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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

5 Signs of Spiritual Attack

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when you and your spouse are constantly getting on each other's nerves? It may be that you're facing a spiritual attack. John, Erin and Greg share how they've found hope when facing spiritual warfare in their marriages. Featuring Dr. Tim and Noreen Muehlhoff.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.3

today.

0:36.0

Conflict is an inevitable part of every marriage, but there are times when it

0:40.5

seems like you're getting on each other's nerves much more than normal. And it

0:44.6

might be a situation in which you and your mate are facing spiritual battle. I

0:49.9

know for Dean and me we've had moments where the light bulb comes on. It's like,

0:52.9

you know what, I think the enemy of our souls is coming after us right now. This

0:56.8

isn't normal. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smiley and his wife Aaron. They

1:01.8

lead our marriage department here at the ministry and Aaron. It is easy for us.

1:06.8

Even as committed believers to overlook the spiritual aspects of marriage. What

1:12.8

why is that? I think often we don't recognize that that goes on. I always laugh

1:18.5

when we are on our way to teach a marriage event. You know where you get up

1:23.2

early. You're exhausted already. You're stressed trying to pack everything. You

1:27.4

know, if kids are coming or kids staying home, whatever, we it is inevitable

1:32.0

that there are opportunities for us to get into conflict. And that's where the

1:35.2

enemy loves that. He'd love for us to be shut down when we get to the event. And

1:40.0

we're getting ready to teach and on and on. He's so subtle. And I think that's

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