So today I want to bring you a message entitled Born for More. What does it mean to be born for More? You know, maybe some of you know my story, but growing up as a young man, I met Jesus. I should say that Jesus met me at 14 years old when I was paralyzed and I was serving millions of gods, and and none of these gods can help me, but just one touch from heaven changed my life. And coming from a place where, you know, poverty is there, there is no running water, there's no electricity, one suit of clothes, living with the bugs, the snakes, you know, it seemed like I live in the Amazon. It wasn't the Amazon. But the Chancellors, you know, every morning you wake up, you have to um check your clothes to see if there's scorpions in there. And it's a really different world as you can think or imagine. And you know what is very humbling about serving God is to see how God can take a nobody from a nowhere place and bring me to a place where I can never think or imagine it's possible. To travel around the world, we have been to over 50 nations, sharing the word of the Lord and teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, seeing the power of God, the same power that touched my life, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, the same power that move upon the face of the earth is the same power that is here today and is here to touch you wherever you may be. We are not here to get by. None of us are here to get by. We're here for more. We need to challenge our mindset that we are here on this planet for more, more than what you can think or imagine. We need to let our brain work for us rather than against us. We are not here to grow, we are here to grow, impact, and become more than we can ever think or imagine. Every single day is a day of opportunity for God to work through you, to touch someone somewhere, to that they may know the goodness of who He is. Every day, we are born for more to confront our limits and our labels that we carry. You know, one of the things I've learned about human nature is that we are very fragile beings. Our emotions get shattered by hurts and wounds and words that are spoken, by things that happen to us. The innocence of our lives sometimes are taken away, and it affects us for a lifetime. But God has a bigger plan. Sometimes I used to ask myself, why does bad things happen to good people? But my friends, you need to know that sin is the consequences for everything on this world. That's why God made a plan, and God made a solution for your life. So wherever you may be today, I want you to keep thinking, I was born for more. And what does that more look like? Your identity is not your history, it is your potential. You need to be able to see that there is more in you than what you're currently living out. And God is inviting you to step in into a deeper water, into a deeper relationship. That when you wake up in the morning and you get into your prayer closet, and maybe some of you haven't developed a routine where you can get into the presence of God and feel the presence of God come down in an atmosphere around you where the very atmosphere is so thick, you feel you can cut it with a knife. When God speaks in the depths of your spirit, and not just give you a word, but able to see that word manifest. You know, raising seven children, it was one of the most amazing things to see how they're all growing up, and now they're all adults. Our oldest is 35, and our youngest is 23, and we have six of them married, and we have three grandkids, and we have more grandkids coming this year. Amen. But the good thing about all of this is that if Kathleen and I were not pushing ourselves for more, the seeds of greatness would not overflow in their lives, that they can be uh growing in the plan and the purpose and the destiny that God has designed for them. Their minds would not be conditioned, that there is a God who is able to help them through their struggles. Today, you know, we're so proud of them. They're all serving the Lord, they're all involved in doing some type of work in mental health or psychology or nursing or something like that. But they are pushing themselves for more because they have learned that there is more for their lives on this planet. We cannot afford to be stagnant in our lives. And today I want to take you in a journey with a woman that you probably have met in the scripture. John chapter 4 talks about a woman at the well, and we hear this story all the time about a woman and the well. And I want to kind of relate to her in terms of how, in her mind, she did not see that God had destined her for more, just like you sitting here today. That you may not see what is beyond tomorrow, but the God that we serve, he sees tomorrow, and he sees your future, he has a blueprint for your life, and even though you you may slip out of the rail of your destiny, God will pull you back, he will bring the right people at the right time to connect you back on track so you can fulfill the destiny. You know, yesterday we shared a little bit about we are the masterpiece of God, and and you need to understand that scripture, the depth of it. Every life that is conceived is God's masterpiece. And when he looks at this life, he sees destiny, he sees future, he sees the good things that are gonna happen, he sees the lives that are gonna change, he sees that miracles are gonna happen through your life. We need to get our mind in synced with God. We need to get our thoughts to start thinking God's thoughts rather than the enemy thoughts. Switch our mind into seeing the goodness of God than the worst things that is out there. We gotta get our mind