DAILY DEVOTIONAL WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 2023

(Mark 16:15; 2 Timothy 4:2; Isaiah 43:10)

***PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM BILL KELLER: God has blessed you with this day, a day not promised to you, so that during this day you will do something for His Kingdom. Even if what you do is a kind word to someone who is down, or a prayer for someone who is in need. USE SOME OF THIS DAY THE LORD HAS BLESSED YOU WITH FOR HIM!

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, help me to be a blessing to someone I meet today. Help me to not be so self-absorbed that I miss the opportunity to be a good witness for You. Today, I completely yield myself to You. Use me today to bless someone I meet along my journey! In the name of Jesus…AMEN!!! *Salvation message from Ground Zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZ9oaqJNJg

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: Some TV Nuggets for you today! First they came after your gas stoves, now it is ! your
dishwasher! The Dept. of Energy says that in order to slash water and energy use, they want all new dishwashers to only use 3.2 gallons of water per cycle as opposed to current dishwashers that use 5 gallons of water per cycle. So if you want to insure your dishes are clean you will have to run them thru 2x! At age 5, I still remember the moment we were eating lunch in a small restaurant after visiting my baby brother in the hospital who had some complications at birth that thankfully were all resolved. There was a radio playing in the background and the music was interrupted by an announcer who said President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. Having grown up with all of the various theories of his assassination, I had always ended up where the government did, that it was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. However, I have listened with great interest over the last few weeks as Robert Kennedy Jr. has been making his rounds in the media while he runs for the Democratic n! omination
for President in 2024, talk about the fateful day in November of 1963. He recites all of the calls and personal meetings his father had with top officials in the CIA in the hours after his brother was killed, that has led him to conclude it was our own government who orchestrated the murder of President Kennedy. Heartbreaking and chilling if he is correct! More people are homeless and more people are using food banks today than ever before in our nation’s history. THE CURRENT REGIME IN POWER HAS TWO BIG GOALS THEY WANT TO ACCOMPLISH. THE FIRST IS TO DISARM THE CITIZENRY AND THE SECOND IS TO SILENCE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH THEM. IN ESSENCE THEY WANT TO ABOLISH THE FIRST AND SECOND AMENDMENTS! St. Paul Catholic Church in NYC is featuring an art exhibit, “God is Trans, A Queer Spiritual Journey!” WHAT AN ABOMINATION…IN A CHURCH!!! Props to the long running talent show American Idol. They have had numerous bold Christian singers who performed songs of faith on the popul! ar national
program. They have been allowed to speak and sing openly about their faith. AMEN! Two time Super Bowl champ with the Kansas City Chiefs, kicker Harrison Butker, gave the commencement address at his alma mater Georgia Tech. Butker, a bold and unashamed Christian, told the graduates to “get married and have kids.” AMEN! Lastly, Javier Castellano, the jockey who rode Mage to victory in the Kentucky Derby this past Saturday immediately gave all praise to his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the victory in his post-race interview. AMEN!!!

*Here is a link to the song/video “Justice for All” Please watch it, say a prayer for the J6 political prisoners and their families, and share this song/video with everyone you know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsJebC7pgaM The NEW 1 music is another Trump song, Trump Won and You Know It! Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVxoSNHjKk

*Don’t miss the Liveprayer TV program, airing “LIVE” every Monday thru Fri! day 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

***MAY FINANCIAL UPDATE: So far we have received $10,000 of our April shortfall of $55,000, leaving the final $45,000. I am praying that by this Friday, we can cover that final $45,000 from April’s ministry operations. That will give us the final 2 weeks of May to take care of the $55,000 we require for our May operations, or a total of $100,000 to end May with all of our operations current. OUR GOD IS ABLE!

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 wif! e 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!

