Daily Devotional for Thursday October 8, 2026

Jim Bakker dead at 86! A complete look at this man and his ministry!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 2026

(Mark 9:38-40, John 17:21)

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***Prayer***

Dear Lord, my life is YOURS! No matter what, I will never stop praising You and giving You the glory! This life is but a moment. Let me use my moment to serve and glorify You! AMEN!!! In the name of Jesus...AMEN!!!

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

Never forget that the “battle is the Lord's!”

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

Jim Bakker died Monday night. He was 86 years old. As someone who has been in the ministry world for the last 35 years, on the Tuesday night 10/6 TV program I spent about 11 minutes to talk about Bakker and give the audience some insight into not just PTL, but the life of Jim and Tammy and the world of big time Christian ministry.

If you liked Bakker or despised him for his public sins, it is well worth 11 minutes to listen to the FULL truth about Bakker and major ministries that take in tens of millions of dollars annually. I believe it is a very fair observation, again, from someone who has known all of these major figures and can give you personal insight you won’t get anywhere else!

The life and death of Jim Bakker and the truth of major Christian ministries on the Liveprayer TV program Tuesday 10/6/26. This clip begins at apx. the 39:40 mark and goes thru 50:10! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LAKVZn17Q

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***October Financial Update***

Did you know God’s timing is always perfect, even though it is rarely our timing? After 35 years of walking by faith in my service to the Lord, watching God’s faithfulness in my personal life, in the life of the work He has called me to, and in the lives of millions worldwide, I am still just man of flesh and bone and my faith wavers at times. I am not proud to admit this having preached faith daily to millions worldwide. In the end, the Bible is true, God’s promises are real, and He loves us more than we can comprehend.

After over 27 years online and going on 24 years on TV, God is not finished with Liveprayer! WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO! The last month has been a real test, a test I have honestly failed at times in those wee hours when it is dark, quiet, and it is just you and the Lord. I am humbled that the Lord sent a couple of “rams in the bush” that has helped us clear up the balance of our July shortfall AND the entire August budget for out daily ministry operations. GOD IS GREAT!

We ended September having cleared up our July and August operations. As we begin October, we can now being to work on the $55,000 we requires for September’s budget and the $55,000 we require for October. The good news is for now we are back on solid footing financially and the emergency that threatened to shut down Liveprayer has been averted! satan is a liar and a loser and our God is faithful! AMEN!

So far we have covered the first $5,000 of that September shortfall leaving the final $50,000. Please pray about helping me with a gift in the first weeks of October. 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!!!

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

(From the Liveprayer Daily Devotional Wednesday March 11, 2020)

Jim Bakker isn’t helping the cause of Christ! Sadly, Jim Bakker is back in the news and not for anything that will help the cause of Christ. After his prison stint was over in the early 90’s, he came out with a book titled, “I Was Wrong.” It was a book denouncing the perverted prosperity gospel. Yet within a few years, Bakker was back operating out of Branson, Missouri with a new “Tammy Fae” and the same old money hype that ultimately doomed PTL.

Bakker has been relatively low-key, back on TV on a handful of Christian TV stations with a bare bones version of the old PTL. He has primarily been raising money selling health products to his elderly audience as well as “end days packages” of dried food and other products geared towards people living during the final days.

Sadly, Bakker is back in the news as the State of New York has issued a cease and desist from him selling a product he is claiming cures the “coronavirus.” Like all of the health products hawked on Christian TV, few of them are FDA approved but simply natural nutrients that make claims of curing different illnesses.

I am well aware of alternative medicines and am not here to debate how viable these products are. God uses many instruments to heal people so that is not the purpose here. Jim Bakker is not a stupid man and has to understand the damage he has done to the cause of Christ from the PTL days. For this reason alone, he needs to stay as far away from anything that would call into question the Christian faith.

I can tell you that after nearly 30 years of evangelistic ministry, people who have NO CLUE about what is in the Bible, know all about Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and the preacher at the local church who ran off with the choir director. While God will not be interested in their excuses, I can tell you that those who deny Christ will look for any reason to justify their denial.

For full disclosure, one of the men the Lord put into my life at the very beginning of my ministry and who became a spiritual father was the late Pastor Richard Dortch. Pastor Dortch was a long time Assembly of God missionary, pastor, and District Superintendent that was being groomed to possibly become the General Superintendent of the Assembly of God church. At a critical time in his life, he instead chose to become the president of Jim Bakker's PTL organization.

As we know, God chose to ultimately wipe out PTL. In less than 60 days, it went from a ministry that employed over 3,000 people, taking in $80 million annually, to NO EMPLOYEES, NO INCOME, totally shut down. Pastor Dortch went to Federal Prison for 6 months for his role in the fall of PTL, but after being released God used the life of Pastor Dortch in a great way through his many books and being a spiritual mentor to many Assembly of God pastors until he was called home in 2011.

I had the wonderful opportunity to minister with him on television and on the road during the mid-90's. Every place that we went, dozens of people would come up to him and share how they got saved thru PTL, or how God worked a miracle in their life thru that ministry. While PTL became a national joke, I can tell you this for certain. Hundreds of thousands of souls will be in eternity due to how God used that ministry to reach people for Christ.

Millions of people worldwide were touched by God thru PTL. Jim and Tammy, Pastor Dortch, all the rest who were in leadership will have to stand before God one day in regard to their personal actions, but for a season it was an incredibly powerful instrument that God used to minister to millions worldwide!!!

So pray the Lord will speak to Jim Bakker and help him to realize that he has been used to impact millions of lives, for Christ and in opposition to Christ. He has to use wisdom more than most since he is a target and can’t allow satan to use him as a punching bag for the Christian faith!

