Top Way's to Fracture Your Sex Life & Marriage

I recently spoke at a local Mops group, and wanted to share my notes with any of you who may read my blog.

I hope and pray that it encourages you.

Let’s talk about “sex”!

When I say the word “sex” many thoughts run through our minds. I asked the ladies what was the first thing that went thru their mind and here are a few responses..

"Who has time?"

"What's that?"

"Do I have to ?"

"That was quick!"

"We used to do that!"

My heart is so sad that this was the popular opinion of the women. It doesn't have to be.

“Sex” is not a dirty word and we have to talk about sex in church. Let’s get real, the world (media, movies, internet, etc.) talks about it. The 2nd best place to talk about it is in church. The most important place should be in your home with your spouse.

God created sex.

Genesis 1:24-28 (NIV)

24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the

ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds,

the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw

that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the

birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image,

in the image of God he created them;

male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the

sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Ways to fracture Your Marriage & Sex Life.

* Withhold sex & intimacy in your marriage

1 Corinthians 7:5 (NLT)

⁵ Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

What is your favorite resteraunt ?

So let me ask this ….If you were asked to eat at the same resteraunt every day for the rest of your life and eat the same meal, would one of your expactations be to have that meal timely and consistent ? Compare that to your marriage or rather your sex life, ouch!

"Quantity is a poor substitute for quality. Quantity plays a role, but it is a supporting role, not the leading role."

However as women we need to learn to say "YES" more than we say "NO".

Unconditional Love -

John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

"When you got married you made an unconditional promise to an imperfect man."

Your husband doesn’t need to earn the gift of sex. It’s not a reward system. It’s a love system. Fill up his love bank.

"In order for a man to reach his wife's body, he must go through her heart.

For a Woman to reach her husband's heart, she must go through his body."

Emerson Eggrich.

*Refuse to Heal From Past Sexual Hurts

his or her porn addiction

past relationships

sexualy molested

1)Realize that the Abuse was the Problem

2)Realize that God is Angry at the Abuse

3)Reframe How You See Sex

4)Talk about it.

You’re an adult now, and it’s up to you whether or not you want to let that abuser/situation keep stealing from you, or whether you’re going to pursue wholeness again. Please pursue wholeness.

* Establish your standard of attraction outside your marriage

Song of Solomon 5:10 (NLT)

¹⁰ My lover is dark and dazzling, better than ten thousand others!

YOU’RE MY STANDARD OF HOT.

Ladies your husband needs to know he is your standard of hotness!

Song of Solomon 7:1 (NLT)

¹ How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a skilled craftsman.

You are my standard of beauty

People around you need to know your standard of hotness is your husband.

Avoid tempting situations

1 Corinthians 6:18 (NLT)

¹⁸ Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

Let other people know your standard & invite them to keep you accountable. They won’t keep you accountable if they don’t know you want them to.

Psalm 51:6 (NIV)

⁶ Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

* Be best-friends or form close relationships with opposite sex

Genesis 2:18 (MSG)

¹⁸God said, "It's not good for the Man to be alone; I'll make him a helper, a companion.

Song of Solomon 5:16 (NLT)

¹⁶ His mouth is sweetness itself; he is desirable in every way. Such, O women of Jerusalem, is my lover, my friend.

* Flirting (body part talking, jokes about sex)

* Facebook– Share passwords, emotional needs met thru fbook, should be meet thru your spouse. Always starts innocently.

* Start discussing Marriage issues with opposite sex.

* Value doing Everything Together

* Guard Interactions – Being alone with opposite sex in a private place, Won’t ride in a car alone with opposite sex, Counsel with opposite sex alone.

When you have interaction with the opposite sex it’s never harmless. Your Emotions will attach and your husband will not be able to meet those and you’ll have a wall up no matter how hard you try. Your sex life will be affected.

*Shut God out of our lives & relationships.

Hebrews 13:4 (NLT)

⁴ Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

*Emasculate Him by not giving him respect.

Show him honor by respect. That's a top need for him.

So often we belittle him, emasculate him, humiliate him, talk negative to family and friends.

It doesn’t matter if your husband has earned it or if he deserves it or if you don’t feel like it.

Show him honor by respecting him.

Some of you are praying your husband will come to church, well quit talking trash about him and maybe he will. Speak life over him.

Doesn’t matter feel like it or wether he has earned it. It’s biblical; Eph. 5:33 "and the wife must respect her husband."

Too many of us have virtually no respect for what a husband really needs, but we have unlimited respect for our own needs. And we’re not only hurting our husbands–we’re hurting ourselves.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. We judge our spouses by their actions. No wonder we think we’re better!

When your husband feels respected your sex life will launch thru the roof.

*Create a Child Centered Marriage

Child-centered marriage is a recipe for disaster. Teach children early that their “happiness” is not Mom or Dad’s reason for living.

Never think that you are doing your children a favor by prioritizing them over your husband.

Your husband was there before your kids, and will be there when there gone. Where will your marriage be ?

And the 2 will become 1. What God has put together let no man seperate.

1)Top Priority is Jesus.

2)Then your spouse.

*Don’t Pray Over HIm

When you don't pray over your husband you allow so many things to become priority.

