Matt Potter from Pray.com | Revealing the Power of Prayer

In this inspiring episode of Behind the Mike: Conversations of Hope, join us as we listen to the inspiring journey of Matt Potter, one of the visionaries behind Pray.com. Discover the captivating story behind Matt's personal life as a real estate app creator and how it ultimately led to the birth of Pray.com, a platform dedicated to fostering a life focused on prayer and transforming lives through Jesus Christ.

Through heartfelt discussions, Matt recounts the powerful impact Pray.com has had on countless individuals, sharing stories of lives transformed and saved through the power of prayer. Prepare to be moved as he shares real-life testimonials that demonstrate the profound difference faith and prayer can make.

But that's not all! As a special treat for our dedicated listeners and viewers, Matt extends a generous offer exclusive to Behind the Mike: Conversations of Hope. Tune in to uncover this exciting opportunity and discover how Pray.com can enrich your spiritual journey.

Join us for an episode filled with profound insights, inspiring stories, and a unique chance to experience the transformative power of Pray.com. Don't miss this captivating conversation that will leave you with a renewed sense of hope and connection.
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Transcript

Mike Stone: 0:14

Hey. Alright, thank you for joining us again. Today I'm really excited to have. We have Matt Potter, who is the co-founder of pray.com, the world's number one app for daily prayer and faith based content. Matt, thanks so much for joining us today.

Matt Potter: 0:30

Mike. Thanks so much for having me on. I really appreciate it honored and blessed to be here.

Mike Stone: 0:35

Yeah. Now, we already talked about your background there. I love it. It is a real background. You said, not a digital.

Matt Potter: 0:44

Totally, you can reach out and touch it. So it's

Mike Stone: 0:46

there you go. Just if you're wondering. It really does. It looks picture. Perfect. I love that. So I guess I want to start off with just saying talk to us a little bit about pray.com. You were a co founder of this amazing app that I know I use and probably so many of our listeners do. Tell us how that really briefly how that came about.

