Daily Devotional for Thursday October 23, 2025

Why do they hate the country and the good citizens who live here? and, Prepare now for your upcoming battle with Goliath!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL THURSDAY OCTOBER 23, 2025

(1 Samuel 17:11, 26, 34-37, 49-51)

***Personal Message For You From Bill Keller***

On three occasions over the 26+ years of Liveprayer we found ourselves at a difficult place only God could help us overcome. Today is the fourth, and the same God who moved on our behalf the last 3 times is the same God who will lead us to victory this time! In every case the Lord has used a human instrument! Today, I need everyone to pray and GIVE the most generous year-end gift you can! Satan is a liar and a loser!

We are still trying to clear up the final $15,000 from our August shortfall and the $55,000 from September. I am praying for several of our friends who God has blessed and enabled to help me with a special gift in the coming days to insure we at least clear up the August and September shortfall of $70,000. Pray, seek the Lord, and give as the Lord purposes in your heart! AMEN! To give a gift to Liveprayer at: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm

***Daily Personal Prayer For You***

Father, please help me to be more like Jesus each day. Help me to be kind to others, to care about others, to share the hope of the Gospel with others. I love Jesus and my greatest desire is to be more like my Savior each day. In the name of Jesus I pray…AMEN!!!

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

I told you during the Obama years that the political paradigm in this country has changed. It was no longer the power/money sharing game of the Rs vs. the Ds. It was now the Globalists vs. the Nationalists and is a zero sum game. That means at the end there will only be one winner and there will be on loser. It is analogous to two gladiators on the sands of the Coliseum. When the battle ends, one gladiator walks away with his life, the other is carried off the sands...dead.

Nothing highlights this like the issue of illegal immigration. Biden/Mayorkas purposely opened the borders of this country wide open, allowing apx. 20 million unvetted migrants from all over the planet to enter our country illegally. We had no idea who they were, what their life had been prior to coming here, or why they came her in the first place. A huge reason for Donald Trump’s historic win last November was due to people wanting our borders closed and the 20 million illegals deported.

So far our government has deported apx. 2.5 million illegals. With the recent passage of the Big Beautiful Bill billions of dollars are now being allocated to this effort so those numbers will go up dramatically. The only problem has been pro-immigration lawfare groups, friendly activist hacks in robes who bend over backwards to keep illegals from being deported, pro-immigration activists who organize violent groups to thwart efforts to deport illegals, and Democrats who want the illegals in the country to help change state demographics and add a million+ new Democratic voters.

We know a significant percentage of these illegals are mentally ill, come to our country with violent histories in their home country, and commit heinous crimes here in the US. Despite the clear public safety issue, that has not deterred those who work tirelessly to keep these illegals in the country. Those in this movement hate the USA, hate the great history of our nation, and hate the majority of the people who live here as a free people.

We learned Wednesday that the Democrats in the House will now have a national ICE TRACKER app on one of their webpages, and indicted NY AG Big Tish James is putting up something similar app for people in NY. Assaults on ICE agents is already up over 1,000%. A few weeks ago in Dallas a sniper killed two people at an ICE substation who he thought were ICE officers. They were actually 2 illegals.

All these apps will do is put brave ICE agents further at risk. It is not a matter if IF one or more are killed, only WHEN! At that moment their blood is on the hands of these Democratic Governors, Mayors, and all of those associated with keeping these illegals in the country. I have been asking the Liveprayer family to pray for their safety and I reiterate that request today. Pray for the brave men and women of ICE that the Lord will watch over and protect them and their families as they serve our nation in this critical function.

