LivePrayerDaily Devotional for Friday December 5, 2025
Two examples of this fallen world we live in! and, What it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ!
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FRIDAY DECEMBER 5, 2025
(Matthew 16:24; Luke 14:33; John 12:26, 15:8; 1 Peter 2:21)
***CHRISTMAS FOR SINGLE MOTHERS***
After much prayer and despite still needing $130,000 to end this year with all of our financial needs current, I have taken a huge step of faith and am announcing that as we have done virtually every year since Liveprayer began over 26 years ago, we will be helping out single mothers this Christmas. We will be helping 30 single mothers with a gift of $200 so they can insure their children have something under the tree and a nice Christmas meal. As in past years, all I ask is that these single mothers we help go to church with their children on Christmas! I never ask people to do something I don't do myself, and am giving into my personal need by taking care of 10 of the 30. If God is leading you to help me take care of any of the other 20, just make sure you mark on your $200 credit card or check gift that it is for the Single Mothers Christmas.
What I need is for those who want to be considered, send me a short email with your name, address, and phone number. I need to know how many children you have and their ages. Lastly, a brief description of why you need this help. PLEASE, AS IN YEARS PAST WE WILL GET INUNDATED WITH REQUESTS. IT WILL BE FIRST COME. PLEASE DON'T BE UPSET IF WE AREN'T ABLE TO HELP YOU, SINCE WE CAN ONLY HELP 30 SINGLE MOTHERS. PLEASE KNOW IF WE CAN'T HELP YOU, WE WILL BE HERE PRAYING FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN! Email request to: bkeller@liveprayer.com and put SINGLE MOTHER in the subject line. God bless you and enjoy this blessed celebration of the birth of Jesus!!!
***Personal Message For You From Bill Keller***
Take a moment to tell God thank you for all of His blessings in your life each day, many of which we have simply taken for granted.
Thanks to a couple special year-end gifts and others giving as they were able as the Bible teaches, we have cleared up the final $40,000 of our September shortfall and so far the first $35,000 of our October shortfall. God is great! That leaves the final $20,000 from October, the $55,000 from November, and the $55,000 we will require in December or $130,000 over the final 27 days of December to end the year with all of our ministry operations current. OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!
With only a few weeks until the end of 2025, 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!!! To give a gift to Liveprayer: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm
By the way I have been seeking the Lord since the start of this year for God to lead someone He has blessed richly to make a legacy gift of $15,000,000 to Liveprayer. That would insure that when God decides to call me home Liveprayer will continue to impact lives and lead lost souls to faith in Jesus for a minimum of 20 years. Please stand in agreement with me for the Lord to raise up that person!
***Daily Personal Prayer For You***
Dear Lord, please help me to protect the things I see and hear each day to keep my mind and thoughts pure. Protect me Lord, and let me filter out the filth of this evil world that is designed to destroy my life. In the name of Jesus I pray, AMEN!!!
***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***
Two examples of this fallen world we live in today! The first is something I have been warning the Liveprayer family about for many years now, especially in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June of 2022. While we were all grateful that after nearly a half century the Federal government was out of the baby killing business sending the issue back to each state to decide. I warned the Liveprayer family that we can’t celebrate too long since the baby killers had a new weapon to continue their passion for infanticide, THE HOME ABORTION PILL!
In the years prior to COVID (2020), the professional baby killers led by Planned Parenthood had come up with a new way to keep killing innocent babies while not having to physically perform those murders in their clinics. They began giving women the pills mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone is taken first, 2 days later the woman take misoprostol to literally cause a miscarriage where the baby dies. Up until COVID hit, a woman had to physically go to an abortion clinic, be interviewed by a baby killing doctor, and then was sold the 2 pills to kill their baby at home. For the record, the pills cost the equivalent of having an abortion in a clinic.
As COVID hit and people were forced to stay home, engaging in the social distancing and masking scams, baby killing clinics changed their rules for getting the home abortion pills. Women could be interviewed by the abortion doctors thru Zoom, Facetime, or some other video hookup. Once the interview was completed the pills were mailed to the woman. Not a shock, in the aftermath of COVID as things got back to normal, the temporary COVID practice of a video interview and mailing the pills became permanent.
As I have been sharing, despite taking the Federal government out of killing babies and leaving that issue to each state to decide, the actual number of babies being slaughtered in the US has gone up! That is because of the ease of sending the home abortion pills to women via the mail! It allows women in a state like Texas that has outlawed abortion to get the pills mailed to her in order to kill her baby at home. Recently we have learned of another disgusting byproduct of making these pills available via the mail, and that is an emerging black market of MEN buying these pills!
