7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you understand that you do not have to earn his acceptance. Thank him for providing forgiveness and welcoming you through Jesus Christ. 2. 📅 August 20, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: We are not accepted by God because we have made ourselves worthy. We are accepted because God has provided atonement for us, ultimately fulfilled through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 43:13-27 The LORD gives Ezekiel the altar’s measurements and ordinances. When it is erected, the Zadokite priests are to purify and make atonement for it with blood and unblemished offerings. For seven days they consecrate the altar with sin offerings, a bull, and a ram. From the eighth day onward, they may present burnt and peace offerings, and the LORD promises to accept his people. 4. 📖 Key Verse ”And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that his love and justice are not opposed to each other, but reveal his unchanging holiness and faithfulness. 2. 📅 August 19, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: The God who judges sin is the same God who restores his people. His love and justice reveal his unchanging desire to dwell with us and make us holy. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 43:1-12 The glory of the God of Israel returns through the east gate and fills the temple. God declares it his throne, where he will dwell among Israel forever. Because the people and their kings defiled his holy name through idolatry and abominations, they suffered his judgment. They must now repent. Ezekiel is to reveal the temple’s design and laws so that they may be ashamed and faithfully obey them. 4. 📖 Key Verse And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar can...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see what it means to belong to him and to live as his holy child wherever you are. 2. 📅 August 18, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Holiness is not limited to a church building. Because we belong to God, every part of our lives should reflect his holy character. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 42:1-20 Ezekiel sees three-story chambers north and south of the temple. There priests who approach the LORD store and eat the most holy offerings and leave their sacred garments before entering the people’s court. After measuring the interior, the guide measures each side of the temple area at 500 cubits. Its surrounding wall separates the holy from the common. 4. 📖 Key Verse He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common (v. 20). 5. 📝 Reflection The temple is a holy place. Every Christian would agree with this ...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see both his perfect holiness and the amazing grace that allows you to approach him through Jesus Christ. 2. 📅 August 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God is perfectly holy, yet through the blood of Jesus Christ, he welcomes us into his presence as his beloved children. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 41:1-26 Ezekiel follows the guide as he measures the nave, the Most Holy Place, the temple walls, three-story side chambers, courts, and the western building. Wood paneling, cherubim, and palm trees adorn the temple inside and out. Before the Holy Place stands a wooden altar, called “the table that is before the LORD.” Double doors and narrow windows complete the ordered sanctuary. 4. 📖 Key Verse And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place” (v. 4). 5. 📝 Reflection Contrary to the general impression people...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you release your need to understand and control every detail, and to trust his wisdom, presence, and faithful promises. 2. 📅 August 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: We do not need to understand every detail of God’s plan. We need to trust the God who faithfully restores his people and dwells among them. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 40:17-49 Ezekiel sees the outer and inner courts measured with matching gates, chambers, windows, palm decorations, and steps, revealing an ordered design. Rooms, tables, hooks, and tools are provided for preparing offerings. Priests oversee the temple and altar, while Zadok’s sons draw near to minister to the LORD. The square court holds the altar before the temple, whose vestibule is then measured. 4. 📖 Key Verse Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate. It was of the same size as the others (v. 28). 5. 📝 Reflection The...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see beyond the brokenness in front of you and trust that he is carefully working out his holy and restoring purposes. 2. 📅 August 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: We may not understand the full blueprint of our lives, but we can trust God, who sees every detail and faithfully restores what has been broken. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 40:1-16 In the twenty-fifth year of exile, God brought Ezekiel in a vision to a high mountain in Israel, where he saw a temple-like city. A bronze-like man with measuring tools commanded him to observe, listen, take everything to heart, and declare it to Israel. The man measured the temple’s outer wall and east gate, including its thresholds, guardrooms, vestibule, windows, and palm-decorated jambs. 4. 📖 Key Verse And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought her...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you trust his presence, receive his correction, and depend on the Holy Spirit for inward renewal. 2. 📅 August 14, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God does not abandon his people. He restores them by grace, gives them his Spirit, and renews them from within. 3. ✝️ Ezekiel 39:21-29 God sent Israel into exile and hid his face because of their sin and treachery. Yet, for his holy name, he will show mercy, restore Jacob, and gather his people from the nations. They will live securely in their land, and through them God will display his holiness before the nations. Israel will know that he is the LORD their God. He will pour out his Spirit on them and never again hide his face. 4. 📖 Key Verse And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD (v. 29). 5. 📝 Reflection The expression that God hides his face raises many question...