The Breakdown of Marriage and Family

(Genesis 1:28, 2:24; Deuteronomy 6:7; Proverbs 22:6; Malachi 2:16; 2 Corinthians 12:14; Ephesians 6:4; Psalms 127:3)

***ASK BILL: Pastor Bill, after a recent disagreement, I was told by my spouse that he could go anywhere he wants, whenever he wants, see whoever he wants, stay as long as he wants, and make any decisions he wants without consulting me. Don’t spouses owe each other that type of consideration and communication?

ANSWER: That is not a spouse, it is a dictator, and it is certainly NOT the way God designed marriage. A husband and wife are 100% equal, with different roles to play. Those who want to disregard the Bible point to passages about a wife being obedient. What they fail to mention, is that on the other side, the man is to love his wife as Christ loves the church. MARRIAGE IS A MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE, PATIENCE, UNDERSTANDING, NURTURING, BASED ON A SHARED FAITH IN CHRIST!

Without question, the number one problem in our society today is the breakdown of marriage and the family. God’s Holy Institution of Marriage between a man and a woman for life is His perfect plan for a man and woman to become one and share this journey through life. A husband and wife having children and raising them in the admonition of the Lord is God’s plan for the family. This plan was instituted in the Garden of Eden and has NEVER CHANGED throughout the generations. Regardless of how man has tried to redefine marriage, redefine what a family is, GOD’S DEFINITION HAS NEVER OR EVER WILL CHANGE!

The vast percentage of prayer requests we get each day are from people whose problems can be directly tied to issues in their marriage or family. For those who are single today, please hear my heart. I can never emphasize enough what a critical decision it is to get married and to whom you marry. This is a life-changing event and will not only involve you but your future children as well. Please, don’t ever underestimate the importance of marriage and how it will affect the rest of your life and the lives of your future children.

“That is why you cannot ignore God’s warning in 2 Corinthians 6:14, ?Do not be unequally yoked with a non-believer.” Just saying they are saved is not enough. Do you actually see the fruit of their relationship with Christ in their daily life? Lastly, even if the person you are praying about marrying is a Christian and living their life for the Lord, you still need to take the time to build a spiritual foundation together and openly and honestly talk through all of the various issues of life. Through this process God will confirm to you both that this is part of His plan for your lives.

Also, this is a big reason why God designed sex FOR MARRIAGE ONLY! A natural by-product of sexual relations is a child. God never intended children to be raised by a mother alone. That is why sex outside of marriage is a sin and not part of His plan since it may result in having a child. It is God’s plan for children to be raised by a mother and father who are committed to each other for life through marriage. There can never be a better environment for raising a child than by a mother and father who are surrendered to the Lord and to each other.

As devastating and life changing as divorce is on the parties involved, as devastating and life changing as having a child outside of marriage is on the woman, it is impossible to ever comprehend the damage done to the children involved in a divorce or those born outside of marriage. In the past 40 years as more and more marriages have ended in divorce, as more women are having children outside of marriage, the negative effect on society is impossible to ignore. I would be willing, based on the 40,000+ prayer requests we receive every day here at Liveprayer, to boldly say without hesitation that the current breakdown of our society can be directly linked to the breakdown of marriage and the family.

An incredible number of children are growing up today in single parent homes or homes where their natural parent is on their second, third, even fourth spouse. Many children are growing up in blended homes where they have brothers and sisters by numerous mothers and fathers. It is common for many children to grow up today in several different homes, during the week in one home and the weekends in another. Many children become pawns in hostile divorce cases where they are forced to choose one parent over another, in some cases being manipulated to lie about one parent, often being moved overnight from one home to another as different rulings come down from the courts. Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse are experienced by a growing number of children due to the fact they are living with adults who are not their natural mothers or fathers and the God-given natural love a mother and father have for their child simply doesn’t exist.

You can only imagine the damage done to children who grow up in these types of environments. Sadly, we deal daily with children as young as 12, all the way through adults who have never been able to get beyond their tragic childhoods. The results are an alarming number of children who need professional help and are on some sort of daily medication for emotional and behavioral problems. You have children and adults who have never known real love in their life falling, instead, for the love this world promotes through sex.

You have so many children and young adults who have never matured socially and end up with self-esteem problems, never fitting in with others their own age. You have so many children and young adults who have so much pain in their life they look to the world’s solution of escaping through drugs, alcohol, and food. The suicide rate of children and young adults is at an all time high. I could go on and on but I wish you could sit here in my office every day and read the stories of these children and young adults who live in great pain each day and have never known how wonderful this life can really be.

THE LARGER PROBLEM is that these children and young adults who have had their lives damaged are growing up and they are having children of their own. Since they have no idea what God’s plan for marriage and family is, they will now be bringing another generation of children into this world living in ungodly environments who are damaged like they are, and this cycle will simply continue with more and more people living their lives totally void of God and without any understanding of Christ, His love, or God’s Word. These people are also the prime targets for the cults and false religions of the world who aggressively market themselves as the answer to these people who are desperately looking for hope in their life, when the only true hope there is, is in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

I love you and care about you so much. The purpose of this message today is three fold. First, as a warning to those who are not married how serious and life changing that decision will be, and how it will not only affect the rest of your life, but the life of those children you will bring into this world. The second is to hopefully open the eyes of those adults who may be thinking about getting a divorce, and ask that you pray about humbling yourself before the Lord and asking Him to bring healing and restoration to your marriage, not just for your sake but for the sake of your children. Lastly, as a word of encouragement to you moms and dads who have gone through the pain of being divorced, to you moms who have had children outside of marriage and to the children and young adults who are currently growing up in homes without their natural mother and/or father.

For those who have been through the pain of being divorced, let me assure you that the Lord loves you and wants to help you heal. For those women who have had a child or children outside of marriage, I pray that you will find the Lord’s forgiveness in His promise to you in 1 John 1:9. God still has much for you to do with the rest of your life as well as many blessings for you to enjoy. If you are now married, God has given you a second chance to do it His way. Realize that you have made a lifetime commitment to your spouse and that if you will honor your vows to each other and to God, He will richly bless your both for many years to come. For those who are still single, I will pray today that in His perfect timing, He will bring into your life a Godly man or woman to share the rest of your journey with in His Holy Institution of Marriage.

If you have children, please don’t underestimate what they have lived through. They need your love and attention and nurturing now more than ever. The number one ministry you will ever have in your life is to your children. Raise them in the admonition of the Lord, pray with them every night before they go to bed, make sure they are in church. Laying a foundation of faith in their life will not only sustain them for the rest of their days on this earth but will help them to find the hope and strength to overcome whatever they have had to experience already in their young lives. God is a God of healing and He can bring healing to your children.

Also, know that God will make you adequate. If for this season you are not in God’s plan for the family, know that He will help you and meet your every need. I realize that it is not easy, but the Lord will give you wisdom, favor, encouragement, as you raise your child or children. Find your hope in the Lord each day and look to Him for direction and provision, He will not let you down. Know that I am praying for you and will stand with you as you raise your children for the glory of God!

Let me close with a word of hope and encouragement for you children and young adults that may be growing up with only one parent or in some sort of blended home. First of all, God loves you very much. YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHOICES YOUR PARENTS HAVE MADE. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT.

Life can be very difficult at times, and sadly, you have found that out at a very young age but never doubt that Christ loves you so much and has a plan and purpose for your life. If you will take time each day to pray to Jesus, read the Bible, get to church each Sunday, and follow Christ, He will give you the strength to get through whatever you are facing in your life. I pray today that you will turn to Him and find His peace and joy in your life. Jesus is your hope and your answer

HE LOVES YOU! YOU ARE SPECIAL!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller

(C)opryright 2013, Live Prayer Church, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

A Troubler in These Last Days

(1 Kings 18:17-18)

***ASK BILL: Pastor Bill, Can you please explain the meaning of these verses and are they related? Romans 14:23-It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall. 1 Corinthians 8:9-Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. Ephesians 5:3-But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.

ANSWER: The first two are, in regard to being a stumbling block to others through our actions. The last is a warning to live our lives above reproach, again, that our testimony not be ruined and we can be a witness to the lost and hurting.

“When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the LORD’s commands and have followed the Baals.” (1 Kings 18:17-18 NIV)

“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.” (Isaiah 30:8-10)

“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. (2 Timothy 4:2-5)

ANY OF THESE PASSAGES SOUND FAMILIAR??? THEY COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN TODAY!!!

A “troubler” in these last days. A few years ago, a man who had been reading the Daily Devotional emailed me a very hateful letter, outraged I would dare bring my “narrow-minded Biblical view of life” on his computer and told me to keep my “Jesus garbage.” Without knowing it, he then paid me one of the greatest compliments I have ever received in over 20 years of ministry, when he called me nothing but a “troublemaker.”

It immediately reminded me of King Ahab when he approached Elijah, calling him the “troubler of Israel.” Ahab was upset because Elijah was not part of the established religious community of his day. He refused to fall into line and become part of the priesthood that was more interested in having people serve them, than in serving the people. Elijah separated himself from the religious leaders of his day who were more interested in pleasing men than in pleasing God. He wanted no part of the religious establishment whose goals were building their treasury rather than building the Kingdom of God. (Excuse me, but doesn’t that sound like many of the religious leaders of our day?)

No, Elijah had been called forth by God to sound the trumpet of warning and call the people of his day to repentance and a holy lifestyle. Elijah heard from God and declared His Truth to the people of his day regardless how unpopular that truth was. Elijah had little interest in the things of this temporal world, focusing instead on being faithful to his calling to challenge the people to follow God and honor Him with their lives. He had no time for political correctness or playing games. Elijah had been called forth by God for that moment in human history and obediently fulfilled his calling.

This exchange with King Ahab preceded what to me is one of the most powerful passages in all of God’s Word, Elijah versus the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. Elijah not only had the guts to call out the false prophets of his day and challenge them head on, but he had the bedrock faith that God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, would answer by fire. I have told you many times over the years that the only way God loses is if we don’t put Him in the game. When we walk by faith and put God in the game, He is UNDEFEATED!!!

MY FRIEND, DAY AFTER DAY I CALL OUT THE MODERN-DAY PROPHETS OF BAAL AND WATCH THEM DEFEATED AS OUR GOD ANSWERS BY FIRE!!!

Liveprayer has been a 165 month walk of faith. I have literally given my life to the work of God, surrendering my time, talent, and treasure to obediently follow Him. It has been the financial sacrifices of thousands and the prayers of millions over these last 14 years that has sustained me and this work to boldly and without compromise declare to millions worldwide each day the Truth of God’s Word and the hope we have in Jesus Christ.

This journey has not been easy. We have had to fight for every inch of territory, as God has led me to use the very same vehicles satan uses to broadcast his lies to the masses 24/7, the Internet and television. Not just that, but use them in a way nobody else has ever done, as we have effectively married these two great broadcasting vehicles to not only reach millions of people worldwide each day with Biblical Truth and the love of Jesus, but provide each person we reach with a personal experience and the ability to interact with us one on one, so that we can minister to their individual needs.

Nearly 14 years ago people said I was crazy to minister to people over the Internet. Ten years ago people said I was crazy to do a “live” TV program on secular television to reach unbelievers. IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW IT YET, I AM CRAZY! CRAZY ENOUGH TO TRUST GOD AND BELIEVE HIS WORD! I AM CRAZY ENOUGH TO BELIEVE GOD WHEN HE SAYS THAT ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH HIM! I AM CRAZY ENOUGH TO WAKE UP EACH MORNING, WALK IN FAITH AND TRUST HIM TO PROVIDE!!!

I love you and care about you so much. Like Elijah, God has set me apart and called me forth into this lost and dying world to declare His Truth and the hope we have in His Son Jesus Christ. I have done my best for 20 years now to be faithful to that calling on my life. For those who have been part of the Liveprayer family over these past 165 months, you have seen and heard my heart each day. I have always been open, honest, transparent, and up front with you about our work here, and you know by now that I have no earthly goals, only heavenly ones.

The Bible says “where there is no vision the people perish.” My job is to be faithful. I will continue to do my job as I have for over 20 years now. I have given all of my talents and energy to create the best vehicles to bring people to faith in Jesus Christ. No matter what happens, this is what I will be doing for the rest of my life until the Lord calls me home. God has shown me the power and impact Liveprayer has had in tens of millions of lives worldwide these past 165 months.

God has also shown me the incredible power and impact Liveprayer can have in the coming months and years in hundreds of millions of lives worldwide should our Lord tarry, by making this bold and aggressive move to use the Internet and broadcasting to reach the hurting and lost masses who don’t go to church and will never turn on a Christian program. I need your prayers and support so that I can continue to be a “troublemaker” for Jesus!!!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller

(C)opryright 2013, Live Prayer Church, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

We All Face Major Life-Changing Obstacles throughout the Course of our Life

(Matthew 17:20)

***ASK BILL: Pastor Bill, what is a Prophet? Who were the Prophets? What is the purpose of Prophets?

ANSWER: The “Prophet” is a spokesman for God. In the OT, prior to the completion of the Bible, God spoke through the prophet to foretell events as well as lead the people in ways of righteousness. Now that we have God’s Word in its complete form, the modern day prophet is not a “Christian fortune teller” as many portray themselves, but a FORTHTELLER. Nothing a prophet says can contradict God’s Word. Their purpose is to share God’s Truth as found in the Bible and lead the people in the ways of God. The prophet was never and still is not a popular person since they have made a solid commitment to God above all else, and have always been despised by the formal religious community for telling people the raw truth and not being involved in the politics of the church. The true prophet is not able to be bought off and his allegiance is to the Truth of God’s Word and building the Kingdom of God. By the way, this is another reason Mormonism is a cult from hell, since they claim to be “modern day prophets” with a “new revelation.” That is a DIRECT contradiction to the last verses of the Bible and exposes them as “false prophets,” which by definition is someone who leads people AWAY from God’s Word and faith in the Jesus of the Bible.

We all face major life-changing obstacles throughout the course of our life. The loss of our job, financial difficulties, the break-up of our marriage or important relationship, a problem with our health, the death of a family member or close friend, or a battle with some sort of addiction are just some of the major life-changing obstacles most everyone deals with over the course of their journey through this life.

HOW WE RESPOND TO THESE LIFE-CHANGING OBSTACLES IS THE CRITICAL ISSUE I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT TODAY!!!

These are sentinel moments in a person’s life that can shape and determine the balance of your days on this earth. You can either allow the obstacle in your life to keep you from fulfilling your purpose of serving and glorifying God with your life, robbing you of the peace, joy and abundance this life can offer, or you can move forward in HIS strength past that obstacle and live in victory.

THIS IS A CHOICE THAT YOU AND YOU ALONE HAVE TO MAKE!!! When you face a major life-changing event, it is YOUR CHOICE to either allow that event to destroy the rest of your life or to move past it and on with your life.

I love you and care about you so much. I want to give you this word of exhortation and encouragement today. No matter what the mountain is that you are facing in your life today, through your faith and God’s strength, you can make that mountain disappear!!! If you are a child of God, you have the authority to say to that mountain, “Be gone” and it will BE GONE!

Jesus said that if you have only as much faith as the size of a mustard seed you can cast that mountain into the sea. I tell you, today, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you do not have to let the mountain in your life crush you but through your faith you can cast it into the sea and keep moving forward with your life.

I will be praying for you today. Praying that you will not allow the life-changing obstacles we all face in this life keep you from God’s blessings and fulfilling your purpose to serve and glorify Him with your life. God has a perfect plan and purpose for your life.

Why has God allowed what has happened in your life? I wish I had those answers but I don’t. But I can tell you that God will give us the strength to overcome whatever obstacles life can throw at us and still know His joy and peace in the midst of the storms of life!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller

(C)opryright 2013, Live Prayer Church, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Why is Everyone so Upset that Babies were Slaughtered at Gosnell’s Philly Murder House

(Psalms 139:13-15; Jeremiah 1:4-5)

***ASK BILL: Pastor Bill, I believe that there is a devil and demons. I know Jesus cast out demons. People tell me ‘there are no demons’, ‘they are just dead souls who haven’t gone to the light yet’ and so on. My reply is Jesus cast out demons, Paul did the same, so when did demons stop their dirty work on earth?

ANSWER: One of satan’s greatest scams is to get people to believe he is just a mythical figure, that he doesn’t exist. Satan is VERY REAL, and so are demons, the third of the angels who got booted out of Heaven with him for their rebellion! Until God ends this world as we know it, satan and his demons will continue, but we already know their fate, the Lake of Fire for all eternity. That is why it is so sad when a person dies rejecting Christ. They end up in the same place, a place that wasn’t created for man, but satan and his demons.

Why is everyone so upset that babies were slaughtered at Gosnell’s Philly murder house? What do you think happens in an abortion clinic??? BABIES ARE SLAUGHTERED!!! The funny thing is, Gosnell is on trial for murder. Even more ironic are those in the pro-death movement who are denouncing the death of babies at his slaughterhouse as a horrible tragedy. Give me a break! The pro death movement, led by Planned Parenthood and President Barack Hussein Obama supports 4,000 horrible tragedies in this nation every 24 hours!!!!

I am grateful this Gosnell story has come to the light of day. It shows clearly what happens in these abortion mills. Babies are murdered in these places! What happened in his Philly abortion mill is no different than what happens 4,000 times a day across this nation!!! This pathetic excuse for a “doctor” should be put to death for MURDER, ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER “DOCTOR” WHO KILLS BABIES!!!

The reality is, in the United States, the life of a dog is worth more than the life of a human being! In the United States in the year 2013, it is illegal to kill a dog but legal to kill a baby! Let me say that one more time since I want this FACT to really sink in. In the United States in the year 2013, it is illegal to kill a dog, but legal to kill a baby! WOW! Does that fact show just how spiritually bankrupt we are as a nation? Want more? Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick went to prison for several years for killing dogs, yet every single day all over this nation, “doctors” are slaughtering 4,000 babies and going home to their families at the end of the day.

Abortion is a big deal. I am getting sick and tired of people telling me to stop talking about abortion. I am getting even more sick and tired of people like Rick Warren and others on the “religious left” who say talking about abortion is too divisive and that we need to stick to issues most people agree on like poverty and AIDS in Africa. I fully understand why people don’t want to talk about abortion. INFANTICIDE is not a pleasant subject! But we can’t just be silent and act like it doesn’t exist, especially when every 24 hours another 4,000 innocent babies are being slaughtered in this nation!!!

I would love to stop talking about abortion. Let’s get the US Govt out of the baby killing business and let each state decide whether they want to kill babies in their state. This will not end abortion, but it will at least not allow men and women treat it any longer like a trip to the dentist to have a cavity filled! It will also cause the adoption industry to be reformed so adopting a child doesn’t require 5 lawyers, 6 years, and the amount of money it costs to by a small home. It will also cause the church to start taking responsibility for putting together programs to help deal with babies that need to be cared for and placed in the home of a loving mother and father.

However, until we get to that place, I refuse to be silent and it is a subject that MUST be talked about. Every time there is some sort of natural disaster with people dying, the news media is all over the story. Any death is sad, but it always makes me wonder why so much is made of 5, 10, 50 people tragically losing their life, and nobody even thinks about the fact that every 24 hours we murder apx 4,000 innocent babies in this nation. I am virtually certain that there are only a handful of people out of the several million who will read these words today, that even stopped for a second to reflect that in the last day we killed 4,000 babies in this country. We have become so desensitized, have come to accept abortion to the point we don’t even think about it any longer.

Here is why abortion IS a big deal. Did you ever wonder if there is a correlation between the fact we started to legally kill babies in this nation in 1973, about the same time we began to see a massive spiritual decline in his nation? Coincidence? I think not! Just like in our individual lives, our nation’s blessings are tied to our obedience to God. Legally killing babies is a big deal since how can we ever expect God to bless a land that is flooded with the blood of incident babies?

I know that it is not politically correct to talk about abortion any longer. Sadly, very few nationally known pastors will EVER talk about this issue. It is bad for their business. Those who now make up this growing group known as the religious left who fill their churches with the seeker/purpose driven/emerging church watered down message don’t like this issue since it hurts their marketing efforts for warm bodies. Except for a handful of brave Catholic bishops and priests, you hear virtually nobody in the marketplace taking a stand against this blatant act of murder.

I have been saying for years that this one issue alone is enough to bring down God’s wrath and judgment on this nation. Sadly, President Bush lied to those who voted for him and squandered our last real opportunity we may ever have to deal with this issue politically. President Obama is a stanch defender of the practice of infanticide. He is a hero to those in the pro death movement. The business of killing babies around the world will flourish under Obama.

Those who defend him state that it is the law, that he is only upholding the law. The fact is, he has voted 100% of the time during his political career to uphold the legalized killing of babies. If he truly believed in life, he could have voted to make abortion illegal and work towards that end. I contend that any politician who votes to uphold abortion has the blood of innocent babies on their hands and is truly an evil person!!!

