7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust that He sees your faithful work, even when others do not recognize it. 2. 📅 July 24, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God rules over history, sees every act of obedience, and never forgets the faithful work of His people. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 29:17-30:9 The LORD gives Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar as wages for his army’s labor against Tyre. On that day, God will raise a horn for Israel and open Ezekiel’s mouth, so they will know that he is the LORD. The near day of the LORD brings the sword upon Egypt and its allies, destroying their proud power, wealth, foundations, and helpers. Cush will tremble as God’s certain judgment comes. 4. 📖 Key Verse I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD (v. 20). 5. 📝 Reflection When I worked for a large corporation, I had opportunities to serve in several departments. Most of those...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where you may be trusting in your own strength, achievements, resources, or relationships more than you trust in Him. 2. 📅 July 23, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: No human power lasts forever, but God remains sovereign over every family, workplace, and nation. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 29:1-16 The LORD opposes Pharaoh, who proudly claims the Nile as his creation. God will make Egypt desolate for forty years and scatter its people because Egypt proved a broken reed to Israel. Afterward, God will gather the Egyptians and return them to Pathros, but they will remain a lowly kingdom and never rule other nations. Israel will no longer rely on Egypt, and all will know that he is the Lord GOD. 4. 📖 Key Verse And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD (v. 16). 5. 📝 Reflection Ancien...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to give you the courage, humility, and love to make the name of Jesus known—even among those who may reject or oppose your faith. 2. 📅 July 22, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God reveals his glory and holiness so that people everywhere may know that he is the LORD. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 28:20-26 God will judge Sidon with pestilence and the sword, revealing his glory and holiness so that all will know he is the LORD. Israel’s contemptuous neighbors will no longer wound them like briers and thorns. God will gather his scattered people to the land given to Jacob, where they will build houses, plant vineyards, dwell securely, and know that the LORD is their God. 4. 📖 Key Verse They will know that I am the LORD (vv. 22, 23, 24, 26). 5. 📝 Reflection A long time ago, I asked a street evangelist a question. People did not want to hear the gospel. Some even confronted him, complaining that he was too loud, spat ...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal whether you are using his gifts for his glory or allowing them to become sources of pride. 2. 📅 July 21, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God’s good gifts are corrupted when pride rules our hearts, but his grace restores us to use them for his glory. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 28:1-19 The ruler of Tyre grew wealthy through wisdom and trade, but his riches made him proud, and he claimed to be a god. The Lord would bring ruthless foreigners to expose him as a mere man and destroy his splendor. Though the king had been created with wisdom, beauty, and privilege, violence and dishonest trade corrupted him. God cast him down, consumed him by fire, and brought him to a dreadful end. 4. 📖 Key Verse Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you (v. 17). 5. 📝 Reflecti...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you recognize that his presence is more precious than success, wealth, comfort, or recognition. 2. 📅 July 19, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: A truly blessed life is not defined by how much we possess, but by whether our lives reveal God’s glory and remain close to him. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 27:1-25 The LORD told Ezekiel to lament over Tyre. At the gateway to the sea, Tyre traded with many coastlands and boasted of perfect beauty. Like a splendid ship, it was built of the finest materials and served by skilled foreigners. Nations exchanged metals, horses, ivory, fabrics, food, spices, jewels, and gold for its wares. Tyre became rich, filled, and heavily laden in the heart of the seas. 4. 📖 Key Verse So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas (v. 25b). 5. 📝 Reflection Some time ago, I came across a deeply moving scene in a YouTube video reviewing a television drama. A daughter had alw...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you hear His voice, trust His gracious presence, and find rest in Him. 2. 📅 July 13, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True rest comes from knowing that God hears our cries and faithfully cares for us. 3. ✝️ Psalm 116:1-19 Caught in death’s snares and Sheol’s anguish, the psalmist calls on the LORD for deliverance. The gracious, righteous, and merciful God hears him, saves him from death, tears, and stumbling, and restores him to rest. In response to the LORD’s benefits, he lifts the cup of salvation, calls on God’s name, fulfills his vows before the people, offers thanksgiving, and praises the LORD in Jerusalem. 4. 📖 Key Verse Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live (v. 2). 5. 📝 Reflection This happened not long after my wife and I had our first child. At the time, my workplace was quite far from our hometown. Therefore, after giving birth,...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust him as your unfailing help and shield, especially when people disappoint, misunderstand, or betray you. 2. 📅 July 12, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: People may disappoint us, but God remembers us and remains our faithful help and shield. 