Make Worshipping God Your Priority No Matter Your Needs
Many times we feel overwhelmed by our needs and pray so desperately and incessantly about them that we lose our joy and the essence of our relationship with God. Rather than do that, make worshipping God your priority no matter your needs.
We were created to love and worship God. His blessings, His answering our prayers and meeting our needs naturally flow from that. Heck, He evens blesses those who don’t acknowledge Him as He does with the sun, the rain and other elements.
When we lack this understanding or feel so pressed that we forget this, we put the cart before the horse. It’s like we are saying, “Until I’m healed, until my bills are paid, etc., I will only talk to God about them.”
But in doing this, we’re hurting God and cheating ourselves. God longs for our company. He wants to hear our petitions but more than that, He yearns for our praise and declarations of love for Him.
My brother, my sister, it’s the relationship that counts. Once I was praying so hard for something and my friend told me to give it a rest because it was preventing me from enjoying worship and my entire fellowship with the Lord. I realised she was right and took her advice.
Gritting my teeth and praying day and night wasn’t improving the situation I was praying about. It was only making me frustrated and miserable.
Always remember that God is faithful and He longs to bless you more than you want to be blessed. In fact, He loves you more than you could ever love yourself.
Just give priority to worshipping and glorifying Him. Ask Him for what you need in the process but do that with the confidence that He hears you. And submit to His timing thereafter, knowing that He will bless you in His perfect time.
Scriptural References
“You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being.” – Revelation 4:11
“Surely, LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.” – Psalms 5:12
“… He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” – Matthew 5:45
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” – Deuteronomy 6:5
“2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
3 For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.” – Psalm 95:2-3
“Anyone who sacrifices thank offerings to me honors me. He makes it possible for me to show him that I am the God who saves.” – Psalm 50:23 (New International Reader’s Version)
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8
“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” – Romans 8:32
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” – 1 John 5:14
“When the right time comes, I will make this happen quickly. I am the Lord!” – Isaiah 60:22b (Good News Translation)
All the scriptures used in this post are from the New International Version of the Holy Bible except where otherwise stated.
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Thanks for this write-up, ma. It serves as a reminder that we should never abandon God, because He didn’t answer us as fast as we want.
Yes. Worship brings down God’s presence and that can work out our miracles even without our asking. May the Lord visit you according to your needs in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Relationship/ intimacy with our creator is our number one duty and priority as a Christian. Our Lord is loving and kind in his ways in worship it’s a place where u tell him sweet thing“he loves hearing them” how good and gracious he is call him sweet names. Thank you ma’am cause this article is an eye opener we love you ma’am
Thank you very much ma for this, I Iearnt a lot and also I got to know that avoiding God hurts him and we are supposed to draw nearer to him in worship even when it feels like he is not hearing.
May I worship yahweh with all my strength, heart and soul as said in Deuteronomy 6:5, Amen.
Thank you for making me aware of this. At times l get frustrated after praying for the same thing over and over again and it seems like God doesn’t acknowledge the prayer but reading this has made me realize that l was only after what l wanted and forget my relationship with God. I’ve taken corrections
Thanks for this write up ma. It serves as a reminder that we should never abandon God, because he didn’t answer us as fast as we want.
Making worship your priority is very essential no matter your need . The amazing thing is as you worship God ,creating that relationship ,your needs are been meet .so wonderful that we are loved by him
Thank you very much, ma, for you have made me and the world to understand that we should always put God first for He knows our needs before we present them to Him.
Thank you ma . U have just reminded me that serving God should be my priority
This particular article has made my day today because I just realized God really listens to my endless needs. Thank you, Jesus, and thank you, ma, for this write-up.
Glory to God!
This has enlightened me in the aspect of worshiping God.
This is what I need to read everyday because it’s a constant reminder of how I should be closer to God for His love is sufficient for me.
Yes. That is why we call Him the El Shaddai- the All-Sufficient God.
Thank you so much ma for this helpful writeup. It will always be like a reminder to me.
Glory to God!
We should worship God for who he is and not just for what he does, by ,so doing , we access his presence and then he releases his on us 🙇🙇🙇
Thank you ma,I have always had this experience in my personal life
when ever, I come before God with my needs ,without worshipping him ,I feel empty but once I begin to worship and become overwhelmed by his presence, I receive this sweet joy and I believe my prayers are answered with sweet peace within me.
Thanks for sharing your edifying experience. I believe it will bless others. May your closeness to God continue to grow and you may be increasingly blessed thereby in Jesus’ name.
Amen 🙏
Thank you Lord
Thank you so much ma, I believe giving priority to worshipping and praising God is the best in this journey of life
One of our major purpose of existence is to worship God
Indeed, it is the relationship that counts. What a lovely way to highlight the difference between prayer and worship. God bless you!
Worshipping God brings joy to our soul it takes us to a place where we only behold the things that are eternal 🙏
The posts on this blog are really enlightening. Thank you, Ma for sharing this awesomeness with us.
Thank you once again ma, I’ve learnt that prayer without worship is incomplete. I hope to learn more
Worshipping God is also a means of praying. Thank you soo much ma for sharing this wonderful piece.
I am grateful for this ma. Indeed our worship to God can make miracles happen and change our lives for the better.
Thank you ma for this write up. God yearns for an intimate relationship with us but most times we get clouded by our problems and forget Him.
Thanks ma’am for this post, it’s really enlightening.
Thanks for enlightening me more on how worship is meant to be a priority and not always petitions.
God’s love is sufficient for me. Thank you ma for reminding me of God’s place in my life.
Most times, we focus solely on asking God for what we need and not acknowledging Him in our lives; which is wrong.
Thank you ma for enlightening us more on this.
The more we worship the Lord Jesus Christ in truth and in spirit, we draw ourselves closer to Him and He in return, holds us firmly in love.
Thank you for this Ma!
Thanks so much ma, I understand that instead of always going to God when I need something, I should establish a relationship with him whereby I worship and communicate with him everyday.
Thank you so much for this inspiring piece! God bless you mightily Ma!
. It serves as a reminder that we should never abandon God, because He didn’t answer us as fast as we want. Thank you ma..
Yes I come to realize that once you establish a relationship with God, your prayer life will change. When you make a prayer request to God, you will have this inner satisfaction in you that your prayer have been answered. Thanks ma for sharing.
I will worship the Lord with everything that is within me.
Worship is a good way to pray to the Lord,to give him thanks,to ask for something etc
Thank you ma for this piece.
God deserves our praize always
After reading this I feel so guilty inside of me, truly God has been faithful to us, but we humans want it our way all the time, we are suppose to praise God at all time (positively and negatively) but we forget who will are in Christ .. Thank you ma for this
Thank you so much for this ma
God deserve our praise and worship
Very important WORSHIPPING. I feel when you worship him you are preparing your soul for prayer because worshipping and praising him arouses the spirit for prayer so if your worship doesn’t satisfy the soul or spirit you won’t really pray as much as you will want to
Thank you ma for this beautiful article. Indeed God is worthy of our worships
Thank you ma for this. I now understand that he desires my fellowship with him and worship. More than making requests, I should always keep his praise always on my lips.
Thank you Ma,I will forever be grateful to God almighty
May I worship God intentionally, because he has being faithful and his faithfulness is evident in me🙌🏼🙌🏼. This post is a reminder of God’s love for us ,thank you ma
Thank you ma for this wonderful write-up. I learnt that God is everly willing to bless us and I learnt that praying isn’t everything in the christian faith. Worship is just as important as prayer. An inspiring message indeed.
God is good all the time…
In worshipping God we must be clean bearing our heart to him with faith that he will there to listen to us.
Thank you ma for this reminder.
Human being cannot be separated from needs. It is in the nature of man to be in need of at least a particular thing at a particular time. Sadly, Satan always take advantage of this fact to distract and discourage man from having fellowship with God, especially, when it seems like God doesn’t want to answer his (man) prayers. It is just one of his (Satan) strategies. Thank God, the believers are not ignorant of the devil’s devices.
I learnt that God loves to bless me even more than I want to be blessed. Also, God yearns for my praise and declaration of love for him despite my needs.
This post is a reminder that in a much as God is interested in meeting our needs, He is passionate about having a constant fellowship with us and we must not deny him of it.
Worshipping God with all sincerity of heart, is God’s desire. We should also long to develop a deeper relationship/intimacy with our creator. Lord help me to worship you in truth and in spirit.
