"Healing is not for today; miracles were only for the apostolic age."
How it sounds in your head: Your church taught cessationism—that healing, miracles, and gifts of the Spirit ended with the last apostle. So you pray timidly, expecting nothing supernatural, resigned to medical solutions only, believing God doesn't work that way anymore.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
-- Hebrews 13:8Religious doctrine that limits God's power to a historical period, making present-day believers second-class with no access to supernatural breakthrough.
You've been taught by respected teachers and theologians that the miraculous was only to establish the early church, and now we have the completed Bible so we don't need signs and wonders. It sounds intellectual and protects you from disappointment.
He had been bedridden and paralyzed for eight years—not a famous person, not an apostle, just a believer in the early church. Peter said 'Jesus Christ heals you. Arise,' and IMMEDIATELY Aeneas got up, completely whole after eight years of paralysis.
I REFUSE the lie that healing is not for today. IT IS WRITTEN that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever—He has not changed. If He healed all who came to Him then, He heals all who come to Him now. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in ME. IT IS WRITTEN that by His stripes I WAS healed—past tense, accomplished 2,000 years ago and available today. I am Abraham's seed under an eternal covenant of blessing. Like Aeneas, I receive instant healing through the unchanging power of Jesus' name. Miracles did not cease; religious unbelief just stopped expecting them.
The Father didn't retire from the healing business after the apostles died—He's the same today, running toward you with the same power that emptied tombs and opened blind eyes. Your generation isn't less loved or less powerful; you have the same access to the same Jesus.