LivePrayerDaily Devotional for Sunday December 21, 2025
Take family members and friends to church with you this Christmas! and, Churches who close on Christmas Sunday!
DAILY DEVOTIONAL SUNDAY DECEMBER 21, 2025
(Psalms 122:1; Hebrews 10:25; Luke 2:15)
***Liveprayer Christmas Card 2025***
From Rev. Bill Keller and Liveprayer, you and your family have a most blessed celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!! Liveprayer Christmas Card: https://liveprayer.com/mc25/
***Liveprayer Church***
Haven't been to church yet this week? Join me for this week's service at the LivePrayer Church. This week's message is: “The Second Coming and our Gift to God!” Please visit the website at: http://liveprayerchurch.com and be part this week's worship service. Each Sunday there will be a new service at 12:01am EST
***Personal Message For You From Bill Keller***
Make plans for you and your family to attend church this Christmas, and take some friends with you!
I need your help in these final days of 2025! So far we have cleared up the first $45,000 of our October shortfall. God is great! That leaves the final $10,000 from October, the $55,000 from November, and the $55,000 we will require in December or $120,000 over the final 11 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***
Please Lord, give me the strength that when tested, I will not be silent nor will I be afraid to tell YOUR TRUTH! Give me courage, give me strength, and let me stand strong for You no matter what the personal consequences! In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!
***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***
Will you and your family be going to church this Christmas? Even though Christmas this year is on a Thursday, the preceding Sunday December 21st is the day most churches will celebrate Christmas. With the better percentage of the last 3 generations having never gone to church, those numbers are showing up in the number of people who are attending church on Christmas.
Several generations ago even people who were not regular churchgoers, or even identified as a born-again Christian, would go to a church service on Christmas. That is no longer true! A survey of Americans showed 47% would attend church this Christmas, 48% would not, and 5% weren't sure. A survey of Protestants showed 57% would attend church on Christmas, 58% of Catholics would attend, while only 21% of non-religious affiliated would go to church this Christmas.
When the survey was taken of those who considered themselves to be Evangelicals, 72% stated they would be in church this Christmas. Christmas even more than Easter, is the one time of the year that Believers have the greatest opportunity to bring a non-saved family member or friend to Christmas. Tell that unsaved family member or friend that instead of a gift, just come to church with me for our Christmas service.
There is no doubt that the great Christmas carols even non-Believers grow up being aware of is a big factor in getting people into the pews for a Christmas service. My challenge to you this Christmas is to get as many of your unsaved family members and friends to go with you to your church for Christmas service. Of course this is with the understanding YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL BE GOING! Make this the most blessed Christmas ever for you and your family and that begins with church for Christmas!
*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
***December Financial Update***
I need your help in these final days of 2025! So far the first $45,000 of our October shortfall has come in. God is great! That leaves the final $10,000 from October, the $55,000 from November, and the $55,000 we will require in December or $120,000 over the final 11 days of December to end the year with all of our ministry operations current. OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!
With only a few days 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
I thought I heard it all. I really thought that after everything I see and hear each day, made it impossible for me to be shocked any longer. Boy was I wrong! My years ago Christmas fell on a Sunday. I started getting emails from people asking me what I thought about the fact their church was going to be closed on Christmas. I assumed that these were isolated cases of some very misguided pastors.
Please understand me, we were not talking about businesses closing on Christmas we were talking about CHURCHES! As Christmas Sunday approached, I was getting more and more emails from all over the country about their church being closed on Christmas. Over recent years there has been a growing number of churches that close on the Sunday before or after Christmas. Talk about spiritual malpractice!
This only makes my point when I addressed the "controversy" surrounding secular department stores that won't say "Merry Christmas." We, as Believers, are outraged at a lost world who won't celebrate and promote the birth of the Jesus they reject, yet, the very churches that are God's instruments on this earth for that purpose choose to close on the Sunday before or after Christmas! As I have stated often, rather than influencing our world, we have allowed this world to influence us!
I have been on the phone the past few days speaking to a few pastors who have decided NOT to hold services on the Sunday before or after Christmas. In fairness to them, I really wanted to hear their heart and reasoning for making this decision. I had to assume that there was something I was missing. In each case, I heard the same basic reasons for not holding services on the Sunday before or after Christmas. "It is a time for families to be together." "We need so many people to logistically be able to hold services, and wanted those people to be able to have the day off with their families." "Not enough people come out to our Christmas service."
These pastors I spoke to are right about one thing. Christmas IS a day for families and there is NO BETTER PLACE for a family to start their Christmas celebration than at church! As for the people who serve their churches in so many different capacities, what better way to spend a few hours on the Sunday we celebrate the birth of Jesus than by serving Him!
Lastly, since when was opening the doors of the church about how may showed up? The reality is, Christmas and Easter are the two time of the year a HUGE portion of people who call themselves Christmas ever darken the doorstep of a church. It is also the time of year many who are not Believers have a desire to be in church. Other than Easter Sunday, Christmas is the greatest evangelistic opportunity of the year!!!
I would like to encourage any pastors out there who have planned to close your church down on the Sunday before or after Christmas, PRAY ABOUT THIS AGAIN! Christmas Sunday is a gift from God and rather than closing, you should be having EXTRA services!!! This should not only be a time of great celebration for your church family, but for your community. Don't you realize that in EVERY family there are people who are lost and without the hope we have in Jesus? If there was EVER a day to get that family member in church it is on the Sunday we celebrate Christmas!
In addition to holding services for your church family, you are holding those services for your community. Again, there are more people than you realize who profess to being a Christian who will only go to church on Easter and Christmas. In addition, there are those who are not saved, who spent their childhood in church and Christmas Sunday is the one day of the year that they are open to coming to church.
Every church should be advertising and promoting in their community their Christmas services, knowing that you will have people come just because it is Christmas. This is the day you bring out your best salvation message and give those who come an opportunity to accept Christ as their Savior!
Let me encourage you today that if your church is closed on the Sunday before or after Christmas, don't let that stop you from going to a service and celebrate the birth of our Lord this Christmas. Get your family, get your neighbors, load up the car and find a church that is open and holding services for Christmas. If there was EVER a day to be in church it is Christmas. There is NO BETTER WAY for you to celebrate this blessed event than by being in God's house.
I love you and care about you so much. I am praying today for those pastors who have made the decision to close their churches on Christmas to reconsider this horrible decision. You are missing one of the greatest opportunities ever to do what God has called you to do. I am praying today for those pastors who will be holding services this Christmas, to do all you can to encourage your church family and the community to come out and attend this wonderful celebration of our Lord's birth.
I am also praying for each person who is reading this today to make the time on the Sunday before or after Christmas to go to church, take as many of your family and friends as you can, and experience the great joy in celebrating that wonderful event that took place over 2000 years ago in Bethlehem when God sent the greatest gift ever to this world--Jesus! There is no greater time to be in church than on Christmas celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!!
In His love and service,
Your friend and co-laborer in His work,
Bill Keller