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Intimidated into silence! This coming Friday, Liveprayer will be 8 years
old. Every day since Liveprayer started, I have produced a Daily
Devotional. Other than about a dozen from the first few months, every Daily
Devotional I have written can be found in our “Devotional Archives” on the
Liveprayer.com website. Eight years, 96 months of writings. An historical
record of what I have said. That is important since from the very beginning
I have telling my readers that because we have abandoned the marketplace,
have quit reaching out to the lost and hurting masses outside of the 4 walls
of the church, the opportunity to use the same secular media vehicles the
world uses to propagate the lies of satan that lead men’s souls to hell,
will soon be impossible for Christians to use to bring people God’s Truth
and the hope of Jesus Christ! The very small window that was left is now
virtually closed and will never be reopened!
The secular networks will never support and endorse any program that is
preaching the pure Truth of the Bible, bringing a Biblical worldview to
their viewers. They do, however, fill their programming with every kind of
sin you can imagine and clearly support a view of the world and life in
complete rebellion to the Bible and the Christian Faith. Of course, they
are in the entertainment business, not the ministry. However, the
entertainment they feed on their airwaves has a foundation of sin and
rebellion to God, His Truth, and a faith in Jesus Christ. They are open to
dealing with “spiritual issues,” but from a New Age viewpoint, not from the
Bible. The only way to access their airwaves is to buy time in those few
hours a day they designate for PAID PROGRAMMING, which is usually sold to
infomercial companies.
The few Christian programs that do pay to be on secular stations usually buy
time on Sunday morning or between 2am-6am to troll for Christian viewers.
These programs are the exact same programs these ministries air on Christian
television, geared strictly for a Christian audience except for local
churches who broadcast their Sunday morning worship service. When I started
the Liveprayer TV program I knew to attract a non-Christian audience it had
to be a different type of program from the standard preaching/teaching
programs, geared to non-Christians, and have a similar feel to the secular
programs it would compete against without compromising the Truth of the
Bible.
Thus was birthed the Liveprayer TV program back on March 3, 2003 on the CBS
owned UPN (now CW) affiliate in Tampa, Florida, the #!2 TV market in the
nation. “Live” every Monday thru Friday from 1-2 a.m. following the last
network program. I would simply deal with the current issues in the world
and people’s lives from a Biblical worldview, take calls from the viewers to
debate them, answer their questions, counsel or pray for them, and just love
people who were hurting, struggling with life, and give them a word of
encouragement and the greatest gift of all…hope!
As of last Friday, for 1,170 nights, except for 2 nights when the studio was
closed due to the hurricanes we had in 2005, and 2 nights I was out of town
and couldn’t get back due to weather, I have been in my chair to share God’s
Truth with the viewers and minister to them. In addition to being on the
CBS owned station all that time, for 52 weeks (July 2005-June 2006) the
program was up on satellite and also seen live on the ABC owned stations in
Miami, West Palm Beach, and Jacksonville, and the WB affiliate in Ft. Myers.
For 10 weeks in 2006 the program was also seen nationwide on the “i”
Network.
During this time, millions of people across the nation and around the world
via the Liveprayer.com website have seen the program. Over 10,000 people we
know of have made the decision to accept Jesus Christ as their personal
Savior by faith. We have taken over 12,000 phone calls from viewers,
responded to over 3 1/2 million emails for prayer, and have over 30,000
praise reports archived from people who took the time to emails us back and
tell us how God moved in their life. What we have done is use the secular
media to bring the unadulterated Truth of God’s Word into people’s lives who
for the most part don’t go to church, don’t read the Bible, aren’t
Christians, and see their lives transformed by the power of God. The hunger
is out there, but so are those who hate God, reject the Bible as Truth,
don’t believe in Jesus, and want to silence the Truth from being told!
You can only imagine the outrage by people who are in bondage to a sin like
homosexuality when I had the audacity to share that the Bible calls their
choice a sin. You can only imagine the outrage by people who have chosen to
put their faith in the false gods of the world, follow the cults and false
religions that are out there, when I had the audacity to look them in the
eye and tell them they are following a lie to the fires of hell. You can
only imagine the outrage by people who don’t want to be held accountable by
God or anyone, when I would sit there night after night and tell them that
Absolute Truth does exist and that they are free to believe and do whatever
they want, but there will be consequences for their choices. Forty years
ago, there would not have been the outrage from someone preaching a
Biblically based message. There is today!
Each night we get many hateful emails, every month several death threats are
received by email, letter and phone. The drive to take this program off the
air started virtually after the first program and has never stopped. For
CBS, we were a paying client. We pay them nearly $400,000 a year in air
time and product costs. The station managers over the years took the
position that we had what some considered “controversial content,” but so
did many programs and that is why they put up the disclaimers before and
after our telecast. Liveprayer was a good customer and the people who
didn’t like the program didn’t have to watch. They also knew that I was a
broadcast professional and that I would never do anything to violate FCC
regulations and that we did tremendous good in the community and in many
lives through the program.
More vocal than even the numerous homosexual groups, Scientologists,
Mormons, and atheists who have been trying to take us off was CAIR, the
Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR, who is currently listed as an
unindicted co-conspirator in a Dallas trial involving a terrorist fund
raising operation, is viewed by much of the mainstream media as a Muslim
version of the American Civil Liberties Union instead of the face of the
radical Islamic movement that it has been proven to be since its inception
here in the United States. CAIR believes that free speech ends when
someone tells the truth about Islam. Sadly, CBS caved into the intimidation
tactics by CAIR and told us they would be taking our program off the air on
September 11th. 9/11, an interesting date. You can read more about this
radical Islamic group at: http://www.anti-cair-net.org/
However, God always has a ram in the bush. Six months ago, we had begun
developing a new morning program on a competing network in the Tampa market
to reach that “morning prime” audience. The program would be a bit
different, since it would feature secular guests each morning from the local
Tampa Bay community. People from the area attractions, restaurants, sports
teams, business and political communities, to deal with the issues in this
area. That would help us to attract a more secular audience which would
also be hearing the news and events in the world from a Biblical worldview.
