7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see how he has preserved life, fulfilled his promises, and carried his covenant faithfulness from one generation to the next. 2. 📅 September 13, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Despite human sin, judgment, and exile, God preserves life and faithfully carries forward his covenant purposes from one generation to the next. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 1–3 First Chronicles 1–3 traces humanity from Adam to Abraham and Israel, while also listing Edom’s descendants and kings. Judah’s line continues through Perez, Hezron, Ram, Jesse, and David, with Bezalel included through Caleb. David’s descendants extend through Solomon and Judah’s kings to the exiled Jeconiah and Zerubbabel, showing that the covenant line endured beyond exile. 4. 📖 Key Verse Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel (1 Chronicles 1:34). 5. 📝 Reflection Have you ever heard of the number 2.1 as the replacement-level fertility...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you understand that you do not have to earn his acceptance. Thank him for providing forgiveness and welcoming you through Jesus Christ. 2. 📅 August 20, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: We are not accepted by God because we have made ourselves worthy. We are accepted because God has provided atonement for us, ultimately fulfilled through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 43:13-27 The LORD gives Ezekiel the altar’s measurements and ordinances. When it is erected, the Zadokite priests are to purify and make atonement for it with blood and unblemished offerings. For seven days they consecrate the altar with sin offerings, a bull, and a ram. From the eighth day onward, they may present burnt and peace offerings, and the LORD promises to accept his people. 4. 📖 Key Verse ”And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you release your need to understand and control every detail, and to trust his wisdom, presence, and faithful promises. 2. 📅 August 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: We do not need to understand every detail of God’s plan. We need to trust the God who faithfully restores his people and dwells among them. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 40:17-49 Ezekiel sees the outer and inner courts measured with matching gates, chambers, windows, palm decorations, and steps, revealing an ordered design. Rooms, tables, hooks, and tools are provided for preparing offerings. Priests oversee the temple and altar, while Zadok’s sons draw near to minister to the LORD. The square court holds the altar before the temple, whose vestibule is then measured. 4. 📖 Key Verse Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate. It was of the same size as the others (v. 28). 5. 📝 Reflection The...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust his steadfast love and faithfulness, even when you cannot see what he is doing. 2. 📅 July 11, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True faith rests not on what we can see or control, but on the steadfast love and faithfulness of the living God. 3. ✝️ Psalm 115:1-8 The psalmist asks that glory be given not to God’s people but to the LORD’s name because of his steadfast love and faithfulness. Though the nations question where their God is, he reigns in heaven and does whatever he pleases. Their handmade idols cannot speak, see, hear, smell, feel, or walk. Those who make and trust in them become like them. 4. 📖 Key Verse Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” (v. 2) 5. 📝 Reflection While evangelizing, I once met a man who said to me, “If you show me God, I will believe.” Then, as though he deeply pitied me for believing in a God I could not see, he took from his inner pocket an im...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you remember His grace and understand His heart today. 2. 📅 April 21, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s justice is never separated from His mercy. 3. ✝️ Psalm 103:1-11 David calls his soul to bless the LORD and not forget all His benefits—God forgives sin, heals, redeems, renews, and surrounds His people with steadfast love and mercy. The LORD works righteousness and justice for the oppressed and reveals His ways and mighty acts to His people. He is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and He does not deal with us according to our sins. 4. 📖 Key Verse He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities (v. 10). 5. 📝 Reflection There was once a man we met during street evangelism. He appeared very gentle and courteous. When our team approached him and asked whether we could take a moment to share the good news, he gladly a...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to speak courage into your heart as you follow Jesus in a challenging world. 2. 📅 February 5, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Courage comes not from ourselves, but from God’s Spirit who is always with us. 3. ✝️ Matthew 10:16-33 Jesus teaches that His disciples will face persecution for His name, yet the Holy Spirit will speak through them, and those who endure to the end will be saved. God, who cares even for sparrows, attentively watches over His people and commands them not to fear. Whoever acknowledges Jesus before others will be acknowledged before the Father, while those who deny Him will be denied. 4. 📖 Key Verse For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you (v. 20). 5. 📝 Reflection There are many reasons we feel fear, but one of the greatest is the fear of failure. No matter how hard we try, we might still fail an entrance exam, struggle to find a job, or...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what true refuge looks like in Him. 2. 📅 December 17, 2025 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s justice and love meet perfectly in Christ, our ultimate refuge. 3. ✝️ Joshua 20:1-9 The LORD commanded Joshua to appoint cities of refuge for those who kill unintentionally, so they may flee from the avenger of blood. The manslayer must present his case at the city gate, and the elders shall provide him shelter until judgment and the death of the high priest. Six cities were designated—three west of the Jordan (Kedesh, Shechem, Hebron) and three east (Bezer, Ramoth, Golan). These cities served both Israelites and foreigners, ensuring protection for anyone who killed without intent until a fair trial. 4. 📖 Key Verse These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he migh...