How to Protect Yourself From Spiritual Attack
Jul 13, 2026Summary
Are you exhausted from constantly fighting reactive spiritual battles in your living room? When you wait for the adversary to strike before doing damage control, you can feel completely defenseless against the next ambush. If you are wondering how to protect yourself from a spiritual attack proactively, you are in the exact right place!
In this episode of the Arise Women of God podcast, host Tamara K. Anderson and educator LeMira Wheelwright reveal how to build an unyielding fortress around your home and family. We dive into the tactical power of "procedure over panic," exploring how establishing simple, predictable routines strips the enemy of his ability to catch your family off guard. Learn how to build sustainable daily bookends—like a 15-minute breakfast devotional or nightly family prayer—that fit your family's current season without burning you out.
We also discuss the vital importance of situational rehearsal, teaching you how to practically train your children through role-play and emergency text codes so they can escape uncomfortable worldly environments before the trap shuts. Through the grace and power of Jesus Christ, you can stand as an armed, equipped guardian of your domestic palace. Tune in to stop playing defense, reinforce your perimeter, and start actively protecting your family's peace today!
What Jesus Says About Spiritual Warfare & Protection
During this episode, we look at the exact standards the Savior set for guarding our homes, alongside a modern-day story of protection:
- The Armed Guardian (Luke 11:21): Jesus states, "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace." This teaches us that we are called to be the armed guardians of our domestic palaces (no matter how big or small). We protect our homes not by panicking, but by being procedurally prepared.
- The Shield of Family Prayer: LeMira shares a powerful story of driving at night and narrowly dodging a dangerous accident on a dark, tricky corner. At that exact moment, she felt a distinct spiritual reassurance, knowing her extended family was having their nightly family prayer and pleading for their protection by name.
Episode Takeaways
- Procedure Over Panic: Establish predictable routines and boundaries in your home. Just like a well-run classroom, when kids know the expectations and consequences, it eliminates chaos and strips the enemy of his element of surprise.
- Establish Spiritual Bookends: Protect your family's day by bookending it with God. Whether it's a 6:30 AM breakfast devotional or a simple family prayer at night, consistent routines build an invisible layer of spiritual armor around your children.
- Situational Rehearsal: Don't just lecture your kids; proactively role-play high-stress situations. Practice what they should say if offered a vape or a pill, and establish an "emergency text code" to help them escape dangerous environments safely.
- Build a "Light Enhancers" List: Teach your children to maintain their own internal light by creating a list of positive actions—like listening to a favorite worship song, reviewing a memorized scripture, or stepping into nature—that they can use when feeling heavily attacked or discouraged.
Free Resource A Woman’s Guide to Spiritual Warfare
Ready to build sustainable family bookends and dedicate your household's entryways? Get our free A Mother's Spiritual Defense Guide: 6 Empowering Steps to Fortify Home & Family downloadable PDF here: https://www.womenwarriorsoflight.com/A-Mothers-Spiritual-Defense-Guide
Reflection Questions
- Read Luke 11:21. In what specific ways can you become a more proactive, "armed guardian" of your domestic palace this week?
- What are the current "spiritual bookends" (morning/evening routines) in your home, and how might they need to pivot or evolve for the season your family is currently in?
- Have you role-played high-stress scenarios with your teenagers, or established an emergency text code for them to use when they feel trapped?
Host & Guest
Tamara K. Anderson @tamarakanderson
LeMira Wheelwright @lemira.wheelwright
Transcript
Tamara K. Anderson
00:00:00.400 - 00:02:51.610
Hey my friend, have you ever wondered how to protect yourself from a spiritual attack because you are tired of fighting these exhausting spiritual warfare battles in your living room over and over again? This is an exhausting situation because when you are purely reactive, you feel completely defenseless against the next ambush.
Stay tuned because by the end of today's episode you'll see you'll know how to run a proactive procedure. Establish unyielding family bookend routines as well as have a tactical training blueprint to prepare your child's minds before the crisis ever hits.
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 thrilled to be joined once again by mother educator and community leader Lamyra Wheelwright as we tackle this critical question, how to protect yourself from a spiritual attack.
Instead of waiting for the adversary to come and attack and you having to do damage control, the mother guardian is called to actively build a fortress around her and her home to help you reinforce your perimeter. We are breaking down three proactive layers today.
First is the procedure over panic, why Establishing a simple, predictable expectation strips the enemy of his ability to catch your family off guard.
Second, the 6:30am Kitchen table bookend, a real life look at building a daily devotional habit that can fit your family's current stage without burning out your bandwidth.
And third, the situational rehearsal, how to practically train your kids through role play and emergency text codes to escape uncomfortable environments before the trap shuts. I love in Luke chapter 11, verse 21, where Jesus states, when a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.
As mothers we are called to be the guardians of the home, armed guardians perhaps of our domestic palaces, be they as big or as small as they are, and we can be completely equipped and procedurally prepared.
Lamyra is now going to share how building a fortress starts with the exact method you use to run a chaotic classroom at the beginning of each school year.
LeMira Wheelwright
00:02:51.930 - 00:03:57.930
When you have a procedure, it means you have a procedure for everything. And let me explain what that means.
When the kids come into the classroom, I teach them at the very beginning of the year exactly how I want them to come in, what I want them to do. We show them what it looks like, what it doesn't look like.
I mean, everything from sitting at the carpet to listening to a story, to doing an activity, to lining up, to checking in books, checking out.
Like everything has a procedure and it sounds overwhelming and it is for the first six weeks of school, but then you get those in place and it runs beautifully because then the kids come in and you can have fun at that point because they know, and they also know what your expectations are, what my consequences are, what's going to happen. Okay. So we have to set that up. So what does that look like in a home? Okay, well, the same thing.
