In Numbers, chapter eleven, verse twenty-five, the scripture demonstrates that prophecy often accompanies the falling of God’s Spirit upon His people. The account in Acts about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost and afterward indicates that Spirit-filled believers prophesied and spoke in other tongues by the impulse of the Holy Spirit.
In the following verse, when Eldad and Medad kept prophesying in the camp, Joshua wanted Moses to stop them. Moses, however, had learned his lesson. He saw the level of spiritual life desired for all God’s people was that they could prophesy when the Spirit of God was upon them. In Old Testament times, the Holy Spirit only came upon or filled a few to empower them for service or prophecy. Joel prophesied that a time would come when all God’s people would be brimming with the Spirit.
The fulfillment of prophecy came on the day of Pentecost when the Spirit poured out upon “all flesh.” Believers who have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit are not experiencing what God had promised them and what Jesus waits to give them. First Corinthians chapter thirteen explains the different kinds of gifts that await the believers that have the baptism of the Holy Spirit. However, the spiritual gifts do not come to the believer automatically but should ask God if they honestly desire them. Each believer must ask in detail what they want to experience spiritually.
Today, many Christians have accepted Jesus Christ and experienced water baptism. However, for some of them, it ends there. There is still more for a believer to experience beyond that. Still, if a leader does not inform the Christian, then how would they know? If the believer is listening to a message or sermon and the information is not there, how could they understand to pursue it?