Prophesying

I don't know about you, but at my church we get to prophesy. I happen to prophesy quite frequently. It is because of God, so when I pray for someone and suddenly prophesy, then it can be annoying when people are amazed at me. It is God who does it. I merely am the vessel, though i hope I make funny puns. Anyways, I want God to be praised, not me. I do like affirmations, but that is different. That helps me know that I've not gone nuts!
In spite of this, I sometimes expect (as in expecting a lunar eclipse) to amaze others with prophesy. When someone starts saying positive statements, it seems so easy to think that they are talking about me. So today, we wrote down prophecies we got about others. Afterwards, we discussed them. Positive feedback was given. One man, Tim, turned to comment to me, "John," he said, "Your word was so insightful." At least that was what I thought he was going to say. He actually said " John, your handwriting really needs work." Instantly, I realized I needed to humble my expections and not expect to be exalted by others and to recognize God gives the words. This I did. By the time I did this, he had finished saying "At first, I thought that Nick wrote it, but he didn't write down anything, so I realized it was you." Then he said these words to me with my newly humbled demeanor: "Oh, and by the way, your words were very insightful, and they were right on." (The words were prophetic knowledge about his childhood, which I knew nothing about. So, it was God who did this.) Funny how God protects us from unbearable temptation and how he corrects us.