7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you how His grace has been flowing through your story, your family, and your daily obedience. 2. 📅 May 9, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s grace turns broken stories into a legacy of faith. 3. ✝️ Ruth 4:13-22 Boaz took Ruth as his wife, and the LORD gave her conception so that she bore a son. The women blessed the LORD for giving Naomi a redeemer, declaring that the child would restore her life and nourish her in old age. The child was named Obed, who became the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David, and the book closes with the genealogy from Perez to David. 4. 📖 Key Verse Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed (v. 21) 5. 📝 Reflection If the saying, “History is written by the winners,” were entirely true, Ruth 4:21 might have disappeared from Scripture. If the book of Ruth were merely human propaganda written to defend King David’s legitimacy, there would have been no reason to preserve t...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to teach you how to use your words to bless, build up, and give life to others. 2. 📅 May 8, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s people are called to speak words of blessing, not words that tear others down. 3. ✝️ Ruth 4:7-12 In former times in Israel, redeeming and exchanging were confirmed by one person drawing off his sandal and giving it to the other. Boaz declared before the elders and all the people that he had bought Naomi’s property and had taken Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, as his wife to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance. Then the elders and all the people blessed Ruth to be like Rachel and Leah, who built up the house of Israel, and blessed Boaz’s house to be like the house of Perez. 4. 📖 Key Verse “And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman” (v. 12). 5. 📝 Reflection 📝 T...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where you may be obeying Him only when it feels safe, easy, or beneficial. 2. 📅 May 7, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Obedience to God may look costly, but it is always our greatest gain. 3. ✝️ Ruth 4:1-6 Boaz went to the city gate, gathered the elders, and gave the nearer redeemer the first opportunity to redeem the land that belonged to Elimelech’s family. At first, the redeemer agreed to buy the land, but when Boaz explained that redeeming it also meant taking Ruth the Moabite to preserve the dead man’s name and inheritance, he refused. Fearing that it would impair his own inheritance, the redeemer gave his right of redemption to Boaz. 4. 📖 Key Verse “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it” (v. 6b). 5. 📝 Reflection In today’s Quiet Time passage, two men appear. Both were willing to buy Naomi’s land, bu...