Why would men be buying these home abortion pills? His wife is pregnant, or his girlfriend, or someone he simply had sex with who is now pregnant. He orders these home abortion pills on the black market, they are mailed out to him, and then he spikes a woman’s drink or food with the pills that causes her to have a miscarriage ending in the death of the baby. It is an evil and sick world my friend, but sadly this issue of men killing a baby without the knowledge of the woman is happening more than people realize.
The second example centers around a supposed Christian church and Christmas. In Evanston, Ill, a suburb of Chicago that is the home of Northwestern University, the Lake Street Church of Evanston has a nativity scene in front of the church. However, this is not just your standard run of the mill church nativity scene, IT IS A POLITICAL STATEMENT! The first thing you notice is baby Jesus has his hands zip tied. Mary and Joseph are wearing gas masks to protect them from pepper spray or other types of gas used by law enforcement. There are a couple of Roman soldiers who represent ICE agents.
PURE BLASPHEMY AND A DISGUSTING REPRESENTATION OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS BY A SATANIST ORGANIZATION, LET ALONE FOR A SUPPOSED CHRISTIAN CHURCH!!
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***December Financial Update***
Thanks to a couple special year-end gifts and others giving as they were able as the Bible teaches, we have cleared up the final $40,000 of our September shortfall and so far the first $35,000 of our October shortfall. God is great! That leaves the final $20,000 from October, the $55,000 from November, and the $55,000 we will require in December or $130,000 over the final 27 days of December to end the year with all of our ministry operations current. OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!
With only a few weeks left until the end of 2025, 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!!! To give a gift to Liveprayer: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm
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
By the way I have been seeking the Lord since the start of this year for God to lead someone He has blessed richly to make a legacy gift of $15,000,000 to Liveprayer. That would insure that when God decides to call me home Liveprayer will continue to impact lives and lead lost souls to faith in Jesus for a minimum of 20 years. Please stand in agreement with me for the Lord to raise up that person!
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
Today, I want to share with you a very special message on what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. I was sitting in my office late Friday afternoon several years ago. The week was winding down. I was feeling physically and mentally drained, It was one of those quiet reflective moments alone with the Lord and I was asking Him to fill me afresh with His Spirit.
Moments later I was checking my email before heading to the gym for my daily workout when an email caught my eye. It was from someone who said that the message below reminded him of me. As I read the words he sent, I was mesmerized by the words I was reading. When I finished, I was sitting all alone in the quiet of my office and tears were streaming down my cheeks. I remember asking the Lord to please, let this be me today, tomorrow, and forever.
I want to share those powerful words with you today. I spent the many days researching their origin. While numerous people have claimed authorship, it is apparent that the author of these powerful words is unknown. They were most likely penned by a martyred missionary in Zimbabwe or an African pastor who gave his life for the faith.
I want to you to do me a favor and stop whatever you are doing. NO MULTITASKING! Turn off the TV, your cell phone, all of your devices. If you are in your office, tell everyone to leave you alone for a few minutes and lock the door. If you are at home, make sure you have a few moments of complete peace and quiet. Wherever you may be reading this, stop everything and fully concentrate on the words I am going to share with you today.
I've separated this into 16 powerful thoughts. Take each one separately and meditate on what it means and how it applies to you. These 16 thoughts pretty well sum up all I have written to you over the course of these past 26+ years. They define what I have challenged you each day to become as a follower of Jesus Christ. I had a copy made for my home and office. I want to read these words EVERY DAY to remind myself who I am, and who I am supposed to be as follower of Jesus Christ. Please, read these words, meditate on them, and let them bless you today as they have so richly blessed me.
Author Unknown
"I'm a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made.
I'm a disciple of His and I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still.
My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure.
I'm done and finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity.
I don't have to be right, or first, or tops, or recognized, or praised, or rewarded.
I live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by Holy Spirit power.
My face is set. My gait is fast. My goal is heaven.
My road may be narrow, my way rough, my companions few, but my guide is reliable and my mission is clear.
I will not be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice or hesitate in the presence of the adversary.
I will not negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ.
I am a disciple of Jesus!
I must give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes.
And when He does come for His own, He'll have no problems recognizing me. My colors will be clear!"
I love you and care about you so much. Please let this message encourage you and challenge you to be a true follower of Jesus Christ. As you read these words over and over, let the Holy Spirit convict you of those areas you need to do a better job in as a follower of our Lord. I pray that this will be a sentinel moment in your walk with the Lord.
If you ever wanted to see a description of what it means to be a follower of Jesus, this is it. I can promise you one thing, if you will work hard each day to become a living example of what each one of these words describe, the world will never doubt who you belong to! I challenge you today to let these words describe YOUR LIFE as a follower of Jesus Christ!
In His love and service,
Your friend and co-laborer in His work,
Bill Keller