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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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Each element reflects a specific role in balancing out our prayer life. Removing one would disrupt the continuous flow of our prayers to God.
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It would mainly involve just sharing our needs and burdens and thanksgiving but it would be missing praise, which is what we want to give to God!
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When praying each of these are important. Thanksgiving and adoration are a must because God deserves them every time we pray. Supplication is expressing our needs to God which he tells us to do many times and without confession there’s no need to pray at all.
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If we didn’t give adoration to Christ then it would be an empty prayer because Jesus deserves all the praise and adoration.
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God would no doubt get tired of us not recognising Him through Adoration and Thanksgiving. I imagine our requests (Supplication) would go unanswered and if we aren’t Confessing, then we will continue to sin. Leaving any one of them out will eventually lead us to a life of depravity.
I have to say that while I think ACTS is a very helpful tool, we may find ourselves getting legalistic about it’s use. Every prayer or conversation I have may not include all elements every single time, but I would like to think I cover them all at least once a day.