What should every believer ask the Lord for in sharing His Word?

Every believer should ask the Lord to use them and enhance what they are able to do, not to request a specific spiritual gift. They should desire to speak forth God's Word, asking for the ability and opportunity to share it with believers needing teaching and unbelievers still in darkness.

In this unit, Les explains that believers are not told to ask for a specific spiritual gift, because that is up to the Holy Spirit to discern. Instead, they should ask the Lord to use them and to enhance what they are able to do. Above all, they should desire to prophesy, which here means not predicting the future like Daniel or Isaiah, but simply speaking the Word of God. Les says this is what every believer should desire: the ability and opportunity to share God's Word with believers who need teaching and with unbelievers still in darkness.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Who should desire the ability to speak forth God's Word?

Every believer should desire the ability to speak forth God's Word. In this passage, prophesying means not predicting the future but simply speaking and sharing God's Word. This desire applies whether speaking to believers needing teaching or to unbelievers still in darkness, asking the Lord for opportunity.