7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to give you discernment, endurance, and hope as you listen to His Word today. 2. 📅 March 18, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The pain of this world is real, but it is not the end—God calls us to endure with hope and keep living for the gospel. 3. ✝️ Matthew 24:1-14 Jesus foretells the destruction of the temple and teaches that false christs, wars, famines, and earthquakes will come before the end, but these are only the beginning of the birth pains. He warns that His disciples will face tribulation, hatred, deception, and growing lawlessness, yet the one who endures to the end will be saved. Before the end comes, the gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations. 4. 📖 Key Verse “All these are but the beginning of the birth pains” (v. 8). 5. 📝 Reflection This happened when our first child was born. My wife suffered through long hours of labor, an...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you the true condition of your heart and to make you clean from the inside out. 2. 📅 March 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God cares not only about how we look on the outside, but about who we truly are on the inside. 3. ✝️ Matthew 23:25-39 Jesus rebukes the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy, saying that though they appear righteous outwardly, inwardly they are full of greed and lawlessness and cannot escape judgment. He warns that they will reject and persecute God’s messengers like their ancestors, and that this generation will face judgment. Yet Jesus still expresses His compassionate desire to gather Jerusalem to Himself. 4. 📖 Key Verse “how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?” (v. 33b) 5. 📝 Reflection Although we do not hear much of it these days, until a few years ago it was still common to see evangelists near major subway stations in downtown Seoul holding si...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you whether your faith is shaped more by outward activity or true obedience. 2. 📅 March 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True spiritual leadership is faithful obedience, not outward religious performance. 3. ✝️ Matthew 23:13-24 Jesus rebukes the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy, saying that they neither enter the kingdom of heaven themselves nor allow others to enter. Though they zealously make converts, they lead them into greater condemnation, and by valuing the gold and the gift above the temple and the altar, they reveal themselves to be spiritually blind guides. They are meticulous about tithing minor things, yet neglect the weightier matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness—thus straining out a gnat while swallowing a camel. 4. 📖 Key Verse “You blind fools!” (v. 17a) 5. 📝 Reflection There is a well-known saying among office workers: “There is no boss more ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where your faith needs to become more honest, humble, and real. 2. 📅 March 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True discipleship is not about image, titles, or recognition, but about humility and a life that practices what it believes. 3. ✝️ Matthew 23:1-12 Jesus warned the crowds and His disciples about the scribes and Pharisees, who taught God’s law but did not live it out. They placed heavy burdens on others, loved public honor, and wanted to be seen as important. Jesus taught that His followers must not chase status or titles, because God alone is our Father and Christ alone is our Teacher and Leader. In His kingdom, the greatest person is the one who humbly serves, and whoever exalts himself will be humbled, while whoever humbles himself will be exalted. 4. 📖 Key Verse “so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.” (v. ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you who Jesus truly is and to teach you how to love Him and others more deeply today. 2. 📅 March 14, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Faith is not just knowing about God—it is loving Him fully and recognizing Jesus as Lord. 3. ✝️ Matthew 22:34–46 Jesus declares that the greatest commandments are to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself, for all the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. He then asks the Pharisees about the Christ, showing that the Messiah is not merely David’s son but also David’s Lord. Unable to answer him, no one dared to question Jesus any further. 4. 📖 Key Verse “What do you think about the Christ?” (v. 42b) 5. 📝 Reflection What do you think Christianity is? How would you define it? Is it merely one of the world’s three major religions? Is it a cruel religion that launched the Crusades and killed...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you know not only His Word, but also His power. 2. 📅 March 13, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Real faith is not just knowing about God—it is trusting the living God. 3. ✝️ Matthew 22:23-33 The Sadducees, who denied the resurrection, asked Jesus whose wife a woman married to seven brothers would be in the resurrection. Jesus replied that they did not know the Scriptures or the power of God and taught that God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, affirming the resurrection. 4. 📖 Key Verse “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.” (v. 29b) 5. 📝 Reflection Many believers who have attended church since childhood or for a long time tend to think that they know the Bible and God’s power well. Certainly, it is true that they may have accumulated much biblical knowledge through years of Bible study and sermons. However, when great suffering or hard...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you respond with wisdom when you feel pressured, tested, or misunderstood—and to remind you who you belong to. 2. 📅 March 12, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: You can live responsibly in the world without being owned by the world—because you belong to God. 3. ✝️ Matthew 22:15–22 The Pharisees and the Herodians try to trap Jesus with a loaded political question: “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” Jesus sees through their malice, asks for a denarius, and points out Caesar’s image on the coin. Then He gives a clear, wise answer: “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Amazed, they leave Him and walk away. 4. 📖 Key Verse When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away. (v. 22) 5. 📝 Reflection Among my coworkers, there was someone who openly despised Christians, calling them “Jesus freaks.” He...