Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together. His glory and your gladness are not separate tracks moving in opposite directions. Rather His glory is in your gladness in Him.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.