🥑🪵🌱🌵During the early days of Maximum Marriage Ministries, a troubled housewife privately shared her disturbing marital concern. According to her, throughout their many years of marriage, her husband had never taken the step to initiate sexual intimacy. Not even once. All the children they begot were conceived because she made the move for them to have sexual intercourse. If she took no amorous steps towards him for intimacy, nothing happened. It was so bad that someone who was known to both of them had to step into the matter, although very courteously and discreetly. Yet, nothing came of it.
🌴Her story was rare and saddening, but it didn’t surprise me, since I had previously counselled another woman in a similar situation. Besides, I had read about the same marital situation in Richard and Joyce Conner’s excellent book, Marriage Alive. In the case of the British woman in the Conners’ book, she found the situation so heartbreaking that she committed suicide. In any case, suicide is an extreme measure to take over any issue in life.
🥑🪵🌱🌵THE REAL SOLUTION
Now, the question is: Why are some couples seemingly mismatched sexually? The reasons are many, and we are not going to delve into them at this time.
💚However, the good news is that spouses who are sexually mismatched don’t need to remain so permanently. That situation is correctable. The solution we present to you today is a proven one, and it is the very best, the most readily available, and the most affordable. That solution is the Word of God! All you need to do is give faith and obedience to the relevant Word of God, and you’ll see an exponential transformation in your sex drive!
🥑🪵🌱🌵GOD’S WORD TRANSFORMS
God’s Word transmits the power of transformation through knowledge. The Word of God is always available, but it takes knowledge of it to experience the mighty power inherent in it. That’s why Jesus said:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)
🐢You first need to KNOW the truth, and then your knowledge of the truth will activate liberty in you.
🐟Let me share a story I’ve shared on Facebook to buttress the fact that it is knowledge of the truth that leads to liberation or freedom.
🥑🪵🌱🌵HOW THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH SET ME FREE
In my tribe, eating snails was a taboo. We even had a derisive song for the tribe that ate snails.
🐚Then, sometime in 1972, a farmer at my Dad’s new station happily brought us a huge basket full of big, mature snails as a gift. My Dad politely rejected them on the grounds that we didn’t eat snails.
🦪Then, seven years later, I got born again and came to know from the Word of God that no food is forbidden by God (1 Timothy 4:4; Genesis 9:3).
🪼And then, one day, I ate snail meat in the house of a Christian brother! As I was munching my first piece of the unique meat and enjoying its rich taste, I quickly remembered the huge basketful of snails we had rejected wholesale in the name of practising our culture! I instantly regretted the irreparable mistake and colossal nutritional loss!
🦐Similarly, many spouses with dull sexual desire are in that condition because of factors such as ignorance of the liberating truths of the Word of God and blind adherence to the traditions, culture, taboos, myths, and superstitious beliefs of their tribes.
🦀But when they come to know the truth that sexual intimacy in marriage isn’t another version of sexual immorality, but the pure and sparkling drinking water of matrimonial life, their perspective on sexual intimacy will change, just as my perspective on snail meat has changed. I now eat it with relish, absolute liberty, and sheer joy!
🥑🪵🌱🌵THE END OF REJECTING SEX
The rejection of sex is first internal before it becomes visible externally. When a husband or wife internally sees sex as something odd, awkward, indecent, and dirty, they approach it with reluctance, hesitation, and unwillingness. And they even feel that they are right.
🐬But once they know what the Bible says in Proverbs 5:15–17—that sexual intimacy in marriage is a well, a cistern, a fountain, and rivers—diverse forms of water—and that spouses are to drink, bathe, and even swim in it, they will begin to feel free about it.
🐧And gradually, they will grow from merely feeling free about having sex to developing a robust zeal, earnestness, and eagerness for sexual intimacy with their spouse, which is God’s perfect will.
🥑🪵🌱🌵THE SPOUSE WITH THE LOW LIBIDO
The spouse with low libido needs to take a daily dose of sexual-intimacy Scriptures. Why? Because knowledge of them will grow his or her sexual appetite from weak to strong and from small to gigantic.
🐝Every spouse ought to have a ravenous sexual appetite. A sound knowledge of the sexual-intimacy portions of the Bible guarantees a robust sexual appetite.
🐦🔥By God’s grace, we shall look at those Scriptures tomorrow, and I believe you’ll be benefited as we do.🥑🪵
💕♥️🩷Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Re-read this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with open and sincere hearts.
✝️Altar Call: Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today in genuine repentance. Believe in Him and be saved!
🌡️🧪⚗️Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
“In traditional West African medicine, bitter kola (Garcinia kola) is widely reputed as a natural aphrodisiac that boosts libido, enhances blood circulation, and improves erectile function through active antioxidant compounds like kolaviron.”
🎷🪘🎙️🪗 HALLELUJAH!
📢PRAISE THE LORD!