Unknown: 1:09

Yeah. So I'll take you all the way back to 1986. 15 year old girl walked into a local community church that she'd never been to before to talk to the local community church pastor about the biggest decision she was going to make in her life up to that point. And that's because she was 15. And she was pregnant, and she didn't know what to do. So she went to this church She'd never been to before to talk to the pastor. And the pastor being a new pastor who just kind of got out of seminary. He didn't necessarily have the words of what to tell this 15 year old girl. So he did what everybody does. He found a friend called his buddy, who he went to seminary with, who planted a 20 person church in a high school gym, in Los Angeles, California. And he just asked his buddy said, Hey, this girl walked into my church. I don't know her parents. I've never met her before. She's 15 She's pregnant. What should I tell her? What, you know, what would you tell her? And the pastor in Los Angeles said, You know what, providentially I just met with this incredible Christian couple. They've been trying to have children for 10 years, and they couldn't. Why don't you ask the girl if she'd be willing to give her baby up for adoption? And so I got adopted through this pastor network of these two pastors that were friends. I was the baby that the 15 year old girl was carrying. And yeah, it's just incredible. And my dad, because he's an amazing guy, my adopted dad became the head elder of this 20 person church meeting in a high school gym. And he just grabbed the pastor and said, you know, you got me, my son, I'm going to help you grow this church. And so my dad ended up becoming the head elder of the church, and they grow the church to a 15,000 person, mega church here in Los Angeles of all places. And it's known as one of the most diverse churches in America. And Mike, after my parents adopted me two years later, they had my brother, even though they were told that they couldn't have children. And it's a very common thing. So I have a brother, he's two years younger than me. And, you know, he, he's not adopted, and he was birthed naturally. And we get along great. We're best friends. I love him to death. And so yeah, I grew up in church, grew up with my pastor being like a second dad, to me, and his daughter, being my best friend ended up going to Boise State University. Got to watch my brother play football there. It was super fun. And I got to my senior year, Mike, and I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. And you know, I prayed about it. And I was just thinking it through and decided I wanted to start my own company. And I, I knew a lot about real estate because my dad owned a real estate company. And I, you know, there's pictures of me in a briefcase, going to work at like, seven years old with my dad, just go into the real estate office. And you know, I worked in every part of my dad's company, I delivered mail, you know, everything you can think of so worked in escrow title, all that stuff. And my senior year, I just saw this opening when Steve Jobs announced the app store and I said, You know what real estate companies are going to want their own applications in the App Store. So I taught myself how to code and started working with apps and Xcode and all that good stuff. And it was super fun. And yeah, my senior year the company started taking off. I built it really quickly. And I dropped out of college to credit hours short, and built that company over 11 years over a decade and we built over 7,000 was an apps in the App Store for all the major real estate companies in the United States. So we built apps for Coldwell Banker for Century 21 For Keller Williams and Sotheby's and all these amazing companies, Pinnacle State Properties, which was my dad's company, we eventually started building apps for them, like, three years in and, yeah, so I reached, I reached this really interesting point in my life, Mike, and it was a point in time where, you know, we bootstrapped this company. So it's working 100 hour weeks sleeping on friends, couches, doing whatever it took to make sure that it was successful over that 11-year period. And, you know, reaching though that 11 years, I was, you know, I found myself in this spot where I really didn't need to work if I didn't want to anymore. And I was coming to work every day feeling like I had lost my purpose, feeling like, I was optimizing for revenue, feeling like I was maybe a little bit burnt out, and, but everything was going great customers were happy company was growing. And, you know, I just felt that tug on my heart from God. And I decided, You know what, I'm going to call my pastor's daughter, I'm gonna call my best friend and say, Hey, what does the church need? How can I help? How can I give back? And I did that. And you know, my pastor's daughter had some amazing ideas. And we're our churches opening a new campus. And she asked me to open that new campus with her. And I said, You know what, let me pray about it. I'm a tech entrepreneur. And I'm an introvert Mike, believe it or not, I forced myself to do stuff like this. So I'm an introvert, and an entrepreneur, tech entrepreneurs. So it's like, I don't know about opening new church campuses or anything like that. So I just said, You know what, I'm going to pray about this. And I'll call you tomorrow. Okay? And I don't know why I was weirdly confident that I would pray about it that night and have an answer tomorrow. But I just said, you know, let me pray about it. And the next day, I was at a coffee shop at 3pm, getting my second cup of coffee for the day. And my friend walked through the door. And he looked terrible, Mike, he just looked like he was going through some stuff. You know, and I asked him how he was doing. And normally this friend would say, live in the dream. And that day, he didn't say live in the dream. He said something like, not good. And I just said, You know what, sit down, let's grab a cup of coffee. And my buddy Steve told me a story that made me step down as CEO of my company the next day, and join up with him to build pray.com. And that's how I got to pray.com. And I'd be more than happy to tell you, Steve story two, if you'd like and tell you what that story was told me that day.

Mike Stone: 8:07

Yeah, you've got me captivated because you started right off with something that is near and dear to my heart, Matt, and that is adoption. My wife and I went through 15 years of infertility. We decided to go the international adoption route because our domestic adoption fell through. And then it was just before we left to go to China that we found out we were pregnant. So I now have I now have college age, college age daughter and a college age, son. That's awesome. And I've so I've experienced that whole gamut of adoption and actually worked almost 20 or 18 years in adoption ministry. So my heart My heart is right there with what your story started, as. I believe God does amazing things through adoption.

Matt Potter: 8:55

I mean to I believe that, yeah, fully.

Mike Stone: 8:59

Yeah. And in the tech side, and the introvert side, I'm right there with you. Who would think I would have a podcast as an introvert, but God called me to it and I don't think I do a great job. But he's using it. And I'm so I'm there. And so I would love to hear Steve story because I love pray.com. Yeah. And I would love to hear what caused you in that moment to make a decision to drop what was a very lucrative potential future for you to start a company that actually number one app for this type of topic on. It's amazing. So yeah,