As a side note. For those in the pro death movement who want to make believe this is about women’s health rights, that is a bunch of garbage. This is about the LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING! I agree a woman has the right to do whatever she wants with her body, BUT NOT THE BODY OF SOMEONE ELSE! That baby may be inside her, but it is still a separate human life created by God!

I love you and care about you so much. I refuse to be bullied into silence on what is by far the most critical spiritual issue there is. You simply can’t close your eyes and act like this brutal act of murder doesn’t exist. I see the Hollywood crowd and people who normally spit in the face of God get so upset about the atrocities in Darfur and other places on the globe. Why aren’t these same people as upset with the fact every 24 hours we slaughter 4,000 innocent babies??? Where is their outrage about that???

On the Liveprayer.com homepage, we have a special 55 second video clip of an actual abortion being performed. If you have not watched it, YOU MUST! This is what happens to over 4,000 innocent babies EVERY DAY in this nation! Since God led me to get this footage and put it on the website nearly two years ago, we have had over 15,000 emails from women who were contemplating having an abortion, watched the video, and changed their mind (Watch the incredible testimony of baby Delilah also on that same link).

Link: http://www.liveprayer.com/aborsion.cfm

Despite the several death threats and scathing emails I get every month just from having that video on my website, I want the world to see what really happens to millions of babies here in the United Sates and around the world every year. Abortion is a big deal since it not only kills 1.5 million babies in this nation alone, but it is already bringing down the wrath and judgment of God on this nation for practicing infanticide, unless you are as spiritually blind as our leaders in Washington who think they can fix the problem. The only way to fix the problem is to stop killing babies and turn back to God and His Truth!!!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller

(C)opryright 2013, Live Prayer Church, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Jodi Arias, Travis Alexander, Glenn Beck, and the Death Penalty

(Galatians 1:6-12)

***ASK BILL: Pastor Bill, I have acquaintance who is a Muslim. His name is Muhammad. How should I approach him re: his faith?

ANSWER: Here is the bottom line. The Bible and the Qu’ran can’t both be correct, like the Bible and the Book of Mormon can’t both be correct. Challenge your friend to read the Bible and accept God’s Word for what it is, the ONLY Truth there is! One has to be Truth, the other a lie from hell. GOD, wrote the Bible. MAN wrote the Qu’ran and the Book of Mormon. We all are free to believe what we want. That is a choice each person must make. I choose to put my faith and belief in what God says, not man. The LIE from hell is that everyone’s truth will get them to Heaven, when the ONLY Truth that will get you to Heaven is in the Bible alone!!!

***SOULS! THE ETERNAL SOULS OF MEN! PLEASE, READ THIS TODAY AND DON’T LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT EVERY PERSON WILL DIE, AND THEIR SOUL WILL EITHER END UP IN HEAVEN OR HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!

Jodi Arias, Travis Alexander, Glenn Beck, and the death penalty! The nation is once again fixated on a high profile court case. This time in Phoenix where a 32-year-old woman named Jodi Arias admitted to savagely killing her ex-boyfriend in 2008 by stabbing him 29 times and then shooting him in the face. It is a gruesome story of sex, manipulation, and murder.

Arias, once caught, lied to the police that she was even there at the time of the murder. Once she was confronted with evidence that she was, she concocted a story about a home invasion. Ultimately, she and her defense team admitted to killing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, but in self defense.

Most likely she will be convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. This brings up the question whether the death penalty is Biblical. Before dealing with that question, I find the saddest part of this case that Alexander, the murdered boyfriend, is in hell for all eternity. Sadly, he and his family bought into the lies of the Mormon cult, and when Arias killed him, he was immediately sent to an eternity in hell.

WHY DO YOU THINK I TRY TO HELP YOU EVERY DAY TO UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF WHAT A PERSON DOES ABOUT JESUS, AND THE ETERNAL DAMAGE THE CULTS AND FALSE RELIGIONS DO BY PERPETUATING THEOLOGICAL LIES THAT LEAD THE SOULS OF MEN TO HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY???

While many may get upset for me stating this fact, this is the bottom line of life. This journey is over so quick, whether it is 5 years, 15 years, 45 years, or 95 years! We either have accepted the Jesus of the Bible by faith and are assured by God of eternity in Heaven, or we have rejected God’s free gift of everlasting life through His Son and will die in our sins and spend etenrity in hell.

THIS IS WHAT MOST PASTORS DON’T WANT TO DISCUSS! SATAN IS NOT PLAYING GAMES AND IS LOOKING TO TAKE AS MANY SOULS TO HELL WITH HIM AS HE CAN. MEANWHILE, WE DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT HELL AND EVEN BELIEVE THE FROM SATAN’S LIPS THAT EVERYONE WILL SOMEHOW MAKE IT TO HEAVEN. THAT IS NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES AND MAKES WHAT JESUS DID ON THE CROSS A MEANINGLESS ACT!!!

That is why sharing the Gospel is so critical. That is why not being afraid to tell people that without Jesus, the Jesus of the Bible, they will take their last breath and end up for all eternity in a place created for satan and the fallen angels who followed him from Heaven!

This is why I have warned people for a decade about Glenn Beck. Sadly, in this age of Biblical illiteracy within the church, with the fact the largest percentage of the past two generations have never even been to church, Beck and his cult, other cults and false religions, are having a field day adding people to their false beliefs since most Christians don’t even witness any longer!

The Bible says satan “masquerades as an angel of light!’ He is a LIAR as stated in John 8:44! Beck draws people in with his conservative political views, acts and talks like someone who loves God and Jesus, but the “god” Beck believes in is NOT the God of the Bible, nor is the “jesus” he and those in his cult believe in! When Beck talks about praying, he might as well pray to a toilet since praying to a non-existent god is just as productive!

I am still waiting for someone in a public forum to confront Beck about his false beliefs that he will die one day and become the god of his own planet as Mormon men believe. He has paid off gutless modern day Judas’ like David Barton, John Hagee, James Robison, Ralph Reed, and a host of other high profile “Christians” who have sold out the faith to give this cult member undeserved credibility when he LIES that he is a Christian!

Jesus said don’t worry about the one who can kill your body, worry about the one who can kill your eternal soul! The fact was, all Jodi Arias could do was take Alexander’s life. It was Alexander who bought into the lies of the Mormon cult that led him to an eternity in hell when he was killed! We will ALL die one day in some way, at that moment, NOTHING will matter other than what you have done with the Jesus of the Bible!

This will be difficult for some to comprehend, but it is what the Bible teaches. Even if she is convicted of this horrific crime, Jodi Arias can renounce the Mormon lies she embraced, renounce Wicca that she dabbled in at a young age, and put her faith in the Jesus of the Bible as her Lord and Savior, seek His forgiveness, and upon her death be assured of Heaven.

Many have trouble accepting this truth. They have trouble accepting the fact that someone like a Jodi Arias could do something so horrible, yet still be eternally with God. That is the price Jesus paid of the cross and why there is NO OTHER WAY TO Be SAVED! OTHERWISE, HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS WAS MEANINGLESS!!!

But you see, we are ALL sinners. The Bible proclaims that ALL have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory. In Ephesians chapter 2 it says “For it is by grace you have been saved, though faith… and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God…not by works, so that no one can boast.”

My friend, God has made a way for everyone, even the Jodi Arias’ of the world, to accept Christ by faith, repent of their sins, and be born again. Even though you may not have done anything as horrible as Arias did, the fact is, you are still a sinner, and you will be eternally separated from God, just like anyone who rejects faith in Jesus as their personal savior.

That does NOT mean Arias can escape the results of her actions. The issue that will be debated if Arias is found guilty of first degree murder is capital punishment. Many who oppose capital punishment say it is hypocritical to be opposed to abortion and yet, support capital punishment. That is an apples and oranges argument! Abortion is the killing of an innocent life. Capital punishment is the killing of someone who is guilty of a serious crime against society.

You can not even argue the two, because one deals with an innocent life, the other deals with a guilty life. The baby killed in the womb did nothing wrong and had no choice in their death. The person who is put to death by the state CHOSE to commit the heinous crime that society deemed punishable by death.

Another false argument is that capital punishment is not a deterrent to others from committing the same kinds of horrible crimes. It is not supposed to be a deterrent. It is the penalty society deems appropriate for those who have CHOSEN to commit the most heinous of crimes against society.

You see, capital punishment has a very solid basis from scripture and ultimately is a decision each society must determine. One of the wonderful things about our country is that we can change laws that we feel are not acceptable. For those who disagree with capital punishment, you have the right to disagree. However, God’s Word is our final authority on all matters, and you cannot ignore the Biblical predicate for capital punishment.

I love you and care about you so much. The most important decision we will make in this life is what we do with the Jesus of the Bible. That, and that alone, will determine our eternal home! I have prayed extensively over these words today. I asked God that in the midst of this sad trial millions are watching, someone would read these words today and come to know Christ as his/her personal savior.

If Jodi Arias is found guilty and given the death penalty, she will know the date and time of her death. Most of us are not that fortunate. Most will never know when they will die, and at that moment our chance to accept Christ is lost.

I pray you don’t wait too long. I also want you to pray today for Arias, the Arias family, as well as the family of Travis Alexander. Pray for them to find freedom from the lies of the Mormon cult! The incredible truth of the Gospel is that even those who commit horrific crimes can still repent and ask the Lord to forgive them. Christ loves each one of us so much He died for our sins.

If you have never accepted Jesus as your Savior, He is standing at the door of your heart today, knocking. It is no accident you are reading these words. I am praying that you will open your heart to Him, and let Him in.

Plan of Salvation and video altar call video:
http://www.liveprayer.com/plan.cfm

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller

(C)opryright 2013, Live Prayer Church, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Re-Launch of the Liveprayer TV Program

(John 3:16)

***ASK BILL: Pastor Bill, in the Gospels, Jesus taught that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. Jesus also told a rich man to give all his wealth to the poor in order to become a Christian. Isn’t it hard for Christians to be so strict in applying biblical condemnations of homosexuality and other issues while Jesus’ very explicit teachings about wealth are not only not interpreted literally but are discounted almost entirely?

ANSWER: First, your reasoning is way off, since NOTHING the Bible teaches about wealth is “discounted” in any way. It IS harder for a rich man to enter the Kingdom since those with financial resources tend to depend upon themselves and not the Lord. Like many, you don’t understand his meeting with the “rich young ruler,” since in His omniscience he knew that young man put his wealth AHEAD of his relationship with the Lord. THAT is why He told him to go sell everything, and for no other reason. What God states in 100′s of passages from the OT thru the NT about those who CHOOSE to commit the sin of homosexuality is clearly a sin, just like the Biblical teachings about ALL sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman.

The re-launch of the Liveprayer TV program! Tonight will be the re-launch of the Liveprayer TV program. We will be on “live” every Mon-Fri from Midnight-2am EDT. The phone number to call for prayer or ask any question is: 727-614-0699 All programs will be archived for On-Demand viewing at: http://www.liveprayer.com/liveprayertv.cfm

Nearly five years ago when we launched the Jonah Project (
http://www.liveprayer.com/jonah/ ), the vehicle to bring the Body of Christ together as one to lead this nation back to God and His Truth, I shared with you that the key component would be the TV program.

Back in March of 2003, Liveprayer launched its “live” TV program for an hour every Mon-Fri. The program aired until the end of August 2007 on the CBS owned station in Tampa, the 12 TV market in the nation. We owned that time slot over major network programming with millions of dollars, since this unique program was unlike anything on “Christian TV” and dealt with the issues of the day from a Biblical worldview while taking calls from viewers. Hundreds of people literally got saved on those phone calls!

Check out the following links: http://liveprayer.com/reasons.cfm , http://www.liveprayer.com/press.cfm (scroll down to Video Clips, LP Show highlights 1 and 2, and the Suicide Prevention clip)

In addition to Tampa, from June 2005 through June 2006, the program also aired “live” for an hour 5 nights a week on the ABC stations in Miami, Orlando, and Jacksonville. In July 2006, it was “live” for an hour 5 nights a week for 4 weeks nationally on ION (the old PAX Network) and another 6 weeks in December.

We were able to air the program during these years from special gifts by a few dozen special donors. We tried to transition to advertising, but it was at the very time the economic collapse began. We continued to air the program for the next year and a half strictly on Liveprayer.com, but were several years ahead of our time in using the internet to air programming.

Fast forward to today. 40% of people now watch TV either on their computer, through devices like ROKU on their TV, or on their phone or tablet. Today, the station you are on is not important as that you simply are on some platform. In this day and age, being on anywhere is all that is needed, since each program now must “drive” their audience to where they can be seen. That is why some of the most successful programs in the past few years are on channels and platforms you would never think of as mainstream.

A dear friend of mine for nearly 20 years is Jim West. Jim is a wonderful, Godly man, who has been part of Christian television for the past 30 some years. Over the last decade, he has created a network that is now known as The Walk TV. In addition to hundreds of traditional television stations who air his programming, The Walk TV also is available on every type of digital platform such as ROKU to watch live streaming on your television, computer, SmartPhones, and tablets.

Being on The Walk TV will literally make the Liveprayer TV program available to people here in the US and worldwide “live” every Mon-Fri from Midnight-2am EDT, or accessible on-demand so people can watch the program at their convenience.

***PLEASE GO TO: http://www.thewalktv.com Click on: WATCH, SATELLITE, and AFFILIATES for the best you can access the program!!!

Additionally, our plans are to purchase that Midnight-2am time slot from an existing channel on DirecTV and DISH in July to make the program accessible to those who have these satellite services, and in August that time slot on an existing channel on Comcast and Time-Warner to reach people on those major cable outlets.

The Liveprayer TV program is much like the Daily Devotionals, where I take on the issues of the day that people would hear on FOX, CNN, or their favorite news sites, but from a Biblical worldview. The key to the program is that most of the time is used to take phone calls from the viewers on whatever they want to talk about. NO OTHER MAJOR MINISTRY HAS THE GUTS TO DO THIS! THEY ARE SCRIPTED, PRE-RECORDED, AND SAFE!

As those who have followed Liveprayer over the years, you know that my heart beats to bring God’s Truth to the marketplace and see souls won to faith in Jesus Christ. I don’t need money to buy a new mansion, or a Bentley, or new glass buildings with a staff of 500 people, or the latest private jet. The only thing I have EVER asked people to give money to since day one 20 years ago is to reach the lost and hurting outside the four walls of the church and tell people that Jesus is their only answer and hope for this life and for etenrity!

I love you and care aobut you so much. Please, commit 5 minutes a day over these next 4 weeks for this effort. It is the final piece of the Jonah Project and what we need to now lead this lost and hurting nation back to God and His Truth. It has been the prayers and financial sacrifices of the Liveprayer family that has enabled us to impact tens of millions of lives while leading over 700,000 souls we know of to faith in Jesus through Liveprayer these past 14 years.

We are now on the precipice of fulfilling our final work for the Lord and I need you more than ever. I need your prayers, and I need you to sacrifce to insure that our basic monthly operations are taken care of. Please be praying about what you can do to help me insure these basic needs are met, as we re-launch of the Liveprayer TV program.

TO GIVE A GIFT TO LIVEPRAYER, you can use your major credit card on our secure server at: http://www.liveprayer.com under the “Donation” link, you can give using your PayPal account using my email address: bkeller@liveprayer.com , or you can mail your gift to: Liveprayer, 6660 46th Ave. North, St.Petersburg, FL 33709. All gifts to Liveprayer are 100% tax deductible

Thank you so much for your prayers, love, and sacrifice. In the coming months, we will be doing something no other ministry is doing or has their goal, using this TV platform to bring the Body of Christ together as one with one voice and literally change the spritual direction of this nation while bringing lost souls to faith in Jesus Christ!!!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller

(C)opryright 2013, Live Prayer Church, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

God is Faithful

(Deuteronomy 7:9)

***ASK BILL: Pastor Bill, Luke 12:8-10 “I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God. But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.” Brother Bill, could you explain to me what this passage is trying to tell me?

ANSWER: This is a critical passage since it simply means if we will take our stand for the Lord, He will take His stand for us! Every follower of the Lord should be reminded of this verse, since every time we sit back in silence, refuse to defend the Lord and His Word, we are denying Him just like Peter did. The bottom line is that there is only one sin that you cannot be forgiven for, and that is rejecting Jesus Christ. Period. As long as you have breath, at any moment you can cry out to the Lord, repent of your sins, and ask Him to forgive you and your sins will be forgiven and you will be saved. To blaspheme the Holy Spirit is to literally reject Jesus Christ.

“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commands.” Deuteronomy 7:9

Fourteen years of Liveprayer, fourteen years of God’s faithfulness. The message that I want to share with you is that GOD IS FAITHFUL! No matter what you may be going through in your life today, God is faithful. As I look back over these past 14 yrs, I see clearly the hand of God that was always there. I can assure you that there were many days I felt like God was not around, but that was simply a lie from satan. The Word promises us that He will never leave us nor forsake us. I am here to testify to you today that His promise is true!

The fact is, God was faithful even when I was not. Many times throughout these past 14 years I failed God, but God never failed me! I have been keeping a complete record of all that has happened at Liveprayer since day one. It is my plan to one day write a book about Liveprayer as a testimony to God’s faithfulness. What I want you to understand today is that the Bible teaches us that God is “no respecter of persons.” That simply means that the same God that has been faithful to Liveprayer these past 14 years, is the very same God that will be faithful to YOU!

Many people incorrectly call the Christian faith a blind leap in the dark. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our faith is based on the absolute truth of God’s Word, written by God Himself and confirmed in the hearts and lives of men since the Garden of Eden. The more we put our faith in God, the more He will strengthen that faith. David didn’t run blindly onto the battlefield to fight Goliath. He went out there confidently, knowing that God would lead him to victory. He told King Saul, “The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

I tell you today that the very same God who delivered you from the problem you had 3 years ago, the very same God that delivered you from the problem you had 2 years ago, the very same God that delivered you from the problem you had last year, the very same God that delivered you from the problem you had 6 months ago, the very same God that delivered you from the problem you had last week is the VERY SAME GOD THAT WILL DELIVER YOU TODAY! The more we put our faith and trust in God, the more he will increase and build up our faith in Him!

I have so much to be thankful for. The Bible says that He will do “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.” I could have NEVER imagined 14 years later over 2.4 million people worldwide would be receiving the Daily Devotional or that we would be sending personal responses to over 40,000 prayer requests every single day. I never would have dreamed that over these past 14 yrs, more than 700,00 people we know of would have accepted Christ as their Savior and that we would have an archive of over 7 million praise reports. I am so grateful how God is using Liveprayer literally 24/7/365 to reach the lost and hurting throughout this world with the hope and love of Jesus Christ.

Without a doubt my greatest joy each day has been watching God bring His people together through Liveprayer to make all that has happened these past 14 yrs in millions of lives worldwide possible. We have torn down the walls that have been erected to divide us, keeping us from being all that God has called us to be as His Body. Liveprayer has as many Baptists as Pentecostals, as many Catholics as Methodists. The Daily Devotional goes to men and women, rich and poor, of every color as young as 10 and as old as 95 in over 80 nations each morning. God has brought HIS PEOPLE together through Liveprayer to bring the truth of the Bible to the world!

I love you and care about you so much. Even though I tell you that each day, I want you to know I mean it each day. You have no idea how your love, your prayers, and your sacrificial support of God’s work here at Liveprayer has sustained me these past 14 years. When I was down, you sent me a note of encouragement. When I was wondering if we could even make it through the month, God prompted you to give and you were obedient. It is my prayer that we will get a chance to meet each other one of these days so I can give you a big hug. But if not, there will be a great Liveprayer reunion in Glory. There are already many of our brothers and sisters who were part of Liveprayer and have completed their work here and are waiting for us.

Let me leave you today with the greatest lesson I have learned from God over these past 14 yrs. Be obedient and faithful to what God has called you to do with your life. The only thing God expects from us is our obedience and faithfulness. I can guarantee you there have been many days that I did not feel like coming to the office, did not feel like answering someone’s email, did not feel like writing the Devotional. There were days when we had technical problems, financial problems, huge issues that were our of my control. God reminded me to be obedient and faithful in what I had control over and leave the rest to Him. God does not expect you to do things you can’t do, only be obedient and faithful in the things you can do!

In closing, I want you to know that I pray for you every day. I pray for God’s richest blessings on you and your family as you faithfully serve and follow our Lord. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for standing with me these past 14 years. Should Jesus tarry, may the Lord continue to abundantly bless the work of Liveprayer each day as we share the truth of God’s Word and the hope and love of Jesus Christ with this lost and hurting world.

GOD IS FAITHFUL!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller

(C)opryright 2013, Live Prayer Church, Inc. All Rights Reserved.