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🀝 Make Your Faith Personal Before Life Makes Sense | Ruth 1 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. πŸ™ Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you make your faith personal—not borrowed, not inherited, but truly your own. 2. πŸ“… May 2, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True faith follows God even when life feels empty and unclear. 3. ✝️ Ruth 1:15-22 Naomi urged Ruth to return to her people and her gods, but Ruth refused and confessed that Naomi’s people would be her people and Naomi’s God would be her God. When Naomi and Ruth arrived in Bethlehem, Naomi lamented that the Almighty had dealt bitterly with her, saying she had gone away full but the LORD had brought her back empty. Yet they arrived at the beginning of the barley harvest, hinting that God’s grace and provision were beginning to unfold even in Naomi’s emptiness. 4. πŸ“– Key Verse Your people shall be my people, and your God my God (v. 16b). 5. πŸ“ Reflection I grew up going to church and saying that I believed in Jesus. However, it was not until I was about to graduate from high schoo...

Turn and Live: A Devotional on Repentance and Personal Faith in Ezekiel 18

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 Why Will You Die? πŸ—£️ πŸ“’ ❤️‍🩹 7-Step QT πŸ™ Quiet Time πŸ“… August 17, 2025 ✝️ Ezekiel 18:21-32 πŸ“– Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live (vv. 31-32). πŸ“ God pleads with His people to turn and live. He takes no joy in judgment but longs for repentance. This choice is personal—repentance is ours to make. Today, hear His voice, respond with a new heart, and return to Him. πŸ’¬ What does this passage speak to you today? πŸ™ Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer! 7-Step QT Notes 1. πŸ™ Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you remember His grace—and to live in response to His love, not in rebellion. 2. πŸ“… August 17, 2025 Today’s passage reminds us that  God longs for our repentance, not our ruin . He doesn’t delight in j...