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About Daily Devotions for Busy Lives
You meant to spend time with God this morning. Then the day started without you. This daily devotional podcast gets you back to Him in 7 to 9 minutes. Each weekday, pastor and author Dr. Bart Leger opens Scripture with a true story from everyday life and one practical way to apply God's truth. Listeners call it quick and to the point, a bit of calm at the start of the day. Press play and start your day anchored in God's Word.
- Publisher
- Bart Leger
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Jun 2025
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
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6 Oct 2026
When Your First Thought in the Morning Is Dread
Within ninety seconds of opening your eyes, your phone has told you what to be afraid of. Learn what David asked God for each morning, and why strength for one hour is the right request. Some people wake up with a knot in the stomach before their feet hit the floor. Something you were worried about last night is right there waiting on you. Something you have to do today feels too big to start. The list begins running before you're all the way awake. And the first thing most of us do is reach for the phone. So within about ninety seconds of opening your eyes, the day has already told you what to be afraid of. This episode opens with Jennie Allen, who looked successful from the outside. She was a Bible teacher who spoke to thousands of people about faith, and on the inside her own mind was a crowded, anxious place full of what-ifs she couldn't shut off. She started paying attention to how the spiral worked, and it almost always began the same way, with a single thought. One worry would show up, and if she let it run, it pulled in another and another until her whole mind was underwater. Psalm 143:8 says, "Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you." Look at what David asks for and when he asks for it. Each morning. He wants a first thing. Of all the voices that could get to him first, he wants it to be God telling him about unfailing love. Then look at the second half. Show me where to walk. That's a request for the next few steps, which is about as far ahead as any of us can see anyway. Notice what David never claims. He doesn't say the dread was gone. He wrote this while men were hunting him, and a few verses earlier he says his spirit is crushed and his heart is numb with fear. So the man asking to hear about unfailing love in the morning is a man who woke up afraid. Which means part of this is a sequencing problem. The feeling shows up whether you approve of it or not. What you get to decide is what gets the first ten minutes. So tell God the truth about what you're afraid of today, then ask Him for strength for one hour and only one hour. Most of what you're dreading at six in the morning is about four o'clock this afternoon, and God gives that grace when four o'clock gets here. Bart shares his own version of this, the mornings the week is already on him before his feet hit the floor. Jennie found her leverage at the top of the spiral, where only one thought has shown up so far. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER: What David asked God for before anything else each morning Why the dread is a sequencing problem as much as a feeling A one-week experiment for the first ten minutes after you wake For a lot of people, the morning is the top of the spiral. That knot you wake up with is thought number one. A note on today's topic. If dread in the mornings has become the usual thing for you, please talk to your doctor or a licensed counselor. Asking for help is a step of wisdom. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which is available around the clock in the United States. Share This Episode: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/341 (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/341) Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail) Want to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast. https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/ (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/) Rate and Review https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/ (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/) Connect with Bart Facebook Page: (https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives)https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives (https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives) Website: (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/)https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com) Feeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus (https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1)here: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe).