Thank you ma for this piece
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It’s a necessity for us to worship God without giving an excuse, thank u ma, for this
Lord, forgive us for all the times we’ve been so preoccupied with our needs that we grew inattentive to Your “needs.”
This was timely, ma. Thank you very much.
I really learnt a lot from this write up, i get what I’ve been doing wrong no wonder my relationship with God has been strained because I’ve put my priority in only asking God to solve my problem than drawing closer to him. Thanks a lot ma for this lesson.
“We were created to praise and worship God”
This is our sole purpose here on Earth, the life of praise and worship is a lifestyle that never goes out of time and context.
No matter the situation we find ourselves we should always endeavour to praise our Father in heaven. He alone knows out needs and will grant them unto us accordingly, the bible describes him as a friend that is closer than a brother. God is truly our everything.
i’ve been enlightened on the worshipping of God in this post.
thank you ma.
Thank you for this wonderful inspiration, ma. Worshipping God should be something we Christians should always do.
Putting God first is a must. Thank you ma for making me understand.
We are made to understand that we should worship God even in the midst of everything; despite all odds and in every situation we find ourselves.
This is making us to understand that our most Redding need should not just move us into desperately praying but also worshipping him.
This post just taught me to wait on God always, no matter how long it takes for Him to answer us
This post just taught me to wait on God always, no matter how long it takes for Him to answer us. Thanks for this ma
Thank you ma for this piece. We shouldn’t only turn to God when we are in need, that’s not true devotion.
There’s a yearning that God wants us to feel when it concerns Him. He wants us more than we can ever imagine. He wants to know that we love Him genuinely and intentionally. And He deserves that, because before we even loved Him, He first loved us and died that we maybe saved.
Just like a saying I came across with which says”Prayer moves mountain while praises move God”. It is pertinent and soul refreshing to always praise and worship God and make it a priority in your life.
God always long for a personal fellowship with his children but always gets sad when we forget about him and replace the place he is supposed to take in our lives with worries and different supplication we ask if him. We always fill our day with complaints instead of thanksgiving.
We should always pour out her heart in spirit filled worship to our lover and see him doing wonders in our lives
This is so true ma… Thank you so much for this piece
This write-up taught me a lot about how to building our relationship with God and God bless you ma for making me realize that God’s time is best
Absolutely, this is an incredible piece. Thank you so much, Ma Edith for blessing my life with this. This has taught me that beyond whatever we go through, God still deserves our praise, worship and declarations of love.
Secondly, I grabbed that our Almighty God wants to even bless us more than we ask for. All we should do is overcome frustrations and bless the Lord for His sufficiency and beauty. This should be our priority and daily lifestyle. Value-filled piece, Ma.
Our worship is our weapon as Christians
There can’t be any intimacy with God without worship, we build our relationship with Him through worship.
Prayer without worship is not enough
Our prayer is a way of maintaining good communication with God. How do you feel for a day without calling and receiving calls or texts from your cell phone or even staying for the whole day without sharing your thought with a friend?
Life without prayer is just like one who was ostracized by his kinsmen. How do you feel approaching to someone for stopped talking to for a long period of time?, probably your conscience won’t be clear.
In the same way, I noticed that when you stopped communicating with God, your prayer life will be affected negatively and you might begin to have double mind when making a prayer request for the fact the the umbilical cord of prayer have been cut by sins.
But God still give us chance just as a good shepherd does whenever he lost his sheep. He allows the sun to shine for both the good and bad people. God is not foolish but it’s a sign of another chance for genuine repentance.
As Christians, we should make God our best friend and place him upon everything which seems to be important in our life.
Thanks ma, you really inspired me.
Am in the spirit 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so ma, for indeed our true essence in this life is only for his glory. As he said “seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and every other thing shall be added unto you”.
I remember encountering someone at the lawn tennis court one certain time, and after she lamented all the depressing situations she has been through, all the Holy spirit led us to do was worship God. We began singing and thanking the Lord. And I’m grateful to God that right now, my course mate is doing fine. Thank you so much ma, for strengthening the believers and unbelievers.
I will serve the Lord my God with all my heart, mind, soul and spirit.
Thanks for this article ma.
Worship to God is what draws me closer to my Father and draws Him closer to me. May I continue in the atmosphere of worship, like the Psalmist said…longing daily for His presence.
Thank you so much ma for this inspiring piece.
