I attended another funeral last week \u2013 this one for my friend Don Miller. The family said his last words were, \u201calmost to glory!\u201d I\u2019ve often wondered what people think when they know for certain that they are dying. I had a book once that, like many, has disappeared from my shelves, but it recorded the famous last words of dying people. Lady Nancy Astor, awakening briefly and seeing all her family around her bedside, asked, \u201cam I dying, or is this my birthday?\u201d Outlaw Cherokee Bill, with a hangman\u2019s noose around his neck, was asked if there was anything he wanted to say, and he replied, \u201cNo! I came here to die, not make a speech.\u201d Russian author Leo Tolstoy said, \u201cEven in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.\u201d Evangelist D. L. Moody said, \u201cI see earth receding; heaven is opening. God is calling me.\u201d Dying on a cross, Jesus spoke seven times, and His final earthly words were, \u201cFather, into your hands, I commit My spirit\u201d (Luke 23:46). I want to live like Don Miller so when time comes to commit my spirit to the Father, my final words can be repeated and honored at my funeral.<\/p>\n
Join me this week in praying for the following global concerns:
\n\u2022 Pray for the Prosthetics Team that will be ministering this week at the New Day Orphanage in Zambia.
\n\u2022 Pray for volunteer teams that will be doing relief work in Napal.
\n\u2022 Pray for our Partnership Visit this week in Vancouver, Canada.
\n\u2022 Join missionaries who serve among European people groups in their Days of Prayer and Fasting, May 4-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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