Aroma Mom For Jesus

And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. John 1:16

As moms, we stand in need of grace upon grace as we seek to heap grace on our children. Like Jesus, we become full to serve through our relationship with God our Father , by loving him with all our heart ❤️, mind, soul and strength. We stay filled up by studying God’s word, praying and seeking fellowship from other Christians. In all this, we hear from God and are empowered to obey him and find our identity and strength in him.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: (‭‭‭John‬ ‭1‬‬:‭12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

This is great news! There is no greater right that we have!

We get to be children of God when we receive Jesus, the Son of God, by believing in him.

You see, sin separates us from our Heavenly Father. God sent Jesus to earth to pay the price for our sin.

We have fellowship with God through Jesus.

Receive and believe. Jesus.

A replay of my last Bible study teaching on the Clubhouse app.

Repent and Refresh with Jesus With Victoria Carrington

Thank you for being peace in the midst of troubles, calm in the middle of a storm.

Aroma Bible Notes- my initial, brief thoughts about the

Yea-
From the Hebrew word “gam” often rendered “Also”. In the previous verses of Psalm 23, David wrote of God leading him in the pleasant, fertile places. He then remembers the other places the Lord has been with him. Not the sunny, grassy riverside but a darker place on our journey.

though I walk - we are always walking somewhere, on a continual journey, with God, toward the destiny he has for us

Through-
we are walking through, we won’t stay there, as my pastor reminds us

The valley-
dark, deep, foreboding, feels far from God and his heavens, his hills of help, his meeting mountain tops, the warmth and light of his love and guidance.

of the shadow of death-
that shadow of our biggest enemy, death, seems to loom over us in the valley. Jesus is life but he seems overshadowed when we are walking in the valley and fail to look up.

This is the situation as we feel it, experience it. So now what? A radical decision. A choice is made.

I will fear no evil- there is evil in the valley- temptation, despair, hopelessness.

On what basis is the choice made- My strength, my abilities, my knowledge?

No. Only because of the One who will never leave you or forsake you.

For You are with me

Jesus, our Good Shepherd, is not only with you but is actively caring for you. There is a cost to being a Good Shepherd. Jesus paid the cost with his life as he said he would.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” John 10:11

Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

The prophet Micah prays for his people like this-

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. (Micah 7:14)

Being in the grasp of the heavenly rod and staff is the best place. No man can sn**ch us out of the hand of God. (John 10:28)