Daily Devotional for Thursday April 23, 2026

Virginia and the fight for the soul of our nation! and, Would you publicly forgive someone who killed your family member?

DAILY DEVOTIONAL THURSDAY APRIL 23, 2026

(Mark 11:25; Colossians 3:13)

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

Don’t let this just be another day, make today special!!!

*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***

Oh Lord, I am so thankful for this day. I give You all glory and honor for the blessings You have bestowed on my life. So often I take Your blessings for granted. Let me remember each day to take time to thank You for Your grace and mercy in my life. May I show my gratitude in living my life for You and allowing Your love to shine through me to everyone I meet. In the name of Jesus I pray…AMEN!

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

For those who still don’t believe we are in a zero sum game for the soul of our nation, just look at what Virginia did! They began last Christmas pushing to change their district map for Congressional seats. This is often referred to as gerrymandering. The old Virginia map had Democrats controlling 6 House seats and the Republicans 5. That is actually very fair since in the 2024 Presidential race Harris received apx. 54% of the raw vote and President Trump 46%.

The referendum the people of Virginia voted on Tuesday was to override the Virginia State Constitution to replace the old district map to a new one that would give the Democrats 10 seats and the Republicans only 1, a net gain of 4 seats for the Democrats. The new map would in essence deprive 80% of the citizens of Virginia from having local representation since all of the new districts would come out of the Democrat strongholds in Northern Virginia hundreds of miles away from their constituents.

90% of the counties in Virginia are solid Republican. However, the major population centers of Virginia are in those affluent far northern cities of Fairfax, Arlington, and Arlington on the Potomac across from DC. These areas are where a huge percentage of government workers, lobbyists, and contractors live and vote 90% + Democratic.

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries pumped in apx. $30m from the Democratic House coffers towards this effort along with the usual suspects like George Soros who also pumped in millions. At the end of the day the Dems outspent the Republicans $64 million to $19 million. You also had former President Barack Hussein Obama airing commercials telling people they had to approve this new map to stop Donald Trump without ever showing people what the new, clearly unfair map would look like!

Like always the Democrats lied throughout this process. Last year President Trump urged Texas to redo their maps to pick up additional Republican House seats. That led California to redo their map along with the effort by Virginia. These states justified their new maps as a response to what the Republicans were doing in Texas. This was also what their media sycophants were telling people.

What they conveniently left out was that when the Obama Administration was over, his Attorney General and “wingman” Eric Holder’s law firm in California began to systematically redo the maps of Democratic controlled states to squeeze out additional Democratic House seats that were once Republican districts. As usual it was years later that the Republicans started to play catch-up. This battle to redo Congressional maps was not started by President Trump and the Republicans last year, but by Holder and the Democrats in 2016!

Changing the map in Virginia was an all-out effort by the Democrats starting last Christmas, while the Republicans basically ignored this critical issue until the last minute. When all was said and done the Democrats got their new map with 51.5% of the vote to 48.5%. The reality is the only reason the vote was that close was due to a big last minute push by the grassroots, NOT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROFESSIONALS!

Not a shock, the Democrats were actually behind by a slim margin but a surge of mail in ballots came in at the last minute to win the day from guess where, THOSE DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLDS IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA! SOUND FAMILIAR???

Wednesday a Virginia state court ruled the Tuesday referendum was invalid, but the Democratic AG immediately appealed that ruling and it will ultimately end up at the Virginia Supreme Court.

Once again, we are in a zero sum game for the soul of this nation and the Democrats are fighting to the death while the Republicans barely put up a fight at all. It is like watching the Harlem Globetrotters (Democrats) playing against the Washington Generals (Republicans)

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***April Financial Update***

Praise the Lord! Thanks for many of our friends stepping up we have finally cleared up the balance of our February shortfall. Now we can work on the $55,000 we required for our March ministry operations and the $55,000 we will require during April. *$20,000 of that March shortfall is required right away! That is $110,000 to end April 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!

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

“Would you publicly forgive someone who killed your family member?” This is the Liveprayer poll question of the week several months ago. I don’t think I have ever had a poll question that generated this many emails. They are all on the same track. People know what they should do, but they don’t know if this happened to them it is what they would do!!!

That is OK. Until we are confronted with certain situations we really don’t know how we would respond. However, it is spiritually healthy to consider these circumstances and use it as a teachable moment and show us an area of our spiritual life we might need to work on. There is nothing to be ashamed of, since each one who has given their life to Jesus, is working each day to become more like Him!

Not one person reading this Devotional today, has not had someone at some point in your life hurt you. Some of you may have been physically or sexually abused as a child by a mother, a father, a relative, or someone your family knew. Some of you may have had a wonderful childhood, but in your young adult life been hurt by a boyfriend or girlfriend. Some of you may have been the victim of a horrible crime like robbery or rape.

Still others may have been deeply hurt by your husband or wife that wanted a divorce. There are many of you that have been hurt later in life by your children. Lots of people reading this have been hurt by employers, business associates, or close friends. Sadly, some of you have even been hurt by a pastor or someone in your church. The fact is, EVERYONE reading this today has been hurt at some point in your life.

As painful as the experience was that caused this hurt in your life, so many people have compounded that pain by letting bitterness, even hatred into their life against the person or people who caused your pain. Today, I am going to help set you free from this hurt and pain you have experienced in your life!!!

In a prison, they have a central lock that can automatically open all of the cell doors in a given area. If you have ever been in prison or watched a prison movie you know what I am talking about. There is the loud buzz, followed by the clanking sound of all of the cell doors automatically opening. Today, many of you are in prison from the hurts and pains in your life. Today, the cell door is going to open and you are going to be FREE!!!

The key to unlocking that door is FORGIVENESS. As simple as this may seem, it can be one of the most difficult things in this world to do. Forgiving someone who has hurt us deeply is one of the hardest things to do in life. It is not something that we can even do in our own strength, but must be done in the strength we get from the Lord.

I realize that many people right now are saying, "NO WAY, not after what that person did to me." As a Christian, it should be our goal to be like our Lord every day. What were some of the last words Christ spoke from the cross? What was his last act before dying that horrific death? He asked God to forgive those who had crucified Him!

When we sin, and we all sin every day, what do we do? We go to God and ask Him to forgive us. We do so with the full assurance that He will forgive us because He has promised to in His Word. In Colossians 3:13 the Bible tells us to "forgive as the Lord forgave you."

God's Word is clear that just as Christ forgives us when we sin against Him, we must forgive those who sin against us! That is the key to unlocking the prison door and being free once and for all from the hurt and pain you have experienced in your life. FORGIVE the person or people who have hurt you in your life!

The other problem I deal with each day is people not being able to forgive themselves. Listen, the Bible tells us that we have "all come short of the glory of God." We are all sinners. We all make mistakes. When you go to God and confess your sins, the Bible promises us that He not only forgives us but cleanses us from all unrighteousness. He not only has forgiven us, but He has forgotten the transgression. God acts like it never happened. The point I'm trying to make is that if God has forgiven you, if God has wiped the slate clean, if in God's mind the sin never existed...then you need to forgive yourself.

I love you and care about you so much. I realize that this is a difficult word for many of you to hear today, but this is going to literally change the lives of those who will receive it...and do it! I want you to take a moment right now, stop what you are doing, and take out a piece of paper and a pen. Literally write down the name of the person or names of the people in your life who have hurt you deeply.

Now, pray this prayer, "Dear Father, I come to you today, thanking you that you love me so much. I thank you that you are not only a God of love, but a God of forgiveness. Thank you for forgiving me of my sins. Father, I come today and pray that you will give me YOUR strength to forgive those who have hurt me in my life. Right now, this moment, I forgive (name/names). I not only forgive them, but Father, I ask that you bless them. They need you in their life and I pray that they will come to have a personal, intimate relationship with your Son. Thank you for giving me the strength to forgive and thank you for setting me free from the pain in my life. In Jesus precious name I pray, AMEN!"

I will be praying for each of you today to pray this prayer. It is time to forgive those who have hurt you, and it is time to forgive yourself if need be. Put the hurt and pain of your past behind you once and for all and move forward with your life. God still has much left for you to do and by forgiving those who have hurt you, you are now free to do all that He wants to do in and through your life for His Kingdom!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller