Let me explain: The farmer sows the message of the kingdom. ¹⁵ What falls on the beaten path represents those who hear the message, but immediately Satan appears and snatches it from their hearts. ¹⁶ And what is sown on gravel represents those who hear the message and receive it joyfully, ¹⁷ but because their hearts fail to sink a deep root, they don’t endure for long. For when trouble or persecution comes on account of the message, they immediately wilt and fall away. ¹⁸ And what is sown among thorns represents those who hear the message, ¹⁹ but they allow the cares of this life and the seduction of wealth and the desires for other things to crowd out and choke the message so that it produces nothing.
Mark 4:14-19 (TPT)

Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Remained focused on the promises of God

Christ’s Victory
¹⁸ Christ suffered and died for sins once and for all—the innocent for the guilty— to bring you near to God by his body being put to death and by being raised to life by the Spirit. ¹⁹ He went in the spiritual realm and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison ²⁰ because of their disobedience of long ago. For during the time of Noah God patiently waited while the ark was being prepared, but only a few were brought safely through the floodwaters: a total of eight souls. ²¹ This was a prophetic picture of the immersion that now saves you—not a bathing of the physical body but rather the response of a good conscience before God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²² who is now in heaven at the place of supreme authority next to God. The very powers of heaven, including every angel and authority, now yield in submission to him.
1 Peter 3:18-22 (TPT)