"Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy." (1 Corinthians 14:1 NIV)
"You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine." (Titus 2:1 NIV)
"Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts." (Colossians 3:16 NIV)
As Donald Gee correctly points out in his wonderful little book Concerning Spiritual Gifts there are two kinds of prophetic gifting in both the Old and New Testaments. First, there is the ability to foretell the future and exhort believers in heeding what God intends to do. This kind of prophecy would be deemed infallible and authoritative and is evident in the proclamaition of the great prophets such as Isaiah and Jeremiah in the Old Testament, and to that which Peter refers to as "the prophecy of scripture" 2 Peter 1:20, ostensively referring to the book of Revelation in the New Testament.
The second kind of prophetic gifting can be found in the "company of prophets" (1 Kings 18, 2 Kings 5) in the Old Testament, and Paul's teaching on prophecy available to almost anyone in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 12-14). These are words from God that must be discerned and, though inspired, are not on the same level as the first kind of prophesy. Gee points out the zealotry behind this second type of prophetic gifting and its necessity as an emotional counter-balance to the intellectualism of teaching: "They are, moreover, mutually corrective. If teaching is needed to correct the danger of fanaticism as a result of too much prophesying, yet truly inspired prophesy is also needed to correct the equal dangers of a purely intellectual and rational line of ministry" (p. 51).
In Acts 13:1, prophets and teachers are singled out specifically working in unity. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 12:28, lists prophets and teachers, second and third after apostles, but preceeding the more "miraculous" gifts. The first three gifts are each intended to move and guard the Body of Christ, and to provide a kind of environment in the community of believers where the other gifts of the Spirit can flurish and function effectively. We need both Prophecy and Teaching in the church for revival, and so that individual churches can be effective in the proclamation of the gospel.
Pray: "Heavenly Father, remind us that Teaching without Prophecy can lead to spiritual deadness, and Prophecy without correct Teaching just leads to fanaticism without truth."