7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 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. 📅 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. 📖 Key Verse Your people shall be my people, and your God my God (v. 16b). 5. 📝 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...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to guide your choices according to His will, not merely your own desires or calculations. 2. 📅 May 1, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True wisdom is choosing what pleases God, even when the future is uncertain. 3. ✝️ Ruth 1:1-14 During the days of the judges, Elimelech’s family left Bethlehem because of a famine and lived in Moab, but Naomi lost her husband and both sons there. When Naomi heard that the LORD had visited His people and given them food, she set out to return to Judah and urged her daughters-in-law to go back to their families and find rest. Orpah kissed Naomi and departed, but Ruth clung to her mother-in-law and chose to remain with her. 4. 📖 Key Verse But Ruth clung to her (v. 14b). 5. 📝 Reflection There is a well-known saying: “Life is a series of choices.” Its exact origin is unknown, but it has become a widely used existential and popular expression in modern society. Jean-Paul Sartre once sa...