EUPHORIA Devotional (The spirit of joy, an ecstasy that comes from God) July 30, 2025 - NEVER WITHOUT HELP REV. AROME E. TOKULA 2 Corinthians 1:9 (TPT) - It felt like we had a death sentence written upon our hearts, and we still feel it to this day. It has TAUGHT us to LOSE ALL FAITH IN OURSELVES and to PLACE ALL OF OUR TRUST in the GOD who RAISES THE DEAD. There is a subtle cliché that says, “Heaven helps those who help themselves!” Many have accepted it to be true and, sadly, some believers have allowed this to linger in their consciousness and it has formed a wrong belief system. The truth is heaven helps those who CANNOT help themselves. There is help for you as a child of God and the place of total dependence on God by reason of Christ in you is where you must be mentally positioned for God’s help to reach you. As long as your eyes and confidence still lie in ‘anything’ other than God and you feel disadvantaged, God’s help will elude you. Truth is, you can’t look to God and man-made systems at the same time. When God wanted to change Abraham’s story and make a nation out of him despite Sarah being barren, Genesis 12:2 says God told him, *“…GET OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.”* By God asking Abram to leave his country, He was literally stripping Abram of everything that he could put his confidence in. Without a country and a family, he was at best a wanderer and fugitive. As tough as this looks, God needed him in that place so that His help could reach Him because the help of God will always be on the merit of His grace. He disconnected Abram from his country so He could make a nation out of Him. In pursuit of God’s purpose, Apostle Paul went through lots of trying moments and experiences and it it looked like there was a sentence of death constantly hanging over his head (2 Corinthians 1:8). But according to our text, he said those moments ‘taught’ him and his team to, *“… LOSE ALL FAITH in OURSELVES and to place ALL OF OUR TRUST in the GOD who raises the dead.” The pursuit of a God’s purpose isn’t a walk through the park but the lesson to learn from trying times is to put total dependence on God! You have to place *ALL* of your *TRUST* in the God who raises the dead! Seeming losses turn to great victories you trust God and rely completely on Him. The help of God will raise and restore whatever seems lost. It is this resurrection power that creates opportunities and brings people that you need to go to the next level into your life. Regardless of whatever is happening around you, trust completely in God because you aren’t without help! With your eyes on God, you will see this resurrection power of God released to work in your life! Remember that all of heaven’s help came to you the day you received Jesus as Lord and the Holy Ghost came to dwell in you! You are never without help! DECLARE *I lift my eyes to You, my Father. I take my eyes off every earthly source of help. I raise my hands in total surrender to You and I receive Your help. You are my Ebenezer; I am the man/woman God helps. I walk in the consciousness that you have sent me help and I rejoice because I am never helpless. Thank You, Father. Glory!* PONDER The pursuit of a God’s purpose isn’t a walk through the park but the lesson to learn from trying times is to put total dependence on God! #IOFWithPastorArome #MorningDevotion #Euphoria #Devotional #July #TheMonthOfGrace #2025_TheChristOurLord