to work for us. The first thing I want to share with you today is that you're not stuck, you're adapted. What does that simply mean? Well, it means that in the life that we're living in, we adapt to our environment. And if you're in an environment where faith is not pushing you, if you're in an environment where there is a lot of negativity, if you're in an environment where you cannot see beyond what you're seeing at that moment, you are not you don't have that purpose in your heart to push for more than that. That's why I'm grateful for churches that you come in here and you get a touch, you get you feel the presence of God, you you your hope is built up, and when you leave here, you're gonna carry it with you. This is the place that God speaks in your heart, just like he will speak in your home. But sometimes we get so busy in our home we don't take that moment to actually listen and say, God, what more is there for my life? Can I be someone? Can I be someone, God, that when I pray, heaven opens up and lives are changed? Can I be someone, Lord, that when I'm praying, God, I can not only just have an experience with you, but this experience can move and touch many of my friends and families around the world, that they can know the goodness of God. When you start hating sin and you start hating sicknesses, and you start hating how the enemy is attacking innocent lives, a passion rises up, and you put you just push your hearts to seek God even more. See, when you work in a field like I've I work in, where people come in and they share their troubles, you learn to appreciate your life and you learn to appreciate the God that you serve because you can see how many ways He has protected you from getting into that addiction or getting into that behavior or getting into that lifestyle that can corrupt your whole entire future. But God can turn everything around. You know, the Bible says in the scripture, and I'm gonna give you bits and pieces because uh I I know you know this the word about the woman at the well, but the Bible says in John, anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. That's the physical water, but those who drink the water I will give will never be thirsty again. Will never be. So, what is this water that that Jesus is talking about? So you gotta imagine that in this time, this woman she came in the middle of the day, is the hottest time in the day, it's a time when nobody really goes out into the well, and not only that, she went alone being a Samaritan woman. Now, I don't know how many of you have been to Dubai, but we have been to Dubai, and Dubai was so hot. So hot. I think you can fry an egg when you put it in the in the road. It was so hot. We couldn't go to the beach there, it was so hot, and I can imagine this woman, she's going in the middle of the day, but not only is she going in the middle of the day, this was not new for Jesus. See, the woman going at the well was not new for Jesus because Jesus was God in the flesh and he knows tomorrow. So he had a plan set up for this woman that he will meet her at the right time as she's coming down at this well, he will meet her at the right time, and he's gonna show her something that she has never seen in entire life. We see this woman has been through a rough time in life. She has been through a terrible time in life in terms of being married several times and now she's living with someone. Can you imagine what the neighbors are saying to about this woman? Can you imagine like the stigma that is attached to this woman that she kind of hides herself? She carries the shame and and maybe some guilt inside of her, and she's hiding herself. And some of us do the same thing with our past. We hide ourselves, we put on a facade, but that's not the way God wants you to live because the Bible says who the Son is set free is free indeed. We have to learn how we need to get rid of our past that our past does not determine determine how we live in the present to move into the future. If God forgives us, we need to forgive ourselves. Hidden ashamed to be noticed and restored. You know, this woman is kind of like just getting trying to be uh be conversational a little bit, but Jesus was seeing beyond this woman, he was seeing her heart, he was seeing what she can become in the future, that her mess that she was involved with, or the troubled life that she has been through, the brokenness that did not stop, what Jesus was seeing beyond all of that. He saw that she was born for more. She carried a history of broken relationship. We adapt to survive in our environment. We have learned to stay small to avoid rejection. But God's plan is not for you to be small, God's plan is for you to grow as as big as you can become in all areas of your life. She learned silence to avoid conflict, and that's what we do sometimes. We kind of hide because we are ashamed or we feel we don't have the ability, but we need to have the lion of Judah rise up sometime, especially in our prayer closet, when we see the enemies attacking our marriage and the enemies attacking our family, and the enemies attacking our children, our friend, or even the church of the Lord. We need to let the lion of Judah rise up. We need to get strong inside of us. Amen. Your brain is a version of you that works for your past, the version that limits your future. You know, this morning, as I was putting this message together, I wanted to put some concrete thoughts for you. This woman was born for transformation, just like you and I were born for transformation. She had to unlearn what she what was once protecting her. You see, when we go through times in our