Daily Devotional for Friday November 2, 2001

There is Victory in Jesus

(Psalms 60:12)

I have a special word for you today. There is VICTORY in Jesus!!! No matter what the battle you are facing today, there is VICTORY in Jesus!!! The only time in our 26 months of operations that Liveprayer has not been operational, was for about 30 hours right after Halloween 1999. For those who have been with me from the beginning, you will remember that during Halloween of 1999, after we had only been on line for about 3 months, someone, as a prank, sent my Devotional to about 300 witches and warlocks. These people did not find this amusing and decided to try and destroy Liveprayer.com. We were new to the Internet and had no idea how destructive people could be if they put their mind to it. We learned much from that experience and have since made it more difficult to get added to our Daily Devotional list. We also put in many protections to make it harder for people to hack into our website and mail servers. God looked down and protected us. He knew what He was going to do through this ministry in the coming weeks, months, and years!!! He already knew..HE WINS!!!

One thing I learned from that experience 2 years ago was that there is NO website, NO mail server that cannot be hacked into if people want to. Last Tuesday, I did my Devotional on Halloween and how we as Christians are to view it is a "holiday" we should ignore. With over 800,00 worldwide who get this Devotional each day, I have no idea how many people actually read it, since many send it to family, friends, and people in their address book. Apparently, some Satan worshipers got that email from last Tuesday and on Halloween night, some very expert hackers from overseas got into the Liveprayer.com website and mail servers and destroyed them. At around 3:00pm Thursday the 1st, our website and mail servers had to be shut down, and we had to reconfigure them to new DNS servers with additional protection from future hacking.. ***Please know that our donations page and name list page are on very especially protected pages that are impossible to hack into. All they were able to do was destroy the website and the actual servers our mail is on. Our list of subscribers, your private CC info are all very protected and were NOT compromised.

Thursday night, I was at the Liveprayer.com office in St. Petersburg Florida. I was with two kind gentleman from the FBI who were looking into who hacked our site. The fact is, we get about 100 unsuccessful attempts a month from people trying to hack into the Liveprayer.com website. Additionally, I get on average about 20 death threats a month, primarily from anti-Christian people who are opposed to what I do each day on Liveprayer. Out of concern for my safety and that of our staff, my Board of Directors get forwarded a copy of each death threat, and they in turn send them on to federal authorities. The best they can tell so far, the FBI has told me that the death threats are from the U.S. and overseas, and the hacking of our site and mail servers occurred from overseas. They will continue to try and pinpoint exactly where and who. In the meantime, I am asking you to pray for these people who did this and send these sick messages. They need the love of Christ in their lives.

As of approximately 10:00pm EST Friday the 2nd, we were back up and operational!!! The Liveprayer.com website mail is back working again. Please know that anyone who has tried to email me personally at bkeller@liveprayer.com or through the Devotional delivery address of prayermanager@liveprayer.com, you need to resend your email. No doubt God knew that in 26 months, over 9,000 people would accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, that we would amass a file of over 250,000 praise reports of people God has met needs for, and that every day over 3/4 million worldwide would find the hope and love of Jesus Christ through Liveprayer.com.!!!

DON'T EVER FORGET, THE BACK OF THE BOOK SAYS OUR GOD WINS..OUR GOD REIGNS!!!

I love you and care about you very much. I say that today with more conviction than ever. I have spent the better part of the last 36 hours on my knees in prayer, as our wonderful tech people worked around the clock to get all of our services back on line. One thing God showed me during those hours was that THIS WORK, Liveprayer.com, was what He has raised me up to do from the start of my life. Until He deems my work on this earth is over, I am doing exactly what God wants me to be doing. My resolve is like never before. My desire to fulfill God's will for my life is like never before. Until my final breath, I will do all I can to make sure this work here on the Internet is reaching every person that ever logged onto a computer anywhere in the world. This is the greatest tool God ever created to reach people, and I am more committed than ever to seeing that people worldwide are reached with the hope and love of Jesus Christ.

I ask you to pray for me today. Pray for my wife Nan. Pray for this wonderful group of people God has brought together to serve Him here at Liveprayer.com. And pray especially for those who have unsuccessfully tried to hinder the work of God here at Liveprayer.com. The fact is, we live today with the knowledge that our God reigns, and we win!!! That is the same hope you need to have in your life today. No matter what the battle, whether it be a health issue, or finances, or an addiction problem, or marital difficulties...no matter what the battle, walk in victory today because OUR GOD WINS!!! The same God who brought ultimate victory to Joseph, the same God who gave David victory over Goliath, the same God who brought the three Hebrew children through the fiery furnace, the same God who raised Jesus from the grave, is the same God who defeated the enemies of Liveprayer and kept this message of hope and love through Christ alive on the Internet...

AND IS THE SAME GOD WHO WILL GIVE YOU VICTORY TODAY OVER WHATEVER BATTLE YOU ARE FACING!!! OUR GOD REIGNS!!! OUR GOD WINS!!!