The prophet's handbook

What exactly is prophecy? How does one become a prophet? How do prophets do what they do?

If I’m not a prophet, do I still need to learn about prophetics? Why do we need prophets to tell us what God is saying when we have the Holy Spirit? How can psychics accurately tell the future? Are prophets really for today? I dream and know things in advance. Am I a prophet? Where does prophecy come from? God’s Prophetic Sphere

The most challenging thought to grasp about the prophetic is that the office is more than a prediction center. Since prophecy is where most people usually encounter the institution of the prophetic, they presume the gist of the office is exclusively prophesying—seeing and saying, predicting and interdicting. However, many things go into enabling a prophet to prophesy accurately. What Equips the Prophet? Before God releases the officer, He puts the prophet through an extensive training program. God’s way of equipping someone for ministry is mainly spiritual. The prophet’s function is largely supernatural, and people think there is nothing more to getting a prophet ready for the Lord’s service than hearing and saying, “Thus says the Lord.” For many people, prophetic preparation amounts to God isolating beginners and streaming prophetic dreams and visions at them. Truthfully, it is somewhat that way, but usually down the line a bit. Nonetheless, dreams and visions are how God usually presents Himself to the new prophet. The reason visions and dreams are the starting point of prophetic education is that God introduces Himself and awakens the prophet’s revelatory faculties through them. “If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream” (Numbers