We can neither see nor enter the kingdom of God without Him. We want to thank the Lord and bless Him for everything, for every single thing in our lives, for all the wonderful things He has done, and for the wonderful family of God that He has placed us in, the marvelous company, the marvelous work, and the things that He has orchestrated in our lives for our benefit, our development, our education, and our increase.
I pray that we would say, “Holy Spirit, open wide the Kingdom of God. Open it wide unto me. Let me not see it through a narrow passageway, but let me see it in all its glorious expanse. Holy Spirit, I take your hand; lead me through the doors and into those places that I have not yet come to know. I am so ready to come to know more of the blessings of the Kingdom and the crown of Heaven. Take us into your world, Holy Spirit. Let us come to know your world of the Spirit.”
And we thank you, Lord, for the glorious adventure because You have prepared our hearts for more. You have prepared us to have a greater appetite for the things of the Spirit, a greater sensitivity to be aware of things that you want us to be aware of. So we do bless the Lord today and bless His Holy Spirit, thanking Him for continuing to take us farther in this next year, taking us where none of us have ever been before. We bless and thank you, Lord Jesus, that you made the way for the Holy Spirit to come to us and be with us in the same way that He was with you.