So... where does that leave personal prophetic words given to an individual?? Like when someone says... God told me this... or I sense this or see this??? Is that even a thing or not?? I am simply curious.... Does God speak to us today? I say this because something happened to me a few years ago that I simply call a supernatural experience and I know it was God because I was healed.
Just to clarify... I am not experiencing this kind ot thing.... but I did have a personal experience with God alone.
My personal experience with those who are thought to be modern prophets:
I was sitting in a special meeting in a home, called by a family friend of mine who is fairly charismatic himself, and was educated at ORU (Oral Roberts University) here locally, and he had an alleged "prophet" also invited to "prophesy" over us all as we sat in the meeting, listening to his sermon. I was not aware that the "prophesying" part of the meeting was going to take place, but, hey, after I found myself in the midst of it, I thought, "Hmm. Let's see where this will go, Lord, but only with YOU in charge where I am concerned."
He started over on the other side of the room, and began working his way around, looking into the eyes of each one as he went, and saying things that I've found to be so typical of alleged, modern prophets. His statements to each one was the usual fare of things that could easily have been told to him by the host who knew us all, along with the usual fare of milk-toast, wet noodle platitudes of blessings and feel-good rhetoric that appeals to the pride box in each of us, and the desire to comforts and goody-feely emotions.
Before he got to me, I entered into my prayer closet, and asked the Lord to verify that man, as to if he was truly a prophet, or another sham. I cast out the fleece of testing by asking the Lord that this man, if he truly is hearing from the Most High, that he quote a certain verse I had in mind of God's word, and also give the reference.
That prayer was silent so that not even the demons could discern what I asked of the Lord.
Folks, that man finished with my wife to my right, looked around the room, and walked past me to the next person to my left as if he didn't even know I was there! He didn't even look at me!
I was so ecstatic, because if he started the same mumbo-jumbo nonsense on me, I was going to call him out onto the carpet, rug burn and all, right there in front of everyone, asking what the verse is, with reference, that I had asked the Lord to give to him for verification of his "office."
His avoidance of me was so telling of only one of two things: Either he was guided by a very intelligent demon who knew I was trouble for a false prophet such as he, or the Lord directed his actions for reasons that may point to a problem within me and the way I am as a spiritual tester.
Upon refection, knew nothing of my first wife's mortal demise yet to come, or anything else that came into our lives in the following weeks and months. There was no revelation of secret sins in his rhetoric, or anything else that would help people to deal with inferiorities in their personal lives, and therefore help to edify lives by elevating them to greater heights in their spiritual lives, so my thoughts were that the alleged "prophet" was no prophet of God from what I could see.
The Lord is true, and every man a liar!
MM