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were being trained down at Tuskegee when I was

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just a kid. So I used to watch them fly and moat

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and field there. And the same gentleman, Chief

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Anderson, who trained them, it was still around

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when I finished college there and was training

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to go to pilot training. And Chief Anderson was

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just a man who was born to fly. He would tell

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me, listen, he said, the airplane can fly itself.

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He said, watch this. He'd trim it up and take

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his hands off, and it'll come right down for

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landing. Then it'll get down so low, and he'd

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round it out and land it. I said, wow. So this

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airplane can land better by itself. than it can

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with you putting your hand on the wheel. Wow.

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And so I saw that. These kind of things made

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a real impression to me. Even though I finished

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college in pre -med, the flying really got in

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my system. Wow. And there is a scripture that

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says, out of the abundance of the heart, the

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mouth speaks. And it's also out of your heart.

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Your life comes. You begin to be those things

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which were in your heart. And so I decided to

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go ahead and go into pilot training. One thing

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that helped me make that decision is that they

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were drafting, and I wasn't going to let myself

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draft it and go somewhere that I didn't want

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to go. So I went to pilot training in Texas,

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and I tell you, what an experience there. It

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taught me a lot. whole lot about myself. I found

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that a lot of your success is wrapped up in your

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self -esteem and that a lot of people haven't

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seen themselves successful. They haven't been

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in that competitive environment where they've

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had. And when I got the pilot training, I was

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the only black that was in my class. They have

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a class of about 40 people and two classes going

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through at the same time. Well, I qualified for

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fighters. At the top part of your class, you

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qualify as fighters, and then the lower part.

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you get other airplanes and helicopters. So I

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did that, and then I went to my assignment, which

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was an F -4 Phantom. And there I went to radar

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school and RTU and so forth, and ended up in

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Vietnam. And so that was... trip within itself.

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But it's amazing how you get used to danger.

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And pretty soon, after about three or four months,

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you get over it. You have to stay on a tour as

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one year. And so I did that and flew over 200

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missions, combat missions there, and then came

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back and did some other training. And then eventually

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I said, well, I don't think I want to. do this

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for the rest of my life. And I got out. I really

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didn't know what I was going to do. But when

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I got out, somebody said, you look like an IBMer.

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I said, what does that look like? And so they

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began to talk about it and what an IBMer is and

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computers. I said, okay. Well, maybe I'll do

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that, you know. I did go for an interview for

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a job in biology, and it was at a biological

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center. And I ended up, they said, let me show

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you where you would work. And they took me about

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seven stories underground, and I knew right then

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I didn't want to work there. And I could just

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see myself seven stories underground. But anyway,

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so. I got out and got with IBM. That's when I

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really learned a lot as well about business,

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how business works, what is revenue, what is

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expansion, and all the basics of business. As

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a matter of fact, we went to business programs

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for two or three weeks at a time with some of

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the professors of Harvard and so forth coming

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down and teaching us. So that went very well.

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I did very well. I had some struggles to begin

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with, but I worked them out. But I saw how business

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was run. I saw the different CEOs and how they

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ran their businesses. And I had to work their

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business out on a flip chart or some kind of

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presentation device. And the next thing you know,

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I went out and made them a presentation of their

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business and how they could succeed by using

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my equipment. I did well there, sold computers,

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and then got to management and had a team that

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sold, and then I got promoted again and again.

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So I did very well. But then I said, you know,

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this thing right here is just... I have a feeling

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that I'm supposed to do something else. Wow.

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And that's when the call came on my life that

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I was to be in ministry. So God said, I'm going

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to put all those together for you. And he started

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putting all those together in ministry. And I

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started in ministry in Chicago. I put the picture

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up there. And I started in Chicago. And this

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is where we started. It's down on the west side

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of Chicago. It was one of the roughest areas

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in Chicago. Big, a lot of drugs, so forth and

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so on. But that's where I started. Got my feet

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wet. And then pretty soon, just because of knowledge,

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just began to grow and expand. And now... We

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own two shopping malls, and maybe you can put

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the picture up there again and show you the kind

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of place I am now. Now, that's when I'm managing

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all these businesses and so forth, and things

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are working out just fine. Wow. So, you know,

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as I'm listening to you, Dr. Winston, you actually

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covered a lot. You talked about in military it

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gave you discipline. IBM taught you strategy.

