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21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex Interview with Jennifer Strickland

What compelled you to write on this topic?

A publisher had an idea for a book on the myths of sex and they were looking for a writer. So they asked me and  I believed I could write on this topic . For a year it was like a romance  with God totally in zone with him.This book was God's idea. Sex covers so many topics, I know the bad sides and many women have experienced much worse things. I have a healthy relationship with my husband so I knew the good and the bad and know I could help people to defer between the two. There are so many topics about sex including but not limited to" homosexuality, STDs, marriage, sexual sin, sex trafficking, abortion. I’m honored to have had the opportunity to write this book and I hope it will help a lot of women.

What are some of the myths girls buy into?

There are so many myths. But one myth is your body is separate from your soul in the modeling industry they  told me you can give your body away and your soul is not affected, however your body is connected to your soul. When you give your body away you give away your heart & soul. That’s why we get heartbreak because those relationships where we’ve been sexually active get  torn apart or broken up. The body and soul are connected, just like when a woman has a baby it happens in her body but it soul’s connected.Another one of the myths is that sex is casual. (friends with benefits) A lot of girls wonder why do I have an eating disorder why am I depressed? Their giving away their body their precious temple and they wonder why they’re feeling this way. I spoke at a college recently on body image the more I talked the more I realized the majority of the girls were sexually active and they wonder why they don’t feel good in their body. Inside of marriage you’re united under the covenant there is no shame it's just beautiful, but outside of marriage it's not.Another  myth is  sex is a part of dating, but sex is part of marriage it’s the fabric and where the babies come from. Another myth is I plan my pregnancies, but God controls the womb. God created us before the womb, in Isaiah 49:5 it says God called us before the womb. Another  myth is that prostitutes, and such like are dirty, but most of them have been abused. They were violated and they deserve our compassion their broken and need our love. The book talks on homosexuals are we loving them well, reaching out, we need to provide resources that will help them get out of that lifestyle. We meed to work with them help them and love them. The bible does say Homosexuality is a sin, but we have to present grace and truth.

Ultimately, it’s a book about love and single women, being the bride of Christ, protecting your body, letting God fill your cup, in this book there is a lot of hope for single women, .

This book is about love and grace love of God and forgiveness. Songs of Solomon doesn’t even use the word sex, it’s about love the way God talks to us.

Prince Charming ideal

How can young girls refocus and change that Prince Charming mindset?

In marriage my husband wasn’t perfect and I realized I had been  disillusioned about marriage and men. If you put your trust in man it well be like Jeremiah said a parched desert, but with God it will be like a watered stream.(expectations for a man vs. God)

Changing your focus as a single woman and even in marriage and get your eyes on God. The more you look to God the more fulfilled you will be and  the more you will be able to love. Fix your eyes on God.

Abortion what about women who have had abortions are considering it?

God is the creator of life and the finisher he’s God and were not. He does create us in our mother womb, he will call us home one day and we are not to play God. Another problem concerning abortion is  the father has little to no rights concerning his own child, a lot of men are angry who have experienced this. We have lifted woman up like Gods, they say woman get to choose,it's their body, but it’s not our body it’s God's body and we get to choose. We must choose life. In Deuteronomy 30:19 God says  I have set before you death and life choose life. Woman who have abortions are effected the rest of their life, even woman in their 40’s still struggle, some of these woman are going into the pregnancy centers and are loving and encouraging girls using their mistake as a way to encourage others to make the right choice. Pregnancy agencies have so many resources now :jobs, adoption, medical care. There are so many ministries and pregnancy resources for women who need to heal or make the right decisions and bible studies for woman who have experienced abortions. If you've had an abortion God can forgive you. Many broken woman who have made the wrong decisions have been redeemed and now are making a great impact in the world.

Purity

How does a young person keep them self pure and avoid the media’s influence?

It takes real grit and deep conviction to stand up for you believe. Even if your home and everyone is out partying  that's okay. It is also wise not to drink at all,you must have strong boundaries. Concerning dating stay in public places (not secluded places). Believe that you’re more, that’s faith believe. If you feel like it's for you to get  married believe he’s worth it and you’re worth it. However,don’t save sex for the promise that once you get married sex will be amazing, save sex as a devotion to God. If  you save it with the mindset that I’ll meet a perfect man and sex life will be amazing that's wrong, the bible says the pure in heart we will see God.

