7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

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...