Hearing What the Spirit is Saying unto the Church! In 1Corinthians 12, the Apostle Paul lays out for the church an explanation of Spiritual Gifts. If you read the list, you will see that three of the gifts are vocal. Prophecy is words inspired by the Spirit in a known language. Tongues are words inspired by the Spirit in an unknown tongue. Interpretation of tongues is a Spirit given rendering of an unknown tongue. Below is an example of the gift of prophecy.
The following excerpt is taken from a prophecy that was given by Betty Dilbeck at Noon Prayer Webcast led by Dr. Billye Brim on September 11, 2013:
The Lord let me see America, and there were bars around us. He showed me a spirit that is coming from the other nations–hatred; it was awful, and that it wanted to destroy us. But God said, as He did in His Word, if we submit to God, resist the Devil, then he has got to flee.
He said the next six months is crucial. And He said the next three months is really crucial. He said take your place of authority. You take your place of prayer. You listen to My Spirit; don’t slough it off like it is not that important.
He said, “I am doing a work.” He said, “I am not finished with America. I have set America up that I can be glorified through her, that I can make Israel jealous because of what I do through her. If I can raise a nation in one day, I can raise this nation back up to its glory.”
He said especially this next three months, and this is prophecy, and you can write it down. I do not know what is going to take place, but He said, “It is crucial that you hear My Spirit and that when I draw you, whether it is three in the morning or three in the evening, you get to your position of prayer, and you intercede because I use you! I use you! I tell My power through you. I’ll give you the words to speak that will put the enemy to flight. I’ll put the words in your mouth to speak even though it is written in laws in this nation. It’s been signed, and they say there is no way of changing it.” He said, “There is nothing, nothing that I cannot change. Things that have been put into law that are against me, I can tear them down. Pray children! Pray! I am calling you to that position especially this next three months.”
Billye: “I do witness and say that is the word of the Lord.”