EUPHORIA Devotional (The spirit of joy, an ecstasy that comes from God) September 15, 2025 MAKING THE RIGHT STATEMENTS. REV. AROME E. TOKULA Mark 11:24 - Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask WHEN YOU PRAY, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. For a believer prayer is more of a life than an event. Revelation 5:10 says, “And have MADE us KINGS AND PRIESTS to our God; and we shall reign on the earth." Every child of God has a priesthood ministry as such we are called to ‘be’ priests and not to ‘do’ priesthood. The work of a priest is to offer up gifts and sacrifices and one of such sacrifices is prayers (Hebrews 8:3). In the New Testament, we stand perpetually in our priesthood and offer our prayers by the statements that constantly proceed from our lips to the Father. As a praying priest that you are, you have to be intentional about the words that you speak, because you cannot speak and spit out unbelieving words all day and then take a position of prayer and expect things to change! In Mark 11:23 Jesus said, “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever SAYS to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he SAYS will be done, he will have whatever he SAYS.” The word translated ‘say’ in this verse is from the Greek word, ‘lego’ which means to lay forth! This means when we speak as believers, we are actually laying up words to form and create things. For most people it is when the words they’ve been laying forth eventually manifests that they get to realize what they’ve been doing all along without knowing. The consciousness of priesthood will make every child of God to make the right statements in their everyday conversations and utterances. If you are deliberate with your words, you will become deliberate with what you want to see in your life, family, business, community, nation etc.! According to our text, the things we ask for when we pray and we believe that we receive are the things we have! Imagine what will happen to you when you see yourself as a priest and you begin to weigh in your words and you become deliberate about speaking forth only things that you believe on your job, at home, relaxing on the beach etc. Jesus didn’t say to just speak to the mountain, rather He taught us to lay up words in a manner that it builds what we want to see because it eventually moves any mountain out of our way! DECLARE |Thank You Father for the privilege and honor of being called into priesthood! To know that Your Words on my lips have the power to move any mountain gives joy. I am intentional about the words that proceed from my mouth because I am a priest who makes the right statements that cause and bring change in Jesus name! PONDER The consciousness of priesthood will make every child of God to make the right statements in their everyday conversations and utterances. #IOFWithPastorArome #MorningDevotion #Euphoria #Devotional #September #MonthOfRest #2025_TheChristOurLord