Prophesying
God communicates with people on this earth in various ways. He is not limited in His ability to let us know His will. He has used many methods of communication, and He could still come up with new ones in the future. We must not try to limit God, but we should listen for Him and obey what He says. The fact is that we all need to hear a fresh word from the Lord on a regular basis. This is true even though we have the complete Word of God, and we have the Holy Spirit in us. The Israelites who returned from the exile to rebuild the Temple and the walls of Jerusalem faced opposition from the pagan people who had been settled near Jerusalem, so they stopped their work. It was at that point that God sent them a clear message to keep building. (Ezra 5:1) "At that time the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied in the name of the God of Israel who was over them." It was their prophesying that led the people to resume t...