Similarly, gathered around the bedside of a sick person, groups of some professing Christians may declare their conviction that healing will certainly happen and demand in prayer that God do it. As one best-selling author asserted, “I am confident that you are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.”11 Though this expectation might sound good, such people demonstrate misplaced faith too—in the power of prayer to bring about the result they want. These examples are not the kind of faith James is talking about.
