5 Reasons So Many Christian Women Keep This Small Bottle Beside Their Bible

It's what Jacob did after the night he couldn't feel God.

Genesis 28. Jacob is running for his life. Alone. He lies down in the desert with a rock for a pillow. And that night, God meets him and says, "I am with thee... I will not leave thee."

When Jacob wakes up, he says one of the most honest sentences in the Bible.

And I knew it not. God was right there, and Jacob didn't feel a thing.

So what did he do? He didn't wait for a feeling. The next morning, he took the stone he'd slept on and "poured oil upon the top of it" (Genesis 28:18). He marked the place where God was, even though he hadn't felt Him.

Twenty years later, God spoke to Jacob again, and introduced Himself like this:

That's the very first time the word "anoint" appears in the Bible. And God is the one who says it. He remembered the place a lonely man poured oil.

It's for the nights you feel nothing.

Most of us were taught, without anyone saying it out loud, that if we can't feel God, something must be wrong. With Him. Or with us.

So we wait. We pray and wait to feel Him. When the feeling doesn't come, we decide we're the problem.

But Jacob never felt it either. He told himself what was true, and he marked it.

That's how women use Rala. Not to make a feeling happen. To stop waiting for one.

One drop. Then the truth, out loud, before you feel anything at all: "Surely the LORD is in this place." Then you pray, whatever you feel or don't.

It takes less than a minute. It works at 3 a.m. in the dark. It works on your foggiest morning, when you can't hold a single verse in your head.

And over time, something simple happens. The warm smell of frankincense starts to mean one thing to you. He's here.

It's made from the oils God's people actually used, not "fragrance oil" with a cross on the label.

A lot of "anointing oils" are just scented oil with a Bible verse printed on the bottle. Some have no scent at all. Some smell like a perfume counter, or worse.

Every ingredient in Rala comes straight from Scripture:

Frankincense and myrrh from East Africa, from trees tapped by hand for thousands of years. Blended with blessed virgin olive oil from Jerusalem. Every bottle is made to order, in small batches.

It isn't the holy oil Moses made in Exodus 30. That recipe belonged to the tabernacle, and Scripture says not to copy it. It's a humbler oil, for your own prayer.

It's biblical. Not superstition, and not New Age.

Some women hesitate. "Isn't that a little Catholic?" "A little Pentecostal?" "Isn't anointing just for the elders?"

Here's what Scripture actually shows.

Jacob anointed a stone in the desert nearly four thousand years ago, long before there was any church to argue about it.

When the elders anoint the sick (James 5:14), that's one kind of anointing, and it belongs to them. Using oil in your own quiet prayer is something different. In Bible times, ordinary people put oil on their own heads all the time. Jesus mentions it as naturally as washing your face (Matthew 6:17).

And the oil has no power of its own. It doesn't make God come closer. He was already there. It simply marks that He is.

Think of a wedding ring. The ring doesn't make you married. The vow did. The ring marks it.

That's all this is. A mark of what's already true.

It's small, private, and it lasts.

Rala comes in a small 9 ml bottle. One drop is plenty, so one bottle lasts a long time.

It fits on a nightstand, beside your Bible, or in your purse for the hard moments in the middle of the day: the parking lot before a doctor's appointment, the car before church, the minute after a phone call you didn't want.

Nobody has to know. Not your church. Not your friends. It's between you and God.

And it arrives boxed, ready to give. A lot of women buy a second bottle for a sister, a friend in a hard season, or the person in their life who always says, "I don't need anything."

How to use it: The Bethel Prayer

Less than a minute. Every night. Or any time the silence gets loud.