Can I Sneak an Anointed Cloth into a Loved One’s Pillow and Get Results?

We know that cloths can store and release the anointing because of Acts 19:11-12.  This question would probably be asked by a person who heard a testimony of a wife who snuck a cloth in her hubby’s pillow and he got saved, healed or delivered or something.

I do not agree with “sneaky” methods even if they supposedly worked in some cases.  Here are my reasons.

First, how would you like it if your spouse were a warlock and he brought home a cursed cloth from his Satan-worship cult and snuck it into YOUR pillow to try to get you to forsake Jesus, follow Satan, get sick or something similar?  If you wouldn’t want it done to you, Matthew 7:12 tells you not to do it to someone else.

Second, nothing in Acts 19:11-12 indicates anything stealthy about how the cloths were given to the sick.  They were “brought unto” the sick, not “snuck under” the sick.

Third, “sneaky” methods reek of witchcraft where someone tries to override someone else’s free will surreptitiously using spiritual power.  God honors our free will, so we need to be like God and honor other people’s free will.  If it isn’t your hubby’s free will to serve Jesus, be healed, etc., it’s not God-like to try to override his free will using spiritual power without his consent.  That is different from interceding for someone, asking God to intervene in a situation, which is still a fair thing to do for an unsaved and not-wanting-to-be-saved loved one or a sick loved one who currently has no revelation of divine healing.

Fourth, consider the consequences if the loved one feels something different in the pillow and discovers the cloth, knowing that you must have put it there.  Then the person asks what you did that for.  What will you say?  Won’t that person be upset with you?  You could end up with a worse situation than the one you started with.

I am not saying that anything “sneaky” is always evil if the issue is a surprise party or a surprise gift or something else where there is no real clash of wills.  In fact, I had an eye get healed to the point it didn’t need glasses anymore because my wife was “sneakily” praying for my eye because she thought that my glasses were ugly.  (I had used glasses since kindergarten.)  But that was different, because we both believed in divine healing and both believed that my eye getting healed was desirable as well as God’s known will.  She was not trying to force something on me that she thought I didn’t want.  I stopped wearing glasses and we were both happy about that outcome.  However, sneaking a cloth into the pillow of someone who rejects the idea of divine healing with the idea that he’ll get healed anyway has no biblical support.