Episode 5: Sex in the Hard Seasons : Building Habits that Help You Sustain Connection
Female by Design
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 31 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:
- Developing good habits in your marriage
- Galatians 6:7-9
- To Love Honor and Vacuum by Sheila Gregoire
- The Good Girls Guide to Great Sex by Sheila Gregoire
- Episode 4: Sex as a Signpost
- 2 Samuel 12:24
- Fighting for oneness in our marriage
- Intentionally invest in your marriage
- Jeremiah 17:7 & 8
- Sowing into the marriage of your dreams
Practical Questions for your spouse:
- How are we doing? How's your heart in our marriage?
- Affirm each other: This is how I feel about you.
- How is our intimacy?
- How can we invest in our marriage
Prayer:
Father thank you for the chance to be honest and ask questions. Thank you for the humility to ask each other questions and help us honor the gift of vulnerability. Fill that space with strength from the Holy Spirit that looks like love and tenderness and care. I pray for more conversations about how we can invest in our marriages. Come Lord, do a deep work in us.
Resources:
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, thanks so much for joining me. This is Francie Winslow on the Heaven in |
| 0:10.5 | Your Home podcast. I am passionate about you and your spouse living fully alive for the mission of God. |
| 0:19.3 | We are each given just a breath on this earth, and I long |
| 0:24.1 | to see my own life and my husband's life and your lives filled to the fullness with God, |
| 0:30.2 | and that includes every aspect, even our sex lives. So on this podcast, and in this one in particular, |
| 0:36.0 | like many of the other ones, we're going to go there. |
| 0:38.1 | We're going to talk about marriage and intimacy and the mission of God. |
| 0:42.3 | And we're specifically today going to talk about why it is so important to intentionally invest in the intimate connection of your marriage. |
| 0:49.9 | Because God wants to strengthen you, not only for the happy happy good times, but for the harder times as well. |
| 0:56.5 | And how you live your life in the good times actually has a massive impact on how you are able to survive the harder times. |
| 1:06.0 | So I want to talk about that, tell you a few stories from our own journey about how we invested specifically |
| 1:12.3 | in our connection and our sex life in good times and in harder times so that the intimacy |
| 1:19.1 | and the oneness and the union of our marriage, the unity that we shared continued to grow |
| 1:24.3 | because the unity of our marriage is directly related to our capacity to serve the |
| 1:30.2 | Lord. And that's what we want to guard. That's what we want to grow is our connection and our |
| 1:34.2 | oneness and our ability to say yes to God in every season. Let's pray before we get into that. |
| 1:41.9 | Oh, Father, thank you so much for another day. Thank you for this little closet that I get to go into, |
| 1:47.7 | quite literally, this closet in my room and shut the door and pray to you and think about your good |
| 1:54.3 | gifts of marriage and sexuality and the invitation that we have every day to be living sacrifices for you. |
| 2:01.9 | The invitation that we have to use our bodies to glorify you. |
| 2:06.3 | The invitation to leave every bit of ourselves open to you for transformation. |
| 2:12.1 | So we say, yes, God. |
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