*STOCKS! A great way to help Liveprayer is by donating stock. The transfer can be made in a way you get the full credit for your donation without having to pay any of the taxes you normally would on gains your stocks may have enjoyed. Contact me for information about this incredible way to help God’s work here at Liveprayer: bkeller@liveprayer.com

*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 Trut! h 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 fewards and the eternal peace of Heaven! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me at: bkeller@liveprayer.com

***ANNOUNCEMENT ON LIVEPRAYER’S SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE!!! Here are the social media sites where you can find Liveprayer and what is posted there: Facebook (1, 2, 3), Twitter (1, 2, 3), GAB ( 2, 3), Parler (2, 3), Clouthub (1, 2, 3), Rumble (2), TPN (2, 3), Gettr (2, 3), Telegram (2, 3), ROKU (1, 2). WE ARE ALSO NOW ON Sovren Media (2, 3), Mr. Pillow Mike Lindell’s Frankspeech (2), Truth Social (2,3), and Frank Social (2,3). *Content posted: 1) Liveprayer TV “LIVE” M! on-Fri
11p-Mid EDT 2) Recent Liveprayer TV programs for “On Demand” viewing 3) Liveprayer Daily Devotional

***Our techs are currently setting up the audio of each night’s TV program on major Podcasting platforms. Our first is I-Tunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/liveprayers-daily-podcast-by-bill-keller/id1437210653

***ALEXA! You can now listen to the audio of the TV program on your ALEXA. The first time you need to tell ALEXA to “enable Liveprayer.” After that, simply say, “Play Liveprayer”

***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 ‘li! ve”, 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

***REVIVAL TOOL!!! Do your part in helping to bring revival to our nation each day in less than 15 minutes and without costing you one penny! Join others by making this part of your daily routine! Visit the Liveprayer Revival Tool and share it with others at: www.liveprayer.com/revival.cfm *ALSO, THE DAILY REVIVAL TOOL IS MY WAY OF DISCIPLING YOU TO HELP YOU GROW IN YOUR FAITH. SO IT SERVES A DUAL PURPOSE! HERE IS A SPECIAL LINK THAT GIVES YOU THE PAST 30 DAYS OF THE REVIVAL TOOL VERSE FOR THE DAY, DAILY TASK, AND PRAYER: https://liveprayer.com/bill/revivalcheck.cfm

I am grateful daily for the dedicated and faithful men and women of God, the tremendous organizations God has raised up, to take the Gospel into the far corners of the world. Never before in human history have we had such a tremendous effort to reach every human soul in the world with the hope of Christ, not just with traditional missionary efforts of sending people into each town and village on the planet, but also through the use of modern communications like satellite television, radio, and the Internet.

I am grateful for the small part Liveprayer plays each day with over 10%, or approx. 250,000 of our subscribers being outside the United States without ever having had any real strategy to reach people in foreign lands. That is one of our agenda items by the end of the year to have a more strategic plan to reach people in other nations by having the Daily Devotional available each day on the Liveprayer.com website in many foreign languages.!

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remember several years ago I spent a day and a half in Atlanta, Georgia. Metropolitan Atlanta currently has over 4 million people living there and is the home of nearly 10,000 Christian churches and many great ministries touching lives for Christ worldwide. As I was taking a quiet walk late on Saturday night, just chatting with the Lord and enjoying a time of fellowship, God was speaking to my heart how the greatest mission field is not in some far off country but right here in the United States. The reality is, despite all the churches, all of the Christian ministries in Greater Atlanta, if the world ceases to exist today the vast majority of the 4 million souls living in and around that great city would be eternally lost.

I am certain many people reading this are going to be puzzled how the United States of all places could be the greatest mission field in the world today. It doesn’t make sense. After all, so much of the history of this nation is tied directly to God! and His
Word. The message of Christ and His love has been declared here for nearly 400 years like no other place ever before. This nation has produced more missionaries and missionary efforts to the world than any other in the history of Christendom. There are more Christian churches, more para-church ministries of every kind, as well as Christian television, radio, music and publishing entities than ever. So how could the United States be the greatest missionary field in the world in 2023?

