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Our minister, at St. John's United Methodist, taught us a couple of
prayer methods earlier this fall. They have been around for quite a
while, but I'd never heard of them before and was delighted! One is
ACTS, which stands for Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and
Supplication. The other method uses the fingers on your hand to remember
those you should pray for. I wanted to DO something with them. At first
I was thinking of a simple watercolor painting of a cross with ACTS on
each of the points of the cross, and a hand of course with the
explanation inside. Well, the whole idea just kind of sat in my head and
I couldn't draw the cross the way I wanted. Then I thought about how I
would reproduce them to share with others. I mentioned the fuzzy idea to
my friend Elaine, and she said, "why not use those pretty cross stamps
you have?" That's as far as I got until one day in the shower the idea
just came all in a rush
BAM! Every piece, how it could be
arranged and even the very old stamp containing an Irish blessing on it
came flooding in my mind. There is no doubt where this idea came from,
it was not me. I'd tried to work it out for weeks and got nothing. The
Holy Spirit presented me with this way of sharing it with others.
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made several in Card Ministry at Church last fall and gave them to our
three ministers to give out and use how ever they would like. Then I
made 32 more for all the ladies in my Bible Study. Several other people
have said they would like them as well. I keep mine in a pocket in my
Blessings Book, along with paper listing those who are on our prayer
lists in Sunday School and Bible Study. Below is one the cards we've
made. We made several color combinations, this is the one I have. You
could do something like this with many different stamps. The
descriptions for ACTS and the Hand prayer methods can easily be found on
the internet. If you'd like to make something like this, I have the
typed information and dimensions written out. When we make several at a
time, it's really easy if I have the measurements written down, cause we
get to talking and laughing and ... well you can imagine when a group
of friends get together to make things right?
Dimensions and stuff
Explanation of the hand and ACTS Illustrations - Inside of card
Explanation of ACTS
Scripture associated with ACTS - on card back
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