If the Christian community is in agreement on anything, it agrees that petitions are best kept for last. The best known acronym for prayer is ACTS: adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication. It is devised to restrain us from making prayer a laundry list of requests. Throughout church history wise men and women have preached that prayer is more than petitions, and no doubt wise people will continue to preach it because we are so slow to learn.
