Prayer 4

HIS SEXUALITY

Lord, bless my husband's sexuality and it an area of great fulfillment for him. Restore what needs to be restored, balance what needs to be balanced. Protect us from apathy, disappointment, criticism, busy-ness, unforgiveness, deadness, or disinterest. I pray that we make time for another, communicate our true feelings openly, and remain sensitive to what each other needs.
Keep us sexually pure in mind and body, and close the door to anything lustful or illicit that seeks to encroach upon us. Deliver us from the bondage of past mistakes. Remove from our midst the effects of any sexual experiences - in thought or deed - that happened outside of the relationship. Take away anyone or anything from our lives that would inspire temptation to infidelity. Help us to abstain from sexual immorality so that each of us will know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor. (1 thess 4:3-5) I pray that we will desire each other and know one else. Show me to make myself attractive and desirable to him and be the partner he needs. I pray that neither of us will ever be tempted to think about seeking fulfillment elsewhere.
I realize that an important part of my ministry to my husband is sexual. Help me to never use it as a weapon or a means of manipulation by giving and withholding it for selfish reasons. I commit this area of our lives to You, Lord. May it be continually new and alive. Make it all that You created it to be.
(pages 65-66 of TPOPW)

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This is one area that my husband and I rarely floundered in. We both love sex. Now, more recently my sex drive has slowed down due to my own anger issues. We still enjoyed sex multiple times a week...but we were used to it daily. I loved my husbands touches and I loved being close to him. More and more though, I stopped being as open to those touches. Which was wrong of me. I want to apologize to my husband for that. He would invite me to lay on him on the couch and I'd refuse. How must that have made him feel? I should have willingly accepted the invitation. I love my husband!