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Why do we pray?
it prompts and nurtures obedience
it humbles us
it opens our hearts to communication with God
it illuminates His will for our lives
in the Lord’s Prayer, we detect a pattern of prayer, a fluid movement that begins with adoration and moves finally to petition and supplication.
The acrostic “A-C-T-S” is useful as a pattern for prayer.
Each letter in the acrostic represents a vital element of effective prayer:
A—ADORATION
C—CONFESSION
T—THANKSGIVING
S—SUPPLICATION
Sadly, we are most often moved to prayer by our desires and needs.
We go to God when we want something from Him.
We are in such a hurry to mention our requests and articulate our needs (which God already knows) that we omit adoration altogether or skip over it quickly in a perfunctory manner.
To omit adoration is to cut the heart out of prayer.
It is one thing to be fervent in supplication, particularly while praying in a foxhole; it is another thing to be fervent in adoration.
The prayers of the great saints, the prayer warriors of church history, are marked by their fervent adoration of God.
Confession
After expressing adoration, we must come to God with hearts of confession.
We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.
We can make no claim, in and of ourselves, to the ear of God.
We have no intrinsic right to His presence.
The Scriptures tell us that God is too holy even to look at sin.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving must be an integral part of prayer.
It should be inseparably related to our petitions of supplication.
If God never grants us another glimpse of His glory in this life, if He never grants us another request, if He never gives us another gift from the abundance of His grace, we still would be obligated to spend the rest of our lives thanking Him for what He already has done.
We have already been blessed enough to be moved daily to thanksgiving.
Supplication
Nothing is too big or too small to bring before God in prayer, as long as it is not something we know to be contrary to the expressed will of God as made clear in His Word.
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The Holy Spirit intercedes for us:
Matthew 11;28-30
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