7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that even the greatest gifts, sacrifices, and good works are meaningless without love. 2. 📅 June 7, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Without love, even the most impressive words, gifts, faith, generosity, and sacrifices become empty before God. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 Paul teaches that even eloquent speech, prophecy, knowledge, great faith, generosity, and sacrifice are meaningless without love. True love is patient and kind. It does not envy, boast, act arrogantly, or seek its own way. Love does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things. 4. 📖 Key Verse If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing (v. 3). 5. 📝 Reflection Many years ago, a major scandal involving an international nonprofit organization became widely known. The organization had been running a program ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what it means to truly walk in His light and love. 2. 📅 January 2, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Walking in the light means loving others—even when it’s hard. 3. ✝️ 1 John 2:1-11 John urges believers not to sin, but reassures us that Jesus Christ is our advocate and the atoning sacrifice for all. Knowing God is proven by obeying His commands and walking as Jesus walked. The command to love is both old and new: true light shines when we love others. Hatred reveals darkness, while love shows we abide in the light without stumbling. 4. 📖 Key Verse Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected (vv. 4-5a). 5. 📝 Reflection Church life can be messy. People come and go. Sometimes, someone leaves because they’ve been deeply hurt—and that breaks our hearts. It’s easy to blam...