2 Cor 4: 5-12
So encouraging to preachers ..persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. A must for preachers to reflect upon.

1 Tim 1:12
Now , this will preach “that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. However, for this reason I obtained mercy,…Foundational!

1 Cor. 9:24
(Brother Paul said it best), " Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize….

1 Peter 2:9-10
“you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God “, Helps them see that they are a part of a big family.

Phil. 3:12-14
“ forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14I press toward the goal for the prize… “ Use this all the time.

Hebrews 12:1-2 and 2 Timothy 1:8-12 The Christian Race
 1 let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us,