How Pray.com Is Building the World’s Leading Christian Platform with Matthew Potter
If you have ever wondered how faith and technology could truly coexist, this conversation will change the way you see both. It’s for the woman who knows how to scale, how to strategize, how to lead—yet still feels a whisper asking, “What if there’s more?” You’ve mastered the metrics, but something inside you still longs for meaning.
Because success without soul is efficiency without essence. And that’s what we explore in this conversation with Matthew Potter, co-founder of Pray.com, one of the fastest-growing faith-based platforms in the world. This isn’t a story about building another app. It’s a story about how purpose becomes product. How prayer becomes platform. How a divine calling becomes the worlds leading christian platform.
From Providence to Purpose
Matthew’s story doesn’t begin with strategy. It begins with grace. A 15-year-old girl, pregnant and scared, walks past an abortion clinic and sees a church. One small moment of hesitation changes everything. A pastor takes her in, calls a friend, and through that connection, the girl decides to give her baby up for adoption.
That baby was Matthew.
He was literally born from a conversation between two pastors who listened to something bigger than themselves. From the beginning, his life carried a pattern of divine orchestration—proof that small acts of obedience can change the course of a life.
The Spark of Innovation
Growing up in Los Angeles, Matthew says he was surrounded by athletes, but not one himself. He jokes that he had “the body of an athlete but the coordination of a baby giraffe.” But destiny doesn’t require perfect form—it requires alignment.
A pivotal moment arrived when he met Steve Jobs at Pixar. Later, he learned that Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Ellison were all adopted. It hit him like a revelation that adoption wasn’t limitation—it was preparation. “If they can do it, I can too.”
That seed of inspiration grew into a vision. During his senior year of college, he watched Steve Jobs unveil the App Store. He called his parents that same day and said, “I’m dropping out. This is the next Internet.”
He built his first company, Homestack, to help real estate firms create their own apps—long before “tech stack” was a household term. For years, he hustled. No investors. Just faith, credit cards, and conviction. And yet, after a decade of building and scaling, something felt off. He had money, success, automation, freedom—and still felt empty.
The Surrender That Changed Everything
When he could no longer ignore that feeling, he picked up the phone and called his pastor’s daughter.
“What does the church need?” he asked.
Her reply was simple: “We’re launching new campuses. Come help.”
At first, he resisted. “I’m a tech guy, not a pastor.” But she told him to pray. He did—and the next day, he ran into an old friend named Steve. That conversation changed everything.
Steve had just lost his business partner in a plane crash. A Navy SEAL had given him a sermon that brought him to faith. And now, he wanted to build something that could bring prayer and biblical content to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
ESPN existed for sports. Netflix for entertainment. But where was the digital home for the soul?
In that moment, Matthew knew this was the answer to the prayer he’d just spoken. The alignment was too perfect to ignore. He stepped down as CEO, took a board position, and jumped in with both feet to co-found Pray.com.
When Faith Becomes a Framework
Since that leap, Pray.com has reached over 25 million downloads, 168 million app shares, and 3 billion listening minutes.
Behind those numbers is something far more important:
- People rediscovering their faith through digital access
- Communities finding solace in daily meditations
- Scientific research proving what believers have known all along—prayer heals
Their studies show measurable decreases in anxiety, depression, and insomnia from as little as a few minutes of daily prayer. It’s not about spending hours on your knees. It’s about frequency over duration—tiny moments of reconnection that keep your nervous system and spirit aligned.
This is faith meeting data. Spirit meeting science. The sacred meeting the system.
From Burnout to Belief
Entrepreneurship often feels like spiritual training in disguise. The late nights, the pressure, the constant self-doubt. Matthew says there were years when he didn’t know if he could make payroll. He cut his own salary down to zero.
His father did the same decades earlier—mortgaging their family home to pay employees after a partner embezzled funds.
These aren’t stories of failure. They’re stories of formation.
Matthew says, “Let’s not glorify entrepreneurship. It’s tough. It’s lonely. But it’s also the most fulfilling thing you can do when it’s aligned with purpose.”
He learned that purpose is what sustains you when profit isn’t enough.
Faith as a Business Strategy
What happens when you stop building from fear and start building from faith?
- Your anxiety doesn’t control your timeline.
- Your peace becomes your productivity.
