7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see the church as the body of Christ, where every member matters and no one suffers alone. 2. 📅 June 6, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The church is the body of Christ, where every member is needed, every pain is shared, and every gift is given for love and service. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 12:21-31 Paul teaches that the church is the body of Christ, where no member can say to another, “I have no need of you.” God gives greater honor to the weaker or less honored members so that there may be no division, but mutual care. When one member suffers, all suffer together; when one is honored, all rejoice together. God gives different gifts to the church, and believers should desire the higher gifts while following the more excellent way Paul will show. 4. 📖 Key Verse If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together (v. 26). 5. 📝 Reflection Let us imagine this...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what a healthy church community looks like. 2. 📅 May 10, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The church is not a club built on shared interests, but a community called by God into fellowship with Christ. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 1:1-17 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, writes to the church of God in Corinth and to all who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He gives thanks for the grace and gifts given to them in Christ, trusting that faithful God will sustain them to the end. Yet Paul appeals to them to abandon divisions and quarrels, not following human leaders, but being united in the gospel of the cross of Christ. 4. 📖 Key Verse God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord (v. 9). 5. 📝 Reflection A club is “a gathering of people who share the same interest.” Although the word had been used before, it became...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to teach you how to use your words to bless, build up, and give life to others. 2. 📅 May 8, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s people are called to speak words of blessing, not words that tear others down. 3. ✝️ Ruth 4:7-12 In former times in Israel, redeeming and exchanging were confirmed by one person drawing off his sandal and giving it to the other. Boaz declared before the elders and all the people that he had bought Naomi’s property and had taken Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, as his wife to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance. Then the elders and all the people blessed Ruth to be like Rachel and Leah, who built up the house of Israel, and blessed Boaz’s house to be like the house of Perez. 4. 📖 Key Verse “And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman” (v. 12). 5. 📝 Reflection 📝 T...