The people who write us about their testimonies are also the ones who write out and listen to their prophecy on a regular basis. There is value in seeing something written or typed out. Many prophecies contain types or pictures of an idea that God desires to communicate. It is possible to communicate more information in less time and more memorably in types than in mere words. But the meaning of the type or picture must be gotten at.
Reference works have definitions and descriptions which nontechnically trained persons can grasp.
There are times when it is appropriate to go to encyclopedias to find help in defining types which might otherwise elude us. When an intercessor friend of ours had a dream about elephants, Kathy searched out the subject in an encyclopedia and found some characteristics of the animal that described religious spirits. The dream suddenly became much more than a goofy dream about elephants lined up on Loop 610 in Houston. One would be surprised at the discoveries which shed light on details of a prophecy if one were to look up each significant word in a dictionary. Many times there is more to the meaning of a word or there are nuances of a word that we are simply not able to keep in our brain s memory banks.