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Why Praise is Critical to Our Prayer Life

By Jim Hall on February 5, 2010

In my early days of learning about prayer I heard people talk about the ACTS acronym for the stages of a prayer life: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. It made sense to me but for some reason I always wanted to skip the Adoration part and get on with the rest of the process! To [...]

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