Daily Devotional for Monday October 2, 2023

Corporate crazies! and, Long faces!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL MONDAY OCTOBER 2, 2023

(Psalm 126:5,6)

***PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM BILL KELLER: Tell Jesus how much you LOVE Him!

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, YOU are my provider. You know my daily needs. You promised to care what I need each day for life....food, shelter, clothing. I put my trust in you. You own the cattle on a thousand hills, and I come to you today to thank you for providing for my needs in the past, and knowing my needs today. Today, I come to you, asking you to meet those needs as I glorify you for your provision. In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!*Salvation message from Ground Zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZ9oaqJNJg

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: One of the questions I have been getting daily by many people for the past few months is why are major corporations like Anheuser Busch putting out ad campaigns using mentally ill men who think they are women, when they have to know it will upset their core customer base. That is a very fair and legit question. Please sit down as I give you the answer since it may shock you. The short and simple answer is “they don’t care if their customers are upset!” Let me explain. It seems almost inexplicable that in the wake of the backlash that saw Bud light sales drop 26%, and after a month not seeing any signs sales rebounding any time soon, Adidas would come out with a new women’s swimsuit being modeled by a mentally ill man who thinks he is a woman. At the same time, the annual iconic Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition was released this past week with a mentally ill man who thinks he is a woman on the cover. Ford has launched a new ad campaign for one of their trucks they are calling “real time tough.” This truck is painted in the rainbow colors of the LGBTQ flag. There are dozens of other examples of major corporations who are pushing the radical social issues of the day such as using mentally ill men who think they are women as spokespeople and models for their products. AGAIN, ASKING WHY IS A LEGIT QUESTION! Anyone who has worked in a corporate setting, especially in a major multi-national corporation knows that these types of decisions aren’t made on a whim or overnight. While Busch wanted the public to believe that the Mulvaney Bud Light can was the product of a “woke” ad VP, that is NOT TRUE! Nothing like that happens in a major corporation without going thru numerous layers of executives signing off on such a campaign. Also, campaigns like these take many months, sometimes years to launch. Understanding these facts, the only conclusion you can draw is that these campaigns are ON PURPOSE...AND THEY ARE! Again, these major corporations obviously know who their audience is, the make-up of their customer base. Accepting that fact, the perplexing question remains why would they purposely do something that they know will be offensive to the very people who buy their products? Let me repeat the answer, “they don’t care if their customers are upset!” These major corporations have been around for decades and they plan to be around for many decades to come. They fully understand that they will take a short-term hit for pushing this “woke” social agenda. THEY ARE WILLING TO TAKE THAT HIT! They are convinced, and I can’t argue with their logic, that eventually they will regain the lost business. They are willing to sacrifice a percentage of loyal customers in the short term, believing that over the years the woke social agenda of today will become mainstream and they will be fine. They know that over the next 20 years, the majority of people upset today will be dead. I am not trying to be morbid, just trying to help you understand how they think. They believe as those 50 and older die out, the generations coming up behind them will be onboard with their embracing a socially progressive agenda. Again, I can’t say that they are wrong. Let me give you a great analogy. In the 50s, the 60s, even into the 70s, the entertainment industry, especially television, feared what Christians would think about their programs. Remember when Elvis first appeared on Ed Sullivan (if you aren’t that old, Google it)? It was the church that caused CBS to shoot Elvis from the waist up since they found his gyrating hips offensive. As we got into the 80s and 90s, TV and the rest of the entertainment industry started to worry less and less about how Christians felt about what they produced. As church membership started to wane and the church had less impact on the culture, it literally has gotten to the point today they could CARE LESS how we feel about what they produce for public consumption. The mockery and blaspheming of Jesus is now commonplace. THEY NO LONGER RESPECT US AND COULD CARE LESS IF WE ARE OFFENDED! This is where major corporations are today when it comes to social issues. If people are offended, even if it is their own customers, THEY DON’T CARE! Again, they are playing a long game and banking on the radical social issues of today becoming the norm of tomorrow. Sadly, I can’t tell you they are wrong in that assumption based on what we have lived through over the past 40 years!

*“We are in a NY City “pub” at the time of the Revolution. This is where the patriots met to plot their freedom from King George. WELCOME TO THE LIVEPRAYER “PUB” OF 2023 AS THOSE WHO LOVE JESUS MEET DAILY TO TAKE DOWN sATAN AND HIS MINIONS!!! FIGHT ON MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST!!!” (Liveprayer.com Tuesday June 13, 2023)

*A top Christian artist, Natasha Owens, put out a song regarding the 2020 election. It is called, “Trump Won and You Know It!” Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVxoSNHjKk

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***OCTOBER FINANCIAL UPDATE: As we head into October, I need your help. We are still trying to cover the final $30,000 from our August shortfall, and of course the $55,000 we require for our September ministry operations. That is a total of $85,000 to start this month with all of our ministry operations current heading into the final weeks of 2023. GOD USES HUMAN INSTRUMENTS AND WITH YOUR PRAYERS AND GENEROUS SACRIFICE OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!

*As we are now just 13 weeks from the end of 2023, please be praying about a special year-end gift to Livprayer! 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. For many, a gift to God's work here will help on your taxes since you are either going to give the money to the government to waste, or to Liveprayer to get HIS Truth out to the masses and save souls!!!

ALSO, DON'T FORGET A GIFT OF $1,800 COVERS ONE DAY OF MINISTRY AT LIVEPRAYER!!! I received this email recently, “Pastor Bill, My wife 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."

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So many times I see Christians with long faces, head down, shoulders slumped, looking like the fans of a football team that just lost the big game. Often when I talk to other believers, they tell me that life is rough and serving God seems like a trip to the dentist for a root canal. Is it any wonder why those who are without Christ aren't real excited about "serving God." I'll tell you a secret that has worked well for me over the years. When I am in trouble.

When I have many problems all around me. When the enemy is attacking on all sides. My first response is to pray, then to get busy serving God. I am a firm believer that if we are about His business, He will be about our business. If I am serving Him, He is serving me. That doesn't mean everything goes away and disappears. It isn't magic. But it works because when our focus is on others, it allows God to work on those things in our life only He can fix.

The key in service though is to serve with joy! Serving others should not be a task, but something we should look forward to and are joyful about. Joy is infectious. It spreads to others. Serving without joy almost makes your service ineffective. How many times have you eaten at a restaurant where the waiter or waitress was unpleasant.

At times, you almost wish you could just get the food yourself and not have to even deal with them because of their bad attitude. Serving others should be a joyful experience, if for no other reason, because it is what God expects from us. When you focus on why you are here, to serve and glorify God with your life, it should make you joyful because you are fulfilling the purpose for which God created you.

I am going to leave you with these thoughts today to ponder and pray about. Do you serve with a joyful heart? Do people see your service as something you do grudgingly or something you do joyfully? Joy is something you can't buy and something most people long for each day. Have joy if you know Christ because your eternal destination in heaven is established. Have joy when you serve Him because that is part of the reason God created you.

Show those you serve joy because they will have a desire to know the kind of joy you possess, and you can use the opportunity to tell them that kind of joy only comes from knowing Christ as your Savior.

I love you and am praying for you today. Never think it is a burden when you email me your special prayer requests. It is a joy on my part to serve you. It is no accident you are reading this devotional, it is no accident that God is speaking to you about the problems you are facing.

God can speak to us in many ways, through many people. I am hear to help you, pray for you, and see you be victorious over the things in your life keeping you from enjoying all of the rich blessings God has in store for your life. Let this time of year be not only a time of joy, but let that joy be part of your life each and every day!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller