Daily Devotional for Saturday September 5, 2026

A wild but possible prediction in the TV Nugget! and, Football is back and so is gambling!

CELEBRATING 27 YEARS OF LIVEPRAYER.COM!!!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2026

(Philippians 3:14, Psalm 118:8)

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

GOD IS FAITHFUL! Thank you for all who have been praying and those able to help me during this difficult month as the summer months are finally behind us. Every one of our 27 years we have struggled financially thru the summer, and after Labor Day thru the end of the year we catch up. However, it has often presented some serious cash flow problems since the amount of daily ministry we provide to people worldwide and expenses don’t change during the summer.

Please pray about helping me with a special emergency gift at this critical moment as we are on the front lines daily battling satan for the eternal souls of men!

Thanks to friends like you we covered the final $5,000 from our June operations last Thursday and entered into the long holiday weekend making this challenge even more difficult, requiring the first $15,000 of our July shortfall. That $15,000 clears up the invoices we are behind for our servers that keep Liveprayer.com online 24/7 and handles our extensive email operations including sending out the Daily Devotional.

Next Tuesday after Labor Day, we require another $15,000 from July. That $30,000 clears up our critical past due operational expenses. GOD IS ABLE!!!

***I realize it is the weekend, a holiday weekend to boot, but it is critical to get that initial $15,000 we require ASAP! Since the banks are closed, please pray about helping me with the most generous special one-time gift on your credit card so we have immediate access to those funds! Next Tuesday after the holidays, if the Lord has blessed you to be able to help me go that extra mile and wire the funds to our WellsFargo account or send a gift via FedEx. Please contact me for the info at: bkeller@liveprayer.com

sATAN IS A LIAR AND A LOSER! AFTER 27 YRS, TENS OF MILLIONS OF LIVES HAVE BEEN IMPACTED FOR CHRIST WORLDWIDE AND OVER 3.3 MILLION SOULS WE KNOW HAVE COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST!!! $30,000 WILL NOT STOP GOD’S WORK HERE AT LIVEPRAYER!!! NEVER FORGET THAT YOU AND GOD ARE ALWAYS A MAJORITY!!!

That gives us the rest of September to cover the final $25,000 of our July operations and the $55,000 we required during August. Covering that $80,000 of shortfalls during September will lead us into October and the final 3 months of the year requiring the $55,000 for our September operations along with the $55,000 we will require in October, in November, and in December. OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!

Please be praying 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! There are a few the Lord is speaking to who HE has blessed and enabled to step up at this critical moment and help me with a significant gift! Everyone can pray, and most can make a sacrifice as the Lord purposes in your heart whether that is $10, $50, $100, or more!

*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! Thank you and may you know HIS richest blessings!

***Prayer***

Dear Lord, open my eyes to see this world clearly and show me what You want me to do to serve You in these times we live. You and You alone will have the last word Lord. Let me see this lost world through Your eyes and with Your heart and help to lead the lost and hurting to find Your hope, strength, and peace! In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!

***The Daily Liveprayer TV Nugget***

A wild but very possible prediction! Tyler Robinson, the Mormon raised assassin of Charlie Kirk was asked by his lover why he did it. Robinson replied that “there is some hate you just can’t ignore!” Robinson’s lover by the way was a mentally ill young man who thought he was a woman, and also would dress up in an animal outfit (furry) when they had sex.

I have a prediction and if I am wrong will be more than happy to say I was wrong. Recently we watched Luigi Mangione who was upset with the insurance industry, stalk and execute the CEO of a major insurance company outside of a MidTown Manhattan hotel ON CAMERA!

The nation and world has been fixated on the trial in Mass. of a woman who killed her 3 small children before unsuccessfully trying to kill herself. Nobody is disputing those facts. Her month-long trial ended Friday with a hung jury, but the news is 11 of the jurors voted to acquit her due to insanity with one holding out to convict her of first degree murder. The nation is pretty evenly split amongst those who believe she should go to a mental institution and those who believe she belongs in prison.

Against these recent stories, I believe Robinson will show up at his trial early next year in a wig, dress, heels, and make-up having changed his name to Tootie! Crazy you say? Why you ask? Simple, TRANS SYMPATHY! Even tho to date Robinson has not claimed to be trans, he was in that world and my guess is to avoid the death penalty for killing Kirk he will come out at trial as trans looking for those sympathetic to people with that mental illness.

*If you missed an information packed Liveprayer TV program Thursday 9/3, watch it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlsESzSC9rI

***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

***September Financial Update***

GOD IS FAITHFUL! Thank you for all who have been praying and those able to help me during this difficult month as the summer months are finally behind us. Every one of our 27 years we have struggled financially thru the summer, and after Labor Day thru the end of the year we catch up. However, it has often presented some serious cash flow problems since the amount of daily ministry we provide to people worldwide and expenses don’t change during the summer.

Please pray about helping me with a special emergency gift at this critical moment as we are on the front lines daily battling satan for the eternal souls of men!

