7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal any pride or disobedience in your heart and to help you respond to his Word with humility and obedience. 2. 📅 July 27, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s judgment is not a distant warning meant only for others; it calls us to recognize his sovereign rule, turn from pride, and obey him today. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 32:1-16 The LORD tells Ezekiel to lament over Pharaoh. Though he sees himself as a lion, he is like a sea monster that fouls the waters. God will cast his net over him, and his fall will bring darkness and terror. Babylon’s sword will shatter Egypt’s pride and destroy its multitude. When God makes Egypt desolate, they will know that he is the LORD. The nations will chant this lament over Egypt. 4. 📖 Key Verse When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD (v. 15). ...

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 Him to lead your heart to repentance, humility, and holy obedience today. 2. 📅 June 28, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The greatest tragedy in life is not losing power, wealth, or security, but standing under God’s judgment as His opponent. 3. ✝️ Nahum 2:8-13 Nineveh, once full like a pool of water, is now fleeing with no one turning back. Its silver, gold, and endless treasures are plundered, and the city becomes desolate and ruined. Like a lion’s den once filled with prey, Nineveh had lived by violence, but the LORD of hosts declares, “I am against you,” and brings its power, prey, and voice to an end. 4. 📖 Key Verse Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts (v. 13a). 5. 📝 Reflection What kind of city was Nineveh when Nahum’s oracle was proclaimed? As the capital of Assyria, the superpower of its day, Nineveh was a city full of people like a pool filled with water. It was filled with countles...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Him to open your eyes to see that His promises are true, His judgment is real, and His people are never forgotten. 2. 📅 June 27, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s Word is not uncertain. His promises will be fulfilled, and His warnings will also come to pass. 3. ✝️ Nahum 2:1-7 An attacker rises against Nineveh, and the city is told to prepare for battle, but God’s judgment is already determined. Though plunderers devastated Jacob and Israel, the LORD will restore their majesty. Nineveh’s warriors, chariots, walls, gates, palace, and royal power collapse, and its mistress is carried away in shame and mourning. 4. 📖 Key Verse The scatterer has come up against you (v. 1a). 5. 📝 Reflection Do you believe that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was a real historical event? I once heard a well-known theologian and preacher say that the account of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 18-19 was not historical fact,...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to give you a heart that chooses obedience over compromise. 2. 📅 November 22, 2025 Today’s passage reminds us: Obedience leads to life—disobedience brings destruction. 3. ✝️ Joshua 7:16–26 Joshua identifies Achan as the one who sinned by taking devoted things. Achan confesses, and the stolen items are brought out. Joshua and Israel execute judgment by stoning Achan and his family, then burning them and raising a heap of stones as a warning. This passage contrasts Rahab’s salvation through faith with Achan’s destruction through disobedience, showing the seriousness of sin and the call to obedience. 4. 📖 Key Verse “Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today.” (v. 25b) 5. 📝 Reflection Rahab’s story was beautiful—an outsider saved by faith. But today’s passage is sobering: Achan, a member of God’s people, is destroyed because of disobedience. This contrast is striking: f...