The Holy Spirit distributes His gifts to each believer severally as He wills (1 Cor. 12:11). It is not up to us how many gifts we want or are willing to use but up to the Holy Spirit to give whatever He wants to whoever He wants whenever He wants. It is up to us to appreciate all of them and to allow the Holy Spirit to use us in any of them to minister to others.

Some Christians teach that we each get one gift. That teaching conflicts with God's Word. In 1 Cor. 14:1 Paul says desire Gifts and in 1 Cor. 14:5 he says that he wished that we all spoke in tongues. In 1 Cor. 14:31 he says "you all can prophesy". In addition to these evidences it is practical knowledge that one gift cannot be in operation without the use of other gifts ([Tongues, Prophecy,Interpretation][Healing, Miracles, Faith][Wisdom, Knowledge, Discernment]).

Our Proper response to God - God will let us know in variety of ways when we are to exercise the different Gifts. Sometimes the hands actually feel anointed or other times words or thoughts just flood our consciousness as we grow in the Spirit these things will become more clear. Above all we need to understand that God works through spiritual gifts to reproduce the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ in his Church. Mostly with the laying on of hands, the spoken command, or the active intervention of one human being in the lives of others. We will all do this only according to our faith. Thus we need to accept the importance of tongues for holy self-edification. (1 Cor. 14:1-5)