7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to teach you how to pursue unity by obeying his Word and loving others as Christ has loved you. 2. 📅 September 21, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True unity does not come from having the same personality, preferences, or opinions. It comes when God’s people place his Word above their personal interests and obey him with one heart. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 12:23-40 According to the word of the LORD, armed troops from every tribe gathered at Hebron to transfer Saul’s kingdom to David. With whole hearts and a single purpose, all Israel united to make David king. For three days they ate and drank together, while relatives from near and far brought abundant provisions, and joy filled Israel. 4. 📖 Key Verse All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king (v. 38). 5. 📝 Reflec...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal any prejudice or favoritism in your heart and to help you see every believer as someone welcomed and valued by his grace. 2. 📅 August 28, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God builds his community not on human privilege, but on his covenant, justice, and grace. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 47:13-23 The Lord GOD defines the boundaries of the land and commands Israel to divide it equally among the twelve tribes as the inheritance he swore to give their fathers, with two portions for Joseph. Sojourners who reside and have children among them shall be treated as native-born Israelites and receive an inheritance in whatever tribe they reside. 4. 📖 Key Verse ”In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord GOD” (v. 23). 5. 📝 Reflection People today are highly sensitive to issues of fairness and equality. Regardless of whether they are progressive or conse...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that worship is not about personal preference, but about building up His church in peace, love, and order. 2. 📅 June 11, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s church is not built around our personal preferences, but through worship that builds up the body of Christ and reflects the peace of God. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 Paul instructs the Corinthian church to use every gift—hymns, teaching, revelation, tongues, and interpretation—for building up the church. Tongues and prophecy must be practiced in order, with interpretation and discernment. Because God is not a God of confusion but of peace, worship must follow the Lord’s command and be done decently and in order. 4. 📖 Key Verse What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up (v. 26). 5. 📝 Reflection When I first...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you remember the true meaning of the Lord’s Supper and to see how Christ’s sacrifice shapes the way we love and serve His church. 2. 📅 June 2, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The Lord’s Supper is not a casual religious routine, but a sacred remembrance of Christ’s death and a proclamation of His return. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 11:17-26 4. 📖 Key Verse For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes (v. 26). 5. 📝 Reflection We live in an age filled with more commemorative days than we often realize. There are national holidays, as well as special days observed by the organizations, communities, and families to which we belong. These days come in many forms. Some, like Independence Day, remember significant historical events. Others, like Christmas, are loved by many people beyond their original religious meaning. There are also anniversaries, birthday...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you whether you are building His church with humility—or adding to division through pride, jealousy, or criticism. 2. 📅 May 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The church belongs to God, and only God gives true growth. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 3:1-15 Paul rebukes the Corinthian believers for their jealousy and strife, showing that they are still people of the flesh and infants in Christ. Paul and Apollos are only servants through whom the Corinthians believed, while God alone is the One who gives the growth. Jesus Christ is the only foundation of the church, and each person’s work built upon Him will be tested and revealed on the Day. 4. 📖 Key Verse For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building (v. 9). 5. 📝 Reflection It is not surprising that the division in the Corinthian church (cf. v. 3) is still repeated in churches today, even after two thousand years. Though times and cu...

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...