It is unfortunate that in the present day church many people are ignorant of spiritual gifts therefore a lot of us are easily manipulated, confused, and destructed by men and women who claim to operate in spiritual gifts but are not being led by the Holy Spirit. The reason is that a lot of us are not able to discern what is of the Holy Spirit and what is not of the Holy Spirit.

Not only are we required not to be ignorant but also to desire to operate in the spiritual gifts. There is a gift in you if you already carry the Holy Spirit. All you need to do is to activate it. We all don't have the same gifts nevertheless we need to desire every gift. These gifts are given by the Holy Spirit. So they don't come to us because we have fasted and prayed but the Holy Spirit gives to the one whom He sees fit to operate in the gift.

 Every prophetic word God gives to you, you need to write it down. It is not the responsibility of the one prophesying to cause that word happen. It is the responsibility of God in partnership with you. Many people have judged men of God on the basis that a word was spoken and the word never came to pass. A word is a seed, a conception that once it is released is supposed to birth something in your spirit, and then you are supposed to travail in prayer until it comes to pass. Some words will happen immediately while others will need you to carry the expectation.

 Our God is still in the business of doing miracles but sometimes those miracles do not happen because people do not have an expectation. 

If you are going to be used by God the first thing He will do is to cause you to love people. It is not just love but another thing that causes us to walk in compassion is being broken. For us to be used by God there is always a breaking before a making. Some of us are still in the process of being broken where He is taking away our pride, ambitions, and desires.

The number one reason why most people do not operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit is fear, fear of what people would say. If you still have a reputation to preserve then God cannot use you. You have to get to the point where you are serving the audience of one, where pleasing God is all that matters.