In the beginning, God had a garden dream. He had such a profound love to share with the world he made

that he imprinted his beautiful nature on the body of a man and a woman. He called them good,

then commissioned them to become one flesh, to live meaningful,

powerful, purposeful lives together from a place of loving oneness. While things have gotten pretty

off course in the world since then, Jesus came to reconnect us back to God's divine design of intimacy, to reform our hearts,

relationships, and loves, to bring heaven to earth, starting right in our homes and right in our

bedrooms. I'm Francie Winslow. Welcome to the Heaven in Your Home podcast.

As a wife and mom of six, I long to dive deep, theologically and practically, into what

this possibly could mean for our hearts, our marriages, our bedrooms, and beyond, starting in the

most intimate places, flowing to the most public spaces.

We are asking God to renew our vision of his plan for sex, marriage, and heaven coming through it all.

And I have to tell you, friends, it's more beautiful, more meaningful, and more powerful than we may have ever been told. It's good news. I'm so glad you're here with me.

Hello, sweet friends. Welcome back. We are chatting this month about words, the power of words, the

significance of words, the impact of words on your

marriage, on your intimacy.

And specifically, we're getting to conversations about words before sex, words during sex.

What is it about talking about sex that's so hard and how can we break through to deeper levels

of intimacy with our words so before we get further let's just pray father thank you that you gave us

the gift of intimacy you gave us the gift of marriage if we are in a marriage then it's a gift

and we just invoke your wisdom and your presence and your leadership,

Holy Spirit. Would you lead us in a more truth, lead us into more wisdom and discernment on how we can

connect with your love for us and for our spouse and how we can express it? And we also pray,

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