Sir,<\/p>\n
Please, I want to know more about how to please God.<\/p>\n\t
You learn what God wants by studying His teachings in the Bible. “For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God<\/em>” (Colossians 1:9-10).<\/p>\n Then you have to put what you have learned into practice in your life. “Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does<\/em>” (James 1:21-25).<\/p>\n “And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight<\/em>” (I John 3:22).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Sir, Please, I want to know more about how to please God. 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