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What does the Bible say about anointing your home?

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The Bible does not command Christians to anoint their homes with oil for protection or blessing, but calls them to trust Christ, pray, and live under God’s Word. Genesis 28:18 records Jacob’s unique memorial act, while Exodus 30:25 and 30:31 reserve the holy anointing oil for Israel’s tabernacle worship, not ordinary household use. Believers stand firm through God’s strength and spiritual armor in Ephesians 6:10-18, resisting fear through faith, prayer, and the truth of the gospel. God protects His people and gives them a spirit of power, love, and self-control, as Isaiah 54:17 and 2 Timothy 1:7 teach. A home is best set apart through faithful worship, repentance, love, and dependence on Christ.

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  • Ephesians 6:10-18 5 votes

    Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace, above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

  • Genesis 28:18 5 votes

    Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

  • Exodus 30:25 5 votes

    You shall make it into a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

  • Luke 10:19 4 votes

    Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

  • 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 4 votes

    For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

  • Isaiah 54:17 4 votes

    No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

  • Exodus 30:31 3 votes

    You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

  • Mark 11:22-25 3 votes

    Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening, he shall have whatever he says. Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

  • Mark 16:17 3 votes

    These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

  • 2 Timothy 1:7 2 votes

    For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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