Have you ever felt like someone wanted to use you? For whatever reason, you got the sense that they wanted what you could do for them, but weren’t interested in you or your well-being at all. Maybe you didn’t notice it at first, or you stayed oblivious until after they got what they wanted and were on their way. But it always hurts. Along those lines, we’re going to see a story today begin with some powerful people deciding they want to get God’s power to work for them. But they don’t want God. So they try to hire a prophet to ‘force’ God to use His power for their benefit. We’ll see this as the start of Balaam’s story. There are some important elements included in this part of the story that give us hints as what we studied last week. But our focus for this morning is noticing how people (including us!) often go to get God’s power with no interest in getting Him.