The following is a link to a testimony of a miracle.
God led Christian doctor in Texas to Covid cure | God Reports
Notice that its entirely deniable by us. God gives him the cure, but somebody else already has the cure in another part of the world. He knows God has helped him, but there's no way any of us can see it as a proof. I'd go so far as to suggest that if somebody else hadn't come up with the cure then God wouldn't have let him have it, because it would have become proof.
I guess that if this is so successful in other countries, then why is it not standard practice in all countries?
If the stats reveal that its a valid option, why aren't all the hospitals using it? Its not life threatening and the drugs are already approved. Zinc is also freely available. So....what's the problem?
I think this is and example of the nature of miracles. They are never proofs of the supernatural. Maybe they are possible and are supernatural but may not reveal the supernatural. In the above case the doctor clearly believes he's been miraculously assisted, but he's not permitted to prove it.
I don't think that we can discount the fact that this doctor may well have heard about this subliminally from some source that he is not aware of. I'm sure that God doesn't single out countries or states or even specific doctors to work a miracle....especially when said countries do not identify as "Christian" nations.
What in your experience are miracles for?
My personal take, according to my own studies of the Bible are that the Bible's miracles are very different to what is witnessed in this day and age.
Going back to Bible times, what miracles do we see performed and with what result?
Pre-Christian times had their own kinds of miracles...e.g. the Israelite's liberation from Egypt was accompanied by 10 plagues which devastated the land of Egypt because a proud Pharaoh refused to comply with God request to send his people away so that they may worship him. Then after their release, the parting of the Red Sea was a monumental miracle, and thereafter the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire guided Israel for 40 years in the wilderness.
There were also smaller scale miracles like Naa'man the chief of the Syrian army who had his leprosy cured by a little Israelite servant girl sending him to God's prophet Elisha to cure him of his leprosy. This man was not an Israelite, and initially his pride was challenged when firstly Elisha would not meet him in person and perform the said miracle, and secondly he was told to bathe 7 times in Israel's Jordan River. He initially refused to comply. But one of his servants said that if the prophet had told him to do something difficult, wouldn't he have done it?.....then why not something simple?
So Naa'man washed himself in the Jordan seven times and was cured. The result?...
"Then his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little boy, and he became clean.
15 After that he went back to the man of the true God, he and all his entourage, and he stood before him and said: “Now I know that there is no God anywhere in all the earth but in Israel." (2 Kings 5:14-15)
Yet why this man and not others? Jesus recounted, after his own people had failed to acknowledge him........
"So he said: “Truly I tell you that no prophet is accepted in his home territory. 25 For instance, I tell you in truth: There were many widows in Israel in the days of E·liʹjah when heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and a great famine came on all the land. 26 Yet E·liʹjah was sent to none of those women, but only to a widow in Zarʹe·phath in the land of Siʹdon. 27 Also, there were many lepers in Israel in the time of E·liʹsha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, only Naʹa·man the Syrian.” (Luke 4:23-27)
God obviously had his reasons for these "one-off" miracles but they are not stated.
Moving along to Christianity, there were many miracles associated with Jesus and his apostles.
But why were they needed? God used miracles to demonstrate to the Jews that his favor had now shifted from apostate Judaism to the new the disciples of his son, who were all originally Jewish. Since the Pharisees had departed from true worship in favor of substituting man-made traditions, it had been a long time since Israel had seen any miracles.
Mark 7:6-8...
"He [Jesus] said to them [the Pharisees]: “Isaiah aptly prophesied about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far removed from me. 7 It is in vain that they keep worshipping me, for they teach commands of men as doctrines.’ 8 You let go of the commandment of God and cling to the tradition of men.”
The miracles of the first century had one thing in common...every one of them pictured a feature of life in the coming Kingdom of God. Healing the sick, curing physical deformities, the blind seeing, the deaf hearing, raising the dead, speaking in different languages....all will be seen on a grand scale when God's Kingdom rules mankind.
The miracles were merely a foregleam of what was to come....but they were not to last. Why?
Paul explained at 1 Corinthians 13:8-13, after describing what love is and what it isn't, he said.....
"But if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially, 10 but when what is complete comes, what is partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; but now that I have become a man, I have done away with the traits of a child. . . .Now, however, these three remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love."
So the need to see miracles is associated with spiritual infancy. It is a good start but not a firm enough foundation to build a strong, mature faith. Now we need a more solid foundation...."faith, hope and love"...something that cannot be feigned or faked. We noticed in Egyptian times when Moses and Aaron performed their miracles before Pharaoh, that his magic-pracricing priests were able to do their miracles too, but not with God's power. So the devil is able to do "tricks' as well, just not up to the standard that Jesus and his apostles could do. Those who rely on miracles today can so easily be misled by the devil, which is why our Christianity must be identified by those three important aspects of our faith.
To have attended a miracle faith-healing session and to come away with no cure can be devastating to a person's faith...they often come away feeling very disappointed that God did not consider them worthy of a miracle. That is faith destroying...not faith building. Others find that their cure did not last. Others may have experienced the placebo effect rather than an actual miracle.
That is not to say that God no longer performs 'miracles'.....he just doesn't do them like he did in the first century......there were no failures back then...and all who came to be cured were healed completely.
Today he gives us very personal little 'miracles' that includes taking us through difficult times with our faith renewed, instead of depleted. Our hope in the Kingdom is restored with wonderful pictures of the future that see past the present foretold calamities. It is also seen in the love displayed in a global brotherhood who all have the same beliefs, and the same hope, and who support one another in practical ways. Its a truly beautiful thing IMO.