2026-08-25 | 🌅 Why Should I Do Quiet Time Every Day?

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.

Take a deep breath.

Ask God to help you hear his voice through Scripture and respond to his love with worship, trust, and obedience.

2. 📅 August 25, 2026

Today’s passage reminds us:

God calls his people to worship together at appointed times and to remember him every day. Daily QT is not a task for earning God’s love, but a joyful response to the love we have already received through Christ.

3. ✝️ Ezekiel 46:1-15

On Sabbaths and new moons, the east gate is opened so the prince and the people may worship the LORD. The prince presents unblemished burnt, grain, and peace offerings. At appointed feasts, the people pass through the temple courts while the prince goes with them. Each morning Israel must offer a spotless year-old lamb with grain and oil as a perpetual regular offering.

4. 📖 Key Verse

“You shall provide … to the LORD daily; morning by morning … And you shall provide … morning by morning, … to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute. … Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering” (vv. 13-15).

5. 📝 Reflection

My wife and I have two children, an older daughter and a younger son. Because we wanted to teach them God’s Word from an early age, we practiced QT together every day. Some days we did it in the morning, some days in the evening, and sometimes we forgot it altogether. Even so, we did our best to teach them one essential truth: we need to meet God daily through QT.

One day, when our children innocently asked, “Why do we have to do QT every day?” my wife gave them an answer that remains vivid in my memory:
“Mom and Dad hug you every morning and evening and say, ‘I love you,’ because we truly love you. God also wants to share that kind of loving conversation with us. That is why we do QT. QT is a time to meet God and say, ‘God, I am here. God, I love you.’”

QT contains many theological meanings. Yet even the most carefully developed theological explanation has limitations when it comes to fully expressing God’s love for us. Must we explain meeting God through QT every morning only in difficult theological terms? For a beloved child to meet a loving Father is, in itself, one of the happiest experiences in the world.

Through the book of Ezekiel, God gives various regulations concerning sacrifices and worship. Among them, the command that the east-facing gate of the inner court remain closed during the six working days seems mysterious. By opening and closing the gate, God visibly teaches his people that the Sabbath and the new moon are sacred times when the community gathers for worship. The public worship of the prince and the people was not to be offered whenever and wherever they desired. It had to follow the time, manner, and order appointed by God.

Yet in verses 13-15, God commands that the regular burnt offering be presented every morning. In addition to the public worship offered by the community at appointed times, worship and devotion to God must continue every day. The offering repeated each morning shows that God’s people are to remember him daily and renew their devotion to him.

Dear brothers and sisters, QT is one precious way for us to meet God every day. It is a form of daily worship that brings together prayer, Scripture, meditation, and application. I prepare these QT notes with the sincere hope that you will desire to meet God and confess, “God, I am here. God, I love you.” I want to share with you the joy and happiness of meeting God every morning.

Shall we proclaim it together?
“God, I love you!”

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

What usually receives my attention first when I wake up?
Do I approach QT as a loving meeting with God or only as another task to complete?
How does knowing that I am already loved and welcomed through Christ change the way I approach QT?
What is one practical change I can make to create space for God’s Word each morning?
What truth from today’s passage can I put into practice before the day ends?

7. 🙏 Prayer

Our heavenly Father, thank You for loving me and welcoming me into Your presence through Jesus Christ.

Forgive me for allowing busyness, distractions, and personal preferences to take priority over worship.

Give me a sincere desire to meet You through Your Word and prayer every day.

Help me remember that I come to You because I am already loved, forgiven, and welcomed through Christ.

God, I am here. God, I love You.

Amen.

Scriptures

📖 (Ezekiel 46:1-15, ESV).

1 “Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. 3 The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. 4 The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. 5 And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. 6 On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. 7 As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. 8 When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.
9 “When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. 10 When they enter, the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.
11 “At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah. 12 When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.
13 “You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it. 14 And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute. 15 Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering.

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