Gottes Gnade oder eine Falle - Die Gaben prüfen God's gift or a trept - Need to test the telents You receive
The aim of our lives is to save our souls. It surely is not a aim to receive any very special capabilities. If receiving any capability bears something else but benefits for one person's soul or for the people around it is for sure not coming from God.
The trap is to become proud of being something special. And the pride comes from the evil one who wanted to become more honored then God was.
There is a very big treasure of experience of monks who practiced a very ascetic life (meaning they sometimes lived without any comfort for their bodies, they fastened a lot – The christian fasting means eating no tear products except fish or even more strict over a certain period of time - they lived often all alone, in a desert or forest filled with the biggest existing love - the holy love for God , regretting their sins,praying for salvation of their own or other people).
It is surely no mistake to put one's "gifts" on the test by examining their purpose, effects and origins. You can find a slight overview of ascatic experiences and dangers concerning "the gifts" they received or trepts they had to go trough in "The orthodoxy and the religion of the future by Father Seraphim Rose edition-hagia-sophia.de/de/Edition-Hagia-Sophia/Seraphim-Rose:-Orthodoxie-und-die-Religion-der-Zukunft?x8c13a=6dpstk05movlqkf32m8si5mog96inmdf
or Leimonarium www.prodromos-verlag.de/leimonarion.html
In the orthodox life one takes part on the fasting and praying and one can receive gifts by the true God. Like certain thouts but we always have to prove the them by our priests. One example is the Holy Matrona. She has had the gift to know about the sinns one person has got even if he keeps quet about them. She always helped the people to go to confession trough her gift. And in this case one can really recognize the benefit for the soul of this person.
The orthodox Church kept all the sacraments and truths unchanged. I was the most protected by it and am thankfull to have the possibility to be led to salvation by it - which is the holy body of the Christ as written in the bible. Begining with the baptism and The Holy Communion up to the Holy Water every single of it wears the blessing of The Father and The Sun and The Holy Spirit and I feel safe. As the lord said my students will be fasting when their bridesmaid is gone, when You stand here and go the tiny road, not the broad one - the one of regret and concentration on the Lord not the one of joy and ego centrism - one can hope on the mercy of Lord.
I am sure that wherever one person is, even if the person is suffering of being misled by false churches or false gifts, God can feel if one person really loves Him. But if You love Him, You have to pray to God to show You the right way and be ready to leave everything You notice is wrong.
May we all be protected by thce prayers of The Holy Mother MArija who was regarded worth to give birth to our Jesus Christ. So her prayers may help us in front of God's court. Lord have mercy on us!