Daily Devotional for Sunday August 2, 2026

A sad day for a once great Christian church! and, The real prosperity Gospel!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL SUNDAY AUGUST 2, 2026

(Proverbs 13:7, 10:22; Hebrews 11:26; James 2:5)

***LIVEPRAYER CHURCH!!! Haven't been to church yet this week? Join me for this week's service at the LivePrayer Church. This week's message is: “Wrestling with God!” Please visit the website at: http://liveprayerchurch.com and be part this week's worship service. Each Sunday there will be a new service at 12:01am EST

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

Because of Jesus, no matter what your current circumstances are you can live your life in VICTORY!

I need your help today! Thank you to those who were able to help me with a gift during July! Over July we finally covered the balance of our May operations and received the first $5,000 of our June ministry operations. We ended July requiring the final $50,000 from June and the $55,000 for July’s operations. I am praying in the first weeks of August we can cover that $105,000 shortfall so we can begin working on the $55,000 we will require during our anniversary month of August. Traditionally each year we struggle during the summer months of June, July, and August, so I can really use your help especially in this first week of August with that $105,000 getting seriously past due! OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!

*27TH ANNIVERSARY MONTH! As we head into August, our 27h anniversary month, please pray about helping me with a special one-time gift of $27, $1 for every year, or $270, $10 for every year, or $2,700, $100 for every year, or $27,000, $1,000 for every year.

To give a gift to Liveprayer you can use your major credit card at: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm or you can mail your gift to: Liveprayer, 6662 46th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33709. All gifts to Liveprayer are 100% tax deductible!

***Prayer***

Dear Lord, help me to always be prepared to serve You in any way that I can. My life belongs to You. I am ready, willing, and able to answer Your call as I go through my life each day. Use me for Your glory. I am Yours! In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

A sad day for a once great Christian church, but it will have a beautiful ending. As many long time Liveprayer family members know, I was born, raised, and saved in the United Methodist Church when it was a much different church than it is today. I have not been part of that church for well over 40 years now, but it obviously will always hold a special place in my heart since that church was my spiritual roots.

Like virtually all of the old mainline denominations, a good percentage of the UMC lost its way in the 70's when they began requiring their pastors have at least a Master's of Divinity degree. That is fine, I don't have any issue with such a requirement since so much error in so many churches are due to pastors who haven't even had a basic Bible college education. The problem however was they weren't specific as to what seminaries their future clergy needed to graduate from.

In the cultural rebellion of the 70's, it even extended to many of the seminaries of the day. You had seminaries that denied the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture. You had seminaries that denied the virgin birth. You had seminaries that denied the sinless life of Christ. Liberalism began to creep into the church via the very place pastors were being trained!

Over the past 40 years, that liberalism began to take a major hold in the UMC like virtually all of the old mainline denominations. It started with the Biblical perversion of ordaining women as pastors. It continued with a slide towards a heretical “social gospel.” Sadly, the battleground for the soul of the UMC in the past 20 years has been over the sin of homosexuality and perverting God's Holy Institution of Marriage.

After decades of infighting, it is now working itself out with churches who refuse to compromise God's Word breaking away from the denomination. THAT IS REALLY THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR A CHURCH THAT IS PART OF A DENOMINATION WHICH HAS EMBRACED HERETICAL TEACHING!

The founding fathers of the UMC in 1735 were the Wesley brothers along with George Whitfield. There is no doubt their hearts would be breaking to see the un-Biblical path this once great church the founded has taken. But the good news is their work was NOT in vain and there is still apx. 50% of United Methodist Churches who have not bowed their knee to baal and promoted false doctrines.

The work of the Wesley brothers and so many others over the past nearly 300 years continues through people like myself and countless others whose roots are in the UMC and have remained faithful to the Truth of God's Word. So while the main denomination today is mired in heresy and false doctrines, there is a faithful remnant whose work for the Lord started in the UMC and will continue to train faithful future generations of faithful servants, should the Lord tarry, in those UMC churches that have broken away to stay true to the Scriptures!

***I have issued TWO major warnings in June for people to wake up before God unleashes His wrath and punishment on our land for our sins and wickedness. The first was on the Liveprayer TV program Tuesday June 2nd. The warning starts at the 11:40 mark of the program and goes on for 20 minutes. Here is the link to that program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVuURi7A4Uk&t=722s The second was on the Liveprayaer TV program Wednesday June 24th. The warning starts at the 9:40 mark of the program and goes on for 20 minutes. Here is the link to that program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMs1gyuIMto&t=590s

***Liveprayer TV Program airs “LIVE” every Monday thru Friday from 11pm EDT to Midnight! For details on viewing options for the Liveprayer TV program, “LIVE” or “On Demand,” go to: https://liveprayer.com/liveprayer-show-about.cfm

***August Financial Update***

Thank you to those who were able to help me with a gift during July! Over July we finally covered the balance of our May operations and received the first $5,000 of our June ministry operations. We ended July requiring the final $50,000 from June and the $55,000 for July’s operations. I am praying in the first weeks of August we can cover that $105,000 shortfall so we can begin working on the $55,000 we will require during our anniversary month of August. Traditionally each year we struggle during the summer months of June, July, and August, so I can really use your help especially in this first week of August with that $105,000 getting seriously past due! OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!

*27TH ANNIVERSARY MONTH! As we head into August, our 27th anniversary month, please pray about helping me with a special one-time gift of $27, $1 for every year, or $270, $10 for every year, or $2,700, $100 for every year, or $27,000, $1,000 for every year.

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."

To give a gift to Liveprayer you can use your major credit card at: http://liveprayer.com/donate.cfm or you can mail your gift to: Liveprayer, 6662 46th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33709. All gifts to Liveprayer are 100% tax deductible!

Stocks! A great way to help Liveprayer is by donating stock. The transfer can be made in a way you get the full credit for your donation without having to pay any of the taxes you normally would on gains your stocks may have enjoyed. Contact me for information about this incredible way to help God's work here at Liveprayer: bkeller@liveprayer.com

*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

One of the most perverted messages to come out of the church in the last 50 years is the "prosperity gospel." This is the message that has turned God into a cosmic stock broker and teaches that if you will just have enough "faith" and give a ministry or church enough money, you will get back your gift PLUS a handsome return of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times the amount of your gift.

One popular author and teacher of this perversion wrote a book about how to get this thirty, sixty, or hundredfold return. He received so many letters from people that bought the book, followed his principles, and never saw their "harvest," that he had to write a follow-up book to explain what in their life was blocking God's blessings.

This perverted message is seen mostly on Christian television during their telethons. Having been part of that world for many years in the early '90s, I have seen every trick in the book that has been used to manipulate the scriptures to induce people to give, with the understanding that they will get back many times what they gave.

One of the saddest things I have ever witnessed, was on the largest Christian television network, a famous man of God telling people that if they will send in a gift of $2,000 they will be debt free. They even had a '"debt burning" ceremony! I have read the entire Bible cover to cover over 100 times. I have several theological degrees. I have still not found the passage of scripture that says if I give a ministry $2,000 that my debts will disappear.

Let me stop for a moment and say this. Can God work financial miracles in people’s lives? YES! Will God honor our faithfulness when we give to His work? YES! Can God bless us financially? ABSOLUTELY! I pray for people EVERY DAY here at Liveprayer in this area. In the miracle center on the www.liveprayer.com website, I actually have a special prayer message for those who need a financial miracle in their lives.

Of the over31 million praise reports that we have archived, I can assure you, over 1/4 are FINANCIAL MIRACLES. The Bible tells us that God owns the cattle on a thousand hills. The Bible tells us that all the silver and gold belong to Him. All, 100% of what we have, comes from God and belongs to God. He is our source. He is our provider. God is still in the financial miracle business!!!

What I am talking about today is this perverted prosperity message that if we give God so much, we will get that back plus a nice monetary return on our "investment in God." God knows our heart, never forget that. God knows our motives; never forget that. When we give to God with an impure heart, or with impure motives, we have missed our opportunity to be blessed. God is not going to honor a gift that is given out of greed, or from a heart that is simply looking for a "return on investment."

You don't give to God like you buy a stock, looking to double or triple your investment. We give to God out of a grateful and thankful heart. We give to God as an act of worship and obedience. We give to God cheerfully, NOT to get anything back, but to show God how much we love Him. Again, ALL we have already belongs to God so we can't BUY God's blessings. God doesn't need our money; He is looking for our faithfulness.

Giving to God is not something we should do for any other reason but to tell Him how much we love Him.

I love you and care about you so much. Let me share with you the REAL PROSPERITY MESSAGE. Our prosperity is not measured in how much money we have, but in our relationship with Jesus Christ! Some of the richest people in the world have NOTHING in the way of material possessions, yet, they are more prosperous than someone with a billion dollars in the bank who is without Christ in their life.

As for giving, while God can and does bless people financially as they are faithful and obedient, the majority of our blessings are NOT monetary. They come in the form of things that there is no price tag on. How much is good health worth? How much is a happy marriage worth? How much is a quality relationship with your children worth? There is an unlimited number of ways God can bless us in this life that is worth far more than money.

As you are faithful in giving to God's work, God WILL bless you, but it may not always be in the form of a monetary blessing.

The REAL prosperity message has nothing to do with money. It is about having an intimate, vibrant, daily relationship with Jesus Christ. You can't buy that, you can't give a "love offering" to get that, it is something that we can only receive by our faith and God's grace. As the popular television commercial states, "It is priceless." THAT, my friend, is the real prosperity message.

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller