7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you know Him through today’s Word and to reveal anything you are trusting more than Him. 2. 📅 July 25, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God rules over every human power and makes Himself known by exposing the things we trust in more than Him. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 30:10-26 The LORD will use Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to end Egypt’s wealth, devastate its cities, destroy its idols and rulers, and scatter its people among the nations. God will break both arms of Pharaoh so that his sword falls, while strengthening Babylon’s king and placing His own sword in his hand. Through this judgment, the Egyptians will know that He is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse “Then they will know that I am the LORD” (vv. 19, 26). 5. 📝 Reflection It has now been a full year since I came to Montreal. During that time, I made several plans to visit cities outside Montreal, but circumstances did not allow them to work out. So far, t...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust that He sees your faithful work, even when others do not recognize it. 2. 📅 July 24, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God rules over history, sees every act of obedience, and never forgets the faithful work of His people. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 29:17-30:9 The LORD gives Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar as wages for his army’s labor against Tyre. On that day, God will raise a horn for Israel and open Ezekiel’s mouth, so they will know that he is the LORD. The near day of the LORD brings the sword upon Egypt and its allies, destroying their proud power, wealth, foundations, and helpers. Cush will tremble as God’s certain judgment comes. 4. 📖 Key Verse I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD (v. 20). 5. 📝 Reflection When I worked for a large corporation, I had opportunities to serve in several departments. Most of those...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to give you the courage, humility, and love to make the name of Jesus known—even among those who may reject or oppose your faith. 2. 📅 July 22, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God reveals his glory and holiness so that people everywhere may know that he is the LORD. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 28:20-26 God will judge Sidon with pestilence and the sword, revealing his glory and holiness so that all will know he is the LORD. Israel’s contemptuous neighbors will no longer wound them like briers and thorns. God will gather his scattered people to the land given to Jacob, where they will build houses, plant vineyards, dwell securely, and know that the LORD is their God. 4. 📖 Key Verse They will know that I am the LORD (vv. 22, 23, 24, 26). 5. 📝 Reflection A long time ago, I asked a street evangelist a question. People did not want to hear the gospel. Some even confronted him, complaining that he was too loud, spat ...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal whether you are using his gifts for his glory or allowing them to become sources of pride. 2. 📅 July 21, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s good gifts are corrupted when pride rules our hearts, but his grace restores us to use them for his glory. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 28:1-19 The ruler of Tyre grew wealthy through wisdom and trade, but his riches made him proud, and he claimed to be a god. The Lord would bring ruthless foreigners to expose him as a mere man and destroy his splendor. Though the king had been created with wisdom, beauty, and privilege, violence and dishonest trade corrupted him. God cast him down, consumed him by fire, and brought him to a dreadful end. 4. 📖 Key Verse Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you (v. 17). 5. 📝 Reflecti...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what you are trusting for security and to help you build your life on His eternal kingdom rather than on temporary success. 2. 📅 July 20, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Everything in this world will eventually pass away, but God and His kingdom remain forever. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 27:26-36 Tyre’s rowers bring her into the high seas, where the east wind wrecks her. Her riches, merchandise, sailors, traders, soldiers, and crew sink together. Seafarers come ashore, cast dust on their heads, wear sackcloth, and mourn bitterly. Tyre once satisfied many peoples and enriched kings through her abundant trade, but now all who witness her ruin are appalled, and she will be no more forever. 4. 📖 Key Verse You have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever (v. 36b). 5. 📝 Reflection The Fortune Global 500 is a ranking of the world’s 500 largest companies by revenue. It has been published by Fortune...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal any pride, greed, comparison, or false security within you—and to help you trust and obey His living Word. 2. 📅 July 18, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God opposes pride and self-centered gain, and His living Word calls us to repentance, trust, and obedience. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 26:1-21 Because Tyre rejoiced over Jerusalem’s ruin and expected to profit from it, the Lord declared Himself against her. He would summon many nations and bring Nebuchadnezzar’s army to destroy, plunder, and cover the proud sea city with waters. Tyre would become a bare rock, never rebuilt, while coastlands and rulers lamented. Through her dreadful end, all would know that He is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse “I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again,” declares the Lord GOD (v. 21). 5. 📝 Reflection For those who regard the Bible merely as a historical ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust his protection, surrender your fears, and leave revenge and judgment in his righteous hands. 2. 📅 July 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Because God is our Father, we can trust his protection and leave revenge in his hands. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 25:12-17 Edom grievously sinned by taking revenge on Judah. Therefore, God will make Edom desolate from Teman to Dedan and execute his vengeance through Israel, so Edom will know his vengeance. Because the Philistines acted with malice and endless hostility to destroy Israel, God will cut off the Cherethites and the remnant of the coast. Through his wrathful judgment, they will know that he is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD (v. 14). 5. 📝 Reflection Unlike t...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you whether your words, actions, and responses to criticism honor his name and reveal his glory. 2. 📅 July 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Before pointing fingers at others, we must examine whether our own lives honor God’s name and reveal his glory. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 25:1-11 The LORD tells Ezekiel to prophesy against Ammon. Because the Ammonites rejoiced maliciously when God's sanctuary was profaned, Israel was desolated, and Judah went into exile, God will give them to the people of the East and destroy them. Moab and Seir also treated Judah as no different from other nations, so God will expose Moab's cities and judge it. Then they will know that he is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse Then you will know that I am the LORD … Then they will know that I am the LORD (vv. 5b, 11b). 5. 📝 Reflection Recently, our church has been facing a series of difficult circumstances. Among them, what has been ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what you are building your life upon and to help you trust Jesus Christ as the cornerstone of your life. 2. 📅 July 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: When people reject what God has chosen, God can turn apparent defeat into marvelous salvation. Jesus Christ is the cornerstone on whom we can safely build our lives. 3. ✝️ Psalm 118:8-29 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in people or rulers. Surrounded and near defeat, the psalmist prevails because the LORD is his strength and salvation. Spared from death, he will live and proclaim God’s deeds. The rejected stone becomes the cornerstone by the LORD’s marvelous work. The people pray for salvation, rejoice in the day God made, and thank him for his enduring love. 4. 📖 Key Verse The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes (vv. 22-23). 5. 📝 Reflection R...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you hear His voice, trust His gracious presence, and find rest in Him. 2. 📅 July 13, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True rest comes from knowing that God hears our cries and faithfully cares for us. 3. ✝️ Psalm 116:1-19 Caught in death’s snares and Sheol’s anguish, the psalmist calls on the LORD for deliverance. The gracious, righteous, and merciful God hears him, saves him from death, tears, and stumbling, and restores him to rest. In response to the LORD’s benefits, he lifts the cup of salvation, calls on God’s name, fulfills his vows before the people, offers thanksgiving, and praises the LORD in Jerusalem. 4. 📖 Key Verse Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live (v. 2). 5. 📝 Reflection This happened not long after my wife and I had our first child. At the time, my workplace was quite far from our hometown. Therefore, after giving birth,...

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 know Him more truly and worship Him with joy. 2. 📅 April 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Because the LORD is good, we can come to Him with joy, gratitude, and trust. 3. ✝️ Psalm 100:1-5 All the earth is called to make a joyful noise to the LORD and come before Him with gladness, thanksgiving, and praise. The LORD is God, our Creator, and we are His people, the sheep of His pasture. Because the LORD is good, His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness continues to all generations. 4. 📖 Key Verse For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations (v. 5). 5. 📝 Reflection To truly know someone is very important. Only when we know a person rightly can we discern whether that person is trustworthy. When we come to regard someone as trustworthy, we are then able to share our hearts and continue in a lasting relationship. This principl...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you His holiness and teach you what it means to live set apart for Him today. 2. 📅 April 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The holy God deserves our worship, and His holiness should shape the way we live. 3. ✝️ Psalm 99:1–9 The LORD is the holy King who reigns over all the earth, and all peoples are called to praise His great and awesome name and worship Him. He loves justice and righteousness, establishes equity, and answered Moses, Aaron, and Samuel as He led His people by His word. Because the LORD both judges sin and forgives His people, we are to exalt Him and worship Him as the holy God. 4. 📖 Key Verse For the LORD our God is holy! (v. 9b) 5. 📝 Reflection In our daily lives, the word holiness is not commonly used. Even when we look around, it is difficult to find objects, places, or people that are truly holy. Perhaps we are gradually forgetting the very idea of holiness. That i...