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Book Give Away!

We will be giving away a free copy of 21 Myths about sex by Jennifer Strickland,a book about God's view on sex & relationships. If you'd like a chance to win please comment below and add us to your google circles.

21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe about Sex uncovers the most believed untruths girls have about dating and sex. With honest, straight-forward language Christian author Jennifer Strickland shares the myths, the truths, and the practical ways you can enjoy the pursuit of passion and purity.

Fudgy Gluten Free Black Bean Brownies

INGREDIENTS:

1 can of BLACK BEANS

1 cup of Chickpea Flour

2 oz OF BAKING CHOCOLATE

1 cup DAIRY FREE CHOCOLATE CHIPS (half to blend, half to mix 
in/top with)

2 tbsp MAPLE SYRUP

1/4 cup VEGAN BUTTER

½ -2/3 cup of SUGAR

2 EGGS

2 tbsp COCOA POWDER

pinch of SALT

1 TBSP OF GROUND COFFEE

splash of VANILLA EXTRACT

METHOD:

1. Prepare your ingredients.Melt chocolate and butter, puree black beans.Set aside.

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Put Your Prayers Into Action!

If you really want to be FREE or experience GROWTH in an area of your life as a Christian, then there must come a time when your prayers turn into action, and your actions represent the sincerity of your prayers.If you're truly praying with a contrite heart believing that God can and will answer your request then your actions must follow, that is the evidence of your faith. It starts with submitting your mind,body,soul, time and decisions to God. For example if you want to run a marathon you will do whatever training is necessary to successfully run that marathon.Faith without works is dead.If you want to be free or experience growth, put your prayers into action. Bottom line if you want to be free or grow you will do whatever it takes to be free,faith is not just belief it's action.!!!That first action is submitting to god in whatever area he may be dealing with you about. Give God everything,trust him completely, and act like you believe by getting in action.

James 2:26 - For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

James 2:14-26 - What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?   

James 2:24 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

James 2:18 - Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:


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A Letter to the LAzy Christian

They say confession is good for the soul,so here I go, you may feel down because your performance on the godly field hasn't been very successful,it's been lazy and to be honest I've felt that way myself last year,and a little this year.The truth is the great commission burns in my heart like a flame,but I confess in the past year,I've taken the great commission lightly,I've stuck my foot in the water,but have not been submerged, I've often allowed others to carry out the call alone,I've been too caught up in my own personal struggles,trials and strengthening my own faith alone. Meanwhile people have crossed my path, never to come my direction again,and I regret that I never took the time to tell them of God, sin or being born again. I've just be doing the minimum here and there yet not nearly enough. In the end the sad truth is sometimes we can never go back,to that person we should have helped or the youngster that needed to hear the word of God that has taken a bad turn,while I go on living with good intentions, but little action,souls all around are lost and going to hell.While I go on living for me, I can't clearly see how many people are hurting, because they don't know the power of the cross.Coming to this growing realization made me sick to my stomach.I could give a dozen excuses, but they would all fade like a vapor,because one day I will stand before a holy God and give an account for opportunities that I've missed and oh how many they probably are. I pray God will forgive me. I can't go back in time and take advantage of those opportunities carelessly lost,but I pray that I may boldly take advantage of the opportunities in the future with those who are lost,to share the life-changing message of the cross. 



Thank you for reading a piece of my heart,your prayers would truly be appreciated,not for me but for the lost souls around us that are longing to know the Lord.May we all do our part to fulfill the great commission."#Luke12:48

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Jennifer Strickland Interview Pt. 1 (Testimony)

Below is the powerful testimony and story of how Jennifer Strickland got into the modeling industry,left the industry and found Christ! 

Me: Could you tell me a little bit about how you got into the modeling industry and how you came out of it and became a Christian?

Jennifer Strickland:I got into the modeling industry at an early age my Mom and I were very naive about modeling world, all we saw was the glamour and the great opportunities. At 17, I signed with what is known as Ford models now. I was six foot tall and was made a lot of promises, went to Europe and spend my first summer in Germany. For 4 or 5 years
I pursued the modeling industry ,I was  a working model and made a good career, however, it was hard work some days I had 10-15 interviews to go to. I was traveling around the world modeling, because I was still in school I didn’t do the runaway. I felt sometimes like I was living a double life, I would go to school for journalism and get like an A on a paper and do that and then go and model and become any part( bride, teenager) that they needed to be. In college I got involved in alcohol and the sorority.