Matt Potter: 9:42

Well, you know, Mike, we have an incredible team of people. We have amazing people that could work anywhere at any company. I mean, we've got people that have worked at Apple and Facebook at all, every company you can think of and they could make, you know decisions to work at any of those companies, but They are so mission-aligned, they believe in what we're doing. They believe in the people, we're helping so much that they work at pray.com. And it's really incredible. We have world-class engineers, we have world-class designers, that, you know, we want to build something of excellence and of high quality. You know, we really feel this weight of stewardship on ourselves for the domain pray.com. You know, we want to we want to get to heaven one day, and here good and faithful servant, hopefully. So that's, that's the way that we the lens that we look at everything at and so I'll tell I'll tell you, Steve story. It's really remarkable. Steve grew up to a single Jewish mom on welfare. He didn't really go grow up going to church, his grandma would drag him to Catholic church on Easter and Christmas. And but yeah, he grew up playing football. And he was pretty good at it. He was online. We actually Steve and I played on rival high school football teams, Steve was a lot better than me. He actually ended up going to the Air Force Academy. And he went to the Air Force Academy because he got selected in high school to go to Washington, DC and get pitched by a bunch of three letter agencies on all the new technology that was coming out. And one of the things that they had was something that looked like Google Earth, where they zoomed in on a country, they zoomed in on a city. Then they zoomed in on like a park bench in the city, and then the newspaper. And you could read the words in the newspaper, and Steve just told the guy, Hey, how do I work on stuff like this? This satellites? This seems super fun. And he said, You got to go to the Air Force Academy. So Steve went to the Air Force Academy, he was playing football there and he got severely injured in a training accident. So not football practice, but training. And, you know, unfortunately, because of that, the Air Force isn't looking to keep broken merchandise around and they honorably discharged. Steve. And so, you know, after Steve got that honorable discharged, he's a glutton for punishment, you know. So he actually took a couple months off, healed up and walked on to USC football team, and he earned a position on the team ended up winning a Rose Bowl under Coach Pete Carroll. And when football was was coming to an end, Steve's grand plans were going into the NFL, but he actually ended up with two reconstructive shoulders reconstructed shoulders, and so he decided to get his MBA USC and, you know, as a last class for his MBA, they had to make a company and the prompt for the company was think of a company that couldn't exist five years ago, but would exist five years from now. So Steve told the teacher I'm going to build all the professional online YouTube channels for Fortune 500 companies and the teacher responded with what's YouTube Wow, yeah, to give you an idea of the time and that's exactly what Steve did. He built out online YouTube channels for Redbull, Marriott Hotels, Herbalife, Coldwell Banker, and and the LA Dodgers and a bunch of other incredible companies. He was, you know, living the dream throwing DJ Steve Aoki out of an airplane drinking a Red Bull on the way down. And it was really cool. So Steve had the had the fortune of selling his company, and becoming the 29 year old CEO, and youngest person in this 100 and $50 million a year aerial production and surveillance company. So they had about 30, aircraft, helicopters, planes and jets, with all these fancy camera systems that they had FAA clearances, patents and licenses to strap them to aircraft, which is a big deal like goodness. So anytime you put something on a on an aircraft, you have to get all these permissions and all these things checked off to make sure it's not going to mess with the flight of the craft, right. So it was really cool. Steve was Steve was living the dream again. He was making movies you know, like filming transformers with Michael Bay from helicopters and they would work for the CIA and the FBI doing missions because piping video in to Michael Bay or piping video in to the FBI, it's the same thing. And so they would, they would make movies they would go on missions for three letter agencies. And then as a way to get back to the community Mike, they would actually transport organs and people hospital the hospital so You know, that's the way that they would give back to the community. So when you talk about living the dream, Steve was making movies catching bad guys and saving people's lives. It really doesn't get any better than that. It was incredible. Thank

Mike Stone: 15:12

goodness. Yeah. Well, that's amazing.

