1. How is this book different than most books on prayer?
Most books on prayer are about the theory of prayer. This book is different because you use it as you pray!

2. How do I use this book in prayer?
The book is arranged in four sections—Praise, Confession of sin, Praying for believers and Praying for the lost. Each of these has a number of sub-sections for a total of twenty-seven.
When you pick up the book to have a session of prayer, just turn to the first page of the Praise section and start to read the first verse/prayer set as a prayer to God. You will be hearing from God through His words, then responding in prayer back to Him.
Let these verse/prayers be a springboard for your own prayers! Take just one verse/prayer set from each subsection when you use the book to pray, marking where you end with a post it note on the side of the page. This way you’ll find your place the next time you come to prayer. Go through all twenty-seven subsections each time you pray.

3. How long will it take me to use the book in this way?
It takes only 15-20 minutes to use the book for a session of prayer! Yet you will have praised God, confessed your sins and interceded for other’s sins, prayed for believers and for yourself, and prayed for the lost. The book ends with maps of all the nations of the world. If you take one map per day, you will be able to pray for all the nations of the world in one week!

4. The title says that with this book I can “advance Christ’s Kingdom”. What does this mean?
Remember the Lord’s prayer? The first thing Jesus tells us to ask for is His Kingdom: “thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matt. 6:10) Christ’s Kingdom exists wherever His will is done! Jesus Christ came to establish a Kingdom on earth of those people who by His grace would desire and be able to obey His commands. His Kingdom exists in us individually when we trust in Him as Savior and Lord and begin to walk with Him in an obedience that is the fruit of faith and love, and in the Church as a whole as we walk together in that same faithful and loving obedience.
When we make His Kingdom the purpose of our lives and live to please Him, the Scripture promises us that we can ask God in prayer to accomplish His Kingdom purposes and He will do it!
a. He will hear you, and you will receive what you ask, when you ask anything according to His will. (1 John 5:14-15)
b. You will receive anything you ask for if you obey His commands and do what pleases Him (1Jn 3:21-22)Through prayer, therefore, the righteous Christian is able to partner with God in advancing His Kingdom.

5. The word “obedience” makes me think of legalism. How is this different than being under the principle of the law?
Jesus said, “If you love me, you will obey what I command…Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me…If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching…” (John 14:15, 21, 23) The gift of saving faith, of salvation, changes our hearts so that we love God and through the gift of the Holy Spirit we are enabled to live a life of love for God that results in obedience to His commands. In fact, it is only those who live according to the Spirit who are able to fully meet the righteous requirements of the law. (Rom. 8:4)
Prayer, therefore, is essential to receiving the life of Christ through the ministry of the Holy Spirit! Through prayer, we ask God to enable us to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that we can live a life of loving obedience to Jesus Christ.

6. How will using this book change the way I pray?
Most of us come to prayer when we are burdened for ourselves. This book causes you to forget about yourself, to turn to God, to magnify Him, and to pray for His plans, purposes, and will.
It is a vehicle for you to obey Christ’s command to “seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness” (Matt. 6:33). It is a means of grace whereby you will center your prayers on the purpose of your life: to fulfill the Great Commission by partnering with God in bringing about an obedience of faith to all those who love God and are called according to His purposes. (Matt. 28:18-20)

7. This sounds like THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE by Rick Warren which so many churches are using to promote true discipleship.
It is for prayer what Rick’s book is for discipleship! This book will enable you develop a “purpose-driven” prayer life whereby you learn to pray systematically and comprehensively for the advancement of God’s Kingdom. The focus of your prayers will shift from yourself to God, from your needs to His will, from your glory to His glory, from the narrow circle of your family and friends to His Church and the world He wants to impact with the gospel. This book will take your prayers from paltry to panoramic!

8. How will praying the Scriptures affect my life?
The Word of God: sets us apart from sin (John 17:17), is living and active, penetrates to dividing the soul and the spirit, and judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart (Heb. 4:12), is God-breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16), will never pass away (Matt. 24:35), never returns empty (Isa. 55:11), and is authored by the Holy Spirit (2 Pe.1:21).
In addition, the Scriptures reveal to us the God to whom we are praying and how He inspires and answers prayer as well as His will, purposes, and plans and how prayer accomplishes both.
The Scriptures also reveal God’s commands, conditions, and promises concerning prayer. John 15:7 specifically connects Christ’s words remaining in us with answered prayer. And Romans 10:17 tells us that the very faith that is necessary for answered prayer comes from the Word!
As mentioned above, the Word of God sanctifies us—sets us apart from sin—so that we are enabled to meet yet another condition of answered prayer, righteousness (John 9:34).
Finally, the Word of God is the weapon by which we fight the forces of darkness who are our real enemy (Eph. 6:17).

9. How else will using this book affect my life?
You will be brought closer to the Lord Jesus Christ as your mind is renewed through Scriptural prayers by His Word and as you become His prayer partner in praying for the Church and for the lost. Your guilt, due to lack of prayer, will end as you accept God’s invitation, given to each and every Christian, to join with Him in obeying His commands, claiming His promises and meeting His conditions for answered prayer.
You will develop confidence in prayer and your faith will grow as your prayers are answered. You will be enabled to pray faithfully for yourself, your loved ones, other believers, your church, the lost, our nation, and all the nations of the world. You will discover that, although you may never become a missionary to another nation, that you are a missionary in prayer for the whole world.

10. How could using this book affect the moment I stand before the Lord when He will reward me for what I did during my life?
There is no greater ministry than prayer! There is no greater means than prayer to impact this world for Christ! You may speak to a thousand people in your lifetime but you can pray for millions.
Don't you want to stand before our precious Lord one day and hear Him say, “Turn around. See what your prayers accomplished! Well done my good and faithful servant!” And behind you will be thousands and thousands of people, perhaps millions, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, who are in the Kingdom of God because you prayed!