Prayers That Bring Healing

Chapter 4 Touching The Hem

For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. —Matthew 9:21, KJV

THE ROTHERHAM TRANSLATION says, "If only I touch his mantle." The mantle represents the anointing. Elisha took up the mantle that fell from Elijah (2 Kings 2:13). He smote the waters with Elijah's mantle. When God called Elisha, He used Elijah to cast His mantle upon him (1 Kings 19:19). This represented the anointing coming upon him to stand in the office of a prophet. We call this the prophetic mantle. Jesus walked and ministered as a prophet of God. He ministered under a prophetic mantle. This mantle also included healing and miracles. The woman with the issue of blood pressed through the crowd to touch His mantle. She was putting a demand upon His prophetic mantle. As a result, she received a miracle. There are different mantles given to different people. As you touch the mantle of a particular office, you will draw virtue and power from that anointing. I am not referring to touching a person physically but drawing from them spiritually.