Is anyone allowed to anoint the sick with oil?

[Truth-Teacher]

Can one priest set himself/herself above another?

Are we not all priests in the House of the Lord?

Are we not all imbued with authority?

If a "minister" is endowed with some special calling, ability, authority to lay hands on the sick and to anoint with oil, but doesn't have faith in the healing of the Lord...

and a layperson who has no "proper" education, training, mentoring, upbringing, raising, papers, etc. doesn't have this "special" calling, ability, authority to lay hands on the sick and anoint with oil BUT DOES HAVE FAITH that the Lord will heal...

who would you go to for prayer, anointing and having hands laid on you???

It is the duty of the "minister" and the "priest" to train the saints of the House of the Lord to operate and walk in this anointing, calling, ability, power and authority.

IF THE PERSON ON THE PEW ISN'T HEALING THE SICK, THEN THE PERSON BEHIND THE PULPIT HAS NO RIGHT TO ATTEMPT TO DO SO EITHER!

Amen! They were but uneducated and ordinary men

 

[Andrew]

Andrew,

The part that these "essential oils" play in the life of the flesh & blood life would generally be stated as one of "prevention" and overall health.

If I don't have Frankincense to anoint someone with and all I have is Valvoline 10W-30 (automobile oil), then I'll use that (though it may not necessarily be healthy to the physical body in the long run). The oil, then, is only a symbol of the consecration which you spoke of.

How long ago has it been since you've been sick last?

For me, other than the two times that I had the "scratchy throat" (for which I took Communion and was healed through Christ), it has been around 5 years. I used to get sick 3-4 times per year (mostly with upper respiratory infections and such) prior to this release of faith.

I believed years ago that one day, I would walk in divine health. I don't know what else to call what has happened to me.

Only over the past year, I have started using essential oils as "preventative medicine", and that only occasionally. IOW, maybe once every two weeks for one or two days, I will use oil to anoint (which again means to "smear" from several New Testament Greek transliterations) myself with. IOW, I am not faithful to use these oils.

What I am faithful to do is to meditate that Christ lives in me and through me and that I do not have to suffer sickness as I used to.

IMO, a subject who wants to be consecrated with oil in order to receive healing should be WILLING to consecrate themselves spiritually first. Their minds need to be renewed to the fact that Christ paid the debt on Calvary and that they have no need to carry what He has already borne on His Person on the Cross.

Remember that the Levites were consecrated this way FIRST, before oil was ever poured over them in anointing them for service.

A lot of people want to be anointed with oil but they do not want to consecrate themselves to the Spirit of God and His Kingdom. They want a quick fix. Some want to be able to be free of pain when they sin...

Praise God I believe you are walking in divine health.

Yes our focus must be on the finished work -- that Christ bore our diseases. Everything else is secondary.

The only time I use oil on myself is when my wife gives me a massage. I also have Singer oil and motor oil, which I use on squeaky door hinges. *L

I have annointing oil at home -- got it from Israel -- smells really good. Has myrrh as one of the ingredients. And if I'm not wrong, God gave Moses the recipe for making annointing oil i.e. its not just any oil you use to annoint something or someone. But I use it to shine my shofar (ram's horn) and make it less stinky.

 

[Emma!]

wow, thanks for all your replies!! i havent been on here in a couple of days so i havent read them all yet. i just wanted to clarify that i wasnt asing if any christian can lay hands on the sick (because we certaily can!) but i was asking if any christian should anoint the sick with oil...

thanks everyone!

 

[riverpastor]

Andrew,

I used to blow a shofar in one of our congregations.

Had it for four years.

I baked it, bleached it, used 20-Mule team borax on it, boiled the mouthpiece, used Dreft, vinegar, carpet cleaner, and just about any other cleaning solution you can think of...

Never, and I mean, NEVER, got the smell out of that mouthpiece!

I can still taste it today.