We would continue to take some phone calls each day, counsel people, and
share with the audience the Truth of God’s Word and the hope we have in
Jesus.
Over this past weekend, I pressed for a meeting to see if we could salvage
the program. Out of love and concern for the thousands of people who depend
on the Liveprayer program to be there each night, I met with management
Monday morning, but it was clear the content of the program would be an
ongoing issue for them. So even though we could stay on CBS until 9/11, we
chose to have our final program on Friday, August 31, the 8 year anniversary
of Liveprayer, and will debut the new morning program “Liveprayer AM,” the
following Monday at 7:30 a.m. ISN’T GOD GOOD!!!
I love you and care about you so much. My message for you today is simply
this. Don’t ever let anyone or anything silence you from telling people the
Truth. The Truth of God’s Word is all we have. It is our only message. I
realize that we will not have much longer before there won’t be any secular
venues left to bring forth the Gospel, but as long as there is one, I will
be there. The better percentage of two full generations don’t go to church,
don’t read the Bible, and unless they come to know Jesus as their Savior
will die and go to hell. WE MUST REACH THESE PEOPLE, AND TO DO THAT, WE
HAVE TO INVADE THEIR LIVES WHERE THEY LIVE!!!
Towards that end, we still have a small window to get the night program back
on nationwide on the “i” Network. I have an option that expires this Friday
to be back on Monday, October 1, “live” every Monday-Friday from Midnight -1
a.m. EDT reaching 90 million of the 100 million TV households in the nation.
I told you last year how critical it was to get the program on and keep it
on, since once the window closes it will be closed for good. We are
feverishly working on several situations to make that happen, so please
pray. We need $3 million to cover our first 3 months on the air, after
that, we have our in-house sales team now in place that can secure enough
advertising to keep the program going long term. If God is speaking to you
about this, contact me and let’s chat. There isn’t much time left to be
able to bring a true Biblical message to the marketplace using the secular
media, we must take advantage of the time we do have. THE ETERNAL SOULS OF
PEOPLE, YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE AT STAKE!!!
Thank you for all of your love and prayers, for your concern, and for your
support. It has been a wild few weeks, with several more ahead, but God is
good. I told my attorney the other night that CBS by cowering to CAIR might
have just helped execute me. The international wire services are reporting
that I am some anti-Muslim extremist who is inciting violence against
Muslims. This has caused a rash of death threats and no doubt, made me a
marked man in the Muslim world. The sad reality is, I am only interested in
saving their souls, it is Islam that is about killing those who oppose them.
But God is good and I will keep pressing on towards the prize. I know where
my home is and I also know that as long as God has work for me to do He will
have his legions watching over me.
Tomorrow is promised to none of us. Every second someone is dying and going
to hell, someone that could have been saved if they had been told about
Jesus and His love for them. That is what drives me each second of each
day, to keep telling all that I can about our wonderful Savior who loves
them, died for their sins, so that they could be forgiven and have the
assurance of heaven. That is the Gospel message and we can’t let ourselves
be intimidated into silence!
Many people ask me why I keep fighting so hard each day, go through all I do
each day. Some get upset that I ask people to support God’s work here. I
don’t play mind games with you, I don’t take passages of the Bible out of
context to try and manipulate you. I don’t bribe you with gifts to send
Liveprayer money. I simply tell you what our needs are and ask you to pray
about helping me to do the work God has called us to do. Not everyone is
called to be physically on the front lines like I am. Some go to the front
lines through their prayers and through their giving. A war can’t be fought
without money and some are called to help finance the war! The reason I put
myself out there, the reason I beg you to help me, is because of people who
send me emails like this:
“Dear Pastor Bill, Without your inspiration and constant presence in my life
over the past two years, I have no doubt that I would NEVER have developed
the frame of mind or sense of hope and optimism to even try to get out of
bed and function again. In addition to the thyroid cancer you know about, I
was struck by lightning in 1988 and it severely damaged my nervous system
and broke my spine completely. It is a miracle I can walk at all! Last
year I had three small heart attacks followed by strokes, and now I have
been diagnosed with COPD and emphysema. Given all that plus a 60 mile an
hour motorcycle accident and 4 serious car accidents over the past 20 years,
I truly believe you when you say that God still has work for me to do.
Otherwise I would simply have died. I had given up any thought of ever
being a “productive” member of society again, considering that magnitude of
physical and mental adversities I was faced with. But you inspired me to
keep going, to get out of bed and try to walk tall in the light of the day
again. I can never thank you enough!”
In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller
If I can help you in any way you can contact me through my personal email at:
bkeller@liveprayer.com
***ARE YOU 100% CERTAIN WHERE YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY? The fact is you will die one day. At that moment, you will either spend eternity with the Lord or
be cast into everlasting darkness forever separated from God your creator.
To know for certain you will be forever with Jesus, go to:
liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.cfm
***I am excited to let you know that the Liveprayer Daily Devotional is now
available via AUDIO each day. Simply go to liveprayer.com/Audio.cfm
Also, you can now listen to the Daily Devotional by phone by calling, 1-845-510-2722
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