7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal whether his blessings are leading you toward gratitude and humility—or toward pride and self-reliance. 2. 📅 July 26, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True humility does not come from success or failure, but from knowing that every good gift comes from God. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 31:1-18 God points Pharaoh and his multitude to Assyria’s fate. Like a majestic cedar nourished by abundant waters, Assyria grew beautiful and great, sheltering many nations. Yet its height made its heart proud, so God gave it to ruthless foreigners, who cut it down and left it for Sheol. Pharaoh and all his glory will likewise be brought down to lie among those slain by the sword. 4. 📖 Key Verse “Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pha...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you know Him through today’s Word and to reveal anything you are trusting more than Him. 2. 📅 July 25, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God rules over every human power and makes Himself known by exposing the things we trust in more than Him. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 30:10-26 The LORD will use Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to end Egypt’s wealth, devastate its cities, destroy its idols and rulers, and scatter its people among the nations. God will break both arms of Pharaoh so that his sword falls, while strengthening Babylon’s king and placing His own sword in his hand. Through this judgment, the Egyptians will know that He is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse “Then they will know that I am the LORD” (vv. 19, 26). 5. 📝 Reflection It has now been a full year since I came to Montreal. During that time, I made several plans to visit cities outside Montreal, but circumstances did not allow them to work out. So far, t...

  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...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal any pride, greed, comparison, or false security within you—and to help you trust and obey His living Word. 2. 📅 July 18, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God opposes pride and self-centered gain, and His living Word calls us to repentance, trust, and obedience. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 26:1-21 Because Tyre rejoiced over Jerusalem’s ruin and expected to profit from it, the Lord declared Himself against her. He would summon many nations and bring Nebuchadnezzar’s army to destroy, plunder, and cover the proud sea city with waters. Tyre would become a bare rock, never rebuilt, while coastlands and rulers lamented. Through her dreadful end, all would know that He is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse “I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again,” declares the Lord GOD (v. 21). 5. 📝 Reflection For those who regard the Bible merely as a historical ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust his protection, surrender your fears, and leave revenge and judgment in his righteous hands. 2. 📅 July 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Because God is our Father, we can trust his protection and leave revenge in his hands. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 25:12-17 Edom grievously sinned by taking revenge on Judah. Therefore, God will make Edom desolate from Teman to Dedan and execute his vengeance through Israel, so Edom will know his vengeance. Because the Philistines acted with malice and endless hostility to destroy Israel, God will cut off the Cherethites and the remnant of the coast. Through his wrathful judgment, they will know that he is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD (v. 14). 5. 📝 Reflection Unlike t...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you whether your words, actions, and responses to criticism honor his name and reveal his glory. 2. 📅 July 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Before pointing fingers at others, we must examine whether our own lives honor God’s name and reveal his glory. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 25:1-11 The LORD tells Ezekiel to prophesy against Ammon. Because the Ammonites rejoiced maliciously when God's sanctuary was profaned, Israel was desolated, and Judah went into exile, God will give them to the people of the East and destroy them. Moab and Seir also treated Judah as no different from other nations, so God will expose Moab's cities and judge it. Then they will know that he is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse Then you will know that I am the LORD … Then they will know that I am the LORD (vv. 5b, 11b). 5. 📝 Reflection Recently, our church has been facing a series of difficult circumstances. Among them, what has been ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what you are building your life upon and to help you trust Jesus Christ as the cornerstone of your life. 2. 📅 July 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: When people reject what God has chosen, God can turn apparent defeat into marvelous salvation. Jesus Christ is the cornerstone on whom we can safely build our lives. 3. ✝️ Psalm 118:8-29 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in people or rulers. Surrounded and near defeat, the psalmist prevails because the LORD is his strength and salvation. Spared from death, he will live and proclaim God’s deeds. The rejected stone becomes the cornerstone by the LORD’s marvelous work. The people pray for salvation, rejoice in the day God made, and thank him for his enduring love. 4. 📖 Key Verse The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes (vv. 22-23). 5. 📝 Reflection R...