Is It Important to Use ANOINTED Anointing Oil When We Anoint the Sick?

No.

Nothing in Scripture even hints that the oil itself must be “anointed” through some process such as a service to anoint anointing oil that I saw in a video someone lent me once.  People went out and bought oil to bring in so that it could be anointed during that service when the pastor prayed over it.  They make videos of all kinds of things these days, but don’t believe everything you see on them.  The person asked what I thought, and I said that the video was a complete waste of my time.

There were no prayer meetings in the Bible to anoint oil before it was used, so any such meeting today is absolutely useless.  And so is watching a video of such a meeting, even if the minister in question might say some helpful things when he’s not caught up in that kind of fluff.

I suppose there will be people will buy oil and resell it at a high markup claiming that it has been prayed over, anointed, or whatever.  Merchandising the gospel is not a new concept; people did that in Bible days, too, and Paul spoke against it.  (2 Corinthians 2:17: “For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.”)

It’s faith, not the oil, that makes anointing with oil work.  (See Must We Use OLIVE OIL to Anoint the Sick? for similar comments about what kind of oil you use.)