lives, we have a tendency of protecting ourselves so we won't be hurt again. But we need to grow out of it. We cannot limit ourselves because we push people away. We set a boundary that is so big, people have a hard time connecting with us. That is not God's plan. See, God's plan is for you to learn you have one life on this earth. Don't think that you're a cat that has nine knives. It doesn't work. And that one life, you have to ask yourself, what do I want to see five years from now and ten years from now? Where do I see myself? And what am I gonna do to get there? Do I want to be a silo where I'm just in my own little world, my own little bubble, or do I want the power of God, the presence of God to become so strong inside of me that wherever I go, the light of God is gonna shine and it's gonna bring a curiosity to the world around me that the joy of the Lord I have becomes contagious around me. See, after Jesus met this woman, her life changed. The areas we try to hide are often very uh often the very places God chooses to reveal his grace. Because God sees right through us. She did not need to run from a story anymore when she met Jesus. That guilt and shame, Jesus took it all away. And when God exposes you, he doesn't expose you to hurt you, he exposes you to heal you. When that conviction comes upon you, it's not to make you feel bad, it's for you to understand it's time to done away with whatever is going through your life because God has something greater in store for you. Something more. I tell you, I yet to see that the presence of God is gonna flood churches so much that your life is gonna be shattered by the power of God, and sickness and disease are gonna melt before God in his presence because people are crying out for more of God. Amen. I tell you this morning I could have just stayed in the worship and and just worship all day. It was just so powerful, especially when I see the the joy of the young people running around. It needs to be contagious. What's in here needs to get out in the community? That joy needs to come out of inside from inside of you outside. So this this woman she had to understand that the environment she was growing in that she belonged to, it had to change because she got adapted to an environment where shame was very prevalent, where she would hide herself from the other woman because they were talking about her, so she came out in the middle of the day. See, Jesus sees beyond what you're seeing, He sees beyond when you come to the place and feel that there is no hope. Jesus sees beyond that, He sees our mistakes, He sees our wrong choices in lives, He sees the regrets that we carry, He sees your heart is the first thing that was beating when you were conceive, and that's where He places His throne is in your heart. He doesn't go by what you think, He sees beyond our thoughts, He sees your heart. And today you need to understand that as we recondition our mind and we recondition the way we think and our thought process and get our lives in line with what the word of God says. God will take you in a journey that you will never think or imagine. His favor is gonna be upon you. You're gonna be able to see promotions in your jobs, you're gonna be able to see increase in your finances, you're gonna be able to see your children serving the Lord in a stronger way. You're gonna be able to see that your past is gonna fade away. Those traumas that you have been involved with, God is gonna be able to fade it away from the mind because He will renew you and He will take you into a place that you will never think or imagine. When you go to bed at nighttime and you look at yourself in the mirror and you say, God, I thank you that today was a blessed day. I thank you for all the people that you have brought into my pathway. I thank you as I go to bed. I'm gonna have a good night's rest. You will sleep like a baby. And then when you wake up in the morning and say, God, this is the day that you have made, and I'm gonna rejoice and be glad in it. I tell you, something happens inside of you. You start looking for something that God is gonna open a door of opportunity, you'll meet some people, and you'll be able to share about the love of Jesus. Changes your world. You may want to pray for somebody, and you can say, Wow, I didn't know that prayer worked so quickly. Transformation as God started to speak to you. Point number two, more is not always higher, it's deeper. More is not always higher, it's deeper. More is not always elevation, more is a preparation. The woman came with an empty jar, but she received something eternal. When you come before God, what are you coming with? Are you coming with your pride? Are you coming with your ego? You know, I had a guy who was training me at the gym about a year ago, and the first thing he says, I need to kill my ego. I don't have to lift heavy weights. I thought this guy is nuts because everybody says you gotta lift heavy weights. I realize there's a strategy, and God has a strategy for your life. We gotta get rid of this ego. We need to get rid of the pride, we need to become transparent, not to walk life like hiding things, it's not worth it. Let God clean the mind up and leave live a life that is like very transparent before him. John 4 14 says, The water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up into eternal life. No, when I'm when I first had my encounter with the Holy Spirit of God, it was in a church. And we're singing a song all hail the power of Jesus' name and crowned him Lord of all. I ran up to the altar and I was saying, God, I crowned you, Lord of all, I crowned you, Lord of all, and