184. Trading Fear for Freedom - Sex is God’s Creation
Heaven In Your Home
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The topic of sex so often shuts us down. The thought of learning or growing isn’t even an option when it’s a no-go territory.
Yet, we learn about creation in two ways: through God’s words (the Bible) and through God’s works (His creation, which includes you and me). The body is His design. When we look at the beauty of our body and how it works, we can see the heart of a good Creator.
In this episode we’ll unpack common fears and practical thinking to challenge those fears so that we might overcome them and boldly celebrate all of God’s creation, which includes our bodies and our sexuality.
Let’s see more of His works, which are very good. Friend, we don’t have to be afraid.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends. Welcome back. It's Francie. This is another episode of the Heaven in Your Home |
| 0:08.7 | podcast. Today, I just want to tackle a conversation about why are we afraid of sexuality? Why are we |
| 0:16.1 | afraid to talk about sex? Why are we afraid to even pursue growth in our own marriages? And I'm going to start |
| 0:22.1 | by saying, why am I afraid of it? I don't know, maybe you're not afraid of it. I feel like I've |
| 0:27.7 | had enough experience speaking to churches and groups of women that there is a lot of pain, |
| 0:32.9 | obviously, attached to this because of the power of sexuality and the intensity of how powerful it is in our |
| 0:41.1 | bodies when it's hard, when it's bad. On the flip side, I believe it's that intensely painful |
| 0:47.2 | because the intensely good that it was designed to be. Because of the intense beauty and glory that God ascribed to our sexuality when he called us, |
| 0:59.5 | his image bearers, and said he looked at what he had made, and it was very good. |
| 1:05.2 | And if God looked at what he had made, our mailness and our femalness and our capacity to be sexual human beings who connect |
| 1:12.9 | deeply in love and in vulnerability and in unity and in pleasure. If that's very good, then you |
| 1:19.2 | better believe that the enemy of our souls and the enemy of God and all his beauty and goodness |
| 1:24.3 | realize that and wants to make it very bad. I've been on a journey of |
| 1:30.6 | healing the last almost 20 years of marriage. We've been married 18 years, but the conversations |
| 1:36.4 | about sexuality between me and God started before that. It got really real when I got married, |
| 1:41.9 | but coming out of kind of the purity culture and honestly |
| 1:46.5 | just being really devoted to God, but not connected at all to my body or my femininity or my sexuality |
| 1:52.4 | and having no roadmap for that. It's been a journey of figuring out, is this okay to talk about this? |
| 1:57.6 | Is this okay to ask these questions? Is it okay to be sexual, to be sensuous, |
| 2:03.0 | to experience pleasure? What is the deal with this? Why is it so hard? Why am I afraid? And what does |
| 2:10.4 | God say about this? So I'm going to share with you a little bit of my journey. I've been taking some |
| 2:15.3 | notes and writing. I used to think this to try to understand |
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