To please the Lord, we need to learn to yield to Him and what He knows is best.
Psalm 25:4-5
Psalm 143:10
Matthew 11:29-30
James 4:13-15

Yieldedness is putting the Lord's will above our own.
Psalm 40:8
Matthew 6:10
John 4:34
John 6:38
Ephesians 6:6

Yieldedness means obeying God even when it's hard or it hurts.
Jeremiah 42:6
Luke 22:42
Romans 12:1-2
1 Corinthians 15:31b
Galatians 2:20

Only when we yield to the Lord is He able to work through us as He would like.
John 15:4-5

The more yielded we are to the Lord and His will, the happier we will be.
Deuteronomy 4:40
Isaiah 1:19
John 13:17
John 15:10-11