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A Testimony of Faith and Purpose 0:22 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. Michelle Humphreys.0:25 And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to the broadcast today. We are broadcasting live in Dallas, Texas at NRB, which is the largest gathering of Christian communicators in the world, and we are0:37 just having a great time. We're here at the Lindell Network and Overponders TV, Verizon Studios, and we are here with the most amazing and special guest. Michelle, you wanna do the honors?0:47 We are so excited to have this guest on. He is the cofounder of pray dot com, the world's number 1 app for daily prayer and faith based0:59 audio content driven by a mission to grow faith and cultivate community. Will you welcome the great Matt Potter?1:08 Oh, thank1:08 you so much for coming on. We love1:10 you. Oh, love being here.1:12 And Matt's story is unbelievable and how he started this look how young he is. Yes. He started this huge, amazing, amazing app that you can just go to for every1:24 kind of prayer and ministry.1:26 But tell us tell us a little bit about your testimony. Yeah. Tell us your background.1:31 So, it all started with a 15 year old girl who is walking down the street in Washington in an urban area, and she was outside of the outskirts of her hometown.1:42 And she was 15, and she was about 8 months pregnant. Oh, wow. And she was going to an abortion clinic, actually. And on her way walking to that clinic, she actually saw a church in the distance1:55 and decided to stop in at that church because she was feeling guilty about what she was doing. So she went into this church to talk to the pastor about the biggest decision she was making in her life up to that2:06 point. And the pastor was a brand new pastor. He was a little nervous, so he asked the girl to sit in the lobby, and he went in the back and called his friend who planted a 20 person church2:18 in Los Angeles. And his friend just said, hey. It's providence that you called me today. I've been counseling this Christian couple that just joined my 20 person church2:30 congregation. This Christian couple, married couple had been trying to have children for 10 years and put it. And so the pastor that was counseling the couple said, why don't you go back in there and2:42 ask that girl if she'd be willing to give her baby up for adoption? Right. And so the pastor asked the girl, she said yes. And I was the baby the girl brought into the church.2:52 Right. God.2:52 God got adopted because of these 2 pastors that were friends.2:56 Praise the lord. So the lord's hand was on you even in the mother's womb.3:01 Absolutely. Amazing.3:02 It was just providence from the beginning. And, my adopted dad, because he got me from the church, ended up becoming the head elder of this small little 20 person church in Los Angeles.3:14 And now, over the course of my life, it's 1 of the largest churches in Los Angeles. So about 15000 people a weekend attend Shepherd Church, and it's an incredible3:26 nondenominational bible preaching church.3:29 Amazing. See what you know, what that church produced? And, yes.3:34 Yeah. You3:34 still write. So3:35 It was just absolutely amazing. And, so I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Okay. And, I grew up going to church, going to bible study fellowship on Monday nights with my dad, which was a big deal because my3:47 dad loved football. So when I saw my dad skipping football for bible study, I knew this was the most important thing for my life. Yeah. And then my3:59 sophomore year of high school, I got the unique opportunity to go up to Pixar, and I got to meet Steve jobs. Yeah. Steve jobs is a super inspirational guy.4:11 And I found out on the way home from the trip that Steve jobs was also adopted. So he really inspired me to get into technology and apps. And, to my parents' chagrin,4:23 my senior year of college, I dropped out of school when Steve Jobs launched the app store. Wow. And I called my mom and dad. I said, mom, dad, I'm getting into apps and I'm dropping out of school. And I think they4:35 thought I was getting in the restaurant4:36 business, because,4:38 you know, no 1 knew what an app4:39 was at that time. And, you know, if you asked a room of people, they knew what an app was. No. Everyone would say no. You know? And, so, yeah. I started a company called Homestack4:51 with my best friend and cofounder, Will. And we built over a decade, 8000 apps in the App Store for all the major real estate companies in the United5:03 States. So we built apps for Coldwell Bankers, Century 21, Berkshire Hathaway, Sotheby's, Pinnacle Estate Properties, many, many more. Incredible. And, yeah. I did that company5:15 for 10 years and is coming to work every day just feeling like I lost my purpose. We were very successful. Customers were happy. Everything was going great. But