by Teresa Shields Parker | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
Many times, when God wants to tell us something, we are afraid of what He will say. I was listening to a training session where a coach was telling her client to ask God what felt to me like a scary question. The minute I heard the question, I felt like someone hit me... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
Hey Beautiful. Yes, I am talking to you. You don’t have to be everything to everybody. You only have to be who God wants you to be. I learned this the hard way. For so many years I felt I had to do everything for everyone. They didn’t even have to ask, I would just... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
I woke up at 2:15 a.m. with God saying to me. “I loved you into existence.” My first thought was of course You did. You created me. Without Your desire for me to exist, I wouldn’t exist, I wouldn’t have life. God literally loved me into existence. He saw me before I... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Feb 2, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
Have you ever been stuck? When I weighed 430 pounds being stuck was a fear I had. I didn’t sit in booths because I was afraid I would get stuck there. I didn’t go in caves because what if I got into the depths of it and I couldn’t fit through an opening? Then I’d have...
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 21, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
This is my story. It’s not pretty. It’s not a nice, neat story. It’s a real-life story about my journey. Losing 250 pounds took me a long time and I learned a lot along the way. I learned what not to do. I learned what is necessary to do in... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
One of our Overcomers Academy members, Jay Lee, a former foreign missionary for 47 years in a closed country, has lost 80 pounds in Overcomers Academy. She calls herself the grandma of the group and loves to share her story. “I’m 75 and I have been overweight or obese... 
