Daily Devotional for Monday May 4, 2020

The battle lines are drawn!!!

(1 Corinthians 10:21)

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, open my eyes to see this world clearly, and show me what You want me to do to serve You in these times we live. You and You alone will have the last word Lord. Let me see this lost world through Your eyes and with Your heart and help to lead the lost and hurting to find Your hope, strength, peace, and salvation! In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: Drag queens coming to middle America! As I correctly warned, once we sanctioned, normalized, and culturally accepted sexual perversion it would only lead to more forms of sexually deviant behavior. I shared with you last year how public libraries were opening their doors for drag queens, men who dress up as women, to have a story time with children. What a great public service, local libraries hosting sexual perverts to tell stories to the children of that town. I don’t know how anyone could have been shocked when it was learned one of these drag queens in Louisiana had been arrested for lewd behavior around a child. FOR THE RECORD THEIR VERY PRESENCE WITH ANY CHILD IS LEWD BEHAVIOR AND THAT PERSON AND THE CHILD’S PARENTS SHOULD BE IN PRISON FOR CHILD ENDANGERMENT AND A HOST OF CHARGES! How sick is our culture when you have parents actually thinking this is an activity they want their child involved in??? Now you have HBO (what a shock) coming out with a documentary showing drag queens going around the heartland. States like Nebraska and Iowa. The whole purpose of the program is for these sexual deviants prove to middle America that “they are just like them.” NO THEY ARE NOT!!! Of course to legitimize this raw sewage of a production, they have sprinkled in “Christians” who legitimize this type of perverted behavior. These are “Christians” who think there is nothing wrong with men dressing up as women and of course engaging in all kids of sexually deviant sex acts. As sad as the program itself is, I am even more saddened to tell you that I am certain they had no problem finding such “Christians.” This is simply the latest effort to normalize and mainstream sexual perversion to the nation as a whole!

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"Dear Pastor Keller, I would like to give you an update on my progress. A long time ago, I have prayed that prayer to invite Christ into my heart. I received your booklet, and read through it. Since then, I have become involved with a church, am praying more and reading the scriptures. Next month, I will be confirmed to that church through baptism. I have no doubt that this is the plan of my salvation that heavenly Father has put in place for me. I know that through the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, anything can be accomplished. It all started with Liveprayer.com. Thank you Pastor Keller for all you do. God bless you! Jessie"

THIS is what all of the sacrifices so many make each day is about. Through boldly and without shame or compromise taking the simple message of the Gospel and the hope we have in Christ to the masses in the marketplace, every day we see the fruit of those efforts in the very real lives of those God touches through His work here. LIVES ARE BEING TRANSFORMED BY THE POWER OF GOD AND SOULS ARE BEING SAVED!!!

As the prophet Elijah said on Mt. Carmel in 1 Kings 18, "If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal is god, follow him." It is time to decide whose side you are on. The days of trying to play both sides are over. It is time to decide whose side you are on. The days of living with one foot in the church, and one foot in the world are over. It is time to decide whose side you are on. The battle lines are being drawn my friend.

Most people don't want to think of this life as a war, but that is exactly what it is. On one side we have God, the Creator of the heavens and earth, our Creator that loves us. The Bible says that it is God's desire that all come to repentance and none be lost. It was God's plan from the beginning that man spend eternity with Him. On the other side, we have satan, a fallen angel that for this brief season we call human history, is working to drag as many souls as possible with him into an eternity of torment in hell. This war is for the eternal souls of every man and woman that is born.

From the garden of Eden until today this war has raged on. God created us perfect, with the free will to love Him. However, that free will also gave us the ability to rebel against God, otherwise, we would be little more than robots. Sadly, man made the choice to disobey God, and now sin would be part of the human condition and destroy the perfect world God had created for us to live in. The war for the human soul had begun.

Satan has come up with every plan imaginable to keep us lost in our sin and separated from God for eternity. He has used our desire for God to help us create the false religions of the world to lead us away from God's saving grace. He has worked hard to undermine God's holy institution of marriage started in Genesis 2:24 and destroy God's plan for the family. Satan uses our sin nature to help put is in bondage to things like drugs, alcohol, money, sex outside of marriage, and anything else that can destroy our life. Whatever satan can do to separate us from God, he will do. After all, in John 10 Jesus clearly tells us that satan's desire is to "steal, kill, and destroy."

As the last days of human history are fast approaching, satan is now in full, all out war against the church. Make no mistake, the church has ALWAYS been a major target of satan. From the tabernacles and temples in the Old Testament, to the dawn of the church age in the book of Acts, through today, satan has corrupted men and women of God in leadership and used division of every kind to keep the church from being all God intends it to be.

You see, the church has been, and still is, God's primary instrument in this world today. It is through the church that billions of souls throughout the years have found an everlasting relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ. It is the church that is still responsible for taking God's message of hope in Christ to this lost, hurting, and dying world.

So do not be surprised that satan is working hard to destroy the church. Destroy the church through false teachings like "all good people will go to Heaven." Destroy the church by allowing blatant and unrepentant sin to be accepted and embraced. Destroy the church by denying the Bible to be God's inspired, inerrant Word, representing absolute truth, and our final authority in all matters. Destroy the church by doing everything possible to divide the Body of Christ. But NEVER forget that Jesus said the "gates of hell" will not overcome the church!

I love you and care about you so much. The battle lines are drawn. This is NOT a game. It is an all out war and the eternal souls of people are at stake. People are dying and going to hell for eternity every day. For the last 40 years, the church has been sitting back and playing defense and satan has been scoring lots of points. It is time for the church to start playing offense. We have the power of the Holy Spirit with us. NOTHING can stop us. We already know the final score. GOD WINS!!!

Paul wrote, "You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons." - 1 Corinthians 10:21

Like Elijah, I am challenging you today. If you are a Christian, then follow Christ. The battle lines are clearly drawn. Jesus said that you can't serve two masters. It is time to choose. Who are you going to follow?

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller