Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you

strengthen your most intimate relationship. There is a real enemy in marriage and I do not

mean your spouse. First Peter 5-8 says that the enemy is like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Christian couples can be confident that God is on our side.

He's for us and he does have the victory.

So today we're going to talk about how to fight this spiritual battle for marriage.

So Dr. Kim, to start off with, do you feel that marriage in general is under attack and why?

I do. And I think especially as Christians, I think maybe we're even more aware of that.

And you think about it because in a Christian marriage where you're trying to follow what God

wants you to do in a marriage when you're

putting God first, like we talk about all the time, and your spouse and then your family next.

So those kind of things the enemy doesn't like. And I think if you look at it from the enemy's

perspective, what better way to bring people down than by attacking marriages in the family?

I mean, that's the core of so much of what we have from the time of Adam and Eve in the Garden

of Eden all the way through. And so I think, I can't imagine what a culture without marriage

would be because there's so much good that comes from marriage.

And we learn so much in marriage. And we fight the enemy better in marriage. And that's another

thing. If he can split us apart in a marriage, he seems to be doing, if he's doing anything

really well from his perspective right now, that's probably it. And so we have to fight hard. That's why we talk so much

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