Are S*x and Intimacy Challenges Helpful? Maybe

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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God designed marital closeness not only for physical connection but also to nurture emotional and spiritual unity. When husbands and wives pursue intimacy regularly, they often experience a deeper sense of being loved, fulfilled, adored, and valued by their spouse. Join us as we explore how Christ-centered surrender and Christ-honoring intimacy can transform both our inner lives and our marriages.Master marital communication: https://speak.fiercemarriage.comTake the 31-Day Pursuit Challenge: https://31daypursuit.comPray for your spouse with intention: https://40prayers.comTo learn more about becoming a Christian, visit: https://thenewsisgood.comThis ministry is entirely listener-supported. To partner with us, visit https://fiercemarriage.com/partner Good news! You can now find FULL video episodes on our YouTube channel, The Fierce Family. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkyO4yVeRdODrpsyXLhEr7w to subscribe and watch. We hope to see you there!

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0:00.0	Sex is a gift given to married couples for his glory, for your good.
0:04.3	In general, if you're in a pretty good spot, it's not going to hurt. It's going to make things better. More intimacy is going to level up your marriage. When we're consistent about it, our bickering has gone down. Our tension goes down. On the same page, laughing a lot more, making more jokes with one another, having fun together. The longer you wait,
0:21.4	the more time it takes, I think, to reconcile and get back to a place of desiring intimacy again.
0:27.4	And if you can get on the same page about it and increase your frequency, I would argue that
0:31.2	you're probably going to increase the happiness, the joy, the unity in your marriage
0:34.7	considerably, just by giving this a shot. That in itself is a huge
0:38.4	win, is that you're setting and you're pursuing a goal together for the betterment of your
0:42.5	relationship. The right challenge is good for the right couple at the right time. A challenge can
0:46.7	be crushing to a marriage that is on its last life. Sex is extremely powerful. It's an extremely powerful gift God has given to married couples. And I think oftentimes we miss, I think we, what's the word, misunderstand, we underestimate just how powerful of a gift it is.
1:13.4	I think most married couples will say it's good, right?
1:16.9	But it's actually powerful.
1:18.6	And today we're going to talk about this idea of intimacy challenges.
1:23.0	Is there merit to that, to those?
1:25.3	Like is it good to do a 30-day challenge of having sex every day or like a
1:29.6	seven-day, you know, challenge? Because we see Paul, Paul says in, I think it's First Corinthians
1:35.2	seven, right? It's okay to abstain insofar as you both agree and for the purposes of prayer and
1:42.7	fasting, right? We don't see the
1:44.9	opposite. Right. That you would do the opposite of fasting from it, that you would say we're in
1:48.9	double down. Right. One might say like if you're married, you should be having sex every night.
1:53.6	Who said that? One could say that. Oh, one could say that. Who's one? Do you want to know this one? Do you say that?
2:01.7	That's the question.
2:02.5	That's the question.
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