Lately, we've been trying to pray using the ACTS model: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. For example:Adoration
Me: "Can you think of something about God that is good or great? Something you can praise him for?"
Mcclellan: "Um. Thank you God for making such a great creation."
Confession
Me: "How about, can you think of a way to confess your sins? To tell God you're sorry for the bad things you've done today?
Mcclellan: "Dear God, please will you forgive me for the bad things I did? I'm sorry."
Thanksgiving
Me: Can you think of something to thank God for?
Mcclellan: Thank you God for creating everything." (We've been doing the creation stories from the Bible in Sunday School, lately.)
Supplication
Me: "Is there anything you want to pray for? Like a way for God to help you or give you something you need?"
Mcclellan: I think God has a blue boat, with two people on it and it has cars that go on it.
Me: Well, okay, but can you think of anything you want to ask God for?
Mcclellan: Dear God, can I have pizza?
Me: How about we ask God for good food tomorrow? Dear God, bless us with good food and water for our bodies tomorrow.
Mcclellan: And I have a good prayer I want to thank God for! Thank you, God, for refrigerators.
At this point, I told him yes, he could thank God and pray for things all night long if he wanted to. I sat in his chair as he continued. "Thank you God for toy tractors...and for pizza....and for..." And it was at this point that I left him to fall asleep talking to the Lord.
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