Whose approval are you looking for?

Most of us live very active and full lives. We want to please our spouses, parents, friends, teachers, bosses and so many others. But as we move forward in life, we all come to learn it is not truly possible to please everyone. We will wear ourselves out living a life of people pleasing. But if we live a life to please Him, we can live at peace. We can live a life without worry or stress - a life of freedom, joy and peace!

Blessings,

Mike Teeter
pastor

New Destiny Community Church
newdestinydenver.org
704-947-3829
c 803-448-5699

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Below are some scriptures regarding pleasing God:

Proverbs 29:25

25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare,
but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.


Colossians 3:23-24

23Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, 24since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.


Galatians 1:10

10Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Acts 4:19-20
19But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God. 20For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."

Acts 5:27-32

27Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. 28"We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name," he said. "Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood."

29Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men! 30The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead—whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. 31God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. 32We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."