1 Cor. 1:27 Instead, God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose those who are powerless to shame those who are powerful.
28 God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important,
These verses have stuck in my memory since the day you posted them, Amen! 
Thank you for posting these verses... very encouraging for me to read...I'll have to keep my eyes on your postings so I gather encouragement..lol
Love these they mean very much to me..
Those who persevere, are willing to suffer and fight on!
2 Tim. 2:3 Thou therefore
endure hardness,
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,
except he strive lawfully.