Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.
Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.
God tests His people through hardship.