LivePrayerDaily Devotional for Wednesday November 21, 2018
"Someone, then, must undertake the ungracious task of probing and laying bare the evils of the age...”
(Matthew 5:11,12, 1 Peter 4:16)
***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, I cry out to you today. I have no place to turn but to you. My life is yours. Do with it as you will and I will obediently serve you with my very last breath. IN the name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ..AMEN!
***LIVEPRAYER TV IS BACK!!! We will be re-launching the Liveprayer TV program with a Thanksgiving Day special broadcast LIVE from 7p-8p EST! Our regular broadcast schedule will begin that following Monday, November 26th, airing every Monday thru Friday LIVE from 11p-Midnight EST! As we have since the program began, we will be taking phone calls from the viewers on every program with questions, comments, and prayer requests.
You will be able to watch the Liveprayer TV program LIVE on ALL major streaming platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick and others, as well as on the Liveprayer.com website. We will also archive every program so that if you can’t watch it live, you can watch it on your schedule ON DEMAND.
Another great blessing is that the TV program will initially on cost only $2,000 a monthly, as opposed to the tens of thousands of dollars each month it cost the ministry to air on traditional TV. That monthly cost will go up only as the viewership increases, meaning if we have to pay more each month it is because we are attracting a larger audience that will also bring new friends to help support Liveprayer. So please be praying about your sacrifice each month to insure that this additional monthly cost for a critical part of the Liveprayer ministry is covered.
After doing our LIVE TV program on various non-Christian stations and networks around the nation since 2003, I am humbled and most thankful for the opportunity to reach thousands and thousands of new people each night. I know that as each year passes, more and more people are growing up having never been to church, having never been in a home environment where God’s Word and faith in Jesus was practiced and honored. Pray with me that each night lives will be impacted for Christ, hope is given to those who are at a desperate place in their life, and lost souls will come to faith in Jesus Christ!!! AMEN!!!
"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." Matthew 5:11,12
Pastor Bill, I saw this quote and immediately thought of you and your ministry. God bless you for taking a stand against evil and for our Lord in this present age. You are in inspiration to all Believers!!!
"Someone, then, must undertake the ungracious task of probing and laying bare the evils of the age; for men must not be allowed to congratulate themselves that all is well. If others will not, he will. If others shrink from the obloquy of such a work, he will not. He loves the age too well; he loves his nation too well; he loves his fellow-men too well. They may upbraid him; they may call him a misanthropist, or a prophet of evil; they may ascribe his warnings to the worst of motives, such as pride, or arrogance, or self-esteem, or malice, or envy; but he will give no heed to these unjust insinuations. He will prefer being thus misunderstood and maligned, to allowing men to precipitate themselves upon a ruin which they see not. Rather than that they should perish, he will allow his own good name to be spoken against. He will risk every thing, even the hatred of brethren, rather than withhold the warning." -Horatius Bonar (December 19, 1808 - May 31, 1889)
I am honored that this dear friend of the ministry who sent the above quote, would even think of me in these terms. Bonar was a Scottish churchman, poet, and hymn writer who lived a long and faithful life of service to our Lord. As I read the words he penned, it was humbling, since I could not think of a better epitaph when my work here is over and I am on to my eternal rest. It is the most accurate description of who I TRY to be each day and PRAY to be each day!
...I am most blessed among men to be able to wake up each day over these past 25 years of serving the Lord, especially the last 20 years of Liveprayer.com and 15 years of the Liveprayer TV program. As the great prayer warrior E.M. Bounds said, "Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still!"
...I am in awe of God since I could have never imagined how God would use my life. At the time Liveprayer.com began I didn't even own a computer, yet over these years hundreds of millions of lives worldwide have been impacted, over 140 million emails for prayers responded to, we have an archive of just over 13 million praise reports, and now over 1.3 million souls we know of have come to faith in Jesus. I did NOTHING but surrender my life completely to the Lord and He simply used my as His vessel!
...I am thankful daily for my dear friends who have faithfully prayed for me and those who have in many cases made great sacrifices for the Lord's work here at Liveprayer. I never forget for a day that nothing I do is possible without the prayers and support of my dear friends in the Liveprayer family.
...My heart breaks daily as I see the tens of thousands of people daily who come to Liveprayer for prayer. So many hurting people, so many needs. Only a great and mighty God is able to give people the strength to live through their problems while imparting His peace and joy to them as He leads them to their answers.
...I HATE satan for how he purposely destroys lives and helps lead people's souls to hell!
...Having lived long enough to remember when this nation mostly respected God and Biblical Truth, I can't believe in my short life how far from our Creator and His Truth we have fallen. I fight daily to see this nation turn back to God and His Truth, yet so often feel like that fight is in vain.
