The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian
Week 5: Chapter 4 — His Sexuality
Read Chapter 4 of The Power of a Praying Wife. Key passages: 1 Corinthians 7:3–5; Song of Solomon 7:10.
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This chapter invites an honest and prayerful look at one of the most intimate dimensions of marriage — an area where many couples feel distance, disappointment, or unspoken pain.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Stormie tackles a topic many Christian women avoid discussing openly. What did you find helpful, surprising, or challenging about her approach to this subject? Did she say anything that you needed to hear?
2.1 Corinthians 7:3–5 is remarkably direct about the mutual obligations of husbands and wives regarding physical intimacy. How does the framing of intimacy as a gift and a responsibility — rather than a reward or a weapon — challenge the way intimacy is sometimes treated in marriage?
3.Stormie encourages praying for your husband's sexual purity — that he would be protected from temptation, from pornography, and from the distorted views of sexuality that culture presents. Do you pray for your husband's purity? What does it stir in you to take that role as an intercessor?