"God doesn't work that way anymore; the age of miracles is over."
How it sounds in your head: Maybe God did big miracles back then, but now He works through doctors and medicine, not supernatural stuff. It feels like we're in a different dispensation where we just have to deal with things naturally and not expect crazy supernatural intervention.
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father."
-- John 14:12Source: Religion teaching dispensationalism to limit God's power and justify prayerless, powerless Christianity.
He's been taught that different 'ages' have different rules, and the supernatural age ended. It explains why his experience doesn't match Bible stories and lets him off the hook for expecting more.
This young man fell asleep during Paul's long sermon, fell out of a third-story window, and died—completely dead, not almost. Paul went down, embraced him, and he came back to life INSTANTLY—even after the apostolic age was supposedly ending, the power was still flowing.
I REFUSE the lie that the age of miracles is over. IT IS WRITTEN that I will do the works Jesus did and GREATER works because He sent the Holy Spirit to live IN me. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in me RIGHT NOW—that's not a past-tense reality, that's present-tense POWER. IT IS WRITTEN that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever—He didn't retire His miracle-working arm. I am Abraham's seed, and the BARAK blessing of supernatural provision and protection didn't expire—it's mine by COVENANT. I walk in the fullness of God's power TODAY.
The Father isn't rationing His power based on what century you were born in—He's the same extravagant Dad who healed the nobleman's son from miles away just because the dad asked. He's running toward you with the full tank of heaven's resources, not the leftovers.