7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that worship is not an oppressive burden, but the joyful privilege of those whom he has freed from sin and called his children. 2. 📅 October 12, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God does not free us from sin to leave us without purpose. He gives us a new identity and calls us to worship and serve him with joy. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 23:1-32 David made Solomon king and organized 38,000 Levites by clan for temple work, administration, judging, gatekeeping, and praise. Since the LORD had given Israel rest and dwelt in Jerusalem, they no longer carried the tabernacle. Instead, they assisted the priests, cared for the sanctuary and offerings, and thanked and praised the LORD morning and evening. 4. 📖 Key Verse And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising the LORD, and likewise at evening (v. 30). 5. 📝 Reflection Long ago, I watched a documentary about a social hierarchy in which a per...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to open your heart so that you may trust him beyond what you can see and bear witness to Jesus Christ through your words and life. 2. 📅 August 11, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Seeing God’s power does not automatically produce saving faith. True faith is God’s gracious gift that enables us to trust Jesus Christ and live in obedience to his Word. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 38:14-23 God tells Ezekiel to prophesy against Gog, who will lead a mighty northern army against secure Israel. God will bring Gog against his land to display his holiness before the nations. In wrath, he will judge Gog with earthquake, confusion, sword, pestilence, bloodshed, rain, hail, fire, and sulfur. Thus God will reveal his greatness and holiness, and the nations will know that he is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD (v....

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see how the good news of Jesus Christ sets us free from the power of sin and death and leads us into true peace with God. 2. 📅 June 26, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The judgment of God against evil becomes good news for His people because God breaks their yoke, frees them from bondage, and gives them peace. 3. ✝️ Nahum 1:9-15 The LORD will completely destroy those who plot evil against Him, and their rebellion will not rise again. Though they seem strong and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Yet God will break the yoke from His people, free them from bondage, and bring Judah the good news of peace. 4. 📖 Key Verse Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! (v. 15a) 5. 📝 Reflection My maternal grandfather deeply cherished the slogan, “Long live Korean independence!” This was because he had personally experienced the sorrow and sufferin...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you remember the gospel you have received, stand firmly in it, and share it faithfully with others by His grace. 2. 📅 June 12, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The gospel is not something we invent, but something we receive, stand on, and pass on: Christ died for our sins, was buried, and was raised on the third day. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Paul reminds the Corinthian believers of the gospel they received and in which they stand. Christ died for our sins, was buried, and was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. The risen Christ appeared to many witnesses, including Cephas, the apostles, and Paul. Though Paul was unworthy because he persecuted the church, he confesses that he is what he is by God’s grace, and that the gospel they preach is the same gospel the Corinthians believed. 4. 📖 Key Verse For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our ...

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...