7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you understand what true freedom in Christ is, and how your freedom can be used for God’s glory and the salvation of others. 2. 📅 May 31, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Freedom in Christ is not permission to live for ourselves, but a calling to glorify God and build others up in love. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 10:23-33 Paul teaches that Christian freedom is not for self-interest but for building others up. Believers may eat market food or meals served by unbelievers with thanksgiving, yet should abstain if the food is identified as sacrificed to idols, for another’s conscience. In all things, believers must seek God’s glory, avoid causing others to stumble, and use freedom in love so that many may be saved. 4. 📖 Key Verse So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God (v. 31). 5. 📝 Reflection There may be no word that makes our hearts beat faster than the word “freedom.”...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see where your heart may be divided, and to lead you into wholehearted devotion to Christ. 2. 📅 May 30, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s children cannot live with divided loyalty; we are called to flee idolatry and belong fully to Christ. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 Paul commands beloved believers to flee from idolatry. The cup and bread of the Lord’s Supper are participation in Christ’s blood and body, making many believers one body. As those who eat sacrifices share in the altar, pagan sacrifices involve fellowship with demons. Therefore, Christians cannot share both the Lord’s table and the table of demons, for this provokes the Lord to jealousy. 4. 📖 Key Verse You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons (v. 21). 5. 📝 Reflection This is the story of a family I know. The husband in that family was kno...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Him to help you learn from the past, recognize temptation, and trust His faithfulness today. 2. 📅 May 29, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s warnings are not against us—they are for us, because He is faithful and loving. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Paul warns the Corinthians through Israel’s wilderness failures. Though Israel experienced God’s salvation and provision, many fell through idolatry, immorality, testing Christ, and grumbling. These events were written for our instruction. Therefore, believers must stay humble and watchful, trusting God’s faithfulness to provide a way of escape in every temptation. 4. 📖 Key Verse Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come (v. 11). 5. 📝 Reflection Many years ago, when I was a student, my world history teacher once said, “The main reason we study history is so that we will...