ACTS Prayer Model

A prayer model I learnt from my pastor on the Wednesday Bible Study. I thought it deserved a post of it's own, it's an established prayer model you may have heard of, personally I think it is for planned prayer time i.e. morning devotionals rather than spontaneous prayer.

A- Adoration Start prayer for adoring who God is. How Holy and how fearsome, He is a consuming fire. Thrice Holy, infinitely glorious. Listen to a point my pastor made and reflect on it in your prayers- even with an eternity with God, we will not even begin to scratch the surface of His glory.

C- Confession We all sin and we will all sin until we come face to face with Christ. 1 John Chapter 1 makes it explicitly clear that if you or me claim not to sin, we'd be liars. But let us not just confess our sin and be sorry, let us strive to do a 180 and turn from it.

T- Thanksgiving Thank God for all the blessings in your life- big or small. Thank God during life's big events- when I get employed again, I myself must remember not to let the flesh win and pat myself on the back, God gets all the thanks! You can thank God for your hobbies you enjoy- if you love astronomy, you can thank Him for His creation of space, etc. The list goes on!

S- Supplements Pray for others- Missionaries, persecuted church, salvation for the unsaved (especially those in your life), and of course remember in your prayers you should come last!

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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

I would very respectfully add seeking protection in the Spiritual Realm as you still your heart and mind and listen to what the Spirit says.

BritishFailedAesthetic · M

@hippyjoe1955 God doesn't actively speak to us in that sense.

The Spirit absolutely does actively guide us- to worship, prayer, Bible Reading, etc.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic He most certainly does speak to us in that sense. If you haven't experienced it you don't know what I am talking about.

BritishFailedAesthetic · M

@hippyjoe1955 False teaching gets started this way.

The Holy Spirit gets us to glorify and delight in God but 99.9999% (if not 100%) of Christians have not had the Holy Spirit talk to them.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic Are you so sure about that? In the churches I have been in most Christians have experienced what I said. Those who are led of the Spirit are the children of God. Romans 8:14. I remember when some neighbours came to visit and wouldn't go home. It was close to meal time and we didn't have the food in the house to feed them. We had enough to feed our kids and if the kids weren't hungry then my wife could eat too. I would likely go hungry. I went and prayed and felt the LORD saying 'you feed them" Matthew 14:16. We prepared what little food we had and told the kids to go first. There was enough food for everyone to eat a heaping plate. The kids came back asking for seconds. There was enough food for seconds. The next morning I looked in the serving bowl and found as much food as we had started with. One day the LORD told me to go to a distant city. It was winter and the distant city was rather remote. Narrow roads no signs etc. We got about an hour into our 5 hour drive and it started to snow. Not bad but it kept getting worse. About 2 hours into the drive and it was white out conditions. I couldn't see over the front of my car. I was navigating by tufts of grass on the side of the road. I joked that I must have misunderstood God. My wife said "Jesus Help". Her lips had not finished the "P" in help before the snow stopped the wind stopped and the clouds disappeared. I grew up on the prairies. I have been in all kinds of snow storms and never have ever seen the end of a storm like that. Yes God does speak to us and were it not so your Baptist church would still be Catholic.