What if the breakthrough you're praying for is sitting in a file you've already paid?

Two and a half years. No funding. Every door shut. In this episode I take you into the lowest point of my business life — the project I nicknamed the Project from Hell — and what happened when praying more, fasting more and reading more stopped working.

This one was recorded as a guest conversation with Ryan McKinney on the Acts Social Podcast, and it's the fullest version of this story I've told.

In this episode:

• Why "pray more, fast more" advice breaks down under real financial pressure
• The night I ended up on the lounge room floor, and the two words I heard
• How God found $4,000 in a tax bill I'd already paid twelve months earlier
• The faith pictures process — blade, head, harvest — and how to know what season you're actually in
• The question about machinery colour that decided a multi-million dollar contract

If you're staring at a situation that looks nothing like the promise, this one's for you.

Note: this episode includes an honest account of a season where I experienced suicidal thoughts. If that's difficult for you right now, skip the opening section. Support is available — Lifeline 13 11 14 in Australia.

🎧 Listen now, then grab the full story in my book at heargodatwork.com

Ever had God speak to you in your sleep and you brushed it off as "just a dream"?

In this episode Matt unpacks why dreams aren't a second class encounter with God — a third of your life is spent asleep, so it makes sense He'd use that time to speak. Matt shares a personal story of getting so consumed by the Middle East conflict and its impact on his construction business that it became an idol, until a dream about two diesel tankers reset his whole perspective.

• Why you need your own dream language, not someone else's dictionary
• What Jacob and Joseph teach us about a shared family dream language
• A daily practice for processing your dreams with clarity
• The real story behind the diesel tanker dream and the idol it exposed
• The practical takeaway for surrendering blind spots in your business

Hit play and let this one challenge where your attention has really been.

How do you actually know if that thought is God, or just you?

Matt breaks down the real difference between the enemy's voice (easy to spot — it's laced with fear), your own voice, and God's voice. Spoiler: it usually comes down to one word. Peace.

In this episode:

• Why the enemy's voice is the easiest one to rule out
• Why God's voice answers root causes, not symptoms
• Why God's voice is childlike, not childish
• The coaching story behind two words that changed everything — "I love you"
• Why business leaders are great at giving and hopeless at receiving
• The one phrase flip that changes "it's probably me" into "it's probably God"

If you've ever second-guessed whether you're really hearing from Him, this one's for you.

To go deeper into Hearing God check out the online course - www.heargodatwork.com

Why does the prophetic flow effortlessly with some people you've just met — and feel like hard work with others?

Matt unpacks a scripture he's read a hundred times but never sat with properly: Matthew 10:41, and what a "prophet's reward" actually means. It comes down to honour — seeing people the way God sees them, not how they look, sound, or perform on a first meeting.

In this episode:

• Why some conversations carry instant rapport and others don't
• What Matthew 10:41 really means by a "prophet's reward"
• Samuel, David and the danger of judging by outward appearance
• A lesson from Cairns: why board shorts and sandals can fool you
• Wendy Backland's turning-point encounter with God on hopelessness
• Why the Kingdom advances through right believing, not right doing

If you've ever caught yourself sizing someone up before you've even had a conversation, this one's for you.

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What's the actual point of being a Christian in business? Is it the money? The giving? The impact? A business owner asked Matt this exact question — and the answer that came out of him changed the whole room.

In this solo teaching, Matt unpacks why success in the Kingdom has less to do with your bank account and more to do with friendship with God, and why your business might just be the table where that friendship gets real.

• The coffee analogy: why the business isn't the point, it's what facilitates the point
• Discovering your assignment, and why that's where relationship stops being theoretical
• Paul's handkerchief, Adam in the garden, and what it means for your work to be worship
• Why the Holy Spirit is called the Comforter, and what that has to do with your Monday morning

If you've ever wondered whether God actually cares about the deals, the decisions and the pressure you carry — this one's for you.

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What do you do when God asks you to build the one thing you can't stand?

Shawn Whitson had deleted his own social media years ago — he couldn't stand the format. So when a struggling season in his tech company drove him to his knees and handed God the keys, the last assignment he expected was "build a social media platform to glorify my Kingdom worldwide." That's exactly what happened, in a moment so unmistakable it stood the hair up on his arms. In this episode, Shawn takes us through the whole arc — the call, the failures that trained him for it, and the proof God has shown up in the harvest since Acts Social launched.

In this episode:

• The failing tech company and the lie every entrepreneur believes: "if it's meant to be, it's up to me"
• The December 2022 morning God interrupted Shawn's prayer time
• Why he calls himself a "screw-up," and how failure trained him for this calling
• Sharee's side of the story — 30 years married, downsizing homes twice
• The inverted algorithm that rewards kindness and suppresses bullying
• Tamara's testimony: "for the first time in a long time, I feel like someone hears me"
• 7,000 users in days, and the upcoming book, Called Out of Nowhere

Shawn Whitson is the founder and CEO of Act Social. Listen now, and if this stirs something in you — go check it out at actssocial.com.

Do you keep second-guessing every desire, every decision, every dream — because you're scared of getting it wrong?

In this episode, Matt unpacks why your desires aren't automatically flesh, why the "old you" is dead, and why a good Father isn't sitting in heaven waiting to punish you for choosing wrong. God is for you. And He's forming you into someone who can make bold, wise, faith-filled decisions — without living in fear of your own heart.

In this episode:

• Why desire isn't automatic evidence of flesh
• What Psalm 37 actually means when it says God gives you the desires of your heart
• Why "not my will but Yours" isn't the flex you think it is
• A simple way to bring decisions to Holy Spirit and see their fruit before you choose
• Why God trusts you more than you think

🎧 Listen now and stop second-guessing the dream He put in you.

What if the dream you've never said out loud is exactly what God is waiting for you to steward?

In this episode, Matt unpacks what greatness actually looks like for Christian business leaders — not hype, not self-promotion, but responsibility. Straight from a session Matt led at Business Refresh, he walks through the questions that shift a room from safe answers to real vulnerability: what have you carried? What are you dreaming with God? And why do so many of us keep that second question locked away?

In this episode:

• Why looking back at your story reveals what God's been building in you for years
• The difference between ego and faith when it comes to calling
• Busting the "higher level, higher devil" mindset for good
• Why Kingdom community is essential to carrying big dreams well

Hit play and get honest about what you've been carrying — and what you're finally ready to build.