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Welcome to Sizzy Larson Live.

Always, always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully

inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word,

and that heightens your awareness of his amazing and real presence in your life.

Well, my guest today, along with his co-authors, traveled around the world,

conducted over 100 hours of interviews with today's leaders in the church,

from those serving in war zones and refugee camps to billionaire leaders whose lives are grounded in prayer.

They conducted these interviews to learn about the prayer practices of today's amazing leaders.

They got to sit down with leaders like Francis Chan, John Mark Homer, who we've had on the show,

John Orpberg, we've had on the show, Tim Mackie, Gary Hogan of IJM, Johnny, Erickson, Tata,

and Mark Batterson, both of whom I have joined us on this show.

So what did they learn? Well, they learned something powerful about the power of prayer, the practice of prayer.

Ryan Skug is my guest today, and he's here to talk about his amazing new book titled, Lead with Prayer,

the spiritual habits of world-changing leaders. And boy, oh, boy, do we have a show for you.

You've got a handful of copies of this brand new book. If you'd like just to be inspired by leaders

who really take it seriously, who make time and space to meet with God. Text the word book to

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