{"podcast":{"title":"BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women","slug":"big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023","podcast_index_feed_id":10023,"rss_url":"https://biglifehq.com/feed/podcast/","website_url":"https://biglifehq.com/blog/","image_url":"https://biglifehq.com/wp-content/uploads/BL-Devo-V2-min.jpg","author":"Pamela Crim | Daily Devotional for Women","episode_count":100,"summary":"Daily Devotional with Pamela Crim | BIG Life Mentor","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T20:19:04.643074+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023"},"episode":{"title":"2167 The Gift Below","slug":"2167-the-gift-below","published_at":"2026-07-29T13:07:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/2167-the-gift-below","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023","url":"https://biglifehq.com/2026/07/2167-the-gift-below/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/big_life_devotional/content.blubrry.com/big_life_devotional/2167BLDevo-The_Gift_Below.mp3","summary":"Last week we talked about valleys and mountains. Valleys being those dreaded low places in life, and mountains being those beautiful highs. We all want to stay in our mountaintop experiences, but we can’t. Do you remember why? Because nothing grows on top of a mountain. If you go high enough, the view is breathtaking, but the air is too thin for anything to grow. And that’s the way we are. The highs are beautiful, but we’re not growing when we’ve reached the pinnacle. God wants His girls continually growing. Don’t you realize there is so much more potential in you? God loves you so much, He won’t allow you to remain in a place where that potential becomes stagnant. So, to the valleys we go. The valley is where everything grows. Down here, sis, in these trenches, is where you grow. God’s greatest desire isn’t simply for you to be happy or comfortable. It’s for you to know Him, trust Him, and become the fullness of who He created you to be. Can you see that? Your valley isn’t evidence that God has forsaken you—it’s often evidence that He hasn’t. He loves you entirely too much to leave you standing on that mountaintop. Where would I be if I hadn’t struggled with my health and faced death? Where would I be if I hadn’t gone through financial disaster and lost it all? Where would I be if I hadn’t been crushed on this journey to the point of wanting to quit? Where would I be if my family hadn’t endured seven years of division and separation? Would I be happier? Actually, no. Would I be further along? Absolutely not. Without those hardships, those struggles, and those deep valleys, I wouldn’t have discovered I could really trust God. I would still be so full of myself—convince…","meta_description":"Last week we talked about valleys and mountains. Valleys being those dreaded low places in life, and mountains being those beautiful highs. We all want to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1176,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/episodes/2167-the-gift-below/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/2167-the-gift-below.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}