I5:26 just felt like God was calling me to do something more for the kingdom. So I called my pastor. I asked him how I could help him give back to the church that had given me so much. And he said, well, why don't you be5:38 a campus pastor for me? And I was like, that's terrifying.5:45 I'm an introverted tech entrepreneur who didn't5:48 go to seminary. Like, what am I going to talk about?5:51 What am I going to do?5:53 And, he just said, well, pray about it. Just pray about it. And I should have known. Right. But I prayed about it. And the next day, I was at a coffee shop in my hometown. And, my good6:05 buddy, Steve Gitino walked through the door. And Steve played football at USC, won a Rose Bowl in the Pete Carroll. He started a media company and, was the 29 year old CEO6:18 of the world's largest aerial production company. So if you've seen all the Apple TV backgrounds,6:24 yeah,6:24 they filmed all of those from helicopters, jets and airplanes. And then they filmed the movie, Transformers, Jurassic World, Maverick. Any movie, Italian6:36 Job Wow. That you saw with a helicopter or a plane in it. And, unfortunately, Steve's business partner died in a plane crash. In Medellin, Colombia.6:48 They were filming a movie called American Made with Tom Cruise. Yeah. And in the filming of the movie, Steve's business partner died. And it was a blessing though in disguise because Steve didn't grow up7:00 a Christian. And in dealing with that death in his business partner, a former Navy Seal gave him an audio sermon that changed his life, and Steve became a Christian.7:12 Wow. And that was the seed that planted pray dot com. Was that Navy Seal sharing the audio sermon. Uh-huh. And Steve was kinda mad about it because he was the content guy,7:24 and he didn't know about Christian content or sermons or pastors. And so he's telling me this in the coffee shop, and he said, Matt, I wanna build the digital destination7:36 for Christians online. So no one's built it before. We have the ESPN for sports. We have the digital destination for sports, and we don't have the digital destination for Christians.7:48 And I said, Steve, I built some apps. I'll help you. I'll do it for free, whatever you need. And that was in October of 2016. And we have 2 other incredible co founders,8:00 Mike Lin and Ryan Beck. And we built gray dot com. So now we're at, about 8 years later, We have over 18000000 downloads of the8:11 app. In the next couple days, it'll click to 19000000 downloads.8:16 Oh my goodness.8:16 We have a hundred and 68000000 shares of the app. People sharing the gospel, sharing a bible verse, sharing your show, Nina and Michelle's show. And Fuck.8:28 With their family members or friends that they know need help. Amen. And 3000000000 listening minutes of content, which my team tells me, I'm not the math guy, but that8:40 equates to 1700 years of content consumption.8:46 In Italy, it's 1700 years. And look what God does. Like, even just if you look at how your steps8:52 were ordered from the beginning. Yes.8:54 You know, not only from just even the pastor of the church, the whole thing. And even being, you know, an app entrepreneur and all of those things, but to be used for his glory. And now look what you're doing. It's truly9:05 amazing. And and we cannot say enough about free dot com with the app. The show is on there. And and it shows And9:10 they're the real deal.9:12 Hello, everyone. I'm excited to announce the next generation of energy drinks, Rev 7. It has no sugar and no caffeine. Instead, Rev 7 uses go BHB.God's Providence in Relationships and Ministry 9:25 Go BHB is 1 of the body's primary ketones, and it provides the most efficient and clean fuel that your body needs. It also helps you stay energized all day with no crashes.9:37 Not only that, it produces 3 times more brain energy than sugar, which helps boost your memory, focus, and mental sharpness. It also helps reduce stress and helps balance your mood.9:48 Rev 7 does all that while being the best tasting energy drink ever. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to save 20 percent today. I'm so sure10:00 you're gonna love Rev 7. For a limited time, you get our introductory 3 pack absolutely free. I drink Rev 7 every day, and I absolutely love it, and so will you.10:12 Now we would be remiss, Matt, if we didn't talk about 1 of your best features10:18 Oh, yeah.10:18 Which is the great dawn.10:20 Yes. Yes. I mean10:22 Tell us how you met her. What happened?10:25 In the in the midst, you know, I I was building pray dot com and I was really, really focused and God distracted me in the best way possible. I got to I'm10:37 I met my wife on a dating app. Go figure. You know, the app That'd be10:41 an app.10:42 Yeah. Yes.10:43 So we Total sales.10:45 Totally. Totally. So we met, and went on a date, and we shut down the restaurant talking about our faith, talking about being equally yoked. And on our