Words are a powerful tool in communication. Using appropriate words we are able to convey our ideas, thoughts, even our deepest feelings and emotions. The encouraging words of a friend or loved one can impart strength and bring revival in times of hardship. All of us can remember such times when the words of a dear one was especially meaningful and brought much blessing.
While the words of another compassionate human being can bring great blessing, hearing the words of our tender and loving Heavenly Father in the critical moments of our lives can be truly life transforming. And the Father desires to speak to us "in the now" - in the midst of our present circumstances and situations.
He desires to speak His encouragement, direction and counsel into our lives. While there are many ways in which the Father communicates to us, the foremost being the written Word of God, and secondly by the inward leading of His Spirit, one of the other modes is prophecy.
From the turn of the 20th century, beginning with the Pentecostal movement the Church has witnessed an unprecedented increase in the restorative ministry of the Holy Spirit. Following the Pentecostal movement, there have been several clearly identifiable movements in the Church which have caused the Body of Christ to rise to higher realms in God. Of these, the Prophetic movement which came into full recognition in the 1980's is among the more recent moves of God's Spirit in the Church.
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