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Anne Graham Lotz grew up in Billy Graham's house — the most famous Christian home in America. She says it never once gave her God. Not the prayers. Not the church. Not even her father. She says most women in church right now are living on a faith somebody handed them and have never actually met Him themselves. Her own father called her the best preacher in the family. If anyone was ever set up to inherit a faith, it was her. The most famous Christian home in America. A father who preached to millions. Church before she could walk. Every advantage of faith a person could be born into. And she stood up and said the thing nobody expected. None of it gave her God. "God doesn't have any grandchildren. Just because I'm Billy Graham's daughter, that doesn't mean I have a covenant relationship with God. I had to enter into that covenant myself." She had the faith handed to her. And she said handed-down faith isn't the same as actually knowing him. Then she said the part that went straight through me. Don't assume you belong to God, she said, "just because you go to church, you're a church member, you've been baptized, you take communion, you know the scriptures, you can pray in public." Because I was that woman. I want to tell you about a specific Sunday. I was sitting in the same pew I'd sat in my whole life. The faith of my family. The church I was raised in. Everything handed down to me. I knew when to stand. I knew the words to every song. I knew my verses better than almost anyone in that room. And somewhere in the middle of the service, a quiet thought I'd been outrunning for years finally caught me. I don't actually know him. I know all of this. I have never once known him. And here's what was underneath it. I had a relationship with church. I'd never actually had one with God. I had the building. The schedule. The songs. The verses. The faith my parents handed me, the tradition I was raised inside. But I had only ever met God secondhand. Through a parent. Through a preacher. Through the people around me who seemed to have the real thing. I had never once gone and met him myself. On the page. In his own words. The way you'd actually come to know a person. I was living off an inheritance I'd never opened. That's the one thing even Anne Graham Lotz said no one could do for her. Not even Billy Graham. Her own father, the most famous preacher in the world, couldn't hand her God. She had to go and meet him herself. And no one can hand him to you either. Only actually knowing God, the whole of him, in his own words, can do that. That's what changed everything for me. A 52-week guided study that walks you through the entire Bible, one week at a time, from Genesis to Revelation. Where you stop living off a faith somebody handed you, and finally meet him for yourself. Before each week, it tells you exactly what you're walking into. Who wrote it. When. Why. What was happening at the time. So it stops being the faith you inherited, and starts being a God you actually know. The Gospels: where you finally meet Jesus himself, not the version handed down to you, the real one, in his own words, and know him for the first time. The Psalms: where you stop reciting a faith and start pouring your own heart out to a God you're actually coming to know. Genesis to Revelation: the whole of him, the way Anne said you have to meet him, yourself, with no one standing in between. For the first time in my life, it wasn't inherited. I wasn't living off someone else's faith anymore. I was finally meeting him myself. Verses I'd known by heart since I was a child suddenly meant something, because I was finally meeting the One they were about. I'd open it in the morning and not want to close it. And the faith that had always felt like a hand-me-down finally became mine. Anne Graham Lotz couldn't inherit God from the most famous preacher in the world. She had to go and meet him herself. I'd been handed a faith my whole life and never met him at all. Until I finally went looking. And to the woman who's been living on a faith somebody else handed her, hear this. God has no grandchildren. The faith you were given was never meant to stay borrowed. This is the year you go and meet him yourself. Right now it's up to 62% off, and every order comes with a free pen pack. Don't spend another year living off a faith you inherited and never opened. Don't spend another year knowing about him instead of knowing him. Go and meet him yourself. Tap below and grab yours before they sell out.