Many people think the spiritual gift of prophecy is just predicting the future, but it is far more than that. Foretelling is the declaration of future events as revealed from the Lord, pertaining especially to the kingdom of God. Forth-Telling is to utter forth, declare, a thing which can only be known by divine revelation. There are different kinds of prophecies—those that tell of things that will happen in the future and those that tell us what the Lord wants us to know and do in our lives