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ACTS Prayer

The A.C.T.S. Prayer model encourages individuals to engage in prayer through Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. This structured approach simplifies the prayer process, making it accessible and meaningful for everyone, regardless of their prior experience with prayer. It emphasizes the importance of personal communication with God and encourages consistency in practice to develop a deeper relationship with Him.

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ACTS Prayer

The A.C.T.S. Prayer model encourages individuals to engage in prayer through Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. This structured approach simplifies the prayer process, making it accessible and meaningful for everyone, regardless of their prior experience with prayer. It emphasizes the importance of personal communication with God and encourages consistency in practice to develop a deeper relationship with Him.

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A.C.T.S.

Prayer
A.C.T.S. is an acronym for a model of prayer that offers to God our adoration, confession,
thanksgiving and supplication. It is sometimes difficult to pray. Perhaps we don't really know how to
pray. Sometimes we may not feel we're "qualified" to pray, or we feel we don't have the right to pray for
some reason. Using the ACTS model for prayer, it will be very easy to pray, even if you've never
really prayed in the past. ACTS praying doesn't require any great knowledge of or study about prayer,
but praying in this way is personal, effective, and powerful.

1 ADORATION: Begin your prayer by adoring God. Praise and worship HIM
for one or several of His attributes (e.g., sovereign, gracious, holy, perfect,
merciful, all knowing, loving, just, powerful, ever present, creative, etc.) both
generally or as it applies to your circumstances. This is a time for telling God
what He means to you and how much you love Him. This is not the same as
Thanksgiving where you thank God for all He has done, but a time to tell God
how magnificent, holy, glorious, etc. He is. To focus solely on Him. To tell Him
all the wondrous and beautiful things about Him you love. King David was a great
worshipper of god and a man God Himself stated was after His own heart. David
adored God in three ways: First, he told God that he loved Him. Second, he
praised God for who God is. Third, he praised God for what God does.

(Psalm 8: “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You
have set your glory above the heavens.”)

(Hebrews 13:15 “Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a


sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name.”)

2 CONFESSION: This is when you confess all your sins to God. Un-confessed
sin creates a barrier between you and God and can hinder your prayers. Begin
by confessing your sin to Him with an apologetic and repentant heart (to repent is
to stop and turn 180 degrees from the sin). Ask God to bring to mind any sins
you may not be aware of so that you may repent and confess. Tell Jesus what
you have done wrong and why, apologize to Him, seek forgiveness, and thank
Him for that forgiveness. When you confess try to be specific about
acknowledging what you have done wrong. Get beyond generic confessions
such as, “I haven’t been as loving as I should be.” Be specific like, “God I have
been avoiding Josh because I am angry with him. Forgive me for pushing him to
the side so that I don’t have to deal with my anger. It is sinful for me to not give
him the grace I have received.” That sort of processing your actions within your
prayers will help you change, but you only get there by being specific. Often
times the feeling of a weight lifting will follow this step. Important: Nothing can
separate you from the love of God once saved. But, we can separate ourselves
from the love of God just as Adam and Eve ran and hid from the Presence of
God after their sin in the Garden.

(I John 1:8-9: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us
our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”)

3 THANKSGIVING: This is where you count your blessings, thanking and


praising God for all He has given you and done for you in life. You may begin
with the basics such as family, friends, food, shelter, safety, jobs, health, healing,
etc. Thank Him for hearing your prayers and for forgiving your sins, for His all-
consuming love for you. Thank Him for His promises, for the glory of His
handiwork, for His promises to you (if you don't know them, start looking them
up). Express your gratitude to Jesus for His love, mercy, grace, leading,
sustenance, discipline, and blessings. Give thanks for the earth, the plants, the
trees, the animals, the birds, the stars, the sun, and the moon; to be able to see
(in color!); to hear and taste and touch; for the ability to think and reason and
move and all of these amazing pieces of creation that God has intricately woven
together to make life possible. Having thanks in prayer forces you to consider
what you are grateful for even on the days that you feel less than grateful.

(Ephesians 5:20: “… always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”)

(Colossians 3:17: “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the
name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”)

(Psalm 107:15: "Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his
wonderful deeds for men.")

4 SUPPLICATION: This is also known as Intercession. This is the phase of


prayer where we come to the Father asking God to supply needs for ourselves
and others. Offer God the concerns of your heart. Ask Jesus to guide, heal,
protect, comfort, sustain, or provide for you, or intercede for someone else.
Intercession is not just meant to pray for someone else in general. It almost
always means praying about someone’s spiritual well-being. Be specific in your
prayers. For example, instead of asking for God to bless your family, ask Him to
help your brother focus in math class and to give his teacher the wisdom she
needs to present the information in a way he can digest, etc. If you feel led to
pray for a certain person but don't know exactly what that person needs, ask God
to lead you in prayer for them. He will.
(1 Chronicles 4:10: “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let
your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.”)

(Acts 4:29-30: “Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to
speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform
miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”)

5 Remember, prayer is an act of communing with God. It is about


communication and real expression. It is about relationship with the Father. Also
don't forget that communication is a two-way street. This means you have to
listen as well. You may not hear at first, but with practice you begin to feel God
speaking to your heart.
Lastly, when trying a new prayer discipline like praying A.C.T.S. prayers, do it for
several weeks before judging its merits. During your entire first week, you may
be just getting comfortable with the practice. Pray in this format for a minimum of
three weeks. Research suggests that it takes as much as 18 days for something
to become a habit or norm for us. Persevere for a season so that you can see
the fruit.

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