...The "Church of Jesus Christ" has become weak and virtually useless for the most part in this battle for souls and the soul of our nation. The vast majority of churches are exactly like the majority of the churches in Revelation. Sadly, it will only be when God's ultimate judgment is meted out upon this nation that the church under great persecution will once again be the church.
...I praise God daily for those few churches who have not compromised the Truth, led by a shrinking minority of pastors who are true shepherds as described in John 10, and the remnant that exists today who won't bow their knee to baal! This small minority of true followers of Christ is all that is holding this nation from seeing God's ultimate wrath and judgment poured out for our sins, wickedness, and rebellion to God!
...I see so much so clear long before it actually happens. It is a wonderful gift from God, but a curse since few others see or understand what I am telling them and many simply write me off as another "religious nut." Sadly, when it is too late, I am vindicated though I take little comfort or pleasure in "being right."
...Few people will ever know or understand the personal price I have paid over these last 25 years. I have literally given my life to the Lord's work, surrendering my life and the things of this world for His service. I am comforted by the words of Jesus when he said, "Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."
...I despise having to raise money. I started the ministry 25 years ago with nothing personally, and today still have nothing personally. This has NEVER been about money for me, but MINISTRY. Sadly, in this world while the Gospel is freely given, being able to get the Gospel to the masses costs money. All I have ever asked God for was not personal wealth, but the funds required to do His work as each new month dawns.
...I have always told people to take care of their family first, to make sure they have food on the table and their bills covered before they ever send a dime to Liveprayer.
...From day one, I have refused to play the games most churches and all of the major ministries play in order to raise money. I have seen every fundraising gimmick known to man and find them offensive and refuse to engage in those types of games. I have never or will ever exploit people by LYING to them how they can have great wealth or other financial and personal benefits if they simply send money to Liveprayer as the perverted "prosperity gospel" so many preach falsely promise.
...Many in the "mainstream Christian world" don't even know about Liveprayer since I won't play ball which always involves raising money. I simply don't understand why churches and ministries with millions in real estate and other assets, continue to ask people for more. The heads of many of these ministries live in multi-million homes, often more than one, drive new high-end luxury cars, fly around in private jets, take in hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in personal income, yet still ask for more to buy more mansions, newer luxury cars, the newest state-of the-art private jets, and amass even greater personal fortunes.
...Unlike the churches and major ministries, Liveprayer PURPOSELY reaches out to lost and hurting people OUTSIDE of the four walls of the church. Apx. 40% of those who get the Daily Devotional and 70% of those who view the TV program are NOT Christians. I am well aware that by going on the Christian networks, playing ball with other major ministries, we could raise virtually an unlimited amount of money each year. However, I am more worried about ministering to those the church and ministries have abandoned because they aren't their "target audience to raise money from" and seeing the lost won to Jesus!
...I am amazed at how we do so much with so little. Liveprayer is a modern day “loaves and fishes” miracle. All we do daily online and TV costs us just UNDER $1,700 a day. I am proud that right at .93 cents of every dollar goes directly to ministering to people, while most churches and ministries eat up 40%, 50%, even more in overhead and fundraising costs.
...Less than 1/4 of 1% of the people we reach online and on TV EVER send a dime to Liveprayer. I pray daily that the Lord will move on the hearts of those who God has ministered to and blessed through Liveprayer will make the sacrifice to help me with a gift that enables us to minister to others who would not hear about the love of Christ otherwise. It has always been the "few who have fed the many."
...When I ask God for the "desires of my heart," I ask Him to send one person who could help me with a special gift of $10 million dollars...NOT FOR ME BUT WHAT LIVEPRAYER COULD DO WITH THOSE FUNDS! Within one year we would not just lead over a million plus souls to faith in Jesus, but could make an impact on the spiritual state of this nation like nobody would believe by expanding our existing platform 15 fold creating a massive force of light the masses of this dark world would not be able to ignore or fight!!! For context, this is what a local church with only 4,000 member would spend on a building!
I love and care about you so much! Thank you for taking the time to pray and feel my words today. As I do daily, I never hold back as I share with you God's Truth on the issues of the day as well as my personal thoughts and feelings. Even though I speak daily to a mass worldwide audience online thru the TV program, I try to speak to the heart of each individual person I am able to reach.
Please know that you and your family are in my prayers. I pray daily for God's protection, for His provision, and for His blessings to be upon you as together we press forward towards the prize, bringing hope to the hurting, salvation through faith in Christ to the lost, and use this platform the Lord has built to lead our nation back to the Almighty and His Truth!!!
In His love and service,
Your friend, brother, and co-laborer in Christ,
Bill Keller