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It’s a good idea to start our prayers with adoration. Adoration is one of the most powerful—and often neglected—dimensions of prayer. It shifts the focus from my needs to God’s nature. Instead of asking, fixing, or analyzing, adoration simply delights in who God is.
In the prayer Jesus taught us (Matthew 6:9), He begins, “Our Father in heaven…”
Worship and adoration put things back into perspective. As Pete Greig says, “When we worship, we swap the microscope for the telescope.” He goes on to say that anyone who stares at the stars realizes there is something bigger than we are. God is in heaven, yet He loves us.
Our relationship with God is relational, not transactional. God is not the great slot machine in the sky. He is our Father in heaven.
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