7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to open your eyes so that you can recognize his life-giving and restoring work in you and around you. 2. 📅 August 27, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s life-giving work may begin like a small stream, but wherever his presence flows, death gives way to life, barrenness becomes fruitful, and healing begins. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 47:1-12 Water flowed eastward from beneath the temple threshold and grew into a river too deep to cross. When it entered the sea, the water became fresh, and everything lived wherever the river went. Many fish filled the sea, and trees grew on both banks. Because their water flowed from the sanctuary, they bore fresh fruit every month. Their fruit was for food and their leaves for healing. 4. 📖 Key Verse And he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” (v. 6a) 5. 📝 Reflection Generally, we do not easily recognize changes that take place gradually. When a dramatic change occurs wi...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you be honest about what you truly need—and to believe Jesus is both able and willing to show mercy. 2. 📅 March 6, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Faith keeps calling out to Jesus with honest, specific requests—and it follows Him when He answers. 3. ✝️ Matthew 20:29-34 As Jesus left Jericho, two blind men by the roadside cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David,” even as the crowd tried to silence them. Jesus stopped and asked what they wanted, and they replied, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.” Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, they immediately regained sight, and they followed him. 4. 📖 Key Verse And stopping, Jesus called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?” (v. 32) 5. 📝 Reflection If Jesus asked me, “What do you want me to do for you?” I wonder what I would say. Of course, I might ask to see again—but honestly, I could also be tempted to say, “Pl...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Jesus to show you where He wants to bring new life into your heart today. 2. 📅 February 2, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Jesus meets us in our deepest struggles and brings us from death to life. 3. ✝️ Matthew 9:14–26 Jesus explains that His disciples do not fast because the bridegroom is with them and teaches that new wine requires fresh wineskins. On His way to help a ruler whose daughter had died, Jesus heals a woman suffering from a twelve‑year discharge of blood because of her faith. He then arrives at the ruler's house and raises the dead girl to life. 4. 📖 Key Verse Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well. (v. 22) 5. 📝 Reflection In today’s passage, Jesus meets a young girl and a woman. The girl had already died, yet Jesus set out to bring her back to life. On His way, He encountered a woman who ...