Welcome to Variety Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

woman is a theologian. Hi friends, welcome back to Variety Podcast. Today we're

talking about a topic that is much requested. It's a topic of prophecy, modern-day

prophecy, biblical prophecy, and false prophecy. How do we understand prophecy in

the Bible, and how does it translate to today? So to start out, let's define prophecy,

because this is really at the heart of everything we're going to be talking

about in this episode. What even is prophecy? So here's a succinct definition. I kind

of took this from multiple sources, as I read, multiple sources about prophecy

today, and this cohesively describes and sums up what it is. Prophecy is the

speaking, writing, or communicating of a message from God to another person, or

the congregation of the church. So the inner movement of the spirit of God in an

individual is then expressed to someone else. So the Holy Spirit brings to mind

something that that person needs to hear, and you say it. And of course, as we'll get

into in this episode, it will align fully with Scripture. But the Holy Spirit

speaking from one person through that person to another is prophecy. So it's

important to realize when we're talking about modern day prophecy that it is a

gift of the Holy Spirit, as we just articulated, but it does not add on to the

canon of Scripture. So any revelation that is being received from God to be

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