DAILY DEVOTIONAL SUNDAY MARCH 6, 2022

(Genesis 8:20, 12:7, 13:18, 22:9, 26:25, 33:20, 35:7)

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***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Lord, USE ME in these perilous, last days, as a messenger of Your hope in Jesus. Father, make me aware of the people You have put in my life each day, many who will die and burn in hell for all eternity for rejecting Christ, and use me as a vessel of Your love and hope. I Thank You for sending Jesus to die for my sins that I might know the free gift of everlasting life, and I ask today that You help me to lead others to that wonderful eternal relationship with Christ. For it is in HIS name I
pray…AMEN!

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***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: A sad day for a once great Christian church, but it will have a beautiful ending. As many long time Liveprayer family members know, I was born, raised, and saved in the United Methodist Church when it was a much different church than it is today. I have not been part of that church for well over 30 years now, but it obviously will always hold a special place in my heart since that church was my spiritual roots. Like virtually all of the old mainline denominations, a good percentage of the UMC lost its way in the 70’s when they began requiring their pastors have at least a Master’s of Divinity degree. That is fine, I don’t have any issue with such a requirement sinc! e so much
error in so many churches are due to pastors who haven’t even had a basic Bible college education. The problem however was they weren’t specific as to what seminaries their future clergy needed to graduate from. In the cultural rebellion of the 70’s, it even extended to many of the seminaries of the day. You had seminaries that denied the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture. You had seminaries that denied the virgin birth. You had seminaries that denied the sinless life of Christ. Liberalism began to creep into the church via the very place pastors were being trained! Over the past 40 years, that liberalism began to take a major hold in the UMC like virtually all of the old mainline denominations. It started with the Biblical perversion of ordaining women as pastors. It continued with a slide towards a heretical “social gospel.” Sadly, the battleground for the soul of the UMC in the past 20 years has been over the sin of homosexuality and perverting God’s Holy! Institution of
Marriage. After decades of infighting, it is now working itself out with churches who refuse to compromise God’s Word breaking away from the denomination. THAT IS REALLY THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR A CHURCH THAT IS PART OF A DENOMINATION WHICH HAS EMBRACED HERETICAL TEACHING! The founding fathers of the UMC in 1735 were the Wesley brothers along with George Whitfield. There is no doubt their hearts would be breaking to see the un-Biblical path this once great church the founded has taken. But the good news is their work was NOT in vain and there is still apx. 50% of United Methodist Churches who have not bowed their knee to baal and promoted false doctrines. The work of the Wesley brothers and so many others over the past nearly 300 years continues through people like myself and countless others whose roots are in the UMC and have remained faithful to the Truth of God’s Word. So while the main denomination today is mired in heresy and false doctrines, there is a faithful remna! nt whose work
for the Lord started in the UMC and will continue to train faithful future generations of faithful servants, should the Lord tarry, in those UMC churches that have broken away to stay true to the Scriptures!

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The altar has always been a special place. It was where man went to meet God. In the Old Testament, it was on the altar that man sacrificed animals to God for his sins. Since Jesus came and was the perfect one-time sacrifice for the sins of all mankind, the altar is now a place where man comes to spend time in prayer to God. Of course, you don’t have to go to an altar to pray but there is something special about having a place to go and talk to God.

I remember as a young boy in the little Methodist church my family attended, the altar was a special place. It was a reverent place. It was a place where people went and got down on their knees and prayed to God about the needs in their life. It was a place where people would spend hours on their face in prayer. P! eople came
to that altar to accept Christ as their Savior. People stood at that altar and got married. People came to that altar to view the body of a loved one that had gone to be with the Lord. It was a holy place.

I will never forget on Palm Sunday several years ago, I was preaching at St. Mark’s United Methodist in Pensacola, Florida. It was a beautiful old church in a very nice part of town. As I was preaching, I got off my message and began to talk about the altar. I remember talking about how the altar was a place for prayer NOT flowers. As soon as I said those words, I remembered that I was in a very elegant and beautiful United Methodist Church on Palm Sunday. Without even looking, I already knew that the altar was lined with tons of flowers, and it was.

Realizing that I was now in trouble, I walked off the platform and down to the altar and stood in the midst of the beautiful flowers and started to talk about the little Methodist Church I grew up in and how the al! tar was a
place of prayer, a place to come and travail before God. I remember saying that one of the problems in the church today was that people have forgotten what the altar was there for and some people had never even knelt and prayed at the altar in their life.

In talking, I made a sweeping gesture with my hand to move some of the flowers to the side to clear out an area at the altar. However, being fully in the Spirit and “in the moment,” my hand was moving much too quickly and I knocked over one planter, which knocked over the one next to it, and soon, like dominoes, about 10 of the beautiful plants had fallen down and there were flowers and dirt all over the altar. As you can imagine, the congregation of this very staid and majestic church was in complete silence and shock. I am sure the pastor was wondering why he ever invited me to preach. The place was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

At this point, I figured I was in so deep, there was no turning back. So, I ! looked at
the people and told them that I was done preaching. I told them that there was not one person in that congregation who didn’t have a need in their life and I wanted them to come down to the altar and pray and I would be there to pray with them. Well, I am quite sure coming to the altar and praying was NOT something the people in this church did very often, if ever. As I stood there for what seemed like an eternity, not one person was moving from their seat, and I remember telling God to do something. He did.

All of a sudden, coming down the aisle I saw a little old woman. My fear was she was the head of the flower committee and was coming up to scold me. However, she slowly made her way down to the altar, stood in front of me, and took my hand. She looked up and said, “Brother Keller, I remember when we used to come to this altar and pray for hours.” She let go of my hand, moved to the side, got on her knees, and began to pray. Within moments, several more people! began to move
to the altar and soon the entire church had left their seats, to come and pray at that altar.

I share that story with you today for two reasons. First, start taking advantage of the altar in your church. It is NOT just there for decoration or a place to put the pretty flowers. IT IS A HOLY PLACE. IT IS A PLACE OF PRAYER. Second, you should have an altar in your home. You need a special place in your home that is set aside from all of the day- to-day activities. A quiet place where you can go to be alone with the Lord. A place where you can read His Word or just spend that quality time alone with Him. There is NOTHING more powerful than you and your family taking time every day to gather around the family altar and hear God’s Word and pray together!

I love you and care about you so much. I pray that you will never look at the altar in your church the same way again. I pray that you will make time to spend time with God at that altar. In the Old Testament, the al! tar was a
place of sacrifice. It is still a place of sacrifice. It is the place where we come to give ourselves as a living sacrifice to God, committing our lives to Him. I also pray that if you do not have an altar in your home, you will pray about making one. What a great legacy for your children to grow up in a home with such a holy place to reinforce that you and your house serve the Lord!

May the altar, a place of sacrifice, always be a reminder of the sacrifice that Christ made when he died for our sins. May the altar, a place of prayer, always be a reminder that we are totally dependent on God.

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller