Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.

Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming our desires so that knowing Jesus becomes sweeter than illicit sex, sweeter than money and what it can buy, sweeter than every fruitless joy. Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!

Spiritual gifts, to put it as simply as I know how, are the more or less concrete and tangible ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests his presence in and through the individual members of the church.

This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.