7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what you are trusting for security and to help you build your life on His eternal kingdom rather than on temporary success. 2. 📅 July 20, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Everything in this world will eventually pass away, but God and His kingdom remain forever. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 27:26-36 Tyre’s rowers bring her into the high seas, where the east wind wrecks her. Her riches, merchandise, sailors, traders, soldiers, and crew sink together. Seafarers come ashore, cast dust on their heads, wear sackcloth, and mourn bitterly. Tyre once satisfied many peoples and enriched kings through her abundant trade, but now all who witness her ruin are appalled, and she will be no more forever. 4. 📖 Key Verse You have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever (v. 36b). 5. 📝 Reflection The Fortune Global 500 is a ranking of the world’s 500 largest companies by revenue. It has been published by Fortune...

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 reveal any pride, greed, comparison, or false security within you—and to help you trust and obey His living Word. 2. 📅 July 18, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God opposes pride and self-centered gain, and His living Word calls us to repentance, trust, and obedience. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 26:1-21 Because Tyre rejoiced over Jerusalem’s ruin and expected to profit from it, the Lord declared Himself against her. He would summon many nations and bring Nebuchadnezzar’s army to destroy, plunder, and cover the proud sea city with waters. Tyre would become a bare rock, never rebuilt, while coastlands and rulers lamented. Through her dreadful end, all would know that He is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse “I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again,” declares the Lord GOD (v. 21). 5. 📝 Reflection For those who regard the Bible merely as a historical ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust his protection, surrender your fears, and leave revenge and judgment in his righteous hands. 2. 📅 July 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Because God is our Father, we can trust his protection and leave revenge in his hands. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 25:12-17 Edom grievously sinned by taking revenge on Judah. Therefore, God will make Edom desolate from Teman to Dedan and execute his vengeance through Israel, so Edom will know his vengeance. Because the Philistines acted with malice and endless hostility to destroy Israel, God will cut off the Cherethites and the remnant of the coast. Through his wrathful judgment, they will know that he is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD (v. 14). 5. 📝 Reflection Unlike t...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you whether your words, actions, and responses to criticism honor his name and reveal his glory. 2. 📅 July 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Before pointing fingers at others, we must examine whether our own lives honor God’s name and reveal his glory. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 25:1-11 The LORD tells Ezekiel to prophesy against Ammon. Because the Ammonites rejoiced maliciously when God's sanctuary was profaned, Israel was desolated, and Judah went into exile, God will give them to the people of the East and destroy them. Moab and Seir also treated Judah as no different from other nations, so God will expose Moab's cities and judge it. Then they will know that he is the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse Then you will know that I am the LORD … Then they will know that I am the LORD (vv. 5b, 11b). 5. 📝 Reflection Recently, our church has been facing a series of difficult circumstances. Among them, what has been ...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 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. 📅 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. 📖 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. 📝 Reflection R...

7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 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. 📅 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. 📖 Key Verse Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! (118:1) 5. 📝 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-...