Simply Pray

Simply Pray: Training Believers to Pray Their World to Christ

Many Christians feel the weight of cultural darkness but are unsure how to pray specifically and consistently for the lost around them. Simply Pray is a practical, Scripture-saturated training booklet that helps believers understand their calling, embrace their responsibility, and develop a Spirit-empowered lifestyle of intercession for people in their everyday lives and in the public square.

What Simply Pray is

• A Church–Defender resource from FPIW that links personal evangelism, prevailing prayer, and cultural engagement under one simple aim: bringing our world to Christ.
• Built for use with companion slides in a discovery–discussion–teaching format, making it ideal for Sunday school classes, prayer gatherings, and evangelism cohorts.

Clarifying calling and responsibility

Simply Pray helps believers answer two core questions: “Is it my responsibility?” and “What is my calling?”

• Shows from Scripture that every Christian is called first to know Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:9), then to make Him known (Luke 19:10; Matthew 4:19), and to live as an ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20).
• Walks through 2 Corinthians 5:11–21 to highlight seven responsibilities: persuading others, being controlled by Christ’s love, no longer living for self, carrying the ministry and message of reconciliation, and serving as God’s mouthpiece to the lost.
• Challenges readers to accept real personal responsibility for others’ eternal welfare and to long, like Paul, to be “innocent of the blood of all people.”

Prayer-powered evangelism as a lifestyle

Instead of treating evangelism as a one-off event, Simply Pray frames it as a way of life fueled by prayer:

• Defines evangelism as joining with the Holy Spirit and others to help one person take one step closer to Jesus.
• Emphasizes that “evangelism is more of a way to live than an action to perform” and roots that lifestyle in Matthew 5:14–16’s call to shine as the light of the world.
• Teaches dependence on the Holy Spirit through Acts 1:8 and John 14–16, explaining how the Spirit empowers, teaches, convicts, guides into truth, and gives believers an advantage in witness.
• Offers a simple framework—confess, repent, yield, ask—for being filled with the Spirit (1 John 1:9; Psalm 51; Romans 6; Romans 12; Luke 11:9–13).

Practical tools for praying for the lost

The booklet is highly actionable, providing concrete steps and prompts:

• A starter prayer from 1 Timothy 2:1–4 to intercede for all people, including “kings and all who are in high positions,” asking God to save the lost.
• A “Prayer Assists You” spread showing how prayer fuels motivation, faith, courage, clarity, open doors, and impact, with references like 2 Corinthians 5:14–15, Ephesians 6:19, Colossians 4:3–4, and 1 John 5:14–15.
• A clear diagnosis of people apart from Christ—lost, blind, bound, condemned, under wrath, helpless, hopeless—anchored in Matthew 18, 2 Corinthians 4, Ephesians 2, John 3, and John 6.
• “Biblical Ways to Pray for Others” with ten specific requests (sanctify, send laborers, bless, convict, draw, protect, illuminate, save, unite, mature) and Scripture references for each.
• Space to write names of family members, coworkers, neighbors, and everyday contacts, turning vague concern into a focused prayer list.

Public square focus and heart posture

Simply Pray connects personal intercession to the broader cultural and civic arena:

• Highlights the varied people in the public square—workers, officials, the poor, marginalized, corporate leaders, educators, medical professionals, military, and more—under Christ’s lordship over every “inch” of creation.
• Stirs holy passion with examples like George Whitefield (“O Lord, give me souls or take my soul”) and John Knox (“Give me Scotland or I die”), then grounds that same burden in Romans 9:1–3 and Romans 10:1.
• Ends by asking “Who are you praying for right now? Who’s your one?” and quoting David Jeremiah and C. S. Lewis to remind the church that drawing people to Christ is not a side project but the church’s central mission.

Ideal audiences and uses

• Local churches seeking to move from generic prayer to focused, name-based intercession for the lost in their communities and the halls of power.
• Small groups and prayer teams who want a simple, biblically grounded guide for praying evangelistically together.
• FPIW Defenders and leaders who need a tool to help believers see how praying for the lost and for leaders in the public square undergirds efforts to defend and advance biblical values.

Simply Pray equips Christians not just to talk about evangelism, but to begin where Jesus calls them to begin—on their knees—so they can bring their world to Christ while supporting a broader movement of prayerful, courageous engagement in the public square.