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taught you how to run a business. Ministry prepared

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you for the people. And now literally we've launched

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the Joseph Wealth Management, where ultimately

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God has given you this as a vision for the people

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for the end time of what's to come in preparing

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the church. Oftentimes you talk about storehouses

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and creating it as a sovereign wealth strategy.

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Can you talk a bit about it? Well, you need a

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storehouse. Right now we, using different places

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like banks and things like that to store our

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goods. But this storehouse that we're talking

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about now is a place where you can invest. And

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not only that, but through that investment, whoever

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is handling your account, that we could take

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a part of that that you would make in terms of

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profit, if you will. actually helped pay for

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some of the real needed programs in the inner

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city. Yes. So now you can see I'm mixing everything

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together. Yes. And everything's paying off. So

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we have the Joseph Stilhaus Program, which people

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are actually investing and making money at the

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same time, helping their country. That's in these

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T -bills. talking about buying something that

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we used to have U .S. savings bonds, if you remember.

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But now we can actually save and make money while

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we're doing it, you know, the old way where you

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put a savings account and you did get interest

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on that account. But nevertheless, it's a place

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where... I like the people of God to learn about

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investments. Most of the people, a lot of people

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who are very wealthy, have made a significant

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amount of that wealth in the stock market, in

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investments, in real estate. So we have got to

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get the idea for that. A lot of people think

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the church... It's a building, but it's not.

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It has nothing to do with a building. It's the

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people. It's people. It's where people have been

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called out. So these people have been called

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out and having a place where they can invest

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and learn about investing and what the advantages

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of investment really are. You know, what I like

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you're talking about is that Ultimately, there

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is a world's way of doing things, but then there's

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also a kingdom model where God ultimately wants

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to prosper his people. He tells us that in 3

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John 2, beloved above all things, he wished that

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we prosper and be in health even as our souls

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prosper. And here's what's funny. So there are

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people who are investing and more of the elites

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and those that are in the world understand the

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power of investing, the power of creating a storehouse,

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the power of actually compounding, making your

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money work for you while you sleep. That's right.

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What do you think is the disconnect as to why

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we don't see this as prevalent in the church?

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Usually what happens is the people of God have

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somewhat, many times, an image. And it's not

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that they're afraid to get out and do things,

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but an image affects people. It will make you

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make decisions that perhaps are not the best

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decision. People with low self -esteem and so

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forth. So a lot of people come in the church

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because they need help. and so forth. They have

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had bad situations and have had some history

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that they'd like not to think about. And so they

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come in the church to get cleansed. They come

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in the church to get made whole. But that soul

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prospering is very key. And that image of who

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they really are in God's eyes has got to come.

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And that's why I say in the world they start,

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with the end in mind, but in the kingdom, you

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start with the image in mind. And there are people

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who came back from spying out the land of Canaan

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in the Bible, and when they came back, these

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ten spies said, we can't take it. We see ourselves

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as grasshoppers, and so are we in their sight.

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Well, because of that, that group of... The Israelites

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died in the wilderness, never got into God's

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best. So I'm saying one of the things we do in

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this church is we really major on getting your

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image up. Because some people don't think they're

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worth the value of a Rolls Royce. They feel that

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a Rolls Royce is better than them, is more valuable

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than them, or a big home or whatever. So when

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God tries to give them the best, they won't take

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it. And so that is something that we have to

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work on and overcome. Yeah. You know, Pastor,

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as you're talking, it made me think about the

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name of our segment, which is called Faith and

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Finance. And I know oftentimes you've even had

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us read in this book by Rabbi Daniel Lappin,

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where he talked about that faith and finances

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initially were together. They were religion and

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theology were ultimately a part of ministry.

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That's right. So the world has disconnected in

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some way. And now it seems as though the church

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feels left out because they don't associate having

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financial provision as part of God's provision.

