Is the "God First Life" really about living a God first life?

Let me start out by stating the answer is both yes and no. To do a little background, a couple of years ago while filming the prayer breakfast that is part of the St. Pete Dream Center's ministry it was talked about reading through the book as part of their discussions, if you go to the Becoming God's Man YouTube channel you will see that it never happened. However, I ended up purchasing the book at that time and it sat on my virtual bookshelf collecting virtual dust until recently. Due to some things coming to my attention, both personally and regarding Christianity as a whole, I felt led to read through the book. Now let me just state that I almost walked away from reading the book after just the second chapter, which I will get to later.

This book is kind of broken up into two sections, the first two chapters provide the what and why behind living a God first life.  Chapter 3 through the end of the book is how one goes about putting God first in their life, I will say that these last chapters do a good job of informing a Christian how to put God first in their life. He talks about concepts such as being in close fellowship with other believers, being rooted in the Bible, placing yourself under the authority of a Bible believing church, etc. 

Now we get to where I had an issue, and the reason behind my title, Chapter 2. As I started to read the book, I will state I was a bit wary knowing how Prosperity Gospel preachers and the similar will use similar language, but aren't truly talking about putting God first, as their goal is to use God to get what they want. Unfortunately, as I read chapter 2, this is what it felt like was being conveyed in this book. Chapter 2 uses Matthew 6:33 as a means to state that in putting God first, He will provide everything we need and want, everything that will make us happy. Now, I am willing to provide the author the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't telling us to put God first in order to get the things we think we want; and that he really meant that in putting God first, God will reveal that the happiness we seek and desire will only be found in a relationship with Him, where He is first in our lives. The problem though is after reading the chapter I had to ask, if you are "putting God first" for any other reason than that is where God deserves to be, are you truly putting God first? The secret is you aren't, once there is a reason other than because He's God, such because of what God might give you, God is no longer first but your desires are. With these issues regarding chapter 2, I can't really recommend this book to anyone, as appears to have unfortunately lived up to my fears that it is based in the Prosperity Gospel.