TODAY’S DEVOTION (THURSDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 2026)
God was pleased with what they were doing and put his stamp of approval on it — quite a number of the Greeks believed and turned to the Master.
Acts 11:21 THE MESSAGE
WELCOME TO THE 36TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
Glory to God almighty for giving us another day from the womb of His mercies! What a day to be alive on earth and in Christ Jesus. How would our lives had been if the LORD had not died on the Cross to set us free?
How would our lives have been if the merciful and kind Holy Spirit, had not been poured? The Bible says, “the Spirit of the LORD has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” There would have been no us if the merciful Holy Spirit had not been poured.
Yes, there would have been no us if He had not been washing us clean, purifying our hearts, guarding our lives, setting us on fire to the LORD, running our church, powering these devotionals and shielding us from the sword of our enemies. It is the dynamic works of Jesus’ death on the Cross and the Holy Spirit’s work in our lives that has been keeping us.
WE WILL REMAIN GRATEFUL TO THE LORD FOR ALL THAT. AMEN AND AMEN.
Our devotional today will be on something critical to our walk and talk with God as the redeemed of the LORD. That thing is called GOD’s stamp of divine approval. In the natural realm, critical documents are not considered valid until they are stamped. In the spirit realm things work that way too.
Whatever is from hell must carry the seal of hell for it to be valid and effective, and whatever is from Heaven carries the seal of Heaven on it also. It is from the hidden seals of things we find in the spirit realm that we identify their source. The Bible teaches that, “by their fruits (or seal) we shall know them.”
Our concern today will be things God seals with His stamp of approval to function on earth.
I am yet to see the devil hold something that has God’s approval in it for too long. I am yet to see a pursuit God approves defeated by the devil. I am yet to see a life lived within things God approves going through a successful demonic attack. Yes, the devil may attack it, but God’s grace will always be sufficient.
Paul was one of such people who did not spend a second on things that lack God’s seal of approval.
He suffered more than all other apostles but came out strong in all his trials and troubles. At one time he fought with the beats of Ephesus. Not small demons but beastly people with deep roots in the spirit realm, but not one of his hairs was lost in the fight. One day the pressure of hell became so much on him, and he sought God to take some away but here was the divine response;
…”My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”…
2 Corinthians 12:9 NKJV
This scripture teaches a lot, but one lesson we can derive from it is in the place where one can find sufficient grace. Sufficient grace is not found everywhere. It is only available where God’s stamp of approval is present. If God’s stamp of approval is not found in your life, it will lack His sufficient grace.
GOD WILL NEVER SUFFICIENTLY GRACE THINGS THAT ARE OUTSIDE HIS WILL, WAYS AND WORD.
He will not grace what lacks His stamp of approval. For instance, if you are in a marriage that lacks God’s stamp of approval, a job, a Church, a business, a trip, a career or etc. you will never experience his grace. God’s sufficient grace will be missing. And if God’s sufficient grace is missing in a thing, Satan’s sufficient trouble will be present in it.
You will fight battles that God will not show up to help you out. You will contact disease that God may never heal and come into troubles that your prayer will never quench. You will just have a fore taste of hell on earth. You will just lack supernatural interventions of God and Significant moves of His Spirit. In simple terms, your life will be like an accursed life on earth.
God’s stamp of approval is a major catalyst of supernatural blessing. If the things you pursue in life lack God’s stamp of divine approval, you will struggle in life no matter how hard you pray, fast, give, attend Church, or serve men of God.
The first-time man walked out of this realm was in Genesis Chapter 3; when the serpent introduced the New Age doctrine to mankind. The devil literally asked mankind through the woman, to declare independence from God and start doing things without His approval. And that was it. The result is what we see today; death, disease, woes, wars, demons on rampage, eternal condemnation, failed relationships, poverty, broken homes, lives beaten down by Satan, etc.
Whenever a thing in your life lacks divine approval, it will never lack successful demonic attacks. Be it a marriage, a business, a ministry, a Church, a decision, a career, or whatever concerns you. Doing things that lack divine approval is one major reason for the earthly woes of mankind. It is the root cause of all spiritual problems in the lives of Christians.
No matter how powerful we are in the Holy Ghost, if we step into anything that lacks God’s stamp of approval we will become as weak as a newborn baby. Our enemies will begin to have us for dinner. The story of Samson comes to mind at this point. He was powerful in the Holy Ghost until he stepped into the life of a women God never approved for his life.
HIS LIFE JUST TURNED RIGHT SIDE DOWN AND WRONG SIDE UP!
The Bible says:
“Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison.”
Judges 16:21 NKJV
Sadly, this is the description of the lives of many men and women in the Church today. I am yet to see a powerful child of God who remained powerful after stepping into things that lack God’s stamp of approval. I am yet to see a rising Child of God who did not lose God’s favor upon his life after stepping into things that lack God’s stamp of approval.
It is impossible for your life to remain the same after stepping into things that lack God’s stamp of approval.
Our devotional text said, “God put a stamp of divine approval” on what the early disciples did in Antioch and there was an uncommon breakthrough. God will always release uncommon breakthrough into anything that has His stamp of approval; be it a marriage, a business, a ministry, a career, a family, a spiritual life etc.
It may not come immediately but will come after a short while of going through His approval rating process.
Yes, God has an approval rating process that He pass things like marriage, churches, careers, etc. through to qualify them for His approval. Sometimes it is people He would have to pass through the process before He stamp their lives with His stamp of approval.
Sometimes the process can be difficult. In the days of the Bible Joseph was passed through the process. The Bible says:
“He sent a man before them— Joseph—who was sold as a slave. They hurt his feet with fetters; He was laid in irons.
Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him, the ruler of the people let him go free.
He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom.”
Psalm 105:17-22 NKJV
Test, trials and temptations are God’s approval rating processes. That is why people who go through them successfully becomes great thereafter. Joseph became great in Egypt thereafter, Job became great in the ancient world, you are the next to become great after God has tested, tried and then approved you, sometimes through sufferings. Amen!
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION IN LIFE
“But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever.” Amen.
1 Peter 5:10-11 NKJV
