7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to guide your choices according to His will, not merely your own desires or calculations. 2. 📅 May 1, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True wisdom is choosing what pleases God, even when the future is uncertain. 3. ✝️ Ruth 1:1-14 During the days of the judges, Elimelech’s family left Bethlehem because of a famine and lived in Moab, but Naomi lost her husband and both sons there. When Naomi heard that the LORD had visited His people and given them food, she set out to return to Judah and urged her daughters-in-law to go back to their families and find rest. Orpah kissed Naomi and departed, but Ruth clung to her mother-in-law and chose to remain with her. 4. 📖 Key Verse But Ruth clung to her (v. 14b). 5. 📝 Reflection There is a well-known saying: “Life is a series of choices.” Its exact origin is unknown, but it has become a widely used existential and popular expression in modern society. Jean-Paul Sartre once sa...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where your heart has drifted and to lead you back to Him in His steadfast love. 2. 📅 April 30, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Spiritual compromise leads us away from God, but His steadfast love still calls us back. 3. ✝️ Psalm 106:34-48 Israel disobeyed the Lord by blending in with the surrounding nations, adopting their practices, and worshiping idols. Their sin defiled them and brought them under oppression, yet when they cried out, God remembered His covenant and showed them mercy according to His steadfast love. The psalm ends with a prayer for salvation and a call for all God’s people to praise Him forever. 4. 📖 Key Verse Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry. For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love (vv. 44-45). 5. 📝 Reflection Among Korean reality shows, there is a program in which an exper...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you if there is anything in your heart that has quietly taken His place. 2. 📅 April 29, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Forgetting God leads us to trade His glory for things that can never satisfy. 3. ✝️ Psalm 106:13-33 The people of Israel quickly forgot God’s mighty works and repeatedly rebelled against Him by craving evil things, testing Him, worshiping idols, despising His promise, and grumbling against His voice. As a result, God’s wrath and judgment came upon them, though at times His destruction was restrained through the intercession of Moses and Phinehas. This passage clearly shows the seriousness of forgetting God and refusing to trust and obey His word. 4. 📖 Key Verse They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass (v. 20). 5. 📝 Reflection In Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper , there is a scene where Edward, who was born as the king’s son, exchanges identi...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to teach you how to trust His Word before you see the outcome. 2. 📅 April 28, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Real faith trusts God before the breakthrough, not only after it. 3. ✝️ Psalm 106:1-12 The psalmist begins by praising the Lord for His goodness and everlasting steadfast love, and he asks to share in the favor, salvation, and joy given to God’s people. He then confesses that both he and the fathers of Israel sinned, remembering how they failed to consider God’s wonders and rebelled at the Red Sea. Yet God saved them for His name’s sake and displayed His mighty power, and only then did they believe His words and sing His praise. 4. 📖 Key Verse Then they believed his words; they sang his praise (v. 12). 5. 📝 Reflection When hiring an employee, the very first step is to carefully review the submitted documents. Employers examine not only the contents of essential materials such as resumes, cover l...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you remember His faithful love and to trust His joy over His people today. 2. 📅 April 27, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God leads His people with covenant faithfulness, joyful love, and daily provision. 3. ✝️ Psalm 105:23–45 God made Israel fruitful in Egypt and delivered them by sending Moses and Aaron, performing signs and wonders, and striking Egypt with mighty judgments. He then led His people with a cloud and fire, and provided for them in the wilderness with quail, bread from heaven, and water from the rock. He did all this because He remembered His holy promise to Abraham, so that His people might keep His statutes and observe His laws. 4. 📖 Key Verse So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing (v. 43). 5. 📝 Reflection Long ago, when our children were still young, life was very busy, and I did not have much time or margin to spend playing with them. My wife, who ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to teach you to depend on Him and delight in Him today. 2. 📅 April 25, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Our lives are sustained by God, so our hearts should respond with meditation, joy, and praise. 3. ✝️ Psalm 104:24-35 The LORD has made all creation in wisdom, and every creature depends on Him for food, life, and sustaining care. When God sends forth His Spirit, life is created and the earth is renewed, but when He hides His face or takes away breath, creatures return to dust. In response to this glorious Creator, the psalmist resolves to praise the LORD all his life, delighting in Him and offering meditation that is pleasing to Him. 4. 📖 Key Verse May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD (v. 34). 5. 📝 Reflection A long time ago, when I was working in the corporate world, I served in a department that provided financial consulting for clients. Our role was to offer guidelines on how to e...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to open your eyes to see His care in the ordinary rhythms of life. 2. 📅 April 24, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God faithfully provides for His creation and lovingly sustains our daily lives. 3. ✝️ Psalm 104:10-23 God causes springs to flow, waters the earth, and provides for animals, birds, trees, and human beings so that all creation may receive what it needs. He also appoints the moon and the sun to govern seasons and times, ordering the rhythms of night and day for both beasts and mankind. This passage shows that the life, provision, and order of the whole world are sustained under God’s wise and gracious rule. 4. 📖 Key Verse The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted (v. 16). 5. 📝 Reflection Let us imagine this for a moment. In a valley between high mountains, spring water flows down from the hills and gathers there, and animals drink from it. Seeds take ro...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see His greatness and trust His rule over your life today. 2. 📅 April 23, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The world is not sustained by chance, but by God’s wisdom, power, and rule. 3. ✝️ Psalm 104:1-9 Psalm 104:1-9 praises God as the glorious Creator who is clothed with splendor and majesty and rules over light, the heavens, the clouds, and the wind. He established the foundations of the earth and set boundaries for the waters, ordering creation with power and wisdom. This passage declares that the whole world stands under God’s sovereign rule and sustaining care. 4. 