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How to Overcome Fear as a Christian 🔥 | Matthew 10 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to speak courage into your heart as you follow Jesus in a challenging world. 2. 📅 February 5, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Courage comes not from ourselves, but from God’s Spirit who is always with us. 3. ✝️ Matthew 10:16-33 Jesus teaches that His disciples will face persecution for His name, yet the Holy Spirit will speak through them, and those who endure to the end will be saved. God, who cares even for sparrows, attentively watches over His people and commands them not to fear. Whoever acknowledges Jesus before others will be acknowledged before the Father, while those who deny Him will be denied. 4. 📖 Key Verse For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you (v. 20). 5. 📝 Reflection There are many reasons we feel fear, but one of the greatest is the fear of failure. No matter how hard we try, we might still fail an entrance exam, struggle to find a job, or...
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Jesus Sends You With Power ⚡ | Matthew 10 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Jesus to show you what it really means to follow Him in your everyday life. 2. 📅 February 4, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Jesus never calls us without also empowering us. 3. ✝️ Matthew 10:1-15 Jesus calls His twelve disciples and gives them authority to cast out unclean spirits and heal every disease. He sends them to the lost sheep of Israel to proclaim that the Kingdom of Heaven is near—healing, restoring, and relying completely on God’s provision. Jesus tells them to bring peace wherever they go, but also to move on when rejected, warning that those who refuse the message will face serious judgment. 4. 📖 Key Verse And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction (v. 1). 5. 📝 Reflection Becoming a disciple of Jesus in this world has nothing to do with earthly wealth or glory. Instead, it means...
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Jesus’ Compassion Changes Everything 🌿 | Matthew 9 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Jesus to help you see His compassion—and understand what He desires to do in your life today. 2. 📅 February 3, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Jesus sees us with compassion—and He invites us to join His mission. 3. ✝️ Matthew 9:27-38 Jesus healed two blind men according to their faith and delivered a mute man oppressed by a demon, though the Pharisees criticized His works. He went through cities and villages teaching, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease. Seeing the helpless crowds, He had compassion on them and urged His disciples to pray for more laborers for the plentiful harvest. 4. 📖 Key Verse When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd (v. 36). 5. 📝 Reflection When we read news headlines about someone who has committed a horrific murder, most people react with outrage and condemnation. ...
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From Death to Life 💖 | Matthew 9 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Jesus to show you where He wants to bring new life into your heart today. 2. 📅 February 2, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Jesus meets us in our deepest struggles and brings us from death to life. 3. ✝️ Matthew 9:14–26 Jesus explains that His disciples do not fast because the bridegroom is with them and teaches that new wine requires fresh wineskins. On His way to help a ruler whose daughter had died, Jesus heals a woman suffering from a twelve‑year discharge of blood because of her faith. He then arrives at the ruler's house and raises the dead girl to life. 4. 📖 Key Verse Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well. (v. 22) 5. 📝 Reflection In today’s passage, Jesus meets a young girl and a woman. The girl had already died, yet Jesus set out to bring her back to life. On His way, He encountered a woman who ...
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Rise and Follow Jesus, Why? 🧐 | Matthew 9 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what it really means to rise and follow Jesus in your everyday life. 2. 📅 February 1, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Following Jesus often means rising from what feels familiar or comfortable—and that step of obedience brings deeper joy than comfort ever could. 3. ✝️ Matthew 9:1-13 Jesus forgives a paralytic’s sins and heals him, revealing His authority to forgive sins on earth. He then calls Matthew, who immediately rises and follows Him. Jesus explains that He associates with sinners because He came to call them, teaching that God desires mercy rather than sacrifice. 4. 📖 Key Verse As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him (v. 9) 5. 📝 Reflection Let’s be honest for a moment. If I were a paralyzed man lying on a sickbed and Jesus looked at me and said, “Get up, take your mat, a...
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When Trust Gets Real 👑 ⚖️💰 | Matthew 8 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a slow, steady breath. Ask Jesus to quiet the storms in your heart and open your eyes to what true trust looks like. 2. 📅 January 31, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Jesus doesn’t just calm the storms around us—He confronts the things we cling to more than Him. 3. ✝️ Matthew 8:23–34 Jesus calms a violent storm, rebuking His disciples for their fear and commanding the winds and sea into stillness. In the region of the Gadarenes, He delivers two demon-possessed men by sending the demons into a herd of pigs. The townspeople, alarmed by the loss, beg Jesus to leave their region. 4. 📖 Key Verse And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region (v. 34). 5. 📝 Reflection In today’s passage, Jesus intentionally crosses the stormy Sea of Galilee to reach the Gentile region of Gadara. There He meets two demon-possessed men, shows them compassion, and drives out the demons. Ye...
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When Following Jesus Isn’t Comfortable 🔥 | Matthew 8 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Jesus to show you what real discipleship looks like—beyond comfort, convenience, or timing. 2. 📅 January 30, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Following Jesus means choosing Him over comfort, stability, and even good excuses. 3. ✝️ Matthew 8:14-22 Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law and many others oppressed by demons or sickness, fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy. When crowds gathered, a scribe and another disciple expressed desire to follow Him, but Jesus warned that discipleship requires sacrifice. He taught that following Him takes priority above comfort and even socially expected duties. 4. 📖 Key Verse “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” (v. 20) 5. 📝 Reflection Becoming a Christian means becoming a follower of Christ. The title “Christian” was not a name early believers gave themselves; rather, it was the name others used because they w...
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