DAILY DEVOTIONAL SUNDAY JANUARY 12, 2025

(John 13:15; Hebrews 12:2; 1 Peter 2:21)

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***PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM BILL KELLER: Pray daily that throughout the day you will be a man or woman of TRUTH in all you say!

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, please guide my steps this day. Help me to walk in Your light and strength and not in my own ways. Thank You for Your many blessings, most that I take for granted. Help me this day to acknowledge Your love, grace, and goodness as I live my life for You and do my best to glorify You in all of my thoughts, words, and deeds. This I as! k in the name
of Jesus. AMEN!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: A random act of evil or simply where our culture is at today? A few years ago, a 13yo Washington state boy killed a man. When the police arrested him, they asked him why he did it. The boy responded that he was “bored” and “felt like it.” Now most will simply dismiss this as an isolated act of an evil by a young boy, but I submit to you this is where more of our society is at that you could imagine or ever want to admit! This heinous and totally unnecessary act is the result of many things we have talked about over the years on the TV program and I have written about in the Daily Devotional. First of course is the breakdown of marriage and the family, the foundation of society. It has been impossible to get details about this young boys life due to his age, and yes, a 13yo boy with his mother and father who loves and nurtures him, takes him to church, prays with him and read the Scriptures to him! , could also
commit such a disgusting violent act. However, the odds of that happening are exponentially reduced in the home environment I just suggested! You also have to deal with the mental health issue. Nobody can make a legitimate case that a 13yo boy who randomly MURDERS someone is sane. There might be years of abuse, years of exposure to violent video games, yet whatever the external issues at play may have been, this boy has legitimate mental health issues. Here is the bottom line my friend. We live in a culture where there has been a complete breakdown in the foundation of our culture, marriage and the family. We also live in a culture where there is NO legitimate mental health infrastructure. As random as this act may appear, I contend that evil acts like this are more the norm than the exception.

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**JANUARY FINANCIAL UPDATE: Our Lord is worthy to be praised! A…MEN!!! Thanks to the prayers and several special year end gifts we have covered the balance of our 2024 budget. Thank you Lord!!!

We now have the rest of January to take care of the $55,000 we require for our January ministry operations. 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!!!

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assured that we will still be making our regular weekly tithes.”

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One of the major complaints of non-believers is that Christians are hypocrites. Those who don’t even know the great stories of the Bible can tell you in great deta! il all of
these years later, the stories of Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and the local preacher down the street who ran off with his secretary. It is one of the most common objections of an unbeliever, that he would be a Christian, but those who claim to be a Christian don’t act like Christians.

I am sure there were many in the first days of the church who said, “I would be a Christian, but look at what Peter did. This man who claimed to be a follower of Jesus denied him. Not once, but THREE times!!” It is a valid point. The fact is, however, a Christian is nothing more than a sinner who is saved by grace. Even though we are saved, we are still frail, prone-to-sin creatures living in a sin-filled environment. That in no way excuses our sin, but it is the reality we live in.

The quickest way to fall away from your faith is to put too much emphasis on a man or woman of God. God uses human instruments to plant the seeds of salvation. He uses human instruments to disciple us ! in our
new-found faith. He uses human instruments to impact our spiritual lives. In a society that is prone to idolize others, such as entertainers, athletes, and successful people, we take that into our Christian lives as well.

We place on pedestals our spiritual leaders. We normally only see them when they are “on”, when they are doing what God has called them to do. Because of that, we almost tend to forget they are humans, men and women who walk in the same frail clay bodies as we do, prone to the same weaknesses that we are. Since we rarely see these spiritual leaders other than the times they are doing the Lord’s work, we lose sight that it is only a part of their life. They have lives outside of their work for the Lord.

THEY ARE ONLY AS CLOSE TO GOD AS THEIR OWN PERSONAL DAILY WALK WITH THE LORD!!!

Because they are in the spotlight, when they fail, when they sin, it is often made known to the public. Our first reaction is “how can that be possible?” Nobo! dy is
immune to sin. No matter who you are, your life flows from your personal relationship with Christ. A minister, a priest, or a spiritual leader is only as close to God as his or her daily walk. Like anyone, if they neglect their daily time with the Lord, they get farther away from God.

It is only possible to minister to others from your own personal walk with Christ. As you neglect that daily time with the Lord, you start to be disconnected. You may have some spiritual gasoline left in your tank, but eventually you will use that up. Those spiritual leaders who fail, fail because they have neglected their time with God.

Someone who is in the Lord’s work has to guard, more than anyone else, against neglecting their daily time with Christ. There is a very real enemy who is out to kill, steal, and destroy. The enemy is very wise in the art of warfare. Why waste time working on taking out people one by one, when if you can take out a leader, you can wipe out many peop! le at
once. The enemy knows that to take down a Jim Bakker or the pastor of a local church, he can take out many people at one time.

The key point I want you to understand today is that you must keep focused on THE man, and not A man. Christ was the only one who did it perfect. My personal philosophy is to take the spiritual wisdom from other men and women of God, but never idolize them, never expect them to be more than the man or woman of flesh and blood they are, but realize that God has touched them in a special way and given them something that can benefit my spiritual life.

I have always called it my spiritual filter. Being in full-time ministry for the last 31 years, having been in over 500 churches of every type and denomination, having spoken at hundreds of conventions, being involved for many years in the Christian TV world, I have had a unique opportunity to see an incredible number of God’s choicest servants of our day. The list is a who’s who of spiritua! l giants.

However, no matter who the person was, I always do two things. I always line up what they said with the Word of God. That is test number one. I don’t care who it is. If it is not in line with the Word of God, it is not something I want. Second, I always look at the man or woman of God as an instrument God was using. I never expected them to be supernatural or anything other than a vessel God was using to bring spiritual truths into my life. The only person I ever idolized, or tried to pattern my life after, was the life of Christ. I have always taken what I can from men and women of God, and tried to use that to help me in my quest to be more like Christ each and every day.

I love you, and care about you so much. Today’s word is an important reminder to never get so focused on a man or woman of flesh and blood, that you let it get in the way of your own personal walk with Christ. God has placed men and women of God in our lives to help teach us and show us the ! truths of
His Word. However, no matter how close to the Lord they may be, the only one we should ever try to pattern our lives after is Jesus Christ, because He is the only one who lived this life without sin. He is our example and the one each one of us should strive to be like.

Take time today to pray for those God has placed in spiritual leadership over you, your pastor or priest. Pray for those that God brings into your life to share the truths of His Word and to help you grow spiritually. But never lose sight that they are mere mortals, men and women of flesh and blood like you and me. Never let your eyes focus so much on a man, that you lose sight of THE man. After all, no man could die for your sins. It was THE man who loved you so much, that He willingly bled and died so that you might have everlasting life.

Keep your eyes focused on HIM!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and co-laborer in His work,

Bill Keller