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?)

Let me start by saying everyone has their own way of praying and in a time of real trouble you might forget adoration or another point without meaning to. However in Devotions leaving one out negates the whole point of telling God how much you love and appreciate Him and know that He is the One in whom you trust. We’re really good at Supplication. But speaking for myself, those other three need more attention!

Let me start by saying everyone has their own way of praying and in a time of real trouble you might forget adoration or another point without meaning to. However in Devotions leaving one out negates the whole point of telling God how much you love and appreciate Him and know that He is the One in whom you trust. We’re really good at Supplication. But speaking for myself, those other three need more attention!

We would not have balance in our prayers to God.

I believe we’d be missing a key part of God’s character and relationship with God. God is not a God of just confession. He also is a God of thanksgiving and adoration, etc. I believe incorporating all four of these are important to have a balance relationship with God, and one that is based on Biblical Theology.

Leaving one of these four out would ultimately change our relationship with the Lord. We cannot have one without the other and still have the relationship with the Lord that HE desires us to have with HIM.

If there is no adoration in prayer, it means that there is no God to listen to it and solve it. Therefore, when we pray, we must first worship God. We must absolutely trust God who responds to our prayers.

The basis for our faith cab be summed up at least in part with this type of prayer..adoration communicating to God our deep feelings for Him. Confession..bring our sins and wrong doings to God, and asking for forgiveness. Thanksgiving…simple put..thanking God for all he has done, and will do..Supplication…bringing our needs and request to God. Removing any one of these would be create a vacuum, a missing piece…like adoration…not telling God is not most high…making Him less important. Or confession..we don’t need it? Thanksgiving this would be the same as being rude, or conceeded. Supplication…how could we ask if there was no ability to ask? Any one of these were removed our prayer life and relationship with God would be less to a point that it could be considered least than a prayer.

If one were removed, we would be relying on our own strength and not His.

If you removed each one of these from your prayers Jesus would not get His rightfully praise from the person saying their prayer.

If adoration is removed from our prayers, then we are just going to God with a to do list.
If confession is removed from our prayers, then we are not in right standing with God and/or man and God is not obligated to answer any prayer.
If we remove thanksgiving from our prayers, then we are praying entitlement prayers. Phil. 4 says to make our requests known unto God with thanksgiving and the peace of God will guard our hearts and minds. Without thanksgiving we forfeit that peace.
If we remove supplication, then we are treating God like a mind reader. We are to come boldly to the throne of grace to find mercy and help in our time of need. If we don’t ask, we don’t receive.

Adoration is the act of coming before a Holy infinite all powerful, all knowing fully present God. Adoration humbles us , teaches to seek Him and not ourselves, it is only then that we can truly confess, thank and ask.

By removing any of these, you would be denying the Lord of His rightful praise.

If any of these parts were missing from my devotions, my spiritual life would be less effective.

Wow, that would go against the glorification of God.

If adoration was removed, we’d miss the opportunity to profess God in His rightful place and on the throne.

If any one of these components were removed then my prayer life would be unbalanced.

We would be missing a building block to a personal relationship with God.

It really is acknowledging who God is and when we do the other parts of the acrostic make sense and flow.

We need to remember how awesome God truly is.
If Confession were removed, will He forgive our sins?
We need to thank God for His wonderful blessings.
Our Father wants to hear from us our needs and our request.

If each were removed from devotion then it would not have the same weight and significance. Having all four completes the cycle and makes the devotion more real. The only issue would be that we take this not as a formula to be following but a deeply held belief that strengthens and uplifts.

If adoration was removed, I would not be honoring God, which would make my prayers empty. If I didn’t confess my sins, it would show that I was not repentant of those sins. If I didn’t thank God for all he has done for me, then why would he continue to listen to my prayers. If I can’t ask God for help, who will ever help me?

If adoration was removed, means I was not exalting God, not praying from my heart; if I didn’t confess my sins, then how God forgive my sins or how could imbue truly repentant? If I didn’t thank God for His amazing Grace, love, mercy or for forgiveness, why should he continue to be merciful to me If I’m not grateful? How can I ask for help for others if no can’t come to God with the right heart for myself?

We need each of these elements as part of our prayers to completely glorify, communicate and have a relationship with God

If any of the acrostics ACTS were removed from my prayers that would not honor Jesus . You would want your prayers to be answered.

If any of these are removed our relationship with God would not be the same. It necessary to apply the ACTS to our daily prayers.

Since all of these are required for a full relationship with Him, I’d say that that is what would suffer. Without any/all of these we would not have a close relationship with Him.

If Adoration were taken away, we would not be cognizant of how awesome God truly is, and fail in our response to His greatness by ADORING Him

If Confession were removed, then we would not receive His promise to forgive our sins, as it is only through confession can we receive His Gift of forgiveness

If Thanksgiving were taken away, then we would be ungrateful beings for all His wonderful blessings.

If Supplication were removed, how then can we tell our Father (who wants to hear from us) our needs, our hurts, our intercession on behalf of others?

