The words Jesus spoke were not limited by distance — as was proved by the healing of the absence of the centurion’s servant (Matthew chapter 8), the Canaanite woman’s daughter (Matthew, chapter 15), and the nobleman’s son (John chapter 4). Nor are they frozen in Time in the Gospels, but leap from them into the hearts of spiritually hungry readers.
But is there scriptural ground for believing that the anointing in the life of someone who ministered many years ago and is now dead can heal today through images of a moment caught in time on film or video?
Yes, there is. One such moment is recorded in 2 Kings 13:20-21.
Long after the death of the prophet Elisha, a man killed in battle was hastily thrown into the prophet’s tomb but revived when his body came into contact with Elisha’s bones. Revival power was in the prophet’s bones!
So if revival could take place through the anointing in a prophet’s bones, how could it not also through the prayers for the sick recorded on video? Time stopped for Elisha the moment he died but the anointing is timeless, and was activated when a dead man was placed on his bones. Likewise, prayers caught on camera can be released when faith activates images and brings them to life.
My wife Lorraine grew up in the Salvation Army, where salvation was the primary subject but healing through faith was not taught at all. But when she saw Oral Roberts pray for a woman with a goitre on her neck and it disappeared instantly, the ten years between when the healing took place and when Lorraine saw it vanished as though it were the same moment.
Jesus died on the Cross 2,000 years ago but that moment in Time is recorded in the Gospels. John 3:16 is timeless, as too are the words of Jesus; “It is finished.” We do not deny the reality of Time — just the opposite! We grasp significant past moments in Time by faith and transport them into the Present Time. We catch the moment and are changed! A sinner is saved! A sick person receives a miracle of healing in a moment!