Have you ever thought that if you offered the right prayer in the right way that God would do what you asked? There's a word for that. Magic. Magic was a way to control the gods or the elements or other people (or sometimes all three) to get the result the spell-caster wanted. It's what most people are trying to do when they pray.
Today's story is about a group of exorcists who found that you can't co-opt the power of God. I don't know if what happened to them inspired them to look into how to truly follow Jesus, but it did help thousands of other in their time and it can help us today as well.
Join us as we go on an adventure that begins in the book of Acts...