You can’t really explain something of the Spirit. It’s like explaining Transubstantiation. What is the parameter to gauge it on. Inevitably we will mrasure it against what we humans know and feel. It cannot be explained adequately.
There’s a saying - it is not taught but caught. When one has a spiritual experience, one cannot explain it in the way the listener will know like how the explainer knows and experiences it.
For the sake of simplicity, we can differentiate ‘sense’ and ‘prophecy’.
Sense is at the lower level of prophecy, like, your mind is drawn to something and you are thinking, like “Jesus says that we are his friends.” You don’t know why but your mind seems to think about it. Then you can say, “i sense that Jesus is telling us that he is our friend.”
That is a ‘sense’.
Prophecy on the other hand is more tangible, like, you hear a voice to the same effect telling you or you see a vision of Jesus saying it to you.
Those are the things which is hard to believe and accepted if you do not believe in it. But for those who experience it, how can they deny it?
Sure some expert would say, you are hallucinating or your mind is playing a trick on you. Others would simply say you are a fake. But scripture says we should not despise prophecy and things of the Holy Spirit. They all should be tested.
Even Jesus was accused of over the top by his relatives. It does not mean that he is crazy, only that people could not understand why and what he was doing.
Just a thought.