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Yeah. How do we overcome that mindset? Well,

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it takes teaching and it doesn't it's not happening

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in a day. It takes a little while that you have

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got to let people know that Jesus was not. poor

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the the the they start with that now i think

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it starts with teaching because i was on uh looking

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at television one night on the news and this

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lady was on who happened to be over a theological

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department and she said you can't be rich and

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go to heaven yeah and so that damages people

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when you say that. It's the wrong idea. The Bible

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tells us to rightly divide the world, not wrongly.

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So the idea about God the Father is rich. And

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if he has children or a family, they have the

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same status as God the Father. It's not something

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that you... It's not a kind of a richness that

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you want to just float. It's not for flaunting.

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It's not for that at all. But it's to help people.

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Yes. See, and a lot of people don't know that

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as a reason to be rich, so they never think you

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should be. And I'd rather be rich than poor,

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you know. Poverty is a part of the curse. And

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God doesn't want anybody to be poor. As a matter

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of fact, he wants you to get the money so that

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you can help those who are poor. And they need

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food, and they need sustenance, and they need

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a job, they need skills, everything like that.

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Well, we take the money and help those things

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to become a reality in their lives. That's good.

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And Pastor, as you're talking, it reminded me

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that our company is called Joseph Wealth Management.

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Correct. But ultimately, you took it from the

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story of Joseph and the Bible. Yes. And we see

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that Joseph actually created an economic solution

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where he fed people in times of famine. Can you

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talk a bit about what was your vision when you

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decided to name us Joseph Wealth Management?

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Well, I like Joseph. I mean, he is my man. Joseph,

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you know, he had this dream and he told his brothers

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about the dream and they got jealous of them.

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Now, his dream was a big dream because he even

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dreamed that his brothers bowed down to him,

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you know. And so that really incensed them and

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they tried to kill him. Well, they decided not

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to and they sold him instead to a traveling band

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of Israelites. These are businessmen going from

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another place down to Egypt. Well, they went

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down to Egypt and sold Joseph again as a slave,

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and he worked for a man named Potiphar. Once

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he started working for him, Potiphar's business

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began to grow. That's because the blessing was

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on Joseph for increase. Yes. And no matter where

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he went. So that happened, and his farm got big,

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and he started more businesses. This is the...

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a person who he worked for now as a slave. And

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then Potiphar's wife made eyes at Joseph, and

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they told some things on him about some kind

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of sexual things. And next thing you know, Joseph

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got put in jail. Well, notice what he didn't

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do. Any place that Joseph went, he never got

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bitter. And that's the key. And that's why I

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say that people who don't know the Bible, have

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no real relationship with God through Jesus,

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could lose out at this point. The reason why

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is because evil can put such pressure on you

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until that hating people and so forth. becomes

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second nature. You just do it. And so the next

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thing that happens, when you do that, you lose

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your place in line to be promoted. I remember

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it happened to me. I was supposed to give a big

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presentation at IBM. And so before I went to

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give the presentation, the previous night, I

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went over to a friend's house. And we were talking

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and so forth. And he was a... A black man, he

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was telling me all the things they're doing to

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him that are racially motivated and so forth,

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and he was angry and so forth. Well, the Bible

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says, watch, you're hanging out with an angry

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man because you'll become angry yourself. So

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I went to the presentation the next day, and

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do you know, anger came out. Wow. Well, I didn't

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know it, but they were from IBM headquarters

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coming down to promote me. But I acted such,

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excuse me, a fool. until they decided not to

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promote me. My boss was so angry. But that just

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shows you, if Joseph would have acted up, he

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would have not gotten promoted. He wouldn't have

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finished his destiny. And some people don't realize

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that that's a test. And so they get angry and

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begin to do things and file suit and all kinds

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of things. And they never make it to that top.

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But that's just a word to the wise. It happened

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to me, and God now is making up for it, of course.

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But sometimes you delay your destiny when you

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do that. But when Joseph got put in prison...

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Never got angry. Next thing you know, Pharaoh

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had a problem that he couldn't solve. And somebody

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said, well, there's a dreamer in the jail. And

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they called Joseph up there. And Joseph told

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him what he dreamed and what the problem was.

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what the solution was, and they said, you're

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the man. And put Joseph, who was a Jew, who the

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Egyptians really didn't like, they put him in

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second command to Pharaoh. So I'm saying, I don't

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care what color or what background or what country

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or whatever you're from, if you've got the goods,

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you can get promoted. Amen. You know what, Dr.

