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If you want to have effective, powerful conversations with God that result in breakthrough answers of prayer, it helps to become well acquainted with these essential “FACTS” or “ACTS” of prayer. They are invitations from God to cultivate and partner with Him in your mutual relationship and conversations.  You will fine tune your skills with regular practice.  We encourage that practice with one hour of prayer in a group each week.

Although prayer cannot be reduced to a formula, you need to understand the value of these fundamental principles of prayer. A model can be helpful in revealing these truths. The Lord’s Prayer is one such model. Others can be useful as well. Their value is found not in following them rigidly, but utilizing the essentials they represent.

We work with the acronym “ACTS” or “FACTS” to identify the main components of prayer.

FOCUS– For one hour, once a week in a Breakthrough or any Prayer Group, ask God to make His presence known to make you ALERT to what He wants you to learn, believe and declare by faith, using His Word as your guide.

ADORATION- Assess your situation. Are you able give God intentional, focused honor and praise for who He is? What do you know and believe of His names, titles, attributes, works and miracles?  Do you spend time telling Him what you APPRECIATE about Him? God inhabits the praise of His people! What is He revealing about Himself to you; about yourself; about others?

CONFESSION-Commit to a plan – Will you choose to AGREE WITH GOD about sin and His provision – personally and corporately?  Do you confess, repent, surrender, renounce and forsake sin, bringing every thought, attitude, word and action captive and making it obedient to Jesus Christ? Do you receive and extend His provision of forgiveness without exception so the Kingdom of God can advance!!!

THANKSGIVING-Take action. Will you choose to name and declare your trust with an ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE for what He has and will do for every person and circumstance you are concerned or care about – good or bad?  Will you exchange your burden for His peace and purpose with thanksgiving for His complete provision? Trouble becomes an opportunity to exercise faith. This pleases God.

SUPPLICATION- Start now – How do you regularly exercise the elements of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving? If you are interceding with an aligned heart and in one accord with two or three others, according to Scripture, your ASKING in AGREEMENT will be powerful and effective. Are you growing in understanding more of the spiritual authority God has given you to wield in prayer? Are you familiar with the prayer power tools of praying God’s Word, prayer and fasting, prayer walking, prayer journaling? How big is your imagination for the lost? Are you prepared to be the hands, feet and words of Jesus to those around you? God desires to use you as an answer to your own prayers!

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