Episode 4: The Ripple Effect of Sex: And Why Sex Matters, Especially When You Don't Feel Like It
Female by Design
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Welcome the Heaven in Your Home podcast. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.
In This Episode Francie talks about:
- How sex connects to the mission of God
- The language of the body
- Why we drift apart in marriage
- Leaning in and choosing connection
- The ripple effect of sex
- Francie tells a story of when she and her husband began to experience the marriage drift.
- Overcoming the influence of fear
- Growing her family through the gift of adoption
- Episode 3: Re-Thinking Sex: Recovering a Biblical Lens
Prayer:
Thank you for the glory of God on our bodies and the power of reconnecting and becoming one. Help us to fight for our marriage because unity matters. Holy Spirit guide us into wholeness and heal us. Bring our marriage back to wholeness in our mission with you- to be fruitful and multiply the gifts You have given us. Be glorified Father. Help us to know You and show You in all we do. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is Francie Winslow. Thank you for joining me on the Heaven in |
| 0:10.5 | your home podcast today. We're going to jump in today and talk about why sex is worth it |
| 0:17.6 | even when you're not in the mood. Why sex is worth it even when you're not in the mood. |
| 0:21.1 | Why sex is worth it even when you're tired? |
| 0:23.5 | We're gonna talk about the drift that inevitably happens in marriage and why being intentional |
| 0:29.1 | about your marriage connection is so important. |
| 0:32.8 | Not only for your happiness and for the health of your marriage, but really for God's purposes |
| 0:37.4 | in your life. |
| 0:38.9 | It has all connected. And so we're going to start there, but first let's pray. |
| 0:44.2 | Father, thank you so much for breath in our lungs. Thank you for the capacity to seek you. |
| 0:52.5 | Thank you for the grace to open our hearts and our minds to you to receive more from |
| 0:59.0 | you so that our lives can overflow with you. That's what we long for. We want more of you, God, |
| 1:06.0 | more revelation of your heart. And we ask for alignment in the deep places of our heart, mind, body, soul, |
| 1:13.3 | that we would be in line with your goodness and your truth and your will for our lives. |
| 1:19.4 | We want more of you, God, and more for our marriages. |
| 1:21.9 | So we pray, Father, instruct us by your spirit in this short conversation. |
| 1:26.9 | Give us more of you, And we pray for more in our |
| 1:29.3 | marriages. In Jesus' name, amen. Okay, so we're going to jump in and we are going to talk about |
| 1:37.2 | why sex is worth it. Why leaning into connection is worth it. Not even just the act of sex. The act of sex is the gift |
| 1:47.9 | because it is what our bodies can do physically that actually accomplishes something spiritually. |
| 1:56.1 | Our bodies have a language. It's called the language of the body. And if you think about body |
| 2:00.2 | language, what you do with your body speaks, right? We know this from just watching people, observing |
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