7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to teach you what real love looks like today. 2. 📅 January 5, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Love isn’t just words—it’s action. 3. ✝️ 1 John 3:13–24 John tells us not to be surprised when the world hates us. Loving others proves we’ve passed from death to life; hatred equals murder and excludes eternal life. Real love is shown by action, not talk—just as Jesus laid down His life for us. We’re called to help those in need and obey God’s command: believe in Jesus and love one another. When we keep His commands, we abide in Him, and He in us—confirmed by the Spirit He gave us. 4. 📖 Key Verse And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us (v. 23). 5. 📝 Reflection The world offers countless definitions of love—philosophical, sociological, psychological, even medical. As civilization advances, efforts to define love have multiplied...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to remind you of His love and help you live as His child today. 2. 📅 January 4, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s love makes us His children—so let’s live like it. 3. ✝️ 1 John 2:28-3:12 John urges believers to remain in Christ so they can stand confident when He returns. God’s incredible love calls us His children, and though our future glory isn’t fully revealed, we will be like Him when He appears. Those who hope in Christ pursue purity. Sin is lawlessness, but Jesus came to take away sin and destroy the devil’s works. True children of God practice righteousness and love one another—not like Cain, whose evil led him to murder his brother. 4. 📖 Key Verse See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are (v. 1a). 5. 📝 Reflection When I was a kid, I remember wishing my neighbor’s dad was mine. He bought his son every toy and gave him lots of ...