Exodus 8:19 AMP
Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the [supernatural] finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

The phrase, the finger of God is found four times in the Bible, three of those times in the Old Testament and, once in the New. It is synonymous with the supernatural power of God as it directly impacts events in our lives and the world. The first reference to the finger of God is found in Exodus. Moses had just unleashed the third plague on Egypt to force Pharaoh to free the Israelites and had instructed Moses to tell Aaron to stretch out his staff and “strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt,” Vs 16. After Pharaoh’s magicians tried and failed to replicate the miracle in Vs 19, they said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” The second reference to the finger of God occurs also in Exodus, used when the tablets of stone were given to Moses. These tablets were “inscribed by the finger of God,” Exodus 31:18. It is not that God literally touched the tablet since God is Spirit and has no “fingers”; rather, the finger of God is an anthropomorphism indicating that God directly caused the commandments to be engraved upon the stone, as He caused the gnats and lice to be formed of the sand. The New Testament reference to the finger of God is from Jesus Himself. After freeing a blind and mute man from a demon in Luke 11:20, Jesus said, “If I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” In all accounts, the meaning is that these miracles were performed by the overt power of God. The finger of God is a reference to God’s unlimited power as He intervenes directly in the affairs of men. The working of the finger of God is unmistakable. No device of man can compete with that power, as even the heathen magicians came to recognize in Moses’ day. Everyday man is confronted by the finger of God. We are not faced with lice, but lice or no lice, God is operative in the world, and His fingerprint is all around us. The finger of God is a finger of challenge. It is a pointer to truth and the examiner of thoughts and actions. According to Daniel 51-30, the finger of God addresses our conduct, pointing out and examining profanities and wrong deeds. The Finger of God Addresses Our Culture – Exodus 8:16-19. The plagues on Egypt were an attack on Egyptian culture and idolatry, God still addresses culture in the body of Christ and us though not by these lengths. By Jesus’s standard in the New Testament, the finger of God is operative in our daily lives- in provisions, healing, favour and, much more. Have you experienced the finger of God in your life lately, do you recognize it? Even when you don’t see it, the finger of God is presently working in your life, guiding, shielding, and leading you to greener pastures. Let the finger of God shape your future.

Shalom