Joey Feek gets a visit from the pastor who married her and Rory while sharing how she is keeping her daughters close to her heart in her final days 

Joey Feek got a special visit from an old friend on Monday night.

The terminally-ill country singer was visited by the pastor who married her and husband Rory as well as his wife for some evening prayers.

Rory posted a photo of the pastor and his wife standing by Joey in her hospice bed, writing; 'Blessed w a beautiful visit and time of prayer last night from our sweet friends Mike & Sally Rosser. Mike is the pastor who married us almost 14 years ago.'

He also posted a photo that showed how Joey is keeping daughter Indiana and step-daughters Heidi and Hopie close to her heart in her final days - with necklaces engraved with each of their names.

February is also a big month for the pair as it is when Indiana will turn two-years-old on the 17th, a milestone Joey has said she hopes to be around for despite her prognosis. 

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Friends: Joey Feek was visited by the pastor who married her (above with his wife) and husband Rory in 2002 on Monday night and they prayed together

Happy day: Joey and Rory were married in June 2002 (above on their wedding day)

Touching: The terminally-ill country star also shared a photo showing her new necklace (above) which has the names of her daughter and step-daughters

Lovely: Rory said the he necklace is her way of 'keeping our girls close to her heart' (Joey with step-daughters Hopie and Heidi last summer)

In a recent blog post, Rory wrote about how close he his wife had become in these final days - and how close they have always been since they first met.

'My wife will tell you… I really do believe in magic. Not the kind with cards tricks or rabbits being pulled out of hats, but the kind that God does – where He brings something out of you and your life that you never-in-a-million-years thought was possible...', writes Rory.

'Like our beautiful marriage… or our music career… or the greatest magic of all in our lives… our little Indiana. She’s the most precious addition that God has given us.'

He then addressed the difficulty of what their family is dealing with as Joey fights cancer.

'Joey and I both have questions. Lots of them. Hard questions that we don’t have any answers for. But still, we have faith – we choose to believe.

'I think that’s why they call it faith. If we knew all the answers, no faith would be required.

'And so Joey and I do our best each day to only see the plus’s in our life…like all the extra days and weeks that we’ve been given together (the doctors here didn’t expect Joey to make it to Thanksgiving, and here we are near the end of January), and all the beautiful conversations and time we’ve had with her family.

'And the amazing gift of life-slowing-down-to-a-crawl and only having and needing THIS moment in time. And of course, the incredible amount of love and support that the whole world has shown for us during this special time.

'And every morning, when our little one wakes and I pick her up from her crib and take her in to see her mama – and her sleepy little almond eyes look into ours, once more we see…the amazing power of the plus-sign.

'Joey+Rory = Indy.'

Play time: 'Indy in her walker this morning, doing everything... except walking,' wrote Rory of this photo

Tough time: Joey was given just six months to live by doctors in October after her stage IV cervical cancer diagnosis

Joey, 40, shared how she first fell in love with Rory in an interview with People last week, saying; 'Rory was singing 'In the Round' at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville with three other songwriters. 

'I was just one of dozens of people in the audience that night. From the first song Rory sang, I fell head over heels for him.'

She then added: 'I didn't even know him, but something inside me said, "You're going to marry that man and spend the rest of your lives together."'

Rory, 49, recently revealed that he and Joey would be releasing a new album next month comprised of a collection of hymns.

That album, Hymns That Are Important to Us, will be available on February 12, three days before the couple compete for a Grammy in the Best Country Duo/Group Performance category with their song If I Needed You. 

Joey had appeared to be defying the odds after being given six months to live last October, making remarkable progress over the past few weeks despite being told she would be bedridden for the remainder of her life in late November.

She got out of bed in December and then began to walk again, all things that seemed impossible just weeks before.

She even got to spend Christmas with her family near her childhood home in Alexandria, Indiana.

Joey's good luck took a turn however this past weekend, with Rory revealing that her condition had gotten worse.

'And now, here I sit beside my dying wife,' Rory wrote on his blog. 'She said she told him that if He’s ready to take her… she’s ready to come home.'

He then added: 'Her pain and discomfort has continued to increase daily and so has the morphine to help her be comfortable.

'The dosage she’s needed to keep the pain away has quadrupled in the last four days. I’d like to tell you that she’s doing great and is going to beat this thing. But I can’t.'

Just two weeks earlier the pair had celebrated Christmas together, with Joey getting a chance to see her family and friends and open gifts with Indiana and her step-daughters.

When Joey learned that her stage IV cervical cancer was terminal, she said that her goal was to make it long enough to get one more Christmas with her baby daughter Indiana, and Rory wrote on their blog after the holiday; 'It truly was an incredible Christmas!'