📖 Key Verse He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved (v. 5). 5. 📝 Reflection There are people who strongly reject the truth that God created the world. They claim that the world simply came to have its present form by chance, and that no absolute being could possibly have intervened. They argue that...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see what truly lasts and to teach you to treasure His steadfast love above everything else. 2. 📅 April 22, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Everything in this world fades, but the love and kingdom of the LORD endure forever. 3. ✝️ Psalm 103:12–22 The LORD removes our transgressions as far as the east is from the west and shows compassion to those who fear him, like a father toward his children. Though human life is brief like grass and flowers, the steadfast love and righteousness of the LORD endure forever for those who keep his covenant and obey his commandments. Because the LORD has established his throne in the heavens and rules over all, his angels, his hosts, all his works, and our own souls are called to bless him. 4. 📖 Key Verse As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you remember His grace and understand His heart today. 2. 📅 April 21, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s justice is never separated from His mercy. 3. ✝️ Psalm 103:1-11 David calls his soul to bless the LORD and not forget all His benefits—God forgives sin, heals, redeems, renews, and surrounds His people with steadfast love and mercy. The LORD works righteousness and justice for the oppressed and reveals His ways and mighty acts to His people. He is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and He does not deal with us according to our sins. 4. 📖 Key Verse He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities (v. 10). 5. 📝 Reflection There was once a man we met during street evangelism. He appeared very gentle and courteous. When our team approached him and asked whether we could take a moment to share the good news, he gladly a...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust Him as the One who never changes, even when your life feels uncertain. 2. 📅 April 20, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: When everything around us changes, God remains the same—and that is where our hope is found. 3. ✝️ Psalm 102:17–28 The LORD hears the prayer of the destitute, listens to the groans of the prisoners, and rescues those who are doomed to die. His saving work will lead future generations and gathered nations to praise and worship Him in Zion. Though creation wears out and human strength fades, God remains the same forever, and He will establish the offspring of His servants before Him. 4. 📖 Key Verse But you are the same, and your years have no end (v. 27). 5. 📝 Reflection When I was working in the heart of the city, there were old restaurants tucked away behind the busy streets. Those restaurants carried layers of time in their food, bringing great joy to office wo...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where your life needs greater integrity and wholehearted obedience. 2. 📅 April 18, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Worship becomes real when our private life matches our public faith. 3. ✝️ Psalm 101:1-8 David praises the LORD’s steadfast love and justice and commits himself to living with integrity and blamelessness, beginning within his own house. He refuses to tolerate evil, slander, pride, deceit, and lies, keeping both his heart and his community pure. He also chooses the faithful to be with him and resolves to cut off the wicked from the city of the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse I will ponder the way that is blameless… I will walk with integrity of heart within my house (v. 2). 5. 📝 Reflection If we know that God is both love and justice, then we ought to live according to that love and justice. But what does it actually mean to live in such a way? Let me give you an example. Montreal, where I ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you know Him more truly and worship Him with joy. 2. 📅 April 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Because the LORD is good, we can come to Him with joy, gratitude, and trust. 3. ✝️ Psalm 100:1-5 All the earth is called to make a joyful noise to the LORD and come before Him with gladness, thanksgiving, and praise. The LORD is God, our Creator, and we are His people, the sheep of His pasture. Because the LORD is good, His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness continues to all generations. 4. 📖 Key Verse For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations (v. 5). 5. 📝 Reflection To truly know someone is very important. Only when we know a person rightly can we discern whether that person is trustworthy. When we come to regard someone as trustworthy, we are then able to share our hearts and continue in a lasting relationship. This principl...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you His holiness and teach you what it means to live set apart for Him today. 2. 📅 April 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The holy God deserves our worship, and His holiness should shape the way we live. 3. ✝️ Psalm 99:1–9 The LORD is the holy King who reigns over all the earth, and all peoples are called to praise His great and awesome name and worship Him. He loves justice and righteousness, establishes equity, and answered Moses, Aaron, and Samuel as He led His people by His word. Because the LORD both judges sin and forgives His people, we are to exalt Him and worship Him as the holy God. 4. 📖 Key Verse For the LORD our God is holy! (v. 9b) 5. 📝 Reflection In our daily lives, the word holiness is not commonly used. Even when we look around, it is difficult to find objects, places, or people that are truly holy. Perhaps we are gradually forgetting the very idea of holiness. That i...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to quiet your heart and teach you how to respond to Him with joy. 2. 📅 April 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True peace begins when we remember God’s salvation and join creation in praising Him. 3. ✝️ Psalm 98:1-9 The Lord has revealed His marvelous salvation and righteousness before the nations, remembering His steadfast love and faithfulness to Israel. Therefore, all the earth is called to sing a new song and rejoice before the Lord, the King. Even the sea, rivers, and hills are summoned to celebrate, because He is coming to judge the world with righteousness and equity. 4. 📖 Key Verse Make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD! (v. 6b) 5. 📝 Reflection There have been times when my heart felt deeply heavy and troubled, and no matter what I tried, nothing seemed to make it better. One day, while taking a walk, I happened to come across a small stream. As I listened to the sound of the flowing wa...