Day 5 - Sept 18

Daily Reading: 1 Corinthians 7

Theme: Freedom & Deliverance

Special Verse: Isaiah 61:1 — “He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives…”

• Personal: Ask God to break any cycles, habits, or mindsets that hinder your calling.

• External: Pray for those battling addiction to experience supernatural freedom

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  Sex Is Spiritual Warfare

  No… you did not misread the title; and, yes, sex really is spiritual warfare! Let’s put in an important qualifier up front. We are talking about sex within the context of marriage…period. The world has no concept about God’s plan for sex, which includes marital fidelity. Remember that God is the one who invented it, and He knows how it works best. How is sex spiritual warfare? There is no act between a man and a woman that is more personal or intimate than intercourse. The uniting of two people committed in marriage with the potential for procreation is one of the most beautiful and important gifts given to us by the Creator. The intense physical pleasure experienced mutually by a husband and wife forms a bond that when protected by the marital vows goes far beyond anything other point of connection.

  Sex is a foundation block of a healthy marriage. Satan wants to destroy anything and everything of beauty and joy for humans. Marriage and family is the enemy’s number one target. It is his plan to rob happily married couples of their intimacy and connection and thereby create a gap between them that can all–too-often become a divide (divorce). Paul continues in First Corinthians saying that married people should not “deprive” one another of sex, and that their body is not their own, but their spouse’s. Married people are you… …Depriving each other? …Too tired for intimacy? …Manipulating your spouse through sexual bribery?

  One way to remain so close as to block the attacks of the enemy is to be united in physical intimacy. So, if you want to have a spiritually strong marriage, head to the bedroom hand in hand with your spouse, and protect your marriage from the devil.