*Liveprayer TV is back on YouTube! The Liveprayer TV channel was on YouTube for 15 yrs until they banned us 5 yrs ago. The Liveprayer TV Show channel has been reinstated! We will be airing LIVE each night starting Monday 10/6 with all previous programs available for On Demand viewing. As of last Friday 9/26, we are posting each night’s program 10 minutes after it is over. Here is the direct link to the “Liveprayer Show” YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_BYkxZ95HKePlWilY5eVdQ

*Liveprayer TV Program airs “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

*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 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/75xloMRrL3azW89aKpR3h0

*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! Visit the Liveprayer Revival Tool and share it with others at: www.liveprayer.com/revival.cfm The database that gives you the past 30 days of the Revival Tool verse for the day, daily task, and prayer is at: https://liveprayer.com/bill/revivalcheck.cfm

***October Financial Update***

I need your help today. We ended September still requiring the final $30,000 from our August shortfall and the $55,000 we required for our September ministry operations or $85,000. So far $15,000 of that has come in during the first weeks of October bringing our shortfall down to $70,000. I am praying that we can clear up this shortfall in the coming days so we can work on the $55,000 we require for our October ministry operations in the final days of the month. OUR GOD IS ABLE!

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 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, 6662 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

As you read these words today, I know that at some point in your life you will have to battle Goliath. One of the reasons I exhort you each day to stay close to the Lord through time in prayer and the Word, through being in church to get that spiritual nourishment, to be in fellowship with other Believers, to find ways to serve God, is because we all have those sentinel moments in life when we will have to fight Goliath. At that moment you will either cower in your tent and refuse to fight like the armies of Israel and let your fear defeat you, or you will confidently go onto the battlefield knowing that victory is already yours like David did.

The word I want you to hear for your life today is that you will one day have to fight Goliath. It is not a matter of if, only when. Listen to me very closely now. You don't defeat Goliath when you actually fight him, you defeat Goliath before you ever step onto the battlefield. This is very deep so let me say it again and listen carefully. You don't defeat Goliath when you actually fight him, you defeat Goliath before you ever step onto the battlefield! Let me explain.

When you step onto the battlefield to fight Goliath, you are not going to have time to learn how to fight, you are not going to have time to come up with a strategy how to defeat the giant, you are not going to have time to develop the faith and trust in God to lead you to victory. These are all the things you better already know and have. If you don't, it is no wonder why you would be afraid and are defeated before your battle with Goliath even begins.

Look at David. When he walked onto the battlefield with Goliath, he KNEW he would be victorious. How did he know that? He had fought battles in the past and had been victorious. When he was guarding his father's sheep, he battled with a lion and won. When he was guarding his father's sheep, he battled with a bear and won. David had been in battle before. He knew how to fight. More important, he had developed a great faith in God who gave him the strength to win those battles.

So when David was preparing to fight Goliath, he already knew that the same God who delivered him from the paw of the bear, the same God who delivered him from the paw of the lion, was the very same God who would deliver him from the Philistine giant Goliath!!!

This is why I stress to you so often how critical it is to be in the Word every day, to be in prayer every day, to fellowship with other Believers, to be in church and be fed spiritually, to find ways to serve the Lord. All of these things you do each and every day help build you up spiritually and strengthen your faith, while you fight the daily battles of life and God leads you to victory. That way when you have your showdown with a real giant like Goliath, you can go into that battle with the confidence and knowledge that the same God who has led you to victory in the past is the very same God who will lead you to victory today.

I love you and care about you so much. My word for you today is PREPARE! Prepare now for your battle with Goliath. It is not a matter of if that battle will happen, it is only a matter of when. The time to win that battle is now before it ever happens. Faithfully pray each day, faithfully read the Word each day, faithfully fellowship with other Believers, faithfully go to church to be fed spiritually, faithfully serve God. It is your faithfulness NOW that will lead you to victory when you fight Goliath.

I will be praying for you. Praying for you to know VICTORY in your life over those day-to-day battles we all face. It is watching God lead you to those daily victories that will give you the confidence and faith to trust Him when the major battles arise. God is a God of VICTORY.

Let me leave you with this Truth. The same God who led you to victory over your battles 10 years ago, the same God who led you to victory over your battles 5 years ago, the same God who led you to victory over your battles last year, the same God who led you to victory over your battles last month, is the VERY SAME GOD who will lead you to victory over your battles tomorrow and lead you to victory when you fight Goliath!

In His love and service,

Your friend and co-laborer in His work,

Bill Keller