something happened in my life, I cannot even put words to it. It's the presence of God became so strong in my life. It was the first time I got slain in the spirit, and I was a bit of a confused because the church we went to, people don't fall under the power of God. And I said to myself, the joy I'm feeling here, you can slay me a thousand times, I will do it again. I will I love that feeling, but the confusing part was why do I have to fall on the ground? Everybody's looking at me and think I'm crazy. And you gotta remember, I'm a I was a very shy and intimidated person. I was very passive, I would not talk, I did not like my voice, I still don't like it. You know, some of you guys, you got the apple here, and you have this really loud, very like manly voice. I don't have that voice. I can sing high ten all the way up here. I was in a singing competition in Canada. In Toronto, and I actually made it to the top 11 and the selected seven from the 11. I have a high tenor voice. I never got the apple. I don't know what happened. God forgot to give it to me. So I was very quiet and shy and very intimidated. But who knows when the presence of God comes down and the spirit of God takes a whole of your life, He changes you. He put a fire inside of you. He consumes all those intimidation and shyness, and he put a spirit of boldness upon your life. That you become strong inside. Well, I can see this happening with this woman from being very shy and intimidated for her life, what she's been through, something starts to happen when that internal life starts taking place. What God gives you is not just for a moment, it becomes a source within you. See, when you come to church on a Sunday morning or you go to a prayer meeting and you lift your hands onto the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and the Holy Spirit of God comes down and touch you. It's not just a feeling that you're gonna be temporary with that feeling, it's something permanent. It causes you to push yourself for more of that touch. Then it kind of gets your mind shaped. Am I living a life that is pleasing to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords? What do I need to change in my life? What do I need to tweak? What bad habits do I have? That negative, um, the negative thoughts that come to my mind or my attitude towards other people, it needs to change. If I know saying something to you hurts you, I need to change. I cannot expect you to change. I cannot expect my problem to become your issue in life. And that's what happens when you get into the presence of God, He starts to touch you and start to show you all the things that needs changing because his intention is for you to be his pride and joy, that he can boast about you and the goodness that he has placed in your life. Every one of us. Are you getting a little quiet with me? She immediately went back to the people she once avoided. Why? Because a boldness came upon her life. Something started to change inside of her. When God starts speaking to you, when the presence of God starts touching your life, something happens in the inside. You need to learn to take what's what's happening inside of you and push for more. Don't limit yourself, don't limit the God that we serve in terms of what He can do through you. You know, one of the things I've learned is that we like to complain. We like to be able to allow our problems to dominate us because if the problems are removed, what else is there for us to complain about? But complain is not good for you. Stress is not good for you. It causes a lot more medical issues than you can ever imagine. God wants your life to be a stress-free life. Doesn't mean that it won't, that it will always be stress-free because when stress comes up, God is will work to get you through that moment. But you got to be dedicated to Him a little bit more. In John 4, 28 to 29, it says, Then leaving her water jar, she left what she had. That's what she was used to: a water jar that she can carry with the water to her village where she was. She left it behind. And the Bible says she went back to the town and said to the people, Come and see a man. See, when I got touched by the Lord at 14 years old, within three months, there were 250 Hindus that gave their heart to Jesus. And I still remember that day going into that river and seeing all these people getting baptized within three months in this little village. Can you imagine? Within three months, one person got touched by God, and through that one person, you almost have an entire community giving their heart to the Lord that came to the knowledge of truth. At 18 years old, they wanted me to be a pastor, and I was transitioning to Canada at the same time. There is no regrets because I felt I wasn't ready for that position. But people, people will follow the Lord when they can see the goodness of Him. That's why the Bible says, Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. He is a good God. And yet there may not be a miracle where someone is paralyzed or someone is blind or someone, you know, is deaf. But we have those brokenness in our emotional life that God can do the same miracle like He can do physically. That emotional pain that you go through, that brokenness that you go through, the Bible says God can set you free from it, that you don't have to be sitting on it and let it destroy your life. When she went back into the village, I can picture in my mind that God was saying she was born for this. She was born to go back into the community and spread the word that many Samaritans start following Jesus. How many people are following Jesus because of the walk that you and I have on this earth? How many lives are being touched around us? Your encounter is meant to become someone else's invitation. Every one of us. What your thoughts would disqualify you becomes the very thing that God is going to use to qualify you. Sometimes our thoughts make us feel that we are incompetent or we're incapable. God will use those same thoughts to show you that you are capable because He qualifies you. Are you learning something today? Are you sure? Do you really believe that Jesus can change our world? Do you really believe that you were born for more? If you were to list down three things as to what that more would look like, what would that be today? Now you don't have to write it down now, but take it with you. What would you like to advance in in your life? What areas of your life would you like to advance and become more? What would you like to see if God were to give you a magic wand and say make three wishes? What would they be? Don't say money. Because you can have all the money in the world, it still doesn't bring happiness. I have clients who are multimillionaires and they are very miserable in life because money is not everything. What would it be if God says, Bring before me three of your greatest wishes in your heart? What would it be? Sometimes we don't take the time to challenge our own selves in terms of where we want to go in our lives. If we are struggling with negativity, do you want to be set free from your past? Or do you want to hold on to it like a crutch? What would you like to see happening? Young people, what would you like to see for the next five, ten years of your life? Would you like to see yourself rising up and being a world changer where you change history? What would you like to see? You walk in on a Sunday morning to church. Do you want to see the presence of God become so strong that the atmosphere, you can feel it and cut it with a knife? I don't know how else to explain it, but that's kind of my thoughts there. What would you like to see? Would you like to see that instead of the EMS driving sick people to the hospital, they drive them to churches in Canada because there is a healing power that manifests in the church? It is the Bible that says all things are possible. And if God has done it before, he can do it again. If he can remove a mountain that stands in the way apart a Red Sea, so that you have hundreds and hundreds of people, thousands of people walking through the Red Sea, is there anything too difficult for him to do? If he can raise the dead, if he can cleanse a leopard, if he can open blind eyes and deaf ears, if he's able to transform a sinner to become a saint, is there anything for him to do? If he can go down to the deepest part of the earth and fight with the devil and take the keys of hell, death, and the grave and rise up triumphantly and is called the Lord in heaven, in earth, and beneath the earth. Is there anyone else that is greater than him? And and interestingly, he is our Lord in this place. He's the God who says he will open up any doors, the windows of heaven, and shower his blessing upon you. He said that he will order your steps and he will put a lamp onto your feet so you're not gonna fall. He says, when you call upon him, even before you ask him, he's already gonna answer your prayer. That's the God that we serve, a God who cares for you and I. That's why I think we love him today, amen. I want to close up with this last point with you. We're born for more. Born for more is not just about becoming someone else, it's about removing everything that is not truly you. What is not truly you? When you look in the mirror and you allow your mind to wonder in terms of this is who I am, what is part of you that not is really you? Because in order for you to move ahead, there's a lot of baggages that you need to let go. The garbage that we carry, it needs to be cut off from our lives. We saw this in John 4 28 when the woman left the jar behind. That was part of her life. She left it behind because it was not her. She released what once defines her. The water jar was her, what was defining her, her lifestyle was defining her. She left it. The intimidation that she had in talking to um her village people, it left her. See, when my parents became um Christians after I got healed, it was a stigma of how can you change faith? You were born into this religion because of our ethnicity, and so there were a lot of stigmas that was arising. But at 14 years old, taking a kerosene lamp and reading the word of God and starting a Bible study in my house, God started drawing all these villagers, and as his presence became evident, he is the one who brought conviction to the lives of people that changed your lives. He just needed someone to live a life for him, just like you and I today. He wants us to be his vessel, and he's not looking for golden vessels or silver vessels or the greatest vessels that you can have out there. He's just looking for people who will yield their lives to him. And then he will take you to a journey you can never think or imagine. In 2 Corinthians 5 17, it says, Therefore, is anyone in Christ, um, he's a new creature, uh, has the new creation has come, the old things are passed away, and behold, all things become new. She was not born to carry water jars, but she was born to win a city. What were you born uh to do today? What is the purpose? If you can hit it with your with a with your finger, what would that be? What is my purpose on this planet? What am I born for? Some people don't fear failures, they fear exposures. When I think of visibility, I think of exposures, I