HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018

What is significant about the New Year? 2018 in the Hebrew is Ayin Chet, meaning “The Year of the Doorway.” The word doorway is defined as “the entrance or access into a room” and also “a threshold or point of transition.” And God is overthrowing the enemy in your life. He is making the enemy your footstool. He is opening blind eyes, and making Himself known to those who will hear and see. 

CJB Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of ADONAI are everywhere, watching the evil and the good.

CJB 2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the ANONAI move here and there throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those who are wholehearted toward him. 

The LORD’s eyes are looking over all the nations for perfect and complete judgment for a new beginning. Look at Genesis 19:29: “But when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and sent Lot out, away from the destruction, when he OVERTHREW the cities in which Lot lived.”  It is not time to play church. It’s time to follow the Lord God wholeheartedly. We must stand for what God stands for…we must stand with Israel if we want to be blessed as a nation. 

If you are half-heartedly following the Lord, choose to wholly follow Him now. Choose to answer Jesus standing at the door of your heart knocking to enter. Choose to fully cross-over and follow Christ—wholeheartedly. 

If you are wholly following the Lord and wonder why you had so much warfare in 2017, it is because you are a believer in Christ and are a threat to the enemy and taking territory away from him. Jesus was hated by the world as well. 

Regardless of mankind’s opinion, whether you are exalted or abased, be determined in your heart and mind to wholly follow the Lord God—carry the Cross of Christ throughout conflict. Be determined to live with a forgiving heart. 

None of us have arrived to perfection, but if we will live to bring pleasure to Jesus Christ, if we each have this attitude, we will put to death our reactions to criticisms. Choose to not be offended. Desperately seek to have Christ’s nature found in you and to be changed into His image. 

Choose to live in the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom—and the source of every blessing imaginable. To disobey God is foolishness, expensive and disappointing. 

The fear of the Lord prolongs life. (Proverbs 10:27). Choose to have a spirit like Caleb and Joshua found in God’s Word. Be a God-pleaser, not a man-pleaser. Decide today to trust and surrender your life to God. 

Do you want the best for your children and family? Surrender your life to God and live before your children a godly life. If you don’t, you can’t expect your kids to do so. Choose to yield yourself to a Holy God—surrender to Jesus Christ and His ways.

We all mess up—God forgives us. He knows us perfectly. The wisest decision you will ever make is to fear the Living God and to obey Him at the slightest whisper at the door of your heart. 

God has a new doorway for you to enter—a new threshold for you to walk over with Him. He wants you to put Him first in your life. He wants you to live with passion and purpose. He wants you to talk to Him when you wake up, when you get in your automobile, when you are working among people who don’t know Him, when you go to bed at night. He wants you to tell other people about Him, not only by what you say, but by how you treat them and how they see you either respond or react to life. 

Choose this day to wholly follow the Lord, to fully trust Him when everything around you looks like it is falling apart—it just may be falling into place. God has the most beautiful and amazing ways of redeeming our past and using the conflicts we walk through to prepare us for our purpose in Him. (Remember the story of Joseph). 

It is a beautiful thing to see how the Lord causes all things to work for good. May God cause you to forget all the troubles of the past and to see His great plan and purpose for your life WITH HIM in 2018. He wants you to walk through the new door with your divine connections from Him. He has divinely aligned you with specific people on purpose and for you to fulfill your destiny in HIM. 

Choose to not settle for anything less than absolute victory! Choose to cooperate with the Holy Spirit and obey him immediately. Radical obedience opens doors that no man can close. Pray and believe God. Time spent in prayer is never wasted. 

Occupy till Jesus comes. It’s a new year—and one of acceleration when you partner with the HOLY SPIRIT. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you! 

Blessings to you in 2018!

Deborah Starczewski 

BOOKS BY DEBORAH STARCZEWSKI

GOD’S PRICELESS TREASURE (How To Overcome Challenges, Be Transformed And Know Your Purpose)….move from drama to destiny, pain to purpose, a mess to a message of hope for others. Choose to turn your trials into triumph through turning to Jesus Christ. 

A LEAP OF FAITH (25 Days At The Mercy Seat)…the ways the Holy Spirit led us will keep you turning the pages. God raised my husband from death, healed him from two strokes, and walked with us through two open heart surgeries. Wait till you read the story of my daddy passing to GLORY and how God healed our son through his first open-heart surgery. You will be amazed at how God goes to extreme details in life. It will give you increased faith to believe God for anything and teach you how to hear God in greater measure for yourself. 

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Will America Turn Back To God?)….a must read for all. Makes a great gift for friends, family, and anyone else.