Matt Smallbone: The Most Impactful Prayer Practice You’re Not Doing (But Should Be)

In this episode of Being Human with Steve Cuss, Steve welcomes fellow Australian Matt Smallbone, a Nashville pastor and author of The Prayer Experiment. Matt shares how he overcame personal struggles with prayer—including a period of spiritual distance following a miscarriage—by committing to pray the Lord's Prayer multiple times daily. He explains it as a framework for reorienting from reactivity to connection with God. The conversation also explores family-of-origin dynamics, including the assets and liabilities of growing up in a pastor's household.

Episode Resources:

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Matt Smallbone’s The Prayer Experiment: How Praying Like Jesus Realigns Everything - Our Thoughts, Our Hearts, and Our Posture Toward God and the World (amazon.com/dp/0310372739?lv=shuf&channelId…)

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Dallas Willard's Teaching on Prayer (soulshepherding.org/dallas-willard-on-the-powe…)

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Doctor Daniel Amen's Social Media Insights (amenclinics.com/blog/10-scary-ways-social-medi…)

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Church of the City: Downtown Nashville (cotc.com)

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The Lord’s Prayer: Matthew 6:9–13 (esv.org/verses/Matthew+6:9%E2%80%9313) (ESV)

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Jon Tyson’s sermon: Teach Us To Pray: Pray What You’ve Got (youtube.com/watch?v=LSXTplC_10A)

More From Matt Smallbone:

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Matt Smallbone’s website (mattsmallbone.com)

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Church of the City Downtown teaching podcast (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/church-of-the-ci…)

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