While in school I  maintained a healthy weight and didn’t do runway just tv commercials, catalogs,etc. I believe staying in school maintained my sanity. When I graduated I got an opportunity and signed with FORD New York. I first went to Milan, there I began to starve myself, there was no other way, I would also take fat burners, exercised excessively. I met Gorgio Armani and not just him his family and kept getting callback at first I stumbled on the runaway and was sent away, but eventually came back around and worked the runway for him. They would put their hands around your waist and you got rewards for being skinny in complaints.

It starts messing with your mind though, because there is no end with anorexia it’s an ongoing struggle because you’re never thin enough. I was taken advantage of by a photographer, I had a lot of emotional pain from being exposed and exploited in the business. I lost my sense of self worth, came home for the holidays and my Mom was worried about my size so she fed me a lot, when I came back from holiday Armani could tell I gained a little weight like 4 pounds. He kicked me off the runway in front of everybody, it was so humiliating and took the clothes and everything and left me standing their embarrassed. While modeling in Europe there was a language barrier you don’t really understand what their saying, so that made it worse, their just looking at  your image. After this  I went on a journey to find out what beauty was. After I got kicked out I was crying and a man came asking why I was crying life is beautiful in Italian.

I began to search for the real beauty in life. After losing my jobs in Milan and I was stolen from and humbled. I began to go to churches in Rome and look at the depictions of Jesus. My beauty began to be taken away. I was breaking out from anorexia and substance abuse, my hair was falling out, I had dark circles under my eyes. I met this girl outside of Rome she told me about Jesus that he could heal me when I was ready, I wasn’t ready at that time. She prayed for me and shortly after I fled from men who had exploited, mistreated and verbally abused me. I thought if I made enough money I would be free, and my family wanted me to keep pursuing modeling. Shortly after this I contemplated suicide, I met people passing out bibles in the park and they were so sweet with kind eyes. They invited me to their church. (me:as she tells me about this Jennifer goes and  shows me the German new testament bible,very old and very well loved )I  came to church 2 or 3 times. I would read on the interviews and the train  once I read though Matthew I was ready to give my life to Christ,I fasted for a week in a hostel in Germany.

  I gave my life to God and was delivered and set free of Anoxeria was totally healed. I came back tot the church and they rejoiced and eventually sent me home. I took the money I made from modeling and went back to school. It was then that I started writing my my first book Girl Perfect. At school I always felt good, (confident) besides I had gifts(skills and abilities) and that’s the problem girls base their identity on what they see but they have gifts,you have gifts!I  put my book away and eventually got married. My husband was the protector that I never really had God blessed me with that protection and love. I had two babies right away. My husband encouraged and pushed me to write and publish my first book.  I wrote Girl Perfect and was sold international and now I get letters from people and so many hurting girls.

Me: Do parents ever ask you about putting their child into modeling and your advice on it.

Jennifer Strickland: This business sets girls up to be behind the camera with older men. He’s 30-60 and you’re a teenager or early twenties. There are girls that have been able to have a quality career but, it’s really hard to have your parents with you, parents will often say I'll stay with my child to every interview and modeling job, but, what about when she’s eighteen I was taken advantage of when I was 18,19,20,21. There is no way I would let my daughter go into the industry, because I want her to discover and use her gifts, why would I set her up to be compared to other girls constantly it’s not healthy I know super strong Christian moms, but most of the time I say no.

Me:From your books it so clear what the modeling industry is and what you’re doing now has so much more a powerful impact because modeling is often self-centered.

Jennifer Strickland: The new reward after ending a eating disorder becomes that you give of yourself, like when I get these letters and a review on my latest book 21 myths good girls believe about sex, a girl wrote a review that when she accepted Christ at one of my events that all these years she carried guilt of sexual sin a, reading this book helped her forgive herself made me cry that is my reward,that’s why I’m doing this and it’s so fulfilling. Can’t place your value on your body because it’s constantly changing.

Me: How you went to college and become a writer is really encouraging to girls to use their god given gifts.

The Second Part will be coming soon with information regarding her newest book 21 Myths Good Girls Believe About Sex and a book giveaway please comment if you'd like to enter to win one of her life-changing books and specify which one!





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Interview by: RachelW