Daily Devotional for Thursday April 16, 2026

The Pope versus the President, what you need to know! and, God loves you for YOU, not how you look!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL THURSDAY APRIL 16, 2026

(Galatians 1:10)

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

I need your help today! Thanks to the prayers and help of many friends we are down to the final $5,000 of our February shortfall that we require ASAP. God always has a ram in the bush and there is someone today He has blessed financially in some way who can step up to help me at this critical time. You can put your gift on a credit card, or if it is convenient wire the funds or direct deposit your gift into our Wells Fargo account. For the info you will need email me at: bkeller@liveprayer.com Thank you and God bless, GOD IS ABLE!

*As people are already starting to receive their tax refunds, many receiving much more than expected due to the Trump tax cuts, please be praying about sending a tithe to God’s work here at Liveprayer to me save souls off of that tax refund! Amen!

***Prayer***

Dear Lord, Thank You for another day. Please let me never take even one day for granted, since each day is a gift from YOU! Help me to be a witness for You this day in my thoughts, words, and deeds. Let the Jesus in me shine bright during this day so that everyone I come in contact with knows that there is something different in my life. Help me to be a blessing to others and a bold witness for You. In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

Let me address two issues that have been in the news in recent days. The first involves an AI generated picture that represented President Trump in a way many claimed equated him with Jesus, supposedly healing someone lying in a bed. I fully understand some Christians took great offense to an image that they felt equated Trump with Jesus. When I saw it, I really didn’t pay much attention since I see hundreds of images every day of everything you can imagine. The amount of disgusting images every day portraying Trump as Hitler, as satan, the insane disrespect of him personally and the office of the Presidency are endless!

Trump stated when questioned that he thought the image depicted him as a doctor, helping people, which he believe he does. Again, I understand those who may have been offended by that AI image, but in the scheme of things it just didn’t seem important except to the media and those who already who hate him. Each day he is pounded relentlessly by Democrats along with those Republicans who hate him even worse for trying to put the people and country first over the party.

By the way, it was a social media influencer named Nick Adams who created the controversial AI image, NOT President Trump! Adams stated that, “America is sick and President Trump is healing the nation!” Also, I distinctly remember during the Obama years the media OFTEN portrayed him as some sort of deity, many images showing him with a halo. So please save me the outrage about blasphemous images!

The second is his back and forth with Pope Leo. That is about a couple of issues. Pope Leo like his predecessor Pope Francis focuses on a very liberal theology that promotes social policies such as open borders. His liberal political views are well defined if you read his social media posts prior to becoming Pope. They read like he was a host on MSNBC! Pope Francis hand-picked Cardinal Robert Prevost to come work at the Vatican after decades of serving in Peru to groom him as his successor. Like Pope Francis, Pope Leo is another in a long line of political Pope’s instead of being a true spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

The main reason for Pope Leo’s disgust with President Trump is about MONEY! What a shock! Under the illegitimate Biden regime, for 4 years the borders of the United States were open to people from all over the world to invade our nation. This created a massive windfall for immigration NGOs who facilitated getting illegals into the country, dispersing them throughout all 50 states, getting them housing, food, clothing, cars, their children into school, healthcare, and jobs despite the fact they cannot legally work. Who paid for all of this? YOU, ME, AND THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS!

Catholic Charities reaped several BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR as the leading NGO in the immigration industrial complex. Other “religious” NGOs like Lutheran Services and several Jewish organizations also were raking in millions annually facilitating illegal immigration. When President Trump took office and shut down our borders, all of that money went away! Pope Leo has over 2 billion reasons to loathe President Trump!

Over the last several decades the Catholic church has seen a decline in attendance and donations. In addition to the huge windfall as a leader of the immigration industrial complex, the Catholic church was planning on these illegals, many who come from Catholic dominant countries, becoming new members of Catholic churches throughout the country which includes giving the church their tithes. That is why they are vehemently against mass deportations since again it is about the MONEY!

Many people criticized the President for responding to the Pope who in a series of tweets decried leaders who went to war, only cared about profits, saw themselves as omnipotent, and exuded arrogance. ALL of those comments were aimed at President Trump. It is no accident that the day before the Pope’s tweetstorm began he had a personal meeting with President Obama’s main political advisor David Axelrod. Axelrod had never met with any previous Pope, he is a Jew, and is from the Pope’s hometown of Chicago. There are no accidents in politics and Axelrod wanted incite this “fight” to weaken Trump’s hold on a large percentage of US Catholics before the November midterms.

As he always does when confronted, President Trump responded to the Pope’s tweets that were clearly aimed at him. He correctly stated the Pope was weak on crime and terrible on foreign policy. He also stated that the Pope should stick to being the Pope and stay out of politics. The Pope responded that he was not afraid of the Trump Administration and that he was not “political.” The Pope shouldn’t lie!

For the record, the Pope has never said a word about Iran’s 50 year reign of terror on the world, responsible for the death of millions of people and the maiming of millions more. Just in the past month the theocratic Muslim rulers of Iran ordered their military to gun down in cold blood apx. 40,000 unarmed citizens who were peacefully protesting the regimes crippling policies!

The Pope is quick to lambast President Trump but never has a bad word to say about the satanically inspired false religion of Islam. Pope Leo like Pope Francis before him, coddles Islam despite their 1400 year history of terror, war, and death. Maybe he should revisit the history of the Crusades!

