🩷🧡🤎🩵When a couple knows how disastrous and far-reaching the consequences of sexual immorality are, they will come to the realization and conviction that sexual intimacy in marriage is much more than pleasure or an effort to obey the command on procreation (Genesis 1:28).
🩷🧡🤎🩵MAKING LOVE IS MAKING WAR!
Sexual intimacy in marriage is fighting a war of territorial defence for your matrimonial kingdom, and you are doing it from your bedroom and from your marriage bed. It is a tactical warfare of territorial protection. It is fortifying the divine hedge that surrounds your marriage, family, and home. It is constantly putting down the existential threats from the hordes of hell who are bent on disgracing you and your mate and destroying your union at all costs.
🩷🧡🤎🩵MORE THAN JUST WRONG
Many people only know that sexual immorality is wrong. But Sir/Ma, it is far worse than that.
Sexual immorality led to:
1. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as the cities of the plain (Genesis 19:24–25).
2. It was the foremost reason for the destruction of Canaan and its inhabitants (Leviticus 18:24–25), and God brought Israel to take over those nations.
3. Sexual immorality contributed to the decline and ultimate fall of great and flourishing empires such as the Babylonian Empire, Ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire.
4. One evening’s fling with sexual immorality brought untold consequences upon King David, the man after God’s heart and one of the greatest generalissimos who ever walked the earth. The singular act of sexual immorality with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, brought down the supernatural hedge of defence that had surrounded his domestic territory (home and family) for years. The enemy suddenly walked in freely, causing the incestuous rape of Tamar, his virgin daughter; the fratricidal murder of Amnon, his first son and heir apparent; the public and shameful violation of his ten concubines by his son Absalom right on his favourite rooftop in broad daylight and in the sight of all Israel; his sudden overthrow from power by Absalom; the cruel and treacherous murder of Absalom by Joab; the death of thousands of Israelites in an unnecessary civil war; and much more.
King David’s one-evening escapade opened both his domestic and political territories for the devil to invade!
So, when you and your spouse are fully committed to serving each other sexually, you are being proactive; you are fighting the devil even before he launches an attack. You are destroying his hidden ambushes and agendas before they are “detonated.” You are making your matrimonial castle more formidable.
🩷🧡🤎🩵TAKE HEED AGAINST SPIRITUAL FALL
Day and night, Scripture tirelessly screams at the top of its voice: “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall” (1 Corinthians 10:12).
Faithful and consistent sexual ministry to each other in marriage is practically taking heed against a calamitous fall into sexual immorality and its chain of consequences. You do not need two falls; just one is enough for the devil to cause ripples of negative effects that may last for many years and harm not only you and your spouse but many more people than you can ever imagine.
🩷🧡🤎🩵TRUE SPIRITUAL TITANS
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.
🩷🧡🤎🩵IT’S YOUR DUTY!!!
1 Corinthians 7:2 makes it abundantly clear that it is your duty—not God’s—to avoid sexual immorality. It also makes it clear that one way to overcome the temptation to immorality is to faithfully fulfil your sexual obligations to each other.
🩷🧡🤎🩵ON OUR BED WE CONQUER!
In the Pentecostal church where I was raised, “On our knees we conquer” was our slogan, and it is a wonderful one.
As a couple, you will do well to say, “On our bed we conquer!” as a slogan for your marriage.
On your bed, you conquer the strange women or men who are striving for the amorous attention of your mate. On your bed, you constantly manage and channel each other’s libido, ensuring that it does not overgrow like weeds and become unmanageable lust.
Yes, on your bed, you conquer all who seek to divide your mate’s fidelity and total commitment to you as a covenant partner in marriage.
🩷🧡🤎🩵CONCLUSION
In conclusion, sexual intimacy in marriage is pleasurable, no doubt, but it is much more than that. It is fighting the spirit of lust before encountering it when away from your spouse. It is strengthening and arming each other with the capacity to remain morally disciplined during the hours, days, or weeks you may be apart until you come together again to reinforce that bond.
Yes, sexual intimacy in marriage is spiritual warfare!🩵
💕❤️ Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Reread this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with open and sincere hearts.
📚📖✒️ Quotes For Reflection:
“In marriage, one of the things you must never become comfortable neglecting is your outward appearance.”(Anselm Ahman. Lovebirds’ Devotional, June 4, 2026)
✝️ Altar Call:
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