No turning back
Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
Be a good steward of your trials
Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.
Joy in the morning
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Singing in the storm
But I trust in your unfailing love, my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing the LORD’s praise, for he has been good to me.
Live each day as your last
[God] comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
Endurance and encouragement
May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had…
Faithful perseverance
“But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.” But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
Perseverance
You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.”
Singing to the Lord
One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple…Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me, at his tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy, I will sing and make music to the Lord.
Identifying with Christian prisoners
Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.