PRIORITIES IN LIFE – Online Church

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First Priority: GOD

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Mark 12:30 BSB
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ Matthew 22:37 NKJV
But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also. Matthew 6:33 AMP

Christian Ministry not necessarily equivalent to spending quality time with GOD (e.g. in Prayer/Worship/Word).

If anyone fails to provide for his own, and especially for those of his own family, he has denied the faith [by disregarding its precepts] and is worse than an unbeliever [who fulfills his obligation in these matters]. 1 Timothy 5:8 AMP

Let us also remind ourselves to not be “too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good”.

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry³. 2 Timothy 4:5 BSB

The verse below can help set our priorities right.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18 BSB

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So we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen; for the things which are visible are temporal [just brief and fleeting], but the things which are invisible are everlasting and imperishable. 2 Corinthians 4:18 AMP

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1248 διακονία [DIAKONI/A] {diakonía} \dee-ak-on-ee'-ah\ from 1249; attendance (as a servant, etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid, (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher, or technically of the diaconate):--(ad-)minister(-ing, -tration, -try), office, relief, service(-ing).
Here it specifies "ministry" of the word - this is different with spending time with the Word in your Quiet Time. Ministry (Teaching) of the word cannot compensate for your personal time with GOD's Word. Read: QUIET TIME
Though here it talks about Timothy's Spiritual Ministry, ministry could include your vocation i.e. Studies, Work, Spiritual Ministry etc In other words, whatever you are called to do.