Stop Saying “Yes, Lord” Start Obeying 👣 | Matthew 21 Devotional (7-Step QT)
7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to give you an honest heart—one that chooses repentance over image, and obedience over empty words. 2. 📅 March 9, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God isn’t looking for perfect talk—He’s looking for real repentance that turns into obedience. 3. ✝️ Matthew 21:23-32 When the chief priests and elders challenge Jesus’ authority in the temple, he counters by asking about the source of John’s baptism, exposing their fear-driven evasiveness. Jesus then tells the parable of two sons to show that doing the father’s will is proved by repentance that leads to obedience, not by empty words. He declares that tax collectors and prostitutes enter the kingdom of God before the religious leaders, because they believed John while the leaders refused to repent even after seeing it. 4. 📖 Key Verse “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.” (v. 31) 5. 📝 Refle...