Jesus provides us with examples of commanding healing to go forth!
Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 17:
12 Then as Jesus entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off.
13 And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
14 So when He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.
15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God,
16 and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.
17 So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”
19 And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
In this example, Jesus did not lay hands on the ten lepers. He simply spoke life by commanding them to show themselves to the priests who could determine their leprosy to be healed. They all knew the acceptable process to be reintegrated into society. Both Jesus and the lepers understood the Levitical Law found in Leviticus chapter 13:
16 Or if the raw flesh of the leper changes and turns white again, he shall come to the priest. 17 And the priest shall examine him; and indeed if the sore has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean who has the sore. He is clean.
The Beloved Disciple recorded by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 4:
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the Word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
Notice that Jesus provided the sign of healing for the nobleman to believe. This nobleman had traveled seventeen miles to approach Jesus. Jesus did not pray some request to HIS FATHER, He simply spoke the Words of faith: “Go your way; your son lives.”
Can we exercise this same faith concerning someone who is not in our immediate presence? The answer is emphatically “YES”! The nobleman confirmed the time of healing. Instantaneous healing will come in the same hour. Are we meant to walk in the same faith as Jesus? Yes. If we don’t expect to walk at the same level, we won’t.
In reference to the above passages, neither time did Jesus say “be healed” or command healing. The key was and is that at that moment, Jesus fully believed that they were healed. Jesus was fully persuaded that their healing was fulfilled. What counts is “believing”.
Why are we called believers? As we fully believe The Word of GOD in all areas, we too should expect our ministry in healing to expand even to the remote areas where we are not present. It is “believing” that counts when ministering healing.