Hello and God bless you all! I would like to first wish you all a happy and blessed New Year in the Lord. As many of you heard 2007 was the year of completion and for many of us, we truly felt the Lord's hand in our life changing and re arranging us so that we would reach a level of complete dependence and focus on Him and Him alone. I know in my life, Jesus literally grabbed my legs, turned me upside down and shook as hard as hard as He could so that nothing of my own was left. As if that wasn't enough Jesus even rung me out like a wet towel after that LOL. I mean He made sure that anything from the old Juan was completely and totally removed. In my life that was the completion that I experienced in 2007, well along with an addition of another family member into the Kingdom of heaven, who actually is joining our ministry to serve the Lord. For some of you the experience of completion may have come in different ways, maybe you finally got the Job you wanted or maybe you finally married the person you loved or just plainly you were finally able to reach the goals you wanted in this year.

What's crazy is that for some people I have spoken to who are not believers but have been called by Jesus or have run away from the call or backsliden, they experienced the worst year in their lives. I think it's funny because I know God does that for a reason. Maybe some of you are reading this now and are thinking to yourselves, "Yeah why was this year to terrible for me?!" When you make a pact with Jesus, when you receive Him into your heart as savior, there is now were you can run were He wont find you and call you to Him. When you have experienced His love and His presence, there is nothing you can ever find or substitute in its place. God's hand will be on your life and He will push and push and take you to the point were you have nothing so that you finally say "I GIVE UP!" and allow Him to help you and love you. You have to understand that Jesus loves you so much that he would rather make you go through some tough times to wake you up then allow you to continue on in your life of sin and lose you completely in the long run. So even for non believers and people who have walked away God completed the cycle in their life by getting them to the point were they just cant take it anymore. And just when things were at the lowest point, or at a stand still or right on the edge of a breakthrough ..........BOOM! 2008 the year of new beginnings!

2008 has been declared the year of new beginnings. Everything that God did in your life last year, was all in preparation for the doors He was going to open this year. Believe me when I tell you, it's not a coincidence that you are moving this year, or are starting a new job this year or maybe have a new relationship or changed churches and are going to a new church this year. God has strategically moved and repositioned His people in a manner that this year they would be entering new things in their lives. He has made it possible this year (for those who believe) to start a new in every aspect of your life that was not at the level that you wanted it to be. I myself am moving from new York to North Carolina. This move is all in obedience to God's command. I know in my heart that many of you have a word from God in your heart that seemed almost impossible but this year Jesus will make the impossible possible. Many of you are wondering why you are at the point you are at, why you are in the position you are, you feel like you were almost pushed all the way to were you are right now, economically, physically, mentally, spiritually and even emotionally. The reason is because God was just preparing you for this new year. Some of you, like myself even cut ties with friends and people that you don't even know why you did. Remember if we are to follow Jesus 100% and hole heartedly what cannot be tied down to any place or thing. If you are feeling all of a sudden like your not as in love with your town or state or location as you always were then maybe God is getting you ready for a move and that goes for your Job your relationships and everything else.
Many of you have heard me refer to this generation as the "John the Baptist" generation and I know many others have said the same. The Lord gave me a word for this year and I see now that it is also meant for this generation. Isaiah 43:18-19; "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." This year God has given us a green light to forget that past and begin to focus on the future. God says behold I am making a new thing, Haleluyah that makes me so excited and joyful. To hear the Lord our God declare that this year will be one of new beginnings and that our past no longer matters fills me with comfort and love. "Now it springs up, do you not perceive it?" This is very key, I honestly feel something shifting, I truly feel like the atmosphere itself has changed. I was speaking on New years Eve about how this year will bring change not only in us but in the world itself, meaning the planet. I was amazed to see that only a few days after New Years day it was snowing on the west coast in places were it has never snowed and it was 58 degrees warm here in NY in January!

We are living in amazing times brothers and sisters, we are living in a time where the world as a hole is getting worse and worse. The truth is that for all of the people who have not realized it yet, it's time to wake up because things aren't getting any better and if you read the bible, there is only one direction were it is heading and we all know were that is. In Christ Jesus though, we have hope of a better today and even better tomorrow. With Jesus in our lives we have the promise to be blessed, we have the promise of salvation and we have the promise that if we seek Him first He will give us everything we ever wanted. God has opened a door for us this year which leads to new blessings and new prosperity and more importantly new and fresh anointing. Like everything else in God though we must walk through the door ourselves. Jesus is a gentlemen and He will never force you through the door.
I urge you to see this year as your chance for a brand new life, a chance for a fresh start and a chance for total redemption of the mistakes we have made in the past. The Lord is saying forget about that past because I have, do not dwell on the past but focus on the future because that's where God's hand is right now. Your latter days will be greater then your former, the Lord is getting ready to open up the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing that you will not have room enough to contain. The best is yet to come brothers and sisters but do not forget that all this is promised and given to him that believes and diligently seeks. Believes In who? Jesus Christ! Seeks who? Jesus Christ! What I love the most about God is that He is a TODAY God! Today you can make the change, today, right now you can reconcile yourself with Him and today at this very moment can be the first day of the rest of your life!

The LORD bless you
and keep you;

The LORD make his face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;

The LORD turn his face toward you
and give you peace.