Can I Command a Sickness to Leave over the Telephone?

Yes.

Jesus spoke WORDS and a demon left the Syrophoenician woman’s daughter who was not with Jesus at the time (Mark 7:25-30).  He spoke WORDS and a nobleman’s son, who was some distance away, recovered (John 4:46-53).  So there is no reason to think that we cannot speak WORDS and command miracles to happen somewhere else today!

A friend, my wife and I COMMANDED stage 4 cancer to leave a man in another country over the telephone using only faith-filled WORDS backed by our authority in Christ.  Within days he returned to the doctor and the doctor could not find a trace of cancer, while a previous X-ray showed that his whole head was full of cancer and the doctor had given up hope for him.

More recently, I commanded a dog to be healed that had swallowed human medicine and was close to death.  I did this over the telephone.  The dog recovered; the person even sent a picture of the dog afterward.

Just to expand your thinking a little, consider this actual event involving a man who preached some special services at a church we pastored.  He had been asked to pray for someone who was dying in the hospital.  He felt led to send a text message that said, “GET UP!”  So he did.  He didn’t call the person or visit him in person.  However, it turned out that the man died roughly an hour before the text message was sent.  No one had turned off his phone.  When the text message “GET UP!” came through, the man snapped back to life!  (At this writing that is the only account I know of someone being TEXTED back to life.)  We do not have the generic authority to raise the dead that we have to heal the sick, but this at least illustrates the power of words that have the Holy Spirit’s backing.

Having said all this, let me give you some practical advice.  You want to make sure that the person on the other end is in agreement (or is the parent of a sick child where the parent is the one in agreement).  If you just randomly command people to be healed and the people have no idea what you’re doing, they could be in the same position as the legalists in Luke 5:17-26 where the power of the Lord was present to heal them, yet they did not receive anything.  We can make the power available, but if the person on the other end has no idea that he should be receiving healing while we speak, or has no idea what is going on, that power could just bounce off the person so to speak without any result.  The passage just cited proves that the power can be present to heal without the people being healed.

This is not an issue with animals, who are not expected to exercise faith – the owner needs to do that on the animal’s behalf.  I’ve seen animals healed in the name of Jesus and frankly, it can be easier to get animals healed because I’ve yet to hear of one protesting that healing and miracles passed away, or that maybe they needed to have a thorn in the flesh or get sick so that the Lord could call them home or teach them patience or work some other good in them, etc., etc., ad nauseam.