5 Oct 2026
When You're Waiting for an Apology That Isn't Coming
You're waiting for the conversation where they finally admit what they did, and it isn't happening. Learn where Jesus placed the command to forgive in Mark 11:25, and why that makes it available to you tonight. You know exactly what you're waiting for. The email. The sit-down conversation where they finally say the words and admit what they did. And it isn't happening. Days turn into weeks, and then the months go by. You check to see whether they've reached out. They haven't, and you tell yourself you've stopped expecting it while you keep checking. Meanwhile the resentment grows, and here's the part that gets overlooked. You're the one paying for it. They are going about their week. This episode opens with Leslie Fields, who spent most of her life waiting for her father to say he was sorry. He had left the family when she was young and dropped them into years of hardship, and he had never once admitted the damage he did. When she finally reconnected with him as a grown woman, she got her answer. He was still cold and distant, with no remorse in him and no sign that he even thought he had done anything wrong. Mark 11:25 says, "But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too." Look at where Jesus puts this. When you are praying. He had just finished telling the disciples about moving mountains and praying in faith, and then He adds this. You're standing there praying with something in your hands against somebody, and He says deal with that first. He attaches forgiveness to the moment you stand up to pray. Whatever the other person is doing that day has no part in the instruction. And notice what He leaves out. There's no condition attached to it, and no clause about them apologizing first. That tells you something about what this is. It's a transaction between you and God about a person, and the person doesn't have to be in the room or know anything about it. Which is also why it's available to you tonight. You have been waiting on a meeting that requires two people to show up, and this one requires one. So bring the whole thing to God and let Him do the accounting. He has the full record, including the parts you were never told about. Bart shares his own version of this, what he has watched the waiting cost people across fifteen years of pastoring them, and the funerals he has stood at for people who were still waiting when they died. Leslie stopped waiting for her father to change and let God change her instead. He never did apologize, and she walked away free anyway. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER: Where Jesus placed the command to forgive, and why the location matters What Mark 11:25 leaves out of the instruction entirely What forgiving someone does not require you to do Forgiving a person does not mean restoring the relationship or giving them access to you. You can forgive a man and keep a locked door between the two of you at the same time. If what was done to you involved abuse, get yourself safe and get help from people trained for it. Forgiveness is no substitute for either one. Share This Episode: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/340 (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/340) Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail) Want to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast. https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/ (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/) Rate and Review https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/ (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/) Connect with Bart Facebook Page: (https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives)https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives (https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives) Website: (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/)https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com) Feeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus (https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1)here: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe).
2 Oct 2026
When You Keep Starting Things and Not Finishing Them
You begin with excitement, and by week six the momentum runs out. Learn what Solomon puts beside starting in Ecclesiastes 7:8, and the second prayer most of us never think to pray. Some Christians have noticed a pattern in themselves. You start with excitement. A new project, or a new commitment at church. For a few weeks it's the best thing going. Then somewhere around week six, the momentum runs out. It stops being fun, and the thing stays half-done while you're already getting interested in something else. What wears on you is the accumulation. One unfinished thing is nothing. Eleven of them start to feel like a verdict on your character. This episode opens at West Point, where thousands of new cadets arrive every summer for a training so brutal they simply call it Beast Barracks. Some of the most talented young people in the country walk in, and a lot of them do not make it to the end. Psychologist Angela Duckworth wanted to know why. She had the cadets' test scores and fitness numbers in front of her, and she figured the strongest and smartest would be the ones still standing when it was over. Ecclesiastes 7:8 says, "Finishing is better than starting. Patience is better than pride." Look at what Solomon puts side by side. Finishing goes with patience, and starting goes with pride. That second line stings a little, and there's something to it. The start is where you get to picture yourself finished. You see the completed thing in your head and get a little of the feeling of having done it before you've done any of it. Starts are cheap. A start costs you an afternoon and a trip to the store. A finish costs you the ninety days in the middle when nobody is watching. So ask God for two things, and understand that they're two different requests. The first is the grace to finish what you start. That's endurance, the willingness to keep going after the feeling that got you started is long gone. The second request gets less attention, and it may be the one you need more. Ask for the wisdom to know what is important enough to start in the first place. Some of your unfinished things were never yours to begin. A man who starts six things and finishes one has a discernment problem as much as an endurance problem. Bart shares his own version of this, the college year he walked away from and the second attempt a few years later that ran all the way through grad school to a PhD. Duckworth found something similar at West Point. The scores and fitness numbers told her what a cadet was able to do, and nothing about who would still be standing on day thirty-nine. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER: What Solomon sets beside starting, and why it stings The second prayer to pray about your unfinished list One thing to finish today and one thing to quit on purpose Grit gets built the same way every time, by finishing something small and then finishing the next thing after it. Finish one small thing today, and quit one on purpose. Share This Episode: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/339 (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/339) Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail) Want to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast. https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/ (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/) Rate and Review https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/ (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/) Connect with Bart Facebook Page: (https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives)https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives (https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives) Website: (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/)https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com) Feeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus (https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1)here: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe (https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe).
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