When the Wedding Night Goes Wrong!
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Wedding Nights are usually the most anticipated of all events, especially for first-time couples. Unfortunately, many couples have never been taught that marriage is a covenant between them and God, physically and spiritually, enacted by the shedding of blood in their consummation. What to expect on the Wedding Night A newly-wed couple who I knew, had just returned from their honeymoon. I asked the couple for feedback on their marriage so far. The wife blurted out, “Sex is overrated!” What was she thinking? She had just given more than enough information, that both of them
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simply had no idea on what to expect, and what God had intended sex to be for the Christian couple. I secretly pulled her aside and admonished her never to speak like that again, as she had just embarrassed her husband. Was she thinking that sex would operate on its own, didn’t she have a part to play in it? Was there a friendship or even a love relationship to begin with? Paul had mentioned that Christian couples are to come together as often as they can to give no place to the devil. On the other hand, the devil would want Christian couples to be upset with each other so often, that they would neglect their sexual relations, which is such an important part of the
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marriage. When Christian couples have sexual intercourse, they continue to agree to the one-flesh union that the Bible speaks about. For Christian couples, sexual intercourse in marriage is a beautiful experience in giving praise to God. Sex was not meant to be used as a tool to dominate each other saying, “Your body is now mine and I can do anything that I want” but it is to ensure that our prayers are not hindered by the poor ways that we are treating each other, 1 Peter 3:7. Sex in Non-Christian Marriages For Christian couples, the wedding night is totally different from unbelievers. Quite
