Adoration is an intense admiration that lifts us in reverence to worship and to the expression of that worship in various outward acts. It includes both the inward attitudes of the heart and the physical expression of those feelings.
Adoration involves a person’s whole being. The mind comprehends the love and grace of God.. the will sanctions what the mind understands and yearns to appropriate the revelation of God in Christ Jesus.... the emotions are stirred to their maximum intensity in responding to the unearthly delight, unspeakable joy and unsurpassed peace.
Adoration inspires love and devotion so intense that it surpasses our understanding. Because words alone are usually impotent when it comes to expressing such depth of response, we are often forced to express adoration with song or physical activity—spontaneous or in liturgical form.
Adoration is far too personal to be a congregational action, although many persons sometimes respond in ador
ation to God under the same stimuli and at the same time. On other occasions, what stimulates one person to adoration will barely move another person to praise.
When concentrating on the benefits of God’s blessings we seldom rise beyond the level of praise.Worshipers are people who engage in adoration—who have learned to respond to the love of God, and they find it relatively easy to pour out their love before the Lord. Adoration is merely a highly refined way of receiving God’s love and passing it back with intense feeling and devotion. It’s an exciting love relationship. We are loved, and He has become our Beloved.
—Judson Cornwallo
Lord, draw me into Your inner chambers so that I can pour my love on You with abandon.Judson Cornwall, The Secret of Personal Prayer (1988), 184–185
Adoration involves a person’s whole being. The mind comprehends the love and grace of God.. the will sanctions what the mind understands and yearns to appropriate the revelation of God in Christ Jesus.... the emotions are stirred to their maximum intensity in responding to the unearthly delight, unspeakable joy and unsurpassed peace.
Adoration inspires love and devotion so intense that it surpasses our understanding. Because words alone are usually impotent when it comes to expressing such depth of response, we are often forced to express adoration with song or physical activity—spontaneous or in liturgical form.
Adoration is far too personal to be a congregational action, although many persons sometimes respond in ador
ation to God under the same stimuli and at the same time. On other occasions, what stimulates one person to adoration will barely move another person to praise.When concentrating on the benefits of God’s blessings we seldom rise beyond the level of praise.Worshipers are people who engage in adoration—who have learned to respond to the love of God, and they find it relatively easy to pour out their love before the Lord. Adoration is merely a highly refined way of receiving God’s love and passing it back with intense feeling and devotion. It’s an exciting love relationship. We are loved, and He has become our Beloved.
—Judson Cornwallo
Lord, draw me into Your inner chambers so that I can pour my love on You with abandon.Judson Cornwall, The Secret of Personal Prayer (1988), 184–185
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