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A Woman's Guide to Spiritual Warfare · Arise Women of God

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  Have you ever found yourself standing in the middle of your kitchen looking at the chaotic emotions of the household around you and felt completely drained, overwhelmed and burned out?
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  You look at a child struggling or a marriage feeling tense and your natural maternal instincts is to do more and be more, try to control everything, only to realize you are running on absolute empty.
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  Perhaps you're searching for a woman's guide to spiritual warfare because you're tired of feeling like a casualty in the chaos of your home and you're starting to suspect that the battle is far deeper than just a bad attitude
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  or physical exhaustion.
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  Well, my friend, take heart.
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  You are in the right place.
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  And by the end of today's episode, you'll have a bird's eye view to a six step blueprint designed to help you move from a place of fear to a place of power, helping you move powerfully into your role
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  as a true guardian of your home.
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  We're going to help you solve maternal burnout by breaking open our brand new resource guide, A Mother's Spiritual Defense Guide six Empowering Steps to Fortify Home and Family.
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  Right here, right now, we are going to be walking through these exact battle steps together.
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  From shifting your own internal climate of your home to calling down reinforcements from heaven, we're moving from isolated exhaustion to strategic defense.
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  Stay tuned.
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  Ordinary women Extraordinary Faith When God calls, we say yes.
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  Hello and welcome to another episode of the Arise Women of God Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Tamara K.
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  Anderson, and joining me on today's amazing episode is Wendy Christensen, my co founder of Women warriors of Light and a licensed clinical social worker for over 30 years.
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  And today we are so excited to dedicate this entire episode to unpacking one of our new resources for you guys, which you can download for free at a link below.
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  We built this guide to help you move out of survival mode and we're so excited to give you all these new tips and tricks that will help you step into your role as a guardian of the home.
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  So one of the first things that we break down in our guide is step number one, which is the divine partnership with God as our general.
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  You quickly realize that you don't have to walk out on this battlefield of good versus evil all by yourself.
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  The guide reminds us to invite the heavens in to call down angels and explicitly ask for warriors of Light to come empower you and strengthen and protect your family.
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  In Hebrews chapter one, verse 14, we are taught that angels are ministering spirits sent forth to look after us.
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  And Wendy is now going to talk a little bit about this daily habit to call down literal heavenly reinforcements into the everyday spaces of our children's lives.
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  The divine partnership is remembering that you are pairing up with God.
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  You don't have to do this alone.
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  And I think sometimes as a mom, you feel like you're alone out in the storm and you don't have anyone around but you do.
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  You have God there to help you and to strengthen you and his son, Jesus Christ, to be that light for you.
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  We're all going to fall short, and we're never enough.
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  But with Jesus Christ, he helps us be enough.
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  So on those days where I feel like I'm tired, I'm exhausted, I can't do this, I think.
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  But if I have the Savior by my side, then I can do it, and I am enough, and I can reach down and do what I need to do.
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  So with that, that means that we can call upon God at any time that we need to.
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  We can invite him through prayer to walk with me, to help me.
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  I love that.
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  We call ourselves the warriors of light.
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  You can ask for light, you can ask for angels to come at any time.
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  I truly believe in angels and the power of angels.
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  And I feel like some of those angels are good, healthy family members that have passed on that we can call upon them.
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  And we don't worship angels, but we can call on them to assist.
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  They're like the grand helpers in God's kingdom that will come and assist us.
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  And so sometimes I'll ask that those angels be discharged to come and help me as a mom and help my kids too.
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  Sometimes my kids, as we're on the way, we're going on the way to school.
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  And they'll say, I have this major chemistry test today.
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  I don't know what to do, Mom.
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  I'm like, okay, let's pray.
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  Let's ask the Lord to bless you.
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  And luckily, as we have our drive to school, I'll say, and please bless so and so that their math angels can come and help them today and help them.
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  My kid has to do the work.
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  They need to study, right?
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  They need to do their homework.
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  But then we'll call upon those math angels to come and assist them to help them to remember the things they've learned, remember the things they've studied.
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  And my kids feel so much more confident walking into the school and walking into that test that day because they know that God is with them.
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  That directly opens up to step number two in our booklet, the Catalyst Principle.
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  So as a mother, we can become living catalysts in Our home by allowing God to come into us and change our heart first.
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  By doing this, you can become a beacon to the rest of your household.
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  Wendy is now going to beautifully address how a mother who addresses her own baseline emotions first provides, like a visual lighthouse on the shore for her children to navigate towards.
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  You're like the baseline weather of the home to give your kids a safe harbor.
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  We're like the lighthouse that is the safety beacon that's on the shore.
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  As everybody's weathering their storm because they go out into the world, it's like they're going out into the troubled waters.
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  And at night, I am the lighthouse and that they see to come to and to be that safe harbor that gives them that rest and that fortification so they can get everything that they need.
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  But then they get to go out in the world and practice all the things that they learn and to keep the safety.
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  Okay, now we're in our ship.
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  I'm running my own boat.
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  How do I operate that?
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  I'm the captain of my ship, but I get to go home at night to the safe place, the safe harbor, and my home and my mom and can be the safe harbor in a way.
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  So I think it's really important for us as moms to help ourselves to be in that safe place so that we can operate our home.
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  That is that safe harbor, I guess, is the best way to say it.
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  Isn't that awesome?
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  Once you are partnered up with God and realize how much you can truly affect the environment of your home, you're ready for step number three, which is mastering discernment, or learning to see the adversary's attacks.
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  Attacks, because that's really such a big part of the equation.
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  And then step number four is to cast out the adversary and calm down.
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  The adversary understands the immense leverage a mother holds over her household, so he strategically targets us when our guard is down.
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  He waits until we are physically depleted, emotionally raw, or dealing with our regular monthly hormone cycles.
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  To get his hooks in us, he attacks the guardian of the home to bring down the whole fortress.
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  Wendy is now going to share how, from a tactical perspective, why the enemy uses his heaviest artillery on mothers and why we have to use these steps to fight back.
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  If I was a general of a large army, I would attack a mom, too.
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  That's where I would hit the hardest, Because a mom can do so much good, and she can do so much damage if she's off kilter, if she's not in the right place and the right space.
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  And so Satan knows that if he attacks moms.
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  He's going to hit hard.
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  And he does hit hard.
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  And so that's why moms have to be on guard and recognize and start seeing when he's attacking and realizing that those attacks are real and that they're there.
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  And the more we can understand how our enemy attacks us, the more defenses we can put into place, the more we can get the Lord to be on our side.
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  He's always on our side and he's always there.
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  But there are things we can do to invite him in even more into our homes to help regulate us and to help regulate our home and build those defenses so that we can be successful and be a beacon
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  and a light to our kids and to those and our husbands and those around us so that we can shine brightly.
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  So there are these beautiful tools that we have to help us to identify when we're being attacked, know how to fight back.
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  Not only just fight back, but bring our homes into a place where they really are these beautiful beacons of light.
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  And our kids and us, we're armed, we're ready, and we know how to defend and be on God's side.
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  And we really become warriors of him and for him and for our families.
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  So, my friends, the adversary is hitting you with everything he's got because he is terrified of when a mother stands up and claims her authority to stand in her power and be yoked to Jesus Christ.
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  In step number four, we list the exact prayer you can use to cast out the adversary in the name of Jesus and bring in light and peace.
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  We've just touched on the beginning of this playbook today.
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  Inside the full guide, you'll also find step number five, wielding God's Word, which gives you our three part scriptural authority Authority formula to turn promises found in God's Word into direct weapons.
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  Doesn't that sound awesome?
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  And step number six, the Power of Remembering.
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  Where we teach you how to build a miracle Moments journal to permanently shatter the enemy's weapon of making us forget all the times God has showed up in our lives.
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  Do not wait for your whole household to shatter.
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  Look for a strategy to help empower you and your family.
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  Grab a copy of a Mother's spiritual defense guide 6 Empowering Steps to fortify home and Family free at the link below.
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  When you print it out, be sure to look at the not to do list page in the very back of the toolkit.
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  Because so many times as women we spread ourselves too thin and if we make a list of everything we're doing and then pray about it.
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  God inspires us.
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  What we can get rid of.
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  So, my friends, come reclaim your energy.
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  Start fortifying your perimeters.
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  Recognize the adversary.
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  Cast him out.
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  And most of all, remember who you are.
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  You are a daughter of God, a warrior of light, a guardian of your home.
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  And you can fortify and place a shield of protection around your home.
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  There's even a worksheet on that as well, on the very back.
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  Oh, my friends, you are not in this battle alone.
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  Remember that God is your general, and he will walk with you.
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  And until next time, may you arise.
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  Do it God's way.
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  God strong.
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