3. ✝️ Psalm 115:9-18 The psalmist calls Israel, Aaron’s house, and all who fear the LORD to trust him, for he is their help and shield. The LORD remembers his people and blesses both small and great, increasing them and their children. The Maker of heaven and earth owns the heavens and has given the earth to humanity. The dead cannot praise him, but the living will bless the LORD now and forever. 4. 📖 Key Verse The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us (v. 12a). 5. 📝 Reflection I, too, have been betrayed several times by people whom I trusted and relied upon. Many of those experiences occurred during my years in the workplace. Yet even after followi...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust his steadfast love and faithfulness, even when you cannot see what he is doing. 2. 📅 July 11, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True faith rests not on what we can see or control, but on the steadfast love and faithfulness of the living God. 3. ✝️ Psalm 115:1-8 The psalmist asks that glory be given not to God’s people but to the LORD’s name because of his steadfast love and faithfulness. Though the nations question where their God is, he reigns in heaven and does whatever he pleases. Their handmade idols cannot speak, see, hear, smell, feel, or walk. Those who make and trust in them become like them. 4. 📖 Key Verse Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” (v. 2) 5. 📝 Reflection While evangelizing, I once met a man who said to me, “If you show me God, I will believe.” Then, as though he deeply pitied me for believing in a God I could not see, he took from his inner pocket an im...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that there is no one like Him—the God who is high above all things, yet comes near to see, care for, and lift up His people. 2. 📅 July 9, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The LORD is greater than all, yet He humbles Himself to care for the lowly; therefore, our lives should be filled with praise and trust. 3. ✝️ Psalm 113:1-9 The psalmist calls the servants of the LORD to praise His name now and forever, from sunrise to sunset. The LORD is exalted above all nations and His glory above the heavens, yet He stoops to behold heaven and earth. He raises the poor and needy to places of honor and gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse Who is like the LORD our God (v. 5a) 5. 📝 Reflection Recently, I watched a drama that realistically portrayed the joys and sorrows of office workers. As I watched the episodes of two main ch...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that true wisdom begins not with self-centered success, but with the fear of the LORD and obedience to His Word. 2. 📅 July 7, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True wisdom begins with fearing the LORD, and a wise life is lived in obedience and praise to God. 3. ✝️ Psalm 111:1-10 The psalmist praises the LORD with his whole heart. God’s works are great, glorious, righteous, and remembered because He is gracious and merciful. He provides for those who fear Him, keeps His covenant forever, and redeems His people. His works and precepts are faithful and just. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and His praise endures forever. 4. 📖 Key Verse The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! (v. 10) 5. 📝 Reflection What benefit does wisdom bring to our lives? If we are wise, will we live longer? Will we...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see Jesus as the risen King, the eternal Priest, and the Lord who reigns over every part of your life. 2. 📅 July 6, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Jesus is the risen Son of David, seated at God’s right hand, reigning as King and interceding as our eternal Priest. 3. ✝️ Psalm 110:1-7 The LORD enthrones David’s Lord at His right hand until all enemies are subdued. From Zion, He rules with power, and His people freely offer themselves in holiness. The LORD swears that He is a priest forever after Melchizedek’s order. He will judge the nations, defeat kings, and lift up His head in victory. 4. 📖 Key Verse The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool” (v. 1). 5. 📝 Reflection Before meditating on Psalm 110 today, we need to receive by faith two important biblical truths. First, because Jesus came to this earth as a human being, He is clearly a...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you bring your anger, pain, and desire for justice before Him instead of taking revenge into your own hands. 2. 📅 July 4, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: When we are attacked by lies and hatred, God calls us to entrust justice to Him and give ourselves to prayer. 3. ✝️ Psalm 109:1-16 The psalmist cries to God not to be silent as deceitful enemies attack him with lies and hatred, repaying his love with accusation. He prays that the wicked accuser be judged, lose his place, possessions, and legacy, because he showed no kindness but persecuted the poor, needy, and brokenhearted. 4. 📖 Key Verse Be not silent, O God of my praise! … but I give myself to prayer. (v. 1, 4b) 5. 📝 Reflection This is a somewhat embarrassing confession. The only time I remember ever getting into a fistfight was in middle school, when I fought with a classmate. It was not merely a verbal argument, but an actual one-on-one f...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see His steadfast love clearly today. 2. 📅 July 2, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True thanksgiving is not a religious habit, but a heartfelt response to the LORD who hears, delivers, restores, humbles, and leads His people home. 3. ✝️ Psalm 107:23-43 Those who went down to the sea saw the LORD’s wondrous works. When he raised the storm, their courage melted, but when they cried to him, he stilled the waves and brought them to a safe haven. The LORD turns fruitful lands into waste and deserts into waters. He humbles the proud, lifts the needy, and calls the wise to consider his steadfast love. 4. 📖 Key Verse Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! (v. 31) 5. 📝 Reflection As web-based email services became widespread, the company I worked for also decided to use email as a regular means of communication. A new policy was established: bo...