10.03.26 How Prayer can Change Your Life

October 03, 2026

How Prayer can Change Your Life

Prayer is one of the most universal Christian struggles. Many of us feel like we don't "pray right," or we give up because prayer seems formulaic and dry. Ed Stetzer talks with Matt Smallbone about his book, The Prayer Experiment: How Praying Like Jesus Realigns Everything and how praying the Lord's Prayer every day for an entire year changed his life on Ed Stetzer Live.

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Matt Smallbone

Matt Smallbone

Originally from Australia, Matt Smallbone spent over a decade touring the world as a bass player with artists including Michael W. Smith, Rebecca St. James, and for KING + COUNTRY. He now serves as the lead pastor of Church of the City in downtown Nashville, a fast-growing congregation in Tennessee. Matt lives in Nashville with his wife, four kids, and a rescue dog named Rosie.

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Ed Stetzer

Ed Stetzer, Ph.D., is Dean of the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches; trained pastors and church planters on six continents; earned two master’s degrees and two doctorates; and he has written hundreds of articles and a dozen books. He is Regional Director for Lausanne North America, is the Editor-in-Chief of Outreach Magazine, and regularly writes for news outlets such as USA Today and CNN. He serves at his local church, Mariners Church, as a teaching pastor. Ed and his wife Donna have been married for more than 35 years and are the parents of three daughters.

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