Desire Gifts Paul has just made the case that love is far superior to any of the spiritual gifts. But just so they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, he reassures them, 1Cor. So love is superior, but desire the gifts. They are needful and wonderful.
Many people think that prophecy is foretelling the future.
That may be a part of it, but in the New Testament, it is more often the forth-telling the Word of God. Simply speaking the truth of God to people. One who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation. Prophecy can manifest by a statement of the future, but more often it is simply Scripture spoken as inspired by the Holy Spirit, directed at a person or group of people that God is desiring to reach with edification, exhortation, or consolation. The gift of prophecy should be desired above every other gift.