Adoration with your mind

We often learn to pray by hearing others pray. Today, listen to this prayer from Richard Foster. Read it through three times. First silently. Then read it out loud. Then read it as a whisper…

O most high, glorious God, how great is my dilemma! In Your awful presence silence seems best. And yet, if I keep my peace, the rocks themselves will cry out. But if I do speak, what will I say?

It is Love that calls forth my speech, though it still feels like stammering. I love you, Lord God. I adore you. I worship you. I bow down before you.

Thank you for your gifts of grace:
—the consistency of the sunrise and sunset,
—the wonders of color,
—the solace of voices I know.

I magnify you, Lord. Let me see your greatness—to the extent that I can receive it. Help me bow in your presence in endless wonder and ceaseless praise. In the name of Him whose adoration never failed. —Amen.

Richard Foster, from Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home

Adoration with your affections

Now read the prayer very slowly … phrase by phrase … and make this prayer your own. Pause after each sentence or statement and add your own words of adoration.

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.