FAITH CAPSULE: Just as worship is an opposition to worry so is miracle to magic.
Exodus 7
Miracle is simply a wonder and God alone is the wonder working God. Miracles are of God, Miracles lasts forever and it runs deep. Just as worship is opposition to worrying so is miracle to magic. Miracle belongs to God while magic is of the evil one. Magic is a devise of the enemy. Magic glitters and it will only last for a moment. What do you trust God for that is yet to reach your hand?
Despite not being able to see in the physical you have come too far and close to your breakthrough, let not magic come into play. Magic will fail you no matter how it glitters; waiting on the miracle hand of the Almighty God is the only way of receiving from God. Pharaoh was reluctant of letting the children of Israel go and serve the Lord at the request of God through Moses, “So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just as the LORD commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.” (Exodus 7:10-11) The magic worked for the magicians and Pharaoh, but it could not answer or match up with the move of God’s hand in the rod which Moses carried. Any power demonstration outside of the name of God will not stand but fail. Magic will fail but miracle will prevail. Magic could not last as the rod of the magician failed to survive. It is written, “For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.” (Exodus 7:12) If you will look up and hope in the Lord your miracle will come at Gods appointed time.
It is important to note that the enemy will copy but he cannot coordinate for the result to be established. Ones that look for magic are the ones with notion for quick fix to their situation. Ones with mind for magic will not identify God’s way when God is leading them through a longer but right way. It is written, “Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt so God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.”(Exodus 13:17-18) Allow the manifestation of miracle by following through the way of God and not a way which seems right. Often time, the way that seems right is of magic.
Prayer for today: Ask God to keep you from magical snares of the wicked world.