"Biblical Basis for Anointing Oil and Cloths" is a free teaching for your benefit. You may copy and use.

MYSTERY: Mark 4:11 To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables.

WARFARE: Eph. 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

BREAKING BONDAGES: Isaiah 10:27 It shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck and the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil (in some Bible versions it just says anointing but anointing in the Strong's for this verse means the rubbing on of oil.)

ANOINTING THE SICK: James 5:14 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.

ANOINTING OF ITEMS: Exodus 30:26 With it you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting and the ark of the testimony; the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, and the alter of incense.

THE LORD ANOINTS: Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me because the Lord has anointed me. Stong's number 4886 which means to rub with oil. Isaiah 55:8-9 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thought than your thoughts.

ANOINTING CLOTHS: Acts 19:12 Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul. So that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

THE ANOINTING BRINGS THE HOLY SPIRIT: 1 Sam. 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.

The oil throughout scripture typically symbolizes the Holy Spirit.

By using the anointing oil we are breaking the yoke of burden off of others and ourselves that are anointed and leaving the residence of the Holy Spirit.