third date,10:57 we realized we met 10 years earlier for 15 minutes on the beach in Malibu, and my wife had a photo of me and her on the beach in11:09 Malibu from 10 years earlier. So isn't it so funny how God works in mysterious ways? And it was another just11:17 What a text. Moment.11:19 When she showed me that photo, I knew, you know, this was God introducing me to my wife.11:25 Perfect timing. And what are the chances of that? I mean, that's, like, Malibu is huge.11:30 Exactly. Yeah.11:31 It's so unbelievable.11:32 I mean, what? Los Angeles has, like, 15000000 people, and we met 10 years earlier, and she remembered. I, you know, do you remember a 15 minute interaction with your Starbucks11:43 barista? You know, like, I didn't remember. She remembered11:48 completely. Took a picture.11:50 Yeah. We we it was a bunch of our friends on the beach. We all took a photo. I went in the water and went surfing and never saw her again till 10 years early. That's all I did. 10 years early.12:01 She has an album. Right?12:02 Yeah. She's a Yep.12:03 I mean, tell us about because people need to know about her too. It looks it's a dynamic duo right here.12:08 So my wife's an incredible accomplished singer. She's done 12 albums. All of her music is on Amazon and Netflix. It's called sync placements. So when you hear, like, a movie or a TV show and12:20 there's music in the background, that's what she does. And, you know, after we met, I found her crying in her garage, and she just felt like God was calling her to use her12:32 talents for the kingdom. So she wanted to make a Christian album to help people with mental and spiritual health, and give something for people to listen to, you know, Sunday to Sunday. Right?12:44 Like, in the middle of the week. And so she's got an amazing pop album that's coming out with Grammy award winning producer. It's absolutely incredible. And,12:56 yeah. You can look her up. Her artist name is Don Jordan. Her real name is Don Potter, but her artist name is Don Jordan. When you look her up, she'll have an album, out in about a month or13:08 so.13:09 Fabulous. I can't wait because, like, she's precious. Yes. She is. And I believe we're just such an anointing on both of you and everyone over there that we have been blessed to work with and13:20 Thank you so much.13:21 What's next? What you know, I know people like you with these brains and these visions and all that this visionary, like, what what's where do you see freight dot com going next? What's happening next?13:33 You know, we just partnered with Palantir, and we're really excited about that. Palantir just joined the S and P 500. And so we're building some amazing AI tools that automatically13:45 transcribe, translate, and distribute content for some of the amazing pastors and leaders that are on the app. So, like, your show, for example, when you upload it into13:57 pray dot com, we can translate it into many different languages. Scott. It's all included in the app in Prey Studio. And then we can track the utilization of those languages. So when you're you14:08 upload your show and we put it into Korean, you can see how many people in Korea and where they're listening and tuning in from and listening to your content in their native language.14:18 Great.14:18 So that's something that we're really, really excited about. We've got a lot of other AI tools that we're building that help you distribute your shell, as well as, you know, put it out on social media,14:31 without adding extra burden or, cost or staff. You just upload it, and it takes care of it all for you. So here's just something you're really excited.14:40 Yeah. Like, you can read the whole transcript from every show in all languages. Absolutely.14:45 And now you amazing. You can really search for things that you need help with. Right? So if you're a user of the app, you can search for felt need content or different things to help you, like, what does Nina and14:57 Michelle say about depression or hopelessness? Yes. And you can find that right away in that moment of need. So it's really amazing what this technology could do.15:08 What is 1 of your favorite testimonies of someone who logged on to the app and something happens?15:16 So I have 2. 