7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see whether your anger is shaped by selfishness or by His holy love. 2. 📅 June 24, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s mercy is greater than our preferences, and His compassion reaches even the people we struggle to love. 3. ✝️ Jonah 4:1-11 Jonah is angry that God spared Nineveh and says he would rather die. God asks whether his anger is right. Then God appoints a plant to shade Jonah, but removes it through a worm and scorching wind. When Jonah becomes angry over the plant, God shows him that if Jonah pities a plant, God surely has reason to pity Nineveh, with its many people and animals. 4. 📖 Key Verse But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” (v. 9) 5. 📝 Reflection As modern science has developed, anger is no longer viewed simply as an emotional outburst. According to research in psychiatry and neu...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see His mercy clearly today, and to receive His forgiveness so deeply that you can begin to practice forgiveness toward others. 2. 📅 June 23, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God gives second chances, and His mercy calls us to turn from sin and practice forgiveness. 3. ✝️ Jonah 3:1-10 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, and Jonah obeyed by going to Nineveh. He proclaimed that the city would be overthrown in forty days. The people believed God, fasted, and repented, from the greatest to the least. Even the king humbled himself and called everyone to turn from evil and violence. Seeing their repentance, God relented and did not bring disaster. 4. 📖 Key Verse When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it (v. 10). 5. 📝 Reflection There are a few people whom I find difficult to...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that even when His ways are beyond your understanding, His saving power is always greater than your situation. 2. 📅 June 22, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Salvation belongs to the LORD, and no depth is too deep for His saving grace. 3. ✝️ Jonah 1:17–2:10 The LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah remained in its belly three days and nights. From there, Jonah prayed in distress, confessing that God heard his cry and rescued his life from the pit. He remembered the LORD, gave thanks, vowed obedience, and declared, “Salvation belongs to the LORD.” Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. 4. 📖 Key Verse Salvation belongs to the LORD! (v. 9b). 5. 📝 Reflection I remember hearing the story of Jonah for the first time when I was a child in Sunday school. When Jonah was thrown into the stormy sea, the story that God appointed a great fish to swallo...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see His compassion even in the middle of human failure, guilt, and blame. 2. 📅 June 21, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s compassion is greater than our failure, and His mercy still shines even when the storm is “because of me.” 3. ✝️ Jonah 1:11-16 As the storm grew stronger, the sailors asked Jonah how to calm the sea. Jonah admitted the storm came because of him and told them to throw him into the sea. They tried to row back to land, but failed. After crying out to the LORD not to hold them guilty for innocent blood, they threw Jonah into the sea. The sea became calm, and they feared the LORD, offered sacrifice, and made vows. 4. 📖 Key Verse He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.” (v. 12) 5. 📝 Reflection Imagine that there is an employee on your workplace tea...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you examine whether your life truly reflects the God you confess with your mouth. 2. 📅 June 20, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Running from God does not only damage our own lives; it can also bring shame before others and dishonor the name of the Lord. 3. ✝️ Jonah 1:1-10 The LORD commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh, but Jonah fled to Tarshish. The LORD sent a great storm, terrifying the sailors while Jonah slept below deck. When the lot fell on Jonah, he confessed he was fleeing from the LORD, the Creator of the sea and dry land. 4. 📖 Key Verse Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them (v. 10). 5. 📝 Reflection I once read a news article about a senior pastor of a large church who had committed sexual crimes against members of his congregation over a long peri...