The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.
Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.
He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].