Oh we communicate. But people just imagine that there are words.
I have read what people think is prophesy....and knowing scripture, it's not Gods voice they are imagining. He "Speaks" with certainty and modern prophecies are not that.
Maybe some modern prophecies are not certain, but I have experienced many that are.
My son, aged 3, stated with certainty,
"Jesus says we are going to have that house, and have it before we go to Norway!"
We had been negotiating the purchase of a derelict house that God had led us to, then suddenly the agent told us he was selling it to someone else.
It all sounded fishy, but the agent made it clear that it was a done deal. My wife and I felt very strongly that the agent was working with a builder friend to make money on the renovation project.
My wife regularly walked past the house daily on her way to the shops, and our son often ran up the path to peek through the window. Immediately following the bad news, as she passed the house he, as usual, ran up the path to the door. She naturally called him back, telling him we can't have that house now.
My son became quite pensive and on arriving home disappeared into his bedroom. A few minutes later he came out declaring that
"Jesus says we are going to have that house and have it before we go to Norway!"
That gave quite a jolt to my wife and I, making us both seek the face of the Lord for clarity.
The answer was a very clear affirmative, that my son's words were correct and the house was intended by the Lord for us.
The Norway deadline was very specific. My mother in law was taking us on a campervan tour of the Norwegian Fiords that summer. We had the ferry across the North Sea booked and any house purchase would have to be agreed before we left home to catch that the ferry. That was about 3 months hence.
Following God's intervention we immediately went back to the agent and challenged him on his supposed sale of the house, but nothing would shift him.
Faith comes by hearing, and we had heard God speak. So we started to thank God and to claim that house in prayer every day. Each week we would go and pester the agent, and he would throw us out of his office.
This carried on for the three months, and then the time approaching our departure arrived. We were due to leave the country on the Tuesday, so the previous Saturday I went in to the agent and pressed him again, all to no avail. I then told him we were leaving the country for 3 weeks and I wanted him to take my written confirmation of the offer and a token check to back it. I had also arranged for a friend to handle our affairs in my absence.
He very grudgingly took my letter, dropped it in the filing cabinet, slammed the drawer shut and rudely asked me to leave his office.
Come the Tuesday, we were up early packing the campervan, and getting ready to drive off at our 2pm deadline.
At 12am, the phone rang, it was the agent.
"The sale has fallen through, would you like to come in and sign the papers?"
Would we ever?
We tore into town and to his office, and shortly after, we had signed the contract to purchase the property.
As we were leaving, the agent meekly asked us,
"How did you know?"
Our simple answer,
"The Lord told us 3 months ago!"
That simple prophecy, spoken by a 3 year old boy who knew nothing of the intrigues of house purchase, was timetabled against a deadline 3 months hence. It came to pass 2 hours short of that deadline, giving is just enough time to get to the agent and back before our departure deadline.
That describes certainty and precision in modern prophecy.
I have had many prophecies and visions with this level of certainty and precision.
