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.
Louvor e reverência
Vinde, adoremos e prostremo-nos. Louvai ao Senhor! Todo ser que respira louve o nome glorioso do Senhor.
Thanksgiving and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary.
Thanksgiving and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary.
Alleluia.
Praise God in his holy places: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him on account of his mighty acts: praise him according to his abundant greatness. Praise him with the sound of a trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp. Praise him with timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and the organ. Praise him with melodious cymbals: praise him with loud cymbals. Let every thing that has breath praise the Lord.
Let every thing that has breath praise the Lord.
A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me.
I will exalt thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and not caused mine enemies to rejoice over me.
For the end, a Psalm of David among the Hymns.
God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. Pause. That men may know thy way on the earth, thy salvation among all nations. Let the nations, O God, give thanks to thee; let all the nations give thanks to thee.
A Psalm of David.
Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou hast clothed thyself with praise and honour:
Alleluia.
Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.
For the end, a Psalm of David.
Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity; who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;
Declarações de adoração
Tu és digno, Senhor, de receber glória e honra! Ao Senhor pertence a grandeza, o poder, a glória e a majestade.
Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the might: for thou art Lord of all things that are in heaven and upon the earth: before thy face every king and nation is troubled.
Give thanks to the Lord, for it is good, for his mercy is for ever. And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us, and rescue us from among the heathen, that we may praise thy holy name, and glory in thy praises. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting:
And all the people shall say, Amen. So they praised the Lord.
Give thanks to the Lord, for it is good, for his mercy is for ever.
Sing songs to him, and sing hymns to him, relate to all people his wonderful deeds, which the Lord has wrought.
Sacrifício de louvor
Por meio de Jesus ofereçamos sempre sacrifício de louvor. Cantai ao Senhor, celebrai em salmos — enchei-vos do Espírito.
Adoração como vida
Exaltai ao Senhor, prostrai-vos ante o escabelo dos seus pés. A adoração genuína transforma o adorador e agrada o Criador.
For the Lord is good, his mercy is for ever; and his truth endures to generation and generation.
And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.
His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.
Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.
Let my judgment come forth from thy presence; let mine eyes behold righteousness.
Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling.
I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works.
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 to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,
For ye shall not worship strange gods, for the Lord God, a jealous name, is a jealous God;
And when Moses entered into the tabernacle, the pillar of the cloud descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and God talked to Moses. And all the people saw the pillar of the cloud standing by the door of the tabernacle, and all the people stood and worshipped every one at the door of his tent.
He was to me a helper and protector for salvation: this is my God, and I will glorify him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Who is like to thee among the gods, O Lord? who is like to thee? glorified in holiness, marvellous in glories, doing wonders.
And thou shalt serve the Lord thy God, and I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy water, and I will turn away sickness from you.
He is thy boast, and he is thy God, who has wrought in the midst of thee these great and glorious things, which thine eyes have seen.
And ye shall eat there before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all the things on which ye shall lay your hand, ye and your houses, as the Lord your God has blessed you.
They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me. They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh gods came in, whom their fathers knew not. Thou hast forsaken God that begot thee, and forgotten God who feeds thee.
take heed to thyself that thy heart be not made broad.puffed up, and ye transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:
And the Lord has said, This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and they honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me: but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.
O Lord God, I will glorify thee, I will sing to thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even an ancient and faithful counsel. So be it.
Exemplos de adoração
Jó adorou em meio ao sofrimento. Esdras adorou na restauração. Paulo e Silas adoraram na prisão — e Deus respondeu.
So Job arose, and rent his garments, and shaved the hair of his head, and fell on the earth, and worshipped, and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: as it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.
And they answered each other with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, saying, For it is good, for his mercy to Israel endures for ever. And all the people shouted with a loud voice to praise the Lord at the laying the foundation of the house of the Lord.
that he may magnify thee, O my Lord; for there is no one like thee, and there is no God but thou among all of whom we have heard with our ears.
For there is none holy as the Lord, and there is none righteous as our God: there is none holy beside thee.
For though the fig-tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs; yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour.