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Hah! Now you think you know what PRAYERS God will answer!?
I remember once thinking I really knew how God would answer prayers. Then I was reading 1 Jn.5:14 And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 5:15 And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.[/SIZE][/FONT]
Ick. I am sure God will answer that fervent prayer...NOT.
I know what you mean. My GF was molested as a child, and as a result of that + all the christian shame people wrap sex up in, the whole idea of sex was scary. Thankfully though, she realized that there's absolutely nothing wrong with masturbation and that was her first step to realizing that sex and intimacy is actually a good thing. She knew her own body before I got to know it. We've prayed a lot and we've been patient and careful and not least respectful, both to our fears and our desires, and then prayed some more, and we finally made a conscious decision to go all the way. Like adults, like believers, like lovers, like two who will share their entire lives with each other. And it turned out to be a wonderfully healing experience for her - the final and ultimate step out into freedom from the emotional and religious bondage pedophiles and christians had caught her in.I quite agree. Yet it seems to me that the church has swung the pendulum to the exact opposite extreme so that sexuality is suffocated. To be honest, I pray on my knees that my future wife (whoever she may be) masturbates. I dont want her to be afraid of sexuality like so many people in the church seem to be, with their ew, sex, icky-poo attitudes. They are either ignorant of the power and God-ordained goodness of our sexuality or they are completely fake in their approach to sexuality.
And I know so many people will never even get close to understanding what I'm talking about... because they have God in one box and sexuality in another, and refuse to see anything in any other nuance than black or white. I think it's because of fear.
Mhm. And asking God for a good job is just like asking Him to help you rob a store.
Makes as much sense...
I keep ALL my life apart from YOUR command and will.You say you love God and serve Him, but you keep certain areas of your life apart from His command and will.
I think you have fear--fear of what God would have you do if you actually gave Him all of your life.
Praying to the Father God that your future wife masturbates is utterly ridiculous! Why would God answer such a request? You are asking Him to supply you with a mate that is sinning.
That's like asking God for a wife who has had many lovers, a promiscuous woman, because she knows what sex is like. Selfish and dumb.
You need to have more respect for God. You need to ask God for His will to be done and that He will provide you with a perfect woman for you, who loves God and serves Him fully, and refreains from self-indulgence, wanting only her husband. Now that is a prayer God would love to answer!
I keep ALL my life apart from YOUR command and will.
And no, I have no fear.
You don't know jack about my life. You just figure you have a monopoly on understanding God's will and you have the audacity to speak on His behalf, to all of us. You have never even considered leaving your views and opinions on masturbation to the Lord.
You just take His name in vain by constantly smearing it all over your own pre- and ill-conceived personal moral opinions. You are taking His name in vain, you have perverted your own sexuality, and you're trying to pervert everybody else's sexuality too.
I think what he is bascially praying for is a woman that isn;t afraid of sex. That will actually have an idea of what she wants. That is far different from praying for a woman that has slept around.
I have a question..what if a married couple can;t have sex for some reason? is masturbation sitll evil then?
Any healthy woman who loves God and her intended shouldn't be afraid of sex. Masturbation has no role in alleviating any profound and psychological fear in a woman who may have unreasonable fears about it!
Only God can do a work in a fearful heart...not a sinful behaviour!
Yeah the problem though is many women are taught that sex is dirty and evil. Something to only be done to procreate and only done with the lights out and under the covers and so on. Or that it is just something you do for your husband nothing else. What about someone that was molested?
So since the bible doesn't ever even mention masturbation, you must have asked God, honestly and without presumtion, whether or not masturbation is sinful, for all people, at all times (except for children, for some reason you couldn't explain), and His answer was "yes, that's how it is for everybody forever". Weighty argument!Everything I opine on is from my knowledge of the Word of God. If I don't know what God thinks of something, I ask Him.
Sheesh! Who says married couples cannot pleasure each other? That is not sinful! It is self-pleasuring in the place of pleasure with a mate that is against God's design.
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