- Your impact scales faster because your energy is clean.
As Matthew says, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking back—if you put God in it.”
Faith doesn’t replace discipline. It refines it. It sharpens your decision-making. It aligns your team’s mission. And it reminds you that results are not always the reward—peace is.
Prayer Meets Technology
One of the most revolutionary aspects of Pray.com is how it blends ancient practice with modern innovation.
- The app now includes a Christian AI counselor, trained on biblical wisdom and vetted pastoral content, designed to offer emotional and spiritual support when no human counselor is available.
- There are only around 88,000 pastors in the U.S. serving 350,000 churches, many of them part-time. The need for scalable care is massive.
- The goal isn’t to replace humans—it’s to fill the gap when guidance can’t wait.
And the results speak for themselves.
From women in hospital rooms praying through chemo to entrepreneurs meditating before investor calls, the stories coming out of Pray.com are modern-day psalms.
The Science of the Spirit
We’ve been taught to separate religion and reason, but as Matthew reminds us, that separation never truly existed. If you believe that God created everything—including the laws of science—then it follows that prayer, gratitude, and faith would have physical effects.
Clinical data now shows that prayer:
- Regulates heart rate and lowers cortisol
- Increases gray matter density in regions linked to empathy and emotional regulation
- Reduces symptoms of stress and insomnia
In short, prayer doesn’t just strengthen belief. It strengthens biology.
What This Means for Women Leaders
For female entrepreneurs, this conversation hits especially deep. Many of us have built empires through strategy, yet carry exhaustion in our bones. We pray privately, but lead publicly. We give everything, then forget to refill.
Matthew’s message for women in leadership is simple: “You don’t need to pray for an hour to change your life. You need to pray with intention, every day.”
And it’s not just prayer—it’s partnership with God.
When you give your problems up, you reclaim your peace. When you meditate on His presence, you quiet your mind. When you rest in faith, you open space for divine ideas to find you.
That’s how feminine leadership evolves—not through more control, but through holy surrender.
How to Practice Faith in Business
Here’s what this looks like in real life:
- Begin each workday with a simple prayer. Hand the day back to God. Ask for wisdom, not control.
- Replace comparison with gratitude. When you see someone’s “overnight success,” bless it and return to your lane.
- Listen before you move. When the noise of the world gets loud, stillness becomes your strategy.
- Honor your body as sacred. Burnout is not a badge of honor. Rest is obedience.
- Let your yes mean peace. If your yes costs you calm, it’s not alignment.
This is how you merge purpose with prosperity—by making peace your performance metric.
When Technology Becomes Ministry
Pray.com isn’t about replacing church. It’s about extending it.
It’s about reaching the woman on a red-eye flight who needs comfort at 2 a.m. It’s about supporting the single mother praying between shifts. It’s about meeting people where they are—and reminding them that they were never alone to begin with.
Technology becomes sacred when it serves love. Platforms become holy when they heal. And leadership becomes divine when it answers a higher call.
That’s what true wealth looks like in God’s economy. This isn’t a story about tech success. It’s about spiritual stewardship. It’s about what happens when innovation bows to intention.
For the Woman on the Edge of Reinvention
If you are reading this and feel the quiet ache of misalignment—the sense that your work no longer fits your spirit—know that you are not broken. You are being redirected.
Every season of stillness, every delay, every closed door might just be your soul saying, “Make room for me.”
Here’s how to begin:
- Get quiet before God and ask: What is mine to build next?
- Notice the ideas that bring peace instead of adrenaline.
- Follow the ones that feel like relief, not performance.
Because when you lead from peace, you stop chasing purpose and start embodying it.
Matthew’s story is not a fairytale. It’s a blueprint. A reminder that the intersection of faith and business is not contradiction—it’s calling. You can scale without striving. You can lead without losing your center. You can innovate without abandoning your integrity.
The path forward isn’t about choosing between God and growth. It’s about realizing that growth is one of the ways God expresses Himself through you. When your mission becomes ministry, your work becomes worship.
Listen to the full conversation with Matthew Potter on The MetaBusiness Millennial Podcast.
For every woman who’s ready to lead from the soul, this is your reminder that surrender isn’t weakness—it’s wisdom. Because when you let God into your strategy, miracles become measurable.
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