(1 Timothy 4:1, 6:3; 2 Timothy 4:3)

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, help me to always be prepared to serve You in any way that I can. My life belongs to You. I am ready, willing, and able to answer Your call as I go through my life each day. Use me for Your glory. I am Yours! In the name of Jesus I pray…AMEN!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: Watching the mainstream media report on the conflict in Israel this past week, and listening to United States Congresspersons comment on the record about the war being waged between Israel and the terror organization Hamas, I could only think Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would have been very proud of our media and many in our House of Representatives. My friend, anti-Semitism is alive and well in the United States in the year 2021! While we have seen a big increase in attacks on people from Asia, almost exclusively by black attackers (which is why the MSM never covers those violent acts), b! y far the
1 hate crime in this nation year after year are attacks on Jewish people. I have been sharing for several years now the increase in violent acts on Jews in Europe. It has become so prevalent many have left Europe for Israel. The anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe is so prevalent they don’t even try to hide it. Much of that stems from the Muslim migrants that were shipped in from Syria and Northern Africa to destabilize European countries (sound familiar?), but they are not alone in their attacks on European Jews. The globalists who control the vast percentage of our corporate media properties have blamed Israel for simply defending themselves from the attacks by Hamas, and they openly root for the terror organization Hamas! We have elected officials in the House like AOC, Talib, Omar, Pressley, Bush, and others who along with the media, are openly rooting for Hamas to destroy Israel. Donald Trump was out of office for only 3 months and the Biden (Obama) Administration restart! ed aid to
the Palestinians that the Trump Administration had put a hold on since they use it to terrorize Israel and not for their people in need. Is it a coincidence that Biden (Obama) gave $235 million to the Palestinians and just a week later they are raining down thousands of rockets on innocent civilians in Israel? Say what you want about the Trump Administration, but from moving our embassy to Jerusalem, to declaring Israel has authority over parts of Israel inhabited by the Palestinians, Israel never had a greater friend and defender. Now the Biden (Obama) Administration is giving billions to Iran, begging to get back in the insane Iran nuclear agreement. That money won’t be for the Iranian people who need it desperately, but will go to support Iran’s terror activities in the Middle East. For 4 yrs under Trump there was not just no wars in the Middle East, but 4 historic peace agreements between Arab nations and Israel were initiated…the first time in 40 years there has b! een such
agreements in the Middle East! For Christians, we understand the importance of Israel and the history of the Jewish people. OUR LORD AND SAVIOR WAS A JEW!!! I can only remind people of Genesis 12:2 where God promised Abraham that he would bless those who blessed Israel and curse those who cursed Israel. On top of everything else, it is a wonder why we have been under God’s judgement the past 15 months?

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For 22 years now, I have constantly challenged you to rise up and follow God’s command, not suggestion, to take your faith to the lost and hurting He puts in your life each day. There is a danger in sharing our faith with the world that I have never really touched on, but need to warn you about! since even some of the
most seasoned and high-profile men and women of God fall into this trap. It is how to take your faith to the world without letting the world take your faith.

The most common way I see this unfold is in new Believers. Someone gets saved and God gives them a burden to reach out to their lost friends. Their lost friends are still running around in the bars, the nightclubs, the strip joints. Their lost friends are still drinking and doing drugs. Their lost friends are still involved in illicit sexual relationships. These are all the things the new Believer used to be doing with their friends until he/she got saved. Now in a desire to see their friends saved, they go back into these Godless environments to stay connected to their friends in order to try and reach them for Christ. In the vast majority of cases, it is not the lost friend who gets saved, but the new Believer who ends up back in their old sinful lifestyle.

Does that mean we abandon our old friends once we! accept
the Lord in our life? No, absolutely not. However, we also don’t put ourselves in situations where we can be tempted to sin. When your friends head off to the clubs on the weekend, tell them that you don’t have a desire to go to those types of places any longer but will be praying for them. When you are with your friends and they are drinking, doing drugs, have a soft drink or water and decline the joint or pill they offer you and make sure they understand that you have given those things up. When you are out and everyone is pairing off at the end of the evening, take that cue to head home, alone, and let your friends know that you have chosen to save yourself for the one you marry and commit the rest of your life to.

