"Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord." (NKJV)
I just finished reading the commentary on this verse and all I can say is, wow! There is so much to read relative to being sick, calling for the elders and the anointing of all in the name of the Lord!
Matthew Henry Commentary for verse 14:
"We have particular directions given as to sick persons and healing, pardoning mercy promised upon the observance of those directions. If any be sick, they are required,
1. To send for the elders,...the presbyters, pastors or ministers of the church,...It lies upon sick people as a duty to send for ministers, and to desire their assistance and their prayers.
2. It is the duty of ministers to pray over the sick, when thus desired and called for. Let them pray over him; let their prayers be suited to his case, and their intercessions be as becomes those who are affected wit his calamities.
3. In the times of miraculous healing, the sick were to be anointed with oil in the name of the Lord.
Expositors generally confine this anointing with oil to such as had the power of working miracles; and, when miracles ceased, this institution ceased also.
In Mark's gospel we read of the apostle's anointing with oil many that were sick, and healing them, Mark 6:13. And we have accounts of this being practiced in the church two hundred years after Christ; but then the gift of healing also accompanied it, and, when the miraculous gift ceased, this rite was laid aside."1
My encouragement to you now that you have read this Victory Call, is to go, read, meditate (dig deeper) and then pray. Ask God to reveal your heart to you that you may seek Him firstly, for pardon and, secondly, for healing! Offer Him a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving! He is worthy to be praised! Believe that He, who is in you is able to do above and beyond anything you could ever ask of Him!!
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen." ~~Ephesians 3:20-21 (NKJV)2
Stephanie
Stephanie Paul, wife and mother of two grown children. An "instrument of change" in the Redeemer's Hand, in the lives of wounded and hurting women. Currently serving as a part of the Addiction Recovery Team at America's Keswick as Woman of Character Program Administrator.
1 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%205:14&version=NKJV
2 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%203:20&version=NKJV
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We MAY have the meaning of the verse Misunderstood. If you look at the hebrew word for SICK its true meaning is weak maybe to mean the "spriritually weak" and not the actual sickness of a person. FYI
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