by Teresa Shields Parker | May 18, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Sweet Surrender
I grew up in a very missions-minded church. With this emphasis on missions and my desire to do something special in God’s Kingdom, it wasn’t unusual I went forward in several services over the years to volunteer to be a foreign missionary. I had my heart set on... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | May 11, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, Purpose, Sweet Surrender
It didn’t start out that way. I loved to honor Grandma by reciting poems for her church’s Christmas program. It made me happy to speak because it made her happy. Then came the year I was 12. Grandma decided since I did such a good job learning one poem a year, she... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | May 4, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
I was doing well on my weight loss journey until I saw the scales show that I weighed 199 pounds. I didn’t know why but my body did not want to go below 200 pounds. It wasn’t that I was eating anything wrong and I was still exercising. It just felt very much like a... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
Growing up, I had one primary prayer request: My mother’s healing from her emotional illness. As early as I can remember this request topped every prayer list I ever made, the subject of every spoken and unspoken prayer request in church and Sunday School, the thing... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 20, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
One of the first concepts I learned when I started my lifestyle change journey was that instead of going on another diet to lose weight, I needed to learn how to change my habits. I needed to choose one bad habit to stop and one good habit to start. It was when I... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 13, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, overcomers, Purpose
For most of my life, I have struggled with identifying my purpose in God’s Kingdom. As such I have been a doer and achiever always trying to get things done for God because I wanted Him to value me. This is the same issue that Martha had with Mary. If you remember the...
