5 Reasons Praying Mothers Are Using This Small Bottle to Finally Hand Their Grown Children to God
5 Reasons Praying Mothers Are Using This Small Bottle to Finally Hand Their Grown Children to God
For the mother who has prayed for her son or daughter thousands of times, and still sleeps with her phone under her pillow.
If you have a grown child you're scared for, you already know how it goes. Maybe it's drinking. Maybe they've walked away from the faith. Maybe they've stopped answering your calls.
You pray every day. You check your phone at red lights. You lie awake picturing the call.
And somewhere along the way, you start to wonder if it's you. If you failed them. If your prayers just aren't good enough.
Here are five reasons more and more praying mothers keep a small bottle of Rala Frankincense & Myrrh Anointing Oil by their bed.
You've prayed thousands of requests. But have you ever handed them over?
Most praying mothers have asked God for a thousand things for their child. Keep him safe. Make her stop. Bring them home.
But a request isn't the same as a handover.
That's why so many of us ask God to hold our child at night, and then pick them right back up at seven in the morning.
Hannah prayed for years for a son. When she finally had him, she didn't just pray. She carried him to the house of the Lord with her own hands and said this:
Lent him. Not lost him. Not gave up on him. Lent him back to the One who gave him to her.
"Let go and let God," everyone says. Hannah shows you how.
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God remembers the place you mark.
Jacob ran from home in the worst shape of his life. He'd lied to his father. His brother wanted him dead. And out in the desert, in a place his mother could never follow, God met him and promised:
The next morning, Jacob poured oil on the stone he'd slept on and gave himself to God right there. He called it Bethel. House of God.
Twenty years later, God introduced Himself to Jacob this way:
Not "the God who heard your requests." The God of the place where you anointed the stone.
In Scripture, anointing means "this belongs to God now." Moses anointed the tabernacle and it became holy (Exodus 30:29). Samuel anointed David to mark him as God's (1 Samuel 16:13).
God's people didn't just say, "It's Yours, Lord." They marked it. And God remembered.
It never touches your child. They never have to know.
This matters more than anything else on this page.
Many grown children say the same thing about their praying parents. Every call, every verse texted at 7 a.m., every "I'm praying for you" can feel like pressure. Like disappointment.
So the Lending Prayer never touches your child. Not once.
You use it on something of theirs that you already have. An old Bible. A photo. A baby blanket from the cedar chest. That becomes your Bethel, the place you hand them over.
They never feel pushed. They never have to know. It's between you and God.
Every ingredient means something. Lift. Lay. Leave.
Most "anointing oils" are scented oil with a cross on the label. Some have no scent at all.
Rala has three ingredients, and each one is a step in handing your child to God.
LIFT them up. FRANKINCENSE was burned so prayers would rise to God. "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense." Psalm 141:2.
LAY it down. MYRRH was what you brought when there was nothing left for your hands to fix. The wise men brought it to Jesus as a child (Matthew 2:11), and it was carried to His tomb (John 19:39).
LEAVE them there. OLIVE OIL from Jerusalem, the city where Jesus knelt in Gethsemane, a name that means "oil press," and prayed the hardest prayer ever prayed: "Not my will, but thine, be done." Luke 22:42.
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 made to order, in small batches.
It isn't the holy oil Moses made in Exodus 30. That recipe belonged to the tabernacle. This is a humbler oil, for one mother's own prayer.
"Absolutely love this! The scent takes me right back to my childhood, going to Sunday Mass at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. Such a beautiful, comforting smell that brings back so many memories."
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It gives you somewhere to go every night, instead of your phone.
Here's what nobody warns you about. You'll try to pick them back up. Every mother does.
That's why Jacob didn't go to Bethel only once. Years later, God told him, "Arise, go up to Bethel" (Genesis 35:1), and Jacob anointed the stone again.
And even Hannah went back. Every year she sewed Samuel a little coat and carried it to him (1 Samuel 2:19). She never stopped loving him. She just never took him back.
The Lending Prayer works the same way. Every night, at the time you used to call, you go back to the place you already gave them away. One drop. Their name. Then your phone goes in the drawer.
No list of prayers to get through. No 90-day plan to fall behind on.
We want to be honest. This oil does not fix addiction. It doesn't make anyone come home. Keep going to your meetings. Keep real help close for the one you love. Keep answering when they call. Anointing just marks the moment you stop carrying the part only God can carry.
The Lending Prayer
- Hold something of theirs. A Bible, a photo, a keepsake.
- Put one drop of oil on it.
- LIFT: Say their name out loud.
- LAY: Tell God the thing you're most afraid of. Out loud.
- LEAVE: Say, "Lord, they're Yours. I'm lending them back to You."
- Put your phone in the drawer.
Every night. As long as it takes.
"A little goes a long way! The scent reminds me of being in church when the priest walks around with incense. It's such a familiar and comforting smell. I like using a little during my morning prayers..."
Mary T. · Verified buyer"The bottle may be small, but don't let that put you off. You only need the tiniest amount. I've been using it regularly, and there's still plenty left. The scent is beautiful and lasts a long time."
Elaine W. · Verified buyer"This is my second bottle, and I still love the fragrance. It's rich and beautiful, and the packaging was really nice too. Everything arrived well sealed."
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Use it every night through your hardest weeks. If He doesn't feel closer, email us at hello@getrala.com and every penny comes back.
Each bottle is blended to order, with care and reverence. Most US orders arrive in 15–20 days.
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It doesn't take the place of your Bible, your church, your meetings, or real help for the one you love. It is not a charm. The oil has no power of its own, and it never touches anyone who hasn't asked for it.
It's a small bottle that marks the night you gave your child to God.
Tonight, read 1 Samuel 1:27–28. Then Genesis 31:13.
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