Finally, it is important to know that Jesus was anointed with tangible healing power during His earthly ministry. That is, He could actually feel that healing anointing leaving His body, and in some cases, the sick person who was being healed could feel that anointing as it entered his body. For example, Luke 6:19 says, “And all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.”
Apparently that healing anointing even saturated Jesus’ clothes so that, if a sick person touched His garment in faith, the healing anointing would flow into his body. We read in Mark 6:56:
Wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and imploring Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured.
The woman with the issue of blood (see Mark 5:25-34) was healed by simply touching the fringe of Jesus’ garment and expecting by faith to be healed.
Not only was Jesus anointed with a tangible healing anointing but so was the apostle Paul during the later years of his ministry:
God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out (Acts 19:11-12).
The tangible healing anointing saturated any cloths that were attached to Paul’s body, evidently indicating that cloth is a good conductor of healing power!
God hasn’t changed since the days of Jesus or Paul, so we shouldn’t be surprised if God anoints some of His servants today with such a healing anointing, as He did Jesus and Paul. These gifts, however, are not passed out to novices, but only to those who have proven themselves faithful and unselfishly motivated over a period of time.
