My Mother’s Prayers, Based On Daily Insights, By Bill Bright.

“Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out one after another, calling each by its name.”
(Isaiah 40:26)
As a young man, I was a materialist and humanist. To me at that time, success in life was measured by the accumulation of material possessions, honours, applause, and the praise of men.

The idea of God, or a Saviour, or the Bible, had little place in my life. All through high school, college and in graduate school, on the extension faculty of Oklahoma State University, and later as a businessman in Hollywood, California, where as a young man I developed my own business, I was motivated by selfish goals and materialistic pursuits.

Then one day I sensed that unseen hand of God in my life. I can only describe it as a sovereign visit from…