Daily Devotional for Thursday December 19, 2024

Two very encouraging reports! and, "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!"

DAILY DEVOTIONAL THURSDAY DECEMBER 19, 2024

(1 Corinthians 15:57)

***Liveprayer Christmas Card 2024: https://liveprayer.com/mc24/

***DAILY DEVOTIONAL BLOCKS! Some Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail email users may have missed the last few Daily Devotionals. They have been blocking our emails over the past few days but our techs are working around the clock and close to getting around these blocks. Don't forget the current Daily Devotional is always on the Liveprayer.com homepage ( www.liveprayer.com ) each day at Midnight. Also, as we are now 12 days until the end of 2024, please be praying about a special year-end gift to Livprayer! For many, a gift to God's work here will help on your taxes since you are either going to give the money to the government to waste, or to Liveprayer to get HIS Truth out to the masses and save souls!!! Thank you and God’s richest blessings as we celebrate His birth!!!

***PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM BILL KELLER: Seek the Lord to be free from any bondage you may have to drugs, nicotine, and alcohol.

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, please help me to find your peace and joy in this coming weeks that we celebrate the birth of Jesus and the dawn of a new year. I need a break from the battles, from the challenges of daily life, and want to simply find your rest in the coming days. Help me to re-charge and be prepared to get back to facing all of the challenges life brings my way as the new year unfolds, but over these final days of 2024 give me your perfect peace. In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: Two encouraging reports. The first report showed a huge decline in teen drug use. The second report showed the use of marijuana, nicotine, and alcohol overall is down sharply. Coming out of the COVID years that saw a huge spike in alcohol and drug use, these two recent reports were very encouraging. I firmly believe the public exposure of the dangers of fentanyl and how it is used to spike street drugs like meth, coke, and opioids is a message that is resonating with the younger generation. That message along with the fact that virtually everyone has had a family member, friend, or acquaintance who has died from fentanyl is largely responsible for the decline in teen drug use. I am praying that with the new Trump Administration shutting down the border, taking on the Mexican cartels, and pressuring China to stop exporting the critical elements necessary to make fentanyl to those Mexican cartels will make this killer drug less available on our streets. I wish the decline in the use of pot, nicotine, and alcohol was due to people coming to faith in Jesus and turning from their old habits, but it seems be more of a cultural issue leading to this rejection. However, that makes sharing the Gospel with people much easier if they aren’t currently in bondage to drugs and alcohol. We get very little good news about the culture, but these two reports are worth celebrating!

*Don't miss the Liveprayer TV program, airing “LIVE” every Monday thru Friday from 11pm EDT to Midnight! For details on viewing options for the Liveprayer TV program, “LIVE” or “On Demand,” go to: https://liveprayer.com/liveprayer-show-about.cfm

***DECEMBER FINANCIAL UPDATE: AMEN! Thanks to the help of many in the Liveprayer family, we have cleared up the first $35,000 of our October ministry operations. So in the first week of December we still require the final $10,000 to clear up October, the $55,000 from November’s ministry operations, and the $55,000 for December’s operations.

That is a total of $120,000 to end 2024 with all of our ministry operations current. OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!

*******As we are now 12 days until the end of 2024, please be praying about a special year-end gift to Livprayer! For many, a gift to God's work here will help on your taxes since you are either going to give the money to the government to waste, or to Liveprayer to get HIS Truth out to the masses and save souls!!!

The Bible teaches us to “give according to our ability to give.” For some that may be $10 or $20. For others it may be $50 or $100. Still others it may be $200, $500, $1,000, $10,000 or more. GOD WILL BLESS YOUR GIFT NO MATTER WHAT THE AMOUNT!!!

ALSO, DON'T FORGET A GIFT OF $1,800 COVERS ONE DAY OF MINISTRY AT LIVEPRAYER!!! I received this email recently, “Pastor Bill, My wife and I have just sold our last rental and God told us to tithe $1,800.00 to pay for a day of your ministry. Not looking for accolades, just that you know when you receive the check. Rest assured that we will still be making our regular weekly tithes."

TO GIVE A GIFT TO LIVEPRAYER, you can use your major credit card at: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm or you can mail your gift to: Liveprayer, 6660 46th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33709. All gifts to Liveprayer are 100% tax deductible!

*STOCKS! A great way to help Liveprayer is by donating stock. The transfer can be made in a way you get the full credit for your donation without having to pay any of the taxes you normally would on gains your stocks may have enjoyed. Contact me for information about this incredible way to help God's work here at Liveprayer: bkeller@liveprayer.com

*LIVE ON AFTER YOU ARE IN HEAVEN!!! By remembering God's work here at Liveprayer in your will/estate planning, you can still help me share His Truth with the masses, be here for people in their time of greatest need, and help lead the lost to faith in Jesus even after God has called you home!!! God has led many of our friends in the Liveprayer family to remember His work here in their will. Please pray about this opportunity to continue and partner with me in the Lord's work at Liveprayer, even after you are enjoying your rewards and the eternal peace of Heaven! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at: bkeller@liveprayer.com

***Here are the social media sites where you can find Liveprayer and what is posted there: Facebook (1, 2, 3), Twitter (1, 2, 3), GAB ( 2, 3), Parler (2, 3), Clouthub (1, 2, 3), Rumble (2), TPN (2, 3), Gettr (2, 3), Telegram (2, 3), ROKU (1, 2). WE ARE ALSO NOW ON Sovren Media (2, 3), Mr. Pillow Mike Lindell's Frankspeech (2), Truth Social (2,3), and Frank Social (2,3). *Content posted: 1) Liveprayer TV “LIVE" Mon-Fri 11p-Mid EDT 2) Recent Liveprayer TV programs for “On Demand” viewing 3) Liveprayer Daily Devotional

***THE AUDIO OF THE TV PROGRAM IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MAJOR PODCASTING PLATFORMS!!! APPLE/I-TUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/liveprayer-with-bill-keller/id1696186297

***ALEXA! You can now listen to the audio of the TV program on your ALEXA. The first time you need to tell ALEXA to "enable Liveprayer." After that, simply say, "Play Liveprayer"

***Please watch and share the exciting new Bill Keller Docudrama at: https://www.liveprayer.com/bill.cfm

***How you can help Liveprayer! 1) Pray for Bill and the ministry team each day. 2) Encourage people you know to sign-up for the Daily Devotional at: https://www.liveprayer.com/signup.cfm 3) Share the TV program with people you know: https://liveprayer.com/liveprayer-show-about.cfm Here are the social media sites where you can find Liveprayer TV ‘live”, Liveprayer Facebook, Liveprayer Twitter, and the Liveprayer Church ROKU channel. For ON-DEMAND viewing, Liveprayer GAB, Liveprayer Rumble, Liveprayer TPN, Liveprayer Gettr, Liveprayer Telegram, Liveprayer Sovren Media, and Liveprayer on Mr. Pillow Mike Lindell's Frankspeech and Frank Social and Liveprayer on Trump's Truth Social. 4) Pray about helping Liveprayer with a gift at: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm

***REVIVAL TOOL!!! Do your part in helping to bring revival to our nation each day in less than 15 minutes and without costing you one penny! Join others by making this part of your daily routine! Visit the Liveprayer Revival Tool and share it with others at: www.liveprayer.com/revival.cfm *ALSO, THE DAILY REVIVAL TOOL IS MY WAY OF DISCIPLING YOU TO HELP YOU GROW IN YOUR FAITH. SO IT SERVES A DUAL PURPOSE! HERE IS A SPECIAL LINK THAT GIVES YOU THE PAST 30 DAYS OF THE REVIVAL TOOL VERSE FOR THE DAY, DAILY TASK, AND PRAYER: https://liveprayer.com/bill/revivalcheck.cfm

"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" 1 Corinthians 15:57

2025 will be a victorious year with your help!!! I want you to commit to memory today's anchor verse from 1 Corinthians 15:57, "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" As Liveprayer celebrated 25 years of ministry online this past August, I am asking today for your prayers and for your financial commitment to the Lord’s work here over the coming new year of 2025!

