🍞🎞️🍂🤎In the Lovebirds’ Devotional of 5th June, 2026, we said:
“Sir/Ma, please hear this: true spiritual titans in Christ do not trifle with or joke about sexual intimacy in their marriage.
Apostle Peter and the other married apostles of Christ, as well as the Lord’s brothers, James and Jude, were known to travel with their wives when going out on preaching engagements in other places (1 Corinthians 9:5). It was the standard practice in the apostolic era. Why?
Firstly, because they did not want to fall into the pit of adultery.
Secondly, because they were not so presumptuous as to think that they were above temptation.
Thirdly, because, knowing the staggering costs of sexual scandal in the life of a prominent Christian leader, they did not take chances.”

🍞🎞️🍂🤎LIVING BY GOD’S EVERY WORD ON SEX IN MARRIAGE
Every Christian is either a leader or a leader in the making, and each one of us must be balanced in our spiritual beliefs, convictions and walk. God commands us to live by every word that proceeds from His mouth (Matthew 4:4), and that includes every word that He has spoken on spouses’ sexual and romantic duties and obligations to each other in marriage. We are not to live on some and feel it is unnecessary to live on others. That would be selective obedience, and selective obedience is equivalent to disobedience (James 2:10-11).

🍞🎞️🍂🤎MARTIN LUTHER AND OTHER EXEMPLARY PREACHERS
Thankfully, very many preachers have actively taught and personally practised prioritising regular, frequent sexual intimacy in marriage. They ardently believe, obey and propagate the biblical principles in 1 Corinthians 7:5, which advises couples to come together regularly so that Satan will not tempt them because of their lack of self-control.
It is on record that during the great Protestant Reformation (1517–1685), Martin Luther radically departed from the traditional ascetic views that dominated the religious landscape of those times. He taught that the “marriage debt” (regular sexual fulfilment between a husband and wife) is a fundamental duty and one of the primary ways God provides to resist sexual temptation and avoid sin. He was absolutely right!

🍞🎞️🍂🤎TRUE SPIRITUALITY
True spirituality is seeing things as the Lord sees them and never differently. When you begin to see sexual intimacy in marriage differently from how God sees it, then you are already in error and have veered off the path of truth. You are not only endangered but have become a dangerous species spiritually because you can infect others with your heretical and cancerous views and ruin otherwise healthy marriages.

🍞🎞️🍂🤎RETRACE YOUR STEPS
Sir/Ma, if you have unfortunately embraced the belief that considers sex in marriage as “a necessary evil that we must endure” (called malum necessarium in Latin) or the equally wrong view that “sex is a worldly and carnal activity that we must carry out in marriage just to fulfil all righteousness,” and consequently pay little or no attention to sexual intercourse in your marriage despite the objections of your spouse, then know on good authority that you have embraced heresy and must quickly retrace your steps to God’s true doctrine on sexual intimacy in marriage.

🍞🎞️🍂🤎CONCLUSION: GOD’S DOCTRINE ON SEXUAL INTIMACY IN MARRIAGE(IN BRIEF)
God’s doctrine on sexual intimacy in marriage is clear. It holds that sex is an excellent creation of God, whose works are all excellent (Genesis 1:31). It is the water of married life. Just as physical water is clean, clear, pure, sparkling and thirst-quenching, so is sexual intimacy in marriage (Proverbs 5:15). And just as physical water has the power to put out fiery flames, so also has sexual intimacy the power to put out the raging and destructive inferno of lust (1 Corinthians 7:9). It is an honourable, dignified, beautiful, respectable and responsible activity (Hebrews 13:4) irrespective of how much the world bastardises it daily and makes every effort to caricature it. And just as physical water is a good cleanser and hydrator, so also is sexual intimacy to the moral and spiritual life of spouses (Proverbs 5:15). It is the wine of married life with which spouses celebrate and entertain each other (Song of Solomon 1:2). God’s Word commands spouses to faithfully give sexual ministry or service to each other and never refuse except when on mutually agreed fasting and prayer retreat (1 Corinthians 7: 2 -5).🤎

💕❤️ Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Reread this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with an open and sincere heart.

📚📖✒️ Quotes For Reflection:
“Always bear in mind that love and lovemaking are two distinctly different things.”(Anselm Ahman. Lovebirds’ Devotional, May 15, 2026)

✝️ Altar Call:
Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today and be saved!

🌡️⚗️ Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
“Excessive hostility and unresolved anger in a marriage are linked to long-term health risks, including impaired immune function, depression, and higher blood pressure.”

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