What kind of aromas fill your home? Sweet or bad smells? The flesh gives off sour, bitter, grumpy, and horrible smells, doesn't it? They make everyone in the home feel bad and want to run!
But Christ in us is a sweet-smelling savor, and He wants us to exude His sweet aroma throughout your home. Most husbands love fragrant perfumes (well, my husband does), but more than perfumes, we should constantly wear the perfume of Christ in our lives. I am challenged by 2 Corinthians 2:14 (J. B. Phillip's translation): "We should have about us the unmistakable scent of Christ." Isn’t that wonderful?
How are you smelling today? Are your husband and children avoiding you or running to you?
We notice two things in this Scripture in 2 Corinthians 2:14, 15 (NLT): “(God) uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume.” Firstly, we understand that it is a sweet perfume. If we are not giving off a sweet perfume, it is not the aroma of Christ!
And secondly, we are to spread this sweetness everywhere, in every place. This means your home! It means in the midst of what you are doing—when the children are driving you crazy, when your husband rubs your up the wrong way, and when you are doing the mundane chores like scrubbing toilets and piles of dishes.
No matter what the situation or the place, we keep being sweet! Are you up for the challenge?
Love from Nancy Campbell
“Let there be thankfulness to God” (Ephesians 5:4 (NLT).
“WE DO NOT LOSE HEART!” This was Paul’s confession In the midst of "afflictions, hardships, distresses, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, sleeplessness and hunger" (2 Corinthians 6:4-10, 16-18; 11:23-29; and 12:10).
Are you a bubbling fountain of life to your husband and children?
THE PRECIOUSNESS OF LIFE versus cold-blooded murder. The RHA which New York governor, Cuomo, signed into law allows precious human beings to be murdered in the womb up to the time of birth. No God-fearing person can stay silent. We are told to ABHOR evil (Romans 12:11). That means to shudder with horror! Life begins at conception and is a separate human being than the mother. The baby has a different DNA than the mother! To kill a baby at any time in the womb is murder and nothing less. Let’s not be duped and deceived. 
Mother, you are the watch dog of your children--body, soul, and spirit.
Motherhood is beautiful—tender, passionate, powerful, protecting, emotional, the most challenging and heart-wrenching of all careers—but the glory of womanhood. P.S. Would you like to add some more descriptions? 
Perhaps you are sitting on your rocking chair and nursing your baby as you read this post. What a powerful work you are doing. You are not only nurturing and comforting your baby, you are not only preserving your own body, but you are revealing the character of God. What could be more beautiful and powerful?
Here’s some good questions to ask yourself about your marriage . . .
Do you feel lonely, out of sorts, full of fears, or down in the dumps? You don't have to stay in this state! Did you know there is a sanctuary where you can run? It is God Himself! He is your refuge and hiding place, and He waits for you to run to Him. As you run into His heart, you will find safety, comfort, help, and deliverance!
Your home is a haven providing protection,
What is God's plan for our lives? To present us unblameable and unreprovable in His sight at the coming of the Lord Jesus (I Corinthians 1:8; Colossians 1:21-23; and I Thessalonians 3:13). To conform us to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29 and 2 Corinthians 3:18).
As God’s representative in your home and in the world, He wants you to be tasty and flavorful salt. Never BLAND! Bland salt is good for nothing except to be thrown out. God vomits Luke-warm believers out of His mouth (Revelation 3:16). Let’s embrace the extravagant life of Christ Jesus who lives within us. Never bland. Never mediocre. Never status quo. Never ordinary. Never boring. Instead OVERFLOWING with love, joy, patience, and generosity. 
The victorious life is the crucified life. Anger, bitterness, jealousy, self-pity and other fleshly sins no longer rise up in our lives if we have nailed them to the cross. This is how you live in victory in your home. Read also Galatians 2:20; Romans 8:13; and Colossians 3:12, 13. 
“Heaven on earth.” Is it possible? Jesus told us to pray: "As in heaven, so in earth" (Luke 11:2). That’s a huge prayer, isn’t it? But it’s what He asked us to do.
I was amazed to read about some of the sons of Israel. I Chronicles 12:14-15 (NASB) says: “The sons of Gad were captains of the army; he who was least was equal to a hundred and the greatest to a thousand. These are the ones, who crossed the Jordan . . . when it was overflowing all its banks and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.”
A word of encouragement does wonders. Loving words break down barriers. Sweet words break the hardest bone. Saying sorry heals wounds. 
You’re pregnant? But you are scared to tell your parents or parents-in-law! You know you’ll get a negative reaction (or maybe even a violent reaction)! Can I encourage you that you only have to get through the next few months. When your precious baby is born, their hearts will change. No one can resist a baby!
When you get up get dressed ready for another day in your great career of mothering. You will accomplish your great work far better when dressed appropriately! Don’t hang around in pajamas or bathrobe! You are in the service of the King of kings. 
I have been thinking more about the Scripture I posted below. God is a jealous God. He commands: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). He wants our undivided loyalty. Look at this example of those who went after other gods (Deuteronomy 13:13-18).