Examples of requesting recognition are croning rituals, dedications, birth rituals, and the like. Help or guidance rituals may are used to seek assistance from deity. For example, a practitioner may wish to ask for help in healing a serious injury. Connection to deity may be assisted through the use of gemstones, herbs, incense, and the like. For example, a healing spell that is done every morning in the same way.
Many practitioners use a combination of ritual and spell for most of their workings.
When choosing whether to perform a ritual or a spell, there really is no right or wrong answer. Some people may prefer a ritual to a spell. They may feel safer in asking the more powerful deity for assistance or they may just have better results. Others may use spells more than rituals. Once you have decided to work a spell, ritual, or combination of each, it becomes important to understand the consequences.