If adoration was taken away, I would lack a sense of “awe” and genuine love in my prayers.

If confession was taken away, I would lack an awareness of my sin and my need for Jesus and consistent repentance,

If thanksgiving was taken away, I would lack remembrance of all that God has done in my life.

If supplication was taken away, I would not be giving God an opportunity to work in my life in a very tangible way and not be reminding myself that God is capable and able to meet our needs.

I would simply be asking God for things and forget the one I was coming to, who I was coming in the presence of. It would make me ungrateful and thankless.

You really can’t remove any part of acronym ACTS and really communicate completely with God. Each part has a large role to play in our communications

It would mean part of our commuication isn’t there. We would be missing a part of that communication. Each part is important to our daily walk and should be a part of our conversation with him.

If one of them were removed, I wouldn’t feel the satisfied as I was anymore because if adoration were to be removed I wouldn’t know the God who I am worshipping. They all are important to me because that is how I get closer to God.

I must admit, I really struggle with acrostics. Yes they are helpful, and yes they all need to be in my prayers, but giving me a simple 4 step prayer process is shooting me in the foot. It removes the natural adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication and turns it into box checking for me. I think it would be good for me to go back through from time to time in my prayer journals though to identify those four are there.

If adoration is removed – we lower God to our level.
If confession is removed – we open up the risk of pride in ourselves.
If we remove thanksgiving – we forget the good things we have.
If we remove supplication – we remove the opportunity for God to work in or direct our lives.

If adoration was removed I think all else would crumble. Because without seeing God for who he is, all else is meaningless.

We would be missing out on truly developing a rounded relationship with the Father. Each part of ACTS is vital to developing and strengthening our walk with Him.

We miss the entire relationship. It is just not a part missing. Just like in Making a cake, if you leave out sugar, you do not have a cake.

We could not fully pray in a way to encompass all that Jesus taught us to pray.

If we remove them, it’s going to be like a ship that has no fuel to propel it forward.

I believe ACTS keeps us focused on God and His will for our lives. He is worthy of our praise and adoration. All of these things go together as part of our worship, prayer and praise. They do not stand alone. Leaving one out makes prayer all about me and what I want, and not God’s will for my life.

If Adoration was taken out of the equation
1) We would not appreciate the character of God and we can not truly do the following things:
2) Accept Him as our Heavenly Father
2) Pray to Him effectively
4) Depend on Him to get us through the dark times in our lives
5) Believe on Christ as our Savior because without appreciating God’s character we could not understand how He loved us enough to give us His only begotten Son.
If Confession were taken out
1) We would be in sin
2) Our relationship with God would be damaged because of unrepented sin.
3) With unconfessed sins in our hearts we would not be in God’s presence.
Without Thanksgiving in the equation
1) We would be living in sin(Romans 1:21)
2) We would not be showing our appreciation of God’s grace.
43 We would not be showing our appreciation of God’s forgiveness.
Without Supplication
1) We would not be asking God for the things we need
2) Without asking God for the things we need we would be relying on ourselves instead of on Him.
3) We would miss out on blessings God wants to give us because we did not ask.

Without adoration, we would betray a lack of awareness of God’s worth that surpasses all others. Without confession of sin, the undertow of either guilt or hardness of heart and conscience would become a barrier to real communication and prayer. Without thanksgiving, our inner self would become presumptuous and reckless in taking lightly the greatness of God’s power and generosity. Without supplication, we would be subject to even more presumptuous in the form of expectations, thinking God will take care of us and others with no expressible reason for why we should ask Him for anything.

If Adoration is removed from my devotion then there’s no focus on who and why I am talking to God. If Confession is removed then my prayer life is a joke, I will just continue with what I am dong and neglecting God’s truth. If there’s no Thanksgiving then everything about my communication is a lie, I will be arrogant and proud. If there’s no supplication then I am telling God that I don’t need him. In reality all these are important.

Removing adoration would mean we are not acknowledging God and all the qualities and characteristics that make him sovereign. Removing confession would mean that we are not acknowledging our sin and need for his grace in our lives. Removing thanksgiving means not thanking him for the blessings he has provided. And removing supplication would eliminate our need to ask for his provisions.

However you slice it, taking away any of these takes away an opportunity to include God in our daily lives.

If the adoration was removed from the beginning of my prayer, I would not be acknowledging God for who he is, sovereign, all-knowing and always faithful. It would change the dynamic of my prayer to more of a guilt ridden prayer with the confession and then thanksgiving and supplication. Starting prayer with reverence of who God is sets the tone of the prayer.

I think each play an importantly unique role in our communion with God. To where the absence of one of these begins to distort and create deficiency in our intimacy with God. I know in my life, I have far too often removed one of these pieces in my prayer time with God, and I begin to neglect essential attributes of who God is. When I remove adoration, my prayers can quickly turn more transactional and selfish, focusing more on what I need to say and do to receive from God, rather than starting from a foundation of praising Him for simply who He is.

The Lord taught us how to pray in the Lord’s Prayer. God still hears us when one part is left out, but a complete experience has all four parts.

If we removed Adoration: We would lose sight of how blessed we are to have a Father in Heaven and Savior in this life and the next
Confession: We might downplay our sin
Thanksgiving: We might take God for granted in our hearts
Supplication: “We have not because we ask not”

Each one of these elements is important to the different ways we see and hear from God. We need to have adoration to our God, not JUST Confession, Thanksgiving and supplication. It takes all four of them to truly be well-rounded in our faith.

I am not sure that is possible, I think it would come through regardless.

If adoration were removed, we wouldn’t give credit to the One who holds everything together. We would dismiss His “God-ness” and prayer would become all about us. Without confessing, we would quickly forget our sinful nature and our need, daily, for a Savior. If there is no gratitude/thankfulness in prayer, we will forget the faithfulness of our Father in heaven and the many gifts we receive daily. And without supplication, we would probably lose hope that we serve a God who hears prayers, answers prayers, and invites prayer requests. If any one is removed, our prayers would not reflect true worship.

The ability to worship good not exist. To recognize the dignity and merit of something.

Leaving 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.

I 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.

If 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

I 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>

Removing 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.

Remove adoration and we remove an important aspect of worshipping God and reminding us of his character! Remove confession and we begin to take sin lightly. There is a priestly aspect of the work of Jesus taking our sin before the Father. Confession is our part of agreeing with Jesus of the seriousness of our sin and laying it before the Father. Remove thanksgiving and we allow pride to creep in. Thanksgiving reminds us how good God is and how He blesses us! Remove supplication and we may try to act in my own strength to get things done. Jesus WANTS us to ask.

Adoration is places our perspective in the right place for prayer. Adoration reminds us who our God is and that even if we don’t get the answer to our prayer when and how we ask, we can trust that He is God and is good. In adoration we remind ourselves that He alone is enough.

We’d be missing out on-each piece has it’s benefits and brings us closer to God and if we leave one of those out, we’d be missing out on that benefit to draw closer or to hear from God.

Each of these 4 sections of prayers is important because God specifically taught us how to pray this way. If we remove one, then we are not praying the way that we ought.

We would be selling our prayer time and our relationship short. All of these things are necessary for a healthy relationship.

Your devotional time wouldn’t be as fruitful or Christ centered

Without adoration our devo. would lack the awesome fear of God; His Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and His awesome personal provision.
He sees us and knows what’s best.

I think then we would focus to much on ourselves than God.

Just to add really Loved comment by Jon Rector as I believe it sums up everything perfectly

Remove adoration and we remove an important aspect of worshipping God and reminding us of his character! Remove confession and we begin to take sin lightly. There is a priestly aspect of the work of Jesus taking our sin before the Father. Confession is our part of agreeing with Jesus of the seriousness of our sin and laying it before the Father. Remove thanksgiving and we allow pride to creep in. Thanksgiving reminds us how good God is and how He blesses us! Remove supplication and we may try to act in my own strength to get things done. Jesus WANTS us to ask.

You would loss the depth and well roundedness that comes with a rich prayer life. Each letter adds a different angle to your prayers.

This acronym gives me focus and direction, an outline on how and what to pray in an order of importance. God first for who He is and me last, for He already knows my need.

Then it would be filled with myself and others, Filled with God and others and neglecting my sin, neglecting gratitude in light of all these things, consumed by myself and not thinking of others or needs

All of them carry with it a posture that I believe God wants us to have in prayer. One that is humble, wanting to learn, and have a Christ centered perspective on life. Willing to serve.

It would not be called a prayer buy just pure babble.

They are all beneficial to activate different aspects of our heart and connection with God. Removing a piece of it would limit your connection with God.

If we were to take the out of the devotions it would make our imagine of God incomplete and take away the complete and true meaning of our lord and savior

If we took the meaning and guideposts out of our prayer life then we would be of this world and the at is not where we are from. ACTS gives us a guidepost to pray

Each step has the potential of making us balanced in our walk and growing knowledge of the Lord. If I like to study, I may not see the value of worship. If I like to pray, I may not want to study the word or carry it with me throughout the day. In the absence of any point of the acrostic, there is a void where otherwise there would be areas informed by Christ. The acrostic is a scaffold that helps the building go up and stand.

Our fellowship with God will become skewed when each is removed from our devotions. E.g. if S is removed, we can default to self-sufficiency instead of being God dependent for our daily needs. Also, if A is removed, we’ll lack the needful and life invigorating aspect of worshiping God in truth and spirit.
If C is removed, we become self-righteous and non-admitting of our sinfulness of our human nature. Also, if T is removed, we become ungrateful, unthankful and thereby further estranged from God.

I think many people miss ACT and go straight to God with a Santa Claus supplication list. I have caught myself in that as well. The adoration and thanksgiving really help build gratefulness for our salvation.