Intimacy Revealed: 52 Devotions to Enhance Sex in Marriage
By J. Parker
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What does the Bible say about sexual intimacy?
Quite a lot actually. From marriage-specific scriptures to biblical principles, Intimacy Revealed: 52 Devotions to Enhance Sex in Marriage guides Christian wives through weekly devotions that shed light on God's gift of marital sex.
Each week includes a Bible passage, application, questions, and a prayer. These short devotions will deepen your understanding of God's design of sexuality and encourage you toward a holier, happier, and hotter marriage.
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Intimacy Revealed - J. Parker
Week 1
Sex from the Beginning
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man."
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
— Genesis 2:21-25
Unfortunately, some Christians have gotten the notion into their heads that physical desire and sexual acts came about as part of the sin that entered the world through Adam and Eve’s disobedience. Yet this beautiful picture of marriage is told in Genesis 2. The Fall of Man occurs in the chapter following, not before. Indeed, in the previous chapter of Genesis, God instructs the first couple to be fruitful and increase in number
(Genesis 1:28). God’s design for sexual intimacy in marriage is shown even from the first chapter of the Bible. From the beginning, He intended married couples to become one flesh.
Our Heavenly Father’s perfect plan was laid out in the Garden of Eden with a man and a woman shamelessly naked. I tend to think Adam was happily naked as well and grateful to his Creator for the view. Eve hadn’t yet discovered fashion, but she was far more beautiful than any runway supermodel in her husband’s eye. She was solely his, intended for companionship and partnership—bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
When we make love in marriage, we express physically that deep connection. The first husband and wife, Adam and Eve, were intricately entwined, in that God created them from the same flesh (Adam’s). In a sense, sex in marriage isn’t just uniting in one flesh but also reuniting—returning to the intimacy God intended for husband and wife from the very beginning.
Questions
♥ Do you see sexual intimacy as a gift from God? Has it felt more like a blessing or a curse? Why?
♥ What kind of one flesh
experience do you desire to have in your marriage?
Prayer
Lord, the sexual intimacy in my marriage is not everything it could be. Please help me to see Your plan as a gift to my marriage. Show me how to fully unite with my husband to become one flesh and to honor Your design. Give me an open heart and a hunger for Your words as I continue these devotions. In the name of Your Holy Son, Amen.
Week 2
More Than Physical
Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of one’s house for love,
it would be utterly scorned.
— Song of Songs 8:6-7
Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible dedicated to celebrating the sexual love between a husband and a wife. In this passage, the wife gives a clear picture of why their sexual love is so meaningful. Their intimacy comes from an unyielding love and commitment to one another: "Like a seal over your heart."
In Bible times, a seal guaranteed security or indicated ownership. Our marriage vows, lived out day-to-day, provide security and a sense of possession or belonging. My beloved is mine and I am his
(Song of Songs 2:16, also 6:3). Sex within marriage isn’t merely a physical act, but rather an expression of our unrelenting covenant of love.
Sex will feel more profound when we engage our hearts and our souls in this act with our husbands. When we recognize the vulnerability and intensity involved in interweaving our bodies for pleasure and togetherness. When we realize that God intended sex to be so much more than the physical. He intended it to deepen our seal-like love.
Questions
♥ Does sex feel purely physical to you? What other forms of intimacy are involved (such as emotional, relational, recreational, spiritual)?
♥ How can you experience that deeper passion? How can you remind yourself during sex of its greater meaning and ability to connect you and your husband?
Prayer
O Lord, I know that Your love for Your children is stronger than death. Because of Your profound love for us, You sacrificed Your own Son in the physical act of crucifixion. Sometimes You use the physical to reflect deeper meaning. Help me to see the deeper meaning of the physical act of sex with my husband. Help me to experience emotional and spiritual intimacy as we make love. Give us the strength and the courage to commit to an unyielding, burning, unquenchable lifetime of love. In the name of Your Precious Son, Amen.
Week 3
Delicately Woven
For it was You who created my inward parts;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You
because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.
— Psalm 139:13-14
These days, "I have been remarkably and wonderfully made" sounds like something one might say after a series of plastic surgery procedures or a photo session with airbrushing and Photoshop treatment. As a wife, perhaps you feel that way only after the make-up is applied or flattering clothes hide flaws you’re so intimately aware of. Maybe you felt wonderfully made once, when you were younger, but you struggle to see your beauty now.
Believe it, wife. God knit you together. He carefully crafted your body, from the tip of your busy head to the soles of your weary feet. When it comes to marital intimacy, He carefully wove the delicate parts only you and your husband see. And He didn’t drop a single stitch.
Have you withheld allowing your husband to gaze on and delight in your body because you don’t feel deep down that you’re "remarkably and wonderfully made"? Let the world’s unrealistic expectations and distorted ideals fall by the wayside. Shove aside the misgivings you have about your appearance. Believe what your husband and your Creator say about you: You are beautiful. Remarkably and wonderfully made by the Master.
Questions
♥ Name three things you like about your body. From a facial feature to a body part to hair or skin color and beyond, what do you like about your current appearance?
♥ Have you ever withdrawn sexually from your husband due to a lack of confidence about your appearance? How would he desire you approach the marital bedroom?
Prayer
Perfect Creator, You knit me together in my mother’s womb and Your gracious hand is on me still. You are the Master, which makes me Your masterpiece. Please help me to fully believe that I am remarkably and