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The acrostic ACTS stands for Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. What would happen if each were removed from devotions? (For example, what would happen if adoration were removed from your prayers?)
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I feel that if any of these were removed from my devotions or prayer time with the Lord, I would replace them with something that would be worldly or potentially self-righteous. While you don’t want to become legalistic and stick to this acrostic and if you deviate from it you just stop all together, having an outline of prayer can be helpful.
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Each focus of the ACTS acrostic is important; Adoration establishes the immensity, power, and amazingness of God. Adoration puts me into a place of humbleness; Acknowledgement that the Lord is powerful, my creator, and that I am insignificant in relation. It is a good reminder of how little I am and desperately in need of relationship with Him.
Confession is important because it reminds of how I fall short, even despite my best efforts, and therefore need God in my life; It highlights the importance of Christ’s sacrifice for me, because without it, even under the best circumstances, I am destined to eternal death.
Thanksgiving plays the important role of reminding me how God has worked through my life already (just in that very day alone). Thanksgiving acknowledges the love and protection that the Lord puts upon my life.
Supplication is an important element for building the relationship with the Lord – It is when we bring our problems to Him; We acknowledge our weakness and total dependance on Him, and by doing so, we effectively pull Him into our lives.
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I think adoration is extremally important so that we remind ourselves of the Majesty of God and the Mightiness of God. Knowing that He created the universe and everything in it, assures us that He is capable of answering any prayer that we may ask of Him.
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I love this acrostic because it helps us to not leave anything out of prayer. The order in which we pray is important too. Too often we will leave out the adoration and confession and go straight to the supplication and then thanksgiving. When we do this we aren’t thanking God for the great God that he is but are thanking Him in advance for what we just asked for. Although there is nothing wrong with believing that God will answer our prayer, where we fall short is that we need to be thankful for what he has already done first. And when we leave out th Adoration and confession the prayer because just a hollow list of demands, not a conversation with your father.
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It creates balance and harmony. When we pray, we acknowledge God as the sole authority of our life. He is Supreme. We confess and humble our selves to Him that without Him we can never be whole. and we thank Him for all He has done for us and ask Him of our daily needs as the source of everything