'For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matt 18:20
Acts 10:44 "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word."
There's also the doctrine of laying on hands-
"Of 'the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Heb 6:2
For healing:
- -'"They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Mark 16:18
Receive the Holy Ghost and gifts.
- "Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost." Acts 8:17
- " Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery." I Tim 4
Bless those going into ministry or being sent out -
"And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses." God had told Moses to lay hands on Joshua . (Deu 39).
-'And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away." Acts 13
This is very important "Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure." I Tim 5:22 That works both ways - those laying hands on others or on the receiving end.
neither be partaker of other men's sins -
There was a transference of sins such as "And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:" Lev 16
Today some teach repentance after salvation isn't necessary which is not Biblical. Luk 11, Rev 2 and 3 state otherwise.. The high priest addressed his sins first before he ministered to the people.
-"'But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:" Heb 9:7
- "And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel." Lev 16:17