TODAY’S DEVOTION (SUNDAY 8TH FEBRUARY 2026)
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 39TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF STRATEGIC VICTORY
The LORD would not have given us a word known as STRATEGIC VICTORY if we were not in battle. Life itself is a battle. The Christian faith is a call to battle. That is why the apostolic consider the Church “an army” and those who are born again “soldiers.”
Sadly, many do not even know this, hence living a defeated Christian life.
Satan fights us as God’s army that is why spiritual warfare is usually intense. If we do not know that we are called into battle, and the fight we are called into is a good fight of faith, we will always be engaged in the bad fight of faith and come our defeated.
I spoke about a bad fight of faith sometimes back. Yes, there is a bad fight of faith! When you use bottles of Oil instead of the power of the Holy Spirit in prayers, you are engaged in a bad fight of faith. When you take drinking of Oil as receiving the Holy Spirit, you are engaged in a bad fight of faith.
When you think you can use mustard seeds, brooms, mats, and pieces of clothes to defeat the devil permanently, you are engaged in a bad fight of faith.
The God of Heaven and Earth called us into a good fight of faith not a bad fight. Paul said, “Fight the good fight of faith; lay hold on eternal life.” A good fight of faith will result in one laying hold on eternal life.
The verse also means that it will always take a good fight of faith to lay hold on to anything significant in life. It presents faith as a major instrument in spiritual warfare. The Bible also presents divine wisdom as an instrument. It says wisdom is the principal thing. That in all our getting, we should get wisdom and get understanding.
UNDERSTANDING IS COMPREHENSION.
When you comprehend you apprehend. To apprehend means to lay hold on something. It takes comprehension to lay hold on anything in Christ Jesus. People who strife to comprehend things in Christ, will always develop the wit to stand against their enemies. They will always be able to win because of their wit. That is why warriors do not just rise against their enemies.
They know that it is one thing to stand against the enemy and another to win.
They know they could stand and not win, so they will first seek wisdom for battle before going into battle. They do not fight with emotions but with wits. They go after God’s word until divine wisdom begin to flow in their hearts before rising against the enemy.
Having access to divine wisdom is therefore one of the best things that can happen to a man.
In our devotional today, we will be looking at a major key that grants a man access to divine wisdom. I call it sound doctrine. The wisdom of God is sound wisdom known in the early church as sound doctrine. It is not demonic or worldly; it is spiritually sound. That is why you will never be able to walk in it without encountering sound doctrine.
One way to defeat the enemy is to be sound in your wisdom and in your faith. But you cannot be sound without listening regularly to sound doctrine. I have come to discover that there are three classes of Christians.
The first is the totally free Christians whose salvation was based on sound doctrine. These breeds are totally free from habitual sins, and do not take God’s mercy or grace for granted. They make use of it to live right before God and man. They walk in divine wisdom and will not be found where false or unsound doctrines are taught!
THEN WE HAVE THE PARTIALLY FREE CHRISTIANS.
These are the ones whose salvation is not total because of the kind of gospel that brought them into Christianity. They sing in the Choir and still go to club houses when they feel drawn. They are not free from the sins they lived in before joining the faith; hence they are always found in them and explaining it away!
They will take a Church man or woman to bed even after praying loud prayers in Church and say it does not matter. They do not know that it is foolish to feed on sin and say it does not matter! They take God’s mercy and grace for granted because their salvation is not based on sound doctrine but heresies that breed the deception they are holding onto.
They walk in human wisdom and spiritual foolishness calling it “grace.” You always find them where heresies and false doctrines are taught. They are the ones that devils are always with because they always have food for him in their lives. It was this class of Christians Apostle Paul rebuked in one of his letters when he wrote:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 NKJV
Then we have the third class of Christians who are not free at all from sin or Satan. They are just traditional. The only difference between them and unbelievers is that they go to Church. This breed is yet to encounter the LORD.
They are not even aware of anything in the Bible apart from the stories told in Sunday school and what they hear from their dead spiritual leaders. You put them off if you speak about sound doctrine or anything spiritual. They operate in either the wisdom of men or that of devils.
WHEN YOU TELL THEM ABOUT BIBLICAL POSITION OF THINGS THEY WILL SAY “KEEP THE BIBLE ASIDE. THIS IS NOT CHURCH.”
Like I stated earlier, they are not different from the lost sinners out there in spirit. However, God wants all Christians to be sound in faith. God wants us to operate in sound wisdom. It takes sound doctrine to be sound in faith and operate in sound wisdom.
A major highlight in our devotional text said ““For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,” The amplified version put that scripture in this tense.
“ For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,
and will turn their ears away from the truth and will wander off into myths and man-made fictions [and will accept the unacceptable].”
2 Timothy 4:3-4 AMP
Sadly, we are at that time now. Most prefer following what is working not what is true. Joining Church or becoming a Christian is now determined by the financial gains and reward one will get for doing so. We forget that we go to church to be discipled and trained to do the word and will of God, touch the lives of others positively, live a holy life, and make Heaven.
We detest Preachers who teaches sound doctrines and call them names. That is why we walk in foolishness and call God “Satan” and Satan “God.”
We can go on and on, but like I always state this is not a book. This is a devotional, and I believe the LORD has shared with you a few things that have added to your wisdom bank.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY.
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.”
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” Ephesians 5:8-11
“See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
Ephesians 5:15 -16 NKJV
