Daily Devotional for Monday August 18, 2025

A big development in the Ukraine/Russia peace negotiations on Monday! and, God verse satan!

CELEBRATING 26 YEARS OF LIVEPRAYER!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL MONDAY AUGUST 18, 2025

(1 Kings 18:21-40)

***Personal Message For You From Bill Keller***

Wake up each day and ask God how you can serve Him that day! Thanks to the faithfulness of our friends praying and those able to help me at this time, our June shortfall is now down from $35,000 to the final $20,000. Amen! If God has put you in a place to help me with a special gift to cover all of that or some portion, please do what you can today so we can have this balance cleared up ASAP. GOD IS ABLE!

***Daily Personal Prayer For You***

Dear Lord, guide me throughout this day. Give me Your strength to be a blessing to those I meet along my journey today. Let Your light in me shine brightly as I represent You during this day. I love You, and let me show that love as I live for You today. In the name of Jesus I pray…AMEN!

**-*The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

The current war between Ukraine and Russia did NOT start in February of 2022 as you are being told, but in 2014 and it was initially started by the US CIA and State Department led by evil Victoria Nuland! Take the time to read this Daily Devotional that gives you the 11 year history of this current war between Russia and Ukraine that you are not being told, even by the supposed conservative media: https://liveprayer.com/devotional.cfm?id=56295

Here is the Friday TV program where for the first 40 minutes I share all of the critical information from Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska, and what to expect in the coming days: https://www.facebook.com/liveprayer/videos/1135502675154293/

In the Sunday TV Nugget I shared with you my raw notes about the aftermath of the Trump/Putin Alaska summit so you have a clear understanding of what is really happening, truth you are sadly not hearing in the corporate media and even in the bulk of the conservative media. I am sharing some of those notes again today along with a response to the huge turn of events Sunday that made what I shared with you yesterday very prophetic. Also, make sure you watch the Liveprayer TV program tonight at 11pm EDT for the latest on today’s meetings as well as this space tomorrow!

-(Sunday) Understand that most of the EU countries are pro-war. So it was not surprising very early in the US Saturday morning the EU began to leak details of Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska. Their overall response was to minimize what President Trump did in Alaska and to start the pressure campaign that a peace deal MUST include security guarantees and money for Ukrainian reconstruction. Security guarantees means NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine to protect them from a future Russian invasion. More specifically it means UNITED STATES troops on the ground in Ukraine. Money for Ukraine reconstruction means BILLIONS MORE US TAX DOLLARS to one of the most corrupt countries in the world, a black hole we have already poured $250 billion into!

Response: Well, if you didn’t believe me the EU countries were pro-war, you have to believe me now. It was announced late Sunday morning that Zelenskyy would not be coming to the White House alone on Monday. He will be accompanied by Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the EU, Keir Starmer, PM of the UK, Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of German, Emmanuel Macron, President of France, Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, Giorgia Meloni, PM of Italy, and Mark Rutte, Secretary of NATO. They call themselves the “Coalition of the Willing.” I call them the “Coalition of the Puppet Masters!” These EU leaders didn’t trust their puppet Zelenskyy alone with Trump, so they invited themselves to also attend to put maximum pressure on Trump not to go soft and insure they lock in the US for money, military hardware, and troops for the long term. They have NO DESIRE for peace and know as long as their puppet Zelenskyy is in power there will never be a real peace deal.

-(Sunday) People need to understand that the security guarantees being spoken of is in essence NATO troops, led by the US, protecting Ukraine in the future even though Ukraine is not a NATO country. Ukraine becoming a NATO country was the issue the US CIA and State Department used to goad Russian into escalating the war in the Dombas in February of 2022.

Response: Despite the fact Ukraine is not a NATO country, it is being treated as if it was. That is why it is critical to keep the US on board with the war since at the end of the day NATO always depends on US money and US troops. Also, the fear mongering that Ukraine must be defended to keep Putin from invading Europe is a massive lie. Putin doesn’t have the money or manpower to invade western Europe, nor does he want war with NATO, even though that is what is dealing with currently in Ukraine. Lastly, another fairy tale always stated as a fact is that Ukraine must be defended since democracy is at stake. Ukraine has NEVER been a democracy, is NOT a democracy today, and will NEVER be a democracy. Ukraine is currently a dictatorship no different than Russia who at least goes thru the motions of having elections even if they are rigged!

-(Sunday) The fact is nothing Trump can do will be acceptable to his detractors. The war pigs in the US Congress, military industrial complex, CIA and State Dept., leading many European countries and their intel agencies, all DO NOT want peace. War is big business!

Response: President Trump wants the needless killing to stop. Everyone else wants the killing to continue so the money train keeps rolling down the tracks!

-(Sunday) I have been on record since Trump was elected, if he could negotiate a quick peace deal that would be great. If not, WALK AWAY! This is not his war, it belongs to rogue elements of our CIA, State Department, and the incompetent clowns of the Biden Administration led by brain dead Joe Biden himself. Not another penny, not another bullet, a complete withdraw of ALL US operations and personal. Let Europe figure it out! This is literally an all or nothing proposition. Just like nobody is a little pregnant, we can't stay involved just a little. We are either in or out. THE GOAL OF THE GLOBALISTS AND WAR PIGS IN THE US AND EUROPE IS TO SUCK US IN SO WE CAN'T GET OUT!

