I do not talking about healing! I talk about wonders and miracles. This is an different gift God gave in the apostolic time.
If you study the gospels and acts, then you can read: all who came to him became healed, ore be delivered from demons. All! All! And it was a great number. How many which come today to a healing event ore healing ministry and got healed? 30%? More.
If in all the healings services and meeting 100% of the sick people get healed. Then I believe you that it is today as it was in Jesus and the apostolic time.
And who today is doing the miracle like Elia, Elisa ore Paul did?
Dont you think this would be reportet in the News?
You claim today is the same like it was in the apostolic time. Then proof it to me.
And I said not that today is no healing anymore ore no prayer request which the Lord is listen and answer.
I expierienced answer to my prayers.
And while I was in involved in mission ministry I got many witnesses from believers which got healed after prayer ore from Hindus which got healed and turned to Christ. Prayer of the church ore from missionaries ( no pentecostal ore charismatics)
On the other side it is to recognize that believers get sick and die.
This is normal. The very rare number of believers will die because of high age.
The most will die, because of sickness.
And please consider that all people which Jesus healed ore took back to life, later died. I suppose because of any kind of sickness. Ore what you mean?
This is normal.
And yes I pray for sick people. In the knowledge that the father always knows whats the best for us.
I would say those signs as wonders where used for what you call apostolic time as a picture of the gospel . You could say as parables for that time present seeing the government was being reformed to a earlier time period (no outward representation ) like the period of Judges when men and woman were equal and walked by faith in respect to the unseen King of kings .
For instance when John the Baptist was in jail about to be martyred for the faith of Christ .He had his doubts as to was the Son of man the Christ, or would he look for another ? Christ to insure Him and strengthen his faith replied below in the parable
Luke 7:22Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and what things ye have seen and heard; how that the
blind see, the
lame walk, the
lepers are cleansed, the
deaf hear, the
dead are raised, to the
poor the gospel is preached.
Hiding the spiritual understanding of the gospel . The blind see speaking of the spiritually blind. Those who walked by sight as the lame now given the faith can walk according to it. The lepers as those with no sensitivity to the flesh are given sensitivity to the spirit . The spiritually deaf, ears to hear the gospel. Those dead in their trespasses and sins raised to new life .To those spiritually bankrupt the gospel is preached according to the riches of Christ .
This is in the same way as Exodus a change in government. With signs and wonders he drew out his people who were hoping in the fulfillment of the prophecy. The four hundred years had come to a end as a sign against those who would not believe the word of God prophecy .
Moses like John the Baptist had his doubts and Christ the Holy Spirit again as a parable spoke using the staff which became a symbol of authority against those who rebel and refuse to hear prophecy. And gave Moses another sign to be used against those who knew not God. This time the sign of leprosy as dead no life or sensitivity to the Holy Spirit . It moved those who appose God to let them go and worship the God that they did not believe in, forcing their hand
Exodus 4 King James Version (KJV)And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said,
A rod.And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold,
his hand was leprous as snow.And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again.
And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold,
it was turned again as his other flesh. And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that
they will believe the voice of the latter sign.