Prayer is something most of us feel like we should do, but often struggle to actually practice. In this opening session, Matt Smallbone shares his own honest journey from being a reluctant pray-er to discovering a simple, life-changing rhythm rooted in the Lord’s Prayer.
Pastor Matt unpacks the c...

Before teaching us how to pray, Jesus first shows us what to avoid. In this opening session, we confront the real reasons prayer can feel difficult: distraction, doubt, wrong motives, and misunderstanding who God is.
By looking at Jesus’ words in Matthew 6, we uncover two common traps: performing...

When Jesus begins with “Our Father,” He completely reshapes how we relate to God. This session explores the intimacy, nearness, and holiness wrapped up in just a few opening words of the Lord’s Prayer.
You’ll discover how your view of God affects your prayer life, why adoration shifts your perspe...

What if prayer begins not with your needs, but with God’s greatness? Through vivid imagery and biblical insight, you’ll discover how lifting your eyes to God’s holiness, beauty, and nearness brings clarity to your life and lightens the weight of your concerns. This teaching reframes prayer as som...

What does it really mean to pray, “Your kingdom come”?  Rather than asking God to bless our plans, this kind of prayer invites us to step into His. You’ll explore how God’s kingdom is not a distant place, but His active rule and reign, one that brings restoration, order, and hope wherever it take...

What do we do when God doesn’t answer the prayers that matter most to us? Pastor Matt helps us understand what it means to pray in alignment with God’s heart rather than trying to control outcomes. This session invites you to move beyond frustration and into trust, believing that God is good, eve...

What does it look like to trust God for what you need today? You’ll see how God meets both physical and emotional needs, often in unexpected ways. This teaching also reframes petitionary prayer not as a transaction but as a relationship in which we are invited to ask with honesty, persistence, an...

Forgiveness is one of the most challenging—and most freeing—parts of the Christian life. This teaching addresses common misunderstandings, showing that forgiveness is not denial, forgetting, or immediate reconciliation, but a choice to release others from the debt they owe. Rooted in the grace we...

In this final session, Matt Smallbone brings the Lord’s Prayer together as a complete framework for a life of prayer, one that is both deeply personal and spiritually grounded. Focusing on the closing lines, “lead us not into temptation” and “deliver us from the evil one,” he explores the reality...