7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you listen carefully to his Word and faithfully share the gospel with courage, humility, and love. 2. 📅 July 29, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God calls us to receive his Word faithfully, speak his truth courageously, and leave the response to him. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 33:1-9 The LORD compares Ezekiel’s calling to that of a watchman. When he sees the sword coming, he must sound the trumpet. Those who ignore the warning bear responsibility for their death, but a silent watchman is accountable for the lives lost. God appoints Ezekiel as Israel’s watchman to hear his word and warn the wicked to turn. If they refuse, they die in their sin, but Ezekiel delivers his soul. 4. 📖 Key Verse “So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me” (v. 7). 5. 📝 Reflection I once had a quiet sense of pride in not being...

  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 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 hear His invitation clearly—and respond with humility and faith. 2. 📅 March 11, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s invitation is wide, but only those who receive His grace with a surrendered heart truly belong. 3. ✝️ Matthew 22:1-14 Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son, but the invited guests refused to come and some even abused and killed the servants, so the king judged them. He then sent his servants to the main roads to invite as many as they found—both bad and good—so the hall was filled with guests. Yet a man without a wedding garment was cast into outer darkness, concluding: “For many are called, but few are chosen.” 4. 📖 Key Verse “For many are called, but few are chosen.” (v. 14) 5. 📝 Reflection In evangelism—especially street evangelism—we encounter countless rejections. Most people decline politely, saying, “I’m not i...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you release control—and trust Him with what you can’t accomplish on your own. 2. 📅 March 3, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Salvation isn’t achieved by human strength—God does the impossible. 3. ✝️ Matthew 19:23-30 Jesus teaches that it is very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom , prompting the disciples to ask who can be saved, and he answers that what is impossible with man is possible with God . When Peter asks what they will receive for leaving everything, Jesus promises that those who forsake family and possessions for his name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life . He concludes that many who are first will be last, and the last first . 4. 📖 Key Verse But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (v. 26) 5. 📝 Reflection One of the hardest burdens in evangelism is not knowing whether the person...