The Power of Sex: How to Overcome Sexual Lust and Its Damaging Effects (Revised Edition)

Sex was God's idea, and He called it very good. Lust is what happens when that good gift breaks loose from its boundaries.

Most Christians are given rules about sex and very little understanding of it. They are told what not to do, and are then left on their own with a struggle they are too ashamed to name. This book names it plainly and shows the way out.

What the book covers

The power of sex is God-given. Why the sex drive is neither dirty nor sinful, and why it was given with clear boundaries.

The real effects of sexual lust. What lust does to a person, a marriage, a family and a church when it is left unaddressed.

The first type of struggle: ordinary sexual lust. Temptation that arises from what we see, hear and allow around us, how to guard your environment, and who is most exposed: widows and widowers, single adults, and married people living apart or in a withholding marriage.

The second type of struggle: compulsive sexual lust. When the pattern keeps returning despite prayer and fasting, and how to deal with its root through honest reflection, repentance, forgiveness and accountability.

The book includes a daily confession drawn from Scripture, and a step-by-step private exercise for bringing the past before God.

Who it is for

Believers who are struggling and want to be free

Pastors and counsellors who help them

Anyone who wants to understand the pitfalls before they are tested by them

Written for an adult readership, with care

This book offers spiritual teaching and encouragement. It is not a substitute for a doctor or a qualified counsellor, and it says so plainly.

Where it touches on abuse, it is clear on three points:

Abuse is never the fault of the person it happened to.

Where a crime has been committed, it should be reported.

Where a child is at risk, it must be reported without delay.

About the author

Rev. Wisdom O. Akinpelu is the founder of Wisdom Akinpelu Ministries International. He is a teaching evangelist and an international author, and has been married for over twenty years.

Read it with: The Dynamics of Sex, which takes two ordinary people's stories apart to show what drew them in and why their defences failed. Both books are available together as the Relationships & Intimacy Collection.