Adoration 1.20 | ESVWe must profess our entire reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ alone for acceptance with God and come in his name.I do not present my plea before you because of my righteousness, Daniel 9:18(ESV) for I am before you in my guilt, Ezra 9:15(ESV) and cannot stand before you because of
Adoration 1.19 | ESVWe must beg for the powerful assistance and influence of the blessed Spirit of grace in our prayers.Lord, I do not know what to pray for as I ought, but let your Spirit help me in my weakness and intercede for me. Romans 8:26(ESV)O pour upon me a spirit of grace and pleas for mer
Adoration 1.18 | ESVWe must entreat God’s favorable acceptance of us and our poor performances.There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?” But this I say, “O LORD, lift up the light of your face upon me, and that shall put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and wine abou
Adoration 1.17 | ESVWe must likewise profess our believing hope and confidence in God and his all-sufficiency, in his power, providence, and promise.In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; Psalm 31:1(ESV) indeed, let none who wait for you be put to shame. Psalm 25:3(ESV)For G
Adoration 1.16 | ESVWe must humbly profess the desire of our hearts towards God, as our felicity and portion and fountain of life and all good to us.Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you or in comparison with you. When my flesh and my heart fail, Lord
Adoration 1.15 | ESVWe must express the sense we have of our own meanness and unworthiness to draw near to God and speak to him.But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? That God whom heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain, 2 Chronicles 6:18(ESV) with man, who is a maggot, and the son o
Adoration 1.14 | ESVWe must acknowledge it an unspeakable favor and an inestimable privilege that we are not only admitted, but invited and encouraged, to draw near to God in prayer.You have commanded me to pray always, with all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, and, to that end, to keep al
Adoration 1.13 | ESVWe must declare this God to be our God and own our relation to him, his dominion over us, and propriety in us.My soul has said to the LORD, “You are my Lord, I have no good apart from you; Psalm 16:2(ESV) neither if I am righteous are you the better.” Job 35:7(ESV)You are my King
Adoration 1.12 | ESVWe must acknowledge our dependence upon God and our obligations to him as our Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor.You, O God, made me, and not I myself, therefore I am not my own but yours: 1 Corinthians 6:19(ESV) I am of your people and of the sheep of your pasture; Psalm 100:3(E
Adoration 1.11 | ESVWe must give honor to the three persons in the Godhead distinctly, to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that great and sacred Name into which we were baptized and in which we assemble for religious worship, in communion with the universal church.I pay my homage to three t