I understand that Trump would take a huge pounding politically, but those who support his America First policies will have his back. The fact is, this is probably the only way there will ever be peace. If the US does a complete pull out of everything in Ukraine, Europe who has pushed this war has neither the money nor the manpower to help Ukraine in any meaningful way. They are useless without the US. By the way, Ukraine is NOT a NATO country, so our pulling out has zero to do with NATO even tho we will be accused of abandoning NATO. Those who keep saying that Putin wants Ukraine so he can take the rest of Europe are huge liars. Putin neither has the money or the manpower to invade Western Europe and is not looking to go to war with NATO, that is simply fear mongering. So without the US, with Europe providing no real help, Ukraine will be a sitting duck for Russia. Recent polling shows 75% of Ukrainians want the war over and do not support Zelenskyy. With the world abandoning Ukraine the people will immediately rise up, they will remove Zelesnkyy, and whoever he is replaced with will agree to a peace deal brokered most likely by President Trump in the first 24 hours.

Response: This move by the EU countries and NATO to accompany Zelenskyy Monday is a major move to pressure Trump to stay committed to the war effort. They know if the US completely pulls out, the Ukrainian people who are sick of the war and the killing and largely blame Zelenskyy, will quickly remove him paving the way for an immediate peace deal with Russia. Sadly Trump is being given virtually only two options. He is either going to be in and regardless of the past it will now be his war, or he is out, and that bold political move could be the only real answer to ending the killing. Continue to pray for President Trump as God leads him and for peace to come to Ukraine and Russia.

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***August Financial Update***

Blessings! I really need your help today! We ended July still carrying the final $35,000 from our June shortfall and of course the $55,000 we required for our July ministry operations. That is a total of $90,000 to clear up our shortfalls almost half way through our anniversary month of August. God is able!

Thanks to the faithfulness of our friends praying and those able to help me at this time, our June shortfall is now down from $35,000 to the final $20,000. Amen! If God has put you in a place to help me with a special gift to cover all of that or some portion, please do what you can today so we can have this balance cleared up ASAP. GOD IS ABLE!

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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 the amount.

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God versus satan is like the NFL World Champion Philadelphia Eagles playing against the best high school football team in the nation. As good as that high school team may be, they are over-matched in every area and have NO CHANCE to win. There is one scenario however, in which the high school team is able to win. That is if the Eagles don't show up for the game and lose by a forfeit.

If you read the last chapters of the Bible, you know that in the end God will defeat satan and send him into the Lake of Fire for eternity (Rev. 20:10). Until that time, satan is a very real enemy that can only win when God is not present.

Sadly, this world that we live in, our culture, is NOT going to ever get better. The social issues that we fight like divorce, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, declining morals and ethics, drugs and alcohol, are never going to get better...only worse as time goes on. What has helped to feed this steady decline in our culture is the media. Radio, television, the internet, movies, music, and publications.

Satan is the "prince of the power of the air," and has slowly but surely WON the battle for the media which he uses to feed his lies to the masses worldwide 24/7.. As each day, each week, each month, each year passes, satan becomes more bold in using the media to fulfill his mission which is to kill, steal, and destroy the lives of people!

The reason satan has won this battle is simple, THERE NEVER WAS A BATTLE! Instead of going head to head with satan, most Christians decided to not fight. What Christians have done in the last 50 years is like Moses not trying to cross the Red Sea. What Christians have done in the last 50 years is like David running from Goliath.

What Christians have done in the last 50 years is like Stephen keeping his mouth shut. What Christians have done in the last 50 years is RUN FROM satan. We set up our own TV stations and networks, set up our own radio stations and networks, wrote our own books and magazines, made movies and music for ourselves and did virtually nothing to reach the lost world we are part of.

We decided to NOT FIGHT for the mainstream vehicles that the people of the world are plugged into every day. Instead, we set up our own vehicles that are geared to only reach those who are already in the church. If people outside the church were "accidentally" reached that was fine, but these are vehicles clearly designed to take the message of Christ to the people of Christ and NOT to the world at large in which we live.

Being a huge sports fan, I have always loved I Kings chapter 18. There are lots of rich battles in the OT, like David and Goliath, the children of Israel against those people who denied the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But the account in 1 Kings chapter 18 of God versus the prophets of Baal is THE BEST!

This was bigger than the Super Bowl. It was literally God -vs- satan. If it was a football game, it would have been 77-0! God wiped satan out. The great lessons here is two-fold. First, the people of God must be bold enough to pit God against satan like Elijah was, and second, God will NEVER lose!

I love you and care about you so much. As you can tell even from these written words, this is something that I have great passion about. We as the people of God have got to become more bold and not be afraid to take God outside the four walls of the church and into this lost and sinful world. Head to head with satan, God will win EVERY TIME!

In His love and service,

Your friend and co-laborer in His work,

Bill Keller