Daily Devotional for Thursday November 21, 2024

A recent survey showed that men and women 40 and under are less religious! and, Christians supporting sin!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2024

(Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 26:62-63; Psalms 22:6-8; Matthew 27:39-40)

***PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM BILL KELLER: So many in the Liveprayer family have prayed and sacrificed over the years. I am humbled and grateful each day that God allows me to serve Him here at Liveprayer, to bring HIS Truth into the marketplace, minister to people who are hurting, and lead lost souls to faith in Jesus. Over the next 24 hours it is critical to receive $20,000 of the $60,000 we are short, the final $5,000 from September and the first $15,000 from October’s $55,000 shortfall. These are critical operational needs that need to be taken care of simply for the ongoing ministry operations of Liveprayer.

Please be in prayer about what you might be able to do to help me in these next 24 hours to insure this $20,000 is taken care of. As I have for 31 years now, over 25 years online, nearly 22 years on TV, I walk each day in faith focused on the work God has called me to do and trusting HIM to move on the hearts of those friends in the Liveprayer family who He has blessed and enabled to help me. Thank You and know you and your family are in my prayers each day!

As we are now 6 weeks until the end of 2024, 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, you can use your major credit card at: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm or you can mail your gift to: Liveprayer, 6660 46th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33709. All gifts to Liveprayer are 100% tax deductible!

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, please guide my steps this day. Help me to walk in Your light and strength and not in my own ways. Thank You for Your many blessings, most that I take for granted. Help me this day to acknowledge Your love, grace, and goodness as I live my life for You and do my best to glorify You in all of my thoughts, words, and deeds. This I ask in the name of Jesus. AMEN!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few!” A recent survey showed that men and women 40 and under are less religious. This is no shock to me or should be to the Liveprayer family since I have shared often the better percentage of the last 3 generations have never been to church. That means most of their parents were not religious and they grew up in a home void of faith. IT ALSO MEANS MOST OF THEIR GRANDPARENTS WERE NOT RELIGIOUS SO THEY WEREN’T EXPOSED TO FAITH AS THEY FREE UP AT ALL! About a year ago for the first time the percentage of people claiming NO FAITH as their religious preference became the majority, overtaking people who claimed to hold a faith belief. It is critical to note that the words “religious” and “faith” DO NOT MEAN BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST! While apx. 40% of the country identifies as being a Christian, the reality is 10% or less have actually made a commitment of their life to Jesus! As grateful as I am for God’s mercy on November 5th, I was a bit surprised. The fact is we DESERVE his wrath and punishment for generations, just like the children of Israel did! God decided to give our nation a reprieve. Let me give you a perfect analogy. By allowing Trump to rise to power, God gave us a short 2 year window to begin saving our nation. I say 2 years because historically the party in power does not fare well in the first midterms after their victory. So politically the next 2 years critical and while November 5th was a wonderful victory there is no time to celebrate. THIS IS THE TIME TO BE WORKING 24/7 TO USE THAT VICTORY TO SAVE OUR NATION!!! Likewise, Christians were given a short time to turn this nation back to God our Creator and His Truth. WE DO NOT HAVE TIME TO CELEBRATE! WE MUST BE WORKING NOW 24/7 TO BRING THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD TO THE MARKETPLACE AND THE FACT THAT FAITH IN JESUS IS THE ONLY ANSWER FOR EACH PERSON! Again, Jesus was right when he stated that the harvest if plentiful but the laborers are few. Understanding that we are short of laborers only means those of us who are working for the Lord must work that much harder. WE HAVE THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE AND THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF ALMIGHTY GOD ON OUR SIDE! The time to rest, the time to celebrate, will come for each of us when the Lord calls us home. UNTIL THAT TIME WE MUST BE FIGHTING FOR THE GOSPEL WITH EVERY BREATH THE LORD BLESSES US WITH! To borrow a call of action from President Trump, it is time for God’s children to stand up now and FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!!

*Don't miss the Liveprayer TV program, airing “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

***NOVEMBER FINANCIAL UPDATE: I NEED YOUR HELP TODAY!!! Thanks to the prayers and generous sacrifices of many in the Liveprayer family, we have now covered the first $50,000 of the $55,0000 September shortfall. That leaves the final $5,000 from September’s ministry operations and the $55,000 we required for our October for a total of $60,000 to clear up our shortfalls and begin working on the $55,000 we will require for our November operations. OUR GOD IS ABLE!

It is critical that we clear up the final $5,000 from September since those obligations are all seriously past due. Please be praying about what you can do to help me in these coming days to get the balance of September taken care of! THANK YOU!

*******As we are now less than 6 weeks until the end of 2024, 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!!!

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 WHAT 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, 6660 46th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33709. All gifts to Liveprayer are 100% tax deductible!

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*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: [email protected]

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***Please watch and share the exciting new Bill Keller Docudrama at: https://www.liveprayer.com/bill.cfm

***How you can help Liveprayer! 1) Pray for Bill and the ministry team each day. 2) Encourage people you know to sign-up for the Daily Devotional at: https://www.liveprayer.com/signup.cfm 3) Share the TV program with people you know: https://liveprayer.com/liveprayer-show-about.cfm Here are the social media sites where you can find Liveprayer TV ‘live”, Liveprayer Facebook, Liveprayer Twitter, and the Liveprayer Church ROKU channel. For ON-DEMAND viewing, Liveprayer GAB, Liveprayer Rumble, Liveprayer TPN, Liveprayer Gettr, Liveprayer Telegram, Liveprayer Sovren Media, and Liveprayer on Mr. Pillow Mike Lindell's Frankspeech and Frank Social and Liveprayer on Trump's Truth Social. 4) Pray about helping Liveprayer with a gift at: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm

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One of the things that has greatly troubled me recently, is the number of people who say that they believe in God, say that they are a Christian, yet have no problem supporting choices that are clearly defined in God's Word as sin. My friend, Jesus said it best when He said that "No man can serve two masters." The Christian faith is not a smorgasbord where you can pick and choose what you like. You can't claim to have faith in Christ, yet support the things that the Bible speaks against. To borrow a political term, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CHRISTIAN MODERATE. Either God is real or He is not.

Let me first clarify what a Christian is. A Christian is a person who has made the personal choice to repent of their sins and ask Jesus into their heart by faith (John 3:16; Romans 10:10; Ephesians 2:8-9). It is your personal faith in Christ that makes you a Christian. The church you belong to cannot save you. Having a priest or pastor baptize you when you were a baby did not save you. Living a good life does not save you. The fact that your parents are Christians cannot save you. Only making the choice to repent of your sins and ask Christ into your heart makes you a Christian.

If this is something that you have never done, the Bible says that TODAY is the day of salvation. Pray, ask God to open your heart, then click on this link and read what is written: https://liveprayer.com/salvation.cfm God has made it so easy, but it is a choice that only YOU can make!!!

Once you have gotten to this point, the next step is that you MUST accept the Bible as God's inspired, inerrant Word. It is IMPOSSIBLE to be a Christian and not accept the Bible as God's Word. You see, to come to Christ by faith, you have accepted that this is God's plan to give His creation, which is separated from Him because of their sin, a way to come back into a relationship with Him. This is God's ONLY plan!

That is why faith in Buddha will not save you. That is why faith in Muhammad will not save you. That is why faith in a golden statue will not save you. It is ONLY faith in Jesus Christ that saves you because it was Jesus Christ who God sent to die for your sins! He was God's perfect sacrifice to give fallen man a way back into everlasting fellowship with Him. So, if you accept THAT, then you have to accept the ENTIRE BIBLE as God's inspired, inerrant Word. It can't be only partially right!!!

The reason is God cannot lie. The Bible is an all or nothing proposition, it is either ALL true or NONE of it is true. This is very serious, so please hear what I am saying to you today. You can't live your faith with one foot in the world and one foot in the church. You either believe it all, or you don't really believe any of it. Either God is true, and we can count on EVERYTHING He says, or God is a liar, and we are the most foolish of all people. My friend, there is NO MIDDLE GROUND!!!

This is where so many Christians break down in their life. They simply don't want to let go of the things of this world. The fact is, this life is only a brief journey anyway. When it is over, the things of this world will be gone, and the ONLY thing that you will be left with is the fact that you have Christ in your heart, or you have rejected His love for you. PERIOD.

I love you and care for you so much. I realize that this is difficult for so many of you to read. I already know that there will be thousands of very angry emails about how intolerant I am, how the Christian faith is horrible for excluding so many good people. The fact is, the only thing intolerant about the Christian faith is accepting sin in a person's life. Would a parent feed their child a plate of garbage to eat? Of course not. Why? Because they love them and know that it would be very harmful to them. When God says don't sin, He is saying don't eat a plate of garbage because it is harmful to you.

As for the Christian faith being exclusionary. That is the FARTHEST thing from the truth. The Bibles says, "Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish." Whosoever is potentially EVERYONE. Everyone has the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ into their hearts and accept God's free gift of everlasting life. I don't find that exclusionary, but INCLUSIONARY!

I will be praying for you today. Praying above all that you realize how serious it is to make a full and total commitment of your life to the Lord. The fact is, when we ask Him into our hearts, the Bible says that it is no longer our life, but that it belongs to Him. We surrender our life to Him. I realize as much as anyone how unpopular our faith can be to the world that we live in. The sad fact is, much of that world is lost, hurting, and living without ANY hope. They have chosen to reject God and live life the way they want to. That is fine. God has given everyone the free will to make that choice.

Sadly, though, no matter how they may appear on the outside, inside they never experience the true joy, peace, and abundance that this life has to offer. As they get older, they start to realize that there has to be more to life, and in their search for God, get caught up in every kind of New Age, crazy philosophy that exists. What they are REALLY looking for is the peace that ONLY comes from a personal relationship with Christ.

As a Christian, you, me, each one of us, is called to be a light to this dark world that we live in. We can ONLY let our light shine bright when we are living fully, 100% for HIM. If you believe that God is real, THEN LIVE EACH DAY FOR HIM!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and co-laborer in His work,

Bill Keller