Matt Potter: 15:16

Unfortunately. Steve experienced a tragedy in his life. And this is the story that he told me at a coffee shop at the coffee shop. And, you know, they were filming a movie in the jungles of Colombia. It was called American made with Tom Cruise. And Tom Cruise likes to do all his own stunts. And they fly. They were flying planes around all day. And Steve's business partner was down there in the jungle. And he's like the Michael Jordan, of helicopters and airplanes, like the first guy to barrel roll, a helicopter flip a helicopter, all sorts of crazy stuff. If you ever saw the movie Italian Job. And you see the helicopter fly into the tunnel. That wasn't CGI. They actually flew a helicopter in a tunnel, and it was him. And there's a whole bunch of aerodynamic reasons why you don't fly a helicopter in a tunnel. And he was able to do it, and they got the shot. And it was incredible. Well, they're in the jungles of Colombia. And they're just taking one of the planes back in a routine trip. And Steve's business partner is in the backseat sleeping, because he was flying around all day, and one of the other pilots was taking the plane back to the hangar. And they crashed in the middle of the jungle and Steve's business partner died. And Steve's, the 29 year old CEO of this company with over 100 employees, and they're in a senior leadership meeting, when he gets the phone call, and it was Steve, your business partners dead. And he had to go walk back into this boardroom with the senior leadership team. And he didn't he didn't know what to do. He just said a little prayer. And he didn't grow up with any faith. Like he didn't grow up religious. He said a little prayer God helped me deal with this helped me through this. And Mike, it's their company, it's a 24 hour operation. If they shut things down, people die because they can't go get their heart transplant. Or they're in a car accident on the freeway, and they're bleeding out and they can't get to the hospital fast enough. And you know, the number one reason that helicopters and planes like crash, it's distracted pilots. So what do you do? Do you shut it down? Do you stop people die? Or do you keep going and pirates are distracted and people die? What do you do? So Steve didn't know what to do. But he said a prayer. And he ended up getting through it. But the next few months at work, were really tough. Steve was the youngest guy in the company. And he didn't know what to do. So Mike, he was doing all the hippy woowoo California stuff that we do. He was going to green juice SoulCycle listening to Oprah Super Soul Sunday and Tony Robbins to try to make himself feel better, right? And we know that those things are good, but they don't necessarily work in the long run. Right? And so Steve was coming to work, former Navy SEAL pulls him aside who works at the company, and said, Steve, I've dealt with leadership under duress when people have lost their lives. What are you doing to help yourself right now? And Steve didn't know what to say. So the Navy SEAL said, You need to listen to this audio sermon from my pastor. It's going to change your life. And Steve did and it transformed his life and he became a Christian. And Mike, he was mad about it. Why was he mad about it? Because he was the content movie guy. And he didn't know about Christian content. He didn't know about any of this. He was upset. So he's, he said, why? We've got the ESPN for sports, the worldwide destination for sports. You got football, baseball, cricket, whatever you want on ESPN worldwide destination for sports. And you don't have a worldwide destination for Christian people with Christian content on it. Why not? And that's what Steve told me at the coffee shop. My business partner died. I want to help people. There's no digital destination for Christians online. Matt, we we helped me I said, Steve, I'll help you. I'll do whatever you need. I'll work for free whatever you want. I believe in this. And Steve, by the way, you don't know what this means yet. But this is providence. This. I know, when we just had this conversation, I talked to my pastor's daughter last night. This is God's plan for my life. I'll help you whatever you need. And the next day, Steve called me up and said, Hey, let's start it up. Let's do it. I want you to help me start the company. I said, Let's do it. And so I met up with our two other co founders, Michael and and Ryan back and they have incredible stories. They're amazing people. Mike was managing like, you know, three quarters of a billion dollars at Merrill Lynch, just an amazing guy. And we got him on the team to be our CFO Ryan was a former gangbanger, who was the largest crystal meth dealer in our area, went to jail, couldn't get a job after jail, Mike and he went to a church and a pastor gave him a jail gave him a job as a janitor. Wow. And then the church, the church gave him a scholarship, and he got his computer science degree. And he started working for nonprofits learning how to code back end and front end. And Ryan and Steve went to middle school together. And when Steve talked to me, it was a week before that he met Ryan randomly at a burrito shop here in our hometown. And the last time he ran into Ryan, Mike Ryan was working on being America's Most Wanted, and Steve was working on being all American. And heat the last time he saw Ryan, he was getting hauled off in a cop car. And Ryan was just like, Steve, you don't know what the last 10 years of my life have been. I got out of jail, I went to church and I got a job. And now I'm working for nonprofits, you know, Christian nonprofits coding. And so Ryan's our CTO.

Mike Stone: 21:50

I love it. So we love

Matt Potter: 21:52

Steve at the coffee shop. And we go up to Silicon Valley, and we raise over $35 million to start pray.com Because a bunch of incredible visionary investors that are absolutely amazing. Believe that there was no world class technology built for Christian people. And it's 2.5 billion people on planet Earth. Yeah. So that kind of fast forward to today, we've had over 15 million downloads of the app, a billion listening minutes of content on the app that I've just that had been helping people, and over 109 million shares of content on other platforms outside of pray.com. And we don't know, when someone shares it on Facebook or, you know, WhatsApp or email, if that gets forwarded on we know it does, but we just can't count it. So it's pretty cool. So that's how we started pray.com Mike.

Mike Stone: 22:53

Sounds like God had a plan there for each of you. Isn't that amazing? I love how he works. I love how he works. And when you can see it, we don't always see that. But he brought the right people at the right time, the precise right time for those meetings to happen. That's right, in the midst of those situations, and he pulled it all together. And we just had an episode where we talked a little bit about God's providence, and how had none of you, or even one of you not stepped out in faith, we might not be seen pray.com behind you right now. And I think that's a really important point to talk to our audience about is just the, the, the call on their life, no matter where you're at, what you're doing. God has has a call on our lives, to be a part of what he's doing in our world. And I love that story for many reasons, but but one of the big ones is that it took all of you to fulfill that plan of prey.com and bring all those pieces together so intricately, and such perfect timing. So I want to encourage those of you out there that are looking for that calling right now in your life just be obedient and an open and willing to sacrifice everything for God's calling your life. What a great story.

Matt Potter: 24:21

Yeah, when God when God and and I didn't know this, you know, hindsight is always 20/20 Right? But when God gives you the opportunity to merge your passion with your skill, you just got to jump out both feet. And you know, have we not done that? It's, it's, it's wild to think about had we not done that. There's people who wouldn't be alive today. When we started pray.com I thought Mike, we would help people reconnect with their faith. I thought we would help people in their personal relationship with Jesus Christ. So I thought we would help people learn the Bible more in a fun and entertaining way. I never thought Mike, we would save people's lives. And really, it's not us. It's God, we're just the conduit. But I never thought an app would save people's lives. And we get emails all the time. We just got an email from an Ohio State Police officer. He said, I've been planning it for months, I went home, I stuck my gun in my mouth with every intention to kill myself. And a friend of his shared a piece of content on the app with him in that moment. If that's not God, I don't know what is a man he sent us a he sent us an email and just said, Thank you for saving my life. Wow. In our form, that content was from a pastor who provides content to our app. And you know, when you look back, and when you look back on the stories, when you look back on on how we started it, you it doesn't fit together if you take God out of it. So it really it was God willed. And yeah, it was providential. And I truly believe that.

Mike Stone: 26:25

Wow. You know, I just want to say from the outside looking in to the story, and and what you're telling us pray.com sometimes can be overlooked as just another app, you know, maybe somebody out there making money, great opportunity to be seized. Hearing the story of how this started, though, you were giving up a ton of money. So with Steve, to do something that really centered on what the only thing that matters in this life, that will help us in eternity. I love that. I really love that. And I think for me, I'm just so passionate about no matter who you are, where you're at God has a plan for you don't negate that. Don't feel like you're not good enough. Just such an encouraging story, we could stop right here. And I think that would be good. But you have additional personal stuff that we can talk about that I would love to in the time we have left. You know, I love your adoption story, we could probably get into that pretty deeply. But just even hearing that surface of how your life started through a miracle through a mother saying, I'm not going to end this life. But I'm going to give this child the gift of life. And and then the family that stepped in because God again providentially had that all planned out. And And thankfully, that's right. All the parties, were willing to take that step of faith and do the right thing. So that's right. Really great. You guys are dealing with some? Well, we all are dealing with coming out of this pandemic. Lots of repercussions of that. A lot of anger in our society, a lot of stress. A lot of things like teen suicide we read about seems like every day shootings, crazy stuff going on in our world. You guys are focused in on that as well. Through pray.com. Again, just like you said the Ohio State patrolman who wanted to end his life, and God providentially entered in through prayer.com. How are you guys dealing with that right now? Because I know you guys have got some. I don't want to call them initiatives. But you really you're aware of the situation happening in a world particularly with young people right now?