2 that are my favorites for different reasons. You. You know, what we do is we're a conduit, and we help incredible15:29 people like yourselves reach people. Amen. And so testimonies come back from now. And 1 of the testimonies that came back was a police officer in Ohio. And when everything was15:40 going on where a lot of people in the country were anti police Yeah. This police officer was feeling that in a really hard way. And he was planning to commit suicide when he went15:52 home. Oh my god.15:54 And a friend of his in that moment shared him some content from the app. And I don't know which show it was, but they shared him some of the content in16:06 the app in that moment. And that officer emailed us and thanked us for saving his life.16:12 Praise God.16:13 We didn't save his life. You didn't save his life. We're just doing what god called us to do. And in doing that, god saved his life.16:23 Amen.16:23 And made it happen in that providential moment when that police officer was gonna take his life. So that's 1 of my favorite testimonies. That's amazing. Another 1 was16:35 Oh, the16:37 a woman had called in, and believe it or not, we had a phone number. And when you called in, you got me. It was only 4 of us in the very beginning. We were starting out on the app, and it would round robin16:49 the 4 founders. So try to call your tech companies. You'd be surprised sometimes who you get. And this woman called in around midnight, and my phone rang. And I didn't wanna pick it up, but I something just17:00 said pick it up. And, I can't say her name just for confidentiality reasons. But she was the last living member of her family. And it was her17:12 second fight with stage 4 cancer. And she was trying to use the app in the chemo chair. And I didn't know what the chemo chair was. I haven't dealt with cancer in my life17:24 personally, but she told me she has to sit there for 4 hours and get chemotherapy. And she wanted to listen to the app and we were failing her. She couldn't log into the app. We had had a17:36 bug with her specific phone. And so I got in and we fixed it and I got her up and running. She was very, very thankful. And, you know, being at pray dot com, I get17:47 invited to speak at churches all over the United States. And I told my testimony at a church in Sacramento, and she was in the audience Wow. Of that church. Amazing.18:00 And she came up and gave me the biggest hug. You know. And I didn't know what happened to her. Right? She's stage 4 cancer, and that was like a year later. So she was still fighting that fight.18:12 And, you know, that's 1 of my favorite testimonies.18:15 It's a magic. It's like the scripture rejoice for the steps of a righteous man18:20 are ordered of the Lord.18:21 That's right.18:22 I mean, that has to be number I've never seen someone that has a testimony like yours. And the call of God on yours and Dawn's life. I mean Amazing. Amazing.18:34 Hello, everyone. I'm excited to announce the next generation of energy drinks, Rev 7. It has no sugar and no caffeine. Instead, Rev 7 uses go b18:46 GoBHB is 1 of the body's primary ketones, and it provides the most efficient and clean fuel that your body needs. It also helps you stay energized all day with no crashes.18:58 Not only that, it produces 3 times more brain energy than sugar, which helps boost your memory, focus, and mental sharpness. It also helps reduce stress and helps balance your mood.19:10 Rev 7 does all that while being the best tasting energy drink ever. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to save 20 percent today. I'm so sure19:22 you're gonna love Rev 7. For a limited time, you get our introductory 3 3 pack absolutely free. I drink Rev 7 every day, and I absolutely love it, and so will you.19:34 Praise God. And and you don't have to be weight of stewardship with that.19:38 Yes.19:38 To continue down that path. Yes. So we need as much prayer as possible Oh, yeah. To keep doing that.19:45 Amen. And we love getting on with, you know, your team that that gets in touch with us and we pray together and we write down what their prayer concerns are. We pray over that process. Know. You know, that you're19:56 In agreement. In agreement. Together.19:58 Because, you know, if you think about it, we're at the point in time that the Bible talks about where we have the capability to reach the entire planet. You're listening. You're talking about all the languages. It's this20:10 is it. We are living in extraordinary times. Where it is, like, we could get Jesus back. It says, once the whole world. And we're there. We have those technologies, and that's what you guys are doing.20:21 Oh, there's there's literally more of these on planet Earth than toothbrushes. So I'm not even That's kinda scary. You can look20:29 up the store.20:29 Right? You can go to the middle of the Amazon and because, you know, they brought technology in a little bit later, there's cell phone towers everywhere. They didn't build the infrastructure. And so you can20:41 go to the middle of the Amazon, you're on a boat, and everybody's got a cell phone. So we can really reach the world together. We can disciple and evangelize the world together. And now with all of the incredible new20:53 technology, it is possible.20:55 It's so exciting when when we think about, you know, that the that the gospel will cover cover the earth, and then the lord will come back.Show more In this video 0:00 A Testimony of Faith and Purpose9:24 God's Providence in Relationships and Ministry21:02 The Global Mission of Pray.com
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