Yes, with all these things to consider, I too was a bit confused ...though my response was to remain humble, and not think I knew what I didn't know.

There is a sad fact, that we sometimes make things up that we don't know.  Perhaps that is too strong of a statement, so let me just say, we often fill in the blanks on things we don't know.  It has a sort of adventuresome spirit to it ...but often not in line with the Holy Spirit that we should seek out to guide us.

Yet, when we seek out the Holy Spirit to guide us ...we can get a bit too eager to have the Holy Spirit move us, or at times even can get a bit confused on how we are to be moved.  It is so difficult at times not to interject our own feelings ...and often to discern the two.

I was attending a Wednesday evening church service ...and each of us were handed a very lengthy and extensive questionnaire that was to assist us in discovering our gifts.  I carefully filled it out, and we were then given a key to add up the various components to help show our strong areas ...where we were most gifted.

The first thing I did when I got my score ...was to recheck my score.  I was certain I had made a mistake, or added wrong.

Why did I think this?  It was because my highest score was in the category of 'faith'.

I just couldn't figure that out ...there must be some error, I thought.  We were allowed to take the tests home, and I dissected each question, finding out  how each answer came to score me as having strong faith.

What I found out ...was that faith was not in the ability to get a desired result from prayer, nor one that I could necessarily understand.  Faith was believing in God for who He is ...irregardless to any condition that I may understand or experience.  And it was believing in God, as He reveals Himself to us in the Bible ...and that fact not deviating according to my understand of it at any given time.

And it is actually more comforting to me ...knowing that I am weak and He is strong, and that I can depend upon Him even when I feel tired &weak and things are hopeless in my eyes.