7-Step Quiet Time Devotional

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see every person in your church community through his eyes and to remember that no one he loves is unimportant. 2. 📅 September 19, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God does not treat faithful people as “etc.” He knows them by name, values their service, and uses their faithful participation to accomplish his purposes. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 11:20-47 Abishai killed 300 men and became commander of the thirty, though he did not attain to the three. Benaiah defeated two Moabite heroes, a lion in a snowy pit, and a towering Egyptian, so David placed him over his bodyguard. The passage then names David’s other mighty men, a diverse company drawn from various tribes, regions, and peoples who stood with him and helped establish his kingdom. 4. 📖 Key Verse The mighty men were … (v. 26a). 5. 📝 Reflection In Korean, the expression “and so on” is extremely useful. When listing several things, we can mention a ...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you that you were not called to follow Jesus alone, but to serve his mission together with the people he has placed around you. 2. 📅 September 18, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God fulfills his promises not through one human hero, but through faithful people who depend on him and serve his mission together. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 11:10-19 David’s mighty men helped make him king with all Israel, fulfilling the LORD’s word. Jashobeam killed 300 men, and Eleazar stood his ground to defend a barley field as the LORD brought a great victory. Three warriors risked their lives to bring David water from Bethlehem, but he regarded it as their lifeblood and poured it out to the LORD. 4. 📖 Key Verse Now these are the chiefs of David’s mighty men, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel (v. 10). 5. 📝 Reflection I...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to reveal any pride that keeps you from listening to his Word, and ask him to help you trust that his way is always wiser than your own. 2. 📅 September 17, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: True success does not come from proving that we know best. It comes from faithfully following God’s Word and walking in his presence. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 11:1-9 All Israel gathered at Hebron and recognized David as their flesh and blood, their former military leader, and the shepherd and ruler appointed by the LORD. The elders made a covenant with him before the LORD and anointed him king, fulfilling the word through Samuel. David captured Zion from the Jebusites, made it his city, and rebuilt it. He grew greater because the LORD of hosts was with him. 4. 📖 Key Verse And David became greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him (v. 9). 5. 📝 Reflection When I first began my career, one of my greatest struggles w...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where you have been seeking guidance, security, or control apart from him. 2. 📅 September 16, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Human unfaithfulness has serious consequences, but it can never overturn God’s covenant faithfulness. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 9:35-10:14 The genealogy traces Saul’s family from Jeiel of Gibeon to Azel’s six sons. Israel fled from the Philistines, and Saul and his three sons died on Mount Gilboa. The Philistines displayed Saul’s head and armor in their temples, but the valiant men of Jabesh-gilead recovered and buried them and fasted seven days. Saul died for breaking faith with the LORD, who transferred the kingdom to David. 4. 📖 Key Verse So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. He did not seek guidance from the LORD. Therefore the LORD put him to death an...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you what responsibility he has entrusted to you in your worshiping community and to help you serve faithfully, even when no one notices. 2. 📅 September 15, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: God restores worshiping communities and entrusts each person with a role in building them up. Even when our service seems small or unnoticed, God sees and values our faithfulness. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 7:1-9:34 The genealogies record Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asher, including Joshua and Saul’s family. Though all Israel was recorded, Judah was exiled to Babylon for unfaithfulness. After the return, Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants resettled. The Levites guarded the temple, managed its treasures and supplies, prepared bread, and sang day and night. 4. 📖 Key Verse And they lodged around the house of God, for on them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it ev...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see that your painful past does not determine your future when you entrust your life to his faithful hands. 2. 📅 September 14, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Our painful past does not have to define our future. God hears those who trust him, cry out to him, and place their lives in his faithful hands. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 4–6 Among the genealogies of Judah and Simeon, Jabez prayed for God’s blessing and protection, and God granted his request. Reuben lost his birthright through sin; it passed to Joseph, while a ruler came from Judah. The eastern tribes won when they trusted God but were exiled after idolatry. Levi’s line served through priesthood, song, atonement, and cities of refuge. 4. 📖 Key Verse Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not b...

  7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to help you see how he has preserved life, fulfilled his promises, and carried his covenant faithfulness from one generation to the next. 2. 📅 September 13, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Despite human sin, judgment, and exile, God preserves life and faithfully carries forward his covenant purposes from one generation to the next. 3. ✝️ 1 Chronicles 1–3 First Chronicles 1–3 traces humanity from Adam to Abraham and Israel, while also listing Edom’s descendants and kings. Judah’s line continues through Perez, Hezron, Ram, Jesse, and David, with Bezalel included through Caleb. David’s descendants extend through Solomon and Judah’s kings to the exiled Jeconiah and Zerubbabel, showing that the covenant line endured beyond exile. 4. 📖 Key Verse Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel (1 Chronicles 1:34). 5. 📝 Reflection Have you ever heard of the number 2.1 as the replacement-level fertility...