by Teresa Shields Parker | Dec 18, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
What do you do when you feel rejected? What do you do when people say you don’t measure up to their seemingly unmeasurable standard? Do feel everything you say or do is being rejected? Feeling rejected is a real emotional disturbance. It can make us feel like... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Dec 10, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
We’ve all met people who seem fearless. They don’t seem afraid of anything. Then there are those of us who are afraid of certain things more than others and those who are afraid of everything. God doesn’t want us to be afraid. He didn’t create us to be afraid because... by Teresa Shields Parker | Dec 2, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
When we don’t trust God to be our defender, protector, provider, healer and comforter. This is when we feel like we are all alone and have to attack every problem by ourselves, but we can’t figure out how. That’s where the disciples were when they couldn’t heal a... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
If pride is not dealt with, it will introduce into our lives, a bolder and more arrogant emotion called pretension. It’s what pride becomes when we start believing we are invincible and don’t need God. Pretension is when an inflated sense of self-importance takes over... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Nov 9, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
Being prideful is not just an attitude. It’s also an emotion God hates. It’s the emotion that He wants us to ditch, and He tells us exactly how to do that in His Word. Pride is the foundational emotion on which all other emotions, which lead to sin, are built. Pride... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Nov 2, 2022 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers
Many of us don’t know what to do with our emotions so we just try to ignore them. My cure for not feeling my emotions was to overeat foods made with sugar flour. I didn’t want to feel my emotions. I was running from my emotions because I was sure I would be crazy if I...