When Your Marriage Is Under Spiritual Attack - Married By His Grace

What to do when your Marriage is under Spiritual Attack.

I am pretty sure I have written this on the blog before but due to the importance of it, I am going to write it again.

Spiritual Warfare in Marriage is real.

The enemy hates that you are a wife striving to do marriage God’s way. He despises that you desire a man that leads, prays, and serves God. It angers him that God did not just give one of you authority and power but He gave a joint man and woman power and authority to fight against any spiritual attack and the schemes he tries to orchestrate to destroy a biblical marriage.

A biblical marriage is one of the strongest weapon that can go against the devil.

You are no longer one person with a armor. You are now one with the power of two. Two armors to fight, two minds becoming a mighty one, two hands with two swords, two set of feet treading with the word of God, and two breastplates of righteousness ready to battle!

So, what will the enemy do when he sees a godly marriage?

He attacks. But first, he prowls like a wild beast getting ready to devour the pure meat he is wanting to feast on.

Just like any beast prowling for his prey, he seeks for the weak moments. He lays hidden in the field. Waiting for a weakened step that looks like a step that can trip you so it will be harder for you to get up if he decides to charge.

But here is where the word of God conquers that plan of the devil:

If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Ecclesiastes 4:10 NIV

This why it is important for you and your spouse to be in accordance with one another. Accordance will make picking one another up instantaneously.

Before realizing how quick you two are to picking one another up, he will set traps of insecurity, temptation, lusts, doubt, fear, anxiety, depression, and much more.

Anything he can do to make sure the other one does not want to pick you up when you fall, he will do it.

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How do you overcome the traps of spiritual attacks in marriage?

Be proactive.

Gain understanding.

It’s easy for us to just assume, our marriage is just going through a tough time. That the other person has been in a cranky mood for weeks on end. It’s easy to blame our spouse for the tension in our marriage and for the lack of communication. But is it true? The only way to know is by gaining understanding to what Spiritual Warfare is. When you gain knowledge in this area, you will also gain discernment between what is true and what is needed. The needs of being there for our spouse can differ whether spiritual warfare is the source or not.

Ask questions.

Do not be afraid to go to your spouse and ask questions. Ask your husband daily how his day is going. This can lead to him opening up more. If this is something you already do, then add more effort to it. Pray that the Lord will open his heart to become vulnerable even more. Then go to him and ask if there is anything he would like to speak about. When my husband and I have open discussions, majority of the time we take our conversations back to the word of God. We receive revelations to our situations together as a married couple.

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Set a plan.

Think of setting a plan for your marriage as a battle plan. Be ready to battle for what is yours. Make a plan to pray, fast, to commit to a marriage devotion, or to engage with other Christian women that will build you up as a wife. Be involved in what will encourage you on a daily basis to be a fierce godly wife.

If you are in a place right now that feels like your marriage is in the midst of an ugly attack by the enemy, I want you to place everything down and cry to the Lord. Do not fear to cry to Him. Sometimes us crying to Him is exactly what we need to do to start the healing, revival, and deliverance from it all. It is good to release all our fears before getting up to battle.

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I will give you a few minutes, just put this post down and lay yourself before the Lord.

Now if you are back, here are some areas we can start to rebuilding and maintaining our marriages after a spiritual attack:

The Word of God:

If you truly want to know how to restore marriage back to where two are one, understanding the meaning of marriage God’s way is the way. You also need to believe with all your heart that Jesus was sent here for marriages too. He was the definition of reconciliation. He life was given for reconciliation. Once we believe that, our faith will become stronger in the direction of healing.

Prayer:

Prayer is what takes you into a intimate place with God. When you are in a intimate place with God, you can hear Him more clearly to where He is leading you and your marriage. Prayer will also help you partake in the supernatural power of peace, comfort, wisdom, and so much more that can only be provided by Him!

Fasting:

Fasting goes hand in hand with prayer. Did you know that in the Old Testimony, majority of the time they spoke about prayer, fasting with connected within the same situation? This is because fasting is a form of worship and sacrifice to become vulnerable and to a state of complete surrender to God. The submission of fasting will open your eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to a new level spiritually. Your discernment will increase by volumes. Fasting will be one of the best decisions you will make for when your marriage experiences an spiritual attack.

Counsel:

It’s important to find Christian based counsel for your marriage. Especially someone that is not your friend or a family member. Though they may love your spouse and desire restoration for you both, all they hear is your hurt. Did you know, for every negative thing said about someone, it takes thirteen compliments to replace the one disapproval comment? When you are speaking out of anger or hurt, you can say dozens of negative things within minutes. Do you really want to do this to your spouse within your family? Most importantly, do you want to be remembered as a spouse that put down your loved one?

Before ending this post, I would like to share some honesty….

I have been through divorce. I felt like I failed and became undeserving of marriage. The enemy still attacks me in this area. I still sometimes doubt my capabilities of being a good wife, a biblical wife, a wife that can love unconditionally.

Guarding my mind on those thoughts is something I work on daily. It is not always easy. It takes self discipline. It also requires faith like I have never experienced before.

But my marriage is worth it.

I am married to a beautiful man of God and I am worthy of being his wife. You know why? Because God chose me to be his wife. He chose me to pray for him daily, to love Him in way that only Christ can teach me to love him, to raise children with him in a godly home. There is no way that the enemy will take that away from me, him, or our future generations. The generations that will rise up for the Lord and will take His name place to place.

Speaking life to our marriage is the most important part to overcoming when the enemy is causing spiritual attacks in marriage.

We must speak our lives to life. Speak out loud that your have a marriage based on the foundation of God. Shout in your home that no enemy resides in it. Pray out loud with praise and thanksgiving for all that God has given you and your husband. Speak salvation over your household at all times. Do not allow fear to overcome.

Be determined today to fight the spiritual attack in your marriage and not allow the enemy to destroy anything God put together.

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