[chef] How to force immediate execution of LWRP calls?

[Peter Loron < >]

I have a recipe I'm working on that installs a system of software to Windows 
machines. I've written a LWRP to handle installing and uninstalling the 
Windows services that we use. There are up to a dozen that can be installed 
on a client machine, depending on its role, etc. I have the details of the 
services in a hash in the recipe attributes, and am iterating through that, 
calling the uninstall and install LWRPs. I need to do things in a specific 
order:

1. Uninstall services
2. Modify files, permissions, user accounts, etc.
3. Install services

Currently, the chef-client (Chef 11.2) run is running all of the 
install/uninstall calls together at the end of the run.

How can I force execution in the order calls are made in the recipe?

I've looked at notifications, but it seems very clunky to have to explicitly 
define each resource with no action, and then do some kind of call with a 
'notify :install'…

Suggestions from the hive mind?

Thanks!

-Pete