7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust that He sees your faithful work, even when others do not recognize it. 2. 📅 July 24, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God rules over history, sees every act of obedience, and never forgets the faithful work of His people. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 29:17-30:9 The LORD gives Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar as wages for his army’s labor against Tyre. On that day, God will raise a horn for Israel and open Ezekiel’s mouth, so they will know that he is the LORD. The near day of the LORD brings the sword upon Egypt and its allies, destroying their proud power, wealth, foundations, and helpers. Cush will tremble as God’s certain judgment comes. 4. 📖 Key Verse I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD (v. 20). 5. 📝 Reflection When I worked for a large corporation, I had opportunities to serve in several departments. Most of those...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where you may be trusting in your own strength, achievements, resources, or relationships more than you trust in Him. 2. 📅 July 23, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: No human power lasts forever, but God remains sovereign over every family, workplace, and nation. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 29:1-16 The LORD opposes Pharaoh, who proudly claims the Nile as his creation. God will make Egypt desolate for forty years and scatter its people because Egypt proved a broken reed to Israel. Afterward, God will gather the Egyptians and return them to Pathros, but they will remain a lowly kingdom and never rule other nations. Israel will no longer rely on Egypt, and all will know that he is the Lord GOD. 4. 📖 Key Verse And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD (v. 16). 5. 📝 Reflection Ancien...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to give you the courage, humility, and love to make the name of Jesus known—even among those who may reject or oppose your faith. 2. 📅 July 22, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God reveals his glory and holiness so that people everywhere may know that he is the LORD. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 28:20-26 God will judge Sidon with pestilence and the sword, revealing his glory and holiness so that all will know he is the LORD. Israel’s contemptuous neighbors will no longer wound them like briers and thorns. God will gather his scattered people to the land given to Jacob, where they will build houses, plant vineyards, dwell securely, and know that the LORD is their God. 4. 📖 Key Verse They will know that I am the LORD (vv. 22, 23, 24, 26). 5. 📝 Reflection A long time ago, I asked a street evangelist a question. People did not want to hear the gospel. Some even confronted him, complaining that he was too loud, spat ...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal whether you are using his gifts for his glory or allowing them to become sources of pride. 2. 📅 July 21, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s good gifts are corrupted when pride rules our hearts, but his grace restores us to use them for his glory. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 28:1-19 The ruler of Tyre grew wealthy through wisdom and trade, but his riches made him proud, and he claimed to be a god. The Lord would bring ruthless foreigners to expose him as a mere man and destroy his splendor. Though the king had been created with wisdom, beauty, and privilege, violence and dishonest trade corrupted him. God cast him down, consumed him by fire, and brought him to a dreadful end. 4. 📖 Key Verse Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you (v. 17). 5. 📝 Reflecti...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what you are trusting for security and to help you build your life on His eternal kingdom rather than on temporary success. 2. 📅 July 20, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Everything in this world will eventually pass away, but God and His kingdom remain forever. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 27:26-36 Tyre’s rowers bring her into the high seas, where the east wind wrecks her. Her riches, merchandise, sailors, traders, soldiers, and crew sink together. Seafarers come ashore, cast dust on their heads, wear sackcloth, and mourn bitterly. Tyre once satisfied many peoples and enriched kings through her abundant trade, but now all who witness her ruin are appalled, and she will be no more forever. 4. 📖 Key Verse You have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever (v. 36b). 5. 📝 Reflection The Fortune Global 500 is a ranking of the world’s 500 largest companies by revenue. It has been published by Fortune...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you recognize that his presence is more precious than success, wealth, comfort, or recognition. 2. 📅 July 19, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: A truly blessed life is not defined by how much we possess, but by whether our lives reveal God’s glory and remain close to him. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 27:1-25 The LORD told Ezekiel to lament over Tyre. At the gateway to the sea, Tyre traded with many coastlands and boasted of perfect beauty. Like a splendid ship, it was built of the finest materials and served by skilled foreigners. Nations exchanged metals, horses, ivory, fabrics, food, spices, jewels, and gold for its wares. Tyre became rich, filled, and heavily laden in the heart of the seas. 4. 📖 Key Verse So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas (v. 25b). 5. 📝 Reflection Some time ago, I came across a deeply moving scene in a YouTube video reviewing a television drama. A daughter had alw...