Expression of Prayer Helps - "Adoration of God" Pt.1 - With Scriptural References from the Authorized King James Holy Bible

The following is adapted from the book "A Method for Prayer" by Matthew Henry, London, c.1710.

"ADORATION OF GOD"

OF THE FIRST PART OF PRAYER, WHICH IS ADDRESS TO GOD, ADORATION OF HIM, WITH SUITABLE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PROFESSIONS, AND PREPARATORY REQUESTS.

-OUR spirits being composed into a very reverent serious frame, our thoughts gathered in, and all that is within us charged in the name of the great God carefully to attend the solemn and awful service that lies before us, and to keep close to it, we must with a fixed intention and application of mind, and an active lively faith, set the Lord before us, see His eye upon us, and set ourselves in His special presence, presenting ourselves to Him, as living sacrifices, which we desire may be holy and acceptable, and a reasonable service; and then bind these sacrifices with cords to the horns of the altar, in such thoughts as these:

Romans 12:1 
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Psalm 118:27 
God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

-LET us now lift up our hearts with our eyes and our hands unto God in the heavens.

Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 

John 17:1
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

-LET us stir up ourselves to take hold on God, to seek his face, and to give him the glory due unto his name. 

Isaiah 64:7
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 

Psalm 27:8
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

Psalm 29:2
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

-UNTO thee, O Lord, do we lift up our souls.

Psalm 25:1
Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

-LET us now, with humble boldness, enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, in the new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the vail.

Hebrews 10:19, 20
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

-LET us now attend upon the Lord without distraction, and let not our hearts be far from him when we draw nigh to him with our mouths, and honour him with our lips. 

1 Corinthians 7:35
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

Matthew 15:8
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

-LET us now worship God who is a Spirit, in the spirit and in truth; for such the Father seeks to worship him. 

John 4:24, 23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

-HAVING thus engaged our hearts to approach unto God, (to be cont.)

Jeremiah 30:21
And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them;
and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.