7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you the true condition of your heart and to make you clean from the inside out. 2. 📅 March 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God cares not only about how we look on the outside, but about who we truly are on the inside. 3. ✝️ Matthew 23:25-39 Jesus rebukes the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy, saying that though they appear righteous outwardly, inwardly they are full of greed and lawlessness and cannot escape judgment. He warns that they will reject and persecute God’s messengers like their ancestors, and that this generation will face judgment. Yet Jesus still expresses His compassionate desire to gather Jerusalem to Himself. 4. 📖 Key Verse “how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?” (v. 33b) 5. 📝 Reflection Although we do not hear much of it these days, until a few years ago it was still common to see evangelists near major subway stations in downtown Seoul holding si...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you whether your faith is shaped more by outward activity or true obedience. 2. 📅 March 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True spiritual leadership is faithful obedience, not outward religious performance. 3. ✝️ Matthew 23:13-24 Jesus rebukes the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy, saying that they neither enter the kingdom of heaven themselves nor allow others to enter. Though they zealously make converts, they lead them into greater condemnation, and by valuing the gold and the gift above the temple and the altar, they reveal themselves to be spiritually blind guides. They are meticulous about tithing minor things, yet neglect the weightier matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness—thus straining out a gnat while swallowing a camel. 4. 📖 Key Verse “You blind fools!” (v. 17a) 5. 📝 Reflection There is a well-known saying among office workers: “There is no boss more ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where your faith needs to become more honest, humble, and real. 2. 📅 March 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True discipleship is not about image, titles, or recognition, but about humility and a life that practices what it believes. 3. ✝️ Matthew 23:1-12 Jesus warned the crowds and His disciples about the scribes and Pharisees, who taught God’s law but did not live it out. They placed heavy burdens on others, loved public honor, and wanted to be seen as important. Jesus taught that His followers must not chase status or titles, because God alone is our Father and Christ alone is our Teacher and Leader. In His kingdom, the greatest person is the one who humbly serves, and whoever exalts himself will be humbled, while whoever humbles himself will be exalted. 4. 📖 Key Verse “so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.” (v. ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you the difference between external religion and a heart that’s close to Him . 2. 📅 February 19, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True worship isn’t about looking right—it’s about a heart that’s truly near God. 3. ✝️ Matthew 15:1-20 Pharisees and scribes accuse Jesus’ disciples of breaking the tradition of the elders, but Jesus rebukes them for voiding God’s commandment—especially honoring father and mother—for the sake of their tradition, exposing their hypocrisy as Isaiah foretold. He teaches the crowd that what defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth but what comes out of it, because it proceeds from the heart. From the heart come evil thoughts and sins such as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander—these defile, not eating with unwashed hands. 4. 📖 Key Verse “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do...