think of insecurities, I think of on heel areas, I think of identifying gaps because those are things that are very prevalent in our lives. But we cannot step into more while emotionally we are attached to less. What are you willing to let go of? I'll tell you what, I had to let go of. I had to let go of my old mindset because I was conditioned to serve idols, things that do not talk back to me, things that are made with man's hand, things that the creator created, like the sun. Every morning we offer milk unto the earth and worship the sun. But when I found a creator who is greater, who created the sun, who would want to worship something being created rather than the creator itself himself? Amen. I had to learn in this journey to let go of toxic relationship. Because toxic relationship is gonna pollute your mind. I had to learn to let go of my comfort zones. I had to learn how to let go of familiar pains. I had to learn that I had to rewire my mind and start having the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ. What is the mind of Christ? The last time I checked, God always has good intentions for the worst enemies out there. He doesn't look at the bad, he looks at the good. He doesn't bring condemnation to people, he looks for potential in people. God looks at what he can do to excel you, he doesn't look at how he can defeat you. So we carry that kind of character in our lives. I believe you have it in you. We are equipped with the goodness of God. Amen. We are equipped with the presence of God, we are equipped to carry the glory of God, we're equipped to be able to be like the woman up at the well where we get so excited because realizing that we are born for more. Amen. Amen. Every one of you here today, young and old, you have something precious in your life. You have the presence of the living God inside of you. Don't allow the things of this world to corrupt your mind and to stop you. Don't allow your past to grab a hole of your mind where every day you you wake up and you think about the bad things, your past. And I'll tell you, for some of us who are getting a little bit older, not old, but older. If there is one thing on my list, my list, I'll say, God, we should never get old. Let's stay like between 40-ish, you know, and uh as we learn about ourselves and mature a little bit and let life stays like that, and just come back and scoop us all up. But we have something great in us. And today, you know, as I I was pondering on the word that we're born for more, I start seeing how there are so many of us who have limited ourselves. We have put a full stop in our lives when God is saying it's only a comer. He's not done with your story as yet. There are still many chapters to write in your life, and all of eternity, I would love to be reading some of your stories. Where you were to where you become. You know, when we read the the Old Testament, there are so many stories. And we see from the start of the story to the end of the story, we see the struggles they went through, but we also saw the victories they went through. And maybe there are some of you here that is in the middle somewhere. You're seeing the victory, but you don't know how to get there. Or maybe you have accomplished some victories and it feels that you're back to square one. Every time you jump up two steps, you're jumping back one. Well, today is your day for your miracle. Whatever it may be, the God that we serve is able to do it because you were born for more. Can you stand up with me for a moment? We'll get the worship team up here. Hallelujah, Father. I want you to get your mind into the presence of God, get your mind focused on Jesus. There is none like you. There is no one like you, Father. Let's just get our hearts prepared for what God is gonna do in your life, what he's gonna do and touch your life. Holy Spirit of God, we just welcome your presence in this place. We know you're here, God, but we're asking for you to become stronger, Father. As we open our hearts before your throne, God, I pray that heaven be open, Lord. I pray, Father, that your presence becomes so strong that they can feel the warmth of your presence, oh God. They can see, Lord, that you are a great God who have good intentions for our lives, Father. Come on, let's get our hearts prepared a little bit, Father. We just give you glory, we give you honor and majesty and thanks. Let's just worship him a little bit, Father. We worship you in this house. We thank you that you are the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, Father. We thank you, Father, that you are the great physician in this place, oh God. We thank you that there is no other God beside you, Father. We worship you, Lord. We magnify you in this house, oh God. Oh Father, we ask for one touch of your presence in this place, oh God. You are more than able, Lord. There is no one like you, Jesus. I pray, Father, that bad habits be broken, oh God. I pray, Lord, for addictions to be broken in the name of Jesus. I pray, God, for those thoughts, those negative thoughts that troubles the mind to be broken in Jesus' name. Father, that one is asking for one more touch from your throne. I just pray, Father, today, that you touch them wherever they may be, Lord. Some of you that are struggling in your relationship, some of you who cannot sleep because all you think about is your relationship and what's going on in your relationship. Today I pray that God is gonna open heaven over your lives. We give you praise in this place. We vow to give you the glory and the honor, Father, for there is no other God beside you in this house, Father. Hallelujah, Jesus.