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Winston? This has been a very powerful segment.

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For those of you who have been watching, one

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thing that I do, want you to take note of is

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what pastor has talked to us. Well, we call him

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pastor, but you'll know him as officially Dr.

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Bill Winston. He has taught us about vision and

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identity, talking about tying and making sure

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that who we are and how we identify ourselves

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is tied to what God has said. Hold on to your

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heavenly vision. He told us that Joseph's brothers

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hated him for his vision. And many of you may

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actually be sitting on the vision that God has

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placed on the inside of you, whether it be a

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business, whether it's stepping out and doing

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that ministry, writing that book, whatever it

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is that God wants to use as a source to bring

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income and provision into your life, God is waiting

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on your yes in this moment. What I like, pastors,

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that you've told us is that Joseph ultimately

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was guided step by step. I can also see that

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God is no respecter of person. You literally

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went from an Air Force pilot to an IBM executive

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to a pastor to owning 20... Plus companies. Yes,

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indeed. Talking about how God ideally will guide

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your footsteps and your vision. $200. $200. Tell

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those who do not know about the $200. Because

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I know many of you are probably listening like,

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what is $200? What is he talking about? Can you

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tell them just a bit about the $200? This is

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when I was called. And I went to theology school.

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And then when God told me where to go, he said,

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go back to Chicago. Well, I came to Chicago with

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only $200. No more savings, no nothing. Me and

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my family, but God told me to come here. A dear

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sister said that God spoke to her and told her

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to take us in until we get started in Chicago.

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That was God all the way. And so we started at

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Lake and Pulaski. Put the picture up there. And

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we started at Lake and Pulaski. That was... That

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was where it was all started. They stole my car

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and everything. I mean, we were catching the

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bus, walking to that bad neighborhood. So we

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did it, and we committed ourselves to it, which

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allowed God to take us under his wing and just

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promote us. So we got to the next place and the

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next place and the next place. I'm just saying,

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look at us now. But I'm just saying that's what,

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This faith walk will do. And a lot of times we

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don't apply faith to finances, but let me tell

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you, faith can get your finances together, get

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you in a wonderful place. So I might say to those

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who are watching that if you haven't found out

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about faith or studied faith or heard a person

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teaching on faith, you owe yourself. a good favor

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to do that. So faith is what we use to get us

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here and faith is what we're going to use to

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take us forward. Amen. Dr. Winston, we want to

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thank you for sharing such a powerful word. To

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everyone listening, your vision matters and your

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storehouse matters. Write that vision. pray over

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it and prepare to build. Visit josephwealthmanagement

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.com to schedule a call and take the next steps

00:27:15.430 --> 00:27:17.730
in aligning your finances with God's purpose.

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And don't forget. Part two of this conversation

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drops next week, and we're going to dive deeper

00:27:24.099 --> 00:27:27.319
into kingdom ownership, stewardship and financial

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00:27:39.019 --> 00:27:46.759
see you soon. In today's faith segment, let's

00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:49.700
look at the story of Joseph. Before Joseph ever

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touched a grain of wheat, he was given a dream.

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Joseph was just a teenager when God gave him

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a vision, not a job title, not a business plan,

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but a vision, a picture of leadership, of stewardship,

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of impact. At first, that vision didn't come

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with applause. It came with betrayal, thrown

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in a pit, sold as a slave, falsely accused, forgotten

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in prison. But the dream never died. In every

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setback, Joseph stewarded the moment. In Potiphar's

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house, he rose to leadership. In prison, he managed

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resources. And when Pharaoh needed answers, it

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was Joseph's vision forged in the dark that finally

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brought light to a nation. Here's the truth.

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Provision is tied to vision, but not your vision,

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God's. Joseph didn't hustle his way to the palace.

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He served his way with purpose. And when the

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famine came, he already had the strategy because

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heaven had shown him years before. If you're

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waiting on provision, ask yourself, have I received

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the vision? Because God doesn't bless ambition.

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He blesses assignment. Write that vision, steward

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the moment, and prepare your storehouses today.

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