How you know you going thru a spiritual warfare? Help me know the diference 
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pay attention to everything around you pray constantly
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Spiritual warfare is the daily struggle to read and pray intelligently about ones bible reading and the struggle to live according to the 10 commandments.
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That’s a really honest question, and a lot of people wonder the same thing. Sometimes the idea of “spiritual warfare” gets talked about in dramatic ways, but often it shows up much more quietly in our everyday lives.
For me, one of the clearest signs is when I feel pulled away from the things that keep me close to God; peace, truth, prayer, Scripture, wise choices, and instead feel weighed down by confusion, fear, temptation, or discouragement. It’s not always a big dramatic battle… sometimes it’s simply recognizing, “This is not from God, and I need to turn back to Him.”
The good news is that spiritual warfare isn’t something we face alone. God doesn’t ask us to fight in our own strength. He gives us His Spirit, His Word, and His peace.
And even when we feel the struggle, it doesn’t mean we’re failing, it often means we’re growing.
If you’re sensing something spiritual going on, staying close to God through prayer and Scripture (even small steps) can bring clarity and calm.
You don’t have to have all the answers. God meets you right where you are. 
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The Whole Armor of God
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Eph 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Eph 6:15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
Eph 6:18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—
In ~Romans 13:12 Paul writes in an eschatological frame, “The night is nearly over, the day has drawn near. Therefore let us lay aside the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light,” where apothōmetha (let us lay aside) is an aorist middle subjunctive calling for decisive renunciation, and endysōmetha (let us put on) is an aorist middle subjunctive demanding intentional appropriation, the armor not being defensive hardware but a lived alignment with light shaped by the coming day.
In ~2 Corinthians 6:7 Paul speaks autobiographically yet paradigmatically, “in truthful speech and in the power of God, through weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,” where hoplōn (weapons) evokes the same military field, and the phrase dia tōn hoplōn places the armor as the means by which ministry endures affliction, indicating not avoidance of suffering but faithful endurance within it.
In ~2 Corinthians 10:3–5 Paul sharpens the imagery polemically, “For though walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful in God for the demolition of strongholds,” where strateuometha (we wage war) is present middle, ongoing engagement, and kathairountes (demolishing) is a present active participle describing continuous action, the armor functioning offensively against arguments and pretensions rather than against people.
In ~1 Thessalonians 5:8 Paul again commands appropriation, “But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation,” where endysamenoi (having put on) is an aorist middle participle grounding sobriety in a completed decisive act, and the armor pieces are explicitly virtues oriented toward faith, love, and hope, not mystical protection but ethical steadfastness.
Across these passages Paul consistently presents armor as something to be put on, wielded, and used through ongoing faithfulness, truthfulness, sobriety, and hope, never as a ritualized recitation or symbolic visualization, and never detached from concrete obedience, suffering, and witness, which aligns with his theology of participation in Christ crucified, where strength is exercised through weakness and victory is manifested through faith working in love.
J.
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This is some awsome information. Spirtuality is a very complex concept, still waters run deep.
Not complex at all, all you need to do is open your bible and study Romans and Ephesians, plenty Imperatives and indicatives in Scripture.
The goal here is not “awesome information!” and leave it at that, but should be appropiated and applied in YOUR life, correct?
Shalom @RhinoGarett
J.
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How do you know if you are going through “spiritual warfare”?
You don’t have to wonder. If you are IN Jesus, you ARE in Spiritual warfare.
- Some days you are on the front-line being shot at from every angle.
- Some days you are in training, learning the maneuvers of the enemy.
- Some days you are in the medic’s tent, being patched up and recuperating.
- Some days you are on patrol, head-on-a-swivel, vigilant against potential ambush.
- Some days you are teaching young recruits how to obey orders, and learn endurance.
- Some days you are waiting for new orders, and taking a small break when you can get it.
- Some days you are doing maintenance, cleaning your weapon, checking your armor.
- Some days….
No matter what you are doing, you are engaging in spiritual warfare.
As you were! Carry on. Don’t fret. The war has already been won.
KP
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Nicely done, think you just spoke to me @KPuff
J.
Right on, I agree @Johann with all due respect your post is a profound post no pun intended.
There is spiritual warfare as we see it described in Scripture, which @Johann and @KPuff have done a great job talking about.
There is also “spiritual warfare” in a highly modernized concept which often involves very sensationalist ideas and engaging in peculiar practices which don’t really share much in biblical and historic Christian practice.
The reality is, as others have said, that we are always engaged in spiritual warfare. It’s part of the cross that Jesus tells us to carry as His disciples. John 13:16, John 15:18. Though it is not with “flesh and blood” that we strive against; it is the spiritual cosmic powers of this age present in the world that we arm ourselves against–armed not with the implements of human battle; but the implements of God–with faith, hope, peace, we guard ourselves with the Holy Gospel and we speak the word of God in truth and love, and the Spirit Himself keeps us secure and safe, on the solid foundation of Christ. In this the flaming arrows from the devil can do us no harm: for “greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4) and “We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37).
In Christ the battle is already won, for Christ has conquered already. So then, secure ourselves in Him, be equipped with the armor of God, for victory belongs to our God–and the devil and every force of spiritual darkness is found impotent against what God has done and God has promised. Therefore, “be strong in the Lord” (Ephesians 6:10).
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Thank you @Johann I needed that encouragement.
We all do brother, this is a lonely road for the pilgrim.
J.
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