Matt Potter: 28:55

Yeah, my co founder, Mike coined the term"the hidden pandemic". And it reared its ugly head during the pandemic, but really after as well. And it's the mental health crisis in America. The suicide rate in the United States has exponentially been going up since about 2005. And it's it's really it's terrible. It's affecting everybody. Doesn't matter how wealthy you are doesn't matter how healthy you are. It doesn't matter where you went to school. It doesn't matter where you're from. It's it's really affecting everybody. And you know, we've got some incredible mental health content in pray.com. That helps with anxiety. It helps with depression, it helps with loneliness and hopelessness. And we also have amazing pastors that are in prayer.com that talk to a lot of these topics as well and have incredible sermons for that as well. And it's it's something, Mike that we're we're partnering with institutions, we've partnered with Harvard, and Biola and Berkeley, to focus on the science of how prayer affects your brain. And what it does. And really, it's, it's amazing that there is an efficacy of prayer prayer increases the gray matter density in your brain. It allows you to give your problems up to God, instead of meditating on your problems, and focusing on them internally, which hurts more overtime, right? And so when you're able to take those problems and pray about it, and know that God is bigger than any problem that you would face in your life, it it changes your brain at the same time. And God created us. So he already knew that going in, which is awesome. That's right. Yeah. And now you can we can prove it. It's amazing. It's really cool. Some of the things that we're working on. And you know, we we really want to make a dent in the universe when it comes to mental health and spiritual health, which, which we believe are interconnected. So

Mike Stone: 31:21

yeah, they're definitely not exclusive. You know, we we see so many people chasing so many different things. Now, after the pandemic, I think that it allowed us to look introspectively because we couldn't go anywhere, it couldn't really do anything, to kind of really focus on our lives and like, what am I doing? What's my purpose here? And I think when you come out of that, it's almost depressing if you don't have your eyes focused on Jesus Christ. Because it's wrong

Matt Potter: 31:52

in like pandemic, the pandemic really put put, like you said, people were very introspective. And it really put gas on a lot of things. If you had a problem if you had a problem in your marriage, and you're going to work every day and and you go into work all day, and then you don't deal with the problem and don't deal with the problem and don't deal with the problem. And then the pandemic hits, and you're at home with your spouse, 24/7.

Mike Stone: 32:17

That's gas. It's, yeah, yeah.

Matt Potter: 32:21

It's bad. Now you got to deal with a problem. And you don't know how, and you haven't been praying about it. You haven't been seeking help for it. So tough. And so we want tonight

Mike Stone: 32:31

those people. Yeah. And I think I think we came to that point, like Solomon, where it's all for nothing. It's all vanity. You know, if you don't know the Lord, what is my purpose, there is no purpose. There is hopelessness, when you look at life that way, and, and that's what my podcast is all about is just hope, there is hope. I don't care where you're at what you've done. There's hope. And Jesus Christ, we've had lots of people on the show, that have been really hopeless situations. And God reached down and grabbed them, because he loves each and every one of us, no matter how filthy the world may tell us that we are, no matter what we tell ourselves that we are. And so I'm grateful for pre.com For just the great content that you guys offer. And if you're not on pre.com, I highly recommend trying it because I'll tell you what, there's such great content. We don't need the world saying meditation, we don't need all the stuff that the world offers, which is really vanity. You know, we know that alcohol, sex outside of marriage, pornography, all the things that the world's throwing at us saying this will numb you. It's not going to help you. So go to pray.com and check out exactly

Matt Potter: 34:01

Synthetic. Alcohol synthetically numbing your problems, you know, the only thing that can fill that void is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. And, Mike, for anybody listening to your podcast right now or watching. I'd like you know, part of the app part of the pray.com app is free. And part of the way we keep the lights on pay the bills and have our incredible engineers is there's Pam content too. But if you're listening to this podcast right now, we want to give you the entire app for free. It's not you don't have to enter in a credit card. All you got to do is put your email in and you'll get the entire app for free. And so if you go to on Safari, Chrome, whatever your web browser is, if you go to pray.com forward slash Matt, M-A-T-T pray.com. Forward slash Matt M-A-T-T, you'll get the entire app for free. Just put The email in the entire app for free.

