Prayer - Adoration

Over the next 4 weeks we will explore the acronym ACTS in relation to prayer denoting Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication. Let’s start with considering Adoration. The Psalms is a very good place to start.

Psalm 150:1-5 Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!.

In this psalm, the writer employs all the available instruments to praise God. William Temple believed that “Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, the nourishment of the mind with His truth, the purifying of the imagination of His beauty, the opening of the heart to His love, the surrender of the will to His purpose.”

I don’t know which instrument you would choose to glorify God, but to become a proficient musician requires practice. Adoring God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is the right place to start our daily prayer as voicing our heart felt praise sets the scene as well as our hearts in the right place for communicating with God.

You, loving God, are the ground of our being and the river of life;

you both steady our roots and draw them to seek the living waters.

You are like the sunlight enticing us taller

and like the breeze rustling our leaves.

You are with us through hard seasons of summer heat,

and in the nights when winter’s frost ice the landscape

your love warms and sustains us.

You are everything to us.

O let our gratitude be great,

let our praise be plentiful,

let our worship be wonder-full!

Through Christ Jesus your ever-living Son. Amen!