I can clearly see a prophetic spirit on your description of what you experience in Australia. How exciting! Yes, we have to find and remain in our gifts--not try to be someone else. It's all about following the Spirit.
The success of charismatic/pentetcostal manifestations depends, I think, on the Spirit, as well. There is no pin number to ensure that God does this or that--no magic formula that moves the heart of God to do something when He has already determined *not* to do that thing.
I've seen it, and I've experienced it. Here in the US I've seen tremendous evidence of divine manifestation in the form of God's presence in worship, miracles of healing, the development of ministries, etc. But when the people get entrenched in false gods, materialism, and sin, some ministries and Christians also get caught up in it, rationalize it, and a compromised Christianity evolves.
At some point, after exhausting His patience, God gives up and ends the miracles, the manifestations, the revelations, the powerful exhibitions of His presence, etc. And nothing can be done to restore it until God sees fit. This is, I believe, the process of disciplining the Church.
So we prepare to stand in season and out of season. Nothing we experience--no lack of spiritual manifestation--should discourage us. When we fall below God's standard of holiness, it seems that God stops covering us for all of our mistakes. And mistakes become abuses that need to be seriously dealt with. For a long time some ministries continue without discipline. But the times comes when God wants to clean things up, and deal with the spiritual decline in a country.
I don't pretend to know all of this for sure. It's just what I've witnessed. And I'm putting the pieces together.
