Yeah, but that’s a benefit not the main reason for obeying God.
Victoria’s whole premise that we should obey God because it’s good for us and He wants to make us happy, is not to be found in Scripture.
I don’t read anywhere that it gives God joy when we’re happy and that’s why we’re supposed to worship or obey Him.
Long and short of it is, they’re false teachers, charlatans, and I don’t trust a thing they say.
Face it, stuff like that keeps the money flowing to the church.
Of course, doing the will of God is to love God. And the primary reason for doing that is that He deserves it. To love God as He commands is to respond correctly to the objective reality.
And, of course, to do that is to do what is best for yourself.
Mrs. Osteen’s ramblings are nothing to get up in a heaval about, except that I suspect that people, knowing the context—the “prosperity gospel”—believe she is denying the necessity of the Cross, by which I mean the necessity of an individual cross.