We're going to set up our procedure for the day you have a routine. And the thing that has worked so well for my family is we have struggled for, let's see, my husband and I have been married for 25 years.
LeMira Wheelwright
00:03:58.010 - 00:03:58.650
Okay.
LeMira Wheelwright
00:03:58.970 - 00:05:53.680
And our oldest is 22. For 22 years, we have struggled with figuring out a routine for a daily devotional doing that morning scripture and prayer study.
I'm a big believer in it because I grew up with a family who did that, and it gave me strength when I needed it.
So this year at the beginning of 2026, my husband and I sat down and we decided, look, the only time we have time for this, where we know it's going to happen is, is at 6:30 in the morning. No one wants to wake up at 6:30, but my husband is out the door by 6:45. So we knew we've got 15 minutes.
It means the kids know there's an end time and mom and dad aren't going to drone on for an hour. But they also know they got to be up. And so we did that consistently until summer started. But my kids were up, we were reading.
Sometimes they were asleep, buried in the couch or snuggled. But what we found was, guess what? Mom gets up at 6 and makes breakfast. And then they sit at the table and we eat.
And then we got them each a little notebook or book to record things and their own set of scriptures. Guess what? They're eating and they're happy because, hey, mom's got something yummy on the table for me. Now, this puts.
I didn't want to be up at 6 making breakfast, but I knew how important this was for our family. So we do that.
And then the other thing we bookended with is, my kids know even if we're not great at morning devotional every night, there's going to be family prayer every single night. And they all get a turn picking each week. We put one kid in charge who gets to pick for each of the prayers during the day.
Whatever prayers we say, those are things we bookend our day with.
Tamara K. Anderson
00:05:53.760 - 00:08:20.000
I remember when my kids were little, we had like a little picture scripture book that we would read from and the ones that couldn't read, you know, I would just put my finger on the words and they would repeat after me and that was great. When they were littles and as they've grown up and evolved, you know, it changes.
Establishing those daily procedural bookends built an invisible spiritual layer and armor around you and your kids. And when you pray, God will guide you to know what is right for your family at this stage. But protection isn't just about what you do in the house.
It's about preparing everyone's minds for what they will experience once they step outside your front door. One of the greatest keys to protection is proactive preparation.
We need to teach our kids beforehand why they must stay away from certain things like drugs, alcohol and pornography. Don't just lecture them. Actually practice what to say in high stress situations of something they might encounter at school or in a text thread.
Sit down with your teenager and role play. What are you going to do if somebody hands you a vape in the bathroom or a pill to help you when you're feeling anxious and stressed out for a test?
You guys can brainstorm together and and find the right best thing to say so that when the situation pops up, they remember. You can even establish an emergency text code word.
If they ever find themselves in an uncomfortable, dangerous or high pressure situation, they can text a single code word to your phone. When we engage in this kind of proactive preparation through it all, constantly reassure your children that God will loves them no matter what.
Teach them how to build and reinforce their own internal light. Sit down together and make a list of physical light enhancers.
Things that they can do when they are feeling heavy or down that they can save on their phone for emergency times.
Maybe things like listening to a favorite worship song, stepping outside to be in nature and feel closer to God, or memorizing a favorite scripture together. When we train our children to maintain their own light, we are teaching them to stand firm when family prayers follow them into the world.
Listen as Lamyra shares a little bit about this.
LeMira Wheelwright
00:08:20.640 - 00:10:04.810
And one day my husband and I were driving along, we were driving at night and we came around a tricky corner and suddenly a car's veering off, but it's dark and we see dust flying everywhere and we're dodging and still going. We couldn't stop.
And I remember having this distinct feeling that I knew about that time both my husband's family and my family would be having family prayer. And they all knew when we were traveling. So I knew we would be prayed for by name and protected.
So to me, just the practice of it and then your kids knowing that they're going to be prayed for, that is a big deal.
But but make sure you have boundaries around your screen time for your kids, their phones around what behaviors are accepted and not accepted at home and what are the consequences for those. Make sure you're very clear on that and it doesn't have to be rough, but it can be okay, we need a break or this isn't going to happen.
The other thing to protect yourself is to make sure that you have some tools. Do a self check. Are you making a connection with God every day and that's what I have to do. Am I praying in the morning? At night?
Am I reading scriptures? Am I doing something? Am I listening to something positive and uplifting? Those are things and it sounds silly, but those are the basic protections.
And I feel like it's because then that way our kids and our families know, hey, this is a safe place where I know I'm prayed for, I'm watched out for and even if I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and I'm dragging my feet and some days maybe I'm not, but I know it's going to happen. So those are some basic things that.
Tamara K. Anderson
00:10:04.810 - 00:11:41.980
I would do Your family's defense protocol does not have to look flawless to be incredibly effective. It is allowed to evolve, pivot and change as your children grow.
Be flexible and include your children and your spouse in discussions about how to solve these challenges and trust that God will help you figure out the exact routine your family needs for your current season.
To help you as you begin your journey, we would like to give you a wonderful gift our A Mother's Spiritual Defense Guide six Empowering Steps to Fortify Home and Family and you can grab your copy free at the link below.
When you open your download, turn directly on page 11 you'll find the Home Sanctuary Audit where we have laid out step by step procedural guide to help you dedicate your household's entryways and your family's media intake, as well as build sustainable family bookends to shield your family from the fiery darts of the adversary.
Oh my friend, you are amazing woman, warrior of light, a mother, a home guardian and as you take baby steps towards being consistent and inviting light in the enemy will find your perimeter completely locked out because you are standing with Jesus 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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