Adoração
A adoração é a resposta do coração humano à majestade de Deus. Deus é Espírito e importa que os que o adoram o adorem em espírito e em verdade — com todo o ser.
Adorar em espírito
Deus é Espírito e importa que os adoradores o adorem em espírito e em verdade. A adoração verdadeira brota do coração.
God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers. God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.
And he said, I believe, Lord: and he did him homage.
Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.
And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
For of him, and through him, and for him are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.
For it is written, I live, saith the Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Louvor e reverência
Vinde, adoremos e prostremo-nos. Louvai ao Senhor! Todo ser que respira louve o nome glorioso do Senhor.
Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.
Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.
Hallelujah! Praise ·God in his sanctuary; praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him in his mighty acts; praise him according to the abundance of his greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with lute and harp; Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe; Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with high sounding cymbals. Let everything that hath breath praise Jah. Hallelujah!
Let everything that hath breath praise Jah. Hallelujah!
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise; give thanks unto him, bless his name:
Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; worship Jehovah in holy splendour.
Shout aloud unto God all the earth: Sing forth the glory of his name, make his praise glorious; Say unto God How terrible are thy works! because of the greatness of thy strength, thine enemies come cringing unto thee. All the earth shall worship thee, and sing psalms unto thee: they shall sing forth thy name. Selah.
I called unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name. For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God thou alone.
Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.
O God thou art my ·God early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:
For thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall praise thee. So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Declarações de adoração
Tu és digno, Senhor, de receber glória e honra! Ao Senhor pertence a grandeza, o poder, a glória e a majestade.
Thou art worthy, O our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honour and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy will they were, and they have been created.
saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; and do homage to him who has made the heaven and the earth and the sea and fountains of waters.
Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all nations shall come and do homage before thee; for thy righteousnesses have been made manifest.
And I, John, was he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to do homage before the feet of the angel who shewed me these things. And he says to me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and the fellow-bondman of thy brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Do homage to God.
Thine, Jehovah, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the splendour, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is thine: thine, Jehovah, is the kingdom, and thou art exalted as Head above all;
Give thanks unto Jehovah, for he is good; For his loving-kindness endureth for ever. And say, Save us, O God of our salvation, And gather us, and deliver us from the nations, To give thanks unto thy holy name, To triumph in thy praise. Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And all the people said, Amen! and praised Jehovah.
Give thanks unto Jehovah, for he is good; For his loving-kindness endureth for ever.
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; Meditate upon all his wondrous works.
Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to God the Father's glory.
Sacrifício de louvor
Por meio de Jesus ofereçamos sempre sacrifício de louvor. Cantai ao Senhor, celebrai em salmos — enchei-vos do Espírito.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of the lips confessing his name.
Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear. For also our God is a consuming fire.
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;
Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.
And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions, and God of all encouragement; who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.
that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
Adoração como vida
Exaltai ao Senhor, prostrai-vos ante o escabelo dos seus pés. A adoração genuína transforma o adorador e agrada o Criador.
Exalt Jehovah our God and worship at his footstool. He is holy!
My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, with thy glory, all the day.
Sing unto God sing forth his name; cast up a way for him that rideth in the deserts: his name is Jah; and rejoice before him. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.
I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, thirsteth after thee. Selah.
Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God
Thou my soul hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; —
Serve Jehovah with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing forth thy name, O Most High.
Falsa adoração
Não terás outros deuses diante de mim. Não adorarás ídolos. A adoração exclusiva ao Senhor é mandamento inegociável.
thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God am a jealous ·God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me,
For thou shalt worship no other ·God for Jehovah — Jealous is his name — is a jealous ·God
And it came to pass when Moses entered into the tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the entrance of the tent, and Jehovah talked with Moses. And all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent; and all the people rose and worshipped, every man at the entrance of his tent.
My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my salvation: This is my ·God and I will glorify him; My father's God and I will extol him.
Who is like unto thee, Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like unto thee, glorifying thyself in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
And ye shall serve Jehovah your God and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from thy midst.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God who hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
and ye shall eat there before Jehovah your God and ye shall rejoice, ye and your households, in all the business of your hand, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger. They sacrificed unto demons who are not +God To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not. Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten ·God who brought thee forth.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them,
And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught of men;
Jehovah, thou art my God I will exalt thee; I will celebrate thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things; counsels of old which are faithfulness and truth.
But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.
Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.
Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because it will not be unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition; who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Exemplos de adoração
Jó adorou em meio ao sofrimento. Esdras adorou na restauração. Paulo e Silas adoraram na prisão — e Deus respondeu.
And Job rose up, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped; and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!
And they sang alternately together in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Wherefore thou art great, Jehovah Elohim; for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
There is none holy as Jehovah, for there is none beside thee, neither is there any rock like our God
And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, said, Stand up, bless Jehovah your God from eternity to eternity. And let men bless the name of thy glory, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
For though the fig-tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive-tree shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you;
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.