Despite all of the churches and all of the Christian organizations, the vast majority of the 330 million people living in the United States in 2023 do NOT know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. The largest percentage of the last 3 generations have never even been to church. There is obviously a major paradox here that must be understood since the eternal souls of people are at stake. The church used to set the tone for the culture we lived in. That is no longer the case. The church has! very
little influence on our culture today. A great battle for the hearts and souls of men took place in earnest in the ’60s. Instead of standing firm and fighting, the church gave up. The church retreated to a corner and simply became a piece of our culture instead of being the dominant influence of our culture.

It was due to the church’s lack of effectiveness that gave rise over these past 50 years to what never existed before, para church ministries and entire industries created solely for Christians. All of the various specialized ministries that exist today were once ministries of the local church. Most churches quit visiting those who were in prison which gave rise to prison ministries like Prison Fellowship. Most churches quit ministering to their men which gave rise to men’s ministries like Promise Keepers. Most churches quit praying for the needs of their people which gave rise to ministries like Liveprayer!

There have been Christians on television since the ! beginning
of TV, just like there have been Christians on radio since radio started, just like there have always been Christian books, magazines, and music. It has only been in the past 50 years or so that we have set up our own TV stations and networks, our own radio stations and networks, our own music labels, our own book and publishing companies, literally abandoning the mainstream secular vehicles that reach the masses daily to market directly to people who are already Christians.

Why? There is only one reason, MONEY. It became financially profitable to abandon the masses of lost and hurting people who needed the message of Christ the most and focus instead on marketing directly to those who already were Christians. If you are a business man who sells tires, you aren’t going to spend your time and money trying to sell them to people who don’t have a car. Rather than competing with the message the world was sending out to the masses each day, Christians abandoned the lost and! hurting
in the marketplace and set up their own industries to reach people who already were Christians because it was good “business.”

For the church to take back its rightful place as the dominant influence on our culture instead of simply being part of our culture, it has to do two things. First is evangelism. The church has got to get out of the maintenance mode it is in and start reaching the lost and hurting with the Gospel. Practically speaking, the old saints are dying and for the church to survive it has got to start reaching out to the lost and getting them saved. The second thing the church must do is get back to the BIBLE. The Bible is God’s inspired, inerrant Word, representing absolute truth and our final authority in all matters. The reason you have churches that embrace sins like homosexuality and killing babies and many others is that they have abandoned the authority of God’s Word. Pastors don’t need to come up with clever sermons on Sunday morning to tickle t! he ears
of the people, they simply need to preach the uncompromised truth of God’s Word!

I love you and care about you so much. The fact is, God has called each of His children to share Christ with the lost. Each person reading this today has people in your life that God has placed there for you to speak to about the Lord. They are not there by accident. I want to encourage you today to step up to the plate and fulfill that responsibility God has given you to share His love with others. The greatest way to witness to a person is simply to tell them what Jesus has done in your life. People may argue with you about the Bible and about who God is and many other things, but they can’t argue with you about what the Lord has done in your life.

You don’t need to be a theologian to witness to someone. Two facts nobody will dispute is that one day we will all die and that each of us sins. Through Christ their sins can be forgiven and they can have the assurance that when they die! they
will be forever with Him. All of the rest will fall into place over time as they grow in their faith and in the knowledge of God and His Word. It is a growth process but you can’t start that process until you are “born again.” That is the starting point. I will be praying for you as God gives you the boldness and words to share Christ with others in your life.

As I walked with the Lord in the quiet of the Atlanta night that Saturday, God spoke to me about the 4-million souls in that metropolitan area, the vast majority that did not know Christ as their Savior. He then spoke to me about the over 330 million who live in the United States, again, the vast majority living their lives without Christ. The Bible is clear that the person who dies without Jesus will be lost for all eternity. Without a doubt, to get to the greatest mission field in the world today you don’t need to pack your suitcase and get on a plane to go to some far away land, simply walk out your front
door!

“Then He said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.” (Matthew 9:37 NIV)

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller