7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you live in His truth and reflect His love today. 2. 📅 January 11, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True joy comes when those we love walk in God’s truth. 3. ✝️ 3 John 1:1-15 John writes to his beloved friend Gaius, praying for his health and rejoicing that he walks in the truth. John commends Gaius for showing hospitality to traveling missionaries and urges continued support for such workers, making them partners in the truth. He contrasts Gaius’s faithfulness with Diotrephes, who rejects authority and refuses to welcome the brothers, even expelling those who do. John encourages imitating good, not evil, and affirms Demetrius’s good testimony. He hopes for a face-to-face visit soon and closes with greetings of peace. 4. 📖 Key Verse I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth (v. 4). 5. 📝 Reflection Parents always worry about their children. When it rain...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you discern truth and stay rooted in His Word. 2. 📅 January 10, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Truth matters—love others without compromising the gospel. 3. ✝️ 2 John 1:1-13 John writes to a faithful believer and her children, celebrating their walk in truth and urging them to love one another by obeying God’s commands. He warns against false teachers who deny Jesus and instructs believers not to support them. John longs for face-to-face fellowship to complete their joy. 4. 📖 Key Verse If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works (v. 10-11). 5. 📝 Reflection It’s easy to take a Bible verse out of context and make it say what we want. For example, Job 8:7—“Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be”—is often quoted as a promise, but it was ...