7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Jesus to help you understand what loyal, courageous discipleship looks like in a world that often pushes back. 2. 📅 February 6, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Following Jesus requires ultimate loyalty—even when it creates tension or costs us something. 3. ✝️ Matthew 10:34-42 Jesus teaches that His coming brings decisive division, even within families, because following Him requires supreme loyalty and self-denial. Only those who take up their cross are worthy of Him, and those who lose their life for His sake will truly find it. Anyone who receives His disciples or offers even small acts of kindness will by no means lose their reward. 4. 📖 Key Verse “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” (v. 34) 5. 📝 Reflection Experiencing the grace of salvation through faith in the name of Jesus happens immediately. Salvation does not require a ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what it really means to rise and follow Jesus in your everyday life. 2. 📅 February 1, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Following Jesus often means rising from what feels familiar or comfortable—and that step of obedience brings deeper joy than comfort ever could. 3. ✝️ Matthew 9:1-13 Jesus forgives a paralytic’s sins and heals him, revealing His authority to forgive sins on earth. He then calls Matthew, who immediately rises and follows Him. Jesus explains that He associates with sinners because He came to call them, teaching that God desires mercy rather than sacrifice. 4. 📖 Key Verse As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him (v. 9) 5. 📝 Reflection Let’s be honest for a moment. If I were a paralyzed man lying on a sickbed and Jesus looked at me and said, “Get up, take your mat, a...