- When your prayer life is dying. Prayer become unnecessary and a burden to you.
- When you're going back to your old sin and lusts. The habits you've left behind after your salvation experience, the anger, masturbation, pornography.
- When you start enjoying the company of men than staying in the secret place.
- When Bible mediation and study becomes a stress and a problem to you.
- When the leading of God and seeking God's will becomes unnecessary to you.
- You're stumbling in your secret life. I mean you have started tolerating secret smooching, porn, romance with your fiance or fiancee.
- When strange attitude and character traits are finding expression in your life such bitterness, jealousy, envy, gossip etc.
- When your mind has become a battle ground. Various weird thoughts, lustful imagination and wicked desires.
- When you're becoming abnormally idle. When you're avoiding the company of your spiritual friends.
- When you're becoming easily offended. Simple corrections offend and stings your ego.
- When your conscience no longer police your heart. You no longer feel remorseful at ungodly acts.
- Preoccupation by the cares of this world.
- When you're helpless under the tyranny of your flesh and body.
- When you're feeling God is becoming too late to fulfill His promises for your life.
- When you rationalizing your sinfulness and sinful act. You're using words "It doesn't matter" "Nobody is perfect" "God understands"
- When you're exhalting your spiritual gifts than fruit of the spirit.
Go for retreat.... In the kingdom retreat is the secret of spiritual progress. Get relevant books and tapes on the matter of concern and flog it out with God.