Today’s reading is Psalm 86.
Prayer is always good. We should not worry about whether we have the “right” words to say to God. It is just a conversation with God.
And while I believe the above to be true, I do believe we can improve our prayer life to better connect with God and His will for and in our lives.
With the now 13U boys baseball team I help coach and lead devotionals, we’ve gone from being very thankful that they will volunteer to pray at aall to now trying to help them grow a little bit more in the prayer life, instead of just saying, “Lord…please help us get this Dub..(W for win)”
One way to help us connect with God better and His will in our lives is to have a framework or a method/process. One that I use that we have taught the baseball boys is A.C.T.S.
A – doration
C – onfession
T – hanksgiving
S – upplication
My first thought when reading Psalm 86 was, “Wow..what a prayer!” My second thought was how much we can learn from this awesome prayer and while it doesn’t go the same A.C.T.S. order, it definitely nails all 4 areas and then some.
My encouragement would be to read and praythis prayer in Psalm 86. We can learn a lot from a prayer written by a man, David, who God called a man after His own heart (1 Samuel 13:14). As you read and pray it, pay attention to these verses that hit on the different parts of A.C.T.S. and enjoy!
Adoration…
Psalm 86:2, Psalm 86:5, Psalm 86:7-10, Psalm 86:12-15
Confession…
Psalm 86:6
Thanksgiving…
Psalm 86:4, Psalm 86:12-13
Supplication…
Psalm 86:1-4, Psalm 86:6, Psalm 86:11, Psalm 86:16-17
