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🧱 Build Your Life on Jesus, the Cornerstone | Psalm 118 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. πŸ™ Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what you are building your life upon and to help you trust Jesus Christ as the cornerstone of your life. 2. πŸ“… July 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: When people reject what God has chosen, God can turn apparent defeat into marvelous salvation. Jesus Christ is the cornerstone on whom we can safely build our lives. 3. ✝️ Psalm 118:8-29 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in people or rulers. Surrounded and near defeat, the psalmist prevails because the LORD is his strength and salvation. Spared from death, he will live and proclaim God’s deeds. The rejected stone becomes the cornerstone by the LORD’s marvelous work. The people pray for salvation, rejoice in the day God made, and thank him for his enduring love. 4. πŸ“– Key Verse The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes (vv. 22-23). 5. πŸ“ Reflection R...

♾️ Everything Changes But God’s Love Never Does | Psalm 117, 118 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 recognize His unchanging faithfulness and steadfast love in every season of your life. 2. πŸ“… July 14, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Everything in this world changes, but the LORD’s faithfulness and steadfast love endure forever. 3. ✝️ Psalm 117:1–118:7 All nations and peoples are called to praise the LORD, whose steadfast love is great and whose faithfulness endures forever. Israel, Aaron’s house, and all who fear the LORD must give thanks and proclaim his enduring love. When the psalmist cried out in distress, the LORD answered and set him free. With the LORD on his side as helper, he fears no one and looks in triumph over his enemies. 4. πŸ“– Key Verse Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! (118:1) 5. πŸ“ Reflection Nearly thirty years had passed since I left the hometown house where I had lived for almost twenty years. Then one day, during a long-...

❤️ God’s Steadfast Love Saves Me | Psalm 109 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 bring your wounds, anger, and desire for justice before Him, and to trust His steadfast love instead of seeking revenge with your own hands. 2. πŸ“… July 5, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: What truly saves us is not revenge, but God’s steadfast love. 3. ✝️ Psalm 109:17-31 The psalmist asks the LORD to repay his accusers who loved cursing and rejected blessing. Poor, needy, weak, and scorned, he pleads for deliverance according to God’s steadfast love. Though enemies curse, God will bless, vindicate His servant, and stand at the right hand of the needy to save him from condemnation (Ps. 109:17-31). 4. πŸ“– Key Verse Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love! (v. 26) 5. πŸ“ Reflection The world tells us that revenge is sweet, satisfying, and even admirable. Yet Scripture asks us a deeper question: Can completed revenge truly heal a wounded soul? In Victor Hugo’s novel Les MisΓ©r...

πŸ™ Why Give Thanks When Life Is Hard? | Psalm 107 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 see that biblical gratitude is more than a feeling—it is a confession of faith rooted in God’s goodness and steadfast love. 2. πŸ“… July 1, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Biblical gratitude is not based only on good circumstances, but on the goodness of God and His steadfast love that endures forever. 3. ✝️ Psalm 107:1–22 Psalm 107 calls the redeemed to give thanks to the LORD, for He is good and His steadfast love endures forever. God delivered those who wandered hungry and thirsty, those bound in darkness, and those suffering because of sin when they cried to Him. Therefore, His people must thank Him, offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and proclaim His wondrous works with songs of joy. 4. πŸ“– Key Verse Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! (v. 1) 5. πŸ“ Reflection Have you ever thought about why you give thanks in your daily life? If not, it would be...

❤️‍πŸ”₯ God’s Steadfast Love Is Greater Than Your Drift | Psalm 106 Devotional (7-Step QT)

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7-Step QT Notes 1. πŸ™ Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where your heart has drifted and to lead you back to Him in His steadfast love. 2. πŸ“… April 30, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Spiritual compromise leads us away from God, but His steadfast love still calls us back. 3. ✝️ Psalm 106:34-48 Israel disobeyed the Lord by blending in with the surrounding nations, adopting their practices, and worshiping idols. Their sin defiled them and brought them under oppression, yet when they cried out, God remembered His covenant and showed them mercy according to His steadfast love. The psalm ends with a prayer for salvation and a call for all God’s people to praise Him forever. 4. πŸ“– Key Verse Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry. For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love (vv. 44-45). 5. πŸ“ Reflection Among Korean reality shows, there is a program in which an exper...

Psalm 85 Devotional: Trusting God’s Steadfast Love, Not Your Performance

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Show us your steadfast love πŸ’– 7-Step QT πŸ™ Quiet Time πŸ“… July 1, 2025 ✝️ Psalm 85:1-13 πŸ“– Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us your salvation (v. 7). πŸ“ God’s salvation isn’t earned—it flows from His steadfast love. Psalm 85 reminds us: salvation flows from His steadfast love, not our performance. Let go of striving. Rest in grace. When love and faithfulness meet, heaven touches earth—and that’s where we find life. 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. Invite God into this moment—not to fix everything instantly, but to remind you of His faithful love. 2. πŸ“… July 1, 2025 Today is a new chance to stop striving and start trusting in the One who saves by grace. 3. ✝️ Psalm 85:1–13 This psalm looks back at God’s past mercy and forward to His promised restoration. It’s a prayer for revival—not based on human effort, but on God’s...