Magic!

When I was around 9 years old, my mom told me something about the Bible.

“Do you know that this book has magic?” She said to me as she picked the book from her lap.

I didn’t say a word but, based on my facial expression, I knew she felt the question “How?”

She answered and demonstrated: “Before you open this book and read something on it, you have to talk to God first. The things you’re going to say to Him will probably include how thankful you are for things, how sorry you are for mistakes, and/or how you like your aspirations to happen. Then you just open the book without planning out the page or the chapter you’re gonna read on.

You just open it. You just read whatever is there. And then what you read is God’s reply to you. That is the magic.”

“I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
- Mark 11:22-24 NIV