Mike Stone: 35:03

Wow, thank you!

Matt Potter: 35:04

we just want to bless people and help people that are listening to your podcast like,

Mike Stone: 35:10

that is such a great blessing. There's no reason not to do it now. The free content is great if you can tap into, to Matt's free offer there, my goodness. Again, it could be a lifesaver for you. And for those who don't know.

Matt Potter: 35:29

It is we've got amazing. We hired a 61 piece orchestra mic, we hired former Disney voice actors and actresses. We've done we've done an incredible Bible that helps you fall asleep at night, where it's this cinematic audio experience, you hear your favorite Bible stories come to life. We've got our biblical sagas version, which is just, I mean, it's absolutely incredible. You hear all the sound effects, it's, it is this dramatized version of the Bible that is really amazing. And then we also did a kid's version as well, that helps kids learn the Bible and be entertained at the same time. And during COVID Mike, we actually gave that kid's content away for free for parents who were stuck at home with their kids all day, and didn't know what to play for them. And there's not a lot of content out there that's safe, you know, for kids and helps them learn the Bible. So we wanted to do that. So that's some of the stuff that you're gonna get when you download pray.com. And when you get that free subscription as well. And then we've got amazing pastors Mike, Jack Graham out of Dallas, Texas, Tony Evans out of Dallas, Texas, Dr. Ed Young, out of Houston, Andrew Farley, who's an up and comer just doing incredible things. They have amazing sermons, amazing content that is helping people all over the world. And that's just to name a few. I mean, we've got loads of pastors that are making amazing content for people amazing stuff. That's literally it's helping people. It's helping people's eternities. It's saving people's lives.

Mike Stone: 37:14

That's right. Listen, the old saying garbage in garbage out is really true. So fill your mind with good stuff. The world is hard enough to live in, find that solace and find that positivity through prayer.com, because there's great, there's really great stuff there. You want to listen to sermons. I mean, just check it out, check it out. We'll put the URL for the free subscription on there on the screen. And please go check that out. It's what a great opportunity. Thank you, Matt, for that.

Matt Potter: 37:51

Thanks, Mike else,

Mike Stone: 37:52

what else would you like to share with us in our final minutes here, I've really enjoyed the conversation. So so so great of you to is to allow us to, to tap into that free resource. And the story is just so encouraging. Is there anything else you want to, to finish wrap it up with?

Matt Potter: 38:12

Mike, can I just say a little prayer for everyone that's listening? Is that absolutely.

Mike Stone: 38:16

Yes, please do.

Matt Potter: 38:18

All right. Thank you, Jesus, we love you. We praise you as the Alpha and Omega, the beginning. In the end, I pray for all the people that are listening to this podcast, that they find purpose they find hope. I pray for all the people that are dealing with issues in their relationships. I pray for all the people that have a family member friend or they themselves are in the hospital, dealing with a health issue, Lord, we just pray for healing for those people. We pray for healing for those relationships. And Jesus, we just love you. Please just bless us, keep us safe, keep us healthy, bless our our jobs, and even just our commute to work that we get there safely. There and Back. And thank you, Lord for Mike, thank you for everything that he's doing to help people and provide hope. We pray for Mike we pray for this podcast. In your precious name we pray Lord, amen.

Mike Stone: 39:22

Amen. Thank you, Matt. You have an open invitation anytime you want to come back. I know you've got story after story that you can share. Love to hear more about your personal experience in life and more about pray.com. So thank you for being with us today. Super. Appreciate it.

Matt Potter: 39:44

Thank you, Mike honored and blessed to be here. And I would love to come back anytime you'll have me. So thank you so much. And thanks for listening. Thanks for tuning in. And hey, write me a note. Tell me what you like about the app or what you don't like you You can reach out to me it's matt@pray.com really simple matt@pray.com Thank you so much.

Mike Stone: 40:07

Awesome. Thank you