Friday Prayer: Make It Personal

God, I've learned so much about you from others - parents, pastors, authors, teachers. I'm grateful for their wisdom, but I realize my faith has been mostly secondhand. I can articulate theology I've been taught but struggle to testify about what I've personally experienced.

I don't want borrowed faith anymore; I want my own encounter with you. Not just information about you but transformation from knowing you. Help me move from "I've heard" to "I know," from theory to testimony, from doctrine to relationship. Meet me personally, speak to me directly, reveal yourself to me in ways that become my story, not just echoes of someone else's. I want faith that's mine because it's rooted in my own experience of your goodness.