Welcome to the Awesome Marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson, and the admin for Awesome Marriage.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

Dr. Kim Kim Kim, is the founder of I Want an Awesome Marriage and author of Seven

Secrets to an Awesome Marriage.

Mill Smith is an innovation pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, as well as the

innovation director at Awesome Marriage.

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Marriage. Today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about spiritual warfare. So we're really

excited to get the conversation started. First, just to kind of open it up, I feel like it's

something that's not talked about a lot and that can be very confusing and very misleading

sometimes.

So what exactly is spiritual warfare and what does it look like? Dr. Kim, do you have any thoughts for us? Well, I think it's something that you're right. A lot of times we don't talk about and

sometimes people outside of the church like, okay, what are you talking about? You know, what does

devil stuff and all this kind of stuff? And I think from my perspective, and what I see from a counseling perspective in the counseling room, that spiritual warfare is,

obviously, as Christians, we try to live our lives in the way Christ wants us to live. We're following that

path. And there's this battle that the enemy with Satan puts against us to try to throw us off of that.

And so we get things like some of the temptations we have and some of things that,

you know, pornography, things like that that will take us away from what God's plan is for our life.

And so it's just, I think, especially in the culture we live in,

it's just almost a daily battle.

One of the things that my pastor says that he does every day that I love this,

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