Is it spiritual warfare or your own lack of diligence or attention to details and deadlines? Learn how to discern and lead with integrity.

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Welcome to Heaven in Business, where we help you navigate the intersection of faith, family, and business. In this eye-opening episode, Andy Mason asks a vital question every Christian entrepreneur must wrestle with: Is it a demon—or just a missed deadline? Too often, we blame spiritual warfare for what’s really a failure of diligence, leadership, or planning. Andy shares four practical filters that will help you rightly discern adversity and respond with wisdom. If you're ready to stop hiding behind “spiritual attack” excuses and start building a business that reflects the Kingdom, this is your wake-up call.

Practical Takeaways:

1. Use the 4-D diagnostic: Discipline, Diligence, Demonic, or Decisions of others?

2. Stop spiritualizing dysfunction—excellence is part of Kingdom leadership.

3. Build strong, “hardened” systems to avoid unnecessary attack or burnout.

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Comment below: Where have you misdiagnosed your problem as spiritual attack?

Timestamps

00:00 – Intro: AI, Jesus & Business Authority

03:22 – Demon or Diligence? What’s really happening

05:15 – The 4-D Filter for Adversity

07:50 – Leadership failure dressed as spiritual warfare

12:18 – The warning in Amos 4: “Yet you have not returned to Me”

15:10 – Business case study: Blaming others in bankruptcy

 17:35 – When growth exposes your lack of structure

21:45 – What IT & military teach us about “system hardening”

25:05 – Your checklist: Discipline, Diligence, Demonic, or Decisions?

32:50 – What to do: Evaluate, Realign, Act

35:22 – Why discernment builds maturity, trust, and Kingdom impact

37:10 – Upcoming Events: Executive Retreat + 2026 Conference

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