Thanks to friends like you we covered the final $5,000 from our June operations last Thursday and entered into the long holiday weekend making this challenge even more difficult, requiring the first $15,000 of our July shortfall. That $15,000 clears up the invoices we are behind for our servers that keep Liveprayer.com online 24/7 and handles our extensive email operations including sending out the Daily Devotional.

Next Tuesday after Labor Day, we require another $15,000 from July. That $30,000 clears up our critical past due operational expenses. GOD IS ABLE!!!

***I realize it is the weekend, a holiday weekend to boot, but it is critical to get that initial $15,000 we require ASAP! Since the banks are closed, please pray about helping me with the most generous special one-time gift on your credit card so we have immediate access to those funds! Next Tuesday after the holidays, if the Lord has blessed you to be able to help me go that extra mile and wire the funds to our WellsFargo account or send a gift via FedEx. Please contact me for the info at: bkeller@liveprayer.com

sATAN IS A LIAR AND A LOSER! AFTER 27 YRS, TENS OF MILLIONS OF LIVES HAVE BEEN IMPACTED FOR CHRIST WORLDWIDE AND OVER 3.3 MILLION SOULS WE KNOW HAVE COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST!!! $30,000 WILL NOT STOP GOD’S WORK HERE AT LIVEPRAYER!!! NEVER FORGET THAT YOU AND GOD ARE ALWAYS A MAJORITY!!!

That gives us the rest of September to cover the final $25,000 of our July operations and the $55,000 we required during August. Covering that $80,000 of shortfalls will lead us into October and the final 3 months of the year requiring the $55,000 for our September operations along with the $55,000 we will require in October, in November, and in December. OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!

Please be praying 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! There are a few the Lord is speaking to who HE has blessed and enabled to step up at this critical moment and help me with a significant gift! Everyone can pray, and most can make a sacrifice as the Lord purposes in your heart whether that is $10, $50, $100, or more!

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

Football and gambling. The new college season in underway and the NFL season begins next Wednesday night. All across this nation it is football season. It is a time for fans of the game to root their favorite team on to victory (go Ohio State Buckeyes!). Sadly however, it is also a time for millions of people to gamble on this great sport. From now until the Super Bowl next February, TENS OF BILLIONS will be wagered legally and illegally on pro and college-football games. Over the next 5 months, lives will be destroyed by people who are in bondage to gambling on football games.

*With the advent of legalized sports gambling on your phone, as I warned it has created a massive new generation of gambling addicts and destroyed lives...primarily young men high school age thru their 30s!

Sadly, this year will be even worse as it is now LEGAL for all 50 states to offer sports gambling, something that has only been allowed in Nevada. As we have watched our culture in spiritual freefall, on the verge if not already a post-Christian nation (more on this sad reality in the coming months),one of the most disgusting developments have been most states operating like a mafia crime family while destroying the lives of its’ citizens in the process!

States are now drug dealers, bookies, and soon to be pimps. Many make a very legitimate argument they are also in the extortion business through their excessive taxation. What is the difference between organized crime and states who have legalized marijuana, gambling on the lottery (the old neighborhood numbers racket) and now sporting events, and very soon prostitution?

In the process they are helping to create a new generation of addicts while destroying lives. For what purpose? To generate a few extra dollars for the state coffers because they spend irresponsibly and are lazy. The states have locked up people over many decades for the very same activities they have now legalized!

Over the past decade, by far the fastest growing form of sports gambling, especially on professional football, has been "fantasy football." There are several websites that offer daily action on all sporting events. In fantasy football, you create a fantasy team from the existing pool of players. You bet real money on your “team” and are rewarded when the players you select have productive statistics in the games they play.

It sounds like fun and can be exciting, but if you are playing fantasy football and there is money to be won or lost, YOU ARE GAMBLING!!! IT IS A GAME OF “CHANCE,” WHICH IS WHY IT IS CALLED...GAMBLING!!!

The appalling thing to me has been the hypocrisy of the National Football League in regard to gambling and fantasy football. Until the states recently legalized gambling on the games themselves, the league had a zero tolerance position regarding gambling on its’ game even though they fully endorsed and supported fantasy football.

The NFL took this position for two reasons. First, they view it as an entertaining way for more people to watch and be involved in their product. They are 100% right since not many people would be worrying about the number of yards a running back on a bad team gained in a meaningless game late in the seasons, unless that player was on your fantasy team. Second, they claim to only endorse fantasy leagues where no money changes hand, knowing full well that 99% of fantasy leagues have entry fees anywhere from $10 to $100,000 and more!

The reality is, the NFL as well as the NCAA that oversees the college game, fully understands and tacitly accept the fact that billions are wagered every season on their games. Pick up ANY newspaper during the season and in the back of the sports page are the Vegas lines. My friend, there is only ONE reason they are printed...for GAMBLING. The explosion of interest in college and pro football has been primarily driven by gambling. People can wager in Vegas, with the local bookie, with their friend, or at offshore bookmakers online, and then sit back and watch the game they have bet on.

