SHOULD YOU HAVE SEX WITH YOUR EMOTIONALLY ABUSIVE SPOUSE? Many are in various levels of emotionally abusive marriages with a spouse who treats them with contempt, belittling, shaming, blaming, threatening and even hating, controlling and manipulating them which obviously is never the way the Lord would want them to treat their mate. Some have endured this abuse for many years and their spouse never changes and will usually gets worse over time. In many of those cases the abusive spouse is also either looking at porn and masturbating which Jesus said was the same as adultery (Matthew 5:28) or has been actually been unfaithful with others. So what is a godly spouse to do? Many are told about the Bible scripture of not depriving your spouse of sex except with agreement. ‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭7‬:‭5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.” This verse is referring to a spiritually healthy couple who are both treating each other with love and mutual respect and have a healthy intimacy in their lives.…

THE BLACKSHEEP SCAPEGOAT IN YOUR TOXIC FAMILY OFTEN HAS A MORAL COMPASS! Many grow up with a toxic dysfunctional family where a father or mother is a narcissist (Jezebel spirit) and their spouse is an Empath (Ahab spirit) who then they have children.  Often one of the children has a good heart who wants to do right and sees the evil in the narcissistic parent and will not just put their head in the sand and stay silent with their sinful behaviors. Of course the narcissistic parent hates that child because they won’t ignore their toxic sinful behavior and instead stands up to them and tells them where they are wrong and need to change. That child will then be treated as the blacksheep or scapegoat and blamed for everything wrong in the various family members lives who go along with them. It’s because they have a moral compass, a good heart, often a godly heart that desires truth, honesty, integrity and living righteously.  Then often one or more of the other children in the family who will support the toxic behaviors of their narcissistic parent and look the other way will become the golden child that can do no…