7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see how the hope of resurrection gives you courage to stand firm and serve the Lord with joy. 2. 📅 June 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Because Christ has defeated death, our hope is secure and our labor in the Lord is never in vain. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 Paul teaches that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom as they are. At the last trumpet, the dead will be raised imperishable, and the living will be changed. Death will be swallowed up in Christ’s victory, and God gives believers this victory through Jesus. Therefore, they must stand firm, remain immovable, and abound in the Lord’s work, knowing their labor in him is never in vain. 4. 📖 Key Verse Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain (v. 58) 5. 📝 Reflection One of Paul’s greatest theological achievements was p...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust His promise of resurrection, even when it goes beyond what you can fully understand. 2. 📅 June 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Our resurrection hope is not based on human imagination or understanding, but on God’s promise and power in Christ. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 Paul answers the question of how the dead are raised and what kind of body they will have by using the image of a seed. Just as a seed must die to receive a new body, God gives each body as He chooses. Our bodies are sown perishable, dishonorable, and weak, but they will be raised imperishable, glorious, powerful, and spiritual. As we have borne the image of the first Adam, the man of dust, we will also bear the image of Christ, the man of heaven. 4. 📖 Key Verse Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven (v. 49). 5. 📝 Reflection Spider-Man looks impressive...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see how the hope of resurrection gives courage, holiness, and purpose to your life today. 2. 📅 June 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Because Christ has risen, believers do not live for temporary pleasure but for resurrection hope and gospel-centered faithfulness. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 15:29-34 Paul argues that if the dead are not raised, baptism on behalf of the dead and his daily suffering for the gospel would be meaningless. Without resurrection, people would live only for present pleasure. But because resurrection is true, believers must wake up, stop sinning, and live as those who truly know God. 4. 📖 Key Verse I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day! (v. 31) 5. 📝 Reflection I really enjoy the 007 series. From my childhood until now, I have not missed a single film in the series. The stories of secret missions carried out under a ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see the hope of resurrection more clearly, and to live today in light of the eternal life Christ has given. 2. 📅 June 14, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Resurrection is not only life after death, but the end of death and the beginning of eternal life in God’s kingdom. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 Christ has been raised from the dead as the firstfruits of the resurrection. As all die in Adam, all who belong to Christ will be made alive in him. At the end, Christ will destroy every power and even death itself, then deliver the kingdom to God the Father, so that God may be all in all. 4. 📖 Key Verse For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive (v. 22). 5. 📝 Reflection Many Christians often think of resurrection simply as “a dead person coming back to life.” Logically speaking, that is not wrong. Just as Jesus Christ conquered death, those who believe in His name will also...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see how the resurrection of Jesus gives us true hope beyond this life. 2. 📅 June 13, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: If Christ has been raised, our faith is not empty, our sins are forgiven, and our hope reaches beyond death. 3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 Paul argues that if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, preaching and faith are empty, believers remain in their sins, and those who died in Christ have perished. Therefore, if Christian hope is only for this life, believers are the most pitiable of all people. 4. 📖 Key Verse Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? (v. 12) 5. 📝 Reflection Everyone has a longing for eternal life. It is often said that this longing becomes even stronger in those who possess greater wealth, honor, and power t...