Remembering to pray is one thing, but actually knowing what to say is another. Having help in terms of structuring prayer can be useful too. The most obvious structure is the Lord’s Prayer. Another less well known one is “ACTS” (not the book of the Bible). It is a useful little tool to remember how our prayer should be structured, and the order of importance we should attach to different parts of prayer:

Adoration (recognising God),
Confession (recognising ourselves in relation to our God),
Thanksgiving (thanking God),
Supplication (asking God).

Anything like this which helps us to remember to make prayer our first resort and not our last can help us grow as we wait for the kingdom of God. As with most things, the more we practise the better we shall get.

Edward Carr, First or Last? in Faith Alive! Oct. 2009