Daily Devotional for Saturday August 22, 2026

A special Word for YOU today! and, The death of a genius, but was he?

DAILY DEVOTIONAL SATURDAY AUGUST 22, 2026

(John 3:16, 14:6)

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

Please take a moment today and pray for God to protect our men and women in the military as they bravely serve our nation!

I need your help today, we are in a difficult place financially as we end the summer months! Heading into the final days of August here is what our immediate needs are! We covered $5,000 of the critical $30,000 balance of our June operations Monday leaving the final $25,000 from June’s shortfall and the $55,000 from our July ministry operations. That is $80,000 we require before the end of the month to clear up our shortfalls we had starting August.

I desperately need that final $25,000 from June that is way past due immediately! That will give us some breathing room financially and allow me to have the final days of August to clear up the $55,000 from July. If you have sold some property, a business, had a financial windfall of some sort but haven’t tithed on that windfall, please pray about planting that seed in the proven good soil of Liveprayer at this critical time!

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!

*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, thank You for Your love and blessings. I pray today that You help me to touch even just ONE life for You. If it is a kind act, a kind word, or the opportunity to tell someone about Your love, USE ME TODAY FOR YOUR GLORY! In the name of Jesus...AMEN!!!

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

This is from me to YOU today! “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.” Isaiah 43:2

***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***

I need your help today, we are in a difficult place financially as we end the summer months! Heading into the final days of August here is what our immediate needs are! We covered $5,000 of the critical $30,000 balance of our June operations Monday leaving the final $25,000 from June’s shortfall and the $55,000 from our July ministry operations. That is $80,000 we require before the end of the month to clear up our shortfalls we had starting August.

I desperately need that final $25,000 from June that is way past due immediately! That will give us some breathing room financially and allow me to have the final days of August to clear up the $55,000 from July. If you have sold some property, a business, had a financial windfall of some sort but haven’t tithed on that windfall, please pray about planting that seed in the proven good soil of Liveprayer at this critical time! We will focus on clearing up the $55,000 we required this month and the $55,000 for September during September.

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

“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

"There is no God, no one directs the universe."

“Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God, which there isn't. I'm an atheist.”

These quotes came from a man who was a genius by the world's standards, though he is now burning in hell for all eternity. The Bible tells us that “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise!” Word came on March of 2018 that 76 year old world renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking died. Hawking was diagnosed at 21 with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It can kill someone within a few months of diagnosis, and there's only a 10% chance patients live more than a decade. However, Hawking lived for 55 years with the disease.

As brilliant of a scientist as Hawking was, sadly his brilliance prohibited him from understanding and knowing the greatest Truth of all. To Hawking, that truth was what he called, “the theory of everything.” Sadly, what Hawking never understood is that the “everything” he spoke of was this temporal world that one day will be gone as the Bible tells us. In His “brilliance,” Hawking rejected God, which of course meant he also rejected God's Son Jesus as the Savior of the world.

Having debated many great minds over the past 27 years who held to the same beliefs as Hawking, minds that would forget more about the complex things of this world than I would know in 100 lifetimes, it always left me sad knowing that their vast intelligence regarding things of this temporal world would prohibit them from knowing the greatest truth of all, and when their brief journey was over their soul souls be needlessly lost for all eternity.

As I always do in these situations, let me remind you of several critical facts. God, not Bill Keller is the author of the plan of salvation. As I remind people often, there is always the chance that a Hawking, a Hitler, or any other public denier of Christ throughout their life could in their final breath seek forgiveness for their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and be forever in Heaven as is the thief on the cross.

Sadly however, most who hold beliefs like Hawking have hardened their heart and take their last breath shaking their fist at God their Creator, unaware that they will be cast in the horrors of hell for all eternity. ONCE AGAIN, I AM SIMPLY SHARING WHAT GOD SAYS IN THE BIBLE. PEOPLE ARE FREE TO ACCEPT HIS TRUTH OR REJECT HIS TRUTH!!!

In debating atheists over the years, those who deny God as the Creator of the universe and all that is in it, they are always stuck when forced to answer the question, “Accepting the Big Bang theory as the way everything was created, where did whatever particles present during the “bang” come from?” Even great minds like Hawking have NO ANSWER! The reality is, there is NO...ZERO scientific evidence for creation outside of God!

Sadly, Hawking never understood we do NOT have an impersonal God. We have a God who loved His creation so much, He desires to have a personal relationship with each of us. He loved us so much that despite our sins that should damn ALL men to hell, God sent His Son Jesus to die for those sins so that each man could make the choice to be reconciled back to His Creator.

Probably the saddest quote of all was when Hawking stated, “"There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

Sadly Hawking in all of his knowledge of this world never understood the simple fact that if the world came into being as he believed, than man is nothing but a cosmic accident. No purpose. No reason. Nothing we do matters. Man just lives and dies and that is it. When you think about that for a moment, how sad is this life if we had no purpose or reason for being. I honestly can't think of anything that is more sad!

I love and care about you so much. Jesus came, lived, and shed His precious blood on that cross for ALL mankind. That included Stephen Hawking. However, God gave man freewill. His free gift of everlasting life through faith in Jesus Christ is available to every person who has lived, is alive today, and will live. GOD HAS NEVER SENT ANYONE TO HELL! One more time. GOD HAS NEVER SENT ANYONE TO HELL! The only way a man can end up in hell for all eternity is to reject faith in Jesus Christ.

While the world celebrates the life of Stephen Hawking, paying him great tributes, satan is also celebrating. A man who was arguably one of the greatest minds of his generation for things of this world, a man that like so many rejected the very existence of God and thus His Son Jesus. In the end, just one more soul that is most likely adding to the population of the eternal fires of hell!

YOU know people today that may not be world renown scientists like Hawking, but who are just as lost. Possibly people under your own roof, other family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, people you interact throughout the course of your day. Pray for someone today YOU KNOW has rejected Christ as their Savior.

Ask God for boldness and go share how much Jesus loves them and wants a personal relationship with them. If you don't share the hope of Christ with them, who will? Worse case if you can't find the courage, email them this link to the Plan of Salvation: https://liveprayer.com/salvation.cfm

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller