7-Step Quiet Time Devotional 🙏

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reshape your definition of greatness—so you want what Jesus wants. 2. 📅 March 5, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True greatness in God’s kingdom looks like serving, not securing a seat. 3. ✝️ Matthew 20:17-28 Jesus tells the disciples that He is going to Jerusalem to be condemned, mocked, flogged, and crucified—and that He will rise on the third day. Right after that, the mother of Zebedee’s sons asks Jesus for her two sons to sit at His right and left in His kingdom, and the other disciples become angry. Jesus teaches that His followers must not lead like the world does; whoever wants to be great must become a servant, because the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many. 4. 📖 Key Verse ”Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (v. 28) 5. 📝 Reflection Jesus was sentenced to death in...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal where comparison has shaped your heart—and to teach you how to receive His grace with gratitude. 2. 📅 March 4, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s kingdom runs on grace, not comparison—and His generosity is never injustice. 3. ✝️ Matthew 20:1-16 A master hires laborers for his vineyard at different hours of the day, yet at evening he pays them beginning with the last, giving each the same wage. Those hired first grumble when they receive the same as the latecomers, but the master insists he has done no wrong, kept the agreement, and is free to be generous with what is his. Jesus concludes that in the kingdom, “the last will be first, and the first last.” 4. 📖 Key Verse ” ‘Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ ” (v. 15) 5. 📝 Reflection As we read today’s passage, many people will find the vineyard owner’s decision unsettling...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you release control—and trust Him with what you can’t accomplish on your own. 2. 📅 March 3, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Salvation isn’t achieved by human strength—God does the impossible. 3. ✝️ Matthew 19:23-30 Jesus teaches that it is very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom , prompting the disciples to ask who can be saved, and he answers that what is impossible with man is possible with God . When Peter asks what they will receive for leaving everything, Jesus promises that those who forsake family and possessions for his name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life . He concludes that many who are first will be last, and the last first . 4. 📖 Key Verse But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (v. 26) 5. 📝 Reflection One of the hardest burdens in evangelism is not knowing whether the person...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to give you a childlike heart—open hands, honest faith, and quick obedience. 2. 📅 March 2, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The kingdom is received with childlike trust, but it’s refused when we cling to what we can’t surrender. 3. ✝️ Matthew 19:13-22 Jesus welcomed the children, telling his disciples not to hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these, and he laid his hands on them. A rich young man asked what good deed he must do to have eternal life; Jesus pointed him to keep the commandments, which the man claimed he had kept. Jesus then told him to sell what he possessed, give to the poor, and follow him, but he went away sorrowful because he had great possessions. 4. 📖 Key Verse When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions (v. 22) 5. 📝 Reflection Many Christian young adults desire to become wealthy and successful. And there is a ple...