Daily Devotional for Sunday January 18, 2026

How to respond to the demonization of ICE! and, Sin is like quicksand!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL SUNDAY JANUARY 18, 2026

(Luke 15:18)

***Liveprayer Church***

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

God loves you my friend. Never forget that. Also, He is with you every step of your journey. Lean on Him when you get weary. He is your strength and your hope now and for all eternity.

***Daily Personal Prayer For You***

Deal Lord, please help me to be the man/woman of God You have called me to be in my home! I understand I have a spiritual responsibility to my spouse and children. Without You at the center of my home, it will not withstand the storms of life that are sure to come. Strengthen my faith this day and help me to take my stand for You, first in my home! May my family and I be living testimonies of Your love, mercy, and grace. In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!!!

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

The way to neutralize the bald faced lies and false narratives Democrats and the corporate media tell about ICE! In their zeal to find an issue, any issue to use against President Trump, the Dems and their allies in the media have latched on to the deportation efforts by Homeland Security, especially by the brave men and women of ICE. ICE is charged with enforcing our nation’s immigration laws that were passed by Congress. If they don’t want illegals deported, change the law!

After Renee Good tried to run down an ICE officer with her car and was shot and killed in self-defense, the Dems and media had their “George Floyd” moment. Sadly, primarily middle aged white women like Good became the target demographic for anarchists and those who hate the country to use as public pawns to push their agenda. Make no mistake, those organizing and financing these public operations to harass and criminally obstruct ICE from doing their job are happy Good was killed. HER DEATH NOW GIVES THEM A RALLYING POINT LIKE THE DEATH OF CAREER CRIMINAL AND LIFETIME DRUG ADDICT GEORGE FLOYD DID IN 2020!

To the average person who doesn’t follow the news closely, the scenes playing out in Minneapolis the last 10 days are disturbing when taken out of their full context. The carefully edited videos the media plays are designed to inflame passions and paint ICE as the bad guys. Throw in the never ending incendiary rhetoric from Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey, Democrat politicians, the lying talking heads on various news channels, and ICE begins to look like the Nazi Stormtroopers they are being likened to. They claim ICE is made up of untrained, white supremacists even tho over 50% of ICE officers are black and Hispanic. They lie without conscience to make ICE appear to be demons from hell!

Sadly, the response from ICE and those in the media who support President Trump have not been very effective is repudiating the demonization of ICE. These brave public servants literally put their lives on the line each day to remove some of the most evil and vile humans from around the world who were allowed to simply walk into our country during the 4 years of the illegitimate Biden regime. Walz and Frey refer to these illegals as their “neighbors.” How many of you want your neighbors to be child rapists, murderers, drug dealers, arms runners, robbers, home invaders, and members of the most dangerous gangs in the world? My guess is NOBODY!

The fact is those who support ICE have the perfect answer for the lies and false narratives being hurled at ICE 24/7. What is never spoken of is the fact ICE is operating daily in literally over a thousand counties across the nation each day. Why don’t you hear about their supposed reign of terror in any of those places? The answer is simple. The brave men and women of ICE are doing the same job across the nation they are doing in Minneapolis. Same people, same tactics, same job to round up people in this nation illegally.

The reason you don’t have the scenes we see being played out in Minneapolis in other places is the cooperation they get from local law enforcement. Illegal aliens in custody are handed off to ICE in the jails and prisons so they don’t have to chase them down in the community putting their lives and the lives of the public at risk. Local law enforcement shares intelligence with ICE to make their job of picking up illegals easier and safer for all involved. If there are organized mobs trying to obstruct ICE from enforcing the law, local law enforcement deals with them so ICE can focus on finding and arresting illegals.

None of that cooperation with law enforcement exists in Minneapolis and that is why we see the violent scenes from there each day. Out of all of their enforcement efforts of our immigration laws since Trump returned to the White House almost one year ago, the only places there have been trouble are in sanctuary cities like LA, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis. Even in these sanctuary cities other than Minneapolis there has been at least basic cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement.

The response to those demonizing ICE is simple, if ICE is the evil monsters you claim they are, why do they carry out the same job using the same training and tactics in thousands of counties across our nation every day without any of the issues and problems we see daily now in Minneapolis? ICE ISN’T THE PROBLEM, THE GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA, THE MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS, THE LACK OF COOPERATION BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS, AND 95% OF THE MEDIA ARE!!!

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***January Financial Update***

Praise the Lord! Thanks to the prayers and generous sacrifices of many in the Liveprayer family, we ended 2025 with a shortfall of just $80,000. So far we have covered $35,000 leaving a 2025 balance of $45,000. I am praying that we can clear up the balance of our 2025 shortfall over the next week so we can begin to work on the $55,000 we require for our January ministry operations. That is $100,000 to end January with all of our ministry operations current! 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."

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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

It is Sunday morning and the start of another week. So many of us from time to time in our lives get caught up in a rebellious lifestyle that leaves us empty, hurting, knowing what we must do . . . but not doing it. It would have been so much easier if God would have just not given us "free will" to make our own decisions. Then everything we did would be in accordance with His will and His plan for our lives.

But the fact is He did give us the ability to make our own choices, and in so doing, has given us the ability to live at times in total rebellion to what we know in our hearts is how He wants us to live.

Many of you are very uncomfortable reading this Devotional this morning, because it is bringing automatic conviction to you and where you are at in your life. God loves you. He cares about you. He only wants the best for you. That is why He is trying to get your attention before it gets any worse.

You see, sin is like quicksand, the longer you are it, the deeper you get, and the more difficult it is to get out. Many of you were not in church Sunday because the things in your life have so separated you from God, that you can't even be near His presence. Like Adam after his sin in the garden, you are hiding.

SIN IS LIKE QUICKSAND!

Life is not easy, and I am not here to judge you. I have enough problems in my own life to be judging others. But I am here to encourage you. God has made a way back for you today. If you are tired, can't deal with the pressure any longer, sick of the direction your life has taken, the Lord is speaking to you this morning, "come home".

Much like the prodigal son who was at the very lowest depths of despair, somehow he heard the voice that told him to "go home". When he arrived, he found a father not ready to punish him, but love him. Not ready to chastise him, but restore him. Your father is waiting for you today, with outstretched arms of love, simply saying to you this day . . . "come home".

I love you and care about you so much. I pray for you today, especially those caught up in some things you shouldn't. You know it isn't working. You know that things are a mess. You are tired of running, tired of hurting, tired of being tired. There is an answer. There is a way. God is calling you right now, to simply "come home to Him".

The problems don't go away, the consequences of your actions don't magically disappear. But by coming home, you start to deal with the issues, put them behind you, and become restored into fellowship with your God who loves you, and slowly, see the joy and peace and happiness return to your life.

Trust Him today, and "go home". I love you and will be praying for you!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and co-laborer in His work,

Bill Keller