Pray to please God and to do of his good pleasure
- Praying that the brethren might please God (Colossians 1:9-11)
- Pray that the brethren would fulfill God’s pleasure (II Thessalonians 1:11)
What pleases God?
- Obedience to parents (Colossians 3:20)
- Speaking the gospel (I Thessalonians 2:4; I Corinthians 1:21)
- Uprightness (I Chronicles 29:17-22; Proverbs 14:2)
- Your prosperity (Psalm 35:27)
- Those that fear him (Psalm 147:11)
- His people (Psalm 149:4)
- Praising God in song and magnifying him with thanksgiving (Psalm 69:30-31)
- Giving us the kingdom (Luke 12:32)
- Predestinating us unto the adoption of children (Ephesians 1:5)
- Making known unto us the mystery his will (Ephesians 1:9)
- His creation (Revelation 4:11)
- Blessing Israel (Numbers 24:1)
- With the sacrifice of the righteous (Psalm 51:19)
- Not entangling yourself with the affairs of this life (II Timothy 2:4)
- To do justly, and love mercy, and to walk humbly with God (Micah 6:6-8)
- Enoch pleased God (Hebrews 13:16; Genesis 5:21-24)
- Jesus (John 8:29)
- To bruise the Messiah (Isaiah 53:10)
- When we ask for discernment between good and evil and an understanding heart
(I Kings 3:5-14) - Your faith is a prerequisite for pleasing God (Hebrews 11:6)