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Hey there, belah rose here. Thank you for joining. If you’ve been with me for a while, you know that we are taking the summer off, or I am. It’s a one man show here. I’m taking the summer off, I felt like that’s what God wanted me to do to focus on some other areas of my life that I felt like he really wanted me to be focused on this summer. And I loved you I am and I plan to really continue the work that is blessed me and so many others around the world. And I believe that God wants me to continue it. But taking the time off, I think is also his purpose for me at this time. With that said, I’m continuing to read you pre recorded this is pre recordings that you get to enjoy throughout the summer. But excerpts from my book, so I’m going to go ahead and dive in. This section is called God’s purposes for sex. God made Adam and had complete access to him. They walk together in the cool of the day, I can only imagine the friendship they shared. I look forward to having to experience such incredible friendship with God. But as God looked upon Adam, he said, It is not good for man to be alone. God made Eve because he wanted Adam not to be alone. As the master creator of everything and every part of our bodies, he told them, Be fruitful and multiply Genesis 128. God provided the only way for us to do this is sex. Here we can see both pieces of God’s plan playing out in our lives. The relational piece, often more representative in our of females needs, is captured in God’s mentioned it is not good for man to be alone. Adam needs companionship and love. He needs someone to support him to stretch him to complement his strengths and to walk alongside him through life. And the sexual peace, often more represented in the needs of males is captured in God’s command to be fruitful and multiply, have sex and have babies. God made the process of making children incredibly pleasurable. Interestingly, it wasn’t until the fall that the curse made it challenging to actually birth children. Many well meaning Christians throughout church history who believe that sex is only for procreation. They believe that God intended people to have sex if and only if they are trying to have a baby. But if that’s true, why isn’t sex under the curse of pain, like child bear thing is, if sex equates to having children, it should be under the same curse as birthing the child. Further when a couple is trying to get pregnant, they usually try for months at least, if God wanted us to have sex only to have a baby and wanted us to avoid it. Otherwise, why wouldn’t he make a more exact process? God could have made the process simple, foolproof, and not require a frequent sexual experience. Other processes in the body work much more effectively. For example, if we have not consumed enough vitamin C, all we have to do is consume in orange and voila, our body receives processes and utilizes the introduced vitamin immediately. This is not the case with eggs and sperm. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of factors that are necessary for conceiving a child. conceiving a child is a mysterious and incredible part of a process of intimate experience with your husband. After conception, there is a long nine month period of needing his support and service providing a continuation of the knowledge and growing together process.

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That included sex in many areas of the Bible as a natural, normal and regular part of a marital relationship. God made certain visuals, certain caresses, and certain stimulations very pleasurable. We sinful humans didn’t make this thing up. God created it. I imagine that my loving Heavenly Father would have smiled when I innocently asked my mother about my sexual curiosities. He also may have, he also made this topic incredibly interesting to us, even as children. It’s a wonderful thing that should be anticipated, patiently waited for and always held in high regard. It is truly a gift. When I was a child asking my innocent questions. I think God would have scooped me up, sat me on his lap and warmly explained his incredible design for our bodies and sexual pleasure. That is right. It is his beautiful and holy design. At that age, I would have needed to wait. But in anticipation for an incredible experience awaiting my marital union. Sex unifies. Sadly our society thinks the purpose of sex is pleasure, personal pleasure. As such, we have unattached people sleeping together, calling it friends with benefits, a night of partying ins and hooking up with some stranger, because it feels good. But that is not the reason God created sex. At the heart of God is unification in marriage, a process of becoming one, even in the beginning of Genesis, God says man and wife should become one flesh, the act of sex as it becoming one flesh rings true in my experience, when my husband and I are frequently making love generously, we are connected on a level that is unlike any other time and unlike a connection with anyone else. Even lying there in the afterglow of sex, there’s a freedom and unity between us that is practically tangible. Pleasure is a wonderful aspect and should be fully enjoyed. But the pleasure is part of the unifying experience that is sex. God’s intention for sex is solidifying and strengthening the husband and wife’s oneness. So there’s more way more to talk about, but I’m going to stop there. I hope this has encouraged you and bless you. And I pray that you do feel motivated to make love tonight, to enjoy your husband’s embrace, to be receptive, to even instigate to initiate to do something special, maybe something you haven’t done in a while or ever to be willing to go that extra mile. I know you can do it. God bless you. We are going to talk next Tuesday for another excerpt from my book. God bless you have a great week.

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