I was praying for some people that have shared with me they are struggling with depression. Not debilitating depression, but a low hummmm of depression that keeps them locked into a cycle of defeat, discouragement, disappointment and despair.

While praying for them the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “Expression is the answer for depression.” I immediately looked up the definition of expression and it reveals expression as manifestation, communication, utterance, and act or product of pressing out.

An act or product of pressing out stood out to me, for people that are dealing with any level of depression do not want to press out of it, they say they can’t. So, I looked up depression as a word, not clinically, rather definitionally. Depression is low spirits, sadness, despair, loneliness, reduction in activity or force, a pressing down, lowering or hollow.

The reduction in activity or force is what stuck out to me about depression and it explained to me why the Lord said, “Expression is the answer to depression.” When we reduce our output due to depression the answer is to press out or increase our expression in order to break out of depression.

This activity can include prayer, praise, service to others, communication, walking, excercise, anything that causes us to express ourselves. The feeling is to do nothing when depression comes, but the call of God is to do something. “Expression is the answer to depression.”

Proverbs 13:12 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.” Then Proverbs 17:22 says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”

There are many reasons to be depressed, but the answer to depression is expression says the Lord. Now we get to choose what we are going to do, will we remain depressed or will we rise up and start to express how great our God is. The way out of depression is expression. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org