The pressures of performing well as a ministry or pastor’s wife often fill us with anxiety. It’s easy to become lost in expectations and turn our eyes on ourselves. Author Scarlet Hiltibidal joins me today to discuss anxiety as a pastor’s wife. Scarlet, a self-proclaimed anxiety expert, shares how she fights fear with a heavenly gaze and an open Bible.

1. Anxiety whispers different fears to every woman’s heart.

“I was so anxious about my own goodness and what other people thought of me and what God thought of me. I could have said to you, ‘God sees the perfection of Jesus when He looks at me,’ but I didn’t live like I believed that, so I wasn’t at peace.”

“When I do something good, it’s all because of the Holy Spirit working through me. When I fail, which I will, I don’t have to despair. I can apologize and tell my children, husband, and whoever is around, ‘Thank God for Jesus! This is why He died and rose again.'”

“I pray that even in my failures I’m able to point people to Him and that I’m able to comfort the women at our church, not by being like, ‘I’m a mess, I’m the worst.’ But by saying, ‘Hey, we’re all a mess. Let’s take it to the Lord. Let’s open His Word every day and do what it says and experience the joy of obeying and being free of the sins that enslave us.”

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