Remember what I tell you often, that how you live your life, especially in front of those who knew you before you accepted the Lord is your loudest and most effective witness. Those who knew you BC (before Christ) will notice when you aren’t living the wa! y you
used to. That will give you plenty of opportunities to tell them why you have chosen to make the changes you have, what the Lord means to you, and give you the perfect opportunity to tell them that the same Jesus who loves you and has changed you, loves them and can change them too.

Another trap I see every day of people letting the world take their faith is in relationships. You are involved in a relationship with a non-Christian. First, this is exactly why God warned us in 2 Corinthians 6:14 to NOT be unequally yoked with a non-Christian. You think YOU are the one God has sent to lead them to Jesus. You may be, but in the vast majority of the lives I deal with each day, it is not the Believer who influences the non-Believer for Christ, but the non-Believer who influences the Believer to compromise their faith and commitment to the Lord. This usually happens when it comes to sex. Rather than taking your stand for Christ, you give in to your flesh and instead of using ! your
faith to influence the non-Christian you are in this relationship with, they are the one who influences you to compromise your faith.

Lest you think this is only an issue for “baby Christians,” or those new to the faith, you are wrong. This is something ALL Believers in Christ need to be aware of and on guard against. Even those who God has used in mighty ways can end up taking their faith to the world and see the world take their faith. A current classic example is Joel Osteen.

Osteen who pastors the nation’s largest church in Houston, inherited the church and a worldwide TV ministry from his father who was a mighty Gospel preacher who took a hard stand for God’s Truth and never wavered that Jesus was the ONLY way to be saved. His son, however, has fallen into this false prosperity gospel and to reach the masses has refused to tell people they will go to hell without Christ or deal with sin of any kind. The only difference between Osteen and the secular motivat! ional
speakers of the day is that he uses Bible verses, though not to convict but to simply help tell his “stories.” In order to sell books and fill arenas full of people who want to “feel good.” Osteen has taken his faith to the world but allowed the world to water down the message of his faith for money.

Where does God say we are to strive to be millionaires? The Bible teaches that our goals are to be heavenly, not earthly, that our desires should be for the things of God, not the things of this world. If you need a great book, the best book ever written about finances is called the BIBLE! I deal with very successful and wealthy people every day. The true peace and joy and abundance of this life is not found in your bank account, or your stock portfolio, or your real estate holdings, or in the material things of this temporal world. The true peace and joy and abundance of this life is found in your relationship with Christ.

I love you and care about you so much. Sha! ring our
faith with the unbelieving world is something God has called ALL of His children to do. Let this word today be a warning that you need to be prayed up and on guard at all times that you don’t let the world compromise, even take away your faith. Our message to this lost and dying world is that God loves each one, Christ died for each one, and by putting your hope and faith in Jesus you can not only have the assurance of everlasting life but know the peace, joy, and abundance of this life while fulfilling your God-given purpose. We can never waver from that message.

Nobody knows better than I do how unpopular God’s Truth and faith in Christ alone can be when it is preached to the lost masses. I could make the hateful emails stop tomorrow, I could easily solve all of the financial problems of Liveprayer tomorrow, I could take all of the daily pressure off of my life immediately, and I could pretty much have whatever this world offers materially. All I have to do is to com! promise
the Truth and give people what they want. “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?”

The hateful emails are not really directed at me but at God. God provides the finances not this world. My pressure is nothing compared to the pressure Jesus faced. This world has NOTHING I really want. I have taken my stand, refuse to bow my knee to Baal, and will unto my last breath tell people that Jesus is the way the truth and the life and that NOBODY comes to the Father except thru Him!

Please pray for Joel Osteen. God has given him a great gift and he has a platform to touch millions of lives for Christ if he would humble themselves, get back to the roots of their faith, and simply preach Christ and Him crucified. I will be praying for you today. Praying that you will take a bold stand for Christ with those people in your life who are not saved, who are lost and without the hope of Jesus. My word and warning for you today is to take your faith t! o this
world, but don’t let the world take your faith.

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller