Prayer is one of the ways we communicate with God. While it might seem like we talk and God just listens, Presbyterians do believe God answers prayer… sometimes it’s just not in the way we want or expect.
When we communicate with God, we offer God everything that’s happening in our lives. We offer God adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication (a fancy way of saying we ask God for things, not selfishly, but because we feel they are what we or someone else needs in that moment).
The Bible actually commands us to pray, but for some of us it can be hard. We don’t know what to pray for or even how to pray. That’s where adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication come in.  Take the first letter of each word and you get “ACTS.” It’s a corny, but simple way of remembering how to pray and what to pray for.