The disciples of Jesus were concerned over a man casting out a demon in the name of Jesus, and told him to stop since he was not part of their group. Modern translation: he didn't go to their church . . . they didn't agree with his doctrine . . . he didn't give to their ministry . . . any or all of the above. But what did Jesus say? He said, "DO NOT TRY TO STOP HIM." He also said, "anyone who isn't against us is on our side." Let me repeat what JESUS SAID, "ANYONE WHO ISN'T AGAINST US IS ON OUR SIDE."

One of the things that grieves the heart of God more than anything else is the war within the Body of Christ. It is a prayer of our Lord, just hours before going to the cross that we find in John 17:21, that has yet to be answered.

An unsaved friend of mine once shared with me that over the years, he has been approached by many of the cults in addition to Christians. He said that if 10 members of the same cult talked to him, they always said the same thing. However, if 10 Christians talked to him, they were each more interested in "selling" their particular church and had reasons why the other churches weren't as good as theirs.

Having personally preached in over 500 churches of every denomination over the years, I can attest that far too much time is spent condemning other churches and denominations. Liveprayer reaches over 2.5 million people worldwide daily, apx. 1/3 of those are not saved or in any church, and the other 2/3 represent every type of church and nationality that you can name. Sadly, too many of the emails that I receive each day is in regard to the internal divisions within the Body of Christ.

ONE OF THE GREATEST WEAPONS SATAN USES IS THE WEAPON OF DIVISION!!! JESUS SAID HIMSELF THAT A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND!!!

The wars, the way we have found to divide ourselves as the people of God are endless. Music. I personally love the old hymns, however, some people think that Contemporary Christian Music and Christian rock and rap are of the devil. The Bible. Some people say that you should only read the King James Version, others say that you should only use the Old Testament, while yet others say you should only use the New Testament.

Race and ethnic origin. Too many churches are still segregated by race and ethnic origin. Denomination. Hundreds of denominations, and the now the ever popular non-denomination. Ministries. Para church ministries that specialize in every kind of need imaginable that people have.

ONE OF THE GREATEST WEAPONS SATAN USES IS THE WEAPON OF DIVISION!!! JESUS SAID HIMSELF THAT A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND!!!

As for music, let me say that everyone has different tastes. God reaches some people thru the old hymns that would never listen to Contemporary Christian Music. God reaches others thru Contemporary Christian Music that simply don't enjoy the beauty of the old hymns. Still others God reaches thru Christian rock and rap that would never be reached any other way. Arguing about versions of the Bible is foolish since to compare English TRANSLATIONS makes no sense, because they are all derived from the original Hebrew and Greek text. THAT is what they need to be compared to for accuracy, NOT each other.

I realize that many churches are NOT purposely segregated, that it is due to the surrounding community they are located. But it should be a goal of ALL churches to reach out to people of different races. The denominations are interesting, since if you really study their doctrinal positions, they ALL hold the basic tenets of the Christian faith which is what makes them Christian in the first place. Specialized ministries are necessary since they are meeting the needs of specific groups of people. It is these specialized ministries that are used by God to help lead many people to Christ that the church is simply not equipped or able to reach.

ONE OF THE GREATEST WEAPONS SATAN USES IS THE WEAPON OF DIVISION!!! JESUS SAID HIMSELF THAT A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND!!!

What I am trying to say is simply this. It is ONLY your faith in Jesus Christ coupled with God's grace that will get you to Heaven, NOTHING ELSE. The name on the church building that you go to cannot save you, only faith in Jesus can. There are people sitting in the pews of any Baptist church that are lost, just like there are people sitting in the pews of any Catholic or Assembly of God church that are lost. Their church membership can't save them, ONLY faith in Jesus can.

You see my friend, when you die, there will only be two lines, one for the lost and one for the saved. There will be no line for Protestants and another for Catholics. There will be no line for Methodists, and another for Presbyterians. There will be no line for blacks and another for whites. There will be no Asian line and no Anglo line. When you die, the ONLY thing that will matter is whether you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

ONE OF THE GREATEST WEAPONS SATAN USES IS THE WEAPON OF DIVISION!!! JESUS SAID HIMSELF THAT A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND!!!

I say that to tell you that God uses MANY unique and marvelous ways to bring a person into that everlasting relationship with Himself. I can assure you that there are people He uses me to reach, that possibly would not be reached otherwise. By the same token, He uses others to reach people that would NEVER be reached thru a ministry like Liveprayer. EVERY PERSON HAS THEIR OWN SPIRITUAL HOT BUTTON.

ONE OF THE GREATEST WEAPONS SATAN USES IS THE WEAPON OF DIVISION!!! JESUS SAID HIMSELF THAT A HOUSE DIVIDED CAN NOT STAND!!!

I love you and care about you so much. I say often that man really has not changed since the Garden of Eden. What a great example of this in today's verses. The disciples of Jesus were concerned over a man casting out a demon in the name of Jesus, and told him to stop since he was not part of their group. Modern translation: he didn't go to their church...they didn't agree with his doctrine...he didn't give to their ministry...any or all of the above.

But what did Jesus say? He said, "DO NOT TRY TO STOP HIM." He also said, "anyone who isn't against us is on our side." Let me repeat what JESUS SAID, "ANYONE WHO ISN'T AGAINST US IS ON OUR SIDE."

I will pray for you today to really examine your heart in regard to this issue of division within the Body of Christ. There is a world out there that is lost, hurting, and a large percentage of them are currently standing in the line marked "lost." If we took all of the time, energy, and effort that we use to divide ourselves, and really came together as one unified BODY, we could make a global impact almost overnight that would be mind boggling.

May the prayer Christ prayed in the Garden finally be answered, that we may be ONE!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller