(Deuteronomy 16:17)

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, Thank You for Your blessings. I admit so much of the time I take most of them for granted, but today, I want to acknowledge Your love for me and the many blessings You bestow upon me each and every day. It is easy to say Thank You, but more important to Thank You in how I live my life each day. Give me Your strength to live my life pleasing and acceptable to You during this day. In Jesus name I pray…AMEN!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: On the TV program last week, I laid out a fleece before the Lord regarding his judgement on this nation. So you understand, there is a Biblical predicate for a “fleece” in Judges 6 and encourage you to read that chapter, especially 6:39. This fleece is to understand if God’s judgement is increasing or holding steady. It involves the Senate filibuster I have encourage people to pray about each day. IF God allows the Senate filibuster to be taken out, it m! eans the
Democrats will have control of the White House, House, and Senate for GENERATIONS and will re-make this country into something we will not recognize! IF God allows the Senate filibuster to hold, it simply means God’s judgement continues, but for a while won’t totally destroy our nation. Either way, the only answer for our land is not political but spiritual. WE MUST TURN THIS NATION BACK TO GOD AND HIS TRUTH IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE!

***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 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.” Matthew 26:41 (NIV)

Feeding the sheep, not fleecing the sheep. For many years prior to starting Liveprayer, in addition to preaching in churches around the count! ry, I was heavily
involved in the Christian television world. I produced programming, consulted with most of the networks and stations, as well as many of the top TV ministries in the area of fundraising.

What I saw during those years were huge infrastructures of buildings and people that had to be fed, and heads of networks and TV ministries that lived extravagant and opulent lifestyles. Of course, the money for all this came from the people they were there to minister to. The focus of the planning meetings I sat in on were not about how to minister to people, but how to get them to give! It was not about feeding the sheep, but fleecing the sheep!!!

Listen, nobody understands the need to raise money to spread the Gospel like I do. That is why I don’t have a building, but still operate out of the back of the same used car lot owned by one of my board members we started in 22 years ago. That is why I don’t have a huge staff of people, but have managed to use technology to streamlin! e the
operations and depend on several key people to perform multiple jobs.

That is why I don’t live in a million dollar home and drive brand new luxury cars or fly around in private jets. I have done everything humanly possible to bring God’s Word to this lost world and share the hope and love of Christ with the lost masses in the most efficient and inexpensive way possible!

THE MONEY PEOPLE GIVE TO LIVEPRAYER DOESN’T GO TO SUPPORT THE TEMPORAL THINGS OF THIS WORLD BUT DIRECTLY INTO THE ETERNAL SOULS OF MEN!

Many people have asked why we struggle so much just to meet our budget each month. Simple! Despite knowing every trick there is to raise money, I refuse to prostitute the people we minister to by selling their information to marketing companies or trying to get them to buy every kind of product and service known to man. Everything we do at Liveprayer is FREE! I am not here to sell people anything, but to GIVE them the Word of God and the hope we have in Jesu! s! I am
not trying to reach people to generate money from them, but to bring God’s truth into their lives.

People know if you really care about them, or if you only care about how much money they can give you! I refuse to look at people as “giving units,” but as souls to challenge and encourage, to help along life’s journey. The day I begin to look at the people we minister to as nothing but a group of people to generate money from, I’ll leave the ministry.

From day one, God told me to share our need and let Him move on the hearts of people to give. For 22 years now I have watched Him do just that. We literally operate month to month and I only ask people to give what we need to get through that month. Each month is a testimony in and of itself of how God provides. People ask me how I sleep when we need tens of thousands in a few days to pay the bills. I tell them one advantage to only sleeping 4 hours a day is you sleep real good for those 4 hours!

But seriously, ! I know I
have to do my part and share the need, contact people who I know who have the ability to help, and then trust God to move on hearts. God has honored our faith and commitment to trust Him, and as we start each month, I know His Spirit is guiding us since He is the one who sustains what we do each month.

So much of the fund-raising and financial pleas I see take God’s Word totally out of context. Giving to a ministry does NOT guarantee that you will get back that money plus so many times more. God blesses our obedience in MANY ways, not just financially. Our health is a GREAT blessing. The health and safety of our family and friends is a GREAT blessing. Our old car starting and getting us from place to place each day is a GREAT blessing. God moving in a situation at work or school is a GREAT blessing.

The point is that God DOES bless us for our obedience and faithfulness, God DOES bless us when we are faithful and obedient in our giving. But His blessings come in m! any
forms, NOT just financial!!!

From day one in my ministry, I have done my best to follow the Biblical formula for giving. First, giving is an act of worship. It is a way to honor God for His provision in our life. Second, ALL that we have belongs to Him. When we give, we are simply giving back to God a portion of what He has entrusted to us. Third, the Bible says to “give according to your ability to give.” You can’t give what you don’t have, nor does God expect you to pledge money you don’t have!

And yes, we are told to give God a portion of what He gives us right off the top, but God also expects you to take care of your day to day living needs as well. It makes no sense to give God $30 when you have no more money and you have an electric bill for $30. PAY YOUR ELECTRIC BILL. DON’T EVER SEND TO LIVEPRAYER THE MONEY YOU NEED TO PAY YOUR BILLS OR TO FEED YOUR FAMILY! TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEEDS FIRST!

When you are faithful in tithing to God each week, you will b! e amazed
how God will bless your finances. God WILL bless you for your obedience in this area. Giving IS important, but giving for the right reasons is more important.

I love you and care about you so much. I am sure that I probably greatly upset some people in the ministry today. But God never intended people to give out of guilt, or give because they have been manipulated or tricked. We are to give because of our love for God. We give because God has entrusted each of us with a certain amount of provision during our life, and it is an act of obedience when we give a portion of that to Him.

The Bible teaches that we give our tithe to the place where we are fed, which in most cases is our home church. Our gifts are what we give to those additional works of God outside of the church that the Lord uses to feed us spiritually and gives us a burden for.

When God directed Moses to build the Tabernacle, when God directed David to build the Temple, He told them both the sa! me thing.
Share the exact need with the people and challenge them to give. THAT my friend is the Biblical example of how to fund God’s work. Go to God’s people, share the exact need, and challenge them to pray and give as God leads them to give.

We are to give out of our love for God, we are to give because all that we have belongs to God, we are to give with a joyful heart . . . NOT out of guilt!!! I count it a great honor to come into your life each day and share God’s Truth and Christ’s love with you. I am not here to fleece you but to FEED you!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller