Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper

in their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it.

I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because

everyone is a theologian. Hi friends, welcome back to Verity Podcast. This is the

first of a short series on prayer that I'm going to be doing to finish out

this summer. I'm going to be doing an episode every week in August, and then a

little bit into September until we finish this quick mini-series on prayer and

then begin a new series on theology through the rest of the fall. So for this

mini-series we're going to actually focus on different types of prayer, and

we're going to start with the typical acts model of prayer. It's an acronym

A-C-T-S for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication, and those

four are what we will be focusing on in the month of August. This week we are

going to start by talking about adoration. What does it look like in prayer?

And these will be shorter episodes, so really quick to listen, and I hope very

quick to implement as well. When we think about prayer, as I discussed in our

previous episode, why pray if God is sovereign, we often default to a list of

requests. So we're praying what we want, what we need, what we're worried about, and

that's good and necessary. God wants to hear our desires. He wants to engage

with us, but prayer is more than a list of requests. And until we change our

mindset about prayer, we will only pray in this requesting model, and we'll

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