Comments on: How to Pray for Sexual Intimacy in Your Marriage https://hotholyhumorous.com/2017/07/15/how-to-pray-for-sexual-intimacy-in-your-marriage/ God's Design for Marital Intimacy Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:14:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Praying When You Don’t Know What to Pray | Hot, Holy & Humorous https://hotholyhumorous.com/2017/07/15/how-to-pray-for-sexual-intimacy-in-your-marriage/#comment-67700 Sat, 18 Nov 2017 15:09:17 +0000 https://hotholyhumorous.com/?p=21940#comment-67700 […] I contemplated what to say about prayer this Saturday, as part of my ongoing series about praying for your marriage bed, I felt empty. What else could I possibly cover? But then a passage from Romans came to mind—in […]

]]> By: J https://hotholyhumorous.com/2017/07/15/how-to-pray-for-sexual-intimacy-in-your-marriage/#comment-65292 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:39:52 +0000 https://hotholyhumorous.com/?p=21940#comment-65292 In reply to B.

So this: “most women ARE beautiful and have near perfect bodies.” I don’t know what world you’re living in. Maybe you need to come hang out with me and my Imperfect Women Group. We meet on…well, everyday. We’re imperfect every single day, and there are a lot of us. I also really hope you listen to our latest podcast with Guy Talk about a wife’s beauty: http://forchristianwives.com/episode-14-guy-talk-a-wifes-beauty/ It was eye-opening how men feel about our bodies, but they don’t always tell us because they don’t fully understand the struggle with body image that we women face.

And I suggest you don’t worry about praying for something because you want it to be that way. Just pray for what God wants you to have. Surely you believe He wants you to appreciate His creation, right? A gorgeous sunset, a delicate flower, His earthly daughter (that’s you). You don’t have to believe it yet; just pray for it and see what happens.

You know I’m pulling for you, B!

]]> By: B https://hotholyhumorous.com/2017/07/15/how-to-pray-for-sexual-intimacy-in-your-marriage/#comment-65256 Sun, 16 Jul 2017 01:54:20 +0000 https://hotholyhumorous.com/?p=21940#comment-65256 This prayer, like all of your prayers, is very helpful. Like most of the prayers, I need to reread and think on these things.
I’m not sure praying for a healthy body image is right for me. For most women it’s a good idea, but I feel like I’m not one of them. I’ve had a couple kids, and my belly has never recovered. To be honest, my belly was never flat, not even as a teenage athlete. Now, Even after a few rounds of a tough workout series I’ll shape up, but I still have stretch marks and this annoying “pouch” that refuses to go away. Honestly, it’s disgusting. I’m pretty sure it disgusts my husband, too, but he’s too kind to say so.
Most women I see in public are gorgeous and have beautiful, flat stomachs – even those with children. Once on a vacation I was amazed at how the majority of mothers were in bikinis, with perfect bodies, and some had several children. Most have them didn’t have a single stretch mark. I must have not used enough cocoa butter, or something! ? But the point is, most women ARE beautiful and have near perfect bodies. I can see why their husbands would want them to believe so. But for me, I think I’d be better off praying to simply accept the fact that my body is what it is. That, and the willpower to attempt a new set of workouts and to learn to enjoy exercise for the health benefits regardless of the results. Now that I think of it, I suppose simple acceptance of the way things are would be kind of a healthy body image.
More than that, I should pray to feel happy for the women who do have beautiful bodies instead of being envious. Summer is SUPER hard. I wish I could hide under a rock for three months.
Because my husband has a lower sex drive, I don’t really feel that a good sex life is intended for me. I believe a lot of his low drive is caused by my physical flaws. Even if that’s not true, the way I see myself isn’t exactly helpful. I know it’s a problem. However, I don’t believe in praying for things just because you want them to be that way. Praying for a sexier body wouldn’t be much better than praying to win a million dollars. I’d feel just as silly and selfish.
Although, I get it that you’re talking about body image, not the actual shape or size of my body, but I think one is kind of dependent on the other.
Sorry for going on. It’s been a rough weekend.

]]> By: L https://hotholyhumorous.com/2017/07/15/how-to-pray-for-sexual-intimacy-in-your-marriage/#comment-65251 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:54:03 +0000 https://hotholyhumorous.com/?p=21940#comment-65251 I didn’t really enjoy sex after getting married (as a virgin) as it hurt a little and intercourse just didn’t feel that good. I started praying that the Lord would help me to like sex, and things are totally turned around now! My hubby said he’s slightly jealous because I seem to have even more fun than he does! 😛

]]> By: Anthony Innerd https://hotholyhumorous.com/2017/07/15/how-to-pray-for-sexual-intimacy-in-your-marriage/#comment-65250 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:54:17 +0000 https://hotholyhumorous.com/?p=21940#comment-65250 Hi J,
I think this was posted before but today I was working out how I could get messages to my wife from the blogs that help me and saw this one. I bought an Android a while ago, and she is on it much, FB etc with Christian groups in US, some we have followed for years – Rick Joiner, King Clements, Suzie Yaraei etc….Well I kept pressing the FB at the top of the blog post but it took all the blog to my FB page which I do not like using but saw could post on the bottom of the blog. Success I now found a way to get a copy of this blog, been a while how but sent one via FB Messenger that she should see on her FBooking she does. Please pray that she reads it and sees that it is always a matter of trust but the middle word of Trust – is US.
Bless and pray there will be other help on the blog to help – situation
Bless

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