NOW, THEY CAN BYPASS THE LOCAL BOOKIE SINCE THE STATES ARE NOW IN THE BOOKMAKING BUSINESS!!

Football and television are a match made in gambling heaven. The "line" is broadcasted and openly talked about in regard to EVERY game without any hesitation by the announcers. Programs geared to people who gamble are all over TV and radio during football season. You can now sit at home and watch virtually every college and pro game that is played.

I can assure you, the ONLY reason someone is up at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning watching Hawaii play TCU, other than those who went to Hawaii and TCU, are people betting on the game. The ONLY reason someone is watching two pro teams with 2-9 records on a Sunday afternoon, other than the fans of those teams, is because they have a bet on the game.

Gambling has driven the TV ratings, which in turn has put millions in the pockets of the NFL and NCAA schools, which is why they used to say they are against gambling with a wink and a nod. Now that it is legal for states to allow bets on college and pro football, they no longer even have to wink and nod. IT IS OUT IN THE OPEN WHICH IN THE END MAY BE A GOOD THING FOR THE INTEGRITY OF THE GAMES.

By the way, another cultural byproduct of the breakup of marriage and the family that all sports leagues are well aware of, is the dwindling fan base in the 30 and under demographic. How do little boys and girls for that matter, become interested in sports? It is usually through their father, someone who is now absent in a high percentage of homes.

I CAN ASSURE YOU MOST MEN AND MANY WOMEN CAN REMEMBER THEIR FIRST SPORTING EVENT AND IT WAS ALMOST A MEMORY OF GOING WITH DAD!

I will never forget the moment at 6 when my dad took me to Crosley Field in Cincinnati to see the Reds. The moment we came out from under the stands through the entry way and saw the field, I will never forget how brown the infield dirt was, how green the grass was, the signage on the outfield fence. It was a moment in time I will never forget, and one so many children also have.

I am often asked whether it is a sin to bet on a football game or to buy a Lottery ticket. I am going to tell you up front that there is no verse in the Bible that says, "thou shalt not gamble." However, let me give you a Biblical basis why gambling is a sin. Gambling involves an element of risk. Ultimately, you are putting your faith in something other than God for the outcome. Therein lies the foundation of why gambling is a sin.

Instead of trusting God, instead of putting your faith in God, you have chosen to put your faith in luck. You are hoping to beat the odds and it is putting your hope and faith in something other than God that makes gambling a sin. Let me outline for you three additional reasons why gambling is a sin.

First, it can cause you to lose sight of your priorities. Never forget, anytime something is more important than the Lord in your life, it is a sin. We are to love the Lord our God with all of our heart and He MUST be our first priority at all times.

]Second, it can be a poor use of God's resources that He has entrusted to you. Many people I have counseled are in financial difficulties, not because they have not been blessed by God, but because they have misused and mishandled their blessing.

Lastly, it can be a stumbling block to your brother or sister. Many people have a compulsive nature, could end up in total bondage to gambling. So while it may not be a problem in your life, your involvement may cause someone else to have a problem with gambling.

Let me make an important point. When I talk about gambling, I am referring to the lottery, sports gambling, casino games, private card games, but I am also talking about the financial markets. Having been involved heavily in the financial markets in the 80's, I can tell you that many people use the word investing, when in fact they are literally gambling. When you are taking a financial position in the outcome of something that is unknown, that is gambling no matter what words you want to use. You have as much control over the stock price of a particular company as you do over the performance of your favorite football team.

***This is NOT an indictment against having stocks and bonds. Prudent, reasoned, well strategized investment plans are encouraged in God's Word. I am talking about those who are simply rolling the dice hoping to get lucky in the stock market.

The Bible teaches us to be wise stewards with the resources God has entrusted to us. I am a strong advocate of investing a portion of our resources in well researched, fundamentally sound opportunities that have the real potential of giving us a reasonable return. That is wise use of God's money. God encourages this type of prudent investing. The line is crossed into gambling when you are just "hoping to be right," or entering into a situation with greed as your motive. No prayer, no research, simply taking a chance you might win. For the above-outlined reasons, that is a sin my friend.

I love you and care about you so much. I will be praying for you today, praying for those who have been caught up in the bondage of this addiction to gambling, especially those caught up in gambling on football games. If you, or someone you know is addicted to gambling, know that I will be praying today for those who are in this bondage. God is a God of deliverance and He can deliver someone from the bondage of gambling. Never forget that there is hope in Christ, and no matter how bad someone has destroyed their life, God can help them put the pieces together if they are ready to surrender to Him.

Gambling is a sin, since inherent in the nature of gambling there is a reliance on chance instead of faith in God. But never forget that Christ died on the cross to wash our sins away and give us victory. If you are in bondage to gambling on football, it is no accident you are reading this message today. God is speaking to your heart about STOPPING. Don't spend another season without sleep, worrying about an 18-year-old student at a school you can't even pronounce making a 53-yard field goal to cover the spread or watching a meaningless Monday night game trying to get out of the hole from your losses on Sunday!

In His love and service,

Your friend and co-laborer in His work,

Bill Keller