Overcoming the Religious Spirit ebook - MorningStar Ministries

eally can improve your game, if you will hit
three hundred of them a day!” When the same
golfer was once asked about a “lucky shot,”
he replied, “You know, the more I practice,
the luckier I get.”
The same is true of our gifts and callings.
People frequently ask me to pray for them
to have the same gift of writing that I have.
To me that is almost like one of my student
pilots asking me to pray for him to have the
“gift of piloting” imparted to him. Would you
fly with someone who received their “gift of
piloting” that way? I don’t think so. You would
want them to have the best training and then
thousands of hours of experience, too.
I do believe in prophetic impartation, but
I think that very few people really understand
it. Even spiritual gifts are imparted as seeds,
which must be cultivated and cared for with
great patience and devotion. Even spiritual
gifts must be developed with training and
experience, or we will be about as dangerous
as the above student pilot. I would love to have
the gift to just pray for people and command
them, “Be mature!” That is one miracle that I
cannot find anywhere in the Bible.
As was said of the Lord, to fulfill our
purpose in this life, we must “resolutely
set [our] face to go to Jerusalem” (see
Luke 9:51), the place of our destiny.
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