Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope.

Now, we're going to continue our series today called Building My Life on Values That Last.

And Rick will press on and show us how we benefit when we apply the biblical principles

of trust, self-control, balance, respect, forgiveness, moral purity, fairness, honesty, and love to our lives.

And now let's go right to Rick with the final part of a message called Maintaining Moral Purity.

Yesterday I was reading this magazine, Marriage Partnership.

It's a Christian magazine.

I highly recommend that you subscribe to this magazine. Terrific magazine, Marriage Partnership. It's a Christian magazine. I highly recommend that you

subscribe to this magazine. Terrific magazine, Marriage Partnership. And in it there was an article

called It Doesn't Just Happen a Lifetime Prescription for Sizzling Sex. It says, do you remember

the anticipation of going on a date with your future spouse and how desperately you desired one another,

and how the sexual tension seemed to mount as you move toward marriage?

Today you may be wondering, where's our energy and desire for sex now?

After 20 years as counselors, we're convinced that good sex in marriage doesn't, quote, just happen.

Couples who keep the sexual spark glowing through the changing stages of marriage are those

who deliberately set about their sexual relationship.

It talks about in different stages.

It says, you know, during the marriage's middle years, you may feel as though you're merely

surviving sexually. The demand of life uses up your

energy and your primary desire is often for sleep, not sex. I saw a few elbows and a few amends just then.

But you must keep the pilot light of your sexual relationship lit, even if you don't have the time and energy to turn the flames up as high as they used to be.

How do you do that?

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