Second, put God first.
News flash: God is not out to deny you a rich, satisfying, wonder filled life. God loves you better than you love yourself and you were meant for glory.So God is not going to refuse to meet your needs.
No, I am not going all Joel Osteen on you….I don’t believe that you can make a long list of fantastic “needs” and then pray for God to meet them. The gospel is not:
God’s got stuff
God wants to give you stuff
Pray and God will give you stuff
But in profoundly satisfying, sane, and finally healing ways, God meets our needs by bringing order to them and by addressing the root needs.
That cannot happen, though, until God is genuinely at the center of our lives, because as long as some other need is in that spot that need will be our God.