1. Perseverance
Continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. 

2. What Jesus Knows About Us
Revelation 2:  ' I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.

3. Bear Fruit With Perseverance
Luke 8:  "And the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.

4. They Believe For A While
Luke 8:  "And those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and be saved. 13  "And those on the rocky soil are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firm root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.

5. Affliction Comes To Steal The Word
Mark 4:  and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

6. Worries, Riches And Pleasures
Luke 8:  "And the seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

7. We Exult In Our Tribulations
Romans 5:   And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; 4  and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5  and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

8. Don’t Throw Away Your Confidence
Hebrews 10:  Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36  For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

9. Trouble Before Exodus
Exodus 5:  "So go now and work; for you shall be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks." 19  And the foremen of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble because they were told, "You must not reduce your daily amount of bricks." 20  When they left Pharaoh's presence, they met Moses and Aaron as they were waiting for them.

10. Forget The Former Things
Isaiah 43:  "Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past. 19  "Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.