Here is a thirty day guide to pray over your husband.

Christmas Cards.

Right, I know it's February and a little un-timely, however maybe you will enjoy this and can remember to do this next year.

I by any means didn't invent this idea. A matter of fact I know several families that put them in a basket on their table. We used to do this but little hands would go thru and they would get to messy and out of order.

This year I hole punched all of our christmas cards and put them on a little keychain ring.

Each night we take turns as a family (including the kids) to pray over one of the families.

I love how it gets our children praying for other people. We also keep a journal of needs that we know of, and we pray over them every-night until the prayer has been answered. We also record the praises ! At the end of the year we will rejoice in what God did and continue to pray over the needs in our family, and friends lives.

How are you being intentional about praying over people and teaching your kids to pray ? Would love to hear your ideas!

Shocked. Sad. Not Surprised.

So last week I posted this poll and out of the 87 plus of you that follow my blog and the 1000 or so that hit it weekly only 20 of you took the poll.

My heart was so sad to see the results.

The question was: "What is the biggest area that is hurting your marriage ?"

This was geared more towards ministry women but really goes for anyone.

40 % said Lack of $

30 % said Disconnected

25% said Ministry taking up to much time

5% of you said Young Children.

Which one am I shocked over you ask ? That only 5% of you say young children and 30% said disconnected...

I would like to hear your take on this. Click anonymous or send me an email girlfriendwithapurpose@gmail.com

I have a couple post that will be coming up to hopefully hit on these topics! Love you girls and please know that your not alone!!

Shark Boy's Adventure

Let me just start off by saying sighhhhhhh....what a day.

This morning started out as your average day in The Scott home which actually is never average because with a 7,4 & 2 year old nothing ever is the same or average.

We actually slept in a bit and after the nice rain storm last night this momma was hoping for a day to DEEP CLEAN my house.

At least 4 loads of laundry to be put away

3 to be washed

Toys everywhere

You get the idea.

We needed to take a "rainy" day inside. (although it was perfectly sunny)

At about 9:30 Connor my 4 year old came around the corner of the kitchen/entry way into the living room and ran into the wall with his side... ya know us clumsy people just have to gravitate towards the wall can't just walk normal around it.

Anyways he was crying and like everyone momma... I got annoyed after about 30 seconds of the whinning... i mean after all how bad could he really have hurt himself.

While I was looking over him I was asking him questions and he stopped answering, I turned him to face me and he was rolling his eyes in his head, going lethargic and turning blue....which for us always leads to Pure white... Mouth white, lips white...and tongue a chalk white.

He passed out in my arms and started shaking...

This is not something new to us. This happened about 6 months ago when he ran into the coffee table. Everyone still in PJ's ran to car grabbed keys and raced to the local Emergency Room.

There we proceeded to have blood work.... which took 3 sticks 2 blown veins and a very unhappy 4 year old boy. So by the third stick I had him convinced that when they put the IV in it would give him special super powers like Shark Boy (no clue what movie shark boy is even from...yikes.) We proceeded to have a CT done and Chest X-Ray. The E.R. doc came in and told us they were moving us to the Children's Hospital an hour away to see the Pediatric Neurology team. So Connor and I jumped in the back of the ambulance, Ben went and took the two girls to a friend's house (Thank you Charis!!!) and meet us at the Children's hospital...

We were greeted by several doctors at Children's Hospital and he was promptly put in a room... yeah you know what that means... we were going to be staying for a bit.

They asked a bazillion questions.

Ruled out Fever seizures (since he didn't have one).

They told us they were going to do an EEG & MRI... sigh, but it would be in the morning...

Thru further talking we found out that the doctor truly thought that since he has had this happen a few times, that he was having what they used to call "Death Spells" or "Holding Breath Spells". Umm okay but he wasn't holding his breath...

So we talked for awhile and basically the gist of it is when your mind is in shock after something physical or emotional... and has to reboot.

SO if you saw someone having a baby you might pass out...

or if you saw someone get blood drawn you may pass out...

Well our Shark Boy apparently passes out when he has trama to his body..

NICE... huh.

A 4 year old boy who's brain has to re boot when it's been traumatized.

So after lots of discussion lot's of Doctors poking asking questions and doing exams we begged I mean politely asked if we could come back as out patients for the EEG. They were happy to oblige since there is nothing you can do for death spells or holding breath spells...

We will do the EEG to rule out anything else since these have been re occurring over a period of 4 years. It literally looks like death when he is doing these episodes...

If the EEG comes back with any abnormalities we will do the MRI...

Seeing your baby boy as ghostly white as can be and completely lifeless in your arms is horrifying. I have done this a total of 4 times now. Will you join me in praying that we don't EVER have to go thru this again and that God would line his brain up with his will, and that is to be healthy and whole!! I know you will.

My husband and I are going out of town tom. morning and I have complete peace about leaving him with our friends, but the momma in me can only picture what i saw early this morning. Please pray I can enjoy my hubby for our anniversary trip ( a month late).

We are at home now and he is honestly doing really great! He looks good and is his normal self. I think I many invest in bubble wrap though.... Wonder how that would work in Georgia summer heat....