Job 32:18-20

In the Bible, many holy men are called prophets. These men did not merely speak their own ideas. Rather, they spoke by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:20-21). They described their experience in different ways. Sometimes the Spirit felt like a wind that was blowing through them (John 3:8). In fact, in the original languages of the Bible, the words ‘wind’ and ‘spirit’ are the same.

Sometimes the need to speak felt like a heavy weight (Nahum 1:1; Malachi 1:1).

A workman needs to put a heavy weight on the ground. And a prophet needed to speak the words that the Holy Spirit had given.