Who’s in control?

Unfortunately, Christians who have tasted genuine miracles often succumb to the tempation to be able to control the occurrence and increase of God’s power through methods, principles, and laws. Perhaps many are not aware that they have thereby denied the true miraculous and have locked God in a box where He  must respond in a predetermined manner to their positive or possibility thinking, positive confession, visualizations, and affirmations. The fact that they may have stepped over the line into the occult without realizing it doesn’t help either them or their followers to escape the consequences.

Dave Hunt & T. A. McMahon, The Seduction of Christianity, Harvest House Publishers 1985, p.105