Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of

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, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with

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the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on

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, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will

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grow weary and lose

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. —Heb 12:1-3

1. When you feel like giving up, listen to the

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   .

2. Now

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   is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not
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   . This is what the ancients were commended for (Heb 11:1-2).

3. Every story of

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   is almost always a “don’t give up” story of
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   .

4. There were

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   who were

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   , refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to

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   by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were

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   by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated—the world was not

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   _ of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.

   —Heb 11:35-38

5. Changing your

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   can change your life.

6. Encouragement is to “speak

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   into.”

7. Life is

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   but nothing is too
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   for God.

8. Never, ever

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   up!