"If you planted your tree by streams of living water, your leaves never wither... My hope and my prayer is that God will use us, together, to transform this amazing place that we've found ourselves working and raising our families in." — Henry Kaestner

(Santa Clara, CA) — [Gospel Herald] As part of the 2016 Silicon Valley Prayer Breakfast, Henry Kaestner, co-founder and chairman of Bandwidth.com and managing principal at Sovereign's Capital, encouraged listeners to find happiness not in earthly success, but in fulfilling God's will for them. (Photo Credit: The Gospel Herald)

The 22nd annual event, which was held in Santa Clara, CA on April 1st, was themed "Finding Your Why." According to the Prayer Breakfast chairman, Skip Vaccarello, the event offers an opportunity to see how God has worked in the lives of the speakers and how He affects the way they live.

"The event is perfect for anyone who is curious about faith and wants to find out more," he said. "No one is put on the spot to pray. Instead, the event is simply an opportunity to observe how God transforms lives."

Kaestner, the event's keynote speaker, shared how he first discovered his entrepreneurial ability while in college, when he began selling t-shirts. After he had graduated, the Baltimore, Maryland native moved to New York City to begin his career on Wall Street.

"My pursuit of happiness continued," he recalled. "I first wanted to find happiness in financial success and working hard and getting rewarded for it. In retrospect, yeah, I did have a lot of success — and there were times I'd feel on top of the world. Yet, there was still a hollowness to it." (Photo: Henry Kaestner)

Although raised in a Christian home, Kaestner revealed he began to attempt to fill that void by dating different women.

"I was much too focused on trying to find happiness in dating women," he said, referring to that period as the start of the "darkest time" of his life. Although he eventually fell in love with a woman, Kimberley, he realized his life was completely incompatible with a monogamous lifestyle.

He then developed debilitating anxiety, which forced him to take weeks off of work: "I couldn't reconcile the fact that I had...

Click here to continue reading.

Link>

Source: www.breakingchristiannews.com/