1KHO 855: Disappointment Is Not the End | Matt Smallbone, The Prayer Experiment

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Matt Smallbone is here to talk about unanswered prayers, raising children, forgiveness, loss, and how sometimes the hardest seasons of life can become the beginning of something deeper. Matt shares the simple practice that transformed his own faith after years of feeling disappointed and disconnected, and why Jesus' words are still changing lives two thousand years later. Whether you're full of faith, full of questions, or somewhere in between, this conversation is thoughtful, hopeful, and one you'll be thinking about long after it ends. Grab your copy of The Prayer Experiment and learn more about Matt and all he has to offer here. A huge thank you to our sponsors! Check them out below: BetterHelp: Visit www.BetterHelp.com/1000HOURS today to get 10% off your first month. Quince - Visit www.quince.com/outside and get free shipping and 365 day returns IXL Learning - Head to www.ixl.com/1000hours to get an exclusive 20% savings on your membership Whisker - Take care of your cats while taking an additional $50 off bundles with code 1000HOURS when you shop www.whisker.com/1000HOURS woom Bikes - Go to woom.com and use code 1000HOURS at checkout for 10% off your new bike purchase, excluding the woom WOW. Muzzle Sleep Tape - Go to MuzzleSleep.com and use code 1000HOURS for 10% off. Ethos Life Insurance - Get your free quote at ethos.com/1000hours Active Skin Repair - Don’t forget to put this in your first aid kit! Visit ActiveSkinRepair.com and use the code 1000HOURS to save 20% on all Active Skin Repair products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside.
0:02.0	My name is Jeannie Erich, and I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.
0:04.4	I read a book I loved.
0:06.2	I loved it.
0:07.2	I loved it.
0:07.4	It's called The Prayer Experiment, How Praying Like Jesus Reallines Everything, Our Thoughts, Our
0:11.6	Hearts, and Our Poster, Toward God and the World Author.
0:15.0	Matt Smallbone is here.
0:16.5	Welcome, Matt.
0:18.0	How are you?
0:19.0	I'm doing wonderful.
0:20.0	I really like this book. Huge congrats to you. Thank you very much. Yeah, it was always a bit of a goal to write one and it happened. It happened. It's always good. Okay, let's talk about the premise of this book. It's about the Lord's Prayer, which is just a beautiful piece of writing. But I think it's just something you kind of
0:38.9	memorize. Some people do. Some people don't. You know, you memorize it and you don't think about it
0:43.8	too much. So you go through. The book is about diving into the Lord's Prayer and the different
0:49.1	components of it. And I loved it. So I would love to kick it off, though, with something that I related to,
0:55.7	which is that sometimes we feel like prayer is not working, and so we don't really do it.
1:02.5	Yes. Yeah, I'm 48 years old, a parent of four. I'm an immigrant to the United States. I spent the first
1:11.4	28 years of my life in Australia, moved here with a six-month-old child who we later found
1:17.4	out is on the autism spectrum, which is a big part of that man, gosh, that became the
1:23.4	meta-narrative of the last 20 years of our life. And then we have three younger kids.
1:28.7	So I've got three boys and then a baby girl.
1:31.0	We're now 20 through 14.
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