text: I would not use the term "magical".  "Mystical", perhaps.\n\nEveryone CAN have it.  All they have to do is *ask* God.  Faith itself is a gift, as you have said.  Gifts are freely given (that's what GRACE is all about)...but they must also be freely RECEIVED.\n\nEpistle of James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and without reproach; and it shall be given him.\n\n1:6 But let him ask in faith, without wavering. For he who wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.