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Acknowledge God’s Unchanging Truth and Greatness

Adoration 1.8 | NASB

That His truth is invariable, and the treasures of His goodness inexhaustible.

You are good, and Your loving-kindness is everlasting. Psalm 136:1(NASB)

Your loving-kindness is great towards me, Psalm 117:2(NASB) and Your faithfulness is to all generations. Psalm 100:5(NASB)

You have proclaimed Your name: The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness and truth, keeping loving-kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Exodus 34:6-7(NASB) And this name of Yours is my strong tower. Proverbs 18:10(NASB)

You are good and do good, Psalm 119:68(NASB) good to all; and Your mercies are over all Your works. Psalm 145:9(NASB) But surely God is in a special manner good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. Psalm 73:1(NASB)

O that You would make Your goodness pass before me, Exodus 33:19(NASB) that I may taste and see that the Lord is good, Psalm 34:8(NASB) and his loving-kindness may be always before my eyes. Psalm 26:3(NASB)

Lastly, that when I have said all I can of the glorious perfections of the Divine nature, I fall infinitely short of the merit of the subject.

Behold, these are but the fringes of His ways; and how faint a word I hear of God! But His mighty thunder, who can understand? Job 26:14(NASB)

Touching the Almighty – I cannot find Him; He is exalted in power, and He will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness. Job 37:23(NASB) He is exalted far above all blessing and praise! Nehemiah 9:5(NASB)

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Acknowledge God’s Purity and Justice

Adoration 1.7 | NASB

That He is a God of unspotted purity and perfect rectitude.

You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel: Psalm 22:3(NASB) Holy and awesome is Your name, Psalm 111:9(NASB) and I give thanks to it. Psalm 30:4(NASB)

Your eyes are too pure to approve evil; Habakkuk 1:13(NASB) no evil dwells with You. Psalm 5:4(NASB)

You are the Rock! Your work is perfect, all Your ways are true and just; a God of faithfulness and without injustice. Deuteronomy 32:4(NASB) You are my Rock, and there is no unrighteousness in You. Psalm 92:15(NASB)

You are righteous in all Your ways, Psalm 145:17(NASB) and holiness befits Your house, O LORD, forevermore. Psalm 93:5(NASB)

That He is just in the administration of His government, and never did, nor ever will do, wrong to any of his creatures.

Righteous are You, O God, that I would plead my case with You; Jeremiah 12:1(NASB) You are justified when You speak and blameless when You judge. Psalm 51:4(NASB)

Far be it from God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to do wrong; for He pays a man according to his work. Job 34:10-11(NASB)

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like a great deep! Psalm 36:6(NASB) And though clouds and thick darkness surround You, yet righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne. Psalm 97:2(NASB)

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Acknowledge God’s Incontestable Sovereignty and Irresistible Power

Adoration 1.6 | NASB

That His sovereignty is incontestable, and He is the owner and absolute Lord of all.

The heavens are Your heavens, Psalm 115:16(NASB) and all their hosts. The earth is Yours, and all it contains; the world, and those who dwell in it. Psalm 24:1(NASB) In Your hand are the depths of the earth, and the peaks of the mountains are Yours also. The sea is Yours, for it was You who made it, and Your hands formed the dry land: Psalm 95:4-5(NASB) Every beast of the forest is Yours, the cattle on a thousand hills. Psalm 50:10(NASB) You are therefore a great God and a great King above all gods. Psalm 95:3(NASB)

In Your hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10(NASB)

Your dominion is an everlasting dominion, and Your kingdom endures from generation to generation: You do according to Your will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off Your hand or say to You, “What have You done?” Daniel 4:34-35(NASB) or “Why are You doing that?”

That His power is irresistible, and the operations of it cannot be controlled.

I know, O God, that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. Job 42:2(NASB) Power belongs to You; Psalm 62:11(NASB) and with You nothing is impossible. Luke 1:37(NASB)

All authority is Yours, both in heaven and on earth. Matthew 28:18(NASB)

You put to death and give life; You have wounded, and it is You who heal, and there is no one who can deliver from Your hand. Deuteronomy 32:39(NASB)

What You have promised, You are able also to perform. Romans 4:21(NASB)