Based upon what you posted, a couple of questions.
You said: "God doesn't work like that these days".
You seem to be saying that He did "work like that" at one time, though, so...
1) Why did He stop?
2) What is He doing now instead?
Can I share a theory, though you didn’t ask me about God’s not working “that way” anymore?
I don’t believe God ever worked through the miraculous PRIMARILY. In the establishing of the New Testament He empowered the apostles in a way that is CLEARLY not happening in the same way now (except in some people’s heads). The letter to the Hebrews speaks of it in the past tense, also.
The Psalms speak of things He did “of old” and were expected to be spoken about to successive generations and BELIEVED in by faith. I believe he parted the Red Sea by faith. I can visualize it to some degree but I KNOW He did it. Faith! God does not endlessly part seas and give healing power such as that one who basks in the apostle’s shadow is HEALED! As in healed, for real, ON THE SPOT. For free. By Grace. Not laboriously or through wrangling or subterfuge. Such a healed person does not need a Kenneth Hagin tract on HOW TO KEEP YOUR HEALING (imagine the absurdity of someone following behind Jesus or the apostles...).
It is His to choose when and where He shows himself in visible, miraculous power. I’ve never met a believer who denied Him this. But I’ve met some who build a mountain out of a molehill and every thing in their life is above and beyond! They have issues, okay? Simple faith is not their forte.
An epigram for our times of Obama:
“The Tyrant’s device: Whatever is possible is NECESSARY”
This is not God’s way. What He allows he COULD prevent, but does not. He sets limits and operates according to His wisdom when He could do ANYTHING. We should all marvel at His manifold wisdom in what He WITHOLDS as much as any thing He miraculously does.
I love His patient unfolding of the revelation of His Son Jesus, in “the fullness of time”.
Based upon what you posted, a couple of questions.1) Because of sin and the hardness of men's hearts.You said: “God doesn't work like that these days”.
You seem to be saying that He did “work like that” at one time, though, so...
1) Why did He stop?
2) What is He doing now instead?
And so people would not have their ears "tickled" by apparitions [a ghost or ghostlike image of a person] claiming to be "Christ Child" and "Mary" plus other various entities such as those called up in a seance.
2) He sent Jesus, our (High) Priest, as the mediator between God and man.
When Jesus came and fulfilled the law, he became our advocate and brother and it is Him we can go to whenever we wish or feel we need to.
We confess our sins directly to Him and he forgives them.
Plus we can talk to him as if we are talking to our Father, God.
Jesus said He and the Father are one. See the New Testament for verification.