How to Please God

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How to Please God

We have peace when our ways please the Lord.  We must believe in God and believe that he will reward us if we seek him.  We must seek after spiritual matters and not follow the desires of the flesh.  It pleases Yahweh when we praise him with song.  His words will accomplish what He pleases.  We must be His servants and attend to what He desires.  To love the name of Yahweh.

Pro 16:7 YLT  When a man’s ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

We have peace when our ways please the Lord.

Heb 11:1-6 KJV  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  (2)  For by it the elders obtained a good report.  (3)  Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.  (4)  By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.  (5)  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.  (6)  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

We must believe in God and believe that he will reward us if we seek him.

Rom 8:5-8 RV  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit.  (6)  For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the spirit is life and peace:  (7)  because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:  (8)  and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

We must seek after spiritual matters and not follow the desires of the flesh.

1Th 3:12-13 YLT

(12)  and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

(13)  to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

1Th 4:1-12 YLT

(1)  As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

(2)  for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

(3)  for this is the will of God—your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

(4)  that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

(5)  not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

(6)  that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger is the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

(7)  for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

(8)  he, therefore, who is despising—doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

(9)  And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

(10)  for ye do it also to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

(11)  and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

(12)  that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

Psa 69:30-31 YLT  I praise the name of God with a song, And I magnify Him with thanksgiving,  (31)  And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock—horned—hoofed.

It pleases Yahweh when we praise him with song.

Isa 55:1-13 YLT

(1)  Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.

(2)  Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

(3)  Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David—that are stedfast.

(4)  Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.

(5)  Lo, a nation thou knowest not, thou callest, And a nation who know thee not unto thee do run, For the sake of Jehovah thy God, And for the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.

(6)  Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,

(7)  Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

(8)  For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, —an affirmation of Jehovah,

(9)  For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

(10)  For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,

(11)  So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that for which I sent it.

(12)  For with joy ye go forth, And with peace ye are brought in, The mountains and the hills Break forth before you with singing, And all trees of the field clap the hand.

(13)  Instead of the thorn come up doth fir, Instead of the brier come up doth myrtle, And it hath been to Jehovah for a name, For a sign age-during—it is not cut off!

His words will accomplish what He pleases

Isa 56:1-8 YLT

(1)  Thus said Jehovah: ‘Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness, For near is My salvation to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.’

(2)  O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it, And keeping his hand from doing any evil.

(3)  Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto Jehovah, saying: ‘Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His people.’ Nor say let the eunuch, ‘Lo, I am a tree dried up,’

(4)  For thus said Jehovah of the eunuchs, Who do keep My sabbaths, And have fixed on that which I desired, And are keeping hold on My covenant:

(5)  I have given to them in My house, And within My walls a station and a name, Better than sons and than daughters, A name age-during I give to him That is not cut off.

(6)  And sons of the stranger, who are joined to Jehovah, To serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, To be to Him for servants, Every keeper of the sabbath from polluting it, And those keeping hold on My covenant.

(7)  I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices Are for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For My house, ‘A house of prayer,’ Is called for all the peoples.

(8)  An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Who is gathering the outcasts of Israel: ‘Again I gather to him—to his gathered ones.’

We must be His servants and attend to what He desires.  To love the name of Yahweh.

This study appears in my book, “Keys and Mysteries” in condensed format under the title “Please God”.