Father, before a single word is read, I lift up the one holding this book. You made them for this — not for a small, safe, borrowed faith, but for a faith worth dying for, forged in Your fire and proven in the dark.

Where they are afraid, be their courage. Where they are weary, be their strength. Where they have only ashes, breathe and raise a flame. Give them the holy resolve to follow Jesus all the way — to lay down what must die so that what You have made may finally live.

May they close this book changed: rooted, unshakable, and wholly Yours. In the name of Jesus, who is worth everything. Amen.