7 Tactics the Devil Uses to DESTROY Your Marriage (Part 1)
Fierce Marriage
Ryan and Selena Frederick
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this part 1 of 2, we expose the spiritual battle currently raging for your home and the specific strategies the enemy uses to tear husbands and wives apart. We break down how subtle shifts in your priorities allow the devil to gain a foothold.
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| 0:00.0 | Half-hearted obedience to God is high-handed rebellion against God. |
| 0:04.4 | The enemy would love to destroy your marriage by having you forget to love the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. |
| 0:11.7 | As a wife, you must first submit to the Lord. |
| 0:14.3 | And in submission to him, your submission to every, to your husband should flow out of that vertical relationship. |
| 0:21.6 | Marriage is the substructure of the cultural mandate. |
| 0:24.6 | It is the thing that is the foundation of the being fruitful and multiplying and filling the earth and subduing it. |
| 0:29.6 | And it's so much bigger than your happiness. |
| 0:32.6 | It's so much bigger than your spouse making you happy. |
| 0:35.6 | Marriage is made for you to enjoy more of God to glorify him |
| 0:42.7 | in exponential ways. Another way that you could disbelieve the Lord is just your general thought and |
| 0:48.4 | disposition toward divorce. It's news to no one that marriage is under attack. |
| 1:02.2 | Is that safe to say? |
| 1:03.7 | I just said something very broad. |
| 1:07.1 | How about I try it? |
| 1:08.3 | Let me try this. |
| 1:09.5 | No, it's all good. |
| 1:10.7 | No, let me start it. |
| 1:11.3 | I don't think it's news to anyone if you were to say like marriage is under attack. |
| 1:15.3 | It's always under attack. |
| 1:16.5 | Truly, because it is the fount of life and that the marriage covenant is where babies are made and that's how flourishing. |
| 1:23.4 | It's a flourish as a human species, human race, sort of all the way in the garden. |
| 1:30.3 | But maybe what's not quite as prevalent, if you think about these things, is the idea that |
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