Bible Questions Answered: Prayer Cloths

Bible Questions Answered:
Is it OK to use altar, or prayer mantles, for the sick? Do they contain miraculous power of God?
Klaudia/Otwock, Poland

Bible Answer:
Intrinsically, no, spiritually, yes.

Mark 5:25-34 KJV
25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched His garment.
28 For she said, If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole.
29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press, and said, Who touched My clothes?
31 And His disciples said unto Him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
32 And He looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before Him, and told Him all the truth.
34 And He said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

This Jewish lady, had been twelve years Levitically unclean. Unable to attend her synagog, and or the company of her loved ones.

Leviticus 15:25 KJV
And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.

Earlier, Jesus had allowed the throngs of people to touch Him.

Mark 3:10 KJV
For He had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon Him for to touch Him, as many as had plagues.

I Peter 5:7 KJV
Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.

Now what had healed this lady, was it the cloth of Jesus' garment?
No.

Mark 5:30 KJV
And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that virtue* had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press, and said, Who touched My clothes?

*Virtue: Greek-Dunamis (Doo-nam-is): Miraculous power, ability, abundance, meaning, might, miracle, power, strength, violence, mighty-wonderful-work.

In answer to the faith of this woman, miraculous power, flowed from the Lord Jesus, to her.

Mark 5:34 KJV
And He said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

The ancients of Israel, well regarded with virtue, the garments of it's prophets, e.g. second kings chapter two.

In the book of Acts we read of the works of the Apostle Paul.

Acts 19:11,12 KJV
11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

Acts 19:11,12 NLT
11 God gave Paul the power to perform unusual miracles.
12 When handkerchiefs or aprons that had merely touched his skin were placed on sick people, they were healed of their diseases, and evil spirits were expelled.

And of Peter.

Acts 5:14-16 KJV
14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.
15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.

The common denominator in these events is faith.

Mark 11:22 KJV
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

Dear friend, whatever you do, if God's Word, promises it to you, believe it, have faith in God!

Luke 17:6 KJV
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

I John 5:4 KJV
For whatsoever is born of God over cometh the world: and this is the victory that over cometh the world, even our faith.