With a nation that is now post-God, post-Christian where the vast majority of the last 2 generations have never been to church, the presence of Liveprayer in our culture and world has never been more important or critical. We saw an unprecedented spike in prayer requests and ministry opportunities in 2024. With so many people hurting, lost, and without hope, I have no doubt we will even be busier in 2025 after God’s reprieved to our nation in the personal ministry we provide to tens of thousands worldwide each and every day!

Our 25+ years of faithful ministry, as public and transparent as any major ministry that exists, being part of your life day in and day out for over 2 decades, praying for and walking with you through the victories and defeats we all experience in this life, is why I come to you today at the dawn of a new year to humbly ask for your support. The fruit from this “good soil” known as Liveprayer is fertile ground to sow your seed in the coming year as God allows it to exponentially multiply in the hearts, lives, and eternal souls of those we reach all over the world each day!!!

***UNLIKE MOST CHURCHES AND MINISTRIES, I AM NOT INTERESTED IN HEARING WHAT COMMITMENT YOU HAVE BEEN LED TO MAKE TO SUPPORT GOD’S WORK HERE AT LIVEPRAYER DURING 2025. THAT IS A SOLEMN VOW BETWEEN YOU AND GOD. I ONLY ASK THAT YOU PRAY, SEEK THE LORD’S DIRECTION, AND BE OBEDIENT TO SACRIFICE EACH WEEK, OR MONTH, OR QUARTER, OR ONE SPECIAL GIFT FOR THE YEAR, THE AMOUNT THE LORD DIRECTS YOU TO SACRIFICE!!!

Over these 25+ years Liveprayer has been online and 22 years on non-Christian TV, I have often warned of the coming judgment of God upon this nation for our sins, gross wickedness, and turning from our Creator to the false gods and idols of the world. To deny that we are not just due, but overdue the wrath and judgment of God on our land is to deny reality. We have turned our back on our Creator and engage in every sin imaginable such as idolatry, gross sexual perversion, and infanticide.

After experiencing God’s grace and mercy on November 5th, WE OWE OUR GOD EVERYTHING WE HAVE UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH!

My friend, God's wrath and judgment is being poured out on this nation as we speak and it is intensifying with each passing day, week, month, and year!!! The reprieve of God allowing Trump to rise to power will not stop that, TURNING OUR NATION BACK TO THE LORD WILL! In the midst of this intense spiritual decline in our nation, I have been virtually alone in not just sounding the trump of warning that if we don't turn back to God and His Truth we are doomed as a nation, but in sharing a real plan to make that happen.

Like Nineveh, the pronouncement of God's judgment which will destroy this nation has been declared as has the only way to avoid that judgment. The only thing that remains to be seen is if we as a nation, will heed the warning and turn back to God and His Truth as the people of Nineveh did, or ignore the warnings and be destroyed! I am asking you to stand with me each day in 2025 in prayer, and for those who are able with your financial support.

Our monthly budget for 2025 is $55,000 per month, the same as it has been for the last 7 years despite the cost of everything rising exponentially as we all know from our personal finances. $55,000 a month is $660,000 for the year, or just a bit over $1,800 a day! To impact the lives we do each day for 2/3 of a million dollars is an incredible “loaves and fishes” miracle and certainly not much money in the world’s economy.

This is comparable to the budget of a local church with a congregation of 1,000 or less! In perspective, it is 2 of TD Jakes 7 new Bentley’s each year, the annual fuel cost for the private jets so many ministries fly around in, or half of the property taxes Joel Osteen pays on one of his numerous mansions!

For those who have been part of Liveprayer, you know Liveprayer is not about MONEY BUT MINISTRY!

Apx. 93 cents of every dollar Liveprayer receives goes directly towards the Lord’s work here. I can assure you that ALL major ministries and churches end up with at best 60 cents, more like 50 cents going to actual ministry after they pay the incredible overhead for staff, buildings, and other operational costs.

Please pray today and talk with your spouse, family, about making a commitment to the Lord...NOT TO ME...what God is calling you to sacrifice in this coming year. If just 30 families will commit to the Lord to sacrifice $1,800 a month to His work here at Liveprayer during 2025, our basic monthly ministry operations budget will be covered! If everyone else will simply give as they are able to give as the Bible instructs, since it is your heart and obedience God sees and not the amount, we will never have to worry about monthly shortfalls.

In these final days of 2024 please pray about what the Lord is calling you and your family to do as 2025 unfolds regarding a monthly commitment to His work here at Liveprayer. Of course whatever special gifts people may make during the year to Liveprayer would only go to strengthen our financial position to enable us to do many special charitable outreaches we have done over the years when we were financially able.

My friend, as a nation we are in a spiritual abyss. Most people are lost, confused, sad, and hurting. However, there are enough people today looking for true hope and true answers to spark a true revival across our nation! Let me assure you that this revival will NOT come through the church initially, if at all! The church is too political, weak, apathetic, compromised, fragmented, lost in its own agenda, and building their own fiefdoms to even care about building God's Kingdom or about the lost and hurting masses right outside of their very doors!

No my friend, this revival is going to come through people who this very moment are drunk, high, in prison, and lost in the lies of the cults, false religions, and new age movement. It will come through people in bed this very moment with someone who is not their spouse, those looking to cheat their neighbor out of money, as well as those who have never given God a thought in their life.

These are the people who will have their hearts softened to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who won't be bound by the shackles of the church world, who will be innocently on fire to tell everyone they know and those they don't about how Jesus changed their life and can change theirs too!

As 25+ years of Liveprayer have passed by, I have become more and more aware of God's plan to use this instrument He created in these final days to be a spark to this national revival. I never fully understood why God called someone who didn't even own a computer in late 1998 to begin an internet ministry, especially since there was no such thing at the time.

I never fully understood why God in 2003 called me to do a TV program, not on Christian stations, but secular stations. Not the typical pre-recorded preaching/teaching program, but a "live," interactive program dealing with the issues of the day from a Biblical worldview that most of the viewers were either ignorant of or had rejected.

During these many years and as we celebrated our 25th anniversary at the end of last August, the hundreds of millions of lives we had impacted online and through TV, over 210+ million emails for prayer we had received, prayed over, and responded to, the apx. 21 million praise reports we have archived, the apx. 2.1 million souls we know of who have accepted the Lord by faith, was what our work was about. Over the course of this year, God assured me the greatest fruit from our faithfulness and obedience was still to be realized in the coming days, weeks, months, and years should Jesus tarry!

The nation is now ready, it is ripe for a real national revival! The people are ready! They are aware there has to be more to life than what they are seeing and living each day!!!

Liveprayer.com and the Liveprayer TV program gives us a worldwide presence literally 24/7 the media and the world can't just ignore. IT IS A PRESENCE THAT IS EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO OPEN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE LOST WE REACH THAT THERE IS TRUE HOPE AND REAL ANSWERS IN GOD'S WORD AND IN A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST!!!

I love and care about you so much. After 25+ years of ministering to the lives of millions worldwide each day via Liveprayer.com and 22 years on TV, I fully understand the frustration of the prophets in the Old Testament. They lived and dedicated their lives to the Lord. They refused to compromise the Truth. They refused to sell out. Money was NOT their objective, doing God’s will was! Yet, they watched the priests of the day compromise and sell out and live lives of luxury while they were begging for crusts of bread to eat.

I know this. God has blessed Liveprayer over these many years because we have NOT compromised or sold out for filthy lucre!!! We have not asked people to help Liveprayer so we could buy private jets, luxury cars, mansions, and great buildings, but to boldly and without compromise share His Truth and the hope and love of Jesus Christ with the lost and hurting!

I humbly but boldly proclaim that Liveprayer is one of God's answer for this nation! Friends like you have prayed, sacrificed, and stood by my side to help me accomplish all we have over the past 2 1.2 decades plus. Whatever rewards there may be in Glory will be shared by every person who has prayed a prayer for or given even one dollar to Liveprayer!

Thank you my dear friend and know that you and your family are in my prayers each day. Together in 2025 we will help bring true revival to this nation and see many souls come to faith in Jesus Christ. With your prayers and your generous sacrifice each month or as you are able, 2025 will be a year of victory as my personal life verse declares, "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!"

In His love and service,

Your friend and co-laborer in His work,

Bill Keller