LivePrayerDaily Devotional for Wednesday May 7, 2025
Bill Keller was Pope before President Trump! and, Serving the Lord!
DAILY DEVOTIONAL WEDNESDAY MAY 7, 2025
(Matthew 6:2; Psalm 49:17; 1 Peter 1:24; Matthew 20:26, 23:11)
***PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM BILL KELLER: Because of Jesus, no matter what your current circumstances may be you can live your life in VICTORY!
**DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Lord, keep my mind free of the filth of this world. Cleanse it each day with Your Word and let my thoughts be Your thoughts. Help me this day to dwell on You and Your love as I live my life for Your glory. In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!
***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: The outrage over the AI generated picture of President Donald Trump as the Pope! The corporate media who literally hates Christians and the church, went berserk over the weekend because of a meme on the internet that had President Trump dressed up as the Pope. Of course they couched this as Catholics worldwide disgusted over this picture created to mock the Papacy. Like virtually everything out of their mouths that is a pure LIE! In reality, most Catholics saw it for the humorous meme that it was. No doubt some felt that it was in bad taste with the death of the Pope just a few weeks ago, but for the most part it was received for what it was...HUMOR! This came from a press question about the Pope when Trump responded that he would like to be the Pope. HE SAID IT IN JEST! Trump quickly added that if he was Pope he would not be able to stay married to Melania so that was out. Again, he was not mocking the Papacy, he was simply answering a questions posed to him by the press. What was appalling was the faux outrage by Catholics like NY Gov. Hochul and California Congressman Ted Lieu to name a few. These “good Catholics” are champions for the slaughter of innocent babies, for the perversion of God’s Holy Institution of Marriage, and advocating for every kind of sexual perversion known to man. So please, save me the moralizing from these enemies of Christ and His church!
For full disclosure, 17 yrs ago my TV crew created a video from than Pope Bendedicts visit to New York. As the video progresses instead of Pope Benedict riding in his Pope mobile it was ME, Bill Keller dressed as the Pope. For those longtime friends of Liveprayer I have stated on many occasions I would love to be Pope for 24 hours. The man who rules the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics has incredible power. Sadly, that power is used more for political purposes than spiritual purposes. The most recent Pope, Pope Francis was the epitome of a political Pope. In the early days of my ministry that started in Chicago 32 years ago, I became associated with a young priest who was one of the main players in the evangelism office of the Chicago Diocese. He had me preach in about a half dozen Catholic churches in the Chicagoland area. The priests of the parish officiated the service, but when it came time for the homily, or the sermon, I took over. I preached to those in the Catholic church just like I do to people in ANY church. It is sin that separates us from God, Jesus paid the price for our sins on the cross, and the only way back to God is through faith in Jesus. I gave an invitation for people to come forward to accept Jesus as I do in every church and media appearance, and afterwards invited people to come to the altar for special prayer. There was always a big response as people accepted Christ while many more came to the altar weeping over the needs in their life.
It was from those experiences that I stated on occasion that I would love to be Pope for 24 hours. I would be on TV in every nation in the world for those 24 hours broadcasting from a location near the ocean that would accommodate hundreds of thousands of people with the ocean right there to baptize the tens of thousands who would commit their life to Christ. I believe millions more would accept Jesus by faith around the world. So my portrayal of the Pope was not to mock the Catholic faith but out of frustration knowing what could happen if there was a true evangelist as the Pope.
Video of Rev. Bill Keller as Pope from 2008: https://youtu.be/sBI9JaSwa7Y?list=PLD24B2B047056612F
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One of the biggest traps there is in serving the Lord in this sinful world that we live in, is buying into the lie of satan that the Kingdom of God depends on what WE do each day.
I will never forget soon after answering the call God had on my life to go into full-time ministry, I learned this valuable lesson. One evening I was feeling very "important" about serving God. That evening in my quiet time, I was reading the last few chapters of Revelation, and the Holy Spirit asked me a simple question, "Where is your name?"
That question stopped me in my tracks. The fact is, as I read at the end of the book how our God wins, NOWHERE did it say that God wins because of Bill Keller! MY NAME IS NOT THERE! As a matter of fact, the Bible clearly says that God wins IN SPITE OF Bill Keller, or anyone else!
The point that I want to make today is that YES, we have ALL been called to allow God to use our lives to further His Kingdom. YES, God is pleased when we are faithful to serve Him as He leads us in our daily lives. YES, God will use our service to Him to bless many people and our faithfulness to fulfill His perfect plan. This is what God EXPECTS us to do.
We are not doing something so great when we serve God, we are only doing what we have been called to do when we accept Jesus as our Savior. SERVING GOD IS A COMMANDMENT TO ALL OF HIS CHILDREN! Never forget that God's plan will be fulfilled with, or without us!
If you really think about it, what an HONOR it is to have the God of the Universe, the Creator of all things, to give us the opportunity to serve Him! There is NO GREATER HONOR in this life. To serve God is not only our duty, but a privilege that He gives us that we should never take for granted.
While there are many things that we can do in our life that can have a profound effect on this world, it is ONLY the things that we do for God that will have a profound effect on eternity! Let me repeat this statement, because it is very deep. While there are many things that we can do in our life that can have a profound effect on this world, it is ONLY the things that we do for God that will have a profound effect on eternity!
That leads me to the subject of rewards. The Bible clearly speaks of "rewards" for our faithful service to God. What these "rewards" are, I have no idea. However, here is what I do know. God is the giver of all good and perfect things. God loves us so much, that He gave us His very best when He gave us Jesus to die for our sins so that we might be reconciled back to Him. Whatever comes from God is just not great, it is the BEST!
GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BLESSING! The Bible does not spell out what these "rewards" for our faithful service are, but since they come from God, they must be better than anything that we could think of!
Sadly however, many in service to God, decide not to wait for their Heavenly rewards, and instead settle for whatever little this temporary world that we live in can offer. That is like going through the McDonalds drive-thru for dinner, instead of waiting to sit down to a 7 course feast. ANY TIME THAT WE SETTLE FOR THE THINGS OF THIS TEMPORARY WORLD OVER WHAT GOD OFFERS, WE HAVE SETTLED FOR THE WORST, WHILE WE COULD HAVE HAD THE BEST!
This is not a condemnation on having nice things, on having a comfortable life while we are on this journey. However, some of God's choice servants have decided that they would rather have the "little" that they can get now, instead of waiting for the "much" that God has promised.
I love you and care about you so much. I want you to never forget each day how much GOD loves you! The only way that we can truly return that love is how we choose to live our day to day lives. Each day, we choose to love Him, or reject Him through the choices that we make in what we do with those 24 hours He blesses us with.
As a child of God, it is not a choice, but a commandment to serve Him. We show our love to God through our obedience, through our service to Him. For most, that is simply by being His "light" where He has planted us for this season. In our schools. In our jobs. Where we shop. Where we recreate. Simply by letting the love of Jesus flow from us to those that we meet in the course of our day to day lives.
For our faithfulness, God has promised us "rewards" when our work here is over. Satan will tempt us from time to time to "sell out" and accept the temporary rewards that this life can offer, sacrificing the eternal rewards that God has promised us. Let me encourage you today. While I cannot tell you what exactly those heavenly rewards will be, I can tell you that there is NOTHING that this world could offer to match what God can give us!
The WORD today is to serve God with your very lives each day, to never sell Him out for the short term benefits that this world may offer, and to know when this brief journey is over, we will not only be forever with our Lord, but enjoy the "rewards" that He has promised us for our faithfulness!
In His love and service,
Your friend and co-laborer in His work,
Bill Keller