Also not an accident was a 60 Minutes hit piece Sunday night featuring the head of the DC Diocese Cardinal Robert McElroy, and two other US Cardinals. All 3 are huge Trump haters and used the interview to skewer the President for his immigration policies and following US law by deporting people in the country illegally.

Again, like the Pope they are livid that President Trump shut down their apx. $2 billion dollar a year windfall Catholic Charities was raking in during the Biden years to facilitate illegal immigration. I have never heard the Pope, Cardinal McElroy, or other Catholic leaders show any compassion for the endless number of US citizens of all ages, male and female, who have had their lives destroyed or taken by these illegals the Catholic church aided in breaking our laws!

One prominent Catholic theologian said you can’t be Catholic and be against the Pope. Strange, I rarely hear any Catholic leader other than a very brave few who call out good Catholic boy Joe Biden or good Catholic girl Nancy Pelosi who have been responsible over their decades in politics of overseeing TENS OF MILLIONS of innocent babies being slaughtered, or their support for the perversion of God’s Holy Institution of Marriage, or advocating for every kind of sexual perversion imaginable.

The bottom line is that no Christian church is about a man, but is about THE MAN, JESUS!

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***April Financial Update***

Thanks to the prayers, a special gift and many others giving as they were able, we ended March down to the final $20,000 of our February shortfall that we require ASAP. That is now down to the final $5,000! AMEN! Once we clear up February we can work on the $55,000 we required for our March ministry operations and the $55,000 we will require during April. That is $5,000 to clear up the balance of February and $110,000 for March and April to end April with all of our finances 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 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 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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*By the way I have been seeking the Lord since the start of this year for God to lead someone He has blessed richly to make a legacy gift of $15,000,000 to Liveprayer. That would insure that when God decides to call me home Liveprayer will continue to impact lives and lead lost souls to faith in Jesus for a minimum of 20 years. Please stand in agreement with me for the Lord to raise up that person!

*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 Truth 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 rewards and the eternal peace of Heaven! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at: bkeller@liveprayer.com

I have written many Devotionals in the past dealing with keeping our "temples" in the best shape possible and doing our part in being healthy so that we can serve Jesus at full strength. However, I realize that many are struggling with health issues beyond your control. Issues that in some cases are genetic in nature.

First of all, let me tell you that God loves you for YOU, not how you look! Even though our society has bombarded us through the media with what the "perfect" person LOOKS LIKE..society has failed to show us what the "perfect person" is INSIDE!!!! To all of those reading these words today that are struggling with your weight and appearance, let me assure you that God is concerned about YOUR HEART...NOT...how you look.

My admonitions and encouragement in the past in regard to maintaining our bodies, our "temples", has been from the basis that to serve Him the most effectively and for as long as possible, there is a responsibility on our part to stay in the best possible physical shape. This is NOT to be adored by the "world" that we live in, but to be in the best shape possible to fulfill our purpose in this life, which is to serve and glorify God! Nobody will argue that the better you feel, the better you are physically, helps you to accomplish that.

This gives me another perfect opportunity to reach out to those today in bondage to an eating disorder. Sadly, this is one bondage that is not spoken of enough and is a battle many young women, and some young men are fighting today and can literally kill you. If you are fighting a battle today with an eating disorder of some kind, please hear me. Killing yourself is not worth trying to fit into what the media says you must look like. It is no accident you are reading this today, God is speaking to you.

I want you to know that like any other bondage, the Lord will set you free if you will turn to Him. I will be praying for you to turn to the Lord and get victory over this battle in your life!!!

Today, I want to speak directly to those who may have inherited through their genes a body size larger than others, or those who have legitimate medical issues that have caused them to be above the average weight. Never forget, these are issues that you were born with and NOT your fault. This does not preclude you from working as hard as you can, probably harder than many others, to maintain your body in the best physical condition that you can. But it is NOT your fault that you are overweight! You can only do the best that you can!

In the end, never forget that it is not a person that you have to please, but God. God will not judge you by the scale, but by your commitment to HIM! Continue to work with your doctors, do the best that you can to maintain your body in the best physical shape that you can, but never forget, it is your heart...your walk with the Lord.....that is the most important to God.

I love you and care about you so much. From the tens of thousands of emails that I receive daily, I know that many of you are struggling today with the issue of your weight. First, the key is FORGET about pleasing "society" and be concerned about pleasing God. I am not saying to ignore the problem that you are battling, I am not saying give up. What I am saying is that you work first on your relationship with the Lord, THEN on your body.

There is so much great science today that God has given to gifted men and women in that area. I pray and encourage you to do all that you can to take advantage of the latest medical research to keep yourself in the best physical shape possible. But never forget that in God's eyes, it is not your weight that HE sees, but your heart for HIM!!!!

I will pray for you today. Continue to do your best to keep yourself in the greatest physical shape that you can. God will guide you and help you in this area. The purpose of this is NOT to please society, but to be able to do our best in serving and glorifying God with our lives. As I get older, I realize more and more that as important as physical appearance is to the world that we live in, God is mainly concerned with our service and commitment to HIM.

Our health is important since it is our way of doing our best to serve Him as long as we can. So do your best in that area. But never forget--how you look may be important in this world that we spend a brief time in, but your relationship with Jesus is important for ETERNITY!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller