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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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Deleted User10/06/2021 at 18:22Leaving one out leads to an incomplete picture of prayer. We can’t shouldn’t only ask God for things, or skip thanking Him for how he’s been moving in our lives already. Our relationship with God needs to be full in prayer.
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Deleted User10/04/2021 at 16:13I think that each one is essential to how we interact with the Lord fully and praise him for all that He is. I think if adoration were removed, we would miss the opportunity to praise him and be in awe of Him as He deserves. If we removed confession, we would miss the opportunity to bring our sin to Him and ask for His forgiveness and mercy to cover that sin. If we removed thanksgiving, we would miss the opportunity to be grateful and remember all that the Lord has blessed us with. If we removed supplication, we would miss the opportunity to come to the feet of the Lord and ask for His help in the midst of our circumstances. Each of these is essential to our relationship with the Lord and our communication and praise of Him.
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Deleted User10/04/2021 at 15:57If adoration were removed, then acknowledging God for who He is is missing
If confession is removed, we become self-righteous and entitled and we cease to acknowledge the severity of our sin
If thanksgiving is removed, we don’t acknowledge everything that God has done for our good and we forget that we deserve nothing good
If supplication is removed, then we don’t understand that God delights in providing for our needs -
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Deleted User10/04/2021 at 09:21I see these as steps of humility leading us to interact with God as He deserves. Instead of coming into His presence asking for things first, we praise Him simply for who He is. We then let His Word and Spirit search our hearts for any unconfessed sin, agreeing with Him and repenting thereof. Thirdly, we thank Him for His goodness, kindness, and faithfulness in all our lives. and lastly, we then set our needs before Him, following the pattern in The Our Father and in Philippians 4:6>
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Deleted User10/01/2021 at 11:57Removing adoration would leave more room for us to be more focused on ourselves, as well as forgetting who God is which puts our requests, confession, and thanksgiving all in their place.
Removing confession could lead to pride, and even broken relationship with the Father that we feel ashamed about.
Removing thanksgiving keeps us from giving God the praise and glory for what He’s done and is doing in our lives. We aren’t grateful.
Removing supplication could lead to us thinking we can do things in our own strength.