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As Bro. Dave indicated, we can speak of healing, etc., and set people up for disappointment. Now, it is NOT, I contend, giving them FALSE HOPE! No, I believe we SHOULD be seeing the sort of miracles we have read about. But while it is not false hope, it can still disappoint when it doesn't happen.I've been disappointed so many, many times. I've prayed for others...NOTHING. I've prayed for direction at times...NOTHING. I've prayed for God to heal some ailment of mine...NOTHING (unless you consider it a miracle to recover from a cold after about a week or so).BUT...there have been a few times (precious few, I'm afraid) were I KNEW God had done the work. I've been miraculously healed EXACTLY ONCE (OK, maybe twice, but I was too sick to know what was going on...it might have been that I would have died, but God kept me). The rest of the time, I was UNmiraculously healed. In fact, in most cases, I have recovered at the SAME RATE as an absolute atheist.But while I've been disappointed, and while I DO, like some of you, want to find a way to explain why we don't see healings like we've read about healings...even though I've wanted to find some solution, I cannot find one. I cannot find a single verse the leads me to think that we SHOULDN'T expect to see God still do the miraculous. And so I am left we holding on to the belief that we should ASPIRE to the level of healing we read about in the NT. We might not be there, we might not have attained, but we still seek to go on to perfection. Perfect faith, I believe, will give us the same results that Jesus had. After all, you cannot have perfect faith that is outside of God's will.

I am certain there was no intent to do so, but for the record, it is absolutely false to attribute this thought to me. I never suggested that preaching or talking about healing is a setup for disappointment. I believe that God heals today and that we should pray and ask Him to do so.

No one is there Aaron.No one.If they feel they are - just give it a few years.Trouble - sorrow are common to man.I truly feel sorry for all of the folks similar to you - that go through their life feeling they aren't living up to some faith standard that the Brad's of the world burden them with.

What opposes faith is the idea that God is sometimes not good, sometimes He wants your baby to die, sometimes He wants your breasts to be full of cancer and sometimes He wants you paralyzed from the neck down. What opposes faith is the idea that sometimes we have to find life apart from His gift of life. Preaching and teaching that undermine His goodness and the fact that He with Christ freely give[s] us all things undermines faith. Faith comes by hearing the word of Christ. All we can do is continue to remove the leaven of legalism that is contrary to faith, keep presenting the word of Christ that brings faith and see our level of confidence of in God continue to rise and our level of confidence in the flesh diminish. Faith is a fight, no doubt. Our warfare is to pull down thoughts that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God and bring our thoughts captive to Christ's obedience I'm not saved because I'm good. I'm saved because He's good!My website: www.bradfreeman.comMy blog: bradcfreeman.tumblr.com/