*1.* “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.” *2.* “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” *3.* “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity but of power, love, and self-discipline.” *4.* “So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.”