If God is finished saying everything he desires to say to us why is the gift of prophecy mentioned in 1 Cor. 12:7-11?.
 
 If there is no gift of prophecy then there is no gift of healing, no gift of faith, no spirit of wisdom or knowledge, no gift of miracles, no discernment of spirits, and no gift of tongues.
 
God wants us to have all the gifts. We cant just choose the ones we like and ignore the ones that make us uncomfortable. We can't even make the excuse of prophetic abuse. If there is a prophecy that says God wants us to learn how to hear from him directly that would be the heart of the Father. That is what it is all about, hearing the Father's voice, being in his presence. In fact if we could just learn from our spirtiual forefathers we would practice the presence of the Lord, all the time. It is a discipline for a undisciplined busy minded, distracted, dying church.
 
My Russian friends who suffered under Communism could not imagine having this attitude that God does not prophecy anymore. Many, many times God gave them a word that saved them from capture by the Communists, spared them imprisonment and torture.
 
Look, God wants to equip us for the danger that lies ahead. If we can not take time to learn how to hear his voice personaly, then we can only suffer and face the consequences. God does not want that to happen. He wants us to spend our time on the most important thing, that is spending time with him in everything. What could be more important than waiting on the Lord? If we could only learn to wait on him, go deeper and deeper in the Lord, what awesome things we could see.
 
God bless
frank