7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that He alone is the true Shepherd who never sleeps, never abandons His people, and faithfully watches over them to the end. 2. 📅 June 30, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Human leaders may fail, systems may collapse, and power may disappear, but God is the faithful Shepherd who never slumbers nor sleeps. 3. ✝️ Nahum 3:12-19 Nineveh’s fortresses will fall as easily as ripe figs shaken from a tree. Though the city prepares for siege and multiplies its people, merchants, and officials, fire and sword will consume it, and its leaders will vanish like locusts. Assyria’s shepherds sleep, its people scatter, and its wound cannot be healed. All who suffered its endless evil will rejoice at its fall. 4. 📖 Key Verse Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them (v. 18). 5. 📝 Reflection When I was working as a middle m...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see the seriousness of sin, the justice of His judgment, and the grace of Christ who bore our guilt in our place. 2. 📅 June 29, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God does not ignore hidden sin, but He exposes evil in justice and calls sinners to repentance through His redeeming grace. 3. ✝️ Nahum 3:1-11 Nahum announces woe against Nineveh, a bloody city full of lies, plunder, and violence. Because she deceived and sold nations through her harlotries and charms, the LORD of hosts stands against her. God will expose her shame and make her a spectacle. Just as mighty Thebes fell despite its strength and allies, Nineveh too will seek refuge from the enemy. 4. 📖 Key Verse I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle (v. 6). 5. 📝 Reflection I recently watched a discussion program where the topic of a sinner’s human rights was debated. Those who defended the human rights of ...

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 help you see how the good news of Jesus Christ sets us free from the power of sin and death and leads us into true peace with God. 2. 📅 June 26, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The judgment of God against evil becomes good news for His people because God breaks their yoke, frees them from bondage, and gives them peace. 3. ✝️ Nahum 1:9-15 The LORD will completely destroy those who plot evil against Him, and their rebellion will not rise again. Though they seem strong and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Yet God will break the yoke from His people, free them from bondage, and bring Judah the good news of peace. 4. 📖 Key Verse Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! (v. 15a) 5. 📝 Reflection My maternal grandfather deeply cherished the slogan, “Long live Korean independence!” This was because he had personally experienced the sorrow and sufferin...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask Him to lead you to repentance, faith, and refuge in Jesus Christ. 2. 📅 June 25, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God is slow to anger, but He will not ignore unrepentant sin forever. His love and justice never contradict each other. 3. ✝️ Nahum 1:1-8 Nahum announces God’s judgment against Nineveh. The LORD is jealous, avenging, and powerful; though slow to anger, he will not leave the guilty unpunished. Creation trembles before his wrath. Yet the LORD is good, a stronghold in trouble, and he knows those who take refuge in him. But his enemies will face complete destruction. 4. 📖 Key Verse The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty (v. 3). 5. 📝 Reflection The phrase “God is love” is extremely well known. Even people who do not attend church and do not believe in the name of Jesus Christ are familiar with these words. However, many people do not know that God ...