What if your dream serves a deeper cross? ... English

What if the fastest route to a bigger life isn’t a climb but a surrender? We open with a simple act—taking communion together—and trace how Jesus’ words in Matthew 16:24–25 invert our instincts: deny yourself, take up your cross, and discover a life you can’t lose. Along the way, we revisit Joseph’s story as more than a triumph arc; it’s a blueprint for how God refines our dreams, scrubs out vanity, and turns private visions into public rescue.

We talk about the paradox that the way up is down, not as a slogan but as a lived path: being overlooked, misunderstood, and pruned so the gift serves others, not our ego. The bread becomes our teacher—brokenness before multiplication—calling us to a discipleship that chooses humility over hype and obedience over image. Then the cup anchors us in the new covenant, reminding us that everything we carry—calling, vision, even our daily courage—rests on the blood of Jesus, not our willpower. That shift from self-justification to grace reshapes how we lead, create, and love: less performance, more presence; fewer shortcuts, deeper roots.

If you’ve wrestled with ambition, timing, or the ache to be seen, this conversation offers both clarity and comfort. We explore practical ways to discern when a dream has become about us, how to surrender without quitting, and why communion is not a ritual to rush but a rhythm that reorders the heart. Listen to re-center on the cross-shaped life and to remember what truly holds you together. If this speaks to you, share it with a friend, subscribe for more, and leave a quick review so others can find the show.

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Chapters

• 2:02 Call to Communion
• 3:20 The Cost of Following Jesus
• 3:52 Joseph’s Dream and Ego
• 5:36 Breaking the Bread
• 7:30 The Cup and the New Covenant
• 7:51 Everything Rests on the Blood

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 1:15

The Lord is speaking right now. Would you take your cups as we prepare to take communion together? The Lord has asked me to lead us in communion this morning. And he specifically spoke to me something very specific. In Matthew 16 and 24, the scripture says, then Jesus said to his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever shall save his life will lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. The contrary nature of the Lord is that the way up is down. And when you go down, you actually go up. Joseph was a young man, he was ridiculed by his brothers, he was mocked, he was pushed aside, he wasn't allowed to be in the fellowship of his own brethren. Then God gave him a dream. The dream was that those same men that cause him so much pain would bow down before him and give him the honor that he always wanted. God gives you a vision, there are so many times that God connects it to your fleshly desires. So many times. So would you take the wafer? For I have received of the Lord which was delivered to you. That the Lord Jesus, that same night which he was betrayed, took bread. And we had given things, he broke it and said, Take, eat. This is my body which is broken for you. Do it in remembrance of me. In Jesus' name, we take unto ourselves this cross and the body of Christ. Ya teep. After in the same manner, he took the cup. And we had supped saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. This you do, as often as you drink it, drink it in remembrance of me. My friend, the vision, the calling, the salvation. Everything that everything we're here for stands on. Rests on the blood of Jesus Christ that He shed on us. Do this in remembrance of Him in Jesus' name.