Sweet Grace For Your Journey Teresa Shields Parker | Christian Weight Loss Coach, Author and Speaker

Episode 233-Forgiven
I sat on the back deck of the lodge at the north rim of the Grand Canyon while my family was hiking. I just wanted to sit there forever and take in the glory and the splendor of God’s majestic, vast creation.
The canyon is miles across. It looked huge. I thought of the song, “There is a cross to bridge the great divide.” The width of the chasm visibly reinforced the fact there is a wide gulf between me and God. There is no earthly way I can jump to the other side of the Grand Canyon. 
As a human many things look impossible, but with God everything is possible, especially forgiveness.

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Episode 232-Am I Greedy?
I never really thought of myself as greedy, but my journey has really been one of greed. What is greed?
The definition of greed is “an intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.” Did you get that? It’s not just an intense desire for money or position. It’s also a selfish desire for food! 
Are you greedy? Listen to this episode to find out if you are and what to do about it.
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Episode 231-Deception
A person who deceives is one who misleads by a false appearance or statement. Isn’t it interesting Satan can appear as an angel of light. 
One big deception the enemy threw to me was that I needed food to eat so I could eat all I wanted to. The devil is a deceiver who turns something, which looks good, into something which leads to death, even though it may be a while coming.
So what can we do when we have bought into a lie that has become such a habit we think we can never get free? That’s what this episode is all about.
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Episode 230-Prayer Answers
For many years I was frustrated because I would pray and it felt like God wasn’t answering my prayers. I knew the Bible said He would, but I didn’t believe it because I wasn’t experiencing the answers I wanted, which was to have my mother healed of her bipolar disorder. They weren’t selfish prayers so why wasn’t He answering?
This episode examines two huge instances of how God answered prayer but it wasn’t because of me. It was because it was because it was in God’s will and His time.
If you have unanswered prayers, this is the episode to listen to.
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Episode 229-This is My Surrender
The other day I was listening to a church service and they were singing, “I will Make Room”. As I sang along with them the words arrested me. “Here is where I lay it down. Every burden and every crown. This is my surrender. This is my surrender.” God stopped me and asked, “How are  burdens and crowns alike so that when we lay them down they define surrender?”
Burdens are negative. Crowns are positive. We want to get rid of burdens. Crowns are what God gives us in return for the good we’ve done here on earth. How are both of these related to surrender? 
We explore that in this episode.
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Episode 228-Backdoor Grace
"Crisco, Crisco fat in the can" churned around and around in my head for decades after a three-year-old said that to me when I was 11. He said it so he could distract me. 
Thoughts of I am fat went through my conscious mind and were archived in my subconscious right then. Our childhood emotions can lie dormant for years ready and waiting to be retrieved and then expressed in our actions. 
Through the years I did gain weight. God told me what to do, but I didn’t listen to His straight-forward approach. He had to come in through the backdoor. You’ll want to listen to this episode. It’s one of my favorites.
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