Colossians 4:2–6. Paul comes with a very simple plan for believers to begin to engage in evangelism. The plan is summarized very simply like this: “Let us pray to God and pursue him in order that we could make the best use of our time with unbelievers.” Paul wants us to pray to God and he wants us to pursue God so that when we have opportunities with non-believers, we make the best use of that time. We don’t have to be professionals. God doesn’t need you to feel like you have the perfect plan for evangelism. He simply wants you to be reliant. 

Luke 11:1-13. Jesus has much to teach us about prayer in these verses. In particular, Jesus wants us to pray to the Father as his blood bought children. Jesus arrives at that take away by providing us with a model for prayer in verses 1 to 4. He also motivates us to pray in verses 5 to 8 and 11 to 13. And third, sandwiched between Jesus’s motivations for prayer, he mandates that we pray in verses 9 and 10.