Does it surprise you to know that essential oils have roots in biblical passages? I believe that when God made the world and his beautiful people, of course He created provisions to nourish and heal our physical bodies so we would have all we need during our time here on earth. Just as the volatile compounds on plants protect the plants from disease, they provide similar medicinal benefits to us as well to protect our health. God is brilliant in all things. With any created good, there are people who misuse the gifts God has given us. Take the beauty of music or art for example and notice how some artists have corrupted their work with vulgar images. There is the potential for a negative spirit to touch all created things. My mission is to educate on the goodness of God in His provision of pure plant wisdom to support our mind, body and spirit. I encourage you to pray with any of the following passages.

Numbers 24:6 As valleys are they spread forth,

As gardens by the river-side,

Like aloes the Lord planted

As cedar- trees beside the waters.

Psalm 45:8-9

You love justice and hate wickedness;

Therefore God, your God, has anointed you

with the oil of gladness above your fellow kings.

With myrrh and aloes and cassia your robes are fragrant;

Proverbs 7:17

I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

Song of Solomon 4:13-14...5:1

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all kinds of incense;

Myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices- these plants all known for their sweet scent

I gather my myrrh and my spices...Eat, friends; drink! Drink freely of love!

John 19:39

Nicodemus, (the man who had first come to Jesus at night) likewise came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes which weighed about a hundred pounds. They took Jesus’ body and in accordance with Jewish burial custom, bound it up in wrappings of cloth with perfumed oils.

EXODUS 30:22-24 The Annointing Oil

The Lord said to Moses, “Take the finest spices, five hundred shekels of free-flowing myrrh; half the amount...of fragrant cinnamon;...five hundred shekels of cassia...together with a hin of olive oil and blend them into sacred annointing oil. With this sacred anointing oil you shall anoint the meeting tent and the ark of the commandments...when you have consecrated them they will be most sacred.

EZEKIEL 27:19

Javan exchanged wrought iron, cassia, and aromatic cane from Uzal for your wares.

PSALM 45:8

You love justice and hate wickedness;

Therefore God, your God, has anointed you

With the oils of gladness above your fellow kings.

With myrrh and aloes and cassia your robes are fragrant.

Leviticus 14:4 Purification after Leprosy -he shall order the man who is to be purified to get two live, clean birds, as well as some cedarwood, scarlet yarn and hyssop( mentioned again in v. 6, 49, 52).

Genesis 6:14 -Preparation for the Flood- Make yourself an ark of gopher wood, put warriors compartments in it and cover it inside and out with pitch.

Isaiah 41:19-20 I will plant in the desert the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive; I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, so that all may see and know, may consider and understand , that the hand of the Lord has done this…

1 Kings 9:11- King Hiram of Tyre gave Solomon all the cedarwood he wished to build a temple fo the Lord

Song of Solomon 1:17

the beams of our house are cedars,

Our rafters, cypresses.

Exodus 30:22 The Lord told Moses: Take the finest spices: five hundred shekels of free flowing myrrh, half that amount, that is two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cinnamon; two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cane; five hundred shekels of cassia- all according to the standard of the sanctuary shell; together with shin of olive oil; and blend them into sacred annointing oil.

IN VERSE 34: The Lord told Moses, take these aromatic substances...and pure frankincense in equal parts and blend them into incense ...this incense shall be treated as most sacred by you.

Leviticus 2:1-(grain offerings to the Lord)...The offerer shall pour oil on it and put frankincense over it and bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests.

Leviticus 5:11 But if he cannot afford two turtle doves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin which he has committed, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering, he shall put no oil upon it, and, and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a SIN offering.

Leviticus 6:15 And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the cereal offering with its oil and all the frankincense which is on the cereal offering, and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing odor to the Lord.

Leviticus 24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense with each row, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion to be offered by fire to the Lord.

Numbers 5:15 then the marshal bring his wife to the priest, and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an Ethan of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a cereal offering of jealously, a cereal offering of remembrance, bringing inequity to remembrance, which recalls wrongdoing.

1Chronicles 9:29 Others were appointed to take care of the utensils and all the sacred vessels, as well as the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

Nehemiah 13:5 ...prepared for Tobias a large chamber where they had previously put the cereal offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

Nehemiah 13:9 Then I gave orders and they cleansed the chambers; and I brought back thither the vessels of the house of God, with the cereal offering and the frankincense.

Song of Solomon 3:6 Who is this coming up from the desert, like columns of smoke perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all kinds of exotic powders?

Song of Solomon 4:6 Until the day grows cool and the shadows flee, I shall go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

Song of Solomon 14 …spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all kinds of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.

Isaiah 43:23 You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense.

Isaiah 60:6 A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praise of the Lord.

Isaiah 66:3 he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense