DAILY DEVOTIONAL FRIDAY MAY 24, 2024

(Ephesians 5:18; Acts 2:13-15)

***PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM BILL KELLER: Pray each day to live that day with a sober mind!

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, please help me to keep my relationship with You the first and most important thing in my life at all times. Help me to never put anything ahead of YOU! Thank You for the gift of modern technology and the wonderful tool it can be. Protect me Lord from allowing the technology of the day to dominate my life or lead me into evil. In the name of Jesus I pray…AMEN!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: A study came out the other day that showed more people smoke marijuana on a daily basis than drink alcohol. Recently the Biden Administration in an attempt to get votes this November, proposed changing marijuana from a schedule 1 drug like heroin to a schedule 3 drug like Tylenol. This move only proves that the Biden
Administration is more concerned with politics than people, as are so many states who have legalized marijuana in recent years. The fact is the marijuana of today is NOT the marijuana of the 60s and 70s, TODAY’S MARIJUANA IS EXPONENTIALLY MORE POTENT! It is known that the average brain isn’t fully formed until a person is in their early 20s. Those who smoke marijuana even once a week prior to their brain becoming fully formed lose 3-5 points off their IQ. Also, after dealing DAILY with people fighting addictions of all kinds for 25 years now, I can attest that not everyone who smokes marijuana ends up using harder drugs like coke, meth, heroin, and fentanyl, but 99% of people addicted to harder drugs started out smoking marijuana! About a year ago I read several articles that those in the alcohol industry are very concerned about future sales since those 30 and under are drinking less and less which is a good thing. What isn’t good is that instead of alcohol those 30 a! nd under use
pills and marijuana as their “drugs of choices.” It has infuriated me that so many states have legalized marijuana, looking to profit off of the lives they will help destroy. It is sad that the government is fine with the citizenry living their lives with their minds in a fog! Like the lottery lie, marijuana is proving to NOT be the great financial boom states expected. As a matter of fact they are dealing with all of the various societal problems that come from people using marijuana, meanwhile illegal marijuana dealers are making tons of money since people can buy it cheaper from an illegal dealer than from the legal pot shops. The Bible teaches us to have a “sober mind.” That means a mind free from drugs and alcohol that will rob you of your peace and joy and an abundant life, that can also end up killing you!

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A question I get at least once a day and many times a week on my television program is, “Is it OK to smoke marijuana?” The person asking the question always throws in that marijuana comes from God and that makes it all right. There are also many websites that give ! people
what they think is Biblical support that smoking marijuana is acceptable for a Christian. Before I deal with this issue in more depth, let me answer the question first. NO! Letter N. Letter O. NO!

Why no? Let’s start first with the fact that unless you are buying it from a state where marijuana is legal, it is ILLEGAL! You really don’t need any other reason if you are buying it illegally. However, putting that fact to the side, let’s deal with the argument that it is OK to smoke pot since it is a creation of God. Yes, God did create the plant marijuana comes from. However, God NEVER intended you to dry the plant out, go to 7-11 and buy a pack of Zig Zags, crumble the dried plant in the rolling paper, roll it up and smoke it. That my friend is a perverted use of God’s creation.

In addition to the fact it is illegal in most cases and a perverted use of God’s creation, smoking marijuana is extremely harmful to your health. It is actually worse than smoking cigarette! s and can
kill you. Sucking that toxic smoke into your lungs will not only ruin your health and take years from your life, but it is polluting the temple of the Holy Spirit. The only difference between smoking marijuana and putting a loaded revolver to your temple and pulling the trigger is the gun will kill you instantly and smoking marijuana takes some time.

Lastly, the only reason you smoke marijuana is to get that “high” feeling. God wants us to have a SOUND mind, a SOBER mind, not an altered mind! When you are high, you are not able to think clear and under the influence of marijuana will make choices that you normally would never make otherwise. We have spoken in the past how every day we make many choices. Our choices to follow and obey God bring blessings. Our choices to rebel against God bring consequences. When you are high you are much more likely to make choices in rebellion to God and His Word and end up paying a huge price for those choices.

Listen my friend,! satan is
the great justifier. He will always help you to rationalize and justify sinning against God, almost making it seem like the right thing to do. There is absolutely NO Biblical support for smoking marijuana. The same game people play in using the Bible to try and justify the sin of homosexuality is played in using the Bible to try and justify smoking pot. Taking verses out of context, stating a verse means one thing when it clearly means another, making assumptions the Word does not support, are all tricks the enemy will use to try and justify smoking marijuana. Never forget, satan is a LIAR!

Let me add that I am well aware that marijuana is also used medicinally by terminally ill people with cancer and other diseases. We are talking about a fraction of 1% who are in this group and have been legally prescribed medicinal marijuana by a doctor. What we are talking about today is the 99+% who smoke marijuana, often illegally, simply to get high. I am also well aware of the ! efforts
by some to continue legalizing marijuana and the various arguments on both sides. The biggest mind altering substance is already legal and that is alcohol. We don’t need another mind altering substance legalized that will create even more marijuana addicts. Marijuana already destroys so many lives and legalizing it will only destroy more.

I love you and care about you so much. If you ever wanted a great example of the power of our culture today, just the fact I am doing an entire Devotional on this issue is proof of that. While for most reading these words today, this topic is a no brainer, I can assure you there will be many who think there is nothing wrong with smoking marijuana. They will tell you it is no different than alcohol, though they forget one small detail. Drinking alcohol, as bad as it is, is legal while smoking marijuana is mostly against the law. It is not only mostly illegal but is ruins your health, alters your mind, is a perverted use of God’s creati! on, and
destroys lives.

For those of you in bondage to marijuana or who knows someone who is, I want you to know that it is no accident you are reading these words today. God is speaking to you about quitting. The first step to finding freedom from this bondage you are in to marijuana is to want to quit. Once you come to that place, God will help deliver you and set you free by His power. It is like any other bondage, you need to find people to be accountable to, drop those in your life who are still part of that world, and fully surrender to the Lord and find His strength each day to walk in victory. I will be praying for you today to be set free from this bondage!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller