Daily Devotional for Monday March 16, 2026

Spring Break can be fun, but it can also be DEADLY!!! (A must read for ALL young adults!)

DAILY DEVOTIONAL MONDAY MARCH 16, 2026

(1 Corinthians 6:18; 2 Timothy 2:22; Ephesians 5:18; James 4:7)

***NEW Liveprayer Prayer by Phone!!!***

Liveprayer founder Rev. Bill Keller is now making available a FREE daily personal prayer by phone! Each day at the time you designate, you will get a personal call from Bill with a special prayer for you. If you don’t answer, the special prayer will go to your voicemail or you can simply call back the number to listen to that day’s prayer for you. How encouraging will be it in the midst of your day to get a call from Rev. Bill Keller with a special pray for you that day! To sign up, go to: https://asterisk.liveprayer.com/index.cfm

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

DO NOT be silence when it comes to the Gospel and the Truth of God's Word. SPEAK OUT for the Bible proclaims the very rocks will cry out!!!

*As people are already starting to receive their tax refunds, many receiving much more than expected due to the Trump tax cuts, please be praying about sending a tithe to God’s work here at Liveprayer to me save souls off of that tax refund! Amen!

***Prayer***

Dear Lord, please watch over me today and keep me from all harm. I look to You for protection from the evil in this world. Father, You know my challenges today. I give them to You. Let me be about Your business today, as I know You will be about mine. In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

Revered Bible teacher J. Vernon McGee said, "When you read the newspaper, open your Bible."

TODAY’S DAILY DEVOTIONAL IS ABOUT THAT WONDERFUL TIME OF YEAR KNOWN AS SPRING BREAK. IT ALSO BECOMES A NIGHTMARE FOR MANY SPRING BREAKERS. PLEASE MAKE SURE ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO WILL BE GOING OFF TO SPRING BREAK READS THIS WARNING. IT COULD SAVE THEIR LIFE!!! FENTANYL IS THE DRUG USED IN OPERATING ROOMS TO PUT PEOPLE UNDER FOR SURGERY. IT IS ADMINISTERED BY AN ANESTHESIOLOGISTS WHO HAS GONE TO MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR 4 YEARS PLUS YEARS OF RESIDENCY. THEY ADMINISTER 25 MICROGRAMS OF FENTANYL, WAIT A FEW MINUTES AND ADMINISTER 25 MORE FOR A TOTAL OF 50 MICROGRAMS. THEY ARE THERE EVERY SECOND MONITORING THE PATIENT'S VITALS. 250-400 MICROGRAMS OF FENTANYL CAN KILL YOU!!! STREET COCAINE, METH, AND HEROIN ARE NOW BEING LACED WITH FENTANYL BY ILLITERATE DROP-OUTS! THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY WEEK ARE DYING FROM FENTANYL POISONING. BUY DRUGS DURING SPRING BREAK AND YOU ARE LITERALLY PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH YOUR VERY LIFE!!!

ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT GO TO MEXICO!!! THERE ARE MAJOR CARTEL WARS PLUS TARGETED KIDNAPPINGS OF AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS ALL THROUGHOUT MEXICO. IT IS NOT SAFE AND THERE ARE TOO MANY OTHER PLACES TO GO FOR SPRING BREAK WITHOUT PUTTING YOUR LIFE IN JEOPARDY, JUST BY WHERE YOU CHOOSE TO GO!!!

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***March Financial Update***

Praise the Lord! Thanks to the prayers and sacrifices of many in the Liveprayer family, we have covered the balance of our January shortfall. Amen! That means we can begin to work on the $55,000 we required during February and the $55,000 we will require during March. So far we have covered the first $10,000 of our February shortfall leaving the final $45,000. That is $100,000 to end March with all of our finances 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."

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!

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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 spring break. Young men and women are flocking to places like South Padre Island in Texas, Panama City in the Florida Panhandle, Daytona Beach in Florida, 2 other iconic Florida destinations, South Beach and Ft. Lauderdale, various hot spots in Mexico (WARNING! STAY AWAY FROM MEXICO DUE TO THE CARTEL VIOLENCE AND TARGETED KIDNAPPINGS OF AMERICANS!), as well as places like Jamaica and other beach and lake destinations in the U.S. and abroad. While the official reason for these few days away from family and school is "Spring Break," the real reason for going is to let loose and party. Young adults go to Spring Break for three things, SEX, ALCOHOL, AND DRUGS, or what I simply call SAD.

Is it unfair to say that the only reason young adults go to Spring Break is to have sex, drink, and do drugs? Yes, but sadly the statistics over the past decade clearly tell us that is what the vast majority end up doing whether that was their initial goal or not. Even "good kids" who would never think of having sex until they get married, who don't drink, who would never do drugs, find themselves away from home in a far-off place where nobody really knows them, being immersed in a scene that is promoting sex, alcohol, and drugs non-stop, and around other kids who have clearly come to have wild uninhibited sex, drink until they pass out, and take illegal drugs.

It reminds me of that passage of Scripture that says to "flee from temptation." If sex, alcohol, and drugs are not your goal during Spring Break, why would you ever want to put yourself in an environment and around others who clearly have that as their stated desires? Can a young adult go to Spring Break and not have sex, not drink, not do drugs? Of course! However, knowing that is what Spring Break is all about, knowing that is what most young adults go to Spring Break for, if in fact you are not interested in those things why would you go to begin with?

Joseph didn't stand around in the presence of Potiphar's wife who came on to him and wanted to have sex with him. He literally RAN from her. Let's be honest. Joseph was a man of flesh and blood. My guess is Potiphar's wife was probably a gorgeous woman. On top of that, this gorgeous MARRIED woman made it very clear that she wanted to have sex with Joseph. At that point he really only had two choices. Stay and probably fall into sin with this woman, or run from her and honor God. Could Joseph have stayed, tried to reason with her, and not had sex? Of course! However, Joseph knew that he was weak, and rather than try to see how strong he was, got up and ran from temptation.

Listen, every year after Spring Break I get deluged with emails from young men and women who are back home or back in school after Spring Break. Some know the Lord, others don't, but the emails every year are the same. They are riddled with guilt because they ended up having sex with someone. Oh, and this just in, oral sex is sex! Many drank for the first time or did drugs for the first time. Those who have drank and/or done drugs in the past, drank more than ever and did drugs they have never used before while on Spring Break.

It would be bad enough if some guilt and shame were the only aftermath of Spring Break, but those are the ones who got off the easiest from their time of rebellion by indulging in the pleasures of the flesh. Most were dealing with more dire consequences from their sins. Things like unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases (some that they will have the rest of their life), girls who had pictures or videos taken of them flashing their bodies, men and some women who got into fights, finances ruined by maxing out credit cards and using funds needed for school, various injuries, auto accidents, are just a few of the real life consequences many young adults had to face after Spring Break.

What clearly drives this sinful, hedonistic behavior during Spring Break is alcohol and illegal drugs. As a matter of fact, let me tell you that well over 90% of the sins I deal with each day in people's lives involve alcohol and/or drugs. Most young adults are not experienced at drinking, and under the influence of alcohol make choices, do things they would never dream of doing while sober. The same goes for the use of illegal drugs. Each drug affects a person in different ways, and young adults on Spring Break using illegal drugs recreationally will have their minds altered to the extent they will make choices, do things that they would never even consider doing if they were not high.

IT IS THE CHOICES YOU MAKE, THE THINGS YOU DO WHILE DRUNK AND/OR HIGH THAT CAN CHANGE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, OR LITERALLY COST YOU YOUR VERY LIFE!!!

*I can guarantee you that almost 100% of the people who email me for prayer each year after Spring Break would not be in the situation they were in if they had not been drinking and/or using illegal drugs.

For those of you who are laughing right now, thinking that I am making a big deal out of nothing, that Spring Break is just harmless fun, let me share with you a recent example from the news to drive home the point that we are talking about something that could literally cost you your very life. A couple years ago, a 24-year-old grad student in New York went out on a Saturday night drinking. A few days later they found her dead body in a garbage dump. She had been sexually assaulted, tortured, butchered, killed, and her dead, mutilated, bound body discarded in an empty lot like an old sofa.

As that tragic story unfolded, what was known is that this young woman began the last night of her life out drinking with friends. As one bar closed, she went by herself to another bar and was there drinking until it closed at 4 a.m. At some point after leaving the bar in a highly intoxicated state, she was abducted by a sick and demented predator, sexually violated, tortured, and killed. Does a woman who uses poor judgment by getting drunk and being alone at 4 a.m. deserve to be killed? Am I blaming this woman who was killed? Absolutely not! However, they become the easy prey these sick and demented predators are looking for.

It is dangerous enough for a woman to be out alone at 4 a.m. When you add being intoxicated or high on drugs, you now have a very dangerous situation where someone could easily lose their life. Young women and men in a strange city or even strange country for Spring Break that are out in the bars in the early morning hours become easy targets for rapists, robbers, and predators of all kinds who are looking for people in a vulnerable state to take advantage of. Being out in the early morning hours, especially drunk and/or high, is very dangerous and can even cost you your life.

I love you and care about you so much. What I am sharing with you today is not meant to keep people from having fun in their life, it is to insure people have fun in their life. Don't ever forget, satan is a liar and his goal is to kill, steal, and destroy...YOU! Satan says having sex outside of marriage is fun. Tell me how much fun it is to be young, not married and having the responsibility of caring for and raising a baby, or how much fun it is to have a STD for the rest of your life, or how much fun it is to deal with all the emotions of being involved with a person sexually you are not committed to for life in marriage, or how much fun it is to carry the guilt of knowing you are living in rebellion to God by having sex outside of God's plan for marriage.

Satan says getting drunk and high are fun Tell me how much fun it is to drink or get high and start saying and doing things you would never do with a clear mind, or how much fun it is to have a hangover or the hard "down" from being high, or how much fun it is to get a DUI, or how much fun it is to get sick and throw up all over the place, or how much fun it is to wake up and not remember what you did the night before, or how much fun it is when you get into bondage to alcohol and/or drugs and need it every day.

Satan uses illicit sex, drinking, and illegal drugs to destroy lives at every age, especially young adults who get caught up in these activities before they really understand life or how dangerous they are. Spring Break has become that time of the year when satan tempts many good kids who are away from home and in an environment where they can easily have sex, drink, do drugs without anyone knowing. Another lie, since God knows! Spring Break has become a trap to lure young adults into the world of illicit sex, alcohol, and drugs under the guise of just having fun when engaging in these activities can bring you great harm, destroy, and even cost you your life.

I will be praying for you today, especially those young adults preparing to go to Spring Break in a few weeks who are reading these words. God loves you so much. He only wants the best for your life. He has a wonderful plan and purpose for your life. That plan and purpose will only unfold as you yield your life to Him. God gave you life and life abundantly. The lie of this world is that to have fun you have to engage in acts of rebellion to God. In reality, those acts of rebellion aren't fun at all, they are harmful.

There are tons of things young adults can do to have true fun that don't include acts of rebellion against God. In these last days when the lie has been told so long and so loud, and most young adults have fallen for the lies of the satan that enjoyment is found in sex, alcohol, and drugs, I am praying that those young men and women who know the Lord will take a stand for Christ this Spring Break. You can show your peers that you can still have fun without having sex, you can still have fun without alcohol, and you can still have fun without doing drugs. This Spring Break, I pray there will be plenty of girls (and guys) gone wild for Jesus!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller