How to Know if You Are Being Attacked Spiritually
Jul 09, 2026Summary
Have you ever wondered how to know if you are being attacked spiritually? When a heavy, unexplainable cloud of self-doubt or sudden family friction settles over your home, it can be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between basic life stress and a calculated spiritual ambush. The adversary relies heavily on you misdiagnosing the problem and blaming yourself as a mother!
In this episode of the Arise Women of God podcast, host Tamara K. Anderson is joined by educator and community leader LeMira Wheelwright to help you gain immediate spiritual clarity. We dive into 1 Peter 5:8 to expose the adversary's predictable, highly uncreative cycle of attack. You will learn how to map out your children's unique baseline shifts—whether they react to spiritual interference by hiding under a blanket, isolating in their room, or lashing out with yelling.
Using the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares, Tamara reminds us that toxic behavioral weeds are not a reflection of your parenting; "an enemy hath done this." Discover LeMira's powerful three-step Reclaim Protocol to unmask the deceiver, cast him out in the name of Jesus Christ, and flood your family with light. Tune in to stop the confusion, break the enemy's cycle, and reclaim your household's peace today!
Episode Takeaways
- The Uncreative Script: The devil operates out of habit, not innovation. He uses a predictable, repeating cycle—often starting by attacking your divine identity as a mother, then moving to attack your children, and finally hitting you with outside worldly worries to cause overwhelm.
- Household Baselines: You must learn to spot the physical signs of a spiritual ambush in your kids. Look for sudden deviations from their baseline, such as unprovoked anxiety (hiding under a blanket), complete physical isolation, or sudden, aggressive yelling.
- An Enemy Hath Done This (Matthew 13): Just like the farmer who planted good seed but woke up to weeds, you can do everything right as a parent and still face toxic interference from the adversary. Do not let the enemy shame you into believing you failed; stand strong and declare, "An enemy hath done this."
- The 3-Step Reclaim Protocol: When an attack hits, use LeMira's turnaround strategy: 1. Acknowledge the cycle. 2. Cast out the adversary. 3. Replace the darkness with light by doing something that boosts healthy dopamine, like serving others, creating, or journaling.
Free Resource
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Reflection Questions
- Take a moment to analyze your own life: what does the adversary's "uncreative cycle" look like for you? Does he target your self-worth first, or does he go straight after your children?
- When your kids face a spiritual ambush, what are their unique baseline shifts (e.g., isolating, yelling, sudden anxiety)?
- How does viewing a sudden behavioral issue through the lens of "an enemy hath done this" change the way you parent in moments of crisis and alleviate your mom guilt?
Host & Guest
Tamara K. Anderson @tamarakanderson
LeMira Wheelwright
Transcript
Tamara K. Anderson
00:00:00.800 - 00:03:16.330
Hey, my friend, have you ever wondered how to know if you are being attacked spiritually because a heavy, unexplainable cloud of self doubt or family friction has suddenly settled over you and your home?
This is never fun when this happens, because when you are in the thick of it, it's incredibly difficult to tell the difference between basic life stress and a calculated ambush.
Well, stay tuned, my friend, because by the end of today's episode, you will know how to recognize the enemy's heavily uncreative cycle, the unique baseline shifts that expose an attack on your children, and a powerful three step turnaround to help you reclaim ground against the adversary. Stay tuned. Ordinary women, extraordinary faith When God calls, we say yes. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Arise Women of God podcast.
I'm your host, Tamara K. Anderson, and I am so thrilled to be joined once again by mother, educator and community leader Lamyra Wheelwright as we tackle this foundational question, how to know if you are being attacked spiritually. So, my friends, when a spiritual assault hits your household, the adversary often relies heavily on you misdiagnosing the problem.
So to give you immediate clarity, we are breaking down three critical pillars today. First, the uncreative script.
Here we're going to expose the same mechanical loop the adversary uses from attacking your own individual identity and worth and value to maybe attacking your children's stability and trying to throw them off their game.
Second, the household baselines, how to take a look at your children's different reactions from physical isolation to maybe verbal outbursts, and learn to quickly speak. Spot spiritual interference. And third, we're going to share the reclaim protocol.
And this is a powerful three step process that you can immediately use to cast out the adversary and flood your family with light. All right, friends, let's kick it off by looking at scripture where we can learn that the devil often operates out of habit versus innovation.
In 1 Peter, chapter 5, verse 8, we are given a stark warning. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. Let's look at this verse.
A lion walks about hunting, using the same predictable paths and patterns every time, trying to isolate his prey and then attack, and we can begin to notice his patterns. Lamyra is now going to share how she started doing this in her own home and how it was able to help her.
LeMira Wheelwright
00:03:16.650 - 00:05:07.990
I have started to realize something in my life that the adversary attacks me in this cycle. And so sometimes after a while, if I'm like, what is going on?
Like things fell off And I start to notice that he'll always attack in a certain pattern for me and you probably everyone listening probably has one too. If you take a step back and go, oh, there is a pattern because he is not creative. He doesn't have creative powers.
He wasn't given those blessings, okay? So he just does what he thinks works, right? And so for me, I notice he's going to attack me somehow first.
Whether it's me doubting my capabilities, doubting my divine nature, doubting who I am, or just that negative self talk. So he's going to attack me somewhere there first, okay?
And then when that doesn't work or we get through that, it comes through my kids, it's they're being attacked that they're going through something difficult. And then I'm like, I can't do this. Like it's attacking my worth as a mother, right?
Or that my value there is feeling like, okay, he can't get through me, so he's gonna go through my kids. And maybe it's through what they're watching or through what they're experiencing in life, something they're struggling with.
And then the next attack I always see is something with my outside worries, like my finances or something going on with extended family members or health, family, home, things that maybe I can't control, but then they might come in and then Satan's like, and so you're not very good at this, are you? You know, so he's going to come with that overwhelm, that busyness.
And so when I start to realize that there's a cycle going on and it's happening, the first thing I got to do is I got to acknowledge it.
Tamara K. Anderson
00:05:08.070 - 00:09:07.110
Lamyra's layout of that three tier cycle is so accurate because the enemy does target us and our children and tries to destroy our worth as mothers. And we have to look closely at our kids own kind of baseline emotions as well.
I have also had to map out the physical signs in each of my kids that tell me when they're facing a spiritual ambush. For example, I have one child who struggles with pretty bad anxiety.
And the exact moment when that anxiety moves from just anxiety to a spiritual attack.
I have noticed that this child will curl up on our living room couch or in their bed and like cover themselves with a blanket because the adversary wants to keep them doom spiraling. I have another child whose entire countenance and demeanor just suddenly seems to shift.
They go completely quiet and isolate themselves from the rest of the family. Then I have another child who inevitably reacts by yelling when under stress, which kind of changes the whole atmosphere of the home, right?
When it comes down to my own baseline, I usually feel a wave of deep, unprovoked discouragement that makes me feel incapable of moving, of moving forward, coupled with heavy sadness.
So, my friend, when you see these sudden, frustrating weeds of behavior popping up, it is so easy to feel discouraged as a parent and maybe that you're failing. There is a powerful story told by the Savior in Matthew, chapter 13 that helps us kind of untangle this maternal blind spot.
In the parable of the wheat and the tares, a farmer has done everything right. He planted his field with perfect rows of wheat sown just right.
But if you look at what happens In Matthew, chapter 13, verse 25, we read, but while the man slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way for weeks.
Everything may look normal beneath the soil, but when the blades finally sprouted and bore fruit, there were toxic weeds that showed up, like everywhere. The servants panicked, wanting to tear up the whole field. But the master calmly looked at the crisis and identified the true source of the tares.
In verse 28, he said unto them, an enemy hath done this. So, my sisters, you can do everything right.
You can plant fields of reading, scriptures and prayers in your family and a deep love of Jesus into your children's hearts every single day.
But the enemy loves to creep in to your household through modern open doors like smartphones, social media loops, or maybe toxic group texts while men sleep to covertly plant his deception and distortions. When your child suddenly has an unprovoked wave of anxiety or isolation or a screaming bad attitude, do not panic.
Do not let the adversary convince you that you did something wrong, that somehow you have failed as a parent, that shame is a lie.
Take a deep breath, stand next to the master of the field, and look through his eyes, the eyes of the spirit, and boldly name where all of this is coming from. An enemy has done this. It is an active spiritual attack, not a permanent identity flaw in your child or in yourself.
And once you unmask the deceiver's presence, you are fully empowered to use Lamyra's turnaround protocol, which she is now going to share.
LeMira Wheelwright
00:09:07.110 - 00:10:07.610
The the first thing I got to do is I got to acknowledge it and go, all right, here we are again. We're back. We acknowledge that cycle. The second thing I do is we cast him out and we don't give him the time of day. We're not giving him this credit.
We're giving the credit to mortality and that we chose to have this beautiful mortal experience, right? We're not letting him taking take our mortal experience and make it a moral experience. It's just mortal. It's just happening. Okay?
So we're going to cast them out. We're going to use our tools. And then the third thing is we're going to replace it with light. Okay? We're going to do something.
Whether we serve somebody else, we get creative and use our divine capabilities. We go and we pray, we write in our journal. We do something that gets our dopamine going, right?
And that serotonin, those beautiful things and that's what we do. And just simple recognize the cycle. Then use our steps to get him out of there.
And then there you've built that wall and you're protecting yourself once again.
Tamara K. Anderson
00:10:08.250 - 00:11:50.950
Oh my friend.
The moment you realize that the sudden discouragement, the screaming or a child hiding under a blanket is part of a predictable pattern, you are no longer defenseless. You do not have to stay stuck in the confusion.
You can cast out the adversary in the name of Jesus Christ and implement the necessary physical and spiritual self care to get your feet back on solid ground, help you map out your family's unique spiritual baseline and give you a structured blueprint to close those opened entry ways. We have a wonderful gift for you. It's our mother's spiritual defense guide. Six Empowering steps to Fortify Home and Family.
And and you can get this free at the link below. When you download your manual, turn directly to step number three. Mastering Discernment.
We have built out a beautiful diagnostic sheet to help you track your household's emotional thermometer along with the Home Sanctuary audit on page 11 to help you identify what media or environment changes are needed to help you reinforce your walls. You, my friend, are a woman warrior of light. And with God as your general, you do not stand alone.
Keep standing with him and yoked to him and until next time, may you arise. Do it God's way. God strong. If today's episode helped you feel a little closer to God, please like and subscribe.
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