You just opened my eyes to the truth, ma’am. Thank you for sharing.
Wow it is so edifying to know that worshiping God helps us know God more and it eases pain and bring joy and essence of our relationship with God
If worshipping God draw us closer to God,then it is the key to having a good relationship with Him and therefore a sure way to win His heart when we make appeal .
I soo much love this piece ma. One thing that some people don’t know is that worshipping God changes situation, it brings down the presence of God. Thank you ma’am.
Wow worship with God can’t be replaced with anything,God enjoys our praise and worship
Matthew 6:33 said seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Our personal relationship with God is important and we should take it seriously
We should not pray only when we are in difficult situations. Fastening our seat belts and handling the steering unto God’s hand every day is the surest plug for attracting God’s extraordinary blessings.
Wow!!!! This just made my day!!! I need to worship and praise him more, not complaining. Thank you ma for this lesson. God bless you
Having a personal relationship with God is key, worshipping him always should be z priority.
Thank you for sharing, ma
I will worry less and worship more, God bless you ma for the inspiration
There’s a special fulfillment and peace you get when you worship God.
It cannot be replaced with happiness
it’s pure joy most especially When u are desperate for God
Thank you so much for sharing this piece here ma. Sometimes what God just require of us is that we worship him (in truth and in spirit) that even without laying our petitions before him, they are granted. True worship indeed unlock doors, it is the master key!
There is a huge difference between prayer and worship. Worship draws God closer to us.
Back in 2017 when a friend of mine invited to her fellowship in school, I sat behind and watched how students whom I knew could barely afford to eat worshipped God with all of their being. I was consumed with shame. That year I learnt that I had so much to be grateful and I cried earnestly to God to bless me with a heart of worship and gratitude. This article pricked my heart once again. Today I decide to retrace my steps. Thank you so much ma.
This particular article made me realize that God is always with me no matter what 🥰
Worshipping God at all times should be our priority.
God feels what we feel and he sees what we’re going through… Talking to him is all that matters.
Worshipping God should become a daily practice and a lifestyle. Thank you ma.
Worshipping God is now my top priority.Thank you ma
Worshiping God and making it a priority triggers God’s intervention to what ever our desire are , God is too faithful to fail. Also worshiping God shows our trust in God and our confidence in his timing, am really enlightened through this Ma.
How I love to worship God.
An accurate content. Funny how most of us relate to it. We have daily struggles and we want to get out of it so bad we end up putting all our strength in it when we should hand it over to God and leave it there and continue a beautiful relationship with the father. Thank you so much ma for bringing about this realization and reminder.
We tend to disbelieve and not have faith in God when we suffer. So we question our self when we worship him if it necessary to do so or neglect him just because he haven’t answered us yet. But there is no season to worship and praise God. Good or bad times he is God and he is waiting for the perfect time to heal ur heart and solve your burden . And God has no wrong timing we just have to be patient and have faith
Revelation 4vs11 God is the reason we re here
God is great Ma
Thank you for pointing that
“God liveth in praises and worship not in sacrifice”
May the name of God be praised now and forever. Amen
This article affirms the need to put God and His kingdom first in all we do to enjoy the fulness of his blessings
God’s love for us is something that can’t be understood but you’ve tried to do this in a way that warms the heart. Thanks for this.
In this post I learnt that by a profound, holistic worship one can bring God down the scene than praying with fear, gritting of teeth, frauning of face, etc.
Two, the more you pray vigorously in fear, panic, worries, etc., the more you do yourself to worse because God is a no respecter of face hence He is God.
“…When we lack this understanding or feel so pressed that we forget this,… we’re hurting God and cheating ourselves.”
I have learnt that, there’s this sense of beauty that comes with worshipping God whether we’re burdened or not and wonderfully enough, God is always ready to listen and commune with us.
Thank you for opening our eyes to the wonderful and vast love that God has for us, God is love
Indeed we should not allow our needs and problems to take us away from God’s presence
I learnt that we should not pray to God desperately but we should pray to him by also giving him praise and worship.
Worshiping him has always being my source of Confidant and therapy session. There is just this thing about worshiping Christ that is unexplainable.
Thank you very much for this ma. One of our major purpose is to worship God, with everything we have
This reminded me of a video I saw some time ago, was about three different people who came to God’s house while the first two were asking and lamenting about their situation God sent his angel to receive their prayers but when the lthird person who was a blind man came in he went down on his knees and began to worship and praise God, when An angel wanted to go receive his praises, God stop him and went himself to receive the blind man worship and praises and he instantly regain his sight, like in the case of Paul and silas who were in prison, they prayed, the sang, they worship God and the holy spirit came down from heaven and set them free . So yes, we should make worshipping God our priority no matter our needs
Truly, God is faithful always and forever
Put worshipping God first before all issues of life and you will see God manifest Himself mightily in your life.
Truly being desperately in need can affect how you worship God, because you become more focused on your needs being met and nothing else.
I’ve been reminded that when God created us, it’s to Worship him and not when we need something we go to him. We are meant to worship God at all times even when we lack anything and when we don’t.
Reading this post awakened my spirit.. As children of God we should prioritize our worship to God first.
This write up helps us to continue to be steadfast in our faith.thank you for this beautiful work ma.
I know that worshipping with God brings us closer to him but I know I’ve not been diligent with it. Thank u Aunty Edith for making me trace back my steps with God. I should focus more on my personal relationship with God.
God doesn’t no want us to only approach him in our time of needs but also acknowledge him, trust him,spend time in knowing him and believe that keeps his promises to us and answer our prayers at his own time. Thank you for this post
Their is joy in serving the Lord with truthfulness and honesty, when you worship him sincerely God searches your heart and fulfils all your need.
Truly their is joy in the presence of the lord.
Wow. Powerful write up. “It’s the relationship that counts.” This line struck me the hardest. The relationship we establish with God before we begin to worship is what matters most. Worshipping God shouldn’t be dependent on whether or not our needs are instantly met because he is always faithful. It should be a regular habit of communing with our maker. Glory to God. Thank you so much Ma.
Indeed worship opens doors more than prayers made with a grieved heart.
Most times when I find myself in situations that seem to be out of my control, I just go ahead and worship God and he steps in immediately. Thank you so much ma for this inspiring piece.
Regardless of our situation, worshipping God should always be priority. The relationship we establish with God should be not be overlooked. When we have a solid relationship with God, he blesses us without us having to ask. God bless you Ma for this.
NIV:Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
God first, then, everything else begins to make sense.
Hmmm I now understand where my priority lies and how to put God first before anything.
I feel worshipping God constantly with all our hearts, brins us a step closer to his bosom.
Worshipping the lord should our utter most priority. The most amazing thing is that as you worship him not only are you creating a relationship , your needs are being meet.
Thank you ma for this post because personally I could get caught with all my worries but here’s a remainder that worshipping should be my priority and not worrying.
We shouldn’t avoid God because he dislikes it, we should always worship God
Thank you ma!
Worshipping God goes beyond singing worship songs. The state of a man’s heart while worshipping is all God looks at.
God created us to love him to worship and that is why he said we should come unto him any other thing will be added unto us.
So loving and worshipping Him should come first in this life, because when we walk with God we can actually see.
There is a God who knows our needs from beginning to end, so it’s useless trying to abandon him.
Thank you so much for this piece.
We tend to have a “me” drive and it hampers our walk with God. It’s neccesary to see God as deserving of our worship at all times. It’s what we were made for.
Secondly I believe that it’s important we go to God as a childlike as possible to make our petitions not as though He was some errand boy..
A musical explanation of this is ” Even when it hurts” by Hillsong United. No matter the worry, No matter the need, no matter the pain I’ll still love God!!+
The serves as a reminder that we should never abandon God and enlightened us more in the aspect of worshipping God.
It’s good to worship God, in as much as we have needs because he knows our hearts.
No matter whatever my needs are
No matter what my challenges may be in life, I will always priotize everything God… always put him first and worship him.
Thank you so much for sharing ma
Indeed, placing wants and needs above God is unprofitable.
Also, trusting God and submitting to His will is a sure way of shutting the devil out.
This post is a great reminder that prayer is not just about asking for things, but it’s also about developing a relationship with God. It’s important to take time to worship and glorify Him, and to trust that He will provide for our needs in His perfect timing.
I appreciate this post because it emphasizes the importance of having the right perspective when it comes to prayer. It’s easy to get caught up in our own needs and forget that prayer is about seeking God’s will and growing closer to Him.