How To Overcome Depression As A Christian | Erica Wiggenhorn Interview

How to overcome depression and anxiety as a Christian?
In this interview with best-selling author and speaker Erica Wiggenshorn, she shares tips on how Christians can overcome depression and anxiety.

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How To Overcome Depression And Anxiety As Christians

Chrisitanity and mental health is our topic today. And we are very grateful to have Erica Wiggenhorn with us today to share how Christians can overcome depression and anxiety.

When we think about depression, and we think about anxiety, those two things are really rooted in fear, the anxiety is the fear of the future, the fear of the outcome, the fear of not being able to secure the outcome that I want, or that I think is the best.

Depression is just that resigned feeling of I can't change the outcome, I can't control the outcome. This is not the outcome I wanted, this was not the way I wanted things to be. So those are emotions that become exhibited due to fear. And so the first thing that I think everybody needs to hear, and we all just need to take a collective sigh of relief is that this is not a struggle that is only yours alone. This is a common struggle. This is the plight of humanity. And that's why God addresses it so many times in his Bible saying, you know, do not fear Do not be afraid, because he knew that when we're afraid we're going to feel anxious, or we're going to feel depressed. So you're not alone. This is something that the enemy has used as a tactic against us as humans for millennia.

So what do we do? What do we do if we're feeling anxious or feeling depressed? How do we combat that? And while I would love to say, Well, you do step one, two, and three, and bam, you're never going to feel afraid, again. Obviously, it's not that simple. But the antidote to that fear of inadequacy, which results in that anxiety and depression is really intimacy. That's the antidote to the enhanced adequacy is intimacy.

And it's that whole idea of realizing that God, and this is what super blows my mind about God. And that is when we look in Scripture, God actually puts his people in situations on purpose, where they are entirely inadequate. He does it on purpose. Why does God do that? Why would God do that? It seems so counterintuitive, it seems like God would want to put us in situations where we have all the answers, and we're gonna thrive and we're gonna be able to secure all the outcomes and check all the boxes, right?

We want to have a Christian formula, right? Like, if I do all these things, my kids are going to turn out right. And if I do all these things, I'm going to have a great marriage. And if I do all these things, you know, I'm going to have the health diagnosis that I so desperately want. Why does God put us in situations where there either is no formula, or the formula didn't work? It seems almost unfair in a lot of ways, right? Why does God do that?

He does it because he wants to build our trust in Him. He wants us to realize that he is the God who makes away when there is no way he is the God who parts sees. He is the God who moves mountains. He is the God who does things so entirely beyond what we could ever ask.

Ask think or imagine, right? He's trying to open our eyes to the greatness of his capabilities, yes. But more importantly, the goodness of his character, because it draws us into intimacy with Him. And as we're drawn into this intimacy with Him, we see that God works in ways that don't make sense to us.