The
Mission Foundation
Dear friends,
I
give thanks to our Lord for His great Hand of blessing on the weekly Louisiana Louisiana State
On
May 20th, we held our annual reunion breakfast, and we were very
happy that several of our former representatives and senators were able to be
with us. What a great morning! The room was so full that the staff had to
open the doors and set up extra tables in the adjacent area, and we were
blessed by our Lord to experience wonderful warmth and fervency in our
fellowship, our meditation on the Word, and our prayers. Again, we give thanks to our Savior!
I
would like to include a few notes (with slight modifications) from my reunion
morning message: “Living in Preparation to Say My Last Prayer.”
“God, don’t let me die. I have so
much to do.” September
10, 1935 , 4:10 a.m.
These were the very last words that came from his lips. – Governor Huey P. Long, age 42.
“I glorified You on earth, having accomplished the
work that you gave Me to do.” – These words were included in His prayer on the
night before His death. – Jesus our Lord, age 33.
It
is quite possible that you will know when you are saying your last prayer to
God. If so, what will it be?
God has given you a work to
accomplish: He has
given you a purpose. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first
commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39 ESV ) Love God! And love every
man, woman, and child around you!
God has perfectly designed you to carry out this great purpose in a
manner that is unique to you. “For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good
works that He prepared beforehand so that we should walk in them.” (Eph. 2:10) You are His “workmanship,” His poiema – His personal work of art! The
Apostle Paul says that God hand-made you for certain works that He prepared for
you before the foundation of the world. David prays, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made, . . . in your book
were written . . . the days that were ordained for me.” (Ps. 139:14, 16)
– “I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature
that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought,
and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all
thinking.” – George McDonald
You will accomplish
your work by following the example of Jesus who lived every day for the purpose
to which His Father had called Him.
- Each
day do only those things that you know are pleasing to your Father: “And He who sent me is with Me.
He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to
Him.” (John 8:29)
- Each
day seek to know and do your Father’s will: “For I have come down from heaven, not
to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.” (John 6:38)
- Each
day observe what God
is doing so that you
might participate with Him: Jesus said that He as the Son of God does “only what
He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does,
that the Son does likewise. For
the Father loves the Son and shows him all that He Himself is doing.”
(John 5:19)
- Each
day maintain a sense
of urgency, knowing that your days are limited: “We must work the works of Him Who sent me while
it is day; night is coming when no man can work.” (John 9:4)
Every
day you are making decisions. Let every
decision you make be guided by the purpose for which Jesus lived, the same purpose for which He has
called you to live: Love God! Love people! Do this, my friend, and you will be prepared
to say your last prayer to God! Though
you cannot live perfectly, as Jesus did, you will be able to say, “By Your grace, I sought to honor You by
accomplishing all that You gave me to do.”
Thank
you for your prayers and your financial support of us in
our work. We are truly grateful.
Your brother and sister in the Savior,
Rod and Bec
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