7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust him as your unfailing help and shield, especially when people disappoint, misunderstand, or betray you. 2. 📅 July 12, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: People may disappoint us, but God remembers us and remains our faithful help and shield. 3. ✝️ Psalm 115:9-18 The psalmist calls Israel, Aaron’s house, and all who fear the LORD to trust him, for he is their help and shield. The LORD remembers his people and blesses both small and great, increasing them and their children. The Maker of heaven and earth owns the heavens and has given the earth to humanity. The dead cannot praise him, but the living will bless the LORD now and forever. 4. 📖 Key Verse The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us (v. 12a). 5. 📝 Reflection I, too, have been betrayed several times by people whom I trusted and relied upon. Many of those experiences occurred during my years in the workplace. Yet even after followi...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust his steadfast love and faithfulness, even when you cannot see what he is doing. 2. 📅 July 11, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True faith rests not on what we can see or control, but on the steadfast love and faithfulness of the living God. 3. ✝️ Psalm 115:1-8 The psalmist asks that glory be given not to God’s people but to the LORD’s name because of his steadfast love and faithfulness. Though the nations question where their God is, he reigns in heaven and does whatever he pleases. Their handmade idols cannot speak, see, hear, smell, feel, or walk. Those who make and trust in them become like them. 4. 📖 Key Verse Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” (v. 2) 5. 📝 Reflection While evangelizing, I once met a man who said to me, “If you show me God, I will believe.” Then, as though he deeply pitied me for believing in a God I could not see, he took from his inner pocket an im...