What Makes God Smile

Numbers 6:25 (NLT): May the Lord smile on you and be
gracious to you.
Psalms 119:135 | MSG: Smile on me, your servant; teach me
the right way to live.

Ephesians 5:10 (AMPC): And try to learn [in your experience]
what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of
what is most acceptable to Him].
(VOICE): Make it your aim to learn what pleases our Lord.

1 These 4:1 (AMP): Finally believers, we ask and admonish
you in the Lord Jesus, that you follow the instruction that you
received from us about how you ought to walk and please God
(just as you are actually doing) and that you excel even more
and more [pursuing a life of purpose and living in a way that
expresses gratitude to God for your salvation].

Genesis 6:8 (AMPC): But Noah found grace (favor) in the eyes
of the Lord.
(CEV): But the Lord was pleased with Noah.

Genesis 6:9: This is the history of the generations of Noah.
Noah was a just and righteous man, blameless in his [evil]
generation; Noah walked [in habitual fellowship] with God.

Habitual - done or doing constantly or as a habit.

Luke 5:16 (CJV): However, he made a practice (Habit) of
withdrawing to remote places in order to pray.

Mark 1:35 (AMP): Early in the morning, while it was still dark,
Jesus got up, left [the house], and went out to a secluded place,
and was praying there.

Psalm 5:3 (AMPC): In the morning You hear my voice, O
Lord; in the morning I prepare [a prayer, a sacrifice] for You and
watch and wait [for You to speak to my heart].

Psalm 19:14 (AMP): Let the words of my mouth and the
meditation of my heart Be acceptable and pleasing in Your sight,
O Lord, my [firm, immovable] rock and my Redeemer.

Hebrews 11:5 (AMP): By faith [that pleased God] Enoch was
caught up and taken to heaven so that he would not have a
glimpse of death; and he was not found because God had taken
him; for even before he was taken [to heaven], he received the
testimony [still on record] that he had walked with God and
pleased Him.

“Hosea 6:6 (TLB): I don’t want your sacrifices—I want your
love; I don’t want your offerings—I want you to know me.
(MSG) I’m after love that lasts, not more religion. I want you to
know God, not go to more prayer meetings.