Not only this, but I'm pretty sure the Bible says that if you ask for a loaf of bread God won't give you a stone. And if we who are evil know how to give good gifts, how much more God.
Now to address another point, it is a gift, but you need to ask, sometimes seek. The reason people have to help is there's so much teaching that is contrary to the Bible, that people can limit what they receive or understand, so it's always good to teach. Now I'm pretty sure in the OT there were groups of prophets, and the context suggest it was a learning time, even though it is a gift.
I feel like saying something ornery here but an sure it would be taken wrong, so I bite my tongue and move on, I do wish it were possible to be ornery on the forum without offense being taken, ah well, such is life in the world of technology.
God does say that if I ask for a loaf of bread, He won't give a stone, but it doesn't say He will give me a loaf of bread or a specific kind of bread either. It says that He being the good father knows how to give good gifts to us His children. I asked this question on a healing thread and it went unanswered, I'll apply the question to the issue of bread and see if I get an answer. Which is a greater gift, a loaf of bread or the bread of life? You see, what is good is a relative term and in order to understand God here it is important to understand His perspective, His relation to the statement. Now how this statement addresses my claims I still am at a lose, but you brought it up so let's talk about it a bit.
Now, when I want a gift from my husband or parents or children or friends, I don't go asking them for a gift, I either hint at what I want because I know they will be getting me something or I wait patiently hoping they get me what I want because they know me. Of those who actually know me and have taken the time to get to know me, I am never disappointed. The gift is just right, the right fit, the right look, the right need. In fact, those who live farther away, usually give money and say, you know better than I. So if God is the good father, the one who knows us intimately, the one who wants only the best for me, why then would it be necessary for me to tell Him what I need or to have someone else show me how to get what I want from Him. Wouldn't it stand to reason that He would give the gift according to my needs and wants as only He can know? Wouldn't it also stand to reason that He would show me or give me someone to show me how to use that gift properly? Now I have no problem with teaching in fact, the primary gift I have been given is teaching, I love teaching and studying and such, but, that isn't what I hear repeatedly coming from the church on this issue. I don't hear people say, thank you for teaching me about tongues, but rather First of all "thanks again for the help with speaking in tongues back in June! I appreciate it. The gift if just awesome!!" The help is not in teaching what tongues is or how it is used but rather the emphasis is on helping with speaking in tongue or as bold as some who say helping me to speak or learn to speak in tongues. These comments remove it from a gift of God to something that can be learned or taught. This is not consistant with the word of God and the words teaching on tongues. Therefore your comments about teaching are hollow attempts to correct an image that is repeatedly being put forth by the pentecostal/charismatic church. so either the image people paint with their words is wrong, or your comment is a veiled attempt to repaint a picture already painted, dried and evaluated. Which is it? Is the church trying to teach people what God says cannot be taught? Are people just misstating what is going on in the church? Why the discrepancy between what people say and what you are suggesting here?
Now since I know this is likely to label me a cessationalist or anti pentecostal/charismatic, let me refresh your memories that I do believe the gifts are still being used in the church today, I still believe God is active through the gifts, my claim has been throughout that many (note not all) today do not follow the biblical teaching on the gifts today. Thus this is consistant with my claims and not to be altered to say what it does not. Hopefully I covered all the twisting that is readily available to you all.