Thread: Inspirational Quotes and Memes

Originally Posted by FunFromOz

Not so inspiring in context. It's a warning

If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or
if I command the locust to devour the land, or
if I send a plague among My people,
and (after I've done these things) My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray ... then will I hear from heaven ... and will heal their lands(expanded a bit)

Thinking aloud here, but if people don't believe that God shuts the heavens, and commands locusts to devour, and sends plagues, can they logically believe that after these things happen and people pray that He will hear them and heal their land?

The salesman said, "Anything I have is for sell or trade". About products and merchandise, you would expect a salesman to say that. I've been thinking about things not up for sale or trade in my life.

I will not trade the Kingdom of God for all this world has to offer.

I will not trade His cross for the world's crown.

I will not trade my inheritance in the Lord for a mess of pottage.

I will not trade pleasing God for pleasing men.

I will not trade the approval of my Lord for the approval of my peers.

I will not trade truth for political expediency.

I will not trade integrity and character for acceptance and popularity.

I will not trade honor for approval and accolades.

I will not trade total commitment to the Lord for half-hearted nominal Christianity.

I will not trade assurance and security in Him for self-sufficiency.

I will not trade servanthood for being served, nor being last for being first.

I will not trade the church at its worse for the world at its best.

I will not trade the Water of Life to drink out of for the mud puddles of this decaying culture.

I will not trade the Bread of Life for Satan's buffet.

By the grace of God may it ever be so.

Down the bottom it reads:

For consider your calling, brothers and sisters, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the insignificant things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no human may boast before God.

1Cor 1:26-29