There is a major difference between prayer to God and prayer for God. Apparently even atheists pray to God when they face extreme life danger. In fact, you could say that all people pray to God. However, majority people fall by the wayside when it comes to prayer . Here are the three questions we are going to explore: What Do We Ask First? Why Do We Ask This First? What Happens When We Keep Asking This First? 1. What Do We Ask First? Let's ask Jesus! “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added onto you…” (Matthew 6:33) But what are we tempted to ask first? It's the things which are added to us that we typically are more interested in. But according to Jesus our number one asking should be: His righteousness or His kingdom or The logic is simple: If you ask for the kingdom of God first and for His righteousness you will . Not only that but 'so much more will be But also equally important: If you ask for something else first, there is every likelihood that you may not Also, you will not get His righteousness and His kingdom. Bible example: Moses had three requests of God and they were all granted? Why? He prayed First Prayer Request: Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight God's response is to grant Him his request. “And he said, ‘My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (33:14) (Exodus 33:14) Second Prayer Request: Moses has the same prayer request for his people as he has for himself. “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?” How amazing is God's response: “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” 2. Why Do We Ask This First? The first part of the answer is simple. When we ask for God first we get both God and so much more which He adds to us. The second part of the answer focuses on the consequnces of choice we make by putting God second or much further down on the list of our priorities. So, what happens when; family, sport, money, children, job, career become our number one priority and God becomes unimportant? We start to worship our ‘Number One’ 2. We loose God's presence 3. We become anxious 4. We become enslaved 3. What Happens When We Keep Asking This First? We start asking with greater emphasis for more of we start asking with greater emphasis that we more . “Show me your glory.” And He said; “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” 21 And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock,and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.” “I will make my goodness pass before you.” As a result Moses senses, sees and experiences God's presence 2. "I will proclaim my name." Moses heard God proclaiming His name and experienced Him once again. 3. Moses reflected the glory of God. > “When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking to God.” (34: 29) > We lived the most fulfilled and most meaningful life when we pray for God and not just pray to God.