{"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":"2204 Work In Progress","slug":"2204-work-in-progress","published_at":"2026-09-21T13:16:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/2204-work-in-progress","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023","url":"https://biglifehq.com/2026/09/2204-work-in-progress/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/big_life_devotional/content.blubrry.com/big_life_devotional/2204BLDevo-Work_In_Progress.mp3","summary":"The book of Philippians is a letter written by Paul to the Church in Philippi. And there’s a few important things to know about that – this church was the very first church in Europe. It was started by Paul about 20 years after Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected. The church all started when Paul was traveling through the city of Phiippi and came across some women praying on a riverbank. They were praying to God, but didn’t know about Jesus. Then Paul tells this group of women about Jesus and one woman named Lydia listened. The Lord opened her heart and she accepted everything Paul was saying about Jesus. She and her household were baptized, and they became the beginning of the first church in Europe. The other key player in the start of this church was a prison guard in Philippi. This prison guard encounter Paul in one way – when Paul was thrown into prison. Why was Paul in prison? Because he cam across a girl who had a spirit enabling her to tell the future. She was enslaved by her owners making them money by telling the future. Paul commanded the demon to flee from her, and with that she was no longer able to be a fortune teller. The people who had been making money off her were so enraged now that there hopes of wealth were shattered and had Paul thrown into prison there. AND THAT’S HOW PAUL MEETS THE PRISON GUARD who would be a key player in the first church in Phiippi. While in prison Paul and his buddy Silas were singing praises to God at midnight and suddenly there was a massive earthquake and the prison was shaken. The doors flew open and the chains of every prisoner just fell off! When the jailer found all the prisoners had escaped, he grabs his sword and decides to kill himself. But that’s when Paul stops him, tell…","meta_description":"The book of Philippians is a letter written by Paul to the Church in Philippi. And there’s a few important things to know about that – this ch…","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/2204-work-in-progress/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-10023/2204-work-in-progress.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}