 You can ask God to save you, but you can't make God save you. So in regard to spiritual gifts, you can ask God to bestow his gifts upon you through his Spirit, but you cannot make him do it. Let us recognize this great fact and ask him to bring us and all that we are to rest completely upon him that the Holy Spirit may bestow such a gift as he pleases. It is also the work of the Holy Spirit to place the born-again believer where he wills for service.