When God communicates with us in any way it is prophetic in power, simply because of who God is. God is the one who declares the end from the beginning (Isa. 46:10). He is the one who speaks, and the future unfolds. His inspiration is one which causes life to break forth wherever He desires. God meets all of the criteria for the ultimate in prophetic communication. Some simple definitions of prophecy could be:

1. The act of telling what will happen; the foretelling of future events.

2. Something told about the future; an indication of something to come.

3. A divinely inspired expression; utterance, revelation, visual manifestation or writing.

Since God is Himself the author and creator of all the future holds, we can simply define prophecy as "God communicating" (with man). When God communicates with us it cannot help but carry the substance of His prophetic nature. His expression may be vocal, visual, musical, written, demonstrated or in any form He chooses to "express" Himself.