Adoration is the lifting up of the heart and mind to God, asking nothing but to enjoy God’s presence.
Book of Common Prayer
Adoration with your mind
Allow Psalm 146 to be your prayer guide today. Read it through three times. First silently. Then read it out loud. Then read it as a whisper…
Psalm 146
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
2 I will praise the Lord while I live;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
3 Do not trust in princes,
In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
4 His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish.
5 How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,
6 Who made heaven and earth,
The sea and all that is in them;
Who keeps faith forever;
7 Who executes justice for the oppressed;
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets the prisoners free.8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind;
The Lord raises up those who are bowed down;
The Lord loves the righteous;
9 The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow,
But He thwarts the way of the wicked.
10 The Lord will reign forever,
Your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the Lord!
Adoration with your affections
Now allow the Psalm to guide your words of adoration. Tell God what the Psalm tells you about Him, His character, His being, His works, His promises, His purposes and plans. For example: “Lord, I praise you because you made the heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them.”
Adoration with your will
Identify something in your life that resists adoring God, something that makes it difficult to praise Him. Bring that before the Lord by telling Him that you choose praise, by faith, because God is worthy, always worthy of praise.
