Prayer is seldom easy, and sometimes we need guidance to get started. My goal in this article is to give you a simple strategy to pray next week, beginning this coming Sunday. You might pray this way individually, or you might invite your small group or entire congregation to join you in this approach.  The entire process is built on the ACTS prayer paradigm, a paradigm I learned decades ago when I needed help focusing my praying. At the time, this process was revolutionary