Are You Facing Spiritual Warfare?
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
How do you know if you're facing spiritual warfare? Dr. Tim Muehlhoff and his wife Noreen joined Jim Daly to discuss 5 real signs that you're actually under a spiritual attack. Also, Greg and Erin open up about times they persevered when they tempted to be discouraged.
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| 0:35.0 | Well, there are caricatures of the devil, a little figure with horns and a pointy tail, and he's got a spear, and he's on you, he's after you, and those are just childish renderings of our true spiritual opponent in this world. |
| 0:51.3 | We're going to be talking about spiritual warfare today. I'm John Fuller, along with |
| 0:55.1 | Greg and Aaron Smalley. They lead our marriage department, and Jim Daly has often said that marriage |
| 1:00.8 | is a stench to the devil because it represents the unity of God. Now, we're going to hear from |
| 1:07.9 | Dr. Tim Yulhoff and his wife, Noreen. They're going to talk about the real signs of something significant and spiritual, a warfare against your marriage. |
| 1:17.8 | Tim, you've identified five key indicators of spiritual warfare. |
| 1:21.7 | What are those? |
| 1:23.4 | Well, what I did is I read probably 15 books and asked the question, wouldn't it be interesting, |
| 1:29.3 | because all the books took a look at signs of the demonic in some way, shape or form. |
| 1:34.3 | I thought, wouldn't it be interesting to look at all 15 books and put together a list of things |
| 1:39.3 | that were mentioned by all 15 lists? |
| 1:42.3 | And that I came up with my power six, okay, that made all of them. |
| 1:47.0 | Now, there are some really good ones. They just didn't make it. So I put that in an honorable |
| 1:49.9 | mention list. But here they are. Here are the ones that I identified in no particular order, |
| 1:56.5 | although I will make an argument from Charles Kraft, who is a former archaeologist taught at Biola University, |
| 2:02.4 | he would argue that one is the